Designing a Website: Monique's First Steps

[Monique]

Yesterday I found out I actually have a domain on my name

So I started playing with it a little.. I will need some help though, since I don't know HTML or anything about this stuff.. http://home.student.uva.nl/monique.vandervoet/"

Not entirely too bad, huh? so yesterday the picture was still working, not sure why it isn't anymore.. but what I'd like to do is make a second page. So I wrote:

<P><a href="picturepage.html">some pictures can be found here :)</a></p>

I have a single folder into which the files can be put, the homepage must be index.html so I made a file picturepage.html and figured the link should work.. but it doesn't any help?

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

ok dumnb question but did you put the picturepage.html on the server (I mean in the same directory with index.html)?

 

[Monique]

lol, yes they are in the same directory ON the server
who do you think I am ;)

 

[kwatz]

Originally posted by Monique
<P><a href="picturepage.htm">some pictures can be found here :)</a></p>

I have a single folder into which the files can be put, the homepage must be index.html so I made a file picturepage.html and figured the link should work.. but it doesn't any help?

Either the link should point to picturepage.html, or the file should be renamed to picturepage.htm.

 

[Monique]

Well, I had already tried making them both htm or both html, after which I made a typo.. doesn't work though.

 

[Monique]

OK, I have gotten it to work by deleting the header of the page with the banner :) so the problem must be somewhere in there..

 

[kwatz]

Is it still not working? Going directly to picturepage.html works for me.

 

[kwatz]

Which page is that?

 

[Monique]

If I delete everything and only leave the stuff inside the <!-- End of Header --> and the <!-- Start of Footer -->, the link to the other page works.

I am a rookie when it comes to writing and reading HTML so I am sure there are redundant and maybe conficting terms in there :P

I'll try to figure it out though..

 

[kwatz]

Ah, I see...change your link to point to monique.vandervoet/picturepage.html instead of just picturepage.html. You shouldn't need to in most cases...I'm not sure why it doesn't link to that page.

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

it could be this
<base href="http://.homestudent.uva.nl/">

try adding monique.vandervoet/at the end like this
<base href="http://.homestudent.uva.nl/monique.vandervoet/">

I'll check but I haven't seen this label in the HTML standard [?]

 

[Monique]

AHA!

You both are right, I just tried putting /monique.vandervoet/picturepage.html which is working now. And I'm going to try the smart thing that you also suggested, Guybrush :)

OUCH! if I change the standard reference address, it won't find the banner of the university anymore, but at least I know what was causing it :)

 

[Monique]

So which are the good places to find some HTML code that can be used? Such as background colors, fonts etc?

 

[dduardo]

Here

 

[Monique]

Originally posted by dduardo
Here

Thanks!

Greg should better be afraid

 

[The_Professional]

More here

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/

here

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

and here

http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/<--For the beginner, simple instructions

 

[Jikx]

www.phpx.org

cheat.. like me!

 

[The_Professional]

Originally posted by Monique
Yesterday I found out I actually have a domain on my name

For a beginner, your choice of colors is pretty good. Perhaps in the future you can add a forum, and some fun facts on Biology.