At 08:05 AM 10/6/05 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I would love to be able to send Tiny Urls or even just normal-sized ones ( >:>)) to my friends when I have found something really good on the Internet, >but don't know how to find one - is it written somewhere on the page I am >viewing?
Look in the place where you type or paste a URL when you want to go somewhere that isn't bookmarked or linked. (On all my browsers, this is a white rectangle near the top of the screen.) You should see the URL of the page you are looking at. You can copy this field and paste it into a message -- if your browser's manual refuses to explain how, and the usual tricks don't work, you can write it on a piece of paper and copy it into your message by eyeball. "Tiny URL" is never necessary, and rarely desirable. Tip: If you put your cursor at the end of the URL and backspace to the last slash mark, then press "enter", you will get the parent directory of the file you are in. If access is denied, you can snip back to the next slash and get the parent of *that* directory. This procedure leads to a page with a link to the original page often enough that it's always worth trying when you get a "file not found" message, or when you Google up something wonderful that doesn't have any links to the rest of the Web site. Example: http://www.ethshar.com/thesprigganexperiment0.html leads to the table of contents for _The Spriggan Mirror_, a novel that is being posted on the Web in installments. Snipping back to the last slash gives http://www.ethshar.com/ , which is the home page of the author of the book, and that has links that lead to the original page. If I'd left out one of the "g"s in "spriggan", you could have gotten to the novel anyway, and if (as sometimes happens, but not in this particular case) there are no links back to the main page, you can find out about the author's other books anyway. Note also the "0" in the URL. If you substitute "1" for the "0", you get the first chapter, if you substitute "2" you get the second chapter, and so on. This is a very common pattern. If the URL for a cartoon ends "cartoon6.jpg", the odds are that there are also jpgs named cartoon1, cartoon2, etc. Sliding completely off on a tangent: the web pages that interest us are often designed by people who know more about lace than about web design, and a very common mistake that beginners make is using the "height" and "width" attributes to shrink a photo down to fit the screen. (height and width are specified so that the browser can reserve the right amount of space for the image, which keeps the text from jumping around as the images download.) As a result, it often happens that you have downloaded more resolution than the web page will show you. But if you right-click on the image and then click "view image", you will see all of the pixels that you've downloaded. I've seen images double in size when viewed alone! -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where I've seen the first leaf-sucker of the season. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
