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newfengshui
02-02-2007, 02:48 PM
and i started by putting in a background picture, to overlay all of my upcoming stuff onto.

it worked, but then i hit refresh after changing the size of the picture, and it wouldn't work.

anyone know what's going on?

here's the site:

http://hulk.osd.wednet.edu/~germaintj/germaintj.php

actually, i just went to it and it worked.

anyone know why it would work, randomly?
KDLA
02-02-2007, 02:58 PM
Actually, it doesn't work. All I got was a blank screen.

when I viewed the source, I saw that you have your CSS stuff in the <body>, rather than in in the <head>. You're also missing a DOCTYPE and <html> tags.


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<TITLE>germaintj</TITLE>
<STYLE type="text/css">a, a.man, a:link, a:visited{color:; font-size:8pt; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none; font-style:normal} a:active, a:hover{color:; font-size:8pt; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none; font-style:normal;}td, table, tr, span, li, p, div, textarea, DIV, s9, s10, regular {color:; font-weight:normal; font-decoration:none; font-style:normal;background-color:transparent} td, li, p, div, textarea {border-color:} table{border-color:}a.navbar{font-size:8pt; font-weight:normal} a.navbar:link{color:;} a.navbar:active{color:;} a.navbar:visited{color:;} a.navbar:hover{color:;}a.searchlinkSmall{font-size:8pt; text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal;} a.searchlinkSmall:link{color:} a.searchlinkSmall:active{color:} a.searchlinkSmall:visited{color:} a.searchlinkSmall:hover{color:}body{background-color:;background-image:url(http://interfacelift.com/dl/wallpaper/00971_orangechaos_1280x800.jpg); background-position:0%; background-repeat:repeat; background-attachment:fixed;}</STYLE>
</head>
<body>
<p>a;sldkfj;asldkfjl;askdfj a;sldfj a;lskdf a;sdj</p>
</BODY>
</HTML>
newfengshui
02-02-2007, 03:05 PM
thank you very much.

=D

i need to download putty when i get home tonight.

i don't get enough class time to make the type of site i want. and the teacher totally sucks. there was a girl asleep on the floor in class, right behind me. and he was helping me out with something and he didn't even notice her. after class i went over and told him to let her sleep, just to see what happens. and he didn't understand what i was talking about.



and i hope to make my site a good directory for open source stuff, such as FF and it's extensions, codecs, open office and things that are very useful, and free at the same time. =D
newfengshui
02-02-2007, 03:11 PM
what's a doctype?
KDLA
02-02-2007, 03:17 PM
A DOCTYPE is a statement that tells the browser how to interpret your coding. Without it, the browser goes into "quirks mode."

References:
http://alistapart.com/stories/doctype/
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
newfengshui
02-03-2007, 03:27 PM
thank you, you're extremelly helpful. i appreciate it very much.

i'm sure this has been covered a thousand times, and there's probably a search function.

but what's a good free web host?

i don't want to use layouts, and i want to be able to work on my site at home.

winscp and putty are extremelly confusing/hard to use.
Centauri
02-03-2007, 09:07 PM
Is your teacher supposed to be teaching you about websites ? - it would seem you are being taught nothing.

Suggest you have a look at http://www.how-to-build-websites.com/ for some basic approaches to your project.

Cheers
Graeme
newfengshui
02-04-2007, 02:50 AM
i've learned nothing from that class. everything i HAVE learned, i've gotten from searching the internet.a person was sleeping in class yesterday, on the floor. and he didn't even seem to notice.

one of my good friends turned in this:

http://hulk.osd.wednet.edu/~ritterjm/

as a semester final, and got an A on it. so obviously the teaching is very lax.

i've started working on my site here: http://www.freewebs.com/germaintj/index.htm

if you click on any character in "soon..." it takes you to a different page. i believe this alone would merit an A+ but i want to make something people will like and find interesting to boot.

any suggestions and comments are GREATLY appreciated. there's a lot of extra codes that i'm sure i can get rid of. but which, i don't know.
aussie girl
02-04-2007, 04:50 AM
i've learned nothing from that class. everything i HAVE learned, i've gotten from searching the internet.a person was sleeping in class yesterday, on the floor. and he didn't even seem to notice.

one of my good friends turned in this:

http://hulk.osd.wednet.edu/~ritterjm/

as a semester final, and got an A on it. so obviously the teaching is very lax.

i've started working on my site here: http://www.freewebs.com/germaintj/index.htm

if you click on any character in "soon..." it takes you to a different page. i believe this alone would merit an A+ but i want to make something people will like and find interesting to boot.

any suggestions and comments are GREATLY appreciated. there's a lot of extra codes that i'm sure i can get rid of. but which, i don't know.

Well if I was teaching you, you wouldn't get an A, mainly because nobody would know it's a link to other pages, they would read that and go somewhere else. Use proper navigation for your sites
newfengshui
02-04-2007, 01:21 PM
they're supposed to be hidden >_>

eventually, there's a plan to have an easter egg type page.