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Police of Pimlico – Punk Band Single

After yesterday’s Opera Concert organised by twitter it’s time for “Police of Pimlico” a single by Punk Band The Grit. After a 6 month hiatus, their first show back is at the Garage in London on the 6th May w/ Roddy Radiation (the Specials), and 999! Tickets available to pre-order at Haunted Tattoo’s, and Strummers Studio’s in Holloway.

You can find out more about the band from their Facebook Page or follow them on Twitter

Basic HTML for Property Websites, Forums, and Blogs

Using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) in your posts on Ning and other HTML based Forums and Bulletin Boards is easier than it sounds. It is surprising how important knowing basic HTML is to a quality online existence – of course many people don’t care about things like grammar, spelling, let alone the things that HTML gives you like layout, well presented quotebacks, embedding videos & pictures, anchor text links …… nevertheless I think it worthwhile in order to present a professional image.

Learning basic HTML through posting on an HTML BB like Ning is a painless way of picking up how HTML works, which will then allow you to do more sophisticated things like adding HTML widgets to your Blog. You don’t need to become an HTML expert – or even that competent – the 80:20 works in your favour – understand 20% of HTML and you will be able to undertake 80% of what you need to do.

In your normal posting view you are shown what you post will look like, but actually it is produced using HTML – as you type you produce HTML which is hidden from you. You can see the HTML that is being coded for you as you type by clicking on the HTML button.

Some simple tags to get you started:

Firstly understand a “Tag” – this controls the content within the “< >” TAG it’s best understood by trying out some of the examples, and also clicking on the HTML view of your posts before posting them to see what the HTML looks like ………..

Basic HTML
Command Altered text (examples)
<B>Text here</B> Bold text
<I>Text here</I> Italic text
<BIG>Text here</BIG> Bigger text
<STRIKE>Text here</STRIKE> Line through text
<U>Text here</U> Underlined text
<KBD>Text here</KBD> Keyboard text
<SUB>Text here</SUB> Lower text
<SUP>Text here</SUP> Higher text
<STRONG>Text here</STRONG> Strong text
<SMALL>Text here</SMALL> Smaller text
<P> Starts a new paragraph
<BR> Starts a new line
<P ALIGN=left>Text here</ALIGN>

Left aligned text

<P ALIGN=center>Text here</ALIGN>

Central aligned text

<P ALIGN=right>Text here</ALIGN>

Right aligned text

Changing font type

Command Changes font to:(examples)
<FONT FACE=COURIER>Text here</FONT> Courier font
<FONT FACE=ALGERIAN>Text here</FONT> Algerian font
<FONT FACE=GARAMOND>Text here</FONT> Garamond font
<FONT FACE=ARIAL>Text here</FONT> Arial font
<FONT FACE=MODERN>Text here</FONT> Modern font

Changing text colour

Command Changes text color to:
<FONT COLOR=#DC143C>Text here</FONT> Red text
<FONT COLOR=#3300FF>Text here</FONT> Blue text
<FONT COLOR=#FF6600>Text here</FONT> Orange text
<FONT COLOR=#FFFF33>Text here</FONT> Yellow text
<FONT COLOR=#66FF33>Text here</FONT> Green text

Note that on the WWW colours are identifies by a code of the form #ffffff – a hash and 6 digits. Every combination of the 6 digits produces a different colour (the digits have to be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f – for a geeky reason that we won’t go into!).

Joining HTML together

You may have noticed that the font, and colour are changed using the <FONT> tag.

If you wanted to change the text to a courier font, and red you would put the following
<FONT FACE=courier COLOR=red>Edited text</FONT> which gives Edited text

Example 2: To make the text bold, underlined and green all at the same time use

<B><U><FONT COLOR=green>Text here</FONT></U></B> gives you Text here

It is important that you close the tags in the same order as they were opened. In the example above <B> was opened first so must be closed last <FONT> was the last opened and first to be closed.

Rules:

  • Only tags with the same beginning can be merged together
  • All < > tags must be closed with the appropriate </ > tag
  • The first tags opened are the last ones to be closed

 

Adding a link to a different page

Links are what allow people to move to other pages on the Internet. They can usually be identified because the mouse pointer changes when over a link and the text is usually underlined and a different colour. To create a link use the following:

<A HREF=http://www.pimlico-flats.co.uk>Pimlico Flats</a> will look like Pimlico Flats

To display a picture

Use the following:

<IMG SRC=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/mepage/69.gif”> gives Hello

Please note: There is no closing tag for a picture

<IMG> tag properties

You can set the following properties for the <IMG> tag. It is recommended that you set the width and height for each picture as it makes the picture load faster.

WIDTH The width of the picture
HEIGHT The height of the picture
ALT Text to be displayed if the image can not be displayed – note a description should be included to help the visually impaired

Both width and height are specified in either pixels or as a percentage of the screen size.

<img src=”http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/mepage/1236.jpg” width=150 height=100 alt=”Snowy mountain”>

Snowy mountain
Linking a picture

You just need to put the two codes together

<A HREF=address of page you want to go too><IMG SRC=address of picture></a>

Create a numbered list

Command Looks like:
<OL>

<LI>List item number 1</LI>

<LI>List item number 2</LI>

<LI>List item number 3</LI>

</OL>

  1. List item number 1
  2. List item number 2
  3. List item number 3

Create a bulleted list

Command Looks like:
<UL>

<LI>List item number 1</LI>

<LI>List item number 2</LI>

<LI>List item number 3</LI>

</UL>

  • List item number 1
  • List item number 2
  • List item number 3

Adding a picture is really simple. All you need is an image host (somewhere to store your pics) the following instructions are for how to use photobucket.

Click on a picture to make it larger

    1. Sign up for a free Photobucket account
    2. Activate the account
    3. Right click on a pic you want to use and select “Save Picture As…”

 

Save button - click to enlarge

    1. Choose an appropriate place on your computer (recommended place:my documents) and select save
    2. Sign in to your photobucket account
    3. Click the browse button

 

Browse button - click to enlarge

    1. Find where you saved your pic and click on it, then select the open button
    2. Select submit (your picture will now be added to your bucket)

 

Submit button - click to enlarge

Under the picture there are 3 lines…

  • Right click the tag line <img src=”….”> and select copy

 

Tag line - click to enlarge

  • Go to where you want the picture to appear (the boards)
  • Right click and select paste in the message box
  • Post the message

The picture should now have appeared

You can also rotate and change the size of the picture once it is in photobucket by clicking on the edit button above the picture you want to change.

Creating a signature picture

To put your name on a picture you need some drawing software

Most people use a specialised program called Paint Shop Pro (PSP) to add their name to pictures.

You can download a free trial here.

Now just get creative

Why Landlords Need Regulating

Landlord?

Landlord? (Photo credit: the justified sinner)

Just visit any property forum or website & ask what landlords think of the idea of licensing and regulation and you will get a loud and clear indication that Landlords consider regulation to be an expensive useless waste of time.

In spite of this new rules were introduced in January 2010 which meant landlords of houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) must have their properties inspected and licensed. During the first year, until December 2011, Oxford City Council issued 338 licences – and just 11 of those, or three per cent, were issued without any additional conditions. To my mind this sends a loud and clear signal – either the Private Rental Sector is rotten to the core, or the Regulations are!

97% of Privately Rented Accommodation Isn’t Fit For Purpose?

The new regulations were introduced in two phases. From January 2011, landlords of three-storey houses or two-storey houses for five people or more were told to get their property inspected for £362, make any necessary alterations and renew the licence annually. The rules were then rolled out to include properties with three or more sharers this January, resulting in an extra 1,065 applications. Oxford is currently the only council in the country to require all HMOs to be licensed, more than 2,000 warning letters were sent to landlords in December, and since the scheme came into effect there have been eight prosecutions against landlords managing unsafe HMOs and one letting agent. The council has also taken over the management of one HMO because the landlord was not a fit and proper person to hold a licence.

So what is wrong – Landlords, or Regulations? During 2011 Pimlico Flats received 2 letters from Westminster City Council threatening enforcement action.

  • One was because we had 5 Flats which only had 1 lock on the door – in spite of 30 years without a crime, a daily manned reception and a 24/7 CCTV monitoring service WCC still estimated that the likelihood of death or serious injury from there only being 1 lock on each flat entrance was 1/7. It was cheaper to put a second lock on every door than argue with the Environmental Health Office about the regulations.
  • The second was that a tenant wasn’t sleeping with his girlfriend. How WCC were able to identify the couple’s nocturnal habits is beyond me, but they readily confessed to their crime – apparently they were working different hours and were using a sofa to avoid disturbing the partner. WCC were not prepared to accept the argument that as Landlord I had no right to dictate my tenant’s sexual habits, but fortunately the tenants were happy to give me a letter voluntarily committing themselves to sleeping together.

Clearly when 97% of the Private Rented Sector fails to meet regulations something needs to be done – what do you think should be done?

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