I am a "Newbie"..lol

Hey fellas! I am totaly new at coding..I was told that I could find some good help here by AlphaOne..I'm sure some of you know of him? But, anyway..I will have many questions in time since I am so new.. I am very interested in learning this!! Right now I guess I will start out with this question..lol I have been practicing my HTML and opening it in my browser. I have a few banners that I d/l'd from a site that are also a link. when you click them, they take you to a site. Now, the site or graphic is made by "angelfire". In my browser, my practice page shows up just right, and takes you to the site and whatnot. Now, I went to put this on my cable connection's free web space and hit preview to see what it woulf look like on the web. The banners show up as a whit box that says "angelfire" in it..and in the code, I have something written in there..that when you mouseover it, it says something...this is also in the box. Now, what have I dont here? I copied and pasted the code from notepad to the on host web page. so I couldnt have missprinted something. Is this a normal thing?.. Something I can do about it? It will even still take you to the site in which is written in the code..it just dont show the picture in the banner area. I hope this post is understandable..lol and thanks so much for any help guys. Like I said, I am new..and I am really trying to learn the best I can. If anyone has any help to offer or any ideas of ways I can pick this up better, I would really appreciate the help!!
Thankx much!! ^LOGAN^

[alphadesk]

It sounds like a maybe path problem. Post the code part for the image banner. It should be something like this if your storing the banner in the top directory/folder.

<img border="0" src="http://www.yoursite.com/your_banner.gif" width="468" height="60">

Post the code and we will find the problem.

OK..REMEMBER I SAID THAT IT DID WORK ON MY PRACTICE PAGE..AND I JUST COPY AND PASTED IT STRAIGHT TO MY OTHER PAGE AND IT GIVE ME THE PROBLEM. BUT HERE IS MY CODE..IT IS MUCH LONGER THAN WHAT YOU TOLD ME IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE THO KEITH..I GUESS CUZ OF ALL THAT "MOUSEOVER" STUFF..I DONT KNOW....I LIKE THE MOUSEOVER STUFF THO =-)

<p align="center"><a href="http://www.thetriplehzone.cjb.net"><img src="http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling2/TriplehZone/banners/banner5.gif"alt="The Triple H Zone*Your online source for the GAME*"border=0></a></p>

THANX FOR THE HELP !!!

OH..AND YA WANT TO SEE SOMETHING FUNNY?..LOL WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU MEAN BY STORING THE BANNER IN THE TOP DIRECTORY/FOLDER?..LOL TOLD YA IT WAS FUNNY.. AND TOLD YA I WAS A NEWBIE =-) I JUST SAVED IT, AND IT PUT IT I THINK IN "MY DOCUMENTS/MY PICTURES" SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

[alphadesk]

What you have done is called hot linked to the banner and angelfire is blocking it. they don't want you to hot link to it. it uses their bandwith everytime it is called for instead of your site bandwith. they want you to use the graphic to link to them but not to use their resouces to serve it up to your web page.

You will have to save the banner, send it up to your webspace and set the path to call the image from there.

<IMG BORDER=0 SRC ="http://www.yoursite.com/banner5.gif" width="343" height="252">

thanks alphaone..I didnt know that..it worked on the page when I was practicing ..so I thought it was alright..but thanks again!!

Now, will this still take the people to the site that is linked to the banner? thats part of the reason that I want it on the page.

thanks, LOGAN

[alphadesk]

Yes,

This part will take you to that page.
<a href="http://www.thetriplehzone.cjb.net">

This part of the code is the link part that you actually see. You can use an image as you have or text.

<img src="http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling2/TriplehZone/banners/banner5.gif"

This part is alternate text in case the visitor has images turned off in his browser.

alt="The Triple H Zone*Your online source for the GAME*"border=0>

</a>

hey...I was just trying out something here..I D/L'd some moving images from a site..I just tried to add them to my page and it shows as an empty box with a little red X in it.. I have it in "My documents/My pictures" now do I have to include this in my code somewhere? I dont know why I am having so much trouble iwth this stuff..lol I know it is probably simple stuff..but for some reason it isnt coming off so easy for me. I have written down almost everything from that other site that you sent me alphaone...and that is what I am trying to use to help me..but for some reason it's not working. The name of the image is "chromeshimmer_md_wht" and is 400x30 pixels. I tried to do:

<img src="chromeshimmer_md_wht.gif" width="400" height="30">

Is this not right? I also tried:

<img src="chromeshimmer_md_wht/My documents/My pictures.gif" width="400" height="30">

now, I know this probably isnt right at all..but I saw in some notes that I took that it said "if image is from another folder or something, then do something like this? lol I dont know..I feel so lost here..lol I thought this stuff would be easier than the other stuff that I have done...but I am having problems for some reason. I am guessing that I have given you all the info for the correct code? I have about 100 pages of notes about this..lol I should be able to get it , you would think huh?...lol

Thanks, Logan

[alphadesk]

That will be a path problem.

No, the my documents/my pictures is on your hard drive. It has to be the path to your pics on your web space, whatever that path may be.

Look at the code of a pic that does show and use that as a guideline for your paths. All your pics are probably in the same place on the server.

THE only pictures that I have put up there are them banners..and they have all that other stuffin them...I thought of that too...I dont have the page up yet..I am just kinda laying it out first...but I will keep trying..
thanks, Logan