Building a Web Site For Dummies®, 3rd Edition

Placing Quotations on Your Site

Quotations, bon mots, and memorable lines — the world is full of them, and we’re all fond of spouting them on occasion: Benjamin Franklin’s simple wisdom, “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” The Duc de La Rochefoucauld’s famous, “One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.” And who can forget the immortal line of President Richard Nixon, “I have often thought that if there had been a good rap group in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.”

Quoting with the Quote Machine

The Quote Machine (www.insanityideas.com/quotemachine/remotequote.html) is incredibly simple to add to your site. You just have to fill out one little form. The following steps describe the process:

1.	Go to www.insanityideas.com/quotemachine/remotequote.html. The Quote Machine – Remote Quote page appears, as shown in Figure 12-5. Figure 12-5. Filling out the form for the Quote Machine. [View full size image]
2.	If you want to set a different width than the default value of 200, type the desired value into the Width text box.
3.	In the URL box, type the Web address of the Web page to which you want to add the quotations.
4.	Click the Get Code button.
5.	Copy the HTML code from the text area on the resulting page.
6.	Paste the code into your own Web page where you want the quotation to appear and upload the page ...