How to Embed PDF file in Yahoo's Sitebuilder

Embedding a PDF file into a Yahoo Sitebuilder page -

Here's a Yahoo Sitebuilder tip. I really just want to have it handy, because I know I'll forget how to do it the next time it comes up, and I won't be able to find the little piece of paper with the instructions.
I wanted to have one of the pages in a website open a PDF file (embed a PDF document). In this case, a newsletter created as a PDF. I looked everywhere in their Help section for the answer, and couldn't find a clue, so I called them up. That's one nice thing about Yahoo's web hosting - you can get a real person in the U.S. who knows answers. Here's how to do it:

• Save your PDF file to your desktop - give it a simple name.
  
• Open Yahoo Sitebuilder.
• Drag the PDF file over to your Contents - this might take a few tries, but it'll get there.
• Open a new, blank page with no template.
• Click on Insert at the top of the screen.
• Select Code Elements - then select Iframe
• Choose - 'Another website'.
• In the little box type the domain name of your site - http:// is already given to you, so start with www.
• At the end of your website domain name give it a / then type the name of the PDF file exactly as it appears on your contents list.
• Your page will now be a pale purple, and there will be a little box, like a text box with the domain name and the / and the pdf file name.
• Save & publish. It should work. Good luck.

* Note: I think, but I'm not 100% sure that your PDF and HTML files have to be the same.
So, if your pdf file is abc.pdf, save your new, blank page, as abc.html. I'll have to try it out and see if it's necessary.
The page will look like this - to see if it worked, do a 'preview in browser'. If it did, your pdf file will appear.

Here's an update - SiteBuilder crashed, now using Site Solution (Yahoo), and it's so easy to pop a PDF file in! (May 26, 2011)
http://deskdiva.blogspot.com/2011/05/yahoo-sitebuilder-crashed.html

Erie Canal Photo Contest

I just ran across this site, Erie Canalway. They're having a photo contest. I might just enter, as I've got some good shots I took back in January. I just looked at them - maybe I don't. We'll see.
Details for the photo contest are here:
http://www.eriecanalway.org/photocontest.asp

Forget that idea. The rules say the digital image has to be at least 4.5MB. The one I would have entered is a paltry 4.37MB. I need a new camera. :-)

Coinflation

I LOVE this site! It tells you the metal value of coins from 'around the world'.
And, there's a ton of interesting information about all sorts of things related to coins.
http://www.coinflation.com/

Bye Bye Baby-Gaga.com

Thanks, baby-gaga. You were great.

by Mother Goose

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go.
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But the child born on the Sabbath Day,
Is fair and wise and good and gay.

Coach Jim Boeheim's Blog in Beijing

Syracuse University head basketball coach Jim Boeheim is serving as an assistant on the men's U.S. Olympic basketball team that will compete in Beijing beginning August 10.
Coach Boeheim's Team USA Travel Log

Holly's Best Zucchini Bread Recipe

It's probably the outrageous amount of sugar that makes this bread so good. I usually halve the amount of sugar, and it's still the best zucchini bread recipe I've made.

Holly's Best Zucchini Bread Recipe

Sift dry ingredients, and set aside:
3 C. all purpose flour
1 t. baking soda
1t. salt
1/4 t. baking powder

Cream the following ingredients:
3 eggs
1 C. vegetable oil
2 1/2 C. white sugar
1 t. vanilla
1 t. cinnamon

Combine the dry mixture with the creamed ingredients.
Add 2 Cups grated zucchini - leave the peels on
Add 1 Cup of chopped walnuts, if desired.

Bake in two greased loaf pans at 350 degrees F., for about one hour.
This recipe will also make 5-6 mini loaves - I use the disposable aluminum mini loaf pans.

A Reminder When Shelving Books

• Jayne Ann Krentz and Judith Krantz are not the same person.
• Jayne Ann Krentz, Amanda Quick, and Jayne Castle are the same person.
• Krantz comes before Krentz (alphabetically). Honest.
  

2008 Alex Awards

2008 Alex Awards

Here are the 2008 Alex Awards, ten adult books with specific teen appeal. The awards are sponsored by Booklist.

• American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China, by Matthew Polly, published by Penguin/Gotham Books (ISBN13:978-1592402625)
• Bad Monkeys, by Matt Ruff, published by HarperCollins (ISBN13: 978-0061240416)
• Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm, by Jeff Lemire, published by Top Shelf Publications (ISBN13: 978-1891830884)
• Genghis: Birth of an Empire, by Conn Iggulden, published by Delacorte (ISBN13: 978-0385339513)
• The God of Animals, by Aryn Kyle, published by Scribner (ISBN13: 978-1416533245)
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Sarah Crichton Books (ISBN13: 978-0374105235)
• Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones, published by Random/Dial Press (ISBN13: 978-0385341066)
• The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss, published by DAW (ISBN13: 978-0756404079)
• The Night Birds, by Thomas Maltman, published by Soho (ISBN13: 978-1569474624)
• The Spellman Files, by Lisa Lutz, published by Simon & Schuster (ISBN13: 978-1416532392)

source: ALA's The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), www.ala.org

Best Books for Young Adults 2008

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has announced its list of Best Books for Young Adults for 2008.The books are recommended for those ages 12-18.

To see the complete list go to: Best Books for Young Adults 2008
Here are the top ten:

Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. Illus. by Ellen Forney. Little, Brown, 2007; ISBN13: 978-0-316-01368-0; $16.99.

Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Sarah Crichton, 2007; ISBN13: 978-0-374-10523-5; $22.00.

Downham, Jenny. Before I Die. Random House/David Fickling, 2007; ISBN13: 978-0-385-75155-1; $15.99.

Hemphill, Stephanie. Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf, 2007; ISBN13: 978-0-375-83799-9; $15.99.

Jones, Lloyd. Mister Pip. Dell Publishing/Dial Press, 2007; ISBN13: 978-0-385-34106-6; $20.00.

Landy, Derek. Skulduggery Pleasant. HarperCollins, 2007; ISBN13: 978-0-06-123115-5; $17.99.

Peet, Mal. Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal. Candlewick, 2007; ISBN13: 978-0-7636-3488-9; $17.99.

Polly, Matthew. American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China. Penguin Group USA/Gotham Books, 2007; ISBN13: 978-1-59240-262-5; $26.00.

Selznick, Brian. The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel. Illus. by Brain Selznick. Scholastic, 2007; ISBN13: 978-0-439-81378-5; $22.99.

Tan, Shaun. The Arrival. Illus. by Shaun Tan. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, 2007; ISBN13: 978-0-439-89529-3; $19.99.

Young Adult Forum on Amazon

Amazon's Young Adult Forum