John Johnston

  • Table

    Header Header 2 Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data   produced by pasting this: <table border=”1″ cellspacing=”5″ cellpadding=”5″> <tr><th>Header</th><th>Header 2</tr> <tr><td>Data</td><td>Data</td></tr> <tr><td>Data</td><td>Data</td></tr> <tr><td>Data</td><td>Data</td></tr> <tr><td>Data</td><td>Data</td></tr> </table> into the Text Editor.

  • An animated Christmas

  • Parapara

    Parapara Animation Produces an SVG animation. This is not supported in Internet explorer, as far as I know. So if you are using IE you will not see this:-(

  • gist embed

    I just noticed that you can embed gists by pasting the url to the gist into the post editor on a line of its own. This uses the shortcode module of the Jetpack plugin so you need to Active the plugin and then the shortcode module. this example is an applescript that creates auto-complete gifs […]

  • Last Day

    Last Day

    I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working at the Computer Centre for the last 8 or so years. Sad to go.

  • More Connectors

    More Connectors

    I’ve done a little more testing of connectors, the RSS one has not worked yet, but I, added a twitter search which works and a ‘Incoming Webhook’. The webhook allows you to hook up services to post to your Outlook group. I’ve just tested it from the terminal. The featured images shows the result of the […]

  • Connectors in Outlook Groups

      I am hoping that this blog post will feed into a test outlook group. It looks like there are a lot of possibilities…

  • Calendar Embed

    After activating the plugin all you do is paste in the google Calendar code:   Here is a gif showing the process:    

  • Scratch

    Scratch

    Glow Blogs now support the embedding of scratch, just paste in the URL to a project.     Here is a gif showing how I added this. It is so quick you don’t see the URL I paste in. Scratch is becoming more popular in Scottish classrooms all the time, now glow users can display their projects […]

  • oembed test

    Glow blogs are now using WordPress 4.5.3 This is a test of the oEmbed of other WordPress posts that arrived with WordPress 4.4 https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/2016/07/14/glow-blogs-july-2016-release/ and Pi Notes  

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