Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Right... quite a few things there.... I'll try to give brief overviews/opinions,

DIV: With html you are limited in your ability to lay items out on a page. Early developers simply created a table and bunged stuff in cells. Kinda worked. Later, it got a bit cleverer as tables are bad .. and people got the ability to place each piece of text/image into a DIV, which is really just a "big space for your stuff" - and with a whole collection of DIVs (set up correctly) you could end up with a whole page layout. But that's actually more complex to do that it seems ... and so a lot of people never bothered (especially as trying to get all DIV combinations to work across all browsers sometimes can make you lose the will to live). However... you can randomly chuck a DIV in here and there to make things line up.... e.g. if you want an image to appear to the left, or right, or your text and your text to go round it (not that it always does, but that's a different matter).

If I want to randomly chuck in an image into a post, I just go into the html and I surround the image code with the DIV code. Not sure how this will come out on here (if it cocks up I'll edit it)....

<div style="display: block; float: right; margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;">

Then put your image code.

</div>

Where it says float:right, you can make it go in the left/right/center.
Where it has margin sizes, these are in pixels and can be any values you like (bigger the number, bigger the blank margin/border round the image between it and the text).

No idea re categories/blog ..... if I saw it it'd be obvious to me what you mean, what to do etc.... but I'm not good at visualising the problems of others when I've never had/seen the problem myself, IYSWIM.

Eeek! Thankyou, I sort of understand; I'll try it on the next one, see what happens. I did something, I now have a link to my blog on the homepage and it's in there, but all the labels on the homepage are all over the place. One day, one day...

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i didn't think much of berlin when i was there. the most impressive buildings were the russian war memorial, and the nazi air ministry. the rest was quite underwhelming, although the tiergarten was a decent city park and the brandenburg gate was ok. berlin is half empty - big enough for 6 million and only 2-3 million actually living and working there i think. big open spaces of nothingness in the outer parts of the city centre as well IIRC.

dunno if this is what LIR meant, but i think berlin has an uber cool clubbing scene. my opinion on clubbers is that they should all have a pint of ale in a pub garden and just bloody well calm down.

My mate lived there in the 70s. It was the time when the West was getting richer and richer and West germany was going throught the German economic miracle. He had a great time.

Berlin was uber-cool then as well. David Bowie and Brian Eno were living there and the song Heroes (played at the Olympics) was writtten there and then.

Another plus was West Berlin's notable surplus of single women compared with single men.:D

fc123

Doozergirl wrote: »

Yorkshire Puddings. Something we might all agree on? :eek:

Absolutely ...and with every type of joint cooked for a roast dinner.

zagubov

Doozergirl wrote: »

Yorkshire Puddings. Something we might all agree on? :eek:

Yup!

Some years ago you used to be able to buy meals cooked inside giant yorkshire puds - curries, chllies, sausages with onions.:D

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Yup!

Some years ago you used to be able to buy meals cooked inside giant yorkshire puds - curries, chllies, sausages with onions.:D

You've obviously gone up market then ... because you can still buy those, frozen, in supermarkets.... and they're on pub menus.

If you're in Waitrose, sniffing round the whole salmon .... before you pop into a wine bar for lunch.... you're not looking in the right places.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

You've obviously gone up market then ... because you can still buy those, frozen, in supermarkets.... and they're on pub menus.

If you're in Waitrose, sniffing round the whole salmon .... before you pop into a wine bar for lunch.... you're not looking in the right places.

I spend too much time in my local waitrose. My freezer's full of thier whoopsied curries/pies/meals at about £1 or so.

Happy birthday Chewie. 33's not old!

Treat yourself to David Nobbs Reginald Perrin books to read on the train.:)

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Only the best food EVER!!!

I'll give it a go! Frozen aisle?

PasturesNew

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I'll give it a go! Frozen aisle?

To be honest, a frozen one's just not going to be any good.... except ....
you can buy just frozen Giant Yorkshire Puddings. Every supermarket has their own brand, or Aunt Bessie does them. Own brand ones are £0.30-£0.50.

Then ... think what you'd like to fill it with. Some suggestions to get you started are:
- roast beef, roast potatoes, veggies, gravy.
- sausages, mash, onion gravy.
- mash, vegetables and gravy.

So, just choose what you want to serve in it, cook that up and the frozen yorkshire will take 5-10 minutes to cook in the oven.

Or .... simply make a Giant Yorkshire Pudding yourself and make the filling.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22giant%20yorkshire%20pudding%20filled%22&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1078&bih=606&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=BgUfUIzaJcKM0AX6mIAo

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

To be honest, a frozen one's just not going to be any good.... except ....
you can buy just frozen Giant Yorkshire Puddings. Every supermarket has their own brand, or Aunt Bessie does them. Own brand ones are £0.30-£0.50.

Then ... think what you'd like to fill it with. Some suggestions to get you started are:
- roast beef, roast potatoes, veggies, gravy.
- sausages, mash, onion gravy.
- mash, vegetables and gravy.

So, just choose what you want to serve in it, cook that up and the frozen yorkshire will take 5-10 minutes to cook in the oven.

Or .... simply make a Giant Yorkshire Pudding yourself and make the filling.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22giant%20yorkshire%20pudding%20filled%22&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1078&bih=606&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=BgUfUIzaJcKM0AX6mIAo

Thanks Pastures! If you'd said Mkhvtei, I'd have known what you were on about. It's like Yorkshire pudding with sliced beef/pork on the top!

I know a lot of English foods by their Georgian names, and am probably bringing my kids up badly with English because of it!

CK

CKhalvashi

fc123 wrote: »

Absolutely ...and with every type of joint ... for a roast dinner.

I rest my case with you lot :cool: