nvu tutorial
Give
Your Active Rain Blog Pizazz and Punch The Easy Way And The Free Way!
I have received a lot of emails asking me how I get my posts to look
like this.
You
can use an HTML publisher where you can write in plain
text and
then the program will change it to HTML for you such as Dreamweaver or
Microsoft Front Page. But I am not patient enough to learn those
programs and I do know basic HTML.
For the very basics;
such as one or two color text, bolding text and
changing the font size you can do that right in the Active Rain HTML
editor. But the problem is you can not go back and forth from WYSIWYG
to HTML. You must save the changes in each editor by publishing to
draft. The other problem I have had is that when I change the color of
the text in Active Rain HTML editor, save it, publish it and then
decide to go back into WYSIWYG to edit something entirely different;
when I re-publish, all the color is gone. So that became quite
frustrating.
Then I read a post on Active
Rain by Chuck Willman who said we could use a FREE HTML editor called Nvu.
In my post called, Colors,
Colors, Everywhere; I used Nvu to do all the different
colors.
Nvu
is FREE and you can download it on your
computer. My
favorite part
about Nvu is that I can use it to write my posts without
being
on line. So if I am at the park or at one of my son's
homeschool
activities or classes; I can still draft my posts without having to use
Microsoft Word, which does not always turn out when you copy and paste
it into your Active Rain blog. I used Nvu to write this post.
All you do is type your text, add your images and links, add your
colors, bolding and font sizes as if you are typing a document in Word
or any other word processor. It is SO easy. I love it!
You can also use Nvu to edit your websites and custom make pages for
multiple websites. You can do some fancy stuff too. There are a lot of
things you can do to add some:
WOW
Pizazz
and
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This definately gets my GOLD STAR! Thanks! I can't wait to go get some color!
Katerina- Nice! I have been using Word and cutting and pasting. I don't want to fire up my full blown editors to write posts so I will give this a try. I appreciate the information.
Best wishes,
Scott