If anyone knows basic html can you help?

[Dee Holmes]

I know it's not the forum I want. If you could direct me to a forum, that would be appreciated. But I kind of favor this one. Been going to the Adobe script forum, but not sure if is was appropriate there either.

But, here's my problem...

Here's my webpage so far. (Created in Illustrator 9, saved for web)

<http://home.nycap.rr.com/paulanddee/>

Just started to learn how to add text and links to it. I can't understand why "Dee's Favorite Links" isn't like on one line like "Daisy's favorite links" Can anyone help me?

This is my notepad stuff...



Daisy's Favorite Links




color="FF00CC">[url]www.nylabone.com[/url] <http://www.nylabone.com>


color="FF00CC">[url]www.fatcats.com[/url] <http://www.fatcats.com>


color="FF00CC">[url]www.petco.com[/url] <http://www.petco.com>


color="FF00CC">[url]www.oes.org/[/url] <http://www.www.oes.org/>


color="FF00CC">[url]www.purina.com[/url] <http://www.purina.com>


Dees Favorite Links



color="FF00CC">[url]www.adobeforums.com[/url] <http://www.adobeforums.com>



I added crop marks to the page so no overhangs would be in the way.

I do notice it changes when I place it in here. Extra spaces. I don't know. It's been trial and error all day for me.

[Dee Holmes]

Sorry, tried to post my notepad garbble and got undesirable results.

[Dee Holmes]

sorry

[Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com]

I don't understand the problem.

[Dee Holmes]

Hi, Wade. The problem is "Dee's favorite links is on 3 different lines. I want it to be on one line. It's written the same way as Daisy's links.

The pictures are masked, so the originals do hang off the boarder. But I used crop marks for the final save to web.

[Scott_Weichert@adobeforums.com]

Dee,

Some things that may help:

use tables. Tables can help dictate how wide an area is.
You've got duplicate tags for colors.. the style and the font tags. You only need one.

You've got a random < /html> tag in there. When you should enclose everything between the < html > and < /html > tags.

You've got an extra body tag in there.

Here's a page I did with the same info. I also added some cascading styles to help the code a bit.

Zip File <http://www.weichertcreative.com/dees.zip>

Hope that helps.

[Dee Holmes]

Scott, thank you so much. I'll check out the differences between the two files. I just started learning this yesterday, so thanx for the help. The duplicate style and font thing was just something I was throwing in to figure out why I was getting the 3 lines.

About the color, the site I was learning from said that I should do the RGB color and the hex color for all browser users. I noticed you use only the hex color. Do you think I really need to put in both?

[Scott_Weichert@adobeforums.com]

I've never used RGB values for anything. Browsers render the hex value. I really don't know why you would ever need the RGB values.

[Anson_Took@adobeforums.com]

Agreed.

[Dee Holmes]

Well, then I guess that'll make things alot easier. I noticed you use css. I read something about that yesterday. Should I try to learn that instead? Is it easier?

[Scott_Weichert@adobeforums.com]

CSS is a tool to use with HTML you can't really use CSS without the HTML container... and yes it'll make things a lot easier in the long run. It's worth learning.

[Dee Holmes]

Thank you.

[Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com]

I love the way you learn so well Dee.

And fast by the way you can force your web page to center in the browser.












I believe

[Dee Holmes]

It's all still Greek to me. I'll have to learn about tables and CSS.

[Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com]

Well that didn't work so below the < body > you need

< body div align="center" >

after < /table >

add < /div >

[Scott_Weichert@adobeforums.com]

add.. align="center" in the table tag.

< table align="center" width="700" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" >

That will center the content in a browser window.

[Scott_Weichert@adobeforums.com]

< body div align="center" >

that's just bad code. An html document should have only 1 < body > and 1 < /body > tag. No more.

[Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com]

Correct that should have been div center="align" and the table should have that tag as well that is also correct.

And I do prefer to use Go Live for this stuff so as Dee does not have Go Live of Dreamweaver then I thought I would at least make hr aware of this possibility. She is learning very well and will be able to do this all with a text editor such as BBEdit real soon.

[Dee Holmes]

Thanx a ton, guys! I really love your help!

Scott helped me alot with his text, but I still do not understand what I did wrong. He pointed out some very good mistakes. Which I fixed, but that did not make any difference in my problem.

My big thing to learn is placing things where I want. I've placed some .gif's on the site, but don't go where I want.

Do not spend time on this I will figure it out...

unless I ask. O.K.?

I thought I understood where I was going, but then Scott's tables got me confused. So, I guess I need to learn tables.... And CSS

And Wade, thank you for your input as well. It gives me confidence that you will help me if I stumble.

I know you guys are expecting me to learn quickly, but I have alot of stuff going on this week. So Don't expect Anything!

My Co-worker/girlfriend is on vacation, we've got a girl on maturnaty leave, we've just moved a division over to our fasility from out of state that is taking away from another one of our staff, and the list goes on and on...and God knows what else.

So, just a warning, if I sound mean, smoooooth it out. I'd do it for you.

Thanx guys,

Dee

[Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com]

It takes more than a week. Also your site is working as expected so I think you might have to empty your browser's cache file.

Wade

P.S. You're animation is the best great work.

Oh yes you can see a project I shot over the weekend here:

KBHS <http://mysite.verizon.net/wzphoto/KBCCHS.html>

The project is in the same section of Brooklyn that Mordy grew up in I have to photograph another building there as well.