Article Writing

Rahul VB4-Feb-14 9:10

4-Feb-14 9:10

Respected Sir,
I found Pete Sir's suggestion great. I hope if you could mentor me. Can you tell me something about mentor program?

Thanks,
Rahul

Sean Ewington4-Feb-14 10:22

Sean Ewington

4-Feb-14 10:22

Pete's really covered the basics. Once you have your article complete or nearly complete, you send me an email saying you're ready for a mentor to take a look over it, and then they interact with you on your forum, discussing ways to make your article better and help get it approved for CodeProject.

Your current article probably needs a little more meat to it before the mentors can get into it though.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Rahul VB4-Feb-14 17:46

4-Feb-14 17:46

Hello sir,

Quote:
Pete's really covered the basics.

is it related to the topic on which i am writing? And yes my article needs a lot more content. I am reading up on it.

Ok i will complete my article as soon as possible and ask for being mentored.

Thanks,
Rahul

Pete O'Hanlon4-Feb-14 8:46

Pete O'Hanlon

4-Feb-14 8:46

Why not ask Sean if you could be mentored? There's a mentor program here on CodeProject where you can ask people to look at your article and make suggestions to help improve it/make it ready for release.

Rahul VB4-Feb-14 9:07

How to center tables in articles?

4-Feb-14 9:07

Wow Sir,
Thanks a Ton. Thats a great tip +5. I will ask Sean Sir about it.

-Rahul

Graham Wilson1-Feb-14 18:38

Graham Wilson

1-Feb-14 18:38

It would appear that the old method of centering a table on the page:
<table align="center">
no longer works.

How does one center a table?

Maybe there should be a short HTML guide on using tables in CodeProject articles, useful for us old timers who learned HTML when Netscape was the #1 browser...

Chris Maunder2-Feb-14 3:51

Chris Maunder

2-Feb-14 3:51

Two ways. Old school

<center><table...></table></center>

or using standards

<table style="margin:0 auto"> ... </table>

Table Cell

or for full cross browser support

<div style="text-align:center"><table style="margin:0 auto;text-align:left"> ... </table></div>

Table Cell

Richard Deeming3-Feb-14 2:32

Richard Deeming

3-Feb-14 2:32

Chris Maunder wrote:
Two ways. (Lists three ways.)

Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise.... our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our four... no... amongst our weapons.... amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
Poke tongue | ;-P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0Y39eMvpI[^]

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Chris Maunder3-Feb-14 5:27

Chris Maunder

3-Feb-14 5:27

Nooooobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Pete O'Hanlon3-Feb-14 5:36

Pete O'Hanlon

3-Feb-14 5:36

Now, old lady - you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of heresy. Reject the works of the ungodly. Two last chances and you shall be free. Three last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.

Cannot save article entered in submission wizard

ayesha_jain3-Feb-14 18:10

ayesha_jain

3-Feb-14 18:10

try this <center> for beginning tag and </center> for end tag

Graham Wilson1-Feb-14 10:11

Graham Wilson

1-Feb-14 10:11

I've uploaded an article and checked it in Preview (apart from missing images, it looks good). I check work in progress, and don't mess with my HTML.

But whenever I try to save the draft, I get the "Some Bad Has Happened" screen.

I even tried it with an empty article - same error.

Is it something I'm doing, or try-again-later-it-should-be-fixed problem?

Re: Cannot save article entered in submission wizard

Kenneth Haugland1-Feb-14 11:10

Kenneth Haugland

1-Feb-14 11:10

I, at least, cannot reproduce your problem in saving a new article.

Re: Cannot save article entered in submission wizard

Graham Wilson1-Feb-14 11:35

Graham Wilson

1-Feb-14 11:35

Probably resolved, somewhat. I should have been saving the draft.

I was pressing "Save this version" without having entered at title, or selected a section or subsection.

Article Submission Wizard Questions

Uzi Granot25-Jan-14 2:52

Uzi Granot

25-Jan-14 2:52

I have two question:

1. How do you replace an image file. I have no problem uploading an image file and displaying it. However, if I want to replace it with another image, I delete the original one, upload the new one and I continue to get the original one displayed.

2. How do you prevent the Wizard from inserting . I checked do not mess with my formatting. But after I get out the page and come back a few hours later my format is all gone.

Thanks

Re: Article Submission Wizard Questions

Sean Ewington27-Jan-14 4:29

Sean Ewington

27-Jan-14 4:29

Hmm, interesting.

1. Even after refreshing the article page?

2. Could you please let me know what browser you are working? Is it happening in every browser?

If the article editor is giving you frustrations I'm happy to tackle it. Please shoot me an email.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Re: Article Submission Wizard Questions

Uzi Granot27-Jan-14 5:43

Uzi Granot

27-Jan-14 5:43

I was using MS IE 10.0.12. I tried it again this time with Firefox. Changing the image with Firefox is working. I deleted the original one uploaded a new one, I had two links, I remove one and it is working.

Next I pasted HTML code, I checked Don’t mess with my HTML formatting, I clicked Save Draft, closed Firefox, restarted Firefox, selected in my article the new article and now I have at the end of each line
. I do not want it there.

Publishing Article - Line Break Problem

Baxter P23-Jan-14 5:29

Baxter P

23-Jan-14 5:29

Hello

I am trying to compose an article, and instead of getting normal C# formatting I am getting markup code line break tags instead of the line breaks being applied to the code sections when I preview, like this:

using System; using System.Configuration; using System.IO

Can anyone advice me what to do to fix this ??

I have publish another article, and this problem did not arise.

Thanks,
Baxter-P

Sean Ewington23-Jan-14 5:33

Sean Ewington

23-Jan-14 5:33

Hmmm. I am wondering if it depends on your browser or the source you are copying and pasting from. Have you tried putting the code in something like notepad, then copying and pasting from there into the article?

If it's giving you trouble I'd be happy to post the article for you. Feel free to send it my way.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Baxter P23-Jan-14 5:37

Baxter P

23-Jan-14 5:37

Hi Sean,

I'll try the notepad idea.

Thanks for the offer, but I would like to post it myself.

Thanks,
Baxter.

Baxter P23-Jan-14 5:48

Baxter P

23-Jan-14 5:48

Hi Again

I switched to IE from Firefox, problem solved.

I noticed the browser performs some kind of step once the code has been copied in on IE, but not on Firefox.

Thanks Again,
Baxter

Rahul VB2-Feb-14 10:02

2-Feb-14 10:02

Ahh thanks for the hint. Let me try once.

Prerequisites to write an Article

ayesha_jain3-Feb-14 18:12

ayesha_jain

3-Feb-14 18:12

use beginning tag while end tag as

Rahul VB22-Jan-14 19:08