h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

i avent bin in touch wot wi work n digibox probs i avent bin able 2 get on as much, n 4 the next month im goin 2 b extra busy so wots new lol
in reply 2 ur question re romanies, originally we came from egypt over 300 yrs ago, so yes the nomads o egypt r connected & also the european nomads, not quite sure bout the spanish but i suppose its quite possible.
ive gtg again now talk soon hopefully, but b 4 i go heres a cuppa n a piece o on me
as u can c ive got the hang o the s now i think they,re neat i especially like the s
must now talk again
xxromanixx

Hi there! Kristina isn't online right now, but she and I keep an eye on each others conversations - thanks for the info - I think the Spanish Gypsies are Romani too, because they used to have a language of their own called 'caló' which was a mix of Romani and Spanish

If you happen to be online this weekend, why not come to the Harvest Festival? Here: A810640

Hi romani.angel - thanks for dropping by - and thanks for the info!

I think I'm still a bit confused about the difference between those are 'just' gypsies and those that are 'romani' - but what else could be expected when I'm hanging around with someone like Titania? (She's the Muse of Confusion, you know)

oh dear, i dont know how 2 describe the difference without insulting a gypsy i think 1 way would be 2 say if you put a gypsy and a romani person and their trailers side by side you would soon see the difference
i did,nt notice your msg till just now bout that
im just so busy trying 2 get 2 grips with guideml at the mo
so at the moment i havent really got a page at all im just getting nowhere fast but i,ll keep trying
failing that it looks like going back 2 plain text
romani

You seem to be doing fine with the GuideML bit - nice pictures!

Titania and I have written an entry on how to get started with GuideML on your user page: A690518

i was just about to give up and go back to plain text
but i just tired once more and
then it was time for the to celebrate
i have just 1 little prob at the mo i wanted to put some in but everytime i tried it came up error, saying the body expected disco
cant you use smileys in guideml
i really would like to use they are my fav
any ideas please
romani

You have to use tags for smileys once you've changed your page to GuideML - the smiley tag looks like this:

<smiley type="disco"/>

i,ve just got to nip out for a mo
i was going to use other smileys in among the text but decided it would be too much
heres some <bubbly on me for you and titania
since i,m celebrating
romani

Celebrating what?

Cheers!

celebrating me finally getting the hang of guide ml.......i think anyway i keep hitting a few probs but soon get them sorted so thats no major setback

i think the major probs are other ppl distracting me here at home when i want to get some work done on my page

oh well must press on & for your encouragement & help

romani

Your user page is beginning to look really interesting! - but some of the text is hidden behind the pictures...

You could try splitting the text up in paragraphs - put a in front of and a after a block of text

hello again

for the advice, is a paragraph 1 of those blue box things that my heading is in, i hope so i like them & i will try that i did,nt realise some of the text was missing so for pointing that out.

yesterday i tried to put links to my friends in the box on the right hand side but although it seemed to accept it, the info has,nt shown up in the box i put

then the info inbetween like this then

have i done this wrong ?

romani

The references automatically show a list of links you have on your user page - you can't edit the list yourself

...but to put a link in, use this tag for external links:


Description of link

but i did,nt want external links.

just the links 2 my friends pages

romani

Aha!

Use this tag:



That's my user number - put one of your friends' user numbers there instead - and note the '/' at the end - it is a 'self-closing' tag...

Sorry, sorry - the tag should have been:

ive just bin replyin 2 msgs n then i did the paragraph bit u reccommended

then ive bin tryin various things 2 link my friends 2 no avail....when i saw ur msg

i,ll go do that now

romani

Hmmm... the first picture on your user page is so big that it still covers some of the text in the second paragraph...

If I have figured it out correctly, you have a block of text and a picture to go with it, then another block and another picture - is that right?

You might try putting in a horizontal line between each text+picture block - this is the tag:



...and that's just a suggestion - I'm sure your user page looks fine in some browsers - maybe it's just my browser (and screen solution) that messes it up... does it look OK when you look at it yourself?

yes it looks ok 2 me...but then it might look different wi me using a digibox n keyboard....but i,ll still try ur suggestion anyway cos if it looks like that 2 u it might do so 2 others too

ive made a few more adjustments 2....ive deleted the disco smileys from the end o each paragraph....i thought it looked....2 much

romani

I guess it looks different not only because of different browswers/media but also because people use different skins

To give you an idea about what it looks like in different skins, try these links:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/U200271?skin=classic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/U200271?skin=alabaster

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/U200271?skin=brunel

I'm not completely sure, but I think that if a page looks good in all 3 skins, it might also look good in all browsers/media