From the Graphics Department
by Jen See on Feb 26, 2009 11:58 AM EST
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Note from Gav: This post only applies to the authors. My apologies for the confusion, it never occurred to me that non-authors could not access the stored graphics. I'm going to leave this up for the info of the authors. I'll update, if we find an easy way to make the graphics accessible to everyone. Thanks!
Greetings from the Graphics Department, where we've been busily preparing for the new season. What with the crayons, the road chalking, the het newswhatsit, things have been oh-so-busy. And way too much fun.
We have a new toy for the Cafe for this season. Country graphics. Yay! You've seen the "France" graphic already on the race radio thread. We also have "Italy" and "Germany" ready for action. Other countries soon to follow. Feel free to use these graphics for, well, pretty much anything. Races that don't have race graphics, news stories, or anything else that needs decorating. Spraypaint the walls!
To use, hit the picture icon above the post text box. In the find field, enter the name of country. Ie, France. Up pops the graphic. Simple, it is.
A slightly more technical note. The master format thingy does not insert a margin around the graphics. This makes me sad. Fortunately, it is easy to add one. Suppose you want your graphic on the left with a margin between the graphic and the text. Switch to html mode in the post entry box. Find the "img" tag. Within the "img" tag add the following: style="float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 0px;" That bit of joy will add a margin to the right and bottom sides of the graphic. Voilà, happiness abounds.
If you're really feeling zany, you can also take out the "a href" tag. Do we really need to click on the graphic and see it in another tab? No, no we really don't. Just delete all that "a href" code right there. Don't forget to remove the /a tag, too. Yay!
Most important of all, though, is to use and enjoy the graphics. Feel free to ignore any and all technical details, and just stick the happy colorful joy in your posts. The words, they looks so lonely all by themselves. Enjoy!
Love and kisses,
The Graphics Kids
Here's your post text box. In the tool bar above the box, look for the leetle picture. It's between the teevee and the bizarre white thingy. (What is that thingy anyway?) Press the picture icon.
Up pops the search field. Enter Italy.
Click add
Here's the default html sentences.
Here is the html sentence with a margin added.
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Is there a graphic for the language you just wrote in?
I seem to recognise “zany” but the rest is greek to me.
no worries
i added the technical bits for the people who are into that sort of thing.
but really, just putting the graphic in there is really easy.
hang on, adding some illustrations.
Happiness, indeed
Find the “img” tag. Within the “img” tag add the following: style=“float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 0px;” That bit of joy will add a margin to the right and bottom sides of the graphic. Voilà, happiness abounds.
I was banging my head against the wall, pre-2.0, because all of that was disallowed.
lol, yeah
It’s nice to be able to tell it what to do, no?
Also, if you remove the class attribute – class=“photo” it will remove that stoopid border around all the graphics, which gav and vee both do not love. Vee discovered that recently. Bellisimo!
I don't see these options under FanPost
is it only for people that have “front page” article access?
PS – did you use a Swiss Flag or FC’s chest for Switzerland? ;)
formerly known as cyclingchallenge
oooog!
That is so annoying. I just logged on under a different screen name and see what you mean.
Sigh, why is this so? It makes sense that no everyone can upload graphics. But why can’t everyone use the graphics stored on the site?
Lame.
ah, yes. Perhaps we can make a little link on the left
to a graphic bucket cheat sheet, perhaps?
And also, let’s keep writing about this to a minimum. The add on the left?
We could use lots of things at PodiumCafe. More glitter is not one of them.
gav, what you can do if you want everybody to be able to use them
is put them all up in one post. Then people can right-click, copy the url, and add the image that way.
Google is my domestique.
ah, believe this would work
‘specially if we added it to SJ’s idea about a perma-linky.
Still sorta odd that the stored graphics are closed.
lol
No, I just pulled it this am to see what the posting looked like. I promise I won’t post with it :-)
Italia!
Personally, I’d have had the rider climbing a mountain of linguine…
CQRanking.com, you complete me.
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 26, 2009 1:59 PM EST reply actions
Yeah
Although there’s so much to choose from there. Coppi? Vesuvius? The Colosseum? Yikes…
CQRanking.com, you complete me.
by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 26, 2009 2:07 PM EST up reply actions
Replace 'rider' with 'myself' and
you’ve got what Chris really meant.
And who can blame him?
"I didn't look for him and I didn't see him. If you base your race on another rider, most of the time you lose."
Tom Boonen
Thanks Graphics Department!
This makes my life much easier as I’ve always spent too much time figuring out the graphics and lately I’ve said, ‘fuck that’. Now I’ll be much more graphics oriented.
Note to Gav
I had too many beers before reading this post, so all I got out of it was “graphics stuff is really hard but if you have a graphics heavy post just send it to me and I’ll take care of it. Especially for Drew.”
So – thanks in advance. Mucho apreciado (that’s Spanish).
"I didn't look for him and I didn't see him. If you base your race on another rider, most of the time you lose."
Tom Boonen
wuss ;-)
dood, i’m a humanities major. if i can do it, anyone can.
but yes, i’ll sort out your graphics for you, drewd ;-)
in return,
I’ll set the pace up the climbs next year. It’s a win/win.
"I didn't look for him and I didn't see him. If you base your race on another rider, most of the time you lose."
Tom Boonen
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