english as a first language
05-07-2009, 01:30 AM
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Originally Posted by butterflywing
what does HTML mean? i don't speak techno.
in the profile page, it asks about HTML being allowed. HUH?
in the profile page, it asks about HTML being allowed. HUH?
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05-07-2009, 01:31 AM
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Hans not home til this eve and google quicker - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
still don't understand it though!
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still don't understand it though!
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05-07-2009, 01:33 AM
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It is an acronym for HyperText Markup Language. It is the code that is 'behind' websites....it basically tells the internet how to make things appear and what to do.
This is a helpful website to explain things better:
http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/html_tutor.html
I am a non-IT person working in an IT department (on the admin side), and half the time I feel like everyone is speaking a different language. I have to look things up on the web (bloomin' acronyms) on a daily basis!
This is a helpful website to explain things better:
http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/html_tutor.html
I am a non-IT person working in an IT department (on the admin side), and half the time I feel like everyone is speaking a different language. I have to look things up on the web (bloomin' acronyms) on a daily basis!
05-07-2009, 01:39 AM
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Ah, promising about the attention span required to read it but I'm sorry Mary, I STILL glazed over after the first sentence! Hopefully it will answer BW's question though!
I did a summer job at IBM while I was at uni - the in-joke was that IBM stood for 'Its Better Manually'!!!
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I did a summer job at IBM while I was at uni - the in-joke was that IBM stood for 'Its Better Manually'!!!
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05-07-2009, 07:34 AM
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my mac speaks has no language skills. no bold, no italics, no underlines, etc. so i'm going to try italics the way i was just shown:
hello, everyone
there. i know i'm now in another mode, but did it work?
Edit: nope. i got something wrong.
hello, everyone
there. i know i'm now in another mode, but did it work?
Edit: nope. i got something wrong.
05-07-2009, 07:39 AM
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anyway, is this why i sometimes get written material, usually in emails, that look like they're written in hieroglyphs? because it's in another 'language"?
or i sometimes can't send images to chit-chat by copy-paste? because the forum and my mac speak different languages?
or i sometimes can't send images to chit-chat by copy-paste? because the forum and my mac speak different languages?
05-07-2009, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by butterflywing
anyway, is this why i sometimes get written material, usually in emails, that look like they're written in hieroglyphs? because it's in another 'language"?
or i sometimes can't send images to chit-chat by copy-paste? because the forum and my mac speak different languages?
or i sometimes can't send images to chit-chat by copy-paste? because the forum and my mac speak different languages?
(my favourite Dutch expression - well, of the clean ones - means no bloomin idea!)
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