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Keeping Up To DateThe Goodies Thoughts space this week is dedicated to the task of bringing
you up to date on some things, etc.
First, you may remember me writing about a case in Polk County, Florida,
involving the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States,
which may well be important to any involved in the Web development and/or
hosting business, and especially where that might involve any material that
is or may be of a controversial nature.
You can find all the details in the
Goodies To Go archives, here:
There have been new developments.
The subject, Mr. Wilson, was arrested
again and then, following the intervention of the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) and some free speech groups, was ordered to be released by an
Appellate Court Judge.
Again, I will allow the local newspaper, The Ledger,
to provide you the details:
Interesting, huh?!
Next, I want to thank all of you who volunteered to participate in the
development project I talked about last week.
For those who may have missed
it, the details are here:
We will be getting in touch with every one of you who responded, but please
give me just a little time to sort everything out.
Next, we continue to receive enquiries every week concerning how to create
web statistics.
For those who are trying to do this, and need a quick and
EASY solution, I urge you to check out TheCounter.com
—
they have a special
deal going right now which is hard to beat.
Finally, I
’
d like to send my thanks out to all of you who sent in holiday
and New Year wishes.
I appreciate your thoughts, and I look forward to an
exciting year for all of us!
Thanks for reading!
–
Vince Barnes
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Is there a way to use a background image without it repeating? I
’
d like
the bgimg to simply enlarge itself to encompass each visitor
’
s window,
instead of doing the tile effect
A.You are not going to be able to get the image to enlarge itself for every
resolution. In fact the site you sent has the image repeating. I even looked
at it on various resolutions and it repeated in all of them. That being
said, you can use some CSS
–
Cascading Style Sheet
–
to get an image to
only show once as a background.
Here is the code you should use:
<
style type=
"
text/css
"
>
<
!
–
body {background-image: url(images/your_image_name.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;}
–
>
<
/style
>
Make sure you change the path and image name to suit your situation.
I designed my site to work off of tables, but recently have found that
when I make a change to the textstyle, left menu, or any of the background
images, I have to go through a very frustrating process of updating all 75
pages on my site.
Is there any way to make this process easier, like to
have a master page set up that all the rest of the pages can use to follow?
A.To make updating easier in the future you should use dynamic includes and
an external style sheet. An
"
include page
"
is an actual page but you use
some code to tell the browser where to include it on the page. This cannot
be done with a static HTML page. The page needs to be dynamic. To do this
you would have to change the file extention to
"
.asp
"
,
"
.shtml
"
,
"
.cfm
"
or
another file extension that your server would support. When the browser
starts to load the page it
"
sees
"
the extension and knows that somewhere in
the page there could be some dynamic code that it needs to process.
This tutorial will show you how:
For an external style sheet you need to creat a page with your current style
sheet and name it with a
"
.css
"
file extension. THen in the HEAD section of
your HTML your would replace the style sheet you have now with the following
line:
<
LINK REL=stylesheet HREF=
"
http://www.your.page/style.css
"
TYPE=
"
text/css
"
>
Use that on all of your pages and all you have to do is update that one
style sheet and all of the pages will be affected.
For the tutorial on CSS:
I have used the following script on one of my pages so that which ever
screen resolution the user has, they can see the image fully.
<
SCRIPT LANGUAGE=
"
JavaScript
"
>
if (screen.width == 640)
{document.write(
"
U can
’
t see this image. Change to a higher resolution!
"
)}
if (screen.width == 800)
{document.write(
"
<
IMG SRC=images/800xmusic.jpg
>
"
)}
if (screen.width == 1024)
{document.write(
"
<
IMG SRC=images/1024xmusic.jpg
>
"
)}
if (screen.width == 1152)
{document.write(
"
<
IMG SRC=images/1152xmusic.jpg
>
"
)}
That all works fine. What I can
’
t get to work or figure out is how to add
info (text, links, etc) to the page on top of the image? It just all appears
at the bottom of the page under the image.
A.I believe what you want to do is change the
"
background
"
image of the
body.
Try this instead:
if (screen.width == 640) {document.write(
"
<
body
>
"
)}
if (screen.width == 800)
{document.write(
"
<
body background=
’
images/800xmusic.jpg
’
>
"
)}
if (screen.width == 1024)
{document.write(
"
<
body background=
’
images/1024xmusic.jpg
’
>
"
)}
if (screen.width == 1152)
{document.write(
"
<
body background=
’
images/1152xmusic.jpg
’
>
"
)}
You will need to place this script where your body tag would normally be and
remove your body tag.
The will replace it.
This script will create the
body tag with the correct background image that You want based on the screen
resolution.
Q.Could you please tell me how to link one page to a specific point on
another page? Also, how do I link the top of one page to the bottom of the
same page?
If you want to link to a spot on a particular page you can use the NAME
ANCHOR. For instance if you had a long page and wanted to give the user an
easy way to get back to the top after reading the article you would place
this in the HTML near the top after the
<
BODY
>
tag:
<
a name=
"
top
"
>
At the end of the article you would place this code:
<
a href=
"
#top
"
>
TOP
<
/a
>
That creates a link to the top of the page. If you want a link to a certain
area on another page it is done in a similar way. On the page you want to
link to you place the NAME ANCHOR in the spot on the page you want to jump
to:
<
a href=
"
jump
"
>
Jump Here
<
/a
>
On the page you are coming from, the link would look like this:
<
a href=
"
#jump
"
>
Click here to Jump
<
/a
>
Here is the tutorial from the HTMLGoodies site:
How do you get your brower reset because I have no status bar and no
scrollbar?
A.You could provide a link like this to reload the document:
<
a href=
"
javascript:window.location.reload()
"
>
Refresh
<
/a
>
When the link is clicked on it would refresh the page.
[
If you wish to restore the browser status bar (in Internet Explorer) click
"
View/Status Bar
"
I am working with a button on my page:
<
STYLE
>
.start {font-size: 8pt; color:#ffff00; background:#cc3333}
.end {font-size: 8pt; color:#cc3333; background:#ffff00}
<
/STYLE
>
<
SCRIPT LANGUAGE=
"
javascript
"
>
function highlightButton(s) {
if (
"
INPUT
"
==event.srcElement.tagName)
event.srcElement.className=s
}
<
/SCRIPT
>
The above is placed above
<
/head
>
Then the
<
FORM
>
<
/FORM
>
lines are placed where I need them to be below
<
BODY
>
<
FORM NAME=highlight onMouseover=
"
highlightButton(
‘
start
’
)
"
onMouseout=
"
highlightButton(
‘
end
’
)
"
>
<
INPUT TYPE=
"
button
"
VALUE=
"
Hot Computer Deals Of The Week!
"
onClick=
"
location.href=
’
http://www.tigerdirect.com/email/kb/promo.asp?ID=1671
’
"
>
<
/form
>
I would like the button to start out as it appears for
onMouseout=
"
highlightButon(
‘
end
’
)
"
When the page loads, it is the standard grey default size button. Using
<
STYLE
>
<
/STYLE
>
I now have some control over the button size by specifying
font-size: 8pt; Of course, nothing happens until the cursor is passed over
the button.
I tried some
[
onload=
]
ideas that didn
’
t work. Is there a way to control
the initial appearance of the button?
A.I added a class attribute to the INPUT tag. I just used one of the
classes you had already set in your styles, but you can create another one.
The javascript helps with the changes.
<
form name=
"
highlight
"
onmouseover=
"
highlightButton(
‘
start
’
)
"
onmouseout=
"
highlightButton(
‘
end
’
)
"
>
<
input class=
"
end
"
type=
"
button
"
value=
"
Hot Computer Deals Of The Week!
"
onclick=
"
location.href=
’
http://www.tigerdirect.com/email/kb/promo.asp?ID=1671
’
"
/
>
<
/form
>
I
’
m not sure which version of HTML you are using
…
I
’
m used to writing in
XHTML 1.0, so I
’
ve made the tags lowercase and added a / to the end of the
INPUT.
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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!
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’
s a sample of recent topics:
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s 955 Pentium gaming chip with one of
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1920 The League Of Nations FormedThe Covenant of the League Of Nations, which had been ratified by forty-two
nations the previous year, took effect of this day in 1920.
In the wake of
the terrible price the world paid for World War I, the US and Britain called
for the forming of an international body to keep the peace.
President
Woodrow Wilson included an outline for such a body in his proposal to end
the war.
In 1919 Wilson presented the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant
of the League Of Nations.
While the league was successful in resolving
several minor issues, it was ineffective in more important matters.
When it
condemned Japan
’
s invasion of China in the 1930s, Japan simply left the
organization.
It was similarly ineffective in preventing the rearmament of
Germany, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia or World War II.
The league was
officially dissolved in 1946 with the formation of the United Nations.
While the UN was modeled after the League, it had much stronger
international support.
The first General Assembly of the United Nations met
on this day in 1946 at Westminster Central Hall in London, and brought
together fifty-one nations.
Today was also the day that in:
49BCJulius Ceasar crossed the
Rubicon and invaded Italy;
1514The Complutensian Polyglot Bible in
Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek
&
Latin was finished;
1776"
Common Sense
"
by
Thomas Paine was published (until then there had been none, and there
’
s not
much more now!
<
G
>
);
1810The French church annulled marriage of
Napoleon I and Josephine;
1839Tea from India first arrived in the
UK;
1863The first underground railway opened
–
in London;
1870John D Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil;
1928The Soviet Union
ordered the exile of Leon Trotsky;
1946The UN General Assembly
convened for the first time (London);
1949RCA introduced the 45 RPM
record;
1951UN Headquarters opened in Manhattan, NYC;
1964Panama severed diplomatic relations with US;
1969Sweden became the
first western nation to oficially recognize North Vietnam;
1972The
triple album set
"
A Concert for Bangladesh
"
was released in the UK;
1984Clara Peller first asked
"
Where
’
s the Beef?
"
;
1994The trial of
Lorena Bobbitt, who cut off her husband
’
s penis, began;
1997Italy
’
s
new 1,000 lire coin showed Germany still divided on its map;
Born today were: in
1738Revolutionary War fighter Ethan Allen;
Russian poet
&
writer Aleksei Tolstoi (Pjotr Peroyj);
1901actress Pauline Stark;
1908English actor Bernard Lee (
"
M
"
to 007);
singer Johnnie Ray;
1930Roy E. Disney;
1943singer Jim Croce;
1945singer Frank Sinatra Jr.;
1945British
singer Rod Stewart;
1946musician Aynsley Dunbar;
1948musician Donald Fagen;
1953singer Pat Benatar;
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