Testing HTML Code in Signature and Body

[TXGulfCoast]

This is a test...

[ideasguy]

That test is working perfectly!

Good idea Monica. Currently 20C with you. We managed to get up to 15 last week but the temps have plummeted again.
Now its a challenge for us to post our respective weather status on the forum

[Kathy & Laurie]

Just a 'hint' of where we are. 



Laurie.

P.S.  Not enough characters left in my current signature to add HTML code for 'ribbon' weather image (don't want to change current sig), so just showing the 'Body' code. 

This is what it would look like if changed -

[TXGulfCoast]

I had to strip out some of the superfluous code to get the gizmo under the 300 characters.  It's quite tasteful, but doesn't give as much info and, even worse, it doesn't give even a.m./p.m. on time.

I'm going to "stick" with the weather sticker -- there's more info.

From the notes on using the sticker I've discovered that the time showing on the sticker isn't the actual time (dynamic).  It's the "observed" time -- so if the airport station only updates once an hour, the same time will show for a whole hour until the airport updates its station.

Stilll useful though.

[TXGulfCoast]

For Malcolm --

Here's the link to get the source code required for your sticker.  http://www.wunderground.com/geo/BigWeatherStickerPromo2/global/stations/03862.html?MR=1.

Oddly, the first two, either English or Metric, show Bournemouth airport.  If you scroll down to English/Metric weather sticker, the third one down, it showed St Leonard's and St Ive's, totally different than when I looked at it an hour ago!  Wow, it just turned back to Bournemouth in the last two minutes!  Anyway, copy the entire HTML source code of whichever one of the three you want to your signature on the profile page (if you always want it to show on a post).  I checked it and it is under the 300 character max allowed, but only by 1 character.

For the weather sticker, one is using raw HTML source code, not just a hyperlink to the site.  If you look at the source code you'll see that there is a "built-in" reference to the URL of the Weather Underground site.

The final product:

<img src="http://weathersticker.wunderground.com/weathersticker/big2_both_cond/language/www/global/stations/03862.gif" border="0" height="60" width="468" />

Hope this helps - I love to see weather info.

Monica

[Lyn and Malcolm]

Thank you Monica for the info.
I have removed my previous post and as you can see I have used the weather gizmo in my signature.
Bournemouth Airport is only about a mile and a half as the crow flies from here, and has much the same night temperature as us, of course the nearer you go towards Bournemouth and the beach, the higher the temperature will be.
Will probably enter it on our website home page as well.

Malcolm

[TXGulfCoast]

You're very welcome, Malcolm.

Adding it to your home page would be excellent.  Looking forward to seeing it there.

Monica

[Kathy & Laurie]

As this weather banner that Monica suggested seems to be becoming popular, I have increased the allowable character length in the Signature section of our members' profiles (from 300 to 460).

This will allow for the weather banners' HTML coding length of approx 296 characters to be included along with the normal signature where used.

Laurie.

[Lyn and Malcolm]

It is now at the bottom of our home page Monica.

20c at Lake Jackson and it's only 10.43am your time .  

Our Bananas would be growing at a good rate given that temperature. For a while yet they are still under protection, and growing very slowly, enough for me to have to cut a little off the tops so they don't push the roof off. 

Malcolm

[ideasguy]

Thanks for adjusting the number of characters, Laurie
I notice you had figured this challenge out already having seen the Teeside weather banner 

[Kathy & Laurie]

I think this is a great idea that Monica has introduced. 

I know she's very keen to keep an eye on the weather patterns, and having the ability to show our local weather conditions in our signatures means that we can all see at a glance what's happening with our members around the world (providing they're posting on the Forum and they have the banner coding too  )

Well done Monica. 

Laurie.

P.S.  What's the weather doing in your area George - nudge, nudge.  Tee-hee. 

[ideasguy]

The weather is dry and perfect for my current job - repotting my japanese maples - so you just have to take my word for it  until I get a chance to get a Belfast banner   

[Kathy & Laurie]

Nice one George.

Wouldn't like to see you getting left out in the 'cold' (a bit of a weather pun there     )

Good luck with your Japanese Maples.  Any chance of some photos of them when you get a chance?

Laurie.

[TXGulfCoast]

Thanks all,

I guess this is a question for Laurie or George:  Would it make sense for me to do a new topic called "add a weather sticker to your signature"?  It then would specifically refer to a "how to" as I would go through the steps for people who aren't used to doing this procedure?

Malcolm, I was just out cutting down the bananas mushed in our January Big Freeze -- one has put up a new little shoot, but it will take a while to get them back to their original height.  If you can believe it, we're actually experiencing below normal temps for this time of year.

Monica

[ideasguy]

Yes, go ahead Monica.

I'll proof read it for you