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HTML - Some Basic Pointers Please
Hello people,
OK so i'm new here and want to try to learn the basics of HTML/XHTML so what would you suggest would be the very first thing i should learn? Any help is greatly welcomed Brett. Similar TutorialsI am new here and have a few questions about my websites. I out two sites together (I don't know if I can post their urls here - please let me know if that is acceptable) The first site is a billboard type site that I wish to expand on. I have some pages put together, but I am looking for something a little different (like everyone else - ha ha) I am looking to possibly add a simple flash component and to get some GoLive pointers with regard to loading images or perhaps utilize a slideshow. Let me know if I can post the URLS so I can speak more specifically. Thanks for any input. Cheers, Joe I got this code (below) from an html tutorial and added into mt index page and my css file. And all that shows on the web page is CONTENT GOES HERE. I guess I need a corner image named box-bg? Can you help me with one? And how do I add a light-grey, thin border around the box? Thanks. Code: In index page:
<div class="box">
<div class="topleft">
<div class="topright">
<div>
CONTENT GOES HERE
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bottomleft">
<div class="bottomright">
</div>
</div>
</div>
and in CSS:
.box div.topleft {
display: block;
background: url("../images/box-bg.png") top left no-repeat white;
padding: 2.0em 0em 0em 2.0em;
}
.box div.topright {
display: block;
background: url("../images/box-bg.png") top right no-repeat white;
padding: 2.0em;
margin: -2.0em 0 0 2.0em;
}
.box div.bottomleft {
display: block;
height: 45px;
margin-top: -2.0em;
background: url("../images/box-bg.png") bottom left no-repeat white;
}
.box div.bottomright {
display: block;
background: url("../images/box-bg.png") bottom right no-repeat white;
height: 45px;
margin-left: 3.0em;
}
hi. i have found a site that displays their images the way i want to http://www.ukhotelsupplies.co.uk/ i want 3 rows and 3 columns of pics with a text lable above it whats the best way of doing this please. a table would be easy but people say not to use them. thanks Hello i hav my own small website that i use for shortcuts for a webiste i use and have this in firefox using the "load this bookmark in the sidebar" option. So what i want is when i click the link in my sidebar that it opens in the tab i have opened and not in the sidebar if you get me. Any help would be welcomed. thanks Hi, i have been asked to create a page for an existing website. I have created the page using one of the site pages html code, basically i just copied the html layout, and added my own pics/words, and saved it on my computer. What have to do now is get this page to the website administrator. What is the best way?. I tried to upload to a server without success. Can it be emailed?. All i need is for the website admin to view the page so hey can add it to the site. Sory to bother you with simple stuff, Thanks, Tom. hi there, i have a basic page layout written consisting of 3 tables. however, i have a queery. How would i go about putting a line break between the top table (the banner table) and the second table (links) and the same again between the second and third (content) tables. I've provided my code below. Thanks Stuart <body> <center> <table id="shell" title="Shell" height="250" width="100%" border="0" bgcolor="black" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"> <tr height="50"><td bgcolor="white"> <table title="banner" id="banner"> <tr><td>Banner goes here</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr height="25"><td bgcolor="DFE6EF"> <table title="Navigation" id="navigation"> <tr><td>Links!</td> <td>Links!</td> <td>Links!</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="white"> <table title="Content" id="content"> <tr><td>Content goes here</td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table> </body> </html> So, i am very new to writing html, just started learning. I have created a very basic page for practice(the code is below) using text edit on a macbook. The file is saved with the .html extension. The problem lies in when i try to load the page with a browser(i have tried both safari and firefox), i double click it and the browser opens the file, but it looks exactly like the source file. It shows all the tags and everything that is written in the source code. I have been trying to figure out what i have done wrong for hours now, have tried all the variations of 'doctype' tags and none fixed the problem, have also tried it without a 'doctype' tag and same thing happened. Can someone please look at the source below and give me any help possible? I am very new to this, so maybe it will make complete sense to someone out there. Thanks a lot in advance. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Title</title> </head> <body> <h1>Header</h1> <br> <p>Paragraph contents will go here.</p> </body> </html> I normally work in Flash which is much more intuitive for me. I am making and effort to design more in HTML. Here is the most basic of questions.. When doing designs in Photoshop or Illustrator, what is the best way to save slices. Gif or Jpeg. Are there tutorials or personal comment on the forum about the best practice for slicing sites. Thanks! Hi I'm not web guru (this will become obvious shortly), but I'm doing a website project for my school assistantship. For the most part, it's solid for my needs and the committee I'm working for. Here it is: http://people.umass.edu/luke/PEP/index.html But there are 2 problems: 1) the UMass Amherst Banner on the top spreads the width of the page when viewed in IE, and 2) the Menu moves up and down with the links in varying degrees depending on the browser. I can't fix them. I know people are busy and have lives and I wouldn't be posting if I hadn't tried everything in my faculties to solve these issues. If you have suggestions, it would save me embarrassment and a LOT of time. Thanks so much for reading! I need to create a very basic nav bar with some properties. Here are my requirements below: *I use six images in place for the link *I use six additional images for 'hover images'. So when the user hovers over one of the nav images a new one shows up *Each additional image is different. *I need it to work in ie6(hopeful), ie7, ie8 *I would like for it to be valid code as well. Now I'm busy doing css navs and I forget the 'old school' days of html nav bars. What would be good resources for such a navbar for me to review and create this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. edit: Problem solved, how do I delete this thread? Hi I am trying to add some custom text below a frameset. Basically can anyone add just a simple header below the frameset in the following code> Code: <html> <frameset cols="25%,*,25%"> <frame src="frame_a.htm" /> <frame src="frame_b.htm" /> <frame src="frame_c.htm" /> </frameset> </html> The code comes from this page: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit....tml_frame_cols and I've tried the usual ways of adding a body tag and added a h2 tag below it, but i can't get it to work - either i can get the h2 tag to appear or the frameset. Can anyone help? Thanks I was wondering if anybody knew if using frontpage or had the code for something like pretty much: I want to make a comments / message board type thing where people can leave comments sorta of like on the end of the new york times articles or such where people comment, however i want to make it so i can approve the comments before they show up. I made a table out of a sliced image out of adobe illustrator. I left a big white space in illustrator where I want to make a seperate frame, and illustrator saved this out as an image file. I would like to take this segment of the table, and make it into a frame. Is there an easy way to make this portion of the table reference another .html file? Thanks in advance. I am a newbie to this html thing but I have a task that is a little complicated that I need to do often. I want to be able to work with a design like in the attached. Can someone send me a sample of coding that will make a similar to this? I do not want to use tables because I was told that tables are not a very good way to lay out something with pictures and text. The coding does not have to be complete - just the bare minimum to do the job. I do not expect to be able to make it a file and make it work - I just want to study it. hi, i have just decided to make my own web site! Please could you tell me some bacis things like marquee effects etc. Many thanks , Hi im a very basic html programmer and am fairly new Im trying to make a forum just a simple one to start of but im not sure how to do a few things if someone can help me out that wud be greatly appreciated My form contains just 2 things First name : Last name: "Submit button" 1: can someone tell me how can i create these 2 text boxes with these title? 2: how do i store the input from the 2 text boxes to a file that only i can view? 3: and after pressing the submit button how can direct the ppl to another page (lets say my home page) 4: and how do i access the information/file where i had stored the input THANK U very much Hi! This is my first post here. I am a part time web designer, (I must admit, better with the graphics than the coding). I am designing a page and I want the background to be black for say 1000 pixels down, and then white after that. How do I accomplish this? Does anyone know an easy way to create backgrounds with several tones? Thanks... Cosmos Hi guys, I am trying to help my friend figure out what is going on with his (VERY BASIC) website. I believe that he created it using dreamweaver originally, and then tampered with the code a little. The problem is as follows: The website seems to display perfectly as intended on mac ( safari) however when viewed on PC wit internet explorer the frames do not not work properly, They are opening in different windows etc. I know that no-on ould ever recommend building a site like this with frames, but would recommend iframes etc, however i ws wondering if there is a flaw in the code that can be fixed to resolve his problem simply? Thanks for even taking the time to read this, any helpful advice would be most appreciated! the code is as follows: The code titled "main" the main piece of code, then the coodes titled "top", "middle" and "bottom" are the codes for the respective frames. 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MIDDLE: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HTML Code: <head>
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<title>untitled</title>
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background-image: url();
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border-width: 0px;
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<p> </p>
<p><a target="mainFrame" href="download.html">
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<p> </p>
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<span class="style4">last updated 08/12/2011</span></div>
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I am in the process of writing a spell-checker in PHP, but repeatedly stumble due to my less than perfect knowledge of HTML basics. (1) What's the most straightforward way to open a second page on top of the currently active one? Is it via JavaScript, or can it be done using HTML itself? (2) If I need to update a text area on the original page at the time I close the overlying one, is this again best done by JavaScript? My aim in both of the above is to avoid adding any code to the underlying page, other than the addition of a "SpellCheck" button and the coding associated with that. Many thanks for any pointers. |
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