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Goodies HousekeepingThat
’
s right, this week
’
s Thoughts involve themselves with a little
Goodies housekeeping.
First up, there are changes this week to your
favorite newsletter.
Nothing that currently exists is changing or being
removed, but there is a new addition, namely
"
Discussion Goodies
"
.
The sharp eyed folks among you may have noticed at the bottom of the
HTML Goodies Home Page the
"
HTML Goodies Discussion Forums
"
.
There are
two great ways to use these forums.
First, you can browse through the
threads (conversations) in the forum and learn from all the advice folks
give and suggestions they make.
I do this quite a lot and it
’
s
surprising how often you can pick up a great idea this way.
You can also register in the forums (it
’
s completely free!) and post
your questions or join in existing conversations.
In this way, you can
get specific answers to those things that are irritating you or stopping
you from finishing your work.
The Discussion Goodies section highlights a few threads that might be of
particular interest to you and provides you with a convenient link
directly into that thread.
I strongly encourage you to take a look into
these forums
—
I think you will find a resource that may just become
one of your most valued tools.
The next item on my housekeeping list concerns itself with file/section
organization.
When you design your websites, I know that you spend
considerable time thinking about how best to organize all the sections
it contains and how to make them easy for your visitors to find.
I do
the same with HTML Goodies.
However, I am only me.
You are hundreds of
thousands of you!
How remiss it would be of me to think I know better
than you!
For that reason I would like to ask for your input.
Please
send me your suggestions for better organizing the HTML Goodies site to
nlfeedback@htmlgoodies.com
with the words
"
Site Organization
"
(only those words) in the subject.
I
look forward to studying your ideas!
Lastly I would also like, for the same reasons to ask for your input
concerning
"
Goodies Thoughts
"
.
This section is basically my thoughts
for the week and is most usually based on things that are happening
around me.
If you have something in particular that you would like to
hear my thought about, please send your request to the same email
address with the words
"
Thoughts thoughts
"
in the subject (again, only
these words please
—
they are being picked up by my incoming mail
filters and gathered in one place for my review.
Variations might not
be recognized and so your suggestions could be lost.)
OK, that
’
s it for my housekeeping items of the week
—
except to say
thanks in advance for all your input, and thanks for your continued
loyalty to Goodies To Go and the HTML Goodies website!
Thanks for reading!
–
Vince Barnes
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Mentors. You can ask a Mentor a question by going to
. I
’
m trying to design a personal portfolio site and need to have
people click on my thumbnails to see larger images in a new window
…
easy.
However I found a site that makes it hard for people to
save/steal copyright materials- it makes the new window close when it is
clicked on
…
I can
’
t figure out how to do this.
A.You could use the onClick event in the body tag.
Of course they can
still steal your images because the images have to be downloaded to your
PC for your browser to display them.
The body tag would look like this:
<
body onClick=
"
window.close()
"
>
This will only work if the window was opened using the JavaScript
window.open command.
Q.I
’
m making an imagemap in Photoshop.
The imagemap is just made up of
housing parcels.
What I want to do is have it so that if you place your
cursor on the parcel, a number will pop up.
I figure I could do this by
doing a rollover graphic, but for 200+ individual parcels, that would
take a long time.
Is there a simple way to have the imapemap be
unclickable, but also have it so when you place the cursor on the parcel
information would popup?
A.You could use the TITLE attribute in the
<
A
>
tag.
<
area href=
"
#
"
shape=
"
rect
"
coords=
"
20, 43, 231, 281
"
title=
"
This is
parcel number 218
"
>
That will create a Pop Up message similar to the ALT attribute in the
IMG tag. Using
"
#
"
should it so the link does not anywhere if the user
happens to click on it.
As a side note, the TITLE attribute should be used on your actual links
also. This will help the search engines when indexing your website and
help vision impaired people that use screen readers.
I am trying to put a list of data in a table format so that it will
take up less of the page length.
The code looks like this:
<
TABLE
>
<
TR
>
<
UL
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Armors and Weapons
<
/TD
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Art, Poetry and Music
<
/TD
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Castles
<
/TD
>
<
/TR
>
<
TR
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Cathedrals and Monasteries
<
/TD
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Coats of Arms (Heraldry)
<
/TD
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Dragons and Beasts
<
/TD
>
<
/TR
>
<
TR
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Heroes and Legends
<
/TD
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Illuminated Manuscripts
<
/TD
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Knights
<
/TD
>
<
/TR
>
<
TR
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Mages and Wizards
<
/TD
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Medieval History
<
/TD
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Medieval Life
<
/TD
>
<
/TR
>
<
TR
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Sites for Kids
<
/TD
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Medieval School Projects
<
/TD
>
<
TD
>
<
LI
>
Illuminated Manuscripts
<
/TD
>
<
/TR
>
<
/UL
>
<
/TABLE
>
It did a great job of putting the list into three bulleted columns, but
for some reason, in doing so, the font size shrunk.
The rest of the
page is font size=
"
3
"
.
I tried changing the height, putting a font size
command in the TD brackets, and a few other places, but I just can
’
t
seem to get it to work.
I searched the HTML Goodies site but couldn
’
t
find an answer.
How do I change the look of the writing within a table?
A.You should be using a style sheet to control your font sizes. This
way you can designate the size once, in the style sheet and everything
on the page will stay consistant.
For instance, if you wanted all of your lists to be VERDANA and size
11px you wouls place this code in the between
<
HEAD
>
tags of your HTML:
<
style type=text/css
>
<
!
–
li { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px }
–
>
<
/style
>
Now take a look at all of your lists.
Read the tutorial on the HTMLGoodies site that can be found here:
Hello, how can I use a jpeg picture of my own as
<
BODY BGCOLOR=
"
C:WINDOWSDesktopHTMLorange.jpg
"
>
?
A.The first problem is your code instructs the browser where to find
the file on your PC, so it will work only on your PC. You need to use a
relative URL, so you can upload your site to your server and it will
still work. Typically images are in a directory called
"
images
"
which is
a subdirectory of the directory which holds your HTML files, so you
should create such a directory and code the background like so:
<
body background=
"
images/orange.jpg
"
>
.
Also note the the attribute for a background image is
"
background.
"
"
bgcolor
"
is for a background color.
How is SHTML related to HTML?
A.The .shtml extension means that server side includes (SSI) code is
being used with the html code. Here is a link describing it:
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Have you seen the discussion forums on the HTML Goodies website?
It
’
s a
great place to get help from others who, just like you, are developing
web pages.
Many different topics appear in the forum, and a new one
will appear if you create it!
Here
’
s a sample of recent topics:
Numeric test (what is wrong with the code?):
MySql
–
copy column between tables:
IP address field: DRIVING ME CRAZY!:
Cross browser Problem
…
:
Need help for PHP project:
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Oracle in Free Pursuit of MySQL DB[
November 1, 2005
]
The software maker offers a free database in the
hopes of slowing MySQL
’
s momentum.
Read the article:
[
November 1, 2005
]
Verizon
’
s Internet yellow pages service adds
community features and comparison shopping tools.
Read the article:
[
November 1, 2005
]
Online shopping expected to increase this holiday
season.
Read the article:
[
November 1, 2005
]
The startup aims to blend powerful computing and
networking as an alternative to servers from IBM, Sun, Dell and HP.
Read the article:
[
October 31, 2005
]
U.S. Supreme Court won
’
t weigh in on whether
Microsoft
’
s foreign Windows sales carry a penalty.
Read the article:
[
October 31, 2005
]
Dell had no Halloween treat for investors on Monday,
instead issuing a warning that its quarterly sales and earnings will be
below Wall Street expectations.
Read the article:
[
October 31, 2005
]
The FBI and online job seeker giant Monster Worldwide
lead an anti-Internet fraud initiative.
Read the article:
[
October 31, 2005
]
Multiple security vulnerabilities in PHP are patched
in new release of PHP 4.4.1 though PHP 5.x users are still at risk.
Read the article:
[
October 31, 2005
]
The company puts remote management and regulatory
compliance in the hands of its IT management and vulnerability
assessment arm.
Read the article:
[
October 31, 2005
]
When you put the parts together, this partnership
could add up to something.
Read the article:
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Using DataSets Without a Database in ASP.NETSometimes you don
’
t have a database table to work with, but you still
want the data that your page presents to be dynamic.
In this article,
Steve Schwarting illustrates how to work with serialized DataSets
without an attached database in ASP.NET.
Tired of sending plain text email messages from your website?
Now you
don
’
t have to
…
this sample will show you how to send email messages
from ASP.NET that can be as lively as a web page.
This article, by Scott Mitchell, discusses the common authentication
protocols used by web servers and then looks at how to make programmatic
HTTP requests to a resource that requires authentication.
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1993European Union established
In 1991 delegates from the European Community drafted a treaty designed
to strengthen the bonds between European countries, creating a European
parliament, a central bank and common foreign and security policies.
The treaty. which was developed in Maastricht, Holland, was signed in
2992 and took effect on this day in 1993.
At that time, the twelve
signing countries were the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Irish
Republic, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium,
and the Netherlands. In 1995, Austria, Finland, and Sweden joined the
Union.
These member nations were joined in 2002 by Cyprus, the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia
and Slovenia.
In addition to these 25 members, there are four candidate
countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Turkey.
The formation of the
European Union is quite an accompplishment, considering the centuries of
wars its members have fought with each other.
Today was also the day that in:
79Pompei was buried by the
eruption of Mt. Vesuvius;
1512Michaelangelo Buonarroti
’
s
painting
’
s on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican were
first exhibited;
1604William Shakespeare
’
s
"
Othello
"
was first
presented;
1611William Shakespeare
’
s
"
The Tempest
"
was first
presented;
175550,000 die in an earthquake in Lisbon;
1870the US Weather Bureau began its operations;
1922the Ottoman
Empire was abolished;
1932Wernher von Braun was named head of
German liquid-fuel rocket program;
1936Mussolini described
alliance between Italy
&
Germany as an
"
axis
"
;
1939The first
animal (a rabbit) conceived by artificial insemination was displayed;
John H Johnson published the first issue of Negro Digest;
John H Johnson published the first issue of Ebony magazine;
John H Johnson published the first issue of Jet magazine;
The first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the
Pacific;
1969Beatles
’
"
Abbey Road,
"
album went to
#1
&
stayed
there for 11 weeks;
1970Discotheque in Grenoble France caught
fire with all its exits padlocked
&
142 died;
1976Gilbert Is
(Kiribati) obtained internal self-governmentt from Britain;
1988Actor Jeff Goldblum married actress Geena Davis in Las Vegas;
1990Sandra Miller was awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts;
Born today were: in
1500sculptor Benvenuto Cellini;
1798brewer
&
Mayor of Dublin Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness;
1915English
actor Michael Dennison;
1929actress Betsy Palmer;
1935golfer Gary Player;
1939actress Barbara Blossom;
1942publisher / pornographer Larry Flynt;
1942actress Marcia
Wallace;
1944English musician Keith Emerson;
1960actress
Elizabeth Dennehy;
1963musician Rick Allen;
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