Tuesday, May 31, 2005

// Subject: TURORIAL: How to Get started in Blogger

Starting a Blog of your own
1. Go to Blogger.
2. Click the Orange Arrow.
3. Click!
4. Click!
5. Click!
6. Tada! You're blog has successfully been created. Congrats! Click the Orange arrow to make your very first post (in this case, skip to step 2 of the next tutorial)
Click!

Posting in Blogger
1. Click on the plus sign (+) as shown in the picture:
Click!
2. Click!

Easy, yes?
Now, you'll want to get a blogskin. That's pretty easy, too.
Finding and using a blogskin
1. Go to BlogSkins
2. Click!
3. You've found a skin that you like...
Click!
4. Once it's downloaded into your computer, open up the file. It should be under blogskin### (### stands for some weird numbers :D).
5. Edit all that you need to, such as your profile. add links if you like, and a tagboard (get one at cBox). Copy everything (ctrl+A then ctrl+C)
6. Now return to blogger, log in and click the gear thing next to the plus sign. Next, click on the third tab. You would be on the second tab already. If you don't understand, look at the pic that is linked after this paragraph, the top left hand corner.
Click!
7. Clear all that is in the text box already and paste in the new stuff by:
a. ctrl+A so that everything is selected, then
b. ctrl+V so that you paste over everything.
8. Preview your changes with the first blue button, then use the orange button to save your work. Now, publish your blog.

Tada! ^__^v Hope I was of some help. Next I will do something on image uploading and accepting blogger invites.

One DYNAMITE! @ 1:24 pm

// Subject: *cough*

Gahh... I'm still sick :( Stupid cough is so persistant... Anywayz... I think you guys shouldn't just post at the tagboard, post HERE. In the blog. I mean, class blog right? If you need help with any of the stuffs re joining blogger or accepting the invite (or if you didn't even get one [odd..]), you can always email me, or leave a tag (heh, finally put in a tagboard...) or comment on my blog, k?

Speaking of my blog... *ADVERTISING* New layout at Velocity! Go see and tell me what you think! *ADVERTISING*

So... I think I'll post something soon on instructions on accepting blogger invites and posting and all that...

-Sarah
caladb.lg@gmail.com
http://aquarel.org/ura

One DYNAMITE! @ 1:17 pm

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

// Subject: Me, again...

Now, for a proper post. This was supposed to be a post on how to create a blog, but... *curse* something is wrong with photobucket!!! Each time I open it, IE will auto-close!!! GAARRR

Okay, anyway...
CONGRATS 1D!!!!
WE RULE!!!!
Hehe. Congrats everyone and thanks too, to all who took time to help out in the bk parade :D It was really a joy to hear 1D's name being called out for 2nd place! I never asked for much, regarding the book parade, just that we did our best and had no regrets.

But God blessed us with this wonderful results. It wouldn't have been possible for God to work on his own to magically make costumes appear in front of us, or for make up to appear magically or for him to give us our lines when we never even practised before. So thanks, all of you who spent time with us helping us remember our lines and donating things to this cause. Big thanks to Kendra for lending us elmo, and sorry if we caused you sleepless nights... ^^;;

I think we have proved to Ms Kunalan and ourselves that we can do it on our own. *please, may kunalan not read this* We don't need a teacher watching over us and making sure we do everything right. I can say for sure that for me, shakti, ren jean and cheryl, it would have been difficult to express ourselves when we have a person of authority breathing down our necks. So maybe amrit and rivali's playfulness did help, even if we got all exasperated...

Yup, that's all I gotta say. ^^
thank you everyone and GOD
:DD

One DYNAMITE! @ 3:27 pm

// Subject: Nice try, jer~!

Nice try, but you missed out an important aspect of the image code...
That is:
border="0"

Yup yup. If you have yet to notice that horrendous, ugly, disgusting blue border around your image, this is a reminder :D IE stupidly just adds in that border, so you have to remove that border with the above code

Also, about the linking thing, it's really very easy once you get the hang of it. ^__^v

<a href="http://bubblegum-angel.blogspot.com" target=new title="Jermaine">Jermaine</a>

...Is how you should do it. Let me explain the inards of the code. href="http://bubblegum-angel.blogspot.com" is, quite obviously, the main part of the code (after the <a> blahblah> and </a>, of course! You type in the address here, and don't forget the HTTP://!!! No that means that you CANNOT access the page as you would be trying to open "http://one-dynamite.blogspot.com/bubblegum-angel.blogspot.com", which doesn't exist in the very first place. Next. target=new is how you make sure that a link will result in a NEW WINDOW, and hence, the person does not actually leave your page, but is actually looking at a new window. If you need an example, go to the credits of this blog and click my lovely name ^^;;

Last, but not least is the title="jermaine" section. Do you realise that in my blog, when you hover over the links under the "tomodachi no jutsu" section in the sidebar, the name appears again? For example, if I have a link to jer's blog, and you hover over her name. Another jermaine will appear! Look at this, just for an example:
Sarah
Do you see the sarah that appears? That's the result of the title="???" section of the code.

You can also insert that into bold, italicized stuff. Like this:
<i title="lalalala">Hello!</i> This will result in:
Hello! (hover over it)
Same with bolding (b), ~~strikout~~ (s) and underline (u).

Let shifu now teach you another basic trick that can be rather useful. Let's say that jer is your best friend, so you want her link to be bolded. This is how you can go about doing it.
<b><a href="http://bubblegum-angel.blogspot.com" target=new title="Jermaine rules!">Jermaine</a></b>
This as compared to a link to my blog, and let's just say that you don't like me alot... ;__;
Jermaine (with bolded) VS Sarah (no bolded)

See? Yup yup. Mini tutorial jie su le~!

-Sarah (my link is up there... two times, too.) ^^;;

One DYNAMITE! @ 3:02 pm

Saturday, May 21, 2005

// Subject: To invite or not to invite, that is the question...

Everyone who posts REGULARLY should see this, and as this only applies to regulars, I supose it doesn't really matter if the rest of the class knows about this or not. So, I pose this question to all regulars here, and you can answer me in school, via email, msn, blog post, tag-board message or sms.

Should we invite the teachers to this class blog. They are part of our class, afterall. I know that it is highly unlikely that they would actually post, but who knows right? Maybe ms. kunalan spends her midnights blogging on her *personal* blog... BUT, there is one problem. What if we complain about them, they will be able to read all this stuff that we write about them. Also, whatever you post on your blogs (personal) can be traced back to you from the class list. So far, I have collected two answers: Zhang says NO and Rivali says YES.

However, it could be quite fun if they really did blog... :P So, answer soon, okay? ^__^v

Tata~!

You-know-who-has-no-life-apart-from-blogging
Haha. ME

Oh and Jer, I'll see if I can find some parangs... I'll bring them in if I can find them on tuedsay. Anybody else wanna join in on the assault?

One DYNAMITE! @ 9:41 am

Friday, May 20, 2005

// Subject: bowlhead

hey peepz!! :D:D hehh... nvm anyway tnxx Sarah 4 addin me :D anyway yeahh... now tt xams r ova not v fun anymore... as in wkends la... still haf tuition... :( then needa do hw so sian & oso hafta practice more piano.... and yeah all tt kinda things which usually cannot really do BUT the GOOD thing is tt well at least can oso WATCH MORE TV & GO OUT MORE & PLAY COM!!!!!! :D:D:D:D sorry...but aiya nvm la :D anyway juz rmb dis 1D will alwiz 4eva b 1D'05 ok? :D GO 1D!!!!:Dhaha suddenly feelin the class spirit bubblin in me u c... >.<

One DYNAMITE! @ 3:47 pm

// Subject: Oh shit...

GAHH!!! *cowers in a corner* I sent the wrong URL (to my blog) to everyone (okay, to most people) when I sent out blogger invites to all 35 of you/us! *cries* So... yeah. Y_Y

Okay, anyway.... Soon, I shall be able to generate the class list, because only... 6 people have not filled in the list (yueny, jaime, xiaohui, nicole, huiling and esabelle).

Anywayz... my results SUCK... okay, whose don't except for yuen wai? Who here wants to kill Yuen Wai? ME!!! ;__; Zhang Hui says she wants to too!!! Wait, then again... who doesn't? T_T I'm sooo careless! I could have gotten an a1 for english, but I missed ity by a mere 1.5 marks!!! Waaaaaahhhh >.< and I could have beaten yueny at pohysics, but careless ol' me was... CARELESS

Okay, I'll stop ranting now, cuz I'm in the library at present, and for those who've never come to the library before... wait, we all have. Anywayz, it's FRIGID!!! I'm... freezing and my fingers are numb... anyway, I'm going to go see what rivali has typed in her new blog. Oh, by the way, two people in our clas ahve JUST gotten blogs! (at least, that I know of)

Zhang and 'Queen' Rivali

Sayonara~! ^___^v

One DYNAMITE! @ 3:24 pm

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

// Subject: hohoho

Hohoho. It's me! Again! Yes, I HAVE NO LIFE.

Haha. I also have lost my sane mind. Yes. I AM MAD. Okay. *tries to screw sane mind back on*

Okay. Yes. New layout! *cheers* I don't know... I like the pic, but I'm not very pleased with the techie things I tried to add. I had no inspiration! And space was kinda constricted. If anyone wants to see a wallpaper I made that fully showcases my techie stuff, feel free to ask ~~.So, don't be surprised to see it change after a while, even though that main picture stays. ^^;;

Oh, and the tag-board has been fixed, and I found the WONDERFUL code that enables you to remove that blogger nav bar! If anyone wants to know, this is how:

Place this before the body tag:
<noembed>
and
</noembed> AFTER the body tag

to get
<noembed>
<body>
</noembed>

Note that the person who made your skin might have added additional elements to the body tag, making it look something like the bottom "illustration" (not necessarily), so don't say you can't find the body tag because you were looking for the solitary body tag, okay?

<body bgcolor="#000000"> or <body style="background-image:url(URL);">

and some can be a combination of the two and such. Okie dokie. That kinda concludes the mini-tutorial~~!

^^ Sorry this layout took so long since I said earlier that it would take an hour or so only... I had a BIg problem

Those from the pri sch 6.5, 5.2 will know Jo-Ann, right? Her blog has this irritating anti-copying tag that makes anything you copy (ctrl+c), be it from her site or from elsewhere, paste out to be BOOGER. STOP CUT & COPYING MY STUFF. I got a big shock! I though my computer became a supercomputer or something! I know she doesn't want anyone to steal her layout etc, but... GRR... okay, it isn't her fault that the scripter wrote the script that way. Hopefully someone will come up with a new and modified version of that script that constrains that BOOGER message to the website in question, and NOT TO THE WHOLE COMPUTER!!!

That was why i was "late" I was trying to copy and paste something (to save time), and kept ending up with the BOOGER message! ARGH! Luckily I finally closed her blog... if not, maybe I'd be biting my handphone and my mouse now instead of sanely typing this post....
khjfsajkshjkasdhjksdhjbxjkshduar87 twqudg839ty5u3wbd
hahahahahhahaahahhaha
looks like i got a screw loose... (get it?) read the first part of the post if you don't get this super lame joke

One DYNAMITE! @ 9:02 pm

// Subject: Me... once again

Hehe... You should know by now who this bored retard is...

Yep yep. Anyway.... to answer the previous two posts in this blog:

someone: You are right, I have no tagboard! *gasp* Yes, believe it. :P I find the tagboard irritating, because (being the lazy retard i am) each time I make a new layout, I'd have to make sure that my side bar has enough space to fit that big tagboard, other wise, I have to edit all the codes, which is very troublesome, and painful to the eye. Trust me, I had to do that for my first... 5+ layouts, and as a result, i believe my glasses degree has drastically risen. That, is very bad, and i don't think I have to saye much more... hehehe. Oh, to comment on my blog, just click the comment button, which actually varies each layout, but is always in the same place, at the bottom of each and every post and is represented my either a word then a dash then the number of comments (eg comments~1), or the number IN the word (eg c0mments which will increase as the comments do, like this: c11mments). Click on the comments button (it is NOT comments, but could be something like, Aur0n, Aur3n, or something related to the current layout, anyway it has a number, and being in 1d, u should be able to tell the difference between that and the time, right... Oh, and it's not TB(0)... that's trackback, which I don't know how or want to use...) and a window will pop up in which you can comment :D

Jer: hehe, half right. As of late, I have not done any searches, but in the past, when I searched for FIR pics... I found pics of fir TREES... Grr. Yep, so it's kinda impossible to make a layout featuring fir when I have no good pic(s) of fir... ^__^;; As for the manga thingy... don't tell jeanie, but I plan to steal her drawings and make a layout out of it! Okay, so not many people like manga in our class, but... since jeanie drew it... :P

Yup yup. Anywayz... I'm currently in the tedious process of coding our new layout~! Yayz! Okay, my eyes are beginning to hurt... BUT! For this class I shall sacrifice my eyes for the next hour or so, however long it takes to code the new layout... ^__^v Wish me and my eyes luck~!

Sincerely,

You know who...

One DYNAMITE! @ 5:54 pm

// Subject: someone

hey sarah, i think you have a nice blog, but, um, i cant see the tagboard! :)

One DYNAMITE! @ 5:35 pm

// Subject: its... jermaine. the idiot. hahas.

heyas!

hmm... reading sarah's post [below], i therefore conclude that she wanted to.. hmmm... maybe... put FIR's picture in? [i didnt look at the posts below that... haha] hmmm. maybe manga. you should opt for a cartoon image of a gangster. or criminal. hey sarah! put [[[[qian nian zhi lian]]]] in for some music! haha. oops. maybe only amy, sarah and me! will know. oh. i think esabelle knows. maybe. hm-mm. you guys can go to souting.com and press FIR's new album. i think you can listen online there. no ideas. hahas again. ((:

One DYNAMITE! @ 5:15 pm

// Subject: Me again

I shall be editing that layout of which a preview was shown earlier (check the other post by me made a few days ago), then coding it, because I think it is quite adequate for our blog. Not only because the name of that layout is going to be SUPER NOVA (death of a star, which is the explosion of a star),but also because nobody is going to like it if I feature someone they don't like, and I don't know if there is anybody who EVERYONE in this class likes. Therefore, I have no choice but to make the ENTIRE layout out of SCRATCH with NO aid from pictures of celebrities etc, like I normally do. SO, I ask that you don't be so critical of my layouts, because I do spend ALOT of time working on them, and because this is a SHARED blog between ALOT of people with different likes and views.

Yep. That's the end of my short rant. expect the new layout soon, maybe later today or tomorrow, depending on what i feel like...

:D Sarahahahahaha
caladb.lg@gmail.com //\\ http://aquarel.org/ura

One DYNAMITE! @ 3:18 pm

Monday, May 16, 2005

// Subject: prisceee's here!!

HELLO!!! I KNOW I A BIT RETARD BUT THIS IS FUN!

One DYNAMITE! @ 6:10 pm

// Subject: prisceee

One DYNAMITE! @ 6:10 pm

Friday, May 13, 2005

// Subject: Prospective new layout :3

Yo~! Yay! Exams are over~~~! ^__^V Yipee... *begins to curse* BUT that stupid interview thingy just has to spoil our (xiaohui, zhang, etc...) good mood and nice day of freedom. GRRR.

Anyway. Yes, I have a prospective new layout. I psent most of this morning working on it! It may look very simple, but I assure you, it was NOT! This is the result of my experiments with feathering... http://aquarel.org/ura/layout.jpg

Please give your comments, since the last one (which is the one on the blog now), I only asked... Zhang and prisci's opinions I think... Okie then. I hope you guys like it... >.o If you want to see it in full size, add me on MSN (caladb.lg@gmail.com) and ask me...

Speaking of which, those who added me on msn as sckx_92@hotmail.com, my email's changed to caladb.lg@gmail.com because a) My sckx email was being spammed with newsletters etc, and b) I have a great load of people (about 80-100 maybe?) people on my MSN contact list that I DON"T EVEN KNOW. Yes, those are the poeple I met in my old forum-moderating, forum-visiting days... Weird right? People just added me then never spoke to me, or just asked me how I did something in photoshop (graphics program; since I was well respected since I made such nice graphics though i was so "young", in their opinion... ahahahahaha. zi kua zi kua...) then blocked me... And me, too lazy to do anything, didn't bother removing them from my list. *sigh*

There's currently something wrong with the current layout... I'm not sure what, cuz I haven't gone investigating... Oh well, once I finish my final editing for the new layout (that is, if no one objects to it... ><;;), this layout won't be needed already... kekekeke.

Yup yup... enjoy this blissful, exams over, no hw (i hope), period of time :3

--Sarahahahaha
http://aquarel.org/ura
caladb.lg@gmail.com

One DYNAMITE! @ 1:50 pm

Sunday, May 08, 2005

// Subject: its out..

hey!!!HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE IS OUT!!!!!!ahhhhh!!!!go: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/harry_potter/thegobletoffire/ must go see..*harry dancing..oohhlala!!*..ok..geog tmr..bye!!

One DYNAMITE! @ 5:36 pm