What is this HTML thing i Keep hearing about?

[Bitmap]

Any one know the HTML code to make the Background hold still while you scroll down, or better yet how to make Floating Frames? I'll also take any other Juicy Tid Bits of HTML Code. I've got <a href="http://www.willcam.com/cmat/html/crossref.html">a good HTML refernce site</a>[<i>The Wilcam Group</i>] but the Implimentation is a little tough to read.




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Incase you were wondering; I have to create a pure HTML Site for this IT class I'm required to take.</i>

[Skunks]

In any incarnation, frames are the Devil. Use them and be smote mightily.

What do you mean by "background not moving"?

I'm a bit of a fan of plain colors and disgustingly simple layouts. Content over functionality over standards over sex appeal, roughly. Somebody with less scruples might be more helpful.

[SteveDallas]

I'm with you, Skunks. I can't stand fancy crap on web pages that keeps me from what I'm looking for. My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a site and it invites you to "click here to enter the web site." (Bonus demerits if the introduction page (which is presumably NOT part of the web site) uses Flash.)

Oh and your background color should be white. That's FFFFFF. And no patterned backgrounds, it makes the text ("text? who cares about text?") too hard to read. I'm not saying it can't be done in an attractive manner, I'm just saying most of us don't posess the artistic skills to do it. So stick with plain white.

Wait, I just noticed the bit about the class. What are they defining as "pure HTML"? It's possible that the point of the exercise is to see if you can set up a functional, attractive web page viewable in a variety of browsers WITHOUT using floating blinking text or stuff like that.

[Bitmap]

Actualy they want me to use Clip Art, Frames, and I can only use Html I can't use Java, Flash, or any thing else.

Ug........ly but required for the class. i'm trying to do my best at keeping it from being ugly, but they are just trying to test my knowledge of the material. Which i find humorous since i know more than the teacher in most cases.

What i mean is some where a friend had a site where the image on the background held still and the text would scroll over top of it without it moving the image.

[Undertoad]

I doubt you can have "floating text" without at least CSS or something IE-specific...

[The Mad Hatter]

Can't be done in HTML without using an IE specific tag. To do it in CSS (which is pretty widely supported for basic stuff like this):
<code>
body {
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;background-attachment: fixed;
}
</code>

[juju]

Is this what you're looking for?

[elSicomoro]

I learned all the HTML I do on my own...it's nothing fancy, and I could probably learn to do it better. I'm working on it.

My website is fairly simple. I try to make sure that my backgrounds don't interfere with the text. About the only thing I use that might be considered obnoxious by some is the use of pop-up boxes (only on the parts of the site where I think they work best).

Oh, and I decided to be creative (or stupid, your pick) today and toyed with the index page.

[Bitmap]

You guys have been very helpfull and Juju Your link was great. Thanks guys.

oh and if you guys find any other good bits of HTML go ahead and post them use [ ] instead of &lt; >


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[Torrere]

I remember seeing pages with fixed background images that didn't scroll. I particularly recall how much they sucked. With my old computer, the image would jump disturbingly when I scrolled.

I don't think that you should use them.

[Uryoces]

My site is very simple and hand coded using the Ars-ware program Omnipad. I thnk I have the code pretty well commented. I just started using css on my site. I haven't been keeping at it like I should.

Click the www link.