by Sam Juliano
After working three hours on my review of 1776, the review disappeared from wordpress after I clicked on the “save draft” icon. This was surely the most disheartening occurance I have ever experienced since helping to start Wonders in the Dark. I don’t remember working this hard and long on a review, especially as I worked feverishly to complete it for some exposure on July 4th. I am leaving my home for Manhattan now, and will attempt to get my thoughts together tomorrow for a re-write, but this really takes the wind out of you. had I wisely opted to copy and save, before hitting the “save” I might still have it, but after going into wordpress, it is nowhere anymore.
My holiday aspirations have been dashed, but more importantly I have had hours of my life squandered. Ah well….
Yeah, Schmulee that sucks. You write and write and then, POOF, it’s all up in smoke. I mean how terrible is that knowing that your 4th of July plans of writing for a blog site are ruined. All that wonderful time of squinting into a computer screen, scratching your crotch, drinking warm soda-pop in a stuffy and cluttered air-conditioned room are all up in smoke! I mean I know I wouldn’t want to be spending quality time with my wife and five adorable children. I know I would hate going for a walk, breathing in fresh air and seeing the fireworks over the Manhattan sky-line. Damn, a perfectly good vacation day of blogging ruined by WORDPRESS and forcing you into time with the family! THAT BLOWS!
Hi! Sam Juliano,
Even though I’ am on the road to recovery…
…I have to stop and tell you, to “hang in there” and try again…You know what they say about the second time around! Hmmm…
Courage! Courage!…You must have courage!
Take care!
DeeDee
I hate it when stuff like that happens. But while we’re on the subject…
Technical question for Allan, Tony, or whoever:
How do I make a hyperlink jump to a certain spot on the linked-to page. For example, the way Wonders in the Dark takes you to the last line of the intro when you click “Read more”. I am linking up to everybody who made a list of their favorite movie books, and as I’ll be composing the list by book I’d like to have the the link jump right to the book in question instead of the same (top) spot on the blog every single time.
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated…thanks! (I’ve tried to find info online, which usually works in these questions but as I don’t know the terminology for what I am trying to do this has proved difficult…)
MovieMan, you need to have an anchor in the linked to page, which in HTML is called a bookmark.
A bookmark looks like this (move mouse over ‘Theatre’ for highlight): Theatre
So the URL for a link to the bookmark in the page would look like this:
Theatre Page
Copy this comment and paste it into a draft blog post to review the HTML.
Thanks, Tony – I will check that out. However, it sounds like I can only link to a bookmark on a page if I have authored the linked-to page? (In other words, I will not be able to link to a certain passage on another blog.) Is this the case?
Sam, you should always compose off-line in MS Word, and then paste the article in WordPress using the Paste From Ms Word button….
That’s what I do. When it comes to software…trust NO ONE, or the world is likely to be deprived of your genius!
I have told Sam to do this a million times, Tony, but he refuses to do so as he doesn’t know how to use MS Word, despite me telling him numerous times.
He always waits till he gets burned before learning a lesson, proactivity doesn’t enter his vocabulary.
Aargh, how awful. I hope you can remember what you wrote – when I’ve lost stuff over the years I’ve often found it is much quicker to write it the second time. But it’s still a real pain when it happens.
Wow, thanks Tony and everyone else here for your advice and sympathies. I never expected my blogging frustrations to get responses like that. Thanks Judy!
Not even MS Word, but in a mac environment use the easy ‘Text Edit’ program (that comes with the OS). it is idiot proof. it makes the ease of MS Word (and I’m not talking down to you Sam) look like rocket science. just open selection and start typing. thats it (and you can save as word files, or anything–you can even write code in it).
just a suggestion.
Thanks very much for that suggestion Jamie, and I must definitely don’t take it as talking down to me at all. I am not exactly your most profficient person around! Ha!
i just have extreme sympathy for computer woes–i was computer illiterate when i started college (i used to type papers in HS on typewriters); i remember losing a paper because i couldn’t even save on a disk correctly.
10 years later i’m a designer that uses a computer everyday, and actually at times works on the side of extreme computer literacy–production (pre-press mainly). so i’m always willing to help, because i’ve been there.
indeed Jamie indeed. Well, now you are at the other end of computer affluence, and I salute for that. Thanks again.
Oh! Sam Juliano,
You, know what else you, could have done…just “cut and pasted” your review…create a private blog and placed it there and if there was any doubt…at least your review would have been safe until you, could get someone else to help you out!
DeeDee
Just a thought…at least, you exhibited courage(To hang in there and persevere!)
we should all appreciate the computer era atleast it came to make things easy for us guys.imagine a world without computers…