HELP! Anyone who knows html (or =) + ATTN: mods

[Louis_Berding2002]

I'm thinking about creating a web page to host on my server, that would house my special awards and badges and ranks. That way, there can be a simple text link in my Siggynature. That means never again having to see my long Siggynature. ;) I know how many of you will appreciate that.

But, I only really want to do it if I can make the page look like the TGC. I've tried for a few hours today, but I can't get anything close to the TGC skin. Any one know how to do it? Can anyone save a template or html code script? So, I can drop it into my FrontPage, and customize it for my badges and such?

ATTN: mods + owners

I am asking for permission to make such a page. I would only use it just for an awards page. I still will not abuse any award or insignia rules. Basically, I'll be able to kill my Siggnyature, and still have a pretty page I can look at. ;)

I'd maybe be looking at color scheme, the banners at the top and bottom, and nothing else. If anyone would like, I can add those java thingies that block seeing the source code. But, honestly, I am extreemly new at the web page deal...so, I'm struggling for any of this.

:baa:

[phil]

tril is the man you need to speak to....he's the web guru around here :)

[MikeTimbers]

Open a page that has what you want.
View Source and open the page in a web editor. Personal favourite is Notepad :) but HTML-Kit is very good too.
Note all the images and copy them to your own web-space into a directory called images.
Change the html of the page you grabbed so that all the image locations are in your images directory.
Remove the menu bars and search code, leaving the headings and the basic background colours and layouts.
Insert your medals and signature however you want them.

But first you need permission!

[Louis_Berding2002]

Maybe I'm very stupid....I tried that, and I guess I don't know enough about html code. The background stayed black, all images came through okay, and the menu bar was the correct color. But, the background is just very, very tricky. Maybe can someone just tell me the hex code for it?

Any further help is still being asked for. I've gotten parts of it, but it's ugly...very ugly. ;)

[MikeTimbers]

The background colour is defined as #BFC5D3 although having tried it (converting into decimal for Windows :uurg: ) it is the colour of the message bit.

What about #CFCFCF or 197/197/197/197?

There's quite a few different colours used; look for backgound-color: #######

[phil]

The page background colour is #A0AAB4

[Louis_Berding2002]

Okay, okay...See? I'm not a complete moron. How's this? http://www.louisberding.no-ip.com/awards.htm

[Martyn]

Originally posted by Louis_Berding2002
Okay, okay...See? I'm not a complete moron. How's this? http://www.louisberding.no-ip.com/awards.htm

Not bad, not bad. You've got the colours sorted, but images need to be sliced and put into appropriately sized tables in order for them to dynamically resize to your browser window.

BTW, not sure about using the TGC header/footer off site. I'll have to think about that one. The colours are there for the taking, you dont need anyones permission to use those - cant copyright a hex value, but the artwork is a different issue. If you do a "view source" you can see how I've created the dynamic tables for the header using 3 images, left, right and background.

See...


<!-- TGC banner -->
<TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0>
<TR>
<TD width="572"> <IMG SRC="/forum/images/tgcheader_01.gif" WIDTH=572 HEIGHT=128 ALT=""></TD>
<TD width="0%" background="/forum/images/tgcheader_02.gif">
<div align="right"><IMG SRC="/forum/images/tgcheader_03.gif" WIDTH=268 HEIGHT=128 ALT=""></div>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<!-- End TGC banner -->

[Louis_Berding2002]

Cool...Yeah, I was trying to do it that way, but I'll be damned if I was able to do it. ;) I'm still going to do my awards this way. Even if you decide to keep things protected, I'll just try to make it look cool without using our graphics.

I'll just hunt the web, and steal some thing from some where. :D Maybe something anime-ish. For those who haven't noticed, I'm almost on the level of being femine with how much I like things that are cute. ;) The current anime I like is Hamu Taro. It's about hampsters and it's very childish, but I think they are very cute.