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  1. keytone
    Hi everyone. I'm still practicing with <div> and <span> and I'm catching on. I wrote some picture montages, I suppose galleries may be a more appropriate word though. Anyway, I'm "idea challenged"! The only two ways I have thought of presenting a number of pictures is to 1) make a bunch of thumbnails with corresponding pages which contain the larger image. Click a thumb and get a bigger picture. But then the viewer has to use a back button to go back to the other thumbs. 2) I've been using hover for the thumbnails and enlarging the picture while the cursor is over it. I just have to leave enough free space on the screen so that the other thumbs don't get covered up. Works great. My problem is that I'm trying to think of another way to present the pictures in a user-friendly way, but as I said, I'm somewhat Idea-challenged. Guess I should have taken that into consideration before I became addicted to learning this stuff. I'm all for learning something new, in fact, that's what I love about it. I just kinda' am looking for suggestions. I'm usually trying to present around 15 to 30 images. I will appreciate any suggestions/ideas very much, I've gotten over being embarrassed to ask and take criticism very well ! (also, I am just trying to convert the old code I wrote almost all of my site in to html5 and css, but that is kinda slow...I'll get there) keytone (John / JD) http://jdsplace.us
  2. keytone
    Hi everyone. I'm still practicing with <div> and <span> and I'm catching on. I wrote some picture montages, I suppose galleries may be a more appropriate word though. Anyway, I'm "idea challenged"! The only two ways I have thought of presenting a number of pictures is to 1) make a bunch of thumbnails with corresponding pages which contain the larger image. Click a thumb and get a bigger picture. But then the viewer has to use a back button to go back to the other thumbs. 2) I've been using hover for the thumbnails and enlarging the picture while the cursor is over it. I just have to leave enough free space on the screen so that the other thumbs don't get covered up. Works great. My problem is that I'm trying to think of another way to present the pictures in a user-friendly way, but as I said, I'm somewhat Idea-challenged. Guess I should have taken that into consideration before I became addicted to learning this stuff. I'm all for learning something new, in fact, that's what I love about it. I just kinda' am looking for suggestions. I'm usually trying to present around 15 to 30 images. I will appreciate any suggestions/ideas very much, I've gotten over being embarrassed to ask and take criticism very well ! (also, I am just trying to convert the old code I wrote almost all of my site in to html5 and css, but that is kinda slow...I'll get there) keytone (John / JD) http://jdsplace.us
  3. keytone
    Thanks very much for your advice and patience. I wrote most of my pages a long time ago in html 4.01 ( sometimes I just copied and pasted code ), but I didn't learn much that way. It's been about three years since I've tried to do anything with the site, for various reasons. Now, it seems daunting to try to shift over to html5 and CSS. I've not even got an idea of what to do with the pages that ought to be "updated", so to speak. But I've got plenty to keep me busy first! Thanks very much, again. John
  4. keytone
    Hi everybody, I'm back with another simple problem for you. I may be in the wrong forum, though. I am trying to put a border around an image and have been trying to do it with CSS, ( I don't know CSS yet, just trying to follow in W3Scools ). I'm going nuts, but it's going to be something obvious to you, I'm sure. I want to choose the color and width around the image, but I just don't understand something...? The border goes across the screen instead of just around the image ? Here is the code I wound up with and the url of the page. I'm over being too embarrassed to ask, your advice will be most appreciated ! code: <!Doctype html> <head> <title>Jiffy Pop Memories</title> <style> td {vertical-align:middle;} p.one { border-style: solid; border-color: brown; border-width: 10px; } </style> </head> <body background="/background_images/b2.gif"> <!-- the table is just to provide some space --!> <table> <tr> <td height="40px"> </td> <tr> </table> <center> <p class="one"> <a href="/jiffypop/jiffy.html"><img src="/jiffypop/1jiffy.jpg"></a> </p> </center> </body> </html> page: http://jdsplace.us/jiffypop/pgs/jiffpg1.html
  5. keytone
    I appreciate your help greatly. I'm a little embarrassed, it's clear that it's time for me "get out of the sandbox" and start working with things I've been skipping.
  6. keytone
    oops, I forgot to say thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction! keytone (JD)
  7. keytone
    Thanks very much for your input, I was going about it all wrong. I used styles (but that's not really CSS, is it?) instead of getting all mixed up with classes. I'll work on that next. Here's what I was trying to do (seems like a long way around the barn to me), is it acceptable to just use the HTML <i> tag for just one word? <!DOCTYPE HTML > <html> <head> <title>Use the "span" tag</title> <style> </style> </head> <body> <center> <span style="font-family:courier;font-size:20px;color:red">This is text at 25px,</span> <span style="font-family:tahoma;font-weight:bold;font-size:25px;color:blue"> this is text at 30px, in<i> Tahoma</i></span> <br> By the way, does anyone know <span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">"where" </span> Tahoma is? </center> </body> </html>
  8. keytone
    I am trying to get how to change font size, family and color within a single line and am just not getting it. Trying go by W3Schools Online, but am obviously missing the concept. I would like to be able to change the word Tahoma to font size 30px, but only that one word. Is there an easy way? and also, am I changing to font color in the right way? Also, for some reason the "p." class name I used in <style> is different than the class name I used in the body, but it seems the same result or am I simply well confused? Thought you guys would like to hear from a "dummy" today, Here's what I have: <!DOCTYPE HTML > <html> <head> <title>change</title> <style> p.tahoma15 { font-family:tahoma; } { font-size: 15px; } </style> </head> <body> <center> <p class="tahoma30">This is <font color="blue">Tahoma </font>15</p> </center> </body> </html>
  9. keytone
    Thanks very much everyone! I feel like I'm starting all over (I am). I knew all along that I was just "playin' in the sandbox" so to speak. Any advice is always welcome. Thanks again, JD
  10. keytone
    Thanks, I downloaded notepad++ and I think I will like it (once I get used to how to use it, I've only used cPanel before). I got a kick out of the lines on their download page: Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment. (is that true? As for Sublime, I am very impressed with it but I think the "concentration cells" in my brain suffered massive damage from the seizures that got me. Thanks, JD
  11. keytone
    Hi everyone. I'm keytone ( real name is John or JD). I created a website a few years ago and been in hospitals for one thing or another most of the time, so I haven't been able to keep up. I'm just relearning what I've forgotten from lack of use, and wow! I've always used cPanel to write my code as I learned HTML and some CSS from W3Schools Online I've done a lot of "trial and error" along the way, but I was always trying to learn, now I get to go to HTML 5. I've read a couple of opinions that recommend using Notepad over cPanel, but I've never tried to write code with Notepad. I wonder if you could give me your opinion and/or advice. Also I see that quite a number of folks seem to use Wordpress ( which I know absolutely nothing about ), so I could use some enlightenment about that. The reason I chose to learn to write my own code as opposed to something that does it for me because I think it's fun. ( how's that for goofy?) Anyway I would appreciate your help, Thanks, http://jdsplace.us
  12. keytone
    I believe I understand what you want to do ( or have you already done it? ) I'm curious...do you have the website available to look at? JD
  13. keytone
    I am keytone. I've had some medical problems which have kept me in hospitals for a long time, so I've been out of circulation for a good while. I started learning HTML on the W3Schools site and just got back as a member here. It has been so long since I was able to work with my site that I have forgotten an awful lot, but I think it will come back fairly easily. Memory loss is one of the symptoms I suffer, but things come back all the time. If you see me ask some goofy questions, just chuckle...that's what I do. This help forum has been great to me in the past and I'm happy to be back. I am very good at taking and using constructive criticism and welcome it. JD http://jdsplace.us
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