OT - Webpage design

Ed Kolis · #1 September 3rd, 2002, 10:47 PM

I know it's off topic, but could someone help me with a little HTML problem? (No, I'm not coding raw HTML, I'm using Word 2002!) I'm doing a graphical overhaul of my website (it is SOOO bland!) and what I want is a picture that links to another page. I've got that, the problem is when I move the mouse over the picture-link, the cursor doesn't change to the pointy-hand cursor - it just stays an arrow. Does anyone know what I can do to change this? There is SE4 stuff on my site, by the way, so it's not COMPLETELY off-topic!

Trajan · #2 September 3rd, 2002, 10:54 PM

Ed,

Show me the code, and then a link where I can see the problem.

I suspect (based on the limited info) that you have not placed the <A href="http://www.####.com"> </a> tags in the correct place. They need to bracket the image source tag that you are using.

An outline of it would look like:

<A HREF="BLAH"> <IMG SRC="BLAH" BORDER="0"> </a>

That should give you the requested link "hand".

If that doesnt work, I will need to see the code. Send it to me if you like and I will look at it at home tonight.

email [email protected]

Cheers!
Trajan

[ September 03, 2002, 21:55: Message edited by: Trajan ]

Ed Kolis · #3 September 4th, 2002, 10:34 PM

Oh, that's OK, I don't really want to mess with the HTML... I don't know anything about that yet! I was just hoping there was some easy way of fixing this!

Will · #4 September 4th, 2002, 11:46 PM

You do not want to use Word to make webpages. For somebody not wanting to learn HTML because it "might be hard", I can understand something like FrontPage or Dreamweaver. But Word just sucks. You would honestly have an easier time learning the 20 or so basic HTML tags/attributes.

Ragnarok · #5 September 5th, 2002, 12:03 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Will:
You do not want to use Word to make webpages. For somebody not wanting to learn HTML because it "might be hard", I can understand something like FrontPage or Dreamweaver. But Word just sucks. You would honestly have an easier time learning the 20 or so basic HTML tags/attributes.

Yes that is correct. I personally am a web-page designer. I would never ever in a million years use Word to make a page. When I first started out doing web-pages I started with Frontpage, and I wouldn't even recommend that one now. I hate using it, but that's MHO. I use Dreamweaver. It's a really nice program. Easy to use and code in.

Trajan · #6 September 5th, 2002, 03:49 PM

Ragnarok,

How do you keep Dreamweaver from messing with your code structure and inserting unecessary tags (font div etc...) all over the place?

I prefer using Adobe GoLive as it integrates with the rest of the Adobe products so very nicely. The Allaire Homepage editor is also very nice. In a collaborative development environment, the snippets that Homepage makes available are very useful.

Anyhow...all web developers have their favorite products. Thought, I think everyone would use notepad before they ever used word or frontpage again.

Cheers!

Trajan