HTML code

[wondo]

I'm trying to get my website off the ground but have stumbled on a few html related hangups. They are really simple problems, I assume, but quite troublesome for me -- someone with no experience.

Anyone out there familiar with it and can answer a couple questions or point me in the right direction?

thanks in advance

 

[BahamaMama]

http://www.draac.com/

(this guy puts it about as simple as it can get and with full examples)

try that, and if you can't find what you want, post your question or mail me at the addy in profile

 

[acehistr8]

Post your questions.

 

[wondo]

ok, here are a couple issues. I'm not an idiot with computers, but most of my experience has been with graphics programs like Illustrator and Photoshop or some 3d Modeling, so those are easy to manipulate objects to get exactly what you want. My webpages are simple, but I struggle to control them, so to speak.


-I want to be able to move text & picture (in this case a .jpg of a signature with a name and title below it) off the left margin, as if I 'tabbed' it over a few times. I have tried to use a command 'p style left margin = x.x"' but it only seems to work with people viewing with Internet Explorer. I have played around with a blank GIF that achieves a similar effect, but if someone has a smaller screen, some of the text could wrap lower than the GIF, so it becomes unindented. If I make my GIF longer vertically, it will indent more than I want it to.

-my text seems to come out huge on some viewers, but looks fine on others. Is there a way to control this? I think I may have combined so many text styles into seperate commands that they have cancelled each other out -- in laymans terms -- I have basically: <span style = blah blah><span style = more blah><span style = more and more blah> then my text here </span></span> etc etc -- do these things act like parentheses in math in the sense that they keep their order of operation, so to speak? or should I combine them into one <span = xxx > command ?

I guess those are my two big issues. As you can see my website is pretty simple. Thanks for the help.

 

[acehistr8]

I want to be able to move text & picture (in this case a .jpg of a signature with a name and title below it) off the left margin, as if I 'tabbed' it over a few times. I have tried to use a command 'p style left margin = x.x"' but it only seems to work with people viewing with Internet Explorer. I have played around with a blank GIF that achieves a similar effect, but if someone has a smaller screen, some of the text could wrap lower than the GIF, so it becomes unindented. If I make my GIF longer vertically, it will indent more than I want it to.

First off, remove all the asterisks from the commands I list, when I initially wrote my reply, of course, the browser just wants to use them rather than display them correctly.

OK on the spacing, try the &n*bsp; command. Essentially this will insert one space character and in some instances may solve the problem you are referring to. Insert this before the <*IMG> tag, as well as before the text below it, if I am picturing correctly what your code looks like. In other words:

&*nbsp;&*nbsp;<*IMG TAG GOES HERE...
&*nbsp;&n*bsp;YOUR TEXT GOES HERE...

The ampersand belongs in that, the * as I mentioned does not.

my text seems to come out huge on some viewers, but looks fine on others. Is there a way to control this? I think I may have combined so many text styles into seperate commands that they have cancelled each other out -- in laymans terms -- I have basically: <span style = blah blah><span style = more blah><span style = more and more blah> then my text here </span></span> etc etc -- do these things act like parentheses in math in the sense that they keep their order of operation, so to speak? or should I combine them into one <span = xxx > command ?

I ran into two main problems using styles like that given the problems IE and Netscape have in displaying pages the same. Plus yes you are probably combining too many tags and cluttering up your code too much. Eventually I went back to just using the standard font tags which may be different depending on what editor you are using. I highly recomend Allaires Homesite program. The tags look something like:

*font size=+1*TEXT*/font*
(here the asterisks represent the <>s)

for increasing your font one size.

Feel free to post more questions. Im an out of work computer consultant so I have plenty of time ;-)

 

[wondo]

Thanks. After reading your reply, I realized that my own post came out sounding weird too because of the loss of brackets and code.

Anyway:

&*nbsp worked well -- is there anything wrong with stacking up twenty+ of this command?

that font size command worked perfect as well.

I'll go read that one page before I bother you with more. Hey how about this snow? It's coming down like a banshee just west of the city.

 

[acehistr8]

You should have no problems stacking them up.

Snow in Arlington is crazy right now. Just went out on the patio to make a snowman