From kevanf1@gmail.com Thu Mar 8 09:26:06 2007 From: Kevanf1 To: staffslug@staffslug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Staffslug] HTML help anybody? Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:26:03 +0000 Message-ID: <7bca46c50703080126n2067c7dbieaa182a584e79a0b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 7cee84140703070848t71e8915cte5949970453b85c2@mail.gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1147190363324732260==" --===============1147190363324732260== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Guys, it's difficult to explain any better, sorry. What happens is that in Yahoo Groups you have a blank space to enter whatever text you wish to describe a group. Think of blank text entry box. There is no need to do stuff like starting the page off with the usual etc. You can enter plain text and it appears on the page like that. You can also add something such as

this is seen as html coded text and that works. In the next bit you can add a picture. In this case it simply needs a jpeg uploading (via a button press). Where I am getting stuck is that the text entry section has a limit of 2000 characters. Which is not a lot if you want to encode something in html due to the extra characters taken up with the tags. So, I tried adding a block of text to a graphic and resaving it as a jpeg. That worked. Until I tried loading it up. The text is too damn small to read :-( But it shouldn't be and I have seen other groups that have done this with perfectly readable text placed as a graphic. It has been hinted that it may have been done using iFrames? What are iFrames? Bear in mind I learned html when it was about level 3. I did write a fair bit of code but that was about 8 years ago now and I am very rusty.... -- ============================================== Don't take it to the tip recycle it via the Freecycle(r) Network. For a group near to you look here: Worldwide http://www.freecycle.org/ United Kingdom http://uk.freecycle.org/ ============================================ Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Staffordshire --===============1147190363324732260==--