I'm back, from the remains of 'PHP Coding Difficulties'. I've completely wiped out the ftp with the design I had, and re-wrote new and much more basic coding. ALAS, the site still remains the same. The background image covers the rest of the site. Here's all the code I have.
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Style.css
body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
text-align: center;
}
Well, you don't appear to have a <table> tag, nor do you appear to have </td> and </tr> tags. There is, technically, a <tbody></tbody> pair, but since most browsers let you ignore that, I'll ignore it too.
Again, try putting your code through the W3C validator, and using the <doctype .... > tag I mentioned in the other thread. This will force things to behave in a standards-compliant manner. (Oh, and for the sake of your own sanity, make sure you do everything in Firefox. IE is a nightmare.)
Kudos, though, the code you've posted now is WAY better than the code you had before. Leaps and bounds.
2. I can't find the validator anywhere. Can you link me to it? Sorry... -___-
3. How do I use doctype again? ^__^''
4. Is Firefox going to help in coding issues, or the final result? 'Cause I'm stuck with IE until I get another computer, which won't be for at the very most 2 years.
1. No problem. If you install a better graphical editor, and be sure to indent properly, you'll discover things like that much faster. For a beginner, I would recommend Notepad++, but most professional programmers would reach for something like vim or emacs.
2. http://validator.w3.org/ , the free validation service. Note: if you make sure to include the DOCTYPE specified in #3, then this tool will be able to give you more information about how to fix your code.
3. Insert the following line as the first line of your top.php include:
code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
4. Firefox interprets HTML better than any version of IE, and it's MUCH better when dealing with CSS and any Javascript. It also has helpful plugins to help with web development, such as Firebug. If you need your site to be visible to people using IE, then you'll eventually have to make sure it works in IE (the biggest steps there are making sure it's 100% compliant - passes the validator with no errors) and in checking it yourself). Either way, it's easiest to develop in Firefox, then hack the result to work in IE.
May I ask why, of all reasons, you're stuck running IE and can't manage Firefox?
The admin of this CPU won't allow me to download another browser for the reason that programming is a 'hobby'. I'll probably get my own computer in a couple years for college or university, so I'll probably get it then.
The admin of this CPU won't allow me to download another browser for the reason that programming is a 'hobby'. I'll probably get my own computer in a couple years for college or university, so I'll probably get it then.
... Gee, I suppose that the guys running Microsoft are doing it for a hobby? I bet this is your parents, not wanting you to download/install some random program. You should point them to this page showing that Firefox 3 was downloaded at least 8 million times in one day. http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord
Yes, its just like a program you'd run, it runs off the usb key as far as I know, like I said I've never used it, you'll have to take a better look at the site and figure it out.
Alright, I'll look into it further. Thanks for the referal.
jeffgreco13
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:49 am Post subject: Re: PHP Coding Difficulties 2
That's pretty cool that firefox portable...
K but about your problem mario64... according to this NEW code u submitted there is not background image being loaded.
In your img and class make sure u sure quotation marks ( " ).
In the styles for td.menu and td.content, neither have a background image or colour specified. Meaning it will be transparents to the background image.
And let's get one thing straight, the background image is the BACKGROUND image so unless you're not making it a background image to your site,
IT IS NOT OVERLAPPING YOUR MATERIAL. You just might have colour conflicts (black on black).
I'm also pretty sure I told you to start practicing closing a tag AS SOON as you open it then write then content between them. This ensures you don't forget to close things like the </tr></tr></center> tags u missed.
mario64mario
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:01 am Post subject: Re: PHP Coding Difficulties 2
I'll have lots of time to practise that in September. I have computer science class, and we're using Turing. I think we might go into Java a bit as well.
I've erased the background image, and it no longer shows it. It only shows a blank page.
I think the file names of the images are corrupting the page. Would extension have an effect? Should I change them from PNG to JPEG?
The extension of a file name is used for the sole purpose of discovering what kind of file it is (at least on Windows and largely on the Web). So: If you have not changed the type of contents in the file, do not change its extension.
Even if you were to change the .JPG on the end to .PNG, that wouldn't make it a PNG image - it'd make it a broken file, since trying to read JPG data as PNG doesn't work...at all.
I also have no idea what you mean by "file names of the images are corrupting the page", since that doesn't seem remotely possible.
Your page will display exactly as you tell it to. If you start talking gibberish at it, it will display gibberish. Check that your code is well-formatted (ie indent your code), then post it here, using < syntax="html" > < /syntax > around the whole thing. We will help you to make sure you're telling the computer exactly what you want.
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