Friday, April 9, 2021

How I create a Links page using HTML View and Statistics from my Stats page here at blogspot (blogger.com)

 I start with the following HTML Code Template:

Then I go to the STATS page which is usually about two items below where it says "NEW POST" where you compose your pages. However, you have to have two windows open to do this effectively (unless you have some other kind of shortcut that works better for you personally). But, I prefer to have at least 2 windows open like I also always do when I'm composing and quoting from other online sources often. 

The Template of HTML LInk code always begins with <p> which will allow it to actually work with nothing more than a title once it is installed in an "HTML VIEW" page at your site here at blogspot.

The 2nd line of code is your href which means it will generate a link for you if you put in the URL you want the link to take the reader or you to. Then you can add the Link Text of what you want to call the link that will appear on your page. I have separated the lines of code into things more useful for my brain to make sense of by the way. But, if you look at finished code at your "HTML View" it might all be run together depending upon how you load it. I just arrange it this way because it is easier to think about in this form and it still will run also when you load it into "HTML View".

If you are wondering where HTML VIEW is first click on "NEW POST" when that loads you likely are in the default mode which is "Compose". If you look at the little pencil symbol just below your title line to the left there is a downward pointing triangle just to the right of the pencil symbol very small. Click this little downward pointing triangle and it should create a scroll that says on top "HTML VIEW" and below that likely the default view which is called "Compose". To make or to load the HTML for links into somewhere that actually works you have to click on HTML VIEW. This will widen and number your page then. The numbers are so you can more easily reckon with the lines of code by numbers (especially when it all runs together sometimes like it will be if you look at it under some situations. I don't like to have to read it  this way so I break it down into my understandable ways because it still runs if I do this.

After all, all computer languages are designed for our use as humans not the computer's because the computer only thinks in zeros and ones anyway in the end in machine language. So all code of any computer language is ONLY for the purpose of not confusing humans and that's all.

Here is your HREF link code. I would advise making a copy of it and then using copies of that copy to make each Link page daily or weekly or however you choose to do this at your site.

Here is the HREF LInk Code Template that you have to convert into "HTML View" for it to work  you add urls and Link text for each one and deleting the word "url" and "link text" from each one and replacing both with what you want them to be in each case. However, just remember BEFORE you add the URL and the Link Texts you have to be already in HTML VIEW or the whole page won't load. I found this out the hard way the other day.

Note: using the edit function of your browser for Copy and paste where you can copy the whole template at once speeds this up a whole lot. It took me until recently to realize I could copy a whole page of code this way in this form into "HTML View" and also keep a copy of the template to make more copies of. But, it takes time to think all these things through because (you don't know what you know until you know it).

The edit function on Chrome is two words to the right of where it says chrome on the top left of your page. Click on it to see how it works if you haven't used it before. As a blogger if you are quoting things from anywhere it is your most important friend helping you do things much quicker. even if you are moving things on one page of application to this site I think it will work doing that too. And you can grab sometimes more than one page if you know what you are doing too.

 <p>&nbsp;</p>

<a href="url">link text</a>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<a href="url">link text</a>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<a href="url">link text</a>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<a href="url">link text</a>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<a href="url">link text</a>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<a href="url">link text</a>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<a href="url">link text</a>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<a href="url">link text</a>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<a href="url">link text</a>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<a href="url">link text</a>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<a href="url">link text</a>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<a href="url">link text</a>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<a href="url">link text</a>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

 

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