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I looked a little to see if anyone else has reported this variant of the login/out fun, but is anyone else getting the look of being logged in, but you actually are logged out and visa-versa?
For example, I'm often seeing the little blue logged in icon (person or salt shaker shaped icon that is blue with a check mark, when logged in and grey when logged out), I'll open the forums, let's say the commons and see I'm logged in, see lots of orange "new" or some number plus "new" indicators next to various threads, which indicates the forum software is aware it's me and I'm logged in, then I'll click on a thread and if I'm really paying attention, sometimes I notice "register or login" at the bottom and no comment window... But if not, when I leave the thread I notice all the orange "new" indicators are gone, but the logged in icon is still there and blue and I never saw any "logging out" notification... I'm guessing that by clicking on that first thread, I get logged out... Weird that it does not say so and that the logged in icon is still there and blue...
The opposite is I visit the forums and find I'm logged out, so I log in and since it takes me right to my account page, I see "Welcome Victor Cook"... And a little message that says "! Invalid Loggin or Password !"... I can access my account, but the message usually stays a bit and then goes away in a page or two... That's weird, perhaps a little disconcerting.
Also does anyone else find that they have to pee after being on the the forums or browsing the shop for long periods... I'm wondering if that's a forum bug too... Maybe not... Could be related to a coffee glitch, large volumes of coffee might be overwhelming the input gates on my kidney's software.
I'll check the report logs on my bladder later and see if I find any conflicts with the forum software.
Just out of curiosity, someone knows what the Anchor button means? What should we type in as a Anchor Name? Whats the purpose of this function?
Anchor button: drops anchor.... Anchor properties: usually pretty heavy... Anchor names: Mr. Anchor, Old Rusty or Tim
Other than that I have no idea what that's about...
But I found this:
"An anchor is a piece of text which marks the beginning and/or the end of a hypertext link.
The text between the opening tag and the closing tag is either the start or destination (or both) of a link. Attributes of the anchor tag are as follows."
I suppose that could be some sort of an answer... ?
oppps too slow :) McGyver got it :)
If you post a link that is broken, i.e. only part of it is clickable, then putting the whole link in the Anchor tab will set it so that the whole link is clickable and so doesn't give a 404 page, I think
Well, some sort of an answer it is. Thank you!
Lets see how this works?
Test
Edit: No! Not what I expected. The link isn´t clickable. Some examples out there?
This is where I found that answer... I'm not that smart...
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/1995-archive/Elements/A.html
That sounds even more confusing. :-)
So we need some advanced knowledge in HTML-Coding? If thats the case I would like to suggest, we forget about my question. :-)
anchors let you put long URLs in a post and only show a few words to click on,,like this
:)
<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=fuzzy+little+kitties&num=30&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMI097Xipv8xwIVQjw-Ch17cwJN&biw=1920&bih=915"; > Fuzzy Little Kittys </a>
looks like the forums ate my post :(
The anchor button inserts a marker that you can then make the target of a link - useful if you want to do something like provide an explanation for a term without doing so in the main text.
<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=fuzzy+little+kitties">; Fuzzy Little Kittys </a>
let's see if this works
edit: the forum software is adding in characters that shouldn't be there :(
You do links like that this way Fuzzy Little Kitties
it's been a very long time since I was in college, so my html skills are a bit rusty, but I'm pretty sure I got the syntax correct.I'm not sure why the forum software is adding in those extra characters.
It's probably because you didn't use the tools. That is what they are there for, Type the text, select it, then go to the "Link" command and add the URL there.
http://<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=fuzzy+little+kitties
well crap hehehehe,, I think I'm just getting old, nothing works like it used to :P
type Fuzzy Little Kitties then select it and with it selected hit the link button The one that looks like a chain link, 2 in front of the flag, and add the URL there.
Icecrmn, if some HTML-Skills are needed, probably I will never figure out how this works. :-)
Chohole, as you explained you made the text a hyperlink to the google-search. But just out of curiosity, I wanted to know what the Anchor-Flag besides the Link-Symbols is good for?
Richard Haseltine, whats the difference between the anchor and the hyperlink? Per example, I could just place the information to an Wikipedia article in the main text as a hyperlink. Or is it meant to be somekind of a sidenote in one and the same post?
Maybe an example would be nice. Where could I see this function in practical use?
Richard expalined that one here http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/907291/#Comment_907291
sorry I thought he was trying to make a hyperlink. Those I can do, haven't got the forggiest idea what an anchor is for, apart from mooring a boat.
thats what anchors are supposed to be for.You make a text clickable so it will jump to a section on the page you are on, or it can link to an image on another site (this is how we used to do smileys) , or it can link to another site all together (like the google search) .It seems though the techniques have changed.Typing in the code isn't needed any more, just have to click the tools in the proper order to get the result you want.
I am just upset that HTML 5 doesn't support a "center" command. I used to use that one a lot, especially when setting up the first page of Contests and challenges,
Sorry edited my last post, while you were responding. To quote my own edit:
As an other example, I could tell you all a story about fuzzy little kitties, but I gues nobody would be interested. :-)
Provided additional infos about fuzzy little kitties, but no anchor needed so far in the main text.
Ah, now I remember what it does thanks to Richard. I've used it a few times on my website.
I think I see how this works now.
A URL can go to a post, but an anchor can go to a specofoc place within a post.
The forum is messing up big time with attaching images. It will do the first one, fine, then it's hit or miss. "No image uploaded" comes up, when clearly I've done this for years, know how to attach images in these new forums (ya think?) and I'm trying to post ten photos and am stalled in the water. SO TICKED. It takes six or seven efforts to get images to attach (not talking about the blank square, talking about the "No Image Uploaded" then it takes, and now none of them are. (And that includes exiting the post, doing edit and coming back in - not working. Nothing is working.
<nod> Out of the last handful of image attachments I've done, it only worked first time once or twice.
Definitely something in need of percussive maintenance there...
YAY, they switched the Login and Register buttons but logging back in still takes me to my Account page rather than the page I was previously on. So YAY and BOO HISS BOO!
Thanks everyone! Now I know what an anchor is and how it is supposed to work. :)
Even if I still don´t know how I could make use of it in one of my posts in the DAZ forum. My curiosity is satisfied for now. :-)