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AdminShade December 12 2005 6:29 AM EST

Hey all.

I would need some HTML coding help for a project from school, now I know some basic HTML-ing but I want to make something nice.

The first thing I would need to know is how to make the links, which are usually blue in color (IE and FireFox without changing the colors), into a different color.
I have looked through a few websites but couldn't find information about it, or I didn't look well enough yet.

The second thing I would like to know is something about Frames. I know CB2 uses 2 frames and my own 'homepage' will also be using 2 frames, but i can't get the 'main window' frame to go to page 2, instead it makes page 2 into the 'sidebar window' frame.

Is this just a problem because the site is on my desktop instead of uploaded or would there be something different. I have looked at the coding of the source of www.Carnageblender.com (having the 2 frames) and they are the same in buildup...

AdminShade December 12 2005 6:44 AM EST

To help I have uploaded my, very basic and so far ugly website, here

Xiaz on Hiatus December 12 2005 7:06 AM EST

For your Hyperlink question you can do two things.

Edit the body tag to include link (hyperlink), vlink(visited link), alink

<body link="#000000" vlink="#000000" alink="#000000">

Or use a cascading style sheet (css), either embedded or external to the page. An easy way is just put

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">>
<!--
A { color: red; }     /* unvisited link */
A:visited { color: blue; }     /* visited link */
A:active { color: green; }     /* active link */
A:hover { color: gold; }     /* hover or mouseover link */
//-->
</STYLE>

between the head, /head tags. This is embedded css.

skurj December 12 2005 7:06 AM EST

http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

AdminShade December 12 2005 7:16 AM EST

Yay I found the solution for my frames question.

In the link of the menu bar frame I'd have to specify Target=main and have name=main in the frame src of the index

or alternatively, something which i will probably implement:

have a <base target=main> inside of the <head> tags

as (nearly) all the links of the left frame link to the main window.

thanks for the reply Daniel, I still need to read some things on CSS but I'm sure i will get it to work :)

Xiaz on Hiatus December 12 2005 7:18 AM EST

IIRC, for frames you create your frameset, then you put in frames which you "name" . The coding is

<frameset>
<frame src="url" name="framename">
</frameset>

where name becomes what you use to target the frame.

Now when you want to make a link that opens in a particular frame you add a target="framename" into the <a>. Example

<a href="url" target="framename">

have fun shadey :P

AdminShade December 12 2005 7:22 AM EST

Already read about what you just also explained, doing it that way but a bit more simplified :)

Thanks so far, i could have more questions sooner or later :)

Xiaz on Hiatus December 12 2005 7:31 AM EST

Darn! You already found the solution :P

You could always just download a HTML editor Dennis.

Google has some ;)

AdminShade December 12 2005 7:39 AM EST

I already have a html editor but haven't gotten it installed yet, DreamWeaver works quite nice.

But the reason I am doing it in Notepad is because It is for school, so I have to know what the codes are behind what the viewer sees ;)

AdminShade December 12 2005 2:41 PM EST

Grrrr, now I'm stuck on the theme (mostly background images) for the website, perhaps even multiple themes because the site has different contents.

Mostly I need a color theme for the pages that will contain the stories of Melkor... but what color should I use?

AdminShade December 13 2005 3:20 PM EST

Have quite cool ideas now, will make some more progress tomorrow i think :)

AdminShade December 15 2005 2:03 PM EST

hey Xiaz you made a mistake, in:

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">>

</STYLE>

you had to put:

A:link { color: red; } /* unvisited link */

to make it red ;)

AdminShade December 15 2005 4:32 PM EST

click here for my site to aid me with the problem I have!

Alas my CSS doesn't work in Fire Fox, nor does it for 2 other people

the CSS's are on the menu bar, on the main screen (home), page 2 and page 3

the funny thing is:

it works fine in IE, for everyone,
an other website (some game called carnage blender*) works also,
and yet an other website: click for site works also...

* with a blue / grey theme: the link for (Standard / Favorites) is white

Both other sites use a CSS as a separate file, but according to Verifex this can't be the problem, or can it?

perhaps somebody can help me with a code that does work on FireFox...

either that or i'll just have to resort to a backup plan which includes having codes in every link >.

bartjan December 15 2005 4:44 PM EST

If the page were Valid HTML, then you could have used the CSS Validator as a tool to debug the problem.

AdminQBVerifex December 15 2005 4:45 PM EST

To fix your page, take out the extra > at the end of <style type="text/css">

bartjan December 15 2005 4:47 PM EST

Also, explain what effects you are looking for, because as far as I can tell the CSS you've used matches what my browser (Galeon, like Firefox based on Gecko) is rendering.

AdminShade December 15 2005 4:51 PM EST

Thanks Verifex, it worked.

and about bartjan's reply, well I guess I need to do some work on that :)

AdminShade December 15 2005 5:25 PM EST

for the doc type i can choose between strict, loose and frame set,which one would be recommended?

and for the Character Encoding, any chance of having an example?

(yes im a newb at html)

AdminShade December 15 2005 7:14 PM EST

Thanks to bartjan, it all works properly now :)

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