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Grex Internet Item 89: The I hate html item
Entered by peacefrg on Sat May 6 15:13:35 UTC 1995:

I have just started using html and I have A LOT of questions.
And quite a few people have been emailing me wanting to know how to do things
and I can't answer them. So, everybody who can use html fluently,
help us out please.

First, How do I change text color? How do I put a background up for netscape?
and how do I put login and passwrd protect on certain areas of a page?
Those are just starters.

13 responses total.

#1 of 13 by scg on Sun May 7 04:04:58 1995:

You can do the background with <body background=name-of-image.gif> at the
beginning, and </body> at the end.  

I'd have to look up how to do the multicolored text, and I don't feel like
doing that right now.

Controlling access to certain pages is something that that is only
possible if your httpd is configured to allow it.  Some are, and some
aren't.  If you don't know whether yours is or not, you should talk to
your system administrator about it before you get too frustrated trying to
get it to work.  Again, I'm not familiar with exactly how to do it,
because it's not something I've had to deal with, but somebody (ncsa?)
must have a page on that somewhere.

#2 of 13 by peacefrg on Sun May 7 05:12:00 1995:

Well, I get httpd through grex. Does that allow it?
Also, I am having problems with my pictures not coming up.
When I was using mosaic they worked fine. But, now all of the suddenw ehn
I switched to netscape none of the pictures come up. Could somebody
try the page with a browser and tell me if the pictures come up for you?
Thanks.

oh,

http://www.cyberspace.org/u/peacefrg/homepage.html

#3 of 13 by robh on Sun May 7 18:51:59 1995:

Actually, that should either be:

        http://www.cyberspace.org/u/peacefrg/www/homepage.html

or

        http://www.cyberspace.org/~peacefrg/homepage.html

#4 of 13 by scg on Mon May 8 03:42:16 1995:

It's generally better to name homepages index.html, rather than
homepage.html.  If you specify the path for a directory, it will look for
index.html, meaning there's less typing to do.  If you change your
homepage to index.html, the url would be http://www.cyberspace.org/~peaccef
rg

None of your images are coming up for me either, but that's not
necessarily bad.  You really shouldn't have images on a homepage that's on
Grex, because images tend to be pretty big and they have to be pulled
across Grex' already clogged Internet link.

#5 of 13 by robh on Tue May 9 01:58:13 1995:

Actually, I did once put an image on my home page, and someone
else loaded my page and got the picture, so it can be done.

#6 of 13 by scg on Tue May 9 02:22:58 1995:

It's not a question of whether it can be done, it's a question of what it
does to teh other people trying to use the link.

#7 of 13 by peacefrg on Tue May 9 14:47:30 1995:

Yeah, becasue I was doing it before. Well I'm only building my page
here and then I ave somewhere else for it to stay. Becasue I have
a pretty big page.

#8 of 13 by marcvh on Sat May 20 08:42:38 1995:

I find it strange that, in an item about HTML, the only questions seem to
be unrelated to HTML.  The correct way to specify text color or a
background image is via a style sheet.  There is a way to do it in NetScape,
but that isn't HTML, it's Netscape-Markup-Languague.

#9 of 13 by scg on Sun May 21 02:26:57 1995:

Yes, but given that the vast majority of the poeple out there on the Web
are using Netscape, it makes a lot more sense to write pages in a language
that Netscape will understand.  Of course, things should always be written
so that they will also work adequately in other browsers.

#10 of 13 by peacefrg on Wed May 31 00:25:35 1995:

I thought html was everything that you did in a webpage editor. Hmmm, oh well.
Another question. Whenever you go to my homepage you have to load the page then
reload it to get the background. Any ide4a why that is happening?

#11 of 13 by matthew on Fri Sep 20 05:11:49 1996:

Wow I'm behind in this item. Is this converstaion still active or relevant
?

#12 of 13 by robh on Fri Sep 20 05:42:22 1996:

The item was dead for 16 months before your response, so I dunno.

#13 of 13 by matthew on Thu Oct 17 09:59:38 1996:

Anyone want to pick this up again ?

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