knowing what you can do safely and how to make a webpage
with confidence, the rest is up to you. Read carefully,
don`t make
quick moves and when doing anything, and I mean
anything,
please,please,please...."think
before you act"
INSIDE YOUR FILE
ROOM
Choose Your Editor:.
WHAT IT ALL MEANS AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT
LIST FILES WITH
THE FOLLOWING
EXTENSIONS
Click off all the lights up there. Then click just one
on, say the .gif box.
If you did that and then clicked the REFRESH DIRECTORY
everything would be gone on your page EXCEPT THE .gifs.
They would be the only thing to see on your page. This is
so you can work with them individually without all the
other things you have on your page. The example I show up
there has only 5 files showing. I probally have 30 with
the
htmls gifs. jpgs. ect.ect. added up. I`ve used it a few
times. This is true of the ANY button also. You click it on
and it shows A thru Z. Click on what alaphabet you want,
hit the REFRESH button and bingo all files names starting
with the letter you picked
will show up on your page whether you have 1 file name
starting with A or 12 file names starting with A
To make everything come back, Click the ANY button to show
ANY again, and bingo 30 regular files with the A`s, are
back on the page.
REFRESH DIRECTORY
Click this to refresh the memory of the big kahoona
computer to all the changes you make. Its good to click it
on or your own reload button if your making a lot of
changes. Even the computer has
to be told what to remember
THE 5 BOX`S WITH
VIEW
When you write a new html file (webpage) these box`s
with the view across from them will magically appear
without you doing anything. This is also true when you
transload something here like a .gif. mid. jpg. ect..ect.
Now go up there and click all the lights off. Then pick
just one box. Lets say you picked 2bar2.gif box. If you
click on, then clicked onto the VIEW across from it, it
would show the image of
2bar2.gif (which is a colorfull spacer bar I use) and no
you don`t need to click on the .gif box to see, just click
on the VIEW. But Now..
When you want to EDIT a page you`ve created, you would
first click on the box to the page you were going to edit,
lets say the link.html. First you click on the box (in fact
go up there now and click off all the boxes, all of them,
then click on only the link.html box.) that is what you
would see before you went down to the EDIT button. In
otherwords every time you want to go to a page or change
from page to page, you need to come back here and click on
to the new page then back to EDIT again. If you leave two
or more of the box`s with a checker in it, (getting in a
hurry) the computer won`t let you get to either page, it
will confront you with the question "which of the two do
you want to edit? Then it brings out a gun and trys to kill
you.
THE EDIT BUTTON
As I said earlier, all this button does is to take you
to the page so you can Edit things (write) (add images)
(change wording) or anything else you want to do to that
page. It is something like being backstage, when your back
here, you write certain codes in and on the otherside
of the page, colors change, things flash on and off, words
appear, and you`ve made it all happen EDITING.
THE COPY BUTTON
I have read in ng groups (news groups) the two
following excerpts, "I deleted my webpage, how do I get it
back?" and
"Geocities deleted my webpage, how do I get it back?"
answer:YOU DON`T, ITS A GONER. If you feel that you just
can`t take the chance that something will happen to your
page, Make A COPY. Click on the box you want to copy, go to
the COPY BUTTON and click it on. You`ll find yourself at
the top again looking at the file you clicked on to make a
copy of and a box next to it with the question, WHAT DO YOU
WANT TO RENAME YOUR COPY? If the original is called.. say
links.html, you would write in the box something like...
mylinks.html or goldenboy.html or Idontgiveadam.html, click
the RENAME button and bingo, sitting on your page is a
second copy of links.html under its new name. You lose one,
ya gotta second one. Just change the name back to the
original you lost (if you lose it) or keep the name you
gave it, it dosen`t matter.
DELETE BUTTON
Try not to fear it if your thinking its going to delete
things itself. Remember your in control, and even the
computer knows to make it a lttle harder to delete
something. But there will be times when you want to delete
everything from what you consider garbage to .gifs or
whatever. Click onto what you want to delete, go down to
the DELETE BUTTON and click it. Again you`ll find yourself
back at the top of the page with what you wanted to delete.
It`ll be sitting to your left with a check in the box next
to it. Above will be a message that will say "ARE YOU SURE
YOU WANT TO DELET THIS FILE"? below this message is 2
box`s, one says DELETE the other CANCEL. If your determine
to delete it, click down to delete, but even then you have
to go through the CANCEL box first. Click DELETE, and bingo
what you had is forever gone. Even then the computer makes
you work for it by going thru CANCEL first. I wonder why?
RENAME BUTTON
Sometimes for what ever the reason you may want to
rename a
page or something else. Again we click on to what it is we
want to rename and go to the RENAME BUTTON, click it on and
you`ll find yourself at the top again being ask what do you
want to rename this file to. Write in what ever suits you
and hit the RENAME BUTTON, and bingo what was called
xxx.html is now call bbb.html, thats it.
VIEW HTML FILE
Useless and not worth talking about
CREATE NEW HTML
FILE
When you first come in here or any other time you need
to
create a page, this is the button that is going to do it.
When you first start up, there are no box`s with view in
the
file manager area. So here is what you do. When you get
here, the first thing you do is go down to the CREATE NEW
HTML FILE BUTTON and click
it on. This will take you to a blank page. Scroll down
untill your in the box and click on the cursor by pressing
your return key. The cursor will then start blinking to let
you know its ready to be moved at your command.
Move the cursor up till you get near the top of the empty
box,(the text page) make sure the cursor is all the way to
the left of the page at the top and write the
following:
THE PARENTTHESE REPRESENT THE LESSER THAN AND GREATER
THAN
ARROWS. <== these without the double dashes ==> PUT
them immediatley BEFORE and AFTER the TAGS.
(HTML)
(HEAD) <--YOU PICK THE TITLE
(TITLE) YOU PICK THE NAME FOR YOU PAGE TITLE
(/TITLE)
BODY BGCOLORS= "#000000" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#000000
VILINK="#000000" --> YOU PICK YOUR COLORS <--
(/HEAD)
(BODY)
99.9% of everything goes inbetween these 2
tags
(/BODY)
(/HTML)
Everything you want to write from images to words to
.mid`s to whatever goes inbetween the (BODY) AND THE
(/BODY) There are some exceptions you will learn on your
own.
Now that you`ve done all of the above first and in that
order, on the very top of that text page will be a empty
box that says FILE NAME type in a file name with NO
spaces...such
as Myfile.html or links.html or something.html.
REMEMBER..how ever you type it in, it will ALWAYS have to
be type EXACTLY like that from then on. Then go
immediately down to the
bottom of
the new page and Click SAVE. Don`t make a file name first
then click save. Don`t forget to give it a file name and
forget to click SAVE, because if you do, the computer will
kill you with a
lighting bolt. Don`t put any SPACES when makin a file name,
make it one continous
word.html and always hit SAVE after those two things have
been done and n that order. After you SAVE, you`ll go right
back to the
main file manager section and there you will see a box with
the name of your file next to it and the word VIEW across
from it. Untill you put words or colors to the page it`ll
look pretty empty when you click on view it but its your
first page
and you can do with it as you want. From there you can
visit me and see the things I have for writing codes that
you can do or use,or you can go to Dracc`s for a multitude
of this
and that or whatever. Your on your way.
There are a few buttons more to learn when you get to
the place were you write everything that makes the lights
flash the bells clang and so forth. It`s where I`m
at right now and when you get here just look at the
explanaion at the bottom of the page
to the meaning of the buttons and what they do.
They really are self explanatory... for a change.
Nowfor those that feel this is still to much to deal
with, go back up to
the editor button and click it on to the Advance editor,
You`ll see it click over to the Basic Editer. This is what
you will do when you come into this area, click it on and
it will take you to that section. Like I said earlier you
won`t have the control you have in the Advance editor
section so you`ll not have to know or learn to much. You
won`t be able to do everything you can do here, but if your
satisfied with that for the moment, remember you can switch
back to the Advanced anytime you want, but once you do,
there is no going back to the Basic. Its a one way
street.
If you will just trust me
and do what I have shown you up above, you won`t go wrong
and will have greater, much greater control over your
page.
If this page has been helpfull to you or if you have any
suggestions that are useful, please e-mail me. Have Fun
....Hardlove :›)
THIS IS SOMETHING NEW I`VE ADDED. FOLLOW
THE INSTRUCTIONS
The "TAKE ME" BUTTON will allow you to take
everything on
this page and put
it on your own webpage under your own file.html heading.
Here`s
what you do.
CLick on the take me button.
It will take this page and you to STARBLVD
TRANSLOADER and fill in the first box. Fill in the next 6
box`s per directions below.
Everyone else wanting to upload to their website and
DON`T have a F key short cut from the Last URL they visited
and want something from there to the transloader, you
will have to type in the SOURCE URL, and follow the
directions below
1st box: LAST URL VISITED. This will be filled in
automatically by the "TAKE ME" button OR using a F key
short cut (this is optional and dosen`t need to be filled
out.) But it will fill out the second box automatically
with that URL, so its already written where it needs to go
to get what ever it`s suppose to get.
Click on the first WATER DROPLET, that will fill the
the 2nd box called
THE SOURCE URL automatically
(where its
comming)
from. Right now its me, but later, your going to go to
other URLs for .gif .mid. ect. This is why you`ll need to
have a F KEY SHORTCUT. See explanation why at bottom.
3rd box RENAME TO: You give it another file name
here
ending with (.html) like (Myfile.html) no space`s
4th box. TARGET FTP SERVER: For Geocities, type in this
ftp.geocities.com write it EXACTY
as shown
5th box.TARGET ACCOUNT NAME: (your code name) Like mine
is hardlove with no capitals. It must be EXACT.
6th box. TARGET ACCOUNT PASSWORD: (your secret code)
whatever that is. Make it EXACT
7th box. UPLOAD DIRECTORY: (the address you want it
sent to. I was taught to do this but you don`t have to. if
you do do it as a safety precaution, write it exactly. MY
ADDY for instance (for geocities) is
/WestHollywood/Stonewall/2375
nothing more. (NOTICE THE
CAPITALS AND SLASHES /) If yours contains Capitals write
it EXACTY
or it will say it couldn`t find the homestead. Thats the
response for missing one capital or / or whatever ANYPLACE
during your filling in the boxes. I use to do all the time.
I simply got to sure of myself and did it to quickley.
Very
irritating. But you`ll learn.
Click on TRANSLOAD to TRANSLOAD
Wait..........Click on RELOAD after about 15
seconds. Scrool down untill you see the word Zap
You should see if it was successfull. if so click ZAP.
Go back to your file manager. You will see it logged in
magically under the name and html heading you gave it when
you
renamed it. The code will be written with its own html
filename on your edit text and
the
above images will be shown.
If not succesfull, you goofed up. Click ZAP and Start
over, do it
slowely and carefully untill you get the feel of it.
Last thing is editing out all this (DO NOT CLICK ON
DELETE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FILE MANAGER) Wait till you get
to the text area, use
your DELETE button on your keyboard and get rid of it that
way. Then hit SAVE. It will then take you Back to the main
file manager click on
the REFRESH button, then scroll down to the file name,
CLick on VIEW, hit your OPTIONS button, go to RELOAD and
click it on. When you erase alot its better all around to
clean out the old. Otherwise when you click on view you`ll
see the old version and wonder what the hell is going on.
What seems like a lot right now (writing all this makes it
seem longer and worse than it is) but is nothing once you
get to
doing it a few times. Just do it slowely, theres no reason
to get into a hurry and blow it. Now go
back to the "Take it" button and do it........Hardlove
HERE IS THE SHORT VERSION Of TRANSLOADING
1st box..LAST URL VISITED.will fill if you use F key
short cut
(optional)
2nd box. SOURCE URL Type in the URL you want it to go
to and get whatever it is. .gif .mid. .jpg ..ect.ect.
for??? This will fill automatically by clicking on water
droplet above...If you use the F Key Short cut.
3rd box. RENAME IT. this is how it will be logged into
your site. alert.gif thepage.html...ect.ect.
4TH BOX. TARGET FTP SERVER: write this exactly ftp.geocities.com.
5th box.TARGET ACCOUNT NAME. (mine is hardlove)
6th box.TARGET ACCOUNT PASSWORD (??????)
7th box. UPLOAD DIRECTORY. (optional) you don`t need to
fill in
WHY DO I NEED A F KEY SHORTCUT
Because whenever you go to a URL that has something you
want to transload to your webpage, such as .gifs .midis.
and so on, you will have to look up the URL and write it
down so that when you get to starblvd, you can type it
into the SOURCE URL. By making one of Your F keys a direct
link to starblvd, when your through shopping for what ever
it is you wanted, simply hit that particular F KEY shortcut
and it will automatically take you to starblvd from where
your at, with the URL in its memory and transfer it to the
Last URL visited box.
Then by hitting the water droplet below that box, it will
again automatically fill the Source URL leaving you to fill
only the last 5 boxes. The F key shortcuts are a time
saving device that should be used for the things you go to
the most. Your file manager. starblvd...ect..ect. use them
wisely, you only have 7. If this has been helpful for you
would you please email and let me know if it could be
improved in some manner. Thanks alot and have
fun.....Hardlove :›)
USING STARBLVD TO TRANSLOAD MAIL FROM GEOCITIES
There are 2 ways to get mail from your
geocities mail box. One way would be for JUST MAIL and uses
the
POP3 to get it directly to you. You will have to set it up
at your Home page, NOT YOUR WEBPAGE. See below for
instructions how to do this. The second way would be needed
if you had a code or image sent to you via your geocities
mail box. If its for your webpage (for now) This is when
you would use the
transloader.
So here is the way you would do it. Asumming you have
a
mailbox at geocities, you would have a name attached to it.
for instance, mine is( hardlove@geocities.com )This is the
name you would use to fill in the "blank" to the "provider"
of "what ever" to mail "whatever" to your geocities mail
box. Its different at the transloader. When you go
to starblvd, you go first automatically to the transloader
area. At the top and to the left is a bunch of names. You
want to click on to one of them called MEX . That will
transfer you to another area that looks like the orignal
starblvd area except it has a blue area that has to be
filled in with information about your mail server
(geocities).
So Here Is What You Do, Fill In The Boxes Like
This But Use Your Name And Code
1st box......> mail.geocities.com
2nd box......> hardlove
3rd box......> (Your personal code)
4th box......> ftp.geocities.com
5th box......> hardlove
6th box......> (your personal code)
7th box......> Nothing needed
Click The Extract Button, that will take you to a mail
subjects area. Scroll down until you come to the area that
has your mail or whatever it is you want to transload to
your site. (remember, mail is optional) You can READ or
TRANSLOAD or EDIT or DELETE anything there.
Click on read or edit and see if you want it or if you
want to make modifications to it before comming to your
site.(using the edit button) Finally either Transload it or
Delete it. You will go through the same proceedure in
transloading here as if it where a gif. transload
EXCEPT here, you will have to go back and delete the object
from the mail room. If you don`t, it will stay there untill
dooms day and if you keep adding more letters or what not
you`ll have to keep tract of which is which as they will
accumulate untill you delete them.
If you transload the thing to your website, as I have
done many many times, you will see it in the manager file
room as (example) 364738329tx with a veiw across from it.
To change it to a viewable image, put a check in the box
then scrool down and click RENAME and do as instructed
above. On the other hand if what you have is just a letter
and nothing more at geocities mail, do the following:
Go to your you webtv home page and hit your "goto" key.
Then erase the http:// and write
You will come to a area that will require
you to put the following:
User Name......hardlove
Password......???????
Server Name.......mail.geocities.com
There is information there for being able to delete, just
follow the instructions. When you look on the side of the
"to write" row, you will see a new word added. "FETCH".
Click on this if you think you have mail and it will
deliver it to you. But as I said unless its something more
than mail, for now you have to use starblvd to get it to
you website. There are places that will send full lenght
codes to your mail box and unless you want them in your
storage area for some reason, you`ll need to transload
them. Well thats about it, I hope all this will be
helpfull. I would apprecieate your giving me any input to
make this site better or if any new upgrades happen I might
not know about. So until then have fun and email
me........Hardlove
Well I got the upgrade so I moved this from the main page
to here. Sorry this is such a big winded page, but it
takes a lot of words to explain somethings.
==> 4 BASIC RULES <==
COPY EVERYTHING EXACTLY
WHEN IT DOSEN`T WORK, BLAME YOURSELF
PROVE IT TO YOURSELF, DOUBLE CHECK WITH WATSON
EXPERIMENT WITH THINGS AND ASK LOTS OF QUESTIONS TILL YOUR
SATISFIED. I HAVE LISTED A NG GROUP (newsgroup I feel is
newbie oriented and very helpful. Its worth while
checking it out
The longer the code, the more likely your going to
make a mistake. I can promise you, your not going to see a
missing ( . ) or ( / ) or ( lesser arrow ) or ( greater
arrow ) or ( : ) or
( // ) or ( X ) or ( x ) or ( " ) or ( = ). Get my point?
You will swear on your grandmothers grave YOU didn`t
make a mistake. Trust in the precision of html to ALWAYS be
right and you ALWAYS to be wrong, the sooner you accept
this premise, the sooner you`ll find your mistake. Just
assume it automatically and without question. (irritating
isn`t it) I have literally spent hours looking at and
seeing this ( ; ) when it should have been this( : )
If you question the code your looking at, double check
it against the one that Dr Watson keeps. Basically anyone
who has a webpage has to write a code for everything on it
and it`s deposited with Dr watson who is also known as a
VALIDATOR.
All URL`s,are known as a ADDY, Dr
Watson`s
addy
will be found in the index above. Go to Dr Watsons addy and
simply
write the ADDY you want in the box that says (URL.. http://
not necessary) scroll down and
click on the PROCEED WITH THE DIAGNOSIS button. Give it 30
seconds and start scrolling down untill you come to the
code. There are other things to click on besides just
getting the code, you can check for links, spelling, proper
order of the codes..ect..ect. Keep in mind your getting the
working model code of someones webpage, word for word,
symbol for symboL EXACTLY,
It`s what makes their webpage function, image to
image,action for action. Its all there for the taking if
you want or there is a word the net use`s, netequite. You
either agree with it`s concept or you don`t, the choice
is yours. But if there is a COPY RIGHT on the code or image
and the owner see`s it on your page, or someone tells
them about it, Its possible you got a problem.
