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Applehorn
05-04-2005, 08:28 AM
Hi, my name's hachi..and I've pretty much just gone through my cyber techie phase. :p My friends got me hooked on IM and net surfing, and i havent really been on the net for the other part of my life. I'm horribly inexperienced at this, and though i have been alongside the technological boom..i have very little knowledge based on this "computer stuff". I'm pretty much here to ask for help based on my new website. I just learned the thing i had to from my friends, like picture adding, tables and the basic tags. now i am experiencing..the following "problems" based on my new website.

www.geocities.com/forgotten_plains

#1)...the names too long. Most of my friends cant help but wonder why i cant get a *.com something.

#2) i was just wondering how i could get that "cross hair" cursor on my website, because most of my friends have that...^^;;

#3) how do i change the center field whenever the user clicks on a menu button without changing the other fields...?

i believe these are just really simple questions, and i hope to receive wonderful answers. If not, please...thank you for taking your time into reading my little dilemmas...^^
scragar
05-04-2005, 08:36 AM
1) register for a free .tk domain, it uses frames and has a pop-up or two, but I don't think you'd care.
2)use CSS:
<style type="text/css"><!--
body{
cursor: crosshair;
}
--></style>

3) I'm not sure what your after here...
Applehorn
05-04-2005, 08:45 AM
http://sakurazuki.shadowed-thoughts.org/

something like my friend's here...^^

oh, and thank you for the CSS...
scragar
05-04-2005, 08:50 AM
that's done using an iframe.

<IFRAME name="iframeName" src="main.html"></IFRAME>
<a href="URL" target="iframeName">link</a>

although I think you should not do this and rewrite your pages to use CSS instead of tables then the flashing of the contents will be seamless(although still there, but it does make your site accessable, which it currently isn't).
Applehorn
05-04-2005, 08:55 AM
uh..how do i use CSS for this? I really dont get it though...im sorry if im such a bother...
scragar
05-04-2005, 09:45 AM
I was bored, so I quickly whiped this up. It uses HTML 4.01 standards and is fully validated. added to that it's shorter than your current page.<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>The Applehorn Archives</title>

<style type="text/css"><!--
body{
cursor: crosshair;
text-align: center;
}
h1#header{
padding-top: 5px;
font-face: "Trebuchet MS";
text-indent: 0;
line-height: 100%;
word-spacing: 0;
margin: 1
};
p#mainMessage{
font-size: 50%;
}
ul#links{
list-style-type: none;
margin-left: 25%;
}
ul#links a:hover, ul#links a:over{
font-weight: bold;
}

img#mainIMG{
position: absolute;
left: 20%;
right: 50%;
top: 140px;
}
span#content{
}

span#footer{
}


-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="header">The Applehorn Archives</h1>
<p id="mainMessage">&quot;Whining like a little baby, and still getting all the fun...&quot;</p>
<img border="0" id="mainIMG" alt=""
src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v146/Applehorn/d.jpg"
width="149" height="112">
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<li><a href="files.html">files</a></li>
<li><a href="links.html">links</a></li>
<li><a href="status.html">status</a></li>
<li><a href="forum.html">forum</a></li>
<li><a href="pics.html">pics</a></li>
</ul>
<span id="content">
Sorry, site still under creation...<br>
please come back another time.
</span>
<span id="footer"><img alt=""
src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v146/Applehorn/givea1pm.gif"></span>
</body>
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