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Feb 9th, 2010 at 12:28 PM
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The Philosopher
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By the way when I say put his in the head section, make sure it goes in between your two style tags we set up yesterday. :D
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Feb 9th, 2010 at 01:48 PM
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Mike
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you are awesome. I already have a basic css; background, font style/size. After I posted last I got to thinking...why not just have my background and my 'back' background and then create my editable region in the center. The links would be off to the left.

I am attaching an example. The two pics along the side are what I will be using for one of the links; egg art and cracked egg art. It's the layout that I'm most concerned about right now...the header, links and such will come later just wanted you to have a visual idea of what I'm trying to do :)
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Feb 9th, 2010 at 02:17 PM
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The Philosopher
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Good, keep up the great work.
The philosopher has not done philosophy until he has acted upon the mere conviction of his idea; for proof of the theory is in the act, not the idea.

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My Personal Website: http://www.EricSEnglish.com
Feb 19th, 2010 at 05:58 PM
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Mike
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Eric,

Just wanted to let you know things are going well except for trying to get a mouse over on one of the links. However, my biggest problem happened this morning...my hard drive crashed. The only reason I am not in total tears and still have all my hair is because the stuff that is going on the site is still in my e-mails and on cd. All the work I have done is gone though. Surprisingly, I'm not too upset about that. Probably because nothing had been totally commited yet AND it will just be another opportunity to learn more about what I want to do.

Also, I can still come back here and re copy the instructions you have given me. So I guess all is not lost. My son is going to take me over to Best Buy to get a new hard drive tommrow. All I can say is thank God for laptops. I'm lost if I don't have a computer.

Be safe, you will be hearing from me soon.

Mike
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Feb 19th, 2010 at 07:06 PM
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The Philosopher
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Thanks for the update. I am sorry to hear about the laptop. It happened twice to me before I decided to get a higher quality laptop, and then, needless to say I now back everything back up.

Let me know if you need any other help.

Eric
The philosopher has not done philosophy until he has acted upon the mere conviction of his idea; for proof of the theory is in the act, not the idea.

My Web Development Company: http://www.innovatewebdevelopment.com (Created with Coffee Cup Software).

My Personal Website: http://www.EricSEnglish.com
Mar 8th, 2010 at 01:42 PM
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Mike
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Hey Eric,

Hope you are still checking, need some help...as usual. For some reason my background is not showing up when I preview it or check in my default brower. Here is the code I'm using.

<style>
body{background:url(FileLocation.gif);}
</style>

Where you had put url I inserted the web site address..."http://www.websiteaddress.com"

and where you have (FileLocation.gif) I put url adress then /bacground.jpg so it looks like this

<style>
body{background:"http://www.websiteaddress.com/background.jpg";}
</style>

Is that right?

Mike
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Mar 8th, 2010 at 01:51 PM
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The Philosopher
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Change this:

<style>
body{background:url(FileLocation.gif);}
</style>

to this:

<style>
body{background-image:url(FileLocation.gif);}
</style>

That should fix it.
The philosopher has not done philosophy until he has acted upon the mere conviction of his idea; for proof of the theory is in the act, not the idea.

My Web Development Company: http://www.innovatewebdevelopment.com (Created with Coffee Cup Software).

My Personal Website: http://www.EricSEnglish.com
Mar 8th, 2010 at 02:06 PM
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Mike
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it didn't work. I don't understand, before my hard drive crashed it was working fine. When I previewed it or checked in my default browser... and now it's not. the title is working fine...so are the links...well they need to be repositioned but I'll worry about that later. The only thing not showing up is the background...*sigh*

I know it's because I'm missing one little thing, but for the life of me...I can't figure out what...it's been driving me nuts for days!!

Do I need the () around the file location, is that what I am missing?

Mike
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Mar 8th, 2010 at 02:36 PM
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Spinny
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If this is a background for the whole page body try replacing the <body> tag with something like this:

<body style="background-image:url('index_html_files/0.jpg')">
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Mar 8th, 2010 at 02:36 PM
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The Philosopher
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Do you have a link so I can take a look at all of your code? Or can you cut and paste it in the forum?
The philosopher has not done philosophy until he has acted upon the mere conviction of his idea; for proof of the theory is in the act, not the idea.

My Web Development Company: http://www.innovatewebdevelopment.com (Created with Coffee Cup Software).

My Personal Website: http://www.EricSEnglish.com

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