Confessions of an illiterate

[Master Slytherin]

I've never hidden the fact that I'm computer illiterate so I need your help:

Can someone tell me how to make html files for the chapters of my stories? I 'learned' it years ago in school but unfortunately quickly dropped I.C.T.

Thanks.

[LINKed up]

Save as webpage.

[Master Slytherin]

My old ICT teacher had this long way and made it seem more complicated than it actually is :x

Anyway thanks.

[nonjon]

You can also, if you want them bare and small, go into your fanfiction.net account, Story managing/editing, and there's a column called "Backup" with links labeled "dl". Clicking on those strips out all the forms and buttons and annoying headers, labels, links, everything. I do my "Save page as" from there and you don't have any separate linked files, images, etc... It makes the HTML's about as small as standard HTML can be while still maintaining the ff.net formatting.

For my own purposes, I have a table I paste at the bottom to go to next or previous chapter.

You could also just use De-FFNET-izer or whatever it's called.

[Master Slytherin]

I've already spent an agonising hour converting all my chapters to html manually but next time I'll remember the ff.net way. It's quick and it feels as if you're using them :twisted:

For my own purposes, I have a table I paste at the bottom to go to next or previous chapter.


The natural question following that would be how do you do that?

[nonjon]

HTML is just a text file. Open it in Wordpad or Notepad or whatever simple text editor you like. And I delete the last </body></html>

and then I paste in:


<hr noshade="noshade" size="1" width="100%">
<table border="0" width="100%"><tr>
<td align="left" width="30%">Previous Chapter (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nonjon/files/You%20Did%20What%21/Y_D_W_17.html)</td>
<td align="center" width="40%">File 18 of 21</td>
<td align="right" width="30%">Next Chapter (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nonjon/files/You%20Did%20What%21/Y_D_W_19.html)</td></tr></table>
</body></html>


Mind you I edit the bits about what chapter it is and where the previous and next are. If you couldn't tell this is from Chapter 18 of You Did What?! so the links are pointing to absolute locations of the other files on my yahoogroup. Mainly it's because yahoogroups use randomly generated file locations, so shortened ones don't always work (the long random links are regenerated every 30 mins or hour or something).

And then if I were putting up Chapter 19, I'd only need to edit the links to say 18 and 20 instead, as well as the text of 'File 19 of 21'.

This is the simplest way I've found to keep the fics easily readable on the yahoogroup. Whenever I post to fanfiction.net I then use this way to make the HTML and just that little edit with the table and upload it. Certainly saves me messing with the code much, or worrying about keeping the italics, bold, line breaks, and centering. Which is the only formatting I use.