Thank you Rik Roots

[Scotty]

Hi Rik,

and a very big thank you for your help with the html code. What you sent me was far, far easier to understand than the garbled mess I originally sent to you.

Only problem left that I can't figure out...

the guest book section at the bottom of the page WORKS fine but I can't get it to display the icons - would you mind looking at the following code and tell me what I'm doing wrong?

<h2><font color="steelblue">The Guestbook</font></h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.012guestbook.com/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl?a=26860"><img width="50" height="50" border="0" alt="SIGN the guestbook." scr="guestsign.gif"</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.012guestbook.com/cgi-bin/viewmessages.pl?a=26860"><img width="50" height="50" border="0" alt="VIEW previous visitors." scr="guestview.gif"</a></li>
</ul>

Again, thank you very much for your help - the page is a lot tidier now.

Regards,

Scotty

[Harry Rutherford]

You don't seem to have any closing brackets on the <img> tag.

[Scotty]

Thanks Harry,

that's what confused me - my other images don't have closing tags either and yet they work fine - go figure...

Thanks though, I'll try that.

Actually, totally disregard the above - I can NOW see the problem (by closing tag, I thought you meant </img> whereas I don't have a > at the end at all, do I?

DOH!

Scotty

[This message has been edited by xenomorph (edited 09-19-2002).]

[Rik Roots]

Originally posted by xenomorph:
Hi Rik,

Hi, Scotty

and a very big thank you for your help with the html code

s'okay. Kept me off the streets for a couple of hours. Glad you like the end result.

Have you noticed the other deliberate mistake in that code extract yet? Let this be a lesson to others: hand coding with insufficient caffeine leads to deliberate mistakes.

Scotty

Rik, knee deep.

I said deliberate, 'kay!


[This message has been edited by Rik Roots (edited 09-19-2002).]

[Scotty]

Have you noticed the other deliberate mistake in that code extract yet?

Eeer, no.

And I STILL can't get those last few images to show either - what am I missing here?

HEEEeeelp!!!

[Rik Roots]

And I STILL can't get those last few images to show either - what am I missing here?

HEEEeeelp!!!

There's a difference between
<img width="50" height="50" border="0" alt="VIEW previous visitors." scr="guestview.gif">

and

<img width="50" height="50" border="0" alt="VIEW previous visitors." src="guestview.gif">

Can you spot it?

Rik, maliciously teaching
and still knee deep.

[Scotty]

You know, I looked at those damn lines at least two dozen times this morning and I was almost ready to concede defeat - it's amazing how we can overlook the simple (and later, obvious) things, isn't it?

scr is not the same as src and there is a difference.

Thanks Rik - here's the updated page if you want to wander through it. I think I've got everything working alright now.
http://everypoet.net/scotty/

Thanks again,

Scotty (losing even more hair as he smacks himself repeatedly on the forehead) http://www.everypoet.com/poetry/poetry_forums/biggrin.gif

[This message has been edited by xenomorph (edited 09-19-2002).]

[This message has been edited by xenomorph (edited 09-19-2002).]

[Donner]

Scotty,

Your site is looking good--easy to navigate and colorful, too! Good work on the HTML so far. You're picking that up quickly. (I've always contended if I can learn the basics, anyone can.)

Donner