Writing HTML Code

dumassonwheels89 · Posted: Sep 13, 2004 7:21 pm Post subject: Writing HTML Code

Hey guys,
So I'm taking this class on writing HTML code and making websites and stuff. I was wondering if anyone out there could help me take it to the next step. I've got the basics with fonts, inserting images and links and everything but I really want to make my site unique. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Here is an exampl of a site I just threw together. You could add more text between the pictures. Just copy paste the Text starting from <HTML> to </HTML> into wordpad and save it as whatever you want .html make sure its .html Then right click your start button and hit explore. Find the site where you saived it and double click and u should be able to see what I've done. And your welcome to add on to it and send it in your reply. Thx Guys.

dumassonwheels89 · Posted: Sep 13, 2004 7:22 pm Post subject:

<html>
<head>
<title>Mark Knippa</title>
</head>

<body Background=cubes.gif text=white>
<b>

<font face=arial Text size=3>

<center><h1><u><big>Mark Knippa <br> Pro Skateboarder</big></u></h1></center>

<center><img src=nollie.jpg></center>

<p>
<p>
<center>
At the young age of 15yrs old,

<a href=http://www.freewebs.com/hoochieman89>

Mark Knippa
</a>
became a pro skateboarder.

<img src=shuvit.jpg align=left>

<img src=ollie.jpg align=right>

</b>
</body>
</html>

Elevation · Posted: Sep 13, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject:

pretty cool. my mom and friend know a lot about html code but i personally dont. but why would you want to do all that on freewebs when you can just edit all the stuff you with freewebs' tools. the team trailer doesnt work though to let you know. site looks good.

jryoung · Ladies Man Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 7664 City: Man Jose

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dirtysparks · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 2428

Just so ya know, those image tags aren't gonna work for any of us since we don't have any of those files which you specify(i.e. cubes.gif, nollie.jpg). Even if we did yave those images on our computer somewhere we'd need the absolute path to the file or have the file in the same directory as your code. We'd see a bunch of little red x's for all the images you have listed and right off the top of my head I'm fairly certain that you need your anchor path in quotes. -
<a href = "http://www.freewebs.com/hoochieman89"> Mark Knippa </a>

Good luck with your html though!

dumassonwheels89 · Posted: Sep 13, 2004 7:52 pm Post subject:

Jryoung, what are you talking about welcome to the forums? This is about a wakeboarding site and working on building WAKEBOARDING SITES.

Other guys-Thx for the input. The link was just to make sure I knew how to use a link path. I totally forgot that the pictures wouldn't work(dumb mistake) its my fourth week in the class so I'm still getting the basics down. How would I publish the site as in make it so you guys could look at it?

Mike Isler · Moderator Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 718 City: New York

jryoung is on the money... this is about HTML, not wakeboarding. Wrong forum... so it's being moved...

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Sep 14, 2004 4:41 am Post subject:

A tip, its good to write your HTML in capitals, that way when you go back to edit it you can easily tell the difference between tags and text. To get that your website up you need to find a host. If you're just mucking around you can use a free site (free webs is ok) but if you wanna get serious you can pay for one. Here is a site I made using HTML www.freewebs.com/knx_bugs
A couple of sites I found extremely useful while making that are
www.htmlgoodies.com
www.activejump.com

dirtysparks · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 2428

To publish your site you'll need someone to host it. I have 50 MB of free space that I get with my internet subscription through my ISP. You basically need to upload everything you have in your code, all photos, different pages, images, etc...

I use a ftp program such as smartftp to upload all my files. Depending on what type of server you'll be uploading to, you need to either name your home page index.htm (UNIX) or default.htm (windows - I think...I mainly use UNIX). That way when you type in www.wakeboarder.com you end up at http://wakeboarder.com/ ....note the extra whack at the end...it loads the default page. Someone correct me if I made a mistake...this crap is kinda hard to explain. Embarassed