First, I would like to say that I really enjoy creating/designing things. The other thing too is that I am physically disabled and have more
than one chronic illness I'm dealing with, so can't do things that involve anything much physical strength in anyway.
I will also try not to confuse anyone with my questions, but sometimes of course is a bit hard to figure out ways to ask questions so that I
don't confuse others on what I'm trying to figure out, or maybe no way to do whatever I'm trying to do.
I also really enjoy helping others out too in life for free anytime I can. It helps me feel better whenever I can help others out. Plus since I
enjoy creating things, I thought well, I'll try learning to create a web page, and start with learning how to change colors of things too and
add links to other web sites, and if it actually works when someone clicks on the link, like it takes them to the site I put in, then I figure, I
must be understanding something here.
Now people keep telling me to dump Geocities and stuff like that. I don't understand why I need to dump them. Also, our internet
provider is Bellsouth.
One thing I thought, is that you have to sign up somewhere in order to create a web page? Is that not correct? Like sign up at Geocities,
Angelfire, whatever and start creating it and uploading files- pictures, stuff like that and then arrange them on the page along with the
text(writing, typing) and links to other sites or other portions of
my site.
One of the other things I sometimes get confused about is when I go to file manager, and I see a file index.htm
Do I need to delete that file and put in an index.html file instead?
That is one thing I still get confused about what that means exactly.
I also keep trying to still understand why I can't use Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office Excel, or Microsoft Office PowerPoint to create a
website with.
See, I took a class an online computer class at the college here a few years ago, which actually is why my computer is so messed up with
so much spyware and all, and still messed up from things. I'm having a terrible time still getting rid of it.
See, one of the first assignments was to download AIM and then give the teacher our screen name. Which this MBKWBar Toolbar came
through with the download and installed itself in Internet Explorer. So, every time I open Internet Explorer, it keeps flooding me with pop
up ads and then of course would crash the computer.
Called a repairman to help.
That was the first time both me and my mom had heard of spyware and ad-aware.
We had heard of viruses, and I had Norton and was updating it all the time.
The repairmen we keep don't seem to be able to help much, and then put Mozilla on the computer, knowing I need to use Internet
Explorer for my class I had just signed up with and will lose the money too.
Here is a link
http://acc.pjc.edu/~llemley/to the class I took though, I wasn't sure if anyone could look at it and then you will see
the type of things I learned in the class, and maybe be able to help me figure out if I wanted to learn anymore computer stuff, what type of
classes I would take.
Oh, and the background thing, the lightblue.jpg thing is a file. The thing that people keep telling me will be green, which you can see it's not
green. LOL, Here is the link so you can see
http://www.geocities.com/amytvfan99/lightblue.jpgSorry too if I'm asking too many questions or anything. I just want to make sure I understand all the computer stuff since it can get
confusing at times.
See, the way I read about how to put a picture for a background, it says to go to the advanced editor and then put the image in the body
tag. It showed an example. So, I always thought I was doing it right.
<body background="lightblue.jpg">
since that is the body tag? Am I understanding that right when they show it like that? It said if the picture is in the same directory, that you
don't have to put all the other stuff. I hope I'm understanding directories right too.
Is a directory the same thing as a folder? Like would the file manager be considered a directory or a folder?
The other thing I keep trying to make sure I understand is what does it mean about when it says tags are used to specify mark-up regions?
I want to make sure I understand that correct.
The only other thing I noticed somewhere, is it says if you use Notepad or Crimson Editor(which I've never heard of). I have Notepad
though. It says to save the file by selecting menu and then save. Well, I don't have anything that says menu. So, I don't know how I'm
suppose to do that.
Plus if I need to make something bold, or add other things, notepad wont allow me to do so. So, I don't know how I'm to create a website
using notepad. It wont allow me to do half the things my assignments want me to do.
The other thing I sometimes get confused about is how exactly to type out a url, or a link to a website. Like, what type of brackets or
symbols, quotation marks do I need to put around them? Some places I read, I see people type it out with parenthasees ( )
(
http://www.geocities.com")
Sometimes I see people put the greater than less than brackets <"
http://www.geocities.com">
Then sometimes I see people use other brackets the curly braces { }or these other ones [ ]
and some people for tags, they put a ' ' around the word. Like I noticed for this div tag that I've never heard of, some people do it like this
1. <'div'></div> and some just do it like this
2. <div></div>
Which is correct? #1 or #2? or neither?
and then where exactly in my document do I insert the div tags? In place of the word table?
I tried millions of times, but everytime I take out the word table, and type in div
nothing will show up at all on my pages that I already have layed out using tables, and I put the pictures and the text, and stuff in the cells in
the table. For example, if I want a 3 column page, with a picture in the middle, and text or links(urls) to other portions of the site, I put the
picture <img src="jtt.jpg"> in the middle cell, and the links
Geocities in the right and left cells of
the table, and it shows up lined up nicely.
Here is an example of what I usually do.
<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
The tr is in the brackets < > is the starting row tag in the table, td's are the cells. So, <td> the starting cell tag, and then the links in that first
cell, and the closing tag </td>
then the middle cell the 2nd <td> you see the which is the starting tag for that cell, I put after that right > the picture or image tag
<img src="jtt.jpg">then the closing cell tag </td>
then in the right cell start with the starting cell tag <td> and put the links in that cell, and put the closing cell tag </td>
and then the closing row tag </tr> and then the closing table tag </table>
I tried millions of times to change to div, but I don't understand how to do it. When I tried I failed. I tried it millions of times and nothing
will show up at all.
I tried putting in
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
The reason I put so many of those div tags like that, is because if I can't use a table, then what do I put in place of the row and cell tags in
the table? That is what I do not understand, and it is stressing me out so much. I keep reading all over how to do it and everytime I try
nothing will work. I guess because I'm not understanding it. So, I can't change something if I don't understand it.
Since my nephew creates websites, I asked him if he has heard of CSS. He hasn't heard of it either. Then when I keep reading external,
means not in the computer? Is that why I can't find any of these files in the file manager?
Anyways, like I said before, I do really enjoy creating things. But I also don't have the money to go out and buy all this expensive stuff that
possibly would allow me to make more fancier sites. Especially since I can't work due to my health. I'm actually on disability.
The other thing, in that class I took that I got the toolbar from, I did get an A in the class, and finished it before the term was even over.
Was kind of surprising due to all the problems I ran into with things not working right for me. I think that was due to the spyware and all
causing things not to work right. Which maybe if I tell you all what it was that didn't work right, can tell me if you think it was the spyware
that caused it not to work right.
One of the things that didn't work right for me is one of the assignments was when using Microsoft Word, we had to change the font to
Clarendon Condensed. Well, I did not have that font available. So, I couldn't do that. The teacher writes back saying to pick something
close to it. Which one of my other big questions to her, and I didn't ask it though, but is how to change it to something similar when I don't
even know what it's suppose to look like in the first place. I also don't understand why I didn't have that font available either.
Any ideas as to why?
One of the other things that didn't work right either and still not sure if I understand is when I was using Excel to do one of my assignments,
I had ##### instead of the numbers that I had typed in the cells, and the teacher writes back saying the reason it has the # signs is because
my cell size isn't big enough to hold the big number, and that all I need to do is widen the column. Which my big question about that is what
size do I need to put in for the column width? I don't understand that. Anyone know what size we need to set width and even height for?
Plus also using Excel, there was this Goal Seek thing we had to do, and I couldn't choose it because it was grayed out, so I couldn't choose it. The teacher writes back saying she doesn't understand why it didn't work, and asks if I install the program properly.
Which yes, I did install it properly, and tried to remind her that I got hit with spyware and stuff, so I think that could be a big part of why things are not working properly.
Well, I'm going to bed.
Good night, take care everyone!
Amy
