Re: HTML questions

Peter Lees (peter@nospam.yseda.dialix.oz.au)
Thu, 7 Dec 1995 23:54:30 +1100 (EST)

Joshua Graham Pitcher wrote...
>
> 1) How do you add those cool 3D purple bullets into text? Sofar I can only
> add dull black ones.

you need to have the bullet as an image of some sort, preferably a
transparant gif, or such like.

then you do:

<dl>
<dd><img src="3dbullet.gif"> This is point 1
<p>
<dd><img src="3dbullet.gif"> This is point 2
<p>
<dd><img src="3dbullet.gif"> This is point 3
</dl>

see? it's just a trick! note that you'll get wrap around problems that
may only be solved with tables, etc. experiment! "View Source" is
your friend

the draft form html3 proposes a method of specifying one's own bullet

<ul src="mybullet.gif">
<li>Point 1
<li>Point 2
</ul>

but i'm not sure if any browsers have implemented this yet


> 2) Is it difficult to setup a 'hit counter' ie a counter that tells you how
> many times the site has been hit?

basically, you put in a call to a program inside your html, like this:

<!--#exec cgi="mycounter.cgi"-->

there is a progsoc counter at /cgi-bin/counter , i believe

[.. i don't know anything about hotdog...]

> 4) The HotDog web editor trial package runs out in thirty days. Can anyone
> recommend a good windows-based web-editor.

i use vi. it seems to be the most efficient.


> Whoops! almost forgot this one...
>
> 5) Once my web pages are finished, how do I go about loading them onto
> ftoomsh and making them accessible from the progsoc home page?

create a directory in you home directory called public_html
ensure this directory and your home directory are world-executable

inside the directory public_html, create a file called index.html
make sure it is world-readable. the index.html is the default file
used when people looks at your directory without sepcifying a particular
html file to use.

in brief:

cd
chmod o+x .
mkdor public_html
chmod o+x public_html
cd public_html
echo "<title>My Home</title>This is my home page" > index.html
chmod o+r index.html

cheers

p

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