Having trouble with google finding Xmarks?

**Bugbear** · 28th February 12, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by mookien

I don't think you're weird. I just can't picture how that works.

How do you select a desired web page from its link in your HTML doc? Do you cut and paste it into the address bar of your browser, or is their an automated way to achieve the same effect?

Ok, with HTML 5 it's a bit easier to type up an HTML doc that will load into a supporting browser.

You open a text editor like notepad and type:

<html>
<title> links</title
<body>
<p>
<a href="XMTS address on the web from the address bar is copy and pasted here">
X Marks the Scot Home Page
</a>
</p>
</body></html>

***

I don't want the VB program to put url tags on the address so I didn't put it in there.
You could copy and paste that code into a notepad file, then change the end tag of the file name ".txt" to ".htm" or "html," and it would open up in your default browser with the link displayed as the text "X Marks the Scot Home Page" a lot like using the url tags in a post here on the forum.
You can make lists of these links or arrange them how ever you want with different HTML tags and so on.

I hope that made some kind of sense, I know I don't explain things well.

**mookien** · 29th February 12, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by Bugbear

... I hope that made some kind of sense, I know I don't explain things well.

Yes, it does makes sense, and thanks for explaining it. I now understand the technique you are using, though some of the programming details elude me. I wrote lower-level code in the "Mother Tongue" - Fortran in the old days, and later in C and in script languages like Perl, Python, etc.

I do not know Visual Basic, and the syntax of html is a bit foreign to me. But, in general I see nothing "wrong" with what you are doing, since you have the technical capability to do it. If it works for you, then that's all that matters.

**MacGumerait** · 29th February 12, 11:25 PM

MacMillan's son ,

There is an even easier way to get to XMarks than I explained earlier .

1. Get to the XMarks home page in whatever method you choose .

2. Once there , put your mouse arrow in some blank area on the page and right click .

3. You will have a small window that pops up that has various options . If you have one of the newer versions of Windows , one of the selections will be " Create a Shortcut " . Click on that and an XMarks icon will be automatically be sent to your desktop .

If you have one of the older versions of Windows , one of the selections in that window will be " Send To " . If you see that selection , put your arrow on it and another box will appear and one of those selections will be " Desktop " . Click on " Desktop " and now you will have an XMarks icon on your desktop.

Either way , old version or new version , you now have an XMarks icon on your desktop . No typing in the address bar , no going to a search engine like Google . All you have to do is set down in front of your PC at any time of day , look at your PC desktop and click on the XMarks icon and bam , you're there .

Hope this helps .

Regards , Mike

**fluter** · 7th March 12, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by mookien

I do not know Visual Basic,...

I think that Ted meant the vBulletin forum software. We have tee many okronyms.

Hail, fellow coder, from one who has tried to learn more assembly languages that I care to recall. (none of them Intel

) Perl and awk are my friend.

**Bugbear** · 7th March 12, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by fluter

I think that Ted meant the vBulletin forum software. We have tee many okronyms.

Hail, fellow coder, from one who has tried to learn more assembly languages that I care to recall. (none of them Intel

) Perl and awk are my friend.

I'm sorry. Yes, I did mean the vBulletin forum software we are posting with when I wrote "VB." If it detects a web address, it puts url tags around it. I think there is a way to prevent that, but I forget how.

I have to work with HTML and CSS a lot, and I apologize if I came across as if I know a bunch of programming languages or anything special because I don't; it's just the HTML etc.

**mookien** · 7th March 12, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by fluter

I think that Ted meant the vBulletin forum software. We have tee many okronyms.

Hail, fellow coder, from one who has tried to learn more assembly languages that I care to recall. (none of them Intel

) Perl and awk are my friend.

Ken and Bugbear: Since I did not recognize the code, beyond identifying it as html, I assumed (incorrectly) that VB might be spinning out the html in some way from its higher-level commands. Obviously, I don't know either language very well. Thanks for your comments and help.

Also, though I am vaguely aware of background software helping us write our posts, I have never read about vBulletin. I'll have to look into it a bit. Maybe it can help me even more than it does by default.

While in the old days I wrote a lot of Fortran and C, in the ancient days (1966 AD to be exact), I learned both Fortran and CDC's assembly language, Compass. I loved assembly language, because it was so powerful, and illuminated the boundary/connection between software and hardware. But, I hated it, because it was sooo easy to make catastrophic mistakes. And, I made LOTS of them.

It's good to know there are other Code Warriors on the blog helping preserve "Truth, Justice, and the American Way."

John