Tumblr for Dummies

ColferInspired wrote:I get no anons, but I am following Lottie when she popped up on my dashboard last night. She must have reblogged something or blogged something.

Do you activate your ask on your blog or does is it just meant to have appeared?

I have no idea how to customise my blog, so I don't have an ask box and can't add things to it.  


I would love to know how to add pics and other things, or how to create and add my own theme.

Glorfindel wrote:

ColferInspired wrote:I have no idea how to customise my blog, so I don't have an ask box and can't add things to it.  


I would love to know how to add pics and other things, or how to create and add my own theme.

There are many things I don't understand about tumblr (yet) either. Like: if you 'like' a comment on a post, do you then 'like' that comment or do you 'like' the original post (which could have an opposite opinion)?  

Maybe we can start a tumblr help thread here on this forum, in the Gathering Place?
Everyone who thinks this is a good idea show hands.

sheny wrote:

ColferInspired wrote:I get no anons, but I am following Lottie when she popped up on my dashboard last night. She must have reblogged something or blogged something.

Do you activate your ask on your blog or does is it just meant to have appeared?

I have no idea how to customise my blog, so I don't have an ask box and can't add things to it.  


I would love to know how to add pics and other things, or how to create and add my own theme.

If you want to activate your askbox you have to click on "Blog Settings." The button is on the top of your dashboard. 



When you click there you will see your account settings. There are also Dashboard Setting, Email, Apps and your blog name.



Click on your name, it's right under Apps but I deleted mine from the picture, scroll down and you will see this



You can choose if you want to receive messages from anons or not. My anon is off because I don't want to deal with hate.

Then click save and you are ready.

I can tell you what I know about customizing themes, adding pictures, video and other stuff too later if you want.

ColferInspired wrote:
 That would be a great help thanks.

sheny wrote:

ColferInspired wrote:
 That would be a great help thanks.

You're welcome. If you have other questions just ask. I'll do my best to help.

ColferInspired wrote:

sheny wrote:

ColferInspired wrote:
 That would be a great help thanks.

You're welcome. If you have other questions just ask. I'll do my best to help.

 I would like to know how to customise my own theme or add pics and videos. 

sheny wrote:

ColferInspired wrote:

sheny wrote:

ColferInspired wrote:
 That would be a great help thanks.

You're welcome. If you have other questions just ask. I'll do my best to help.

 I would like to know how to customise my own theme or add pics and videos. 

Are we talking about creating your own theme because that's very difficult, you have to know a lot about html, css and programming if you want good results or installing a theme that already made by somebody?

ColferInspired wrote:

sheny wrote:

ColferInspired wrote:

sheny wrote:

ColferInspired wrote:
 That would be a great help thanks.

You're welcome. If you have other questions just ask. I'll do my best to help.

 I would like to know how to customise my own theme or add pics and videos. 

Are we talking about creating your own theme because that's very difficult, you have to know a lot about html, css and programming if you want good results or installing a theme that already made by somebody?

 Well, I did install someones elses theme.

And I guessed you would have know about programming which I know nothing. So, maybe not.

But adding pics and video's I would love to know how to do. 

sheny wrote:

ColferInspired wrote:

sheny wrote:

ColferInspired wrote:

sheny wrote:
You're welcome. If you have other questions just ask. I'll do my best to help.

 I would like to know how to customise my own theme or add pics and videos. 

Are we talking about creating your own theme because that's very difficult, you have to know a lot about html, css and programming if you want good results or installing a theme that already made by somebody?

 Well, I did install someones elses theme.

And I guessed you would have know about programming which I know nothing. So, maybe not.

But adding pics and video's I would love to know how to do. 

You have to click on the last one on the right to add a video file.



In the first box you just copy and paste the url of the video you want to post if its from YouTube, Dailymotion and other sites like that or an embded code. That's easy. Uploading your own videos is more problematic. For that click on the second box and browse it from your computer. There are length, size and format limitations. You can only upload .mp4 format videos, they shouldn't be bigger that 100mb and only 5 min long videos for one day. When it's uploaded click publish and it'll start processing the file. It takes 1-2 minutes sometimes more.

It's the same with audio files. They should be only .mp3 format and no bigger than 10 MB.

Adding pictures for photo and gif sets is easier. Just click on Photo from the toolbar. There is no limit for the size of the pictures, but the gifs shouldn't be bigger than 1 MB for 500px gifs and 2 MB for smaller ones. There can be only 10 pictures/gifs in 1 set.

You can also add pictures from other sites pasting their url in this little box so you don't have to download it and upload it again on Tumblr. It saves time.
[img]https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/17/50/19/61/untitl11.png[/img

I hope this explanation wasn't totally useless and answers your question. I'm sorry I can't help with the theme. Here are some base theme codes you can work on with a good tutorial codes.

Glorfindel wrote:Is there a limit on the amount of mp3's and/or videos you can embed in one post?
Same with links. Does anyone know how many links you can put in one post?

Glorfindel wrote:^Thanks.

Ooo, this will complicate my song review making, as I usually put in a lot of videos and links (e.g. original and Glee version). That also means I will have to revise all of the older reviews instead of just simply copying them.

Darn.

sheny wrote:I obviously didn't understand the question about the links correctly. There is "Links" button in the toolbar where you can copy only one link but you probably won't need that for the reviews. There is a way to add links to audio or video files. After the video/audio is uploaded a description box shows up under it where you can write texts and copy the links to your other videos and pages.

Text tricks.

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_{(sub) makes them do thi[sub]ii[sub]ii[sub]s.}[/sub][/sub]

(small) makes words go little. The more (small) you have the smaller the word.

Same thing applies with (big).

(u) makes underlines.

Go here for Ｆｕｌｌ  Ｗｉｄｔｈ.

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Go here if you want some uʍop əpısdn.

Note: replace the ( ) with < >!

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Of course these are just basic things.  You can also look at the HTML button for the codes if youre not up for searching through Google for them.
The button is here:
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