Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Here's the problem:

 Building a links page is very time consuming even though because I'm very efficient it takes less time for me now. It used to take me 1 1/2 hours to make one. Now I have it down to less than 1/2 and hour by utilizing the Edit Function on my chrome browser a lot in efficient ways. For example, if you grab and copy your whole "Link text title) at one time you can blue or purple out where it says "Link text" and it will replace it instantly if you do it right. Also, where it says "url" you can blue or purple out that section too and replace it with your URL using the edit function. If you become efficient at this you can build a links page using an HREF template of code. 

Just don't make the mistake of taking code from a non-html arrayed display like I just did that was designed to show code but not in an HTML format. You see, the problem is that if you put code in html format the commands will execute but often you won't see the code because that is how html works. So, you have to redesign to actually display code for the average non-programmer person to see on a page.

Since I already wasted 1/2 an hour building this links page I decided to leave it since I don't have time to make another one right now.

If you copy the URLs and put them in your browser you might be able to get the articles. Or if the titles are exactly the same as the original article I quoted you might be able to get that same or a similar article online that way if you want to.

This way my mistake is a learning experience for both of us potentially.

Even if you have been programming in computer languages since literally 1966 like me one still can make mistakes without even knowing what mistake they have made regarding programming. Part of the reason for this is you don't always know the intentions of the original programmer when you are using a template built by someone else (especially if you have never met them or even know their name(s)). Because often at this point the people who made that template might not be alive anymore because of the passage of time.

Just remember that most people I knew and programmed with likely aren't around anymore either from the 1960s, especially all my college teachers more than 10 years older than me when I was 18 in 1966.

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