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Sorry if this stuff has been answered before, but I really don't know what to search for. And sorry if some of this stuff dosn't belong in this section, I didn't want to make multiple threads and have to moniter all of them..

First off, my site is at winnopeg.com. If you look at the header, you'll see the entire right side is just nothing really, exept the border. I'd like to put a banner there, with the border under it. But I can't figure out how! You pepople have even got it here... How do you do it?

Secondly, I read in a book about invisible tables... But didn't buy the book. What's the code for them and is there anything specific you need to do with them?

Thirdly, how do you get the border on the edges of the page... like here?

Fourthly, my site has a bit of a delema. I made it to the 7 whatever x 1024 screen resolution on a windows computer. But with being viewed on a mac, on a computer with another resolution, or even the page requiring a scrollbar, everything goes funky. With the header being in pieces, the align tag ligning things up to their resolution, not the header, is there any way to do something about this? Like make something that will set to the user's requirements or something that will work for all?

Thanks for any support.

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Oh, and one more thing. Does anyone have a good redirect code? The one I have stops working after a few clicks...

Thanks a lot.

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Im not entirely sure what you mean, but you can do that in CSS, you can float right so a banner appears where you want it using divs positioned absolutely; I dont clearly understand what border you mean on that sample page you linked but you can have border commands in CSS... The page you linked to has a centered body and content wrapped in divs, more like my site... So if its the graphics border you mean, then its just a background...

For the redirect what do you intend to do? You can use a Meta Refresh Tag for a redirect... Im not entirely sure I understand what you mean...

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I don't know if my hosting account supports CSS (I have the cheapest godaddy one) and I certainly can't do squat with it. I tried once.

As for the redirect, I will occasionally pay people with forum points to put an add on their site, and I'd like to make them link to say winnopeg.com/redirect/whatever.html and have that redirect them to the index...

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Every hosting even the Free ones support CSS... its not a fancy programming or anything, its a standard of design... It actually means Cascading Style Sheets... Go to w3cschools and learn about it, it would be better to learn this now coz itll be easier for you to make pages...

Now for the redirect you can always make a META Refresh Tag on the page you are redirecting to... Example if you direct them to winnopeg.com/redirect/whatever.html, after any number of seconds you specify it will redirect to the page you intend to redirect to, is this what you mean???

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Amazingly, I had that bookmarked once. Tried it, but didn't get it much. Maybe I should try agian...

And yes, that's what I have. And it seems to die. Here's where I got the code from... http://www.instant-web-site-tools.com/html-redirect.html

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DEMONHALE

blah blah

Heres what you want... This one will work

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Ok, thanks. Now any answers for the other questions anyone?

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Actually, if you look into CSS and learn it, you'll end up taking care of most of those questions you raised. Just a quick scan of your original post makes it look that way, at least.

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winnopeg wrote:
First off, my site is at winnopeg.com. If you look at the header, you'll see the entire right side is just nothing really, exept the border. I'd like to put a banner there, with the border under it. But I can't figure out how! You pepople have even got it here... How do you do it?

Secondly, I read in a book about invisible tables... But didn't buy the book. What's the code for them and is there anything specific you need to do with them?

These are the two easier ones... what's the codes to make an image a background image and to make tables?

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I would suggest that you either learn html, or get a WYSIWYG editor.

A very good free WYSIWYG is http://www.nvu.com Wink

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I know some HTML. I just skimmed through those sections Sticking out tongue Is it so hard to get a code?

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I suppose it is...

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As a newbie, I found Mambo to be absolutely perfect to use. I tried templates initially, but found it to be very limiting and since my html was poor at best, mambo worked great. You'll need an ISP that offers mysql and php though! Changing the CSS is easy too, plus the developer community is awesome.

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I've tried Mambo, didn't like it. And anyways, the development team on it went bust Wink

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Does nobody know?!

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Well...first you've got to learn basic html. You've got massive code errors, and code errors will cause display problems.

Secondly, I'm not sure what you mean. The main page consists of nothing but images. That border3.PNG is 980 pixels wide which is causing your scrolling issue.

I don't know what you mean by 'invisible table'. First, you aren't using a table here, nor are you using CSS. (Your page has no formatting) But to display tables without borders you can set border="0" in the table tag or use CSS to control table display.

That said, from looking at your code my suggestion is that you learn the basics of html and learn how to correctly code a page.

The W3C Schools will teach you well.

And the HTML Validator, and the CSS Validator are your best friends.

Roo

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Yeah Learn First, then everything will follow... I guess you could visit the threads about the books some of us here use... Buy a Book, and it will make you have a better foundation once you get deep in web page making...

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