oh and I am running 2.4.1

Tell you what, instead of redoing your code for you, I will tell you how to do it, and where to get extra information "teach a man to fish..blah blah"

the Chinese glyphs, as you so aptly put it, are descriptions telling the web browser how to display the page, and what to do upon certain actions. The are called TAGS, and arranged (usually) like this <OPEN TAG tag options> tag content </CLOSE TAG>. This is HTML. (case insensitive, I just do Uppercase for tag names here to make it readable for you)

The TAG you are concerned with is <A HREF> </A>
One of the options for A is TARGET. If you set TARGET="_blank" then you will force the browser to open a new window for the link.

So compare that information to the code you already have, and I think you will see the solution.

Check out http://www.w3schools.com/ for more HTML and other web technologies. It can be fun and frustrating! :lol:

Thank you very much wombat. I will try my best! Should I keep inserting it as "code" in the post itself since it pops up a bunch of warnings and makes me disable some of my security features? That part really scares me since I don't know how to protect my site or anything yet.

I will post again tomorrow and let you know how I am doing with the code. I do really want to learn!

Thanks Again,
Carmen
www.ifurbish.com

Another thing you can consider is getting rid of all the bits that are only styles for the image.

<style type="text/css">
#flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#000000;}
#flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;}
#flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;}
.flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;}
.flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black !important;}
#flickr_www {display:block; text-align:left; padding:0 10px 0 10px !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#3993ff !important;}
#flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:hover,
#flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:link,
#flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:active,
#flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:visited {text-decoration:none !important; background:inherit !important;color:#000000;}
#flickr_badge_wrapper {background-color:#00CCCC;border: solid 1px #000000}
#flickr_badge_source {padding:0 !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#000000 !important;}
</style>

Pure style, no content. I'll bet that part doesn't change one bit for each snippet of code you get from them. Assuming this to be true you can simply add most of that to your skin's style sheet. Exclude the first two lines and the last line and you'll have the actual style definitions ready for permanently adding to your skin's style sheet. Make much smaller pages for downloading too, which your visitors with a slower connection will appreciate.

The actual image making bit is

<table id="flickr_badge_uber_wrapper" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" border="0"><tr><td><a href="http://www.flickr.com" id="flickr_www">www.<strong style="color:#3993ff">flick<span style="color:#ff1c92">r</span></strong>.com</a><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" border="0" id="flickr_badge_wrapper">
<tr>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.flickr.com/badge_code_v2.gne?show_name=1&shrinked_for_forum_friendliness"></script>
<td id="flickr_badge_source" valign="center" align="center">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr>
<td width="10" id="flickr_icon_td"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifurbish/sets/72157604332975105/"><img id="flickr_badge_icon" alt="ifurbish's Refinishing Wood Floors With Black Stains / Spots on Them photoset" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2262/buddyicons/24741972@N05.jpg?1205784155#24741972@N05" align="left" width="48" height="48"></a></td>
<td id="flickr_badge_source_txt">ifurbish's <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifurbish/sets/72157604332975105/">Refinishing Wood Floors With Black Stains / Spots on Them</a> photoset</td>
</tr></table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>

so technically that would be all you need in the post. It might be acceptable as-is that way, although it is calling a javascript so you might have to check (or uncheck?) one of the settings to make it happen.

Personally I've never used any services like that, but they are quite popular. I just upload my images and then add them to my post, or at least I did it that way when I had a camera ... then when I pretended my cell phone was a camera. Now I settle for boring text to drive visitors away ;)

Thanks Ed! I am headed to half-price books to see if I can pick up a book on html. It all looks like a very logical language, I just don't know any of the words yet. If that makes sense. Also Ed I am using your turing-test pluggin and I love it. So, thank you for that too!

Carmen

If you need html help then probably the best places to learn are :

[url=http://w3.org]w3c[/url] the mother of all standards .... that IE ignores :roll:
[url=http://w3schools.com]w3schools[/url] ... not somewhere I've visited, but it's a cool domain name :D
[url=http://htmlforums.com]html forums[/url] ... I tend to lurk here occasionally, but I recommend them for any html/css/javascript/php/mysql problems that you have .... and they have a great lounge, bonus :D

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You should just search the web for the helpful site you find most helpful, then spend the money you saved by not buying a book on buying ¥åßßå a drink. The poor fellow: his kids have to go to school with no shoes or books or even pencils what with the price of cheap wine gone up over a buck a gallon :(

Really: find an online source that you dig on. 3 or 5 or 7 if you find a lot that help. But not 2 or 4 or 6 of course - only odd numbers. There are TONS of sites out there that will help you with CSS and HTML and all that stuff. Even php can be learned online. After all, you're not learning about printing right?

I forget my favorite sites because I always just google the key terms. Like for example "xhtml textarea example" and if that didn't work "xhtml textarea sample" until I find the domain name that I liked last time. Also eventually you will no longer need the "tutorial for noobs" stuff, so then you will find http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/propidx.html awesome for your stylesheet work and http://www.php.net/ for your php coding needs.

EDIT: The W3 Schools link is really good.

I could handle the increase in the price for cheap wine, it's when they put up the price of paint stripper that I cried :'(

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