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Need Help with coding for my website please
« on: Sunday 03 October 04 17:08 BST (UK) »
Hi guys,
I've managed to get my front page uploaded and was wondering if someone could tell me what code I need to add to take the writing off the cover of the book I'm using as the background so that it looks as if it's been written on the page

http://www.rootschat.com/~ajmutch/

Ty in advance
Adele
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Researching:
Thomson/Davies/Johnson  - (St Pancras/Shoreditch  Area London  and Monmouthsire),
Cross  -  (Burradon/Gateshead/Tynemouth areas of Newcastle on Tyne)
Anderson -  ( Gateshead/Wallsend/ Byker/Tynemouth areas of Newcastle on Tyne)
Mutch  -  (Marnoch/Aberchirder/Ellon/Inverkeithny/Fyvie/Turriff areas of Banffshire Scotland)
Riddell  -  (Marnoch/Aberchirder areas of Banffshire Scotland)

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Re: Need Help with coding for my website please
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 03 October 04 17:48 BST (UK) »
false call folks! used the <ul> code and it worked a treat :)

Adele
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Researching:
Thomson/Davies/Johnson  - (St Pancras/Shoreditch  Area London  and Monmouthsire),
Cross  -  (Burradon/Gateshead/Tynemouth areas of Newcastle on Tyne)
Anderson -  ( Gateshead/Wallsend/ Byker/Tynemouth areas of Newcastle on Tyne)
Mutch  -  (Marnoch/Aberchirder/Ellon/Inverkeithny/Fyvie/Turriff areas of Banffshire Scotland)
Riddell  -  (Marnoch/Aberchirder areas of Banffshire Scotland)

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Re: Need Help with coding for my website please
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 03 October 04 19:18 BST (UK) »
Glad it worked for you .... although it shouldn't  :'(

UL is the command or tag to start an unordered list

A neater way would be to create a table and insert your information in the cells of the table

must say I do like your background notebook image

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Re: Need Help with coding for my website please
« Reply #3 on: Monday 04 October 04 00:07 BST (UK) »
Create a table  :o We have to start carpentry too?!! (joking) ;)

Tables are a little out of my league unfortunately :) I taught myself basic html but I never did seem to be able to get my head round all those table tags. maybe I should spend a little time having another try though :)

Thought the background was quite fitting. Glad you like it
ty for the advice Bob

Adele
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Researching:
Thomson/Davies/Johnson  - (St Pancras/Shoreditch  Area London  and Monmouthsire),
Cross  -  (Burradon/Gateshead/Tynemouth areas of Newcastle on Tyne)
Anderson -  ( Gateshead/Wallsend/ Byker/Tynemouth areas of Newcastle on Tyne)
Mutch  -  (Marnoch/Aberchirder/Ellon/Inverkeithny/Fyvie/Turriff areas of Banffshire Scotland)
Riddell  -  (Marnoch/Aberchirder areas of Banffshire Scotland)


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Re: Need Help with coding for my website please
« Reply #4 on: Monday 04 October 04 00:35 BST (UK) »
Adele,

Love your notebook background.   Very appropriate.  8)

And you are self-taught,  I will have to have a go if this is what you can do as a DIY project. (more carpentry)  ;D

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Re: Need Help with coding for my website please
« Reply #5 on: Monday 04 October 04 02:14 BST (UK) »
Adel

I agree with Bob tables are much tidier.
A basic table code:
<table>Starts a table
<tr>Starts a row within the table
<td>opens a data cell to place text
Type in your text here.
</td>closes the data cell
</tr>closes the table row
</table>closes the table

You can add a border to the table all you need to do there is at the very beginning of the table code put in this<table border=2> you can have the border thicker just go up in the number. You can colour the border to just like you would with the background of the page.
Once you get the hang of it it is easy, until you get into tablkes within tables within tables then it gets harder but a more effective page can be done.
Anyway give it a try, youc an always delete it if you dont like it

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Re: Need Help with coding for my website please
« Reply #6 on: Monday 04 October 04 02:18 BST (UK) »
Hi guys,
I've managed to get my front page uploaded and was wondering if someone could tell me what code I need to add to take the writing off the cover of the book I'm using as the background so that it looks as if it's been written on the page

http://www.rootschat.com/~ajmutch/

Ty in advance
Adele
aka Fluffnco

Adel
Wanted to looky at your webpage but it isnt working :(
Its bringing up all sorts of codes etc

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Re: Need Help with coding for my website please
« Reply #7 on: Monday 04 October 04 12:06 BST (UK) »
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Adel
Wanted to looky at your webpage but it isnt working :(
Its bringing up all sorts of codes etc
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I am getting the same.  Looks like either a browser incompatability error or fonts, but seems like your using utf-8.

- just had a look at the code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<!-- saved from url=(0034)http://www.rootschat.com/~ajmutch/ -->
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>Џࡱက&gt;?&amp;?h?t぀q?}샀z??sↀp?눀y ?f ��r o


As you can see its corrupted at the body tag.



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Re: Need Help with coding for my website please
« Reply #8 on: Monday 04 October 04 15:00 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the simple tables lesson Shanko. Now why couldn't I pick that up when I was trying to get around it the first time! :)

Thanks also for the heads up  about the page not showing up. I attempted to upload a page made by my genealogy programme (generations) and it has obviously messed things up :(

Ahh well time to insert Table tabs in my saved index page and have another go :)

ty for all the advice btw......this site realy is the friendliest I've ever come across :)

Adele
Researching:
Thomson/Davies/Johnson  - (St Pancras/Shoreditch  Area London  and Monmouthsire),
Cross  -  (Burradon/Gateshead/Tynemouth areas of Newcastle on Tyne)
Anderson -  ( Gateshead/Wallsend/ Byker/Tynemouth areas of Newcastle on Tyne)
Mutch  -  (Marnoch/Aberchirder/Ellon/Inverkeithny/Fyvie/Turriff areas of Banffshire Scotland)
Riddell  -  (Marnoch/Aberchirder areas of Banffshire Scotland)