h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Unc this is a great idea! Exactly what I've been needing. I will finally be able to give my userspace a touch of class!

wq

You like it?
I hope it makes sense, it's not quite finished yet but almost there.

I love it!
It really makes GuideML so much easier (for me anyway!)
It'll be excellent when it's done totally but for now I'm going to be kept very happy with experimenting with marquees etc!

I find it really clear and the examples are really helpful!

I'm very pleased it makes sense to you , you're the first person to try any of it out, and I was worried it wouldn't be easy enough to follow.

Marquees are great fun to play with , I'm writing up the guestbook section at the moment.

*contemplates being the guinea pig for an experiment!*

I'll admit that some marquees are definitely harder than others but I will eventually get the hang of them! Hopefully!

Do you know if user pages can have borders all round them?

Marquees do get harder, especially if you want them to do specific things..

Only by putting the whole page inside a table... which can be done without any trouble.

I never said how to do that, did I?

Just put, for example,



At the beginning, straight after the tage...

And then close with just before there tag...

Thank you from me too. The antiques on site are most grateful for the oap's guide. Will go to your school tomorrow and have a brand new front page as soon as I grasp the concept!
take care and many thanks young friend
boots

Thanks Unc!

Sorry I didn't reply sooner!
I think I've changed my mind about a full page border though!
(not that it's not useful to know though! Been practising my Tables)
Now working on a tricky marquee. I'm trying to do a drinks fountain with smiley drinks sort of 'fountaining' (for lack of better word!) out of the center bottom of the marquee. Do you think that's possible?

I just thought it was a good idea but considering I've only done 1 marquee it's a big jump!

I may have to ask for a little bit of help! Hope that's OK!
wq

As maquees only really go up or sideways, a fountain would be a bit tricky....

You would proably have to write 3 marquees, and put them inside a table... You could have the smileys rising up in the bottom row of the table, and the smileys going outwards in the top row if this was divided into two cells....


Quite tricky but possible

I'll try a little experimenting.

<SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/>
<SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/>




you could try adding more rows of marquees to this, then I think it will give the effect you want.

Thanks Unc!

That looks great so far! I'll fiddle with it a bit myself too!
This could possibly be the idea for a perfect franchise. I'm sure someone else would have it on their space!

What do you think?

Is it possible to make the marquee move downwards again after it's moved to the top? That would look more fountainy.

wq

Hmmm, I'll play a bit more after tea...

OK!

Hmmm...tea...I knew I'd forgotten to do something!
That's probably why I'm hungry. Too much hootoo I guess!

Sorry Boots, I'd missed your posting until now .

Got to the stage when you wonder if smileys are edible? Here...

Yup and they're low-fat too!

thanks *munches !*

I think I'm going to eat something real!

Good idea, smiles are *too* non fattening

Ok, so it doesn't go down., but it does look more fountain like...




<SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/> <SMILEY TYPE="space"/> <SMILEY TYPE="space"/><SMILEY TYPE="space"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/> <SMILEY TYPE="space"/> <SMILEY TYPE="space"/><SMILEY TYPE="space"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/>
<SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/> <SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/> <SMILEY TYPE="space"/> <SMILEY TYPE="space"/><SMILEY TYPE="space"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/> <SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/> <SMILEY TYPE="space"/> <SMILEY TYPE="space"/><SMILEY TYPE="space"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/><SMILEY TYPE="bubbly"/>

Wow that must have been a lot of work!

Thank you! I think it's a case of all round!

It's the same few marquees copied and pasted several times with the odd adjustment, that's all

Well, there's certainly plenty of available here...

You could change <smiley type="bubbly"/> for a few different drinks for a bit of variaty if you wanted. Got to go offline myself so can't play anymore at the moment...