We doing okay here?

[897tgigvib]

Hey! I just changed my avatar! Without kid #2s help!

I can feel my head swelling...

Oh, nice Avatar Thistle!

 

[digitS']

Hmmm...I hovered my cursor over a thread on recent posts...didn't get anything.

You didn't??

I get a box with the 1st few lines of the original post.

Also, the numbers of the pages show up. Those numbers are links so that if it says "6, 7, 8" - I can click "8" and go to the posts on that page. If I just click the topic title, I start out on page #1.

Oh, Wait a minute! Go to the "Recent Posts" link directly under theEasyGarden.com. Not the one of the same name on the right side.

Steve

 

[897tgigvib]

Yes, Digit is right.

To get that appearing box that is sort of like a drop down, FIRST you click on the RECENT POSTS in the main green navigation bar at the top of the page. THEN you wait a few seconds while the Recent Posts page loads.
THEN you SCROLL DOWN just a little to the LIKELY LOOKING post you want to PREVIEW. You set your cursor arrow over it. IT WILL IMMEDIATELY GET UNDERLINED, and a couple seconds later a well designed PREVIEW BOX APPEARS.

Once you do it a couple times you might find that having your page SCROLLED TO JUST THE RIGHT PLACE will let the whole box appear. (My monitor is kindasorta small, and my eyes are kindasorta ole, so my ZOOM is set at 200%. So if you are not all zoomed up like me and or have a bigger monitor it may be easier for you.

OH! TECHNICAL QUESTION: (Maybe Nifty Knows)

Staples has monitors for sale. Some are nice and large, and some don't cost 2 arms and 3 legs. (Just one arm.) DO THOSE MONITORS JUST PLUG INTO THE LAPTOP LIKE SPEAKERS DO?

 

[baymule]

Members:4, guests:10, robots: 14

WHAT'S A ROBOT?? AND WHAT IS A ROBOT DOING ON TEG???

 

[digitS']

Well now, a robot isn't like a drone delivering packages from Amazon. Not quite, anyway.

An internet robot does "web spidering." See, that doesn't sound so bad.

.

No, no it is just searching thru the server computers looking for things like this post . . . which has some lame explanation of "web spidering." See, and then Google, or whomever owns the bot, can put that information on a results page from a google search if somebody is looking for "web spidering" and wants to do something about it . . .

Does it smell like 2-Methyl-2-(methylthio)propanal O-(N-methylcarbamoyl)oxime in here?

Steve

 

[digitS']

I'm Okay, You're Okay - (good book!) We're okay here!

Yes, but those other people are "suspect," Linn .

I just almost figured something out!

We seem to be having trouble understanding what has been read and what we haven't read. Right?

I just clicked "Mark all forums as read" up there above the list of forums and topics. TEG says, "You sure?" I thought, "Why the heck not?" And, clicked. The text on the webpage changed!

Well, now I'm gonna post this note and see how things look. Might not change anything - after all, I've read what I've written . . . you all may not think so most of the time! Right? Gosh, I mess things up sometimes!

Anyway -- Imma lookin' for "new" posts today! Hope I can really figure it out.

Steve

 

[digitS']

Okay.

We may be misleading people by telling them to click "Recent Posts."

First off, the recent posts are displayed over on the right side.

Second, if you just come to theEasyGarden.com webpage, you will see little plants beside the name of each forum. That will tell you if you have read the posts in that forum. If there is no plant beside the name - you've read them.

You can see the "latest" post and slide the cursor over there and click it.

You always have the option of sliding the cursor all the way to the top of the page and clicking theEasyGarden.com link. That will take you back to look for the little plants again.

Steve

 

[canesisters]

Actually, only the last 4 or 5 are in that box on the right. If I want to see everything that's been posted since I last peeked in, I click 'Recent Posts' in the green bar at the top.

 

[digitS']

There seem to be multiple ways to find new posts!

Maybe only 1 or a few at a time. And, they could be in a "clutter" of posts previously read.

It reminds me of the direction Bill Gates took with things. How you might do something: Like within the program, keyboard short-cuts, function keys, etc. All just a little different or even with exactly the same result.

Someone once said that it is like having a vehicle with more than one engine for power. You flip this switch or push that button . . . or, you get outside and there's a handle in the back so you can push it .

Steve

 

[Smart Red]

Yesterday I clicked on Mark All Forums as Read just before I left. Today I traveled down the Forum page and checked every one. All it shows is the last discussion to be posted, so I may have missed some discussions -- for example if there were two new discussions started in Everything Else Garden only one would show up.

Anyway, those with no new posts since yesterday when I signed off took me directly to the last post. None of them took me to an earlier page but that may be no messages moved on to another page.

Still would LOVE to know how to increase the number of posts per page that come up. I don't like having only 10 and waiting for my computer to turn a page for more. Hey! That's another 1st world problem, no? How silly that sounds and how impatient I seem.