March 9, 2010

Tutorial - New Window for Web Links



Are you ready to try a daring feat with your blog? This is an easy tip. No acrobatic tricks are involved and you will not expose your petticoats. I promise!

Many of us bloggers insert web links in our posts. I frequently include internet resource information for my readers, particularly when I am writing about our journeys. With the default Bloggers programming, when you click on such a link, your browser window navigates away from the blog page to the linked web site. And if you are like me, you sometimes lose your place and forget to go back and finish reading the original blog post!

To eliminate this aggravation, I made a change to my blog’s html programming a few months ago so that my web links open up into new windows. If you want to make this template change too, here are the steps:

That’s it! Now try it out and then order a young person to do a cartwheel for you!

12 comments:

  1. OHNOooooo!!! Another Darn TEMPTATION!!!Hahaa...Just got through enlarging my blog, figuring out how to make my photos Bigger without jagged edges and Now this!HAhahaa...Oh My! Let me see if I can figure out what this means...Thanks Girlfriend! You REALLY need to teach this stuff!! How about a Teaching blog, free backgrounds and headers??!!!Hahaaa..I don't see you jumping on this...
    hughugs

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  2. And then order a young person to do a cartwheel for you! I LOVE it!
    I'm going to go do that right now!
    Hugs
    KIm

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  3. do we press enter afterward...or are we adding to the front of the line directly under head?

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  4. I'm doing a cartwheel...ouchie! That worked like a charm...thanks so much! Hope that you have a lot of fun at Joann's!

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  5. Donna, I've been looking all morning for "Screen Resolution" to set it to 100ppi but have NO idea where That is!!LOLOL...gads! Is that When you take the photo with the camera or When you're posting it to your blog post?
    I know...I'm dense!
    hughugs

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  6. YIKES! I copied what you wrote to do, VERY CAREFULLY, went and did it....AND IT WORKS!
    Makes me VERY nervous to go messing around with stuff like HTML that I know zilch about!
    Thanks Donna!

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  7. Vee & Farmgirl Cyn - Glad that it worked for you! I tried it out on my test blog first, LOL. I agree that html language is scary to change!

    Janean - Give that new language its own line. I'll send you an e-mail too, in case you don't come back here. I want to post the answer for others too.

    Donna - LOL, I will send you an e-mail and try to explain about posting photos in keeping with average screen resolutions.

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  8. Great tip! Thanks for sharing and thanks for visiting my blog. Good luck in the giveaway!

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  9. Thanks for dropping by, and thanks for this little lesson. My kids, have downloaded my current photoshop program, and told me to teach myself, because I was more than capable, imagine them having that much faith in their OLD mom. I'm sure I will want to update at some point. thank You again.

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  10. Just did the HTML change thing...hope I did it right..Love your blog and now I need to go learn more..
    Have a great weekend!

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  11. I did it! Looks like it's working fine. You DO need to teach a class in this stuff. I get so confused by HTML. Thanks for the help!

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  12. Thank you darling...now if I can just reverse the process...=D

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