HTML - Cant Seem To Get The Button On The Foreground

can someone outline the steps to making a page with a fixed background and a scrolling foreground such as can be found here?

http://www.paul-wallas.co.uk/

i've looked at the code and what information i've found on the web but i don't see how it is done.


tia,

Hi all,

I am trying to create a webpage, which would have a world map as the background (I am imagining an SVG file could do it) and in the foregroung there would be multiple textboxes, that would be fillable by the user.

The values from the textboxes would be stored on the server, but that is the second step (for which I dont bother right now), most likely done through some PHP.


The webpage should be a re-creation of a gameboard - namely Twilight Struggle. For an example (taken out of an Excel file calculator for this game) please see this:




Could someone point me in a direction, which I could take in the general design part?

E.g. SVG+textarea or something completely different?

I'm editing a tumblr, with complete custom HTML, and I was wondering how I'd either add one fixed white rectangle going down the page vertically (the posts are centered on the page, but the page background is too distracting from the posts themselves). Or, how I would just add white borders around each individual post?


This should explain the look I want (with different colors/ background/ etc)

*please bear with me this is a simple problem which is sort of hard to explain*

I run a very small (15 page) website for myself. The site consists of an image_list page, which is an index of 13 thumbnail images. Each thumbnail links to a single page, each page being a larger image of the respective thumbnail. These 13 individual pages are directed at the same base target window, _ximage.

you can find the image_list window he
http://www.winslowsmith.com/work/index.html

click on any one of these thumbnail links and a new window (_ximage) will open. navigate back to the image_list and click another link, the _ximage window will reload with the new page. Pretty simple, right?, just a <base target=""> command.

In safari this all looks swell, and the _ximage window, whether open or not, will always come to the foreground to load.

Not the case in Firefox.

My problem in Firefox is as follows: opening one of the given links in image_list will load a new window (or tab), with _ximage target, and the first time, that new window/tab with _ximage target will come to focus and be in the foreground.

However, if the viewer leaves the _ximage window open, and navigates back to the image_list window and clicks another link, that link will load appropriately but the _ximage window will remain in the background. (and it works the same whether you are using windows or tabs to load your new pages). This is frustrating because it forces the viewer to click twice rather than just once to get to one of these 13 pages, and said pages are the reason people would traffic to the site.

Is there any way to have the links to base (_ximage) target always load in the foreground in Firefox(even when the target window _ximage is open)? Is there code to tell the Firefox browser, hey this is an important window load it in the foreground?

Is there a way to do it with anchors?

any help is appreciated

I am creating a website that has a search button with an image. I would like to know if there is some simple code that I can include that would display the same basic image with a different color when the user mouses over the button.

Here is the code:

<FORM name="searchform"
onSubmit="return validateSearch();"
METHOD="POST"
ACTION="search_results_lt.asp">

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="Search" VALUE="" SIZE="20" >&nbsp;

<INPUT TYPE=IMAGE SRC="images/search_button.gif" Name="SearchButton" Value="Submit">

</FORM>

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Thanks for your help,


Robin