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

*Hello, hello, and WELCOME to the Heavenly HTML Helpline! Your host for this thread will be Saint Zax*! Our panel of experts starts with Saint Bruce-- the Patron Saint of the Pixelly Challenged himslef!*

AAAaaannnnnnd now... YOUR HOST... Ssssaaaiinnnnnt ZAX!!!!!!

(jogging onto stage, mike in hand )
Good evening Angels, and welcome. Let me ask you something...


Have you ever tried to link a pic, and it just wouldn't load?


Have you ever tried a 'script that just made you want to scream?


Are you pixelly impaired, or just plain codingly challenged? If you answered yes, then you have come to the Right Place!


This is a different kind of thread. A special thread dedicated solely to Angels in distress. So, fellow Angels, stop rebooting your harddrive! Seize the DAY, not your BROWSER... Post your Pain, and
JUST__________Ask__________ Bruce!

If you are having problems with a script that you 'borrowed' from somewhere - please let me know where you got it - it will increase the chances of me looking at it infinitely

;^)#
really just putting a placemarker in so I will know if something gets asked, but feeling the need to say something useful

LOL!

Glad you're game!

S.Z.

I use a lot of Microsoft producats - my computer could stop working at any moment - for an indeterminant period of time

;^)#

But alas, no spell checker - "producats" - geeeeeez

;^)#

*raises her eyebrows at Zax*
Please stop with the voice.
It gives me this terrible urge to slap you. And I really don't wanna do that
Ok, so you all know the problem with my javascript grrrr. So it's from http://javascript.internet.com
Can you help?

I'm afraid the only solution for that script is too change the page type to HTML & make the other changes I mentioned over in the colour of water thread Tweetie.

I already knew where you got the script from - it was listed in the code on your page

You could always make a mouse effect like this though http://www.h2g2.com/A304570 in an h2g2 HTML page

;^)#

*sigh* guess I'm gonna have to make the great HTML step.
Oh well.

* wanders in wearing cricket whites *

Jolly good show you chaps. Then again, I always had Zax & Bruce pegged out for bigger things...

- Simply, High Spirited.

*ahem*

Would you like a cough lolly, Tweetie?

;^)#

St.Peter- Hello everyone...

Don't worry St.Tweetie, HE can be a little bit like that at times...

Anyway, as I do all the donkey work over at the Angels page, I have been driven around the twist trying to re-colour the links so they don't disappear into the clouds...

Can someone put up an example HTML HREF link line with the attached LINK, please...

Thanks.

St.Peter - Milder than an English Curry.

Hiya

The following example sets the unvisited links to blue, visited links to green, and active links to red:


document.linkColor="blue";
document.vlinkColor="green";
document.alinkColor="red";



h2g2 aren't too keen on us playing with link colours, so the standard HTML <BODY... tag won't work easily. You can find more info on the colours available here http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/jsguide4/index.htm?content=colors.htm

Put in whatever colours tickle your fancy
;^)#

St.Peter- That would explain why I've spend countless hours/combinations trying to get it to work in HTML

I think, I'll try another background rather than conveting everything into Guide ML, but thanks for confirming the fact that I'm only 'slightly' mad...

The javascript above should work in HTML & GuideML h2g2 pages - no need to convert

;^)#

St.Peter - Well, I'll give it a go...

Thanks.

No worries - anytime

;^)#

hey bruce? me here. long time no see! you doing ok? good. here's the thing. i've got a bit of a problem.

i took down my page a while ago, and what i did was this: I cut and pasted my source code into a microsoft word document. I then saved that doc. to a 3.5 floppy.

now when i try to open the file, it gives me an error saying that the file is corrupt, and it thinks it can salvage part of it if i hit 'retry'. if i hit 'retry', it will think forever. literally. i left it once and came back an hour later and it was still spinning the hourglass. i also tried right clicking on the file and selecting 'print', which has saved my butt before with unloadable files, but it wouldn't even try to work...

ok, so anything you can tell me would be great. if it's permanently lost, i can deal with it... it'll be pretty awful to lose all that, but i'll survive.

Thanks Bruce!

Are the words "a clean slate is just like a fresh start" enough of a hint?

;^)#
~humms "feel like starting over" ~

awwww man! SO not fair!

*flops to the floor to better throw a tantrum... eventually stands up and carefully brushes dust off of wings*

ok... i suppose.... it's not like i wasn't expecting that answer...

darn.
*throws self into the nearest recliner and adopts an air of haughty irritation- try it sometime, it's harder than it looks!*

humph.

anyone know the address for the 'i hate bill gates' club? i'd like to become a charter member!


T.A.Z.*
thanks bruce!
*girding loins and slugging 'em back in preparation for a LOOOOOONG night!