Metro NY Icon

[Hushovd]

Do oyuy all have a version of hte icon that I can use as part of a link? One that I can put on my NYC geocaches?

I made one out of the icon on the page but it comes out too small...

[addisonbr]

Feel free to link to this one, it's the banner I used on On Location NYC - Seinfeld and it's already hosted on groundspeak's servers:

http://img.geocaching.com/user/feb40ceb ... 1cf0ad.jpg

[Hushovd]

Thanks.

[gerkmax]

ditto.

[peeves79]

Hey Brett I have a really stupid questions. How do I use the link in my page? Do I just copy and paste the link into the short description of my cache page? Or is it more elaborate requireing use of brackets and stuff?

I know I fail at this stuff.

[addisonbr]

Hey Brett I have a really stupid questions. How do I use the link in my page? Do I just copy and paste the link into the short description of my cache page? Or is it more elaborate requireing use of brackets and stuff?

I know I fail at this stuff.

Nah, the only reason I know it is because I bought an HTML for Dummies book a few years ago so I could post a book that one of the Munchkins wrote online.

Here's what you'll need to do to put this link on your page...

First, on your cache page make sure you have the "HTML" button checked:

Step1.jpg (48.84 KiB) Viewed 17897 times

Now decide which size logo you want. I just uploaded two additional versions, so now there is Large (the forum has shrunk this logo slightly - click on it to see "actual size"):

Medium:

MetroMedium.jpg (38.06 KiB) Viewed 17898 times

and Small:

MetroSmall.jpg (20.04 KiB) Viewed 17899 times

Now Available in Extra-Small!

MetroBannerLogoExtraSmall.jpg (11.1 KiB) Viewed 17807 times

To include them on your cache page, insert the following code:

Large:
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.metrogc.org"><img src="http://img.geocaching.com/user/feb40ceb-bbcf-4383-bcbc-5fba221cf0ad.jpg" /></a></p>

Medium:
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.metrogc.org"><img src="http://img.geocaching.com/cache/74931fa6-c4af-44c8-b243-064d3ded0561.jpg" /></a></p>

Small:
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.metrogc.org"><img src="http://img.geocaching.com/cache/25adddd8-d443-42a2-bd91-201ee5b1a139.jpg" /></a></p>

Extra-Small:
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.metrogc.org"><img src="http://img.geocaching.com/cache/d9522c3e-0a3d-456f-8fba-1123c8333f9e.jpg" /></a></p>

This should put a centered logo on your cache page that links back to the Metro portal when clicked on.

Now, just remember that when you tell groundspeak that your cache page is in HTML, it will need you to be more explicit about line breaks. So as you're typing up your description, any place where you would normally hit the return key, type:

<br>

Which is the HTML code for a line break. If you want to start a new paragraph, where you would normally hit return twice, just throw two back to back:

<br><br>

Any questions, let me know.

[peeves79]

That seems simple enough. I just need to make sure that I am carefull with my line breaks. I will give it a go on one of my cache pages tonight.

Thanks Brett

[peeves79]

Ok, I did it but I think I messed up somewhere. Take a look at GC198FD. I was able to get the icon in but it is not a link you can double click but instead a banner with the www address listed above it. I simply copied and pasted the text you gave for the large icon and added the breaks like you said. Any ideas on what I did wrong?

[addisonbr]

Ok, I did it but I think I messed up somewhere. Take a look at GC198FD. I was able to get the icon in but it is not a link you can double click but instead a banner with the www address listed above it. I simply copied and pasted the text you gave for the large icon and added the breaks like you said. Any ideas on what I did wrong?

Hmm. Maybe the system chopped something off? When I look at the page source I see this:

<p align="center">
"http://www.metrogc.org"&gt;<img src="http://img.geocaching.com/user/feb40ceb-bbcf-4383-bcbc-5fba221cf0ad.jpg" />
</p>

Which is leaving out the hyperlink tags. I'm wondering if the code I posted was so long on the screen that it wrapped to a second line, and maybe you only copied/pasted the first line? Sometimes when the last closing tags get dropped the system can behave unpredictably.

Try replacing what you have with this, and make sure you copy and paste everything in this quote box:

Code: Select all

<p align="center"><a href="http://www.metrogc.org"><img src="http://img.geocaching.com/user/feb40ceb-bbcf-4383-bcbc-5fba221cf0ad.jpg" /></a></p>

I don't know if that's even what happened, I'm just taking a stab. Let me know if it works.

[peeves79]

Dude the quote box totally worked

give you self a gold

[Sparrows_Gold]

Just added it to my webpage!
Works well!
Thanks,

Stan
Sparrows_Gold

[allenmarton]

very nice posts,i like this forum very much.thanks for sharing.