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Lady Adrexia (153 posts) Click to EMail Lady%20Adrexia Click to send private message to Lady%20Adrexia Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Feb-18-00, 07:04 AM (Pacific)
"Learning HTML"
Okay, okay...don't pick on me.

I am in the process of learning HTML, with husband and others helping. I realize that I am old (34), but I have decided to get with the program.

I chat on Delphi forums and I am looking into getting a signature and a webpage (eventually). For the last few days, I have been working on a signature and it has been no bed of roses.

So you all might notice me adding html codes to some of my messages here. If anyone is patient and thinks that they could help me out via email, I would really appreciate it.

I would love to be able to change the style and size of the fonts. I have got the color and the bold face down to a science.

Lady Adrexia

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Llevram (5022 posts) Click to EMail Llevram Click to send private message to Llevram Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Feb-18-00, 10:49 PM (Pacific)
1. "Fumbling through myself :)"
If there is a particular question you have, fire away. What I have learned of HTML (an used on my site), I have got from just doing it (many times after peaking at how someone else did it ). Another way to learn it, is to use a tool such as Netscape Composer and create your desiored effects/look. Then, go read the code it created.

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Lady Adrexia (153 posts) Click to EMail Lady%20Adrexia Click to send private message to Lady%20Adrexia Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Feb-19-00, 06:41 AM (Pacific)
2. "RE: Fumbling through myself :)"
Well, that is definately how I have been doing it so far. Trial and error (and preview too) and alot of peeking at other webpages. I have borrowed alot of other peoples code. hehehehe

Ahh...I do have Netscapes Composer, how ever did you know?

Right now, I am trying to shrink the graphic that my friend made me. Some of the forums on Delphi have graphic restrictions. He is using his webpage for the forum, to house the graphic. What a sweetie.

Well yesterday, I finally figured out that Netscape has a FTP program already installed. Well, that helps. Just got to figure out how to use it. I am going to have to get a book on HTML and stuff. Oh well!!!

So far, the only problem I am having is just changing the font style.

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Llevram (5022 posts) Click to EMail Llevram Click to send private message to Llevram Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Feb-19-00, 09:11 AM (Pacific)
3. "Changing font"
You mean changing from WizEdit font to something like courier and back to normal?

Just use the "font face=" tag, like:
font face=courier

within the proper delimiters, like greater than/less than symbols, or open/closed brackets for this page.

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Belial (1 posts) Click to EMail Belial Click to send private message to Belial Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Feb-22-00, 05:36 AM (Pacific)
4. "RE: Learning HTML"
Well, when I was learning HTML, this site helped out a bunch:

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/htmlguid/contents.htm

This will give you detailed explanation on how all of the tags work and also gives examples. This is a great resource, but nothing can beat just "messing around" with it until it is second nature.

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Lady Adrexia (153 posts) Click to EMail Lady%20Adrexia Click to send private message to Lady%20Adrexia Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Feb-23-00, 06:19 PM (Pacific)
5. "RE: Learning HTML"
LAST EDITED ON Feb-23-00 AT 06:33 PM (Pacific)

Thanks...I bookmarked that site for future reference. Especially the uploading info.

Right now, I have a homepage that uploads stuff for me. But eventually, I may decide to open the website space that I have with Netscape and REALLY have a homepage that I can put more than 4 graphics on.

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Llevram (5022 posts) Click to EMail Llevram Click to send private message to Llevram Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Feb-28-00, 07:27 AM (Pacific)
6. "Something to keep in mind when doing 'frames'"
I was just checking my web page stats (almost 3000 hits to the forum this week) and came across something I found interesting:

3 users (in the past week) hit my old (non-frames version) site

For those not familiar with 'frames', it basically allows you to break a web page up into 'windows' or frames as they are called and display different content in each frame (i.e. like my main page with 3 frames: 1 for the main menu on the left, one at the bottom for the sub-menu and the reminder for content).

Some browsers (old versions of Netscape and MS IE) don't support frames, so everyone tells you to account for that. I guess they were right

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Magneto (39 posts) Click to EMail Magneto Click to send private message to Magneto Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Feb-28-00, 03:37 PM (Pacific)
7. "RE: Something to keep in mind when doing 'frames'"
I find frames somewhat annoying, Some of the "windows" don't have scroll bars so you can't see or get to the bottom of that "window" unless you increase your screen resolution, also you can't bookmark a certain page, only the main page. Frames can be useful, like when you are moving through several different links, but some people use them when they shouldn't and it just makes viewing their page a hassle. If you think it will make your page easier to navigate then use them, but don't use them just to try to make your page look impressive.

Just my two cents.


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Llevram (5022 posts) Click to EMail Llevram Click to send private message to Llevram Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Feb-28-00, 04:26 PM (Pacific)
8. "The one thing I don't like about frames"
Is one you pointed out - you can't easily bookmark a specific page. If you right click on a page and select Open in New Window, you can then bookmark that page.

And you are right about screen size ... too often people develop (live) on their system and forget not everyone has Eagle Eye (and can stand looking at 1024 x 768 all day )

My reasons for using frames were two-fold: navigability and so I could learn more HTML

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Magneto (39 posts) Click to EMail Magneto Click to send private message to Magneto Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Mar-01-00, 09:48 PM (Pacific)
9. "RE: The one thing I don't like about frames"
Right click, Open in New Window, bookmark, Hey learn something new everyday. Thanks


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Llevram (5022 posts) Click to EMail Llevram Click to send private message to Llevram Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Mar-17-00, 03:20 PM (Pacific)
10. "Still Learning HTML *tricks*"
(I had a good laugh at this)

I often go to my web site to check stuff out. I never need to see the full first page (or many other pages) as I am navigating around. As a result I often hit *STOP* in the middle of a page load. When I do, sometimes I see the text "Transfer interrupted" in the middle of the page somewhere.

The *problem* I had was when I went back to these pages and even after reloading them (via the 'reload' button) I would still see the "Transfer interrupted" in the middle of the page (sometimes even days later).

It appeared to me that the page had somehow been altered and that was now part of the page. It always worried me, thinking "how many others see this and what do they think of my site"?

The only way I could see to clear it up was to download the page from my site, then upload it again. As far as I could tell, there was no physical difference in the two files (before and after download/upload) but that always fixed it.

The other day, a year or so later now, I finally figiured out what was going on. The page was *cached* and pressing reload only compared the cached date/time stamp to that on the web site. Since the cached version was always newer, it used that (corrupted) version.

I told this to our "web gal" at work and she said, "Just press SHIFT reload". Wow, did I feel less than smart

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Spawn_Tutor (19 posts) Click to EMail Spawn_Tutor Click to send private message to Spawn_Tutor Click to check IP address of the poster
Jul-13-00, 09:08 PM (Pacific)
11. "RE: Still Learning HTML *tricks*"
Well, try saving some of the sites you encountered. I also do that sometimes. I don't use any composers. I use notepad, the old one.
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