For the sake of comparison, here on the right is the old .gif image -- It DOES look better, but the file is almost four times as large.
I already know some basics, but have a lot to learn.
So far I've hit a snag in this lesson -- the two reference links
http://html.about.com/library/nosearch/bl_class1-1.htm and
http://html.about.com/library/nosearch/bl_class1-2.htm
resulted in "page not found" - hope this is temporary.
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Anyway, I think I figured out the problem with clicking on the links to the about.com/library... For some reason, when I click on it while reading the lesson with my email browser, It looks for the library in my mailserve's directory. I can get to the desired library page by copying the url and pasting it in the address bar on my web browser.
The new things I learned in this second session were the attributes that could be used with the <P> and <BR> tags to align paragraphs or to force text below an aligned image. I especially welcome the latter, because I find it very difficult to control the positioning/alignment of images with text; this gives me at least one more dimension of control.
Phil Sidel
Student
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One new command I remember is <PRE> to format my text as typed. That will be good for poetry and ascii art and perhaps for some other formatting. I wonder if I might try it to post financial report stuff (for which I might ordinarily use a table). Let's try:
Find the sum of 6 numbers:
1.00
2.00
3.00
5.00
7.00
11.00
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29.00
The National Park Service actually has something of a tradition of making things extinct. Bryce Canyon National Park is perhaps the most interesting - certainly the most striking - example. It was founded in 1923 and in less than half a century under the Park Service's stewardship lost seven species of mammal--the white-tailed jack rabbit, prairie dog, pronghorn antelope, flying squirrel, beaver, red fox, and spotted skunk. Quite an achievement when you consider that these animals had survived in Bryce Canyon for tens of millions of years before the Park Service took an interest in them. Altogether, forty-two species of mammal have disappeared from America's national parks this century.In the above example, I used the "cite=" subcommand, but my ie browser and my netscape 6.1 browser both seem to ignore that. I will be asking about it on the class forum.
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Coupled with these six size examples will be six different font face specifications and six different font color specifications.
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Both my browsers handle the itemized listing pretty much the same - quite satisfactorily, but the Netscape 6.1 browser does much better than the IE4.5 browser at displaying the headings and font changes that I used in this lesson.
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In my personal web page I have been using an image of myself extracted from a 1999 photo. The information and recommemdations in Lesson 6 prompted me to re-do that whole operation - the extraction of the image, resizing it (exactly 2.0 by 2.8 inches -- 145 by 202 pixels at 72 dpi), and saving it (this time as a jpg rather than a gif, and at medium resolution which made a 20kb image to be loaded). The resulting file should load more efficiently than my previous one.
For the sake of comparison, here on the right is the old .gif image -- It DOES look better, but the file is almost four times as large.
I had a great deal of trouble uploading the graphics image (or any other file) from my iMac to the geocities website using Geocities' Simple Uploader. I kept getting " - invalid image". I was trying with my IE4.5 browser. Snatching at a straw, I tried the same procedure using my Netscape 6.1 browser. I got the same final result, BUT, the full path and filename was displayed when I browsed my hard disk for the file to upload. Hmmm, No spaces in the file name but there were a number of spaces in the folder names that made up the path.
I moved my file to the desktop and tried again -- VOILA! "Upload Successful"!!! There were still spaces in the pathname (Macintosh[space]HD) and (Desktop[space]Folder) but none in folder names that I had created.
So, was the problem the pathname? the path itself? the browser? some combination of those? I went back to IE4.5 and tried to upload a file from the desktop to my geocities site. " - invalid file" again :-( Looks like the explanation is not a simple one. More experimentation is called for. While
I'm glad I was able to get my file uploaded,
I will still welcome any explanatory information from you gurus out there.
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