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wardD

08-06-2004, 06:57 PM

k, so I did the: <a href="http://www.sysopt.com" title="Go to SysOpt!" target="_blank">my favorite site</a> thing, and nada happens.

I just kinda stuck it between a pic and a paragraph. is their any special order to how links are layed once you are in the <body>..</body> part? ( im guessing not) but I dont know.

I tried this a couple times using my own code and it didnt work, but it was a bit differant than the above code. didnt have the target =blank"> part. so I cheated and copied and pasted the above code(provided by scarybinary) to my index folder then to my site and still nada, thats why im curiose to the layout part.

regards, ward.

ScaryBinary

08-07-2004, 11:39 AM

As long as it's somewhere between the <body>...</body> tags, it should work. I cut an pasted my own link, quoted in your post, into a new web page and it worked fine.

If you want to post the code around that link, we'll take a look at it. Make sure you've closed all your tags properly, i.e., you don't have something like<img src="myimage.jpg"
<a href="http://www.sysopt.com">Sysopt!</a>
(missing your closing angle bracket for the <img...> tag)

Also, is the link getting drawn on the page, and it just doesn't go anywhere, or does it not show up at all (for example, you never see the "my favorite site" text with the underline)?

wardD

08-07-2004, 05:55 PM

nothing shows up, I will go check make sure every thing is closed.

I,ll keep ya posted.

ward.

wardD

08-07-2004, 06:05 PM

<html>
<head>
<title>closet creations</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {background-color: blue}
h1 {background-color: transparent}
h2 {background-color: transparent}
p {background-color: blue}
</style>

</head>

<body>

<h1>welcome to ward&brenda,s closet creations </h1>
<h2>here are a couple pics of our latest creations</h2>
since we do not have a work shop, we use our walk in closets to house our saws and power tools. hence the name closet creations

<img src="Bear Head.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="Bear Head">
<img src="eagle2.JPG"width="300" height="200" alt="eagle2">
<img src="eagle.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="Eagle">
 my sweetie made the bear head, its my fav the eagle was kinda interesting to make, but took a long time to do
<img src="everrete.JPG"width="300"hight="200" alt="everrete">
<a href="http://www.sysopt.com" title="Go to SysOpt!" target="_blank">my favorite site</a>
This is my first crack at a web site. so welcome all and bare with me!!! hopefully there will be good things coming soon. and my photogrphy will improve!!!

</body>
</html>

hmm, just noticed my last paragraph closing tag is wrong. strange the rest of the page worked. plus I didnt have a starting befor I posted this, I just put it in, again its sorta strange that the last paragraph shows up since I didnt have a start and the closing is wrong? I will go change that and see if that helps.

ward.

PS
man I must be dislexic, I found three more,s

so what is the the slash coming after the letter as aposed to before it?

I fixed those and it just kinda moved the text a bit and changed one pic position. unfortunatley it made no diferance to the missing link syndrom.

PS PS!!

so I created another index file(2) just to play around with, I did it basic html, no css. loaded a couple pics poped in a sentance added some color( did a background image, but that kinda sucked so I am just back to color.

anyway, tried the sysopt link again and still nada, doesent even show the code! and any other screw up I have done it has shown a hint that I was on the right track, just missing part of the code or it was in the wrong place or sumpin!

if the code is entered corectly, will the link show in the index folder on my desk top, or does it HAVE to be uploaded to the site? before you see it.

thanks for your patience, ward.

ScaryBinary

08-07-2004, 10:10 PM

<img src="eagle2.JPG"width="300" height="200" alt="eagle2">
You need a space before the "width" attribute. Technically speaking, that first should be immediately followed by a closing , though most browsers are smart enough to figure out what you mean.
 my sweetie made the bear head, its my fav 
the eagle was kinda interesting to make, but took a long time to do
In this line, you need to close your first tag before your tag, so it would be something like ...its my fav the eagle... Then you need to close your second tag and fix that closing tag, like ...long time to do
<img src="everrete.JPG"width="300"hight="200" alt="everrete">
You misspelled "right" in your align attribute. Your browser will ignore it since it doesn't understand, hence your paragraph will be aligned to whatever the default is. You need a space before the "width" attribute. You misspelled "height" for the "height" attribute, and you need a space before it. You nailed the closing paragraph tag though :p .
This is my first crack at a web site. so welcome all and bare with me!!!
hopefully there will be good things coming soon. and my photogrphy will improve!!!
Just need to fix that closing paragraph tag.

The HTML standard requires that the slash come first in the closing tag, like . Sometimes you can get away with botching this up, especially with the .. tag, because some browsers are smart enough to figure out where your closing tags should have been if they aren't there.

I don't know what's up with that link. I cut and pasted your exact code into a new file and opened it, and sure enough that link showed up as it should. It doesn't matter what you put as the "href" attribute, as long as you have something like <a href="whocares.htm">Who Cares?</a> it should be shown. Of course, when you actually click on it things go downhill, but it should still show up.

wardD

08-07-2004, 11:09 PM

well, isnt that the darndest thing. and like I said, I even made a new file without the text=css, just used html. the pics worked, I did figure out that if the pic is too big for the space left on the page it drops it down a line. if i make it smaller it goes beside the first pic as you mentioned would happen.

'O' well, live and learn.

scarybinary, it is too cool you are taking the time to coach me in this endevor, most assuradly without yours, and a couple other kind souls help and encouragement, I would have thrown in the towel.

I will check with my isp and see if their is some sort of ristriction or something that is not allowing the link, it strikes me as odd it will work on your isp but not mine?

anyway I will play around with the pics and try doing some aligning of the text. once i get a handle on that I will try the link thing again.

thanks again, ward.

ScaryBinary

08-08-2004, 10:13 AM

This link thing is bugging me. Try a really really simple page like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>The Test Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Some Test Stuff</h1>
Here is a link: <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Visit Yahoo!</a>
</body>
</html>
and see if the link is drawn.

You said earlier that "it doesn't even show the code." I'm not sure what you mean by that....are you uploading these files to your ISP's space, and then when you view the page on the website, click "View Source", the link code isn't showing up in the source?

wardD

08-08-2004, 06:46 PM

scarybinary, your code is bang on!!

I finaly went to a web tutour(online) that I have been using, used your code in their add link tutorial, and it worked jim dandy.

so I made another html file and did as you suggested, actualy I did all that before I went to the on line editer. it didnt work.

I will copy and paste your code in their and see what happens.

sorry I was so vague on the "code doesent even show" thing.
it shows in the index source code.
what I was trying to say, was every other thing that didnt work for me showed the source code on the browser, but it was always a pic, and I guess I was just asuming that it worked that way for any incorect code (silly me).

anyways, I gota go try this again, Im going copy and paste your
last code so I have it verbatum. I will let you know what transpires.

thanks you. ward.