Posted: 7/16/2004 12:12 AM
Post subject: I have a website now gentlemen!
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VirtualAlex
Joined: 5/31/2004
Posts: 464
Location: Minnesota
it's about time I went virtual! www.virtualalex.com it's mostly haiku and goofy poems, but there will be video game stuff in there also. tell me what you think.
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Posted: 7/16/2004 12:21 AM
Post subject: Re: I have a website now gentlemen!
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Bisqwit
Editor, Active player (296)
Joined: 3/8/2004
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Location: Arzareth
12Motion wrote:
it's about time I went virtual! www.virtualalex.com it's mostly haiku and goofy poems, but there will be video game stuff in there also. tell me what you think.
Since this is off-topic... I had a look at your site. Aside from the fact that the menu item images don't have ALT parameters (this makes your site unusable for people who prefer/have to use a browser that can not render images), and that it doesn't appear to have anything that'd interest me, it looks quite nice.
Posted: 7/16/2004 11:40 PM
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VirtualAlex
Joined: 5/31/2004
Posts: 464
Location: Minnesota
Well thank you very much Bisqwit! I don't know much about alt paramaters, how did you know I don't have any? you have one of those browsers? Is there an easy way to fix it?
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Posted: 7/16/2004 11:45 PM
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Bisqwit
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12Motion wrote:
I don't know much about alt paramaters, how did you know I don't have any? you have one of those browsers? Is there an easy way to fix it?
I don't know what software you use for editing the site (and telling me wouldn't help, because I don't know any of those software), but talking in HTML code, where your website has this kind of 
<img src="images/home_off.gif" name="home" width="107" height="53" border="0">
There should be: 
<img src="images/home_off.gif" alt="Home" name="home" width="107" height="53" border="0">
Similar for all other images, denoted by "<img". And yes, I use one text-based browser (Lynx) once in a while because it's light and it's not infected by those lag-inducing flash-advertisements found on way too many sites.
Posted: 7/17/2004 12:04 AM
Post subject: re:
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alexpenev
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Joined: 7/14/2004
Posts: 104
You can block flash in Firefox. Unfortunately I've had it stall lately when it's been minimised for hours on end with lots of tabs open. Must be paged out and has some issues getting back to full strength =/ But yeah, flash blocking was the first add-on I downloaded for it, I hate flash! (grr)
Posted: 7/17/2004 7:41 PM
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VirtualAlex
Joined: 5/31/2004
Posts: 464
Location: Minnesota
I use Dreamweaver, and actually I remeber seeing an Alt blank when I was making the images. What do I put in alt? A smaller picture?
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Posted: 7/17/2004 7:44 PM
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Boco
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ALT is the text taht appears while an image is loading / in place of an imge altogether. So for navigation images, it would be the name of the section they navigate to.
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Posted: 7/19/2004 6:07 AM
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VirtualAlex
Joined: 5/31/2004
Posts: 464
Location: Minnesota
Ok, I added the alts.
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Posted: 7/19/2004 8:39 AM
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VirtualAlex
Joined: 5/31/2004
Posts: 464
Location: Minnesota
Hey Bisqwit, or anyone. If I wanted to put a forum on my website, how would I go about doing that?
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Posted: 8/10/2004 8:19 PM
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VirtualAlex
Joined: 5/31/2004
Posts: 464
Location: Minnesota
Hey sorry to bump this for those that don't like it, but it is video game related and I thought some of you might have a good time with it. It's a little tribute I made to FF6. http://www.virtualalex.com/haiku/ff6haiku/ff6_index.htm Also if you are looking at this, maybe you can tell me how to get a forum on my website?
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Posted: 8/10/2004 8:24 PM
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Bisqwit
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12Motion wrote:
how to get a forum on my website?
Do a Google search on "phpbb", read and study. If the instruction seems useless, I'm sorry. To write more I'd have to walk your path for you, because I don't remember what to do next. :)
Posted: 8/10/2004 8:24 PM
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Bob_Whoops
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Joined: 3/19/2004
Posts: 710
Location: USA
What does your host have support for. If it has PHP and mysql, or someother database, you can use phpbb. Just google it, download it, ftp it to the site,run a page, and then fill out the information. Edit: Oh yeah, you have to unzip it :) Its very straight forward though.
Posted: 8/10/2004 9:09 PM
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VirtualAlex
Joined: 5/31/2004
Posts: 464
Location: Minnesota
hmm I am not sure if my host supports php, I would have to check that out. But thank you.
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