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Karen · Jan 06, 2006

I'm going to add a links/affiliate page to my ticker site but I'm just not getting it. I'm trying to follow some html tuts but I'm missing something as all I get are errors.
I can add a clickable banner ok but its just got errors all around it.
My page will be links.php.

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

What kind of errors are you seeing???

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Karen · Jan 06, 2006

OK, now I know nothing except what the tuts say so I may be making glaringly obvious mistakes Embarassed

<html>
<head>
<title>Links</title>
</head>
<body>

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</body>
</html>

When I view the page I see this..maybe not errors, more like odd code.

http://www.tickerplayground.com/PRACTICE%20BOARD/links.php

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

If you look at the code in the links.php fille, hopefully you will see why you are getting errors. It is definitely corrupted. There is a lot of junk code at the top and bottom of the file...

Karen · Jan 06, 2006

Why is that though?
What do I do to fix it, if anything?
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Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

What were you trying to do here? All of that code at the top down to the <html> is meaningless clutter. The \par parts that follow are meaningless too. The text that follows the ending </html> is pure clutter too...

If you want an example of how the top of the HTML code could look, look in your template overall_header.tpl file. That would give you a good example of the top part of an HTML file...

Also, if you downloaded and installed 1st Page 2000 per my instructions in the past, you can open a empty HTML page and it will give you the basic building blocks for building a web page. You would not add any code above the <!DOCTYPE code at the top or below the </html> at the bottom. The majority of your code would go between the <body> and </body> tags...

This is a basic HTML starting template:

Karen · Jan 06, 2006

Ahhh thanks NR headbang

I knew I had no clue what I was doing Embarassed

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

LOL None of us start out as experts. Hopefully now that you know what it's supposed to look like, you will quickly become a web page design guru...

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Karen · Jan 06, 2006

Well thanks to you I have heaps more confidence and am not scared of trying new things now. Might not get it right but its the best way I learn headbang

I was only saying tonight how I did a college course years ago in computing (excel/spreadsheets etc) and I was scared of even turning a pc on hysterical1

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

Yes, I think fear is the biggest part that holds people back. Once you can get past the fear and start experimenting, you can make a lot of progress quickly. Just make sure to always make backups of files that you are modifying so that if any experiment goes south, you can quickly recover. I think most people have to learn that lesson the hard way...

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