okay Sanspoof
I will deal with your question
about font type color etc,
but first lesson two titles, heads etc.
remeber when you put the GF disc
in your computer and the installer
screen pops up? well you'll notice
if you did, if not go see it,
that along the title bar,
that thin strip at the top of any
open box or window is the title bar,
very handy because it tells you
grim fandango installer screen.
this is useful because once you
program a large site with multiple
pages they are like titles
and sub titles so you do not get lost.
the title must be inside the head
section of your html doccument
and it goes like this.
<html>
<head>
<title>
Sanspoof the Little Kitty Who Could
</title>
</head>
</html>
now this is not an exciting page
but you need to know how to walk
before you fly. that way when you
or someone else is at your site
they can quickly identify what page
they are on. aslo found in the head
section you will place sounds.
*note they can be elsewhere but
placing them here is a good idea.*
*also note sound is a bitch
even on fast computers,
and not all comps and browsers
handle them well.*
so you may want to skip them.
I find sites with sounds
are a pain in the ass
cause while I am playing my music,
the computer is trying to force me
to listen to some silly plinkely midi
elevator musak file. but sound is up
to you. another thing which goes
into the head, and it is a later
more advanced lesson the META tags.
If you want bot, spiders, crawlers
and search engines to find you,
you better include some meta tags.
now the half part of the lesson.
font and color.
fonts:
fonts can be handled two ways
using H1 to H5 tags
(5 of them I believe, there may be more)
or buy saying font size.
the H way is an easy way
because it creates fonts
according to default sizes
for example H1 is like a news paper
headline so it is honkin' big.
Honking big!
something like H3 is normal type
on a page of paper off a type writer.
type writter size
or on this forum use
size = 1
size=2
size=3 etc...
for the above in [ this kind of bracket
i used the vb code commands of
<size=1> </size>
<size=2> </size> etc
to show you the results.
the H's do the same thing.
you will have to create a folder
in your HD and try making pages
and experimenting with these codes
so you can see what you are doing.
and the great thing is your computer's
browser can open an internal address
as well as a web one. on the web you say
http://grimfandango.com/imdex.html)
but in your computer you say
c:\sanspoofs training page\index.html
*note your home page has to be
for the most part INDEX. there may be
exceptions but stick to this.
and also all your code commands keep
them the same, if you use capitals
<BODY> </BODY>
dont switched to
<body> </BODY>
or you may screw your HAL9000 up.
*also I learnt that this forum
liked IMG and not img
case sensitivity is important.
so if you are not using the H's
saying <H1>BIG</H1>
or on this forum the S's
<size=4>BIG</size>
BIG
then you will use font like thus.
<font size=5>
this is your font on 5
</font>
this is your fonts on drugs!
and if you want to add to this
then you say face to mean the type
of font you are going to use.
However face regulated how you see
a TT font or .tft file in your computer.
if you say
grim fandango rules!!!
once agin font style only happens
if and when the person browsing
your site has that type font installed.
for example I just used the type font
called dango after grim fandango
all forum members with this font
willl see grim fandango rules
in GF game font.
all others will not.
and these forums use different vb coding
that html code text
so in notepad and you use notepad
to hack out your html
you say this:
<font size=6 face="dango" color="ghostwhite">
grim fandango kicks serious ass!
</font>
*note your size perameters
do not show up in "quotes"
but your face and color must always
and not this either "dango'
that gets you nada.
so does color="bleu" or colour="blue"
computers like those Yanks out there
have gone and bastardized the Queen's
english and PC's do not understand colour
(you might say they are colour blind.)
the other things you can do to font codes
are this <b> for bold type </b>
<i> for italic type </i>
and <u> for underlined type </u>
so you can say
Darth Eggplant is a HTML Guru
or
Darth Eggplant is a HTML Guru
or
Darth Eggplant is a vB code god
or
Mr Tall Guy aka Mod extrodinaire
or you can say
ooo color
but in html coding it is this:
<font size=5 face="dango" color="white"><b>
</font></b>
Now young Padawan D'ni pupil
this is enough of this for now.
next lesson or if someone else does
it first I will talk about backgrounds
there are two sets of commands
back ground colour
and back ground tile.
a bg tile is whatever you make it
size, jpg, gif, animated gif
the skies the limits.
a bg colour has to be an official
hexidecimal value code color
or it will not work.
but colour and images are next lesson.
I ned to take a Kit Kat break now:D