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georgeafi
02-07-2003, 10:36 AM
Hi, i am just staring out useing HTML and i don't know too much. One thing i am confused about is when i put up images or anything else it all shows up at the top left corner or my page when i view it. Why does it do this and how can it put stuff where i want it? I don't want to use a pagebuilder cause i want to learn to make website by html. Pleese, can someone help me?
georgeafi
02-07-2003, 11:39 AM
Can someone please help me? Do i have to download something? I want to get my new site started and i need to know how to put everything where i want it. Please help!!!!
minulescu
02-07-2003, 11:53 AM
georgeafi,

it looks to me like you dont know much html, as you have said.
How do you expect the browser to read your mind and place the image where u want it placed? You have to know some html code of course.
There are plenty of websites out there that have free tuturiols for html and other website related topics.
For ex: http://www.echoecho.com and http://www.htmlgoodies.com
These are the sites ive used to learn how to make some primitive sites.
An easy way to place an image in the center of your website (horizontaly) is the tag <center>.
So you would something like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>
Name of page
</title>
</head>
<body>

<center><img src="whatever.jpg" alt=""></center>

</body>
</html>

This would place your image at the top of the page, in the center.
meow
02-07-2003, 11:54 AM
It sounds like you need to get the basics down. Maybe you could start here:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

No, you don't need to download anything. A text editor is all that's needed. Notepad works fine even if you probably want something more fancy later on. You'll may also need a ftp program to upload your stuff.
georgeafi
02-07-2003, 12:13 PM
Thanks guys, i looked all ove htmlgoodies but found nothing about using html to put stuff where you want. The other sites i made were with a pagebuilder so i wasn't sure how you would move everything around using html.Thanks again.
Stefan
02-07-2003, 12:25 PM
Originally posted by georgeafi i wasn't sure how you would move everything around using html.Thanks again. [/B]

By using CSS.
Here is a nice valid template of how a HTML 4.01 page could look like.
The included button to check validity only works when the page is uploaded to the net though.


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<title></title>
<style type="text/css" title="Default" media="screen">

body {text-align:center}
.box {width:300px; border:1px solid blue; margin:0 auto 0 auto;}

</style>
</head>
<body>

<p class="box">Hello World!</p>

<p>
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401" alt="Valid HTML 4.01!" /></a>
</p>
</body>
</html>
esher2292
02-08-2003, 07:24 PM
give address of website
useratl
02-11-2003, 01:40 AM
You are going to have to learn alot of stuff. You have tell things on a page where to go. If you type HTML, or other programming things into a search engine, you will get lots of guidance. You can even type in something like, aligning images . . . there's alot of help out there to be had.

~cheers!