Using Spaces, Deleting Comments, re-editing and deleting old blogs

 

There are several ways to delete a comment on live spaces. When you first notice a comment you will probabley be on your spaces home page. Thats where you get a quick view of your friends activities, your invite’s and a view of your latest comments ect.

 

 

 

 

 

There several places comments can be left on your space. Depending on your personal space settings. If they are left in your :-

 

 

 photo album,

 You can click on the comment "on spaces home page" and you will go to the album, you will see the comment and a small cross next to it click on the cross to delete the comment.

 

 

 

 

Guestbook,

 click on the comment, "spaces home page"  You will go to your guestbook, click on the "edit" link at the top your guestbook you can then scroll down, and tick the box next to the comment you want to delete.

 

 

You can then scroll up to the "delete selected items" to delete them.

 

 When you are on your space, you can always delete comments when "editing" your guestbook or photo album.

 

 

 

Blogs.

 

Also re-editing and deleting your old blog entries.

 Click on the comment "on spaces home page"

 

 

and you will go to the blog entry.

 

 

At the top of the page click on the "edit" link you will now go to your blog edit tool. From here you can now edit your old entry or delete a comment by scrolling down to them and clicking on the cross next to the comment.

 

 

 

 You can then publish your blog entry again. it will go back to your archives and not re-publish as a new blog.

 

 

 

 

To Delete Multiple comments in different blogs,

 

Click on summery on top of your blog module "on your space"

 

 

 

 

You will go to your blog summery page from here you have quick access to all your old blog’s to re-edit them or delete them..

 

 

 

 

 If you click on a blog title you will go to the blog edit tool. If you click on comments under the blog title a small window will drop with the comments in there.

 

 

 Tick the box next to the comment you want to delete. you can carry on selecting comments to delete from other blog.s in this way.

You can now click on delete selected items on top of the page and the comments and blogs you selected will be deleted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for visiting, Have a nice day from, Spence

 

 

 

 

 

 

Permalinks. a quick way of copying permalinks

 

Here is a quick way of getting a permalink. When you have made some blog’s and you want to link them into your list modules. Scroll down your space to the blog you want to link to and then "Right" Click over the permalink at the bottom of the blog entry.

 

 

 

 

 

"In the small window that opens, click on "Properties"

 

 

Now another window will open and you will see the permalink.

 

The address (URL) is the permalink

 

 

 

 

 

 You can now copy the url,  and scroll back to your list, click on edit list and you are ready to edit the list.

It saves clicking on the permalink and waiting for the page to reload to get the permalink.

Its a quick way of getting a lot of permalinks for a list, if you right click to access the permalink you can save them all quickly in a wordpad and then paste them into your list.

 

 

 

Using Spaces. Adding Renaming and Hiding Moduals.

 

Adding different modules to your live space is very easy. Modules are. the List, profile, blog, ect. that you can see on your space. To add more click on "customize" on top of your space, in the dropdown click on “Add modules” (your space will reload in customize mode)

 

 

When the window reloads, a dropdown tab will open under the customize toolbar.

You will have a list of modules that will be quite bewildering to a newcomer.

 

 

Clicking on a module name will add it to your space. You can also hide modules from here just by clicking on the module name.

Included in the modules are Gadgets. You can also click on the link to add gadgets from the windows live gallery.

 

Under "other" you will find html modules, and rss feed’s ect.

 Html modules take html code such as space counter’s and animated images ect.

Rss feeds take an rss link from another space or website and will display there latest postings directly on to your space, "Really Simple Syndicate. RSS"

 

 

When you have finished adding modules click on "close tab" to close the module tab.

 

 

You can now drag your modules around your space and drop them where you want them.

 

 

Before you save any changes you can change your module names. Click on the small triangle on your modules to change the name

 

A small tab will open click on Settings. "You can also hide a module from here".

 

You can now name the module and save it. Note the other options you can use.

 

 

You cannot name "list" modules when you are in this mode. But you can rename your photo album and the other modules.  See my entry "re-naming list"

When you have finished click on save on top your space to save the changes.

 

When your window reloads you will be back in edit mode with the spanner icons back on your modules.

You can now edit and rename list, add blog’s and photos ect.

   

 

Live translator, translating your comments. and webpages

A very handy webpage is the windows live translator. Its very good for translating your comments, if you have any in a foriegn language. simply copy the comment and paste it into the translator. and it will translate the comment.  You can then write a comment back and then translate it to there language. and paste it into there comments. You can also translate a whole webpage. Put the website address into the required field. and it will translate the page. You can add a button to your live toolbar if you wanted for quicker access. "one click translation".   Durch sehen Sie Sie fürs Erste bald   LOL.   Click here to visit the translator wabpage

Add more photo album modules, latest spaces updates

 

With the latest spaces updates comes the option of adding more photo albums to your space. You can click on customize then modules and add more photo albums from the dropdown which opens under "modules".

 At the moment there are a couple of problems present. See image below of two albums. I added five extra photo modules in total. I have left two on my space to play with. The problems I have had are the photo modules copying each other. and a space unavailable window when trying to edit a album. The problems will probably be fixed soon.

 

 

 

 

 

The other updates includes more storage space for skydrive user’s and more.

You can check out all the detail’s on the official live spaces team blog

 The Spacecraft. Click Here

 

 

List Descriptions. A way of showing descriptions in list.

Recently list modules when used in the small side columns will not display the descriptions of the list item. The descriptions are still there if you click on the list title. The page reloads with your list in it complete with the description. But it dose not show descriptions on your space. You can still add descriptions if you needed to that will show on your space. Its rather crude but it will give you a viewable description if you needed it. Just enter the description as another list item "title". Then it will show as the next item but you used it for a description. It will look something like this.   Descriptions still show when the list modules are in larger columns. If your original descriptions started showing again. you will need to delete the descriptions you added in this way.   You could also  type a description in "with" the title. Then the description will be part of the link. in my case the text would all be blue and there would be no lines seperating the title and description.   Bye for now,… Spence

Using Spaces, Viewing and Editing your Space, Removing, Re-Naming, List

When you first visit your space you will probably be in edit mode already. You can tell by the icon on the top of your modules. A Small Spanner and you are in edit mode If you are in viewing mode you will see a small cross on the module. Like when you view other Spaces.   You can click on it and add a list or other modules to your space in this way.   It’s a good way of adding Gadgets you come across on other spaces, to your space To go back to edit mode click on "Edit this page" link on top of your space when viewing it or "sign in".   So now you are in edit mode and you can see the spanner icon on the modules and the edit link to individually edit the module.   You can add blogs and edit your modules ect but you cannot edit your space or customize it. So simply click on the spanner icon on any module and you will enter a kind of full edit mode "the customize window"and now you can do anything to your space. You can also click on customize at the top of your space and the small customize tab will open. Clicking on rearrange or hide modules, will do the same as clicking on a spanner in your modules. You click on “exit edit mode” to view your space. Take note of the other options in the tab. When you clicked on the spanner your space reloaded with a small triangle in place of the spanner.   You will notice also a toolbar has opened with various options. This is the same options as in the dropdown “customize” tab. Clicking on one of the options in the customize tab will pre-open a dropdown window under the options on the toolbar, or you can click on one of the options on the toolbar to open it. You can click on the triangle icon in your modules, and a small tab will open with settings and hide in it. Click on Hide to remove the module. Clicking the settings will open a small window, from here you can choose full width option ect. This will make your module the full width of the column you have it in If you drag the module to the top or bottom of your space and drop it in the full width feature “Inside the dotted lines” your module will become the full width of your space. To rename a list click on the edit link in the list module You can now edit the list, Click on Edit list information to rename the list. "Click Here" for more on editing list. When you have finished all of your editing don’t forget to click on save at the top of your space to save the changes.

Lola’s Good Food Guide.

Here is a good food guide according to my youngest daughter Lola. Lola’s first words was not the usual Mum or Dad, no, it was Mc bot bot every time she saw a big yellow M logo. Her favourite day of the year is Halloween. I don’t know if its Halloween or the couple of carrier bags of sweets she ends up with on the evening that actually swings it for her LOL. The first song she sang and still a firm favourite was “Food Glorious Food“. So you get the picture,  Anyway here is Lola’s with her good food guide.          Preferably with a 4lb rump steak to follow. Don’t be afraid of Burgers. The bigger the better. And that’s it Lolas good food guide LOL. Thanks to Lucy for the picture.

Online Films and TV.. Watch tv programmes and Films for free.

There are several places on the web where you can watch tv and film’s ect. Here is a very good one alluc.org is a website with lots of links to many tv programmes and films both old and new. Here are some insructions to help you around the website. There is music videos and other things on the website to. When you first visit the website you will see some list of tv films ect, on the bottom of the list there is a link to "more" click on this and now you will have a list of just film’s or tv programmes ect.   At the top of the list you will see a alphabetical list this will help you find a specific movie title.  "Click on a letter"   You will now have a list to search through untill you find a movie ect you like Click on the title You will then go to another page, some movies are in one part  If they are click on "full". Some are in parts click on the part you want to watch. If the movie is in one part it will just say "full" click on it You will now be taken to another window telling you you are leaving alluc.org. Click on continue to content   You will now be taken to the video player.   Sometimes it may be possible to embed a video onto your space depending where you get redirected for the video Click here to visit alluc.org      http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6928708777839415241&hl=en-CA Have a nice day from Spence

Using Spaces, setting up your space profile module

One of the first thing’s you need to do with your new space is to edit your profile. You should notice a profile module on your space. Click on the edit link.     This will take you to another window where you can edit your profile.       Now you can enter your personal detail’s in the required fields.   You can also upload your profile picture.         Click on browse this will open your pc picture folder. Click on the picture you want to use and it will be selected. When you add intrests to your profile use a comma between the word’s and they will become search links in your profile module.     It explains this on the editing page you are on "web apperance". note, on the lefthand side bar there are different pages.     When you are done click save. the picture you chose for your profile will now upload. Your space will reload on another page "contact info"         Fill in the text field’s you want then click save. you will now reload another window "social" Note:- you are going through the pages on the lefthand toolbar.     When you click save on this window you will go to "view all" if you are happy with your profile Click on the link back to your space         Your profile module will now be updated     If you uopload a animated gif image it will not be animated. You will need to make a custom profile module from a html module. its a little more involved but here is a link for making a custom profile module.   A Simple Custom Profile Module Click Here