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Humpa
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Depends how good you are with front page.
Just edit the logoTop.html file - it is simply 2 tables, but you can delete all of that and use anything at all. |
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Mark_Venture
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| Ok, I got them in there... still converting... |
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Mark_Venture
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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I have about 25 HTML files left to convert...
so far -> http://mark.cdmaforums.com/mark/
I could not get the upper portion to "dynamically" expand.. so I just shifted to the left... |
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Humpa
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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Your logoTop.html should not have the <html> and <head> and <meta> and <body> tags.
Your logoTop.html should only be normal html code that goes in the body or an html page.
If you have a certain meta tag or javascript code that needs to be in the head code, let me know and I'll help you with that. |
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Humpa
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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You should think about ditching that top navigation crap.
Just start fresh and create something - after all, it is merely 6 links. |
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Humpa
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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www.humpa.com/mark
Here's something simple for the logoTop.html:
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#005cb9">
<tr valign="middle">
<td align="center">
<table width="550">
<td align="right">
<a href="http://www.howardforums.com/member.php?userid=17655"><img src="http://mark.cdmaforums.com/mark/Upperframe_images/venture-w.jpg" border=0></a>
</td>
<td align="center">
<span style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold">Mark_Venture's V710/E815/V3C Info Page</span>
<br><br>Space provided thanks to
<a target="_blank" href="http://cdmaforums.com"><font color="black">CDMAFORUMS.COM</font></a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="middle">
<td width="100%" align="center" background="http://mark.cdmaforums.com/mark/img/topbar.jpg" height="40">
<center>
<a href="Search.htm">
<img src="http://mark.cdmaforums.com/Upperframe_images/Image8064818_0.gif" border="0" width="86" height="20"></a>
<a href="contact.htm">
<img src="http://mark.cdmaforums.com/Upperframe_images/Image8056679_0.gif" border="0" width="86" height="20"></a>
<a href="News.htm">
<img src="http://mark.cdmaforums.com/Upperframe_images/Image8056021_0.gif" border="0" width="86" height="20"></a>
<a href="FAQ.htm">
<img src="http://mark.cdmaforums.com/Upperframe_images/Image8055114_0.gif" border="0" width="86" height="20"></a>
<a href="about.htm">
<img src="http://mark.cdmaforums.com/Upperframe_images/Image8050836_0.gif" border="0" width="86" height="20"></a>
<a href="index.php">
<img src="http://mark.cdmaforums.com/Upperframe_images/Image7938657_0.gif" border="0" width="86" height="20"></a>
</center>
</td>
</tr>
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That's what is at www.humpa.com/mark at the moment. Just copy and paste that into the logoTop.html (delete or overwrite everything else in the logoTop.html, you know?)
Your mark.cdmaforums.com never looked right in firefox anyway - at least not that top stuff. It looks fine in IE, but have you ever looked at it in firefox? Some of the words overlap the button links. |
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Humpa
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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I have something else that you can do for the owner of cdmaforums.com
Make a file, and name it google_ads.html - use this code (he might want to use a different channel, so he can see which income is coming from your page - but this is his google code I grabbed from the forums. It seems he doesn't use google channels though, since the google_ad_channel variable is blank, as you can see):
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<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-5339904577083510";
google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.cdmaforums.com/collapsible_ad.html";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 15;
google_ad_format = "468x15_0ads_al_s";
google_ad_channel ="";
google_color_border = "F5F5FF";
google_color_bg = "F5F5FF";
google_color_link = "22229C";
google_color_url = "000000";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
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Put that file in your mark folder, then edit the index.php I made.
Open the index.php in a text editor and change this:
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<?php
include("$page");
?> |
To this:
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<?php
include("google_ads.html");
include("$page");
?> |
I haven't tested that - and I was thinking it might look better if the google ads were centered, so you can try this to center the google code:
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<?php
echo "<center>\n";
include("google_ads.html");
echo "</center>\n";
include("$page");
?> |
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Mark_Venture
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:08 am Post subject: |
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I will look at this.
I tried some variations of using those same buttons, but in the original logoTop.html and I will tweak it some more before I completely replace the pages...
One thing I like about it... the FAQ and "Search Site" links are RIGHT THERE... and stand out more...
All HTML's are coverted.. and ready to go... I just need to work that logoTop.html and look at the google add stuff before I make the switch..
BTW, I found that I do NOT want to "publish" these with Frontpage... I want to just upload via regular FTP to get them up there... publishing with FP messed it up so that ALL LINKS opened in NEW WINDOWS  but what I edited, saved, then used WSFTP to upload (or command line FTP) was just fine... so...
AND I don't think I thanked you yet  so... THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!!  |
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Mark_Venture
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, I added the Ads...
And I just changed the order of the buttons.... and made the text white.. I think it stands out more than black...
Btw, HOW did you do that? I could not get the two lines of text because of the Mark Venture graphic.. and when I added the buttons to click... I ended up with and extra blue bar
I really want to learn this stuff.. too bad all I have for software is front page... Something tells me I need something different... |
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Humpa
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, you need an html book. 
When i first got a computer in 2000, I was clueless about pc's and the web.
But after a few months I decided I wanted a website.
I had an illegal copy of FP and started with that - but after an extremely short amount of time (a day?), I realised that it was just not going to do it for me.
I found it so much more natural to just edit the code - it made so much more sense to me. Granted, it might be easier/quicker in FP, but I found it too limiting.
HTML code is so basic - it isn't like it is real programming code, it is simply formatting - and that's about it.
I'd suggest just using a text editor, and edit the html code - it is quite easy.
If you want the text over the graphic, you need to make the graphic a background image, and not a regular img tag.
And gif's usually work much better for background images than jpg's.
I merely used a color instead of an image for the background on my "mark" test page - oh, I just looked - you did the same thing. Yeah, that looks good.
I'd still suggest editing the html code yourself - it might be a little time consuming at first, because of the learning curve. But then you'll find it so much easier when you want to make little (or even big) changes. Just edit the code and ftp it. That's the other thing I hated about FP, was the damn publishing - I was never sure what the hell it was doing. I like to have control of everything myself.
A lot of times I'll see something I like and I'll just View Source and copy and paste it. Then edit it till it works.  |
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Mark_Venture
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| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:00 am Post subject: |
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going to look for an HTML book.. this could get fun... with project at work (only 8 weeks left!!!).... this training program at night (goes to Feb)... wont leave much time to learn this "short term".. but...
btw, looking at the nav list, I want to make it narrower so that there is more room for the main body of the pages. In navLinks.html I adjusted where it said... width="201" and make it width="175" that is better, but I can't get the Gray background and verticle bar to change widths... I went back to the index.php and adjusted the <td width="150"> right before the include("navLinks.html"); part, but it is still the same width...
If I'm looking at this correctly, the statement... <body bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" topmargin="0" background="img/background.jpg"> is what sets up the gray behind the Navlist... so I'd have to open/edit that background.jpg (I'll use paint shop pro), right? |
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Humpa
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| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:07 am Post subject: |
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sure, just edit that image.
Or, you can use a bgcolor instead of background
<body bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" topmargin="0" bgcolor="#f0f0f0">
... at least I think that is the color - I was messing with that the other day, and I think that was the color gray that was used in that jpg
Not sure what vertical bar you are talking about though. |
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Mark_Venture
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| btw, the .htaccess trick worked as a redirect for every page at the old http://v710.org/mark url... |
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