Another Basic HTML Question

[amberfocus]

I have another question for all the tech savvy folks on my f-list.  Nothing to do with LJ itself or cuts this time, just how do I make something like this:  www.whofic.com be a link that says the word Teaspoon instead of being the actual words of the link?

Thanks in advance for being so patient with my lack of knowledge.  You guys have been great.

Comments

[got_swagger]

We don't need quotes? O.o

I've used quotes for ages on LJ, and then when I took an html class in college, I had a pretty good head start on the class, not just from LJ, but because I'm so used to doing it. I almost never forgot to close a tag or what have you.

I love it when fandom leads to awesome and practical times in RL.

[milieva]

I don't use them, but it has more to due with Word screwing things up for me if I type code out in my fic headers. It was just easier for me to drop them. I learned this was possible entirely by accident.

I learned HTML from a book and from stealing coding when I was learning how to build my own website. I also rarely forget to close a tag due to force of habit. Sometimes I forget the / and end up with entire sections of fic italicized though.


(Lisa, sorry for hijacking your post)

[got_swagger]

Ah.

I usually copy-paste my headers from my previous fics on lj when I'm actually ready to post. I rarely bother including them when I'm writing out the fic in word.

Sometimes I forget the / and end up with entire sections of fic italicized though.

Me too. I hate when that happens.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Not a problem. You wouldn't know how to insert an image into an LJ-cut would you? I can get everything else to work now, but every time I add an image into the cut it makes the cut go away. I'm getting very frustrated.

[milieva]

The usual, trade [ ] for < >.

[img src="http://www.IMAGEADDRESS"]

Hope that helps.

ETA: and I included the quotes. Since apparently others don't have my LJ powers

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

What do you mean, exactly? To put an image under a cut? You can't put an image as part of the cut text. However, you can make images 'clickable', but I only know how to do that in Rich Text.

If you mean having the image behind a cut, the coding should just be somewhere between the 'open cut' and the 'close cut' commands. HTML for posting an image is (< instead of [ ) [img src=ImageURL]

If something messes up, go back and look at your code. Make sure the open-cut command is still in place, and that the close-cut command is also still there. If it's messed up, fix it. If you can't figure out what's wrong, do what I did when I was still learning basic HTML: ask a HTML-savvy friend you trust to log into your account and look at the code and tell you what's wrong (you can always change your password afterwards).