MAKING IT WORK: The only reason to follow these instructions are if you want to use fonts that are not supported by Scribefire.
To follow up on my previous post, here are the instructions for how to make the whole thing work. Well, due to some unforeseen aspects of this thing it turns out being a little more difficult that I thought at first. Not in terms of actually doing it----but in terms of teaching it.
So, here is the “simple” way to get the text and colors and all that stuff to work on your AR posts. To make it simple, type your signature into a new blog post (you could do the same thing with a whole post but for now I am just interested in getting basic information on your post so that when you insert what you want later it will work as I described in my previous post).
Charles Buell (just use your name though). You will also need to add at least two lines of information under your name. If you look at any of my posts you will see I have a bunch of other stuff under my name. For the purpose of this exercise lets put:
Home Inspector,
Seattle, WA
Now, give the post a title like, “testing, testing---this is making me testy” (or whatever).
Set the “draft” option and hit publish.
Now open the post in “edit” and hit the “HTML” option.
You should now see your name looking like:
Charles Buell Home Inspector Seattle, WA Now take, Charles Buell The next step is to “stop” the action requested by all the purple code, by inserting: Charles Buell Home Inspector Seattle, WA Now hit publish. This published version of these three lines is what you will need to copy and paste into every new blog post. When you copy and paste your Word document ahead of this coded information, you should end up with your blog post looking just like your Word document. (some times you have to hit “enter” several times to get enough room for the copied material to “fit” in ahead of your signature-----like 4-6 times) I don’t want to see a lot of “Charles Buell” clones out there so please use your own name and have fun picking different font, size and colors. If you look at the purple code, you can see that it is “instructing” the text to do three things. You can put pretty much use any “font family” in place of “book antique”-----that just happens to be the one I like. You make it whatever color you want by changing the “rgb” code (This is the website I use to get my colors from). The “font-size: large” can be changed to lots of different sizes, but common choices would be small, x-small, xx-small, medium, large, x-large, xx-large. You will have to experiment with this. Another side note is that after you publish the post in draft mode you will note there is “considerable “extraneous” HTML code and sometimes extra rows that you can go back in and delete. It is always at the beginning and sometimes throughout the text---especially when pictures are present. I have no idea why it does this but I do know that it seems safe to delete it. If all of these instructions work----consider it a miracle! Charles Buell Click on the Rose PS, for those of you that are new to my blog (or for some other "unexplained" reason have never noticed) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Click on the Rose PS, for those of you that are new to my blog (or for some other "unexplained" reason have never noticed)
to check out: AHA!---A Forum of Landmark Proportions---your Group 
all pictures and smiley-face inserts (emoticons) (when I use them) have messages that show up when you point at them with your cursor.
DeCroe, is my "etherial" home inspector assistant and occasionally flies into my blog and other people's blogs to offer assistance. To find out more about her beginnings just click on Raven.
to check out: AHA!---A Forum of Landmark Proportions---your Groupall pictures and smiley-face inserts (emoticons) (when I use them) have messages that show up when you point at them with your cursor.
DeCroe, is my "ethereal" home inspector assistant and occasionally flies into my blog and other people's blogs to offer assistance. To find out more about her beginnings just click on Raven.
21 comments • Charles Buell, Seattle, WA, Home Inspector • January 27 2009 05:42PM
Werd!!!
I made the switch and it is awesome. Now I can compose my blogs in Word like I always have----limited only by whatever Word can do.
Take this for example!
Or how about this!
I can then copy and paste it into my blog and everything transfers to my blog exactly the way it looked in Word without any fiddling around with all the HTML/ WYSIWIG stuff (once you copy and paste into your post and publish it it draft mode, you will notice some extraneous HTML code that you will need to go back in and delete before publishing out of draft mode).
There is also an add-on to Firefox called Scribefire that allows you do do all of your writing and then transfer directly to your blog post. Scribefire is a little more limited than Word----but not much----and what is cool about it is that you can open it and it takes up the bottom half of your screen where you can reply to all the gazillion comments to your blog post without having to scroll up and down the comments to get to the last person you commented to. Plus you can make your comments look COOL----just like whatever you do with your post----and all without that nasty HTML/ WYSIWIG stuff.
I think one of the coolest things about all this is that because there is no going back and forth between HTML/WYSIWIG, there is no problem going back and editing things later on----especially when it comes to pictures and links. Now if only I could figure out how to include pictures in the copy and paste. That can be done old school after the post has been copied into your blog.
And now for the hard part. In order for all of this to work there has to be a "snippet" of coding already in place. For example if I copy and paste my name as it appears at the end of this post into the next post and then insert the next post from Word ahead of my name there will be enough HTML code associated with my name to affect the whole new pasted material.If I get enough requests on how to do this I will do another post with those instructions.
The only thing left to say is, “WERD!”
Charles Buell
Click on the Rose to check out: AHA!---A Forum of Landmark Proportions---your Group
PS, for those of you that are new to my blog (or for some other "unexplained" reason have never noticed)all pictures and smiley-face inserts (emoticons) (when I use them) have messages that show up when you point at them with your cursor.
DeCroe, is my "etherial" home inspector assistant and occasionally flies into my blog and other people's blogs to offer assistance. To find out more about her beginnings just click on Raven.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Click on the Rose to check out: AHA!---A Forum of Landmark Proportions---your Group
PS, for those of you that are new to my blog (or for some other "unexplained" reason have never noticed)all pictures and smiley-face inserts (emoticons) (when I use them) have messages that show up when you point at them with your cursor.
DeCroe, is my "ethereal" home inspector assistant and occasionally flies into my blog and other people's blogs to offer assistance. To find out more about her beginnings just click on Raven.
26 comments • Charles Buell, Seattle, WA, Home Inspector • January 27 2009 02:38PM