We’ve just finished migrating our eHarlequin.com community to a new platform equipped with some fun social networking tools and enhanced navigation to allow for stronger connections and better, more frequent communication among our members. Our mission is to deliver great entertainment and connectivity to women around the world and we hope you’ll enjoy the upgrade.
However, you can't make full use of the new community space until you get busy and participate. So, what are you waiting for? Upload a photo, update your public profile information, pick your favorite discussions and blogs, add some friends to your buddy list, click on some tags and get acquainted with our new and improved Community.
And if you’re new to our community, become an active member today by clicking here.
All the best,
Jayne
Community Manager
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh"—Agnes Repplier
Love It
I finally get to be the first person to comment, and I must say I'm really loving the new look and features. Must go play now.
Melissa Blue
Published: Squee
http://www.melthegreatest.blogspot.com
i'm lovin' it
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Here, but not... spookyyy
I'm here Dee... Tag, you're it.
Add some SPICE to your life.
This is great! And easy...
...looks like everything is off to a good start, eh?
Thanks again for all the hard work you ALL do!
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kalyko ~ Reading: One of life's little joys and a much needed reward!
New playground. Yay
New playground. Yay
Christa ~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Challenge Blog
My Shelfari Page
anywhere to ask...?
Super excited about the new forums!
I'm wondering if there is/will be a thread where we can ask questions in addition to those addressed in the FAQ.
In my case, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me why my HTML in my blog posting isn't working. It's making me crazy, because I can't see anything wrong with it.
Testing! <font color="#000000">See? Not working. <font color="purple">Nor is this.
But I don't want to clutter up the thread with whining because I really do like everything else
I second the anywhere to ask...
As I can't figure out why I can't upload a picture! Worked on the old board so I'm sure I'm doing something wrong!
The D2K Paranormal Junkies 2008 Challenge Blo
Lady Am ... html doesn't
Lady Am ... html doesn't work in this site ..... you need to use the buttons for bold, italics, underscore ..... I'm hoping they'll give us more editing tools
~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog
But...but it SAYS "Allowed
But...but it SAYS "Allowed HTML tags" at the bottom...is it lying to me?
(Someone needs to keep me away from the cute new emoticons.)
This is great!
I'm having so much fun zooming all around! You guys did a great job on reorganizing everything! Thanks!
Cole
Nicole Reising
www.nicolereising.com
www.nicolereising.com/blog
Imagination... the magical whispers from within.
HTML
Yes, the allowed HTML tags are not working it seems or I don't know what the new code is. I would very much appreciate knowing the image code so I can start posting. The old code doesn't seem to work.
AKA Merri
Family Challenge Team: The Spine Breakers with my dh Glenn AKA Phaedrus
debiw781
If it told you that it accepted your changes but didn't upload the picture try refreshing the page.
ELLEN TOO
A true teacher is a person who, at the end of the school day, still likes children!
It's going to take some
It's going to take some getting used to, especially for folks who are used to writing up their book reviews in Word before posting them into the comment box. With this system, I've installed a handy little button below the comment box in your editing suite. It looks like a clipboard with a W on a piece of paper in front of it. Click on that to paste content created in Word onto these new boards, it will strip the formating out. Then you can use the editing suite to decorate your post the way you like adding in the Bold and Italics and coloring font etc., Alternately you can create your messaging in notepad or wordpad and then paste into the comment box here.
To add images there's a little TREE icon below the comment box...image looks like a nice leafy tree. Click on that and paste the image URL into the field. I usually align my pictures left or right and add space around them by assigning the numeric value of 5 to the vertical and horizontal space fields. The other thing you CAN do is open up another browser for book covers and drag images over from the main site into your blog/forum post and resize by clicking and dragging the little corners of the image until you get it the size you want.
Once you get used to it, it's MUCH easier on this system, if you have any questions just let me know by posting here or emailing me
Jayne
Community Manager
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh"—Agnes Repplier
Editing Tools
Jayne the editing tools are not showing up ..... the only tools that I show available are .... B-bold / I-italics / U-underscore / ABC-strike through / unordered list / ordered list / insert link / unlink / smilies ..... that's all she wrote!
there is no Word clipboard .... no "tree" icon to insert pics .... no font colour selection
~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog
Yes, I think Kathy called
Yes, I think Kathy called the problem--we don't see the tools you're talking about. (Or I'm just blind...always possible!)
It sounds like once we do see them it'll be a great WYSIWYG style editor...awesome!
Just to
Just to update...
Okay...dragging images from another browser window works (thought I don't know how to get the <img align="left"> affect yet) but I still don't see any of the tools you mentioned. I triple-checked!
more on book cover images
I do not see the tree image. Also dragging does not work. I use Firefox. Am I going to have to use Microsoft IE now? (please no! I avoid Microsoft whenever possible) Everything I try to do is not working to put up a book cover image. Straight HTML code is a lot easier for me than the "easy" way. Please help.
AKA Merri
Family Challenge Team: The Spine Breakers with my dh Glenn AKA Phaedrus
editing tools
when we beta tested the site, there were other editing tools offered ..... one for html input ... a special Word clipboard ... insert image .... font colour
these are not available yet to us .... or perhaps, the powers that be have determined they should not be offered .... we'll just have to work with what is offered for now until they get things sorted
~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog
I really wish they would do
I really wish they would do the insert image, esp. if it was in the beta! MySpace has the easiest way to insert images. Book covers are nice. They look much nicer than straight text. The internet is a visual medium after all. I am going to eat dinner but I will wait to post until I can figure out how to put the beautiful book covers in my blog.
AKA Merri
Family Challenge Team: The Spine Breakers with my dh Glenn AKA Phaedrus
Oooh, I didn't realize you
Oooh, I didn't realize you were a beta tester. Makes sense...I'll be patient, then. Thanks for explaining, Kathy--at least I'm not crazy!
Paisley--I'm with you...I am such a cheater when using programs like Dreamweaver...sooo much easier just to sneak into the code and fix things.
pics
Hey Jayne,
I am not seeing the tree editor button either....just to second what Katherine said above. The only way to post pics right now is the drag and drop.
"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves"...Anna Quindlen
AHA!
Well, that explains things...let me go and add those to the basic user profiles, I guess they didn't make it in the switch over to the new server. Don't you just LOVE collaborative community building?
Jayne
Community Manager
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh"—Agnes Repplier
Firefox browser does not work in new community set up?
OK the cut and paste of images seems to work in IE but not in Firefox. Firefox is my normal browser not IE which I avoid like the plague. I don't know if the techies can make it Firefox compatible as well but it would be nice if this is possible once everything setlles down.
AKA Merri
Family Challenge Team: The Spine Breakers with my dh Glenn AKA Phaedrus
firefox
Merri, this site was tested by techies who preferred Firefox ... so I'm sure you'll be fine once Jayne gives us more editing priviliges
~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog
Spellcheck
Jayne .. are we going to have a Spellchecker?
oh,THANK YOU ....the editing tools are there!
~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog
Thank you Jayne!
Thank you, we now have the tree editor, and colors,
"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves"...Anna Quindlen
tree works with IE
Now that I signed in with IE, I see the tree etc but it is not there on Firefox..... the tree was not there when I first signed in with IE but it is there now. I use Firefox for everything else so it would be nice if when the dust settles the platform would work with Firefox.
AKA Merri
Family Challenge Team: The Spine Breakers with my dh Glenn AKA Phaedrus
What about now?
While it's true we like Firefox, we've spent a HUGE amount of time dedicated to testing the site on all browser versions. If you have IE 6 for example we know and have been battling some major display issues...remember we were supposed to launch Jan 2....I'm just sayin'
If you find ANY bugs or wonky looking stuff let me know....I like squishing 'em!
Oh, and I just added the extra functionality to the text editor...anyone seeing them?
Jayne
Community Manager
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh"—Agnes Repplier
New editing tools are there!
Yes Jayne ... the tools are there! ... thanks so much
Merri, try shutting down your computer and then openning Firefox ..... I think you'll find the new editing tools will be there ..... I think whenever the techies made changes that was the only was to get them to show up, to "refresh or restart" your browser .... hope that works for you
~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog
RSS feeds on the Simply board
Jayne ... I posted to the Hosties over on the Simply board ..... when I tried to set up RSS feeds for that board it only set up the feeds for the Hostie thread and the Million Dollar Dad thread ..... the "folders" for the lines weren't offered ..... did I do something wrong?
~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog
Major plus
I have a Wordpress.com blog and the "creat a post" functions are nearly 100% identical. I would've liked the "code view" feature, but I guess you can't have everything!
Christina
Christina
“When a cat loves you, he’ll leave dead mice on your porch, because you’re a lousy hunter and he wants to take care of you.”
- Aunt B to Kate, (Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews)
Re: RSS feeds on the Simply board
Never mind Jayne ..... I figured it out! ... duh ... all I needed to do was open the "folders" and click on the RSS feed icon .... each folder can be subscribed to separately, which is great .. that's what I wanted
~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog
thanks, will try it
Thanks Katherine!!! I will try it as soon as I finish my work tonight and switch to play time from work and can reboot. (We work late!)
AKA Merri
Family Challenge Team: The Spine Breakers with my dh Glenn AKA Phaedrus
I'm not sure Kat...you might
I'm not sure Kat...you might only be able to sub to threads and not folders...I'll double check....er, never mind!
Isn't this fun?
Jayne
Community Manager
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh"—Agnes Repplier
Christina, can you explain
Christina, can you explain the code view option? If it's worth considering and it's in my toolkit...I can add.
Jayne
Community Manager
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh"—Agnes Repplier
thanks!
Thanks so much Jayne, having the extra editing features is wonderful.
I'm so excited about the new site that I don't want to go to bed...argh...WHY do I have to work in the mornin?
Oh, boy. It's a whole new
Oh, boy. It's a whole new world.
Just when I was finally figuring out the old site. But life goes on and change can be a good thing. I'm off to play.
jdpicraux
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele
The "code view"
It's the "behind the scenes" html of the WYSIWYG.
In code view the following
HI!
would be "<b>HI!</b>"
Having the code view is useful for the very thing I did when I was creating the example. I added a hard return after bolding HI! and it took the bolding with it to the next line. Without code view to see the "</b>" -- to insert the cursor in the proper spot after the ">", I had to unbold the word, add the hard return, and rebold it. Had I hit the return before bolding the word, it wouldn't have been a issue.
I also like the code view for the tweaking the spacing: "<br>" vs. "<p>" .
I hope this helps.
Christina
Christina
“When a cat loves you, he’ll leave dead mice on your porch, because you’re a lousy hunter and he wants to take care of you.”
- Aunt B to Kate, (Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews)
one thing that I don't like
Ok, it is easy to post a review but tone thing I really don't like...
If I post a book cover image, nothing else shows up in the main blog but a title. There should be a way to add a couple of lines of text and an image. RIght now it loks like those deadful teasers from 2007 that we all hated. I understand the 5 lines for the main blog but even if I press on my blog, it's all these teasers with no text. At the very least on my own blog, the text shoeld show instead of just a teaser. We all hated those teasers last year because you never saw anything. For the main blog, i get it...equal space, etc but there has to be a way to see our complete blogs from our profiles hopefully?
One bug...I am using a color code for my letters #400080 and only bolding the title but the whole text looks bold.
AKA Merri
Family Challenge Team: The Spine Breakers with my dh Glenn AKA Phaedrus
Paisley....use the text
Paisley....use the text editor under the comment box to color your text or add formatting....html doesn't work here...
Jayne
Community Manager
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh"—Agnes Repplier
Re: one thing that I don't like
Merri, I noticed that when I click on my own Blog I get the condensed version .... however when I go to the Profile page of another Member and click on their latest blog entry it's the full version of the blog that comes up ....
try that with mine ... just click on my name on this post ... then click on my most recent blog entry ... I think you'll find it opens fully not in a "trimmed" version
hope that helps!
~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog
new blogs
It would be nice if when we pressed read more from the main challenge that it opened a new browser page for the full review so we don't lose our place on the main challenge.
One bug: I cant see all someone's friends. WHen I press the see more button I only see four for myself or someone else.
Another bug: everything looks bolded when it isn't. It looks fine in the window but in the preview and the final submission, it all looks bold when it wan't.
Katherine, when I go to individual member pages, it is taking a lot of unnecessary clicks to even get to posts and book reviews of individuals. I really liked being able to see individual people and following their reading without all the extra going around and around. For example, I know your 2007 team reads a lot of lines I don't normally so I depended on your team as the first place to go to browse and look at the Desires and Presents etc before shopping. In the current format, it is really much harder to be able to scan individual blogs efficiently while at lunch etc. because I have to click here and click there. Maybe there is a quicker way I have not figured out yet.
I am not trying to be picky. Probably should have signed up to do Beta testing but was swamped at work. I just want to comment so if things can be made more enjoyable, they will be mre enjoyable for all.
Well, I blogged my 3 books for tonight and now i need to go take care of the family. THanks for helping me at least get these up tonight.
AKA Merri
Family Challenge Team: The Spine Breakers with my dh Glenn AKA Phaedrus
Have to walk before we
Have to walk before we run...but rest assured we'll be figuring out the team aspect of the 100,000 Book Challenge shortly
Jayne
Community Manager
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh"—Agnes Repplier
Re: Have to walk before we
Thanks Jayne ... I'm glad you're working on the Team thing ..... on other sites that have a similar format to this one, I've noticed they've set up the members into what they call Groups ... I suppose a Group could be a Team? ..... well, I'm sure your Techies are playing around with the ideas ..... the site I'm thinking of is the one for Taste of Home magazine ..... http://community.tasteofhome.com/ .... they just recently made the site change too, and to much grumbling at first ....... I hadn't realized the site had changed until Christmas when I went looking for a recipe ...... I think their format is very similar, though the lay out of course is unique
Merri, have you discovered the "my Favourites" function? ... it's great for helping you find your favourite threads again
~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog
Clock out of whack!
Hey Jayne,
I just subbed a book review and it said I posted it at 5:18am. It's 11:18 here. Even with the one hour time difference, the eharl clock is still about 4 hrs out.
Oh wait a minute - where is the clock located anyway?
Anita mae.
www.anitamaedraper.blogspot.com
www.newsfromthepews.blogspot.com
Re: Clock out of whack!
Anita Mae, you can set the clock for your local time .... go to your Profile ...click on Edit and further down it will ask you for your time zone info
hope this helps!
~~ KatherineT ~~ I'm a Harlequin Addict, and I'm proud of it!
~~ Quiet Canadians ~ 2008 Book Challenge Blog
Spell check?
yes I know, the LAST thing you need is more questions Jayne! BUt I have one anyhow... Are we going to get a spell check? I'm a DREADFUL typist and spell check is my best friend!
The D2K Paranormal Junkies
But I LIKE your typos
But I LIKE your typos Kelley! Let me check and see...it might be an oversight..not sure at this point...need much sleep,..going to bed....zzzz
Jayne
Community Manager
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh"—Agnes Repplier
Hate it. Hate the faded
Hate it.
Hate the faded color I can't see it very well
Hate the blog format of the whole site
Hate the fact it is so hard to find anything
Guess you want the teeny's and twenty's not the older reader
Jayne likes typos
well I'm glad I am able to provide you some entertainment with my errors Jayne.
And I want to say THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for all the hard work y'all have done to get this new community up and running. I know we'll still find bugs as we go along and there's atill a lot to be done but I really appreciate you getting us this far!
I'm spending WAAAY too much time in here tonight! I should be writing reviews. LOL
The D2K Paranormal Junkies