Adding More

        This page will explain some more advanced things you can do with your web site.  I have listed some things that people usually ask me to help them with, so I hope that these things will help you too. 

Tables -
Everyone always asks me how to line up images and text to make them into rows.  This needs to be done using tables.  Instead of me repeating the steps on how to do this, I thought that I would just show you a good site I found explaining them.  Just visit this site.

Forms -
People like to use forms for their site to get feedback and hear from their viewers.   And it's usually much easier for the person to fill out a form instead of copying and pasting information into an email to someone.  That's where learning forms for your site comes in.  To learn about them, check out this site.

Backgrounds -
Now you always have a background present when you go to a site, but sometimes it's only made up a a color and sometimes it's an entire image or pattern.  There are a few ways of doing this, so if you want to learn more check out this site for some basic information.

Image Maps -
Some of you probably already noticed that I don't use image maps myself, I have never liked them much, but for certain things they can be useful.  So if you would like to learn more about them, check out this site.

Frames -
You also may notice that I don't really use frames much, and it's hard to explain them to someone when they ask, so if you want to use frames on your site, all you need to do is check out this site.  This is also a good site for frames help.  

Page Jump -
You may or may not have seen page jumps used before.  It's when you have a link at the top of the page, and by clicking on it it will take you down to a certain point on that same page or a certain point on another page.  This can be helpful in many cases, so if you want to learn more about them, go to this site.

Make HTML Show As Text -
Sometimes you need to have html show up as text so that someone else can copy it.   This is a lot easier to do than most people think.  Usually this is helpful mostly when you want to show the html to use to link back to your site with a certain banner or to show the code for a webring, etc.  But you'll find usually when you type this html, instead of the text showing up the browser will read it as html because it has no way of knowing that it should be different than any other html code you use in your site.  All you need to do to keep this from happening is use the following code around the text and html you want to show up as text.  Make sure that you remember the closing part of the tag so that the rest of your page can continue to load correctly.

<XMP>text</XMP>

Pop Up Message -
When you go to a site sometimes before it loads a pop up message will appear.  This is a pretty simple to do.  You just need to use the following code:

<SCRIPT>alert("text");</SCRIPT>

Pop Up Button -
This is kind of like the one above but instead of coming up by itself, you would have to click on the button first.

<input type="submit" value="NAME TO APPEAR ON BUTTON GOES HERE"onClick="alert(' TEXT FOR POP UP MESSAGE GOES HERE ');">

Scrolling Text -
This is when you have text go from one side of the screen to the other.  There are many things you can do with this, but the basic code is the following.

<marquee>TEXT YOU WANT TO SCROLL</marquee>