Vanity--Need HTML help

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[georgiadevildog]

If you're good with HTML, please help! I want to add pictures on the left and right sides of the header block on my blog (linked above). I don't know how to do it. When I add a photo link, it just puts it under what's already there instead of off to the side. If anybody knows how to do it, please, help me!

[georgiadevildog]

I've got to run right now, but I'll check back later. Thanks for any help you can provide, FReepers.

[octobersky]

I'm not real good with HTML but I do know that if you want your image to be on the left or right side of something you have to specify an "align" attribute. You can go to Webmonkey to get the code for this. Scroll down to where it says "Graphical Elements." Good luck.

[Roses0508]

Beat me to it. I also recommend webmonkey. You can find absolutely anything you need to know about HTML there.

[ecurbh]

The easiest way is probably to put it in a table, thus:

<TABLE border="0">
<TR>
<TD>Left side stuff</TD>
<TD>Middle stuff</TD>
<TD>Right side stuff</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

[ThePythonicCow]

Yup - tables are the way to go.

[georgiadevildog]

Thanks, all. I'll give it a shot.

[TexasCajun]

I can't find a link to the HTML Sandbox?

[TexasCajun]

Here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/938739/posts

[Aliska]

I need some help with html code. I am setting up an index page with a table filled with about 80 thumbnail photos.

How do I code in html to open the image in a new window? People will forget to right click and choose open in new window even if it is stated right where they can see it, and if they hit the back button, they may have to wait for the whole table to load again which will be at least 1360+ KB which is a lot for dialup users.

If it is too complicated, I'll try to figure out another way. I tried to look at the source code for how news articles are done here on FR, but there is a page with a link that comes up that says in a few moments you will be redirected to. I don't want that. I just want to go directly to the larger photo from the thumbnail without losing the index page.

[Aliska]

Bump, things scroll off so fast I'm afraid no one who knows what I need will see it.

[Aliska]

Another bump, see post #9. If no one can help, I'll try a newsgroup or something.

[georgiadevildog]

two security guards were shot

I'm trying this; it might be a good template for opening a link in a new window. Let's see: Sarge's Spot Yep, that works. Okay, so it goes like this:

(instead of "(" and ")", use "<" and ">")

(a target="_blank" href="WEB ADDRESS HERE">WHAT YOU WANT THE LINK TO SAY HERE(/a)

[Aliska]

Oh, thank you so much! How did you ever find this post; I bumped it 3 times and decided enough was enough.

While I've got your attention, do you happen to know how to test out your completed web pages, especially all the links, on your local hard drive?

I've been uploading them to test them, and when there is an error, I have to make the correction and load it again which is even more time consuming than coding links.

I'll try your way first. I did look at some source code on another article here, but it gives the blank page with the link, and couldn't tell which part was for what. This is much easier what you have done, and I'll try that first.

[georgiadevildog]

Not really sure what you mean by "test out on local hard drive." I'm not much of a programmer; I just went to a site that I know has pop-up links (Nealz Nuze at boortz.com) and read the code for them.

What type of web design software are you using, or are you just writing all the code manually?

If you're using Front Page, I think you can check the links by holding CTRL and clicking them. Don't take that as gospel, though. As I said, I'm not much of a programmer. Probably not even good enough to be called an "amateur."

[Aliska]

Well, I got the answer on another forum but don't completely understand it. You arrange your folders hierarchically and code in the name of the photo and put it in the same folder with the code it goes with, then you can test it on your local drive. They referred to them as something else but are what I would describe as dynamic links; how they get changed to the proper url after you ftp them is beyond me tonight. What am I using? Promise you won't laugh? Netscape Composer. Don't have Front Page, took a few clicks through MS Publisher and didn't like it, so I do the skeleton stuff in Composer, then rename the .html to .txt and make whatever changes I want in WordPad. Then I'm on my own because Composer sometimes can't handle the changes.

Needless to say, that is not the way to go; I got so many suggestions for downloading this and that and I can learn html in a few hours, yeah right, all trying to be helpful. I also got my 3+ inch book I bought years ago now, and it is packed with info, but I never did find the part where you test on your hard drive. Oh they talked a lot about it, just didn't tell you how to set it up that I could find; I got fed up plowing through that mess.

I don't design and code very many websites, don't care to do it once the novelty wore off, keep the flowchart in my head because I used to be a programmer, and now I need to test it with IE, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, and Safari (think this is for Mac which I don't have access to, maybe someone would help me on that if need be), so I'm advised. I do test every link and use both Netscape and IE6. If it works in IE6, it works in Netscape, never had any problem with those two.

I do appreciate all the suggestions and have some good links and ideas. Not all the web pages I've done involve extensive graphics, some are text documents; I'm sure they look amateurish because I really keep them simple. HTML is a pain; I can do quite a bit of normal stuff with it, thanks in part to here, but since I don't use it on a regular basis, I forget the syntax and end up having to go look it up anyway.

And in a few years there will be some new marvel to deal with. Thanks for the help. I got some good tips here and copied and saved the code for tables so pictures don't have to go down the left side of the page with nothing but wasted space to the right. Setting up tables in Composer is pretty straightforward, but you have to use borders, but I never minded. Just loaded the centered table and went on with it.