Blogs?

Edson

bruce,

perhaps you could deal with the subject of navigation as it refers to a series of images in sequence. i am using my needs as an example but think/hope it will probably be useful to the others.

like this: one reaches a page that contains a list of projects and clicks on project X; what appears is a biggish image, the first one for that project. then there must be a way of looking at the others images of the same project. the simplest ways i have found are:

to put a number of thumbnails below the image; you just click on the one you wish to see and it replaces the big one.
to put a series of numbers ( 1 2 3 4 ...) or bullets instead of the thumbnails, you just click on the one you wish to see and it replaces the big one.
to put an arrow or the words next and previous under each lower corner of the initial picture. if you click on next you go forward, and so on.

of course there are other ways to do it using more sophisticated techniques but, as you said more than once, let's stick to basics.

looking fwd to the next lesson!

cheers.

alan wood

Edson,
Yep I like that idea,
cheers
Alan

CADken

this might be slightly off topic and i'm not sure if this has been covered, but where could i get some good blog templates?

i'm planning on hacking up a template with my own images and such, but i was curious to see if there were any good suggestions first?

Posted by CADken

Edson

almost every blog hosting server offers a number of templates. but if you are publishing a blo on your own you will probably have to buy the templates.

alan wood

Hi web page builders,

I have had a pm from Modelhead (Bruce)

He is unavailable at present, so our lessons are on hold from him, for the time being.

I will pm with the reason if required, but otherwise we, in my opinion, have enough learning to do without our mentor.

Kris (R us guys knuts)

Your have come up on this thread before with some excellent advise for me.

I would like to ask you to be kind enough to come on board, and help us beginners on our path, until Bruce returns.

If you are king enough to agree, remember we are [b]beginners[/b.
Jargon, abbreviations, are just of no use at all. They are not clear.

Edson, in one of his latest posting asked Bruce, about navigation bars.

I personally would like you, to take up the batton, and 'teach' on that as well.

Bruce's method of 'teaching' using his lessons and screensaver, for me, were unbeatable. It crossed the language barrier.

Words alone are, in my opintion, not sufficient for a beginner.

thanking you

Alan

PS I would not have dreamed of asking if you had not given us some advise before.

Edson

@unknownuser said:

Editing the native code. If there are code elements that you can not get at it is mostly because you don't need to but if you want to be able to control all the source there is a way to fool sitebuilder. Just open the page in a browser...right click to view the sourse and cut the entire piece of code from <HTML> to </HTML>. Paste it into a a new page. Once you have the code the way you want it just rename this test file to the original file name and publish.

Cheers!

bruce,

it sounds easier than it is. i tried a couple of times the copying and pasting of code but nothing happened. the problem is that i do not know what to extract from them.

if you look at the site now you will see that i found a workaround for the problem of making the dog's pict appear. but i could not come up with any way of making a long text fit within the 800x600, that is, no scroll bar so far.

decided to edit this to tell you i'm stuck. tried to create a page or more to show one project but could not figure out how to do it in sitebuilder.

while you are away I shall play a little with dreamweaver. perhaps it will help me to weave this dream of mine.(sorry for the awful joke)

cheers.

edson

CADken

thanks for the PM alan, however i wasn't really directing my question to anyone in particular, just thought i'd throw it out there...

thanks man.

Posted by CADken

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Dylan

I've not read all of this thread yet so I'm probably not up to speed, but to build my website I used moonfruit. http://www.moonfruit.com/ It is basically flash templates that you can do virtually anything you want with but you don't need to know any flash or html. I've built a few sites with it. You can build a site for free if you don't mind having adverts. I paid £50 for two years - that is enough bandwidth to build five sites. You can build blogs and forums with moonfruit too.

Jon

Krisidious

ok...

so Bruce may be away for a few days, we'll give him some time to breath and TCB...

where are you all at? Class? what would you like to discuss?

what are your current pending questions?

please be aware I don't have a yahoo hosting acocunt, I have another company. so some questions may be difficult for me to answer when it comes to yahoo.

Edson

kris,

if you check my recent posts you will realiza what i am after. not too fancy stuff, just things like how you can set up a project presentation and scroll bars.

thanks for any help.

Edson

bruce,

i am glad your dad has red cheeks again. my own dad is 87 and our worries about him are not health-related but relate to memory lapses that could end up in health problems. to have an old dad or mom can be at times like having another child that needs care.

cheers.

Edson

just had a look at your link and, yep, that is exactly what i need for now. i hope i can get to work on it later on today.

meanwhile, I started to play with dreamweaver, with the help of an ebook. it looks very capable indeed.

thanks and cheers.

Edson

hi bruce,

i think the most sensible path to take is to carry on building the site with yahoo sitebuilder. this way the others will benefit too and you will not have to be teaching 2 classes at the same time, so to speak. so please guide me to create a totally functional site this way.

after it is running alright i may take it to DW for some refinement, in case that is needed. back to work then.

alan wood

Hi Modelhead,
What would suit my needs, as with Edson, is something that is possible with sitebuilder.

If the navigation bar at the bottom of the page is possible with sitebuilder, that would be perfect for me.

thanking your
cheers
Alan.

Edson

GOTCHA!!!! after a couple of hours of work, i managed to create the damned scroll bar!!!

actually, inserting it was no problem. the thing that was getting me mad was the adjusting of the text's width so that i did not have a horizontal bar, obviously not needed.

cheers.

Krisidious

Edson your site is looking great... keep it up I can't wait to see more of your gallery.

Edson

thanks, kris. it is always good to have an external opinion on any design, no matter what kind. the english side of it is coming soon.

question: could you get the dog's pict at the staff's page? (POR >> escritorio >> equipe)

have a good sunday.

alan wood

Edson,
I've got some great idea form your site to do with nagivations bars and links.
cheers
Alan

Edson

@alan wood said:

Edson,
I've got some great idea form your site to do with nagivations bars and links.
cheers
Alan

thanks, alan. you are more than welcome. i am glad my efforts can serve more than my immediate purpose.

have a good sunday.

alan wood

Hi guys,
I will out of this space now until tomorrow. The boss has been on a jolly jaunt to France, and I need to do a few jobs before she returns.
Thanks for the last Edson. Have a good Sunday as well.
cheers
Alan.