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Draygonia

Feb 8 2007, 07:08 PM

I found your site VIA google by simply typing in "HTML help" and got your page

I find that sites that help people usually get my registration fastest, so here I am.

Anyways, I am designing a website with a template I recently got and this is it...

http://www.chasm-online.com/home.html

However, I cannot seem to change the background color to match the template. The white sidings are distracting

Also, how would I be able to insert HTML codes into this template? Does it involve editing the slice or what? (I am using dreamweaver). What I am trying to get at is... Where it says "random GFX winners" I want it to display a random image and text to go with it. How would I do that?

Thanks in advance, your site is now in not only my bookmarks, but my firefox bar as well!

Darin McGrew

Feb 8 2007, 07:25 PM

The site is nothing but big image maps. Sure, they have been cut into pieces and reassembled, but for all practical purposes, each page is just an image map.

Frankly, I'd start over with real text, rather than images of text. If you're going to use images of text, then at least use appropriate ALT attributes.

Draygonia

Feb 8 2007, 07:43 PM

Thanks, I will investigate that, but concerning the background color and html codes?

Peter1968

Feb 8 2007, 10:23 PM

You've set the background colour as #FFFFFF in your <body> tag. Which is white.

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You should be using CSS for presentational effects and not relying on bgcolor and margin settings in HTML.

Draygonia

Feb 8 2007, 10:49 PM

I do not know CSS... I know only a little bit of html and have a javascript cheatlist.

Peter1968

Feb 8 2007, 11:27 PM

http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/

That'll start you on your way.

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