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How do I hide a link under a picture?

  1. universalgeni
    Member

    This about videos. Only a few is allowed here. But I want to fool the system, which I think can be done in a legal way.

    I have posted a screenshot from a video on my blog. The trick is to hide a link under the picture, so that the video will start, when the readers click the picture. Most of them won't even notice the hoax.

    But how do I hide a link under my picture?

    The screenshot: http://universalgeni.wordpress.com/2007/01/20/hillary-clinton-vil-v%c3%a6re-pr%c3%a6sident/

    (How do I make links active in this forum?)

  2. drmike
    Member

    Active links - Post the url as is. Don't do anything to it. I removed the bbcode and it worked. :)

    As to the link, it's just regular HTML like we discussed in this post.

    hope this helps,
    -drmike

  3. universalgeni
    Member

    But that is for the sidebar? My video is for an ordinary post. I'm sorry, that I'm too ignorant to understand the answers I get. I am working on that, though. Working very hard even...

  4. drmike
    Member

    That's standard HTML. It works everywhere. :)

  5. universalgeni
    Member

    I guess that a PowerPoint presentation can be hidden under a picture as well. There is an other thread, where a blogger is asking about PowerPoint presentations on ones blog...

  6. universalgeni
    Member

    Thank you - I will do my best...

  7. drmike
    Member

    Preety much. Put the ppt in the 'a' link and use a standard image for the img portion of the link.

  8. universalgeni
    Member

    I wish, I understood that... "Die Dummen Dänen" as they say in Germany...

  9. universalgeni
    Member

    What is not clear to me is the order of the urls. First the url of ones blog. Then the name af the blog. I have a space in the blogname. Should I include that space? Veritas Universalis or veritasuniversalis? The I take the picture url? And then the name of the picture? But where do I put the video url?

  10. drmike
    Member

    If you post the video and image URLs, I can show you a demo.

  11. universalgeni
    Member

    Thank you:

    Blog url: http://universalgeni.wordpress.com/
    Blog name: Veritas Universalis
    Picture url: http://i12.tinypic.com/2gx067m.jpg
    Name of picture: Hillary_Clinton_video
    Video url: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/video/

  12. universalgeni
    Member

    This is a gold thread. It should be sticky. "How to put all kinds of videos, PowerPoint presentations, slide shows and a lot of other things on your log without breaking the rules".

    There is a lot of treads about DailyMotion videos, Flickr and others.

    It is the tip of the day...

  13. drmike
    Member

    <a href="http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/video/" title="Hillary Clinton Video"><img src="http://i12.tinypic.com/2gx067m.jpg" alt="Hillary Clinton Video" /></a>

    Tested here.

    One minor issue is if you'll note at the bottom left, you have the pause key shown. That normally means the video is playing. I would either change it to the play button of add some text saying "press picture to play video" or some sort.

    Hope this helps,
    -drmike

  14. drmike
    Member

    Actually it is breaking the rules. You're sending the visitor to another site without stating that you're doing so. There's some accessability issues.

    Unless you want to state that you're going to send them elsewhere.

  15. universalgeni
    Member

    You are an angel. Thank you so much!

  16. universalgeni
    Member

    drmike, is that testblog open for all or is there some place else, one can use for testing?

  17. universalgeni
    Member

    drmike wrote: Unless you want to state that you're going to send them elsewhere.

    Oh blast! I'd better write it on the blog then....

  18. drmike
    Member

    nah, its just my test blog. Just create a second one if you want. I think Timethief has something like 2 dozen by now. :)

    If you want, you can also make test posts and mark them private. they're not visable to the outside visitor and you can still pull them up in your own browser if you're logged in.

  19. timethief
    Member

    @drmike
    EH! What's this? Two flipping dozen. I go for lunch and you take liberties ... two dozen! ... sheesh ... it's not true.
    I used to have two private test blogs but I deleted all the contents of one yesterday and I intend to make it public. Soon everyone can read my opinions about the bastardization of the blogging world by the "want monster" inside those bloggers with dollar signs in their eyes and cash registers where their hearts ought to be, as well as rants on other associated subjects. ;)

  20. universalgeni
    Member

    I am learning very fast in these threads. They are an exellent idea. Thank you again.

  21. universalgeni
    Member

    That was troublesome. It did not work, when I copied drmikes work from this page. Then I copy/pasted it to a Microsoft Works document and without any editing at all I copy/pasted it from there to the blog. And then it worked. Unexplainable...

  22. timethief
    Member

    gremlins ... ;)

  23. raincoaster
    Member

    It's a very interesting and useful thing, though. Cool workaround.

  24. universalgeni
    Member

    I sorry to bother you about this again, but I do it wrong now again and I don't know what the mistake is. I'm trying to hide this video: http://video.on.nytimes.com/ifr_main.jsp?nsid=b7818ba6b:11050f15655:1d55&st=1169590384734&mp=WMP&cpf=true&fvn=9&fr=112806_063055_552c2fa1x10f30bc0319x785a&rdm=95326.76267677304

    under this picture: http://i11.tinypic.com/308jncx.jpg

    and I use the same formula as written by dr.mike in this thread. But no luck. Is it necessary to type a new picture name? It just ads to the number of mistakes, an ignorant like me can make. Couldn't I have a standard name for all pictures instead?

    Would someone please be kind enough to write the correct video/picture url for me? I hope that I will be able to learn, if I see one more example. I still haven't understood the principle...

    Edit: sorry about the long url.

  25. universalgeni
    Member

    It is impossible. I can't get it right.

    I am a bit sad, there is no response in this thread but that life. I will give it a few more minutes and then I'll just give up. I seems, there is no help today. Can't win them all as they say....

  26. timethief
    Member

    Hi there,
    When we do not know the answer to the question posed we do not respond. This was the case for me and apparently for others too. Perhaps another blogger will respond. If they don't then you will have to send a feedback into staff. :)

  27. universalgeni
    Member

    Thank you timethief. But I drop it. I wrote an ordinary link instead. Besides it was the wrong link. The right video is this one below in case other bloggers would like to see it. But just forget about fixing the problem. These things happen. :-D

    http://video.on.nytimes.com/ifr_main.jsp?nsid=b7818ba6b:11051431130:-d24&st=1169596037140&mp=WMP&cpf=true&fvn=9&fr=112806_063055_552c2fa1x10f30bc0319x785a&rdm=534993.2559228705

  28. timethief
    Member

    Whew! I'm glad you got it sorted. :)

  29. universalgeni
    Member

    Arrrgh! I am not a clever student. I still can't make this work. Please help me find the error in this. I can't hide a link under a picture. It is a video link:

    <*a hr*ef="http://www.daily*motion.com/relevance/search/israel/video/x5yoj_clip-shoah-israel" title="Holocaust Vi*deo"><img src="http://i16.tin*ypic.com/454g2m1.jpg" alt="Holocaust Vi*deo" /><*/a>

    Stars made by my

  30. drmike
    Member

    Well, we can embed dailymotion stuff now. There's a walkthru on the FAQ blog. I'd just do that.

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