Author Topic: Ey... got another question.... costumizing my site (Read 3139 times)

vinvulpis · « **on:** March 30, 2006, 03:04:16 am »

Just wandering if this is the right place to ask this.... but here it goes...

I want to change the apperance and interface of my site... i have that "Fancy web lister" that furtopia has granted me.
I saw some page on how to costomize it from the help link in the top-left corner, but im not really sure about how to go about doing all that...
Could so one help me out with this, i would really love to make my site Represnet my story and game im making! ^.^;
So just let me know if anyof you can help me out, I'd really appreciate it! ^.^

Nocte · « **Reply #1 on:** March 31, 2006, 01:25:50 pm »

I could help you with that

'> . What did you have in mind for your site?

vinvulpis · « **Reply #2 on:** April 02, 2006, 01:53:20 am »

well... i was hoping to have a colored ... background like maybe and aquq/blue tekxtured background... and was looking to have a nicer looking interface, making the site more enjoyable to be in..

and a cool looking home page with a brief intro to my site and about whats in it....

also was hoping to beable to have icons and stuff like that

perhaps an "About Me" page sorry... and pages about my characters and about my game Im making...

i know im saying a lot... i would really apreciate the help though.

vinvulpis · « **Reply #3 on:** April 04, 2006, 04:07:22 am »

...? Ey? Is there anything you an do to help? ':?:'

if not thats fine...

Nocte · « **Reply #4 on:** April 04, 2006, 11:50:56 am »

Sorry for the late reply.

Seems like you'll have to start learning how to write HTML.

'> W3Schools has a good tutorial. Once you have written a page, you'll need to upload it to your web directory, along with all the images it uses (background, icons, etc.). If you want one of your files to be your main page, the one people see when they visit vinvulpis.furtopia.org, you should name that file 'index.html'.

I know that many people prefer to use something more advanced than Notepad (or whatever is your favorite text editor) for creating their pages. I'm not one of them, so I can't really recommend any software. I've tried Nvu for a bit, and it seemed like a good editor to me.

If you have any more questions feel free to ask.

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vinvulpis · « **Reply #5 on:** April 04, 2006, 03:34:18 pm »

ok just when i do figure out how to do this stuff... i just need to know -where- in my directory to up-load it. I've been in the advandced uploader before, and somethings it does not allow me to do... i little tutorial on how to work all that would be dandy ^.^; I'll check out the HTML tutorial!

THNAX!!

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Nocte · « **Reply #6 on:** April 05, 2006, 05:23:44 pm »

With the advanced uploader, you can only write in the directory named html. (The easy uploader works in this directory by default.)

Kada-Ru · « **Reply #7 on:** April 06, 2006, 02:03:44 am »

I'm sorry I am late to this vinvulpis. With the fancy indexer, your main page would be header.html and your footer would be footer.html. The indexer would be between these two. These files you would make a folder for called: css

In that folder is where you put your header and footers. Here are two examples with and without the header/footer:

No html coding

With html coding header and footer.

The HELP page on your regular indexer will have other commands you can use. These will ALL go into the css folder.

vinvulpis · « **Reply #8 on:** April 06, 2006, 08:04:03 am »

ok thanks... i just wanted to make sure that i know where to put that css folder, because i tryed putting it in there... and it accually showed up in the folder list on the accual site... is that right?

oh an in the advaced lister... what is the "tn" folder... that one dosent show up... but its there.... just asking

Nocte · « **Reply #9 on:** April 06, 2006, 03:51:34 pm »

It should only show up in your FTP list. I don't see the css folder in the "category and directory list" on my own site. (For example, you can see an indexer directory here, and the css directory beneath it here. The styles.css file there is to make the background black.)

The tn folder is generated automatically, the thumbnails of your images are stored there.

vinvulpis · « **Reply #10 on:** April 09, 2006, 01:41:56 am »

ok... i'll try and figure it out... thanks much for your help!

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vinvulpis · « **Reply #11 on:** April 09, 2006, 02:21:24 am »

^.^; !! Im starting to get it nowz!! Thankz! *Hugs you tightly, fluttering his tail happily and runs off*

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vinvulpis · « **Reply #12 on:** April 09, 2006, 04:10:37 am »

Oh... one other question... sorry.... is there a way to get the lister.. like.. instead of having a background color.... to have a background image? i want to have a blue/aqua colored texture, and i no that the css works a bit different from the html coding?

oh.... and i got it to have a new color instead of white.. but when i use the "noheader" file, it takes that away and uses my window colors i have set on my computer... and ignores the styles.css file is there a way around that? its not that important really? im more concerned about the first question...

Nocte · « **Reply #13 on:** April 09, 2006, 06:41:15 am »

Quote (vinvulpis @ April 09 2006, 10:10 am)

Oh... one other question... sorry.... is there a way to get the lister.. like.. instead of having a background color.... to have a background image? i want to have a blue/aqua colored texture, and i no that the css works a bit different from the html coding?

Yes, you can do that in css with:

Code Sample

body, html {
background: url("texture.png");
}

This is assuming 'texture.png' is also in your css directory. (You can use paths and complete URLs to fetch the picture from somewhere else).

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oh.... and i got it to have a new color instead of white.. but when i use the "noheader" file, it takes that away and uses my window colors i have set on my computer... and ignores the styles.css file is there a way around that? its not that important really? im more concerned about the first question...

You're right. This appears to be a bug in the indexer, it removes a little too much from the page (such as the html, head, and body tags ':p'

). There's no way around that for now, I'll post another message here when it's fixed.

vinvulpis · « **Reply #14 on:** April 09, 2006, 07:10:23 am »

what if i make a header.html file? would that change the top? and maybe then i could just code in the colors that way? *shrug* no biggie... Thanx again!!