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Name: John Fitzsimmons
E-mail: unknown
Question: I tried to get color on my web page, but it's not working for some reason. I checked out the HTML codes to see if I made a mistake. Everything is typed in correctly. Did I do something wrong that I don't know about?
Answer: You may have. Go through the BODY line thoroughly. It may be as simple as not ending the code with " or >. Try checking for either of those missing items. If you ended that line with " and >, check the lines above that one. Any line not ending properly will affect every line after it.
Name: Lloyd
E-mail: lkp550@hotmail.com
Question: If anyone knows of a good site for programming language compilers, I'd like to know where to find them. I'm looking for
something that is user-friendly.
Answer: Sorry everyone. I've found a good compiler for Java. Now I would like to find one for C and C++. For those who want to learn Java, follow along with me as I learn it by clicking on "Lots of Links" on the menu to the left, then click the link "Learning Java". If you have any questions, come back here and I will answer them.
Name: Bill Brown
E-mail: william42@talk21.com
Question: I've just got into web design and I'm having some probs. What happens is that when I access my site it looks and runs ok. Then when I try to open a page it shuts my system down. Any help please?
Answer: It may be that you don't have enough memory to run on the internet. It may also be the server where your page is. It could even be you need a different browser. Try taking a look at those options first, if they're not the problem, get back to me. Learning in the beginning can be hard if the things I've mentioned above aren't working right.
Name: chris
E-mail: unknown
Question: I recently made a site and it only contains one page. I don't know how to go back and edit that page. Please help!
Answer: When you log in to Geocities, after you hit Submit, you will see a link that says File Manager. Click on that, click on the next link to the File Manager, then click on one of the pencil icons next to the files you have created.
Name: kevdawgsmysterylady
E-mail: unknown
Question: I'm running out of space and need more room to finish the site that I'm building. Last night I tried to start another site on Geocities so I could link them together. I was in the Page Bulider of the original site finishing a page, when I went to save it, it put all the information(pictures and text) into the new site that wasn't even open! Is it not possible to have 2 web sites and link them together?
Answer: Not in Geocities. I had two pages a while back and someone from Geocities told me I had to choose which one I wanted to save and e-mail them with the address of the one I wanted to delete. If you need more space for your site, you have to purchase more space.
Name: galaxyqwerty
E-mail: unknown
Question: I have some java applets uploaded, and embedded, with all the classes etc. but when I try to view the website, it says in the status bar something like pass1.class cannot be found, when it is obviously in the right place.
Answer: You don't want to EMBED your Java applets, you want to use the APPLET tags to call your applet class. It should be something like APPLET CODE="pass1.class" WIDTH=50 HEIGHT=50 Try seeing if you typed that tag pair wrong. The EMBED tags are for music and other multimedia files.
Name: Patty
E-mail: unknown
Question: I am building my website on geocities and have a couple of pages done but when I type in the url on any of the search engines, its says page not found. Why ? I have made a index.html, at least theres one showing in file manager. The only way I can see my pages is to go to filemanger where I'm working on them. No one else can get to them. I need help ,please. Thanks Patty
Answer: Are you typing the URL in a search engine like Yahoo or Excite, or are you typing the URL in the location (address) bar at the top of your screen. Search engines are created to look for something like "JavaScript pages". The location (address) bar under your Back and Forward buttons is where you type the URL. Also, make sure that you didn't rename the index.html file. An important thing to remember, it takes 3 to 7 days for some search engines to crawl to your site, some take a couple weeks. The best way to get the engines to find you is to put kewords and a description in the <HEAD> area of your pages (ex. <META NAME=keywords content="any, keywords, that, describe, your, website, without, spamming, the, search engines, or, you, could get booted">).
Name: animedimension1
E-mail: unknown
Question: How do I use frames on my geocities site? I would prefere to use pagebuilder to do this if its possible.
Answer: I don't know about Page Builder, but creating frames from scratch is not hard at all. In your "index.html" page, where you would normally place the BODY and /BODY tags, type FRAMESET COLS="25%,*" Then, between that and the /FRAMESET tags, type FRAME SRC="name_of_page1.htm" NAME=FIRST Under that, type FRAME SRC="name_of_page2.htm" NAME=SECOND This will give you a split screen with one side wider than the other.
Name: lovelydrift
E-mail: unknown
Question: How do I add another page onto my existing
page? One page isn't big enough!!!!
Answer: I don't know how Page Builder works, but I go into File Manager and if I need to create a new page, I click the New button. Then there's a box where I name the page and a larger box where I type my code. After I've saved the page, on my first page, I use the tag A HREF="MyNewPage.htm", then I type the name of the page followed by the /A tag. This will give you the name of the page that is underlined, both will be the color blue.
Name: transittalk
E-mail: unknown
Question: how do i upload pictures from my floppy drive to my web site?
Answer: When you log in to Geocities, click on File Manager, click Open File Manager, click on the Upload Files button in the upper right-hand corner of your File Manager, click Browse..., find the file in your A: drive, double click on that file, then click on the Upload Files link on the right.
Name: tisnight7
E-mail: unknown
Question: How do i get music to play in the backround of my page while viewing it on the internet. I have tried downloading one of my Napster files, but since it is a "mp3" file it is unable to upload. Do i have to convert it, or do i have to find the song under something like "jpg". Please help. Thanks
Answer:Internet Explorer and Netscape use two different ways to run music. Below are the codes:
IE
< BGSOUND SRC="mysong.wav" LOOP=1 >
Netscape
< EMBED SRC="mysong.wav" WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=0 AUTOSTART="true" >
Name: jbedwell0
E-mail: unknown
Question: I have a menu page set up with a frame, and everything looks great when I go to my page except for one problem. The frame is on the left side of the page, and I can't scroll down the options. Do I need to insert a scroll bar, and is that possible in HTML? I thought this would be done automatically.
Answer: I guess I'm trying to understand what you are saying. If you have a menu on the left, and it is too long, then the frame should automatically scroll, unless you told it not to by adding SCROLLING=NO in your FRAME tag (ex. FRAME SRC="menu.html" SCROLLING=NO).
Name: Uzma
E-mail: u_z80@yahoo.com
Question: Hi, I downloaded the following version of Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition, Runtime Environment Version 5.0. I'm not able to set
the path. What should be the next step to set up the Java software????
Answer: I regret to tell you that I am still in the dinosaur era with Windows ME running on my computer. I was unable to get the Java 5.0 Systems Development Kit, which is what you really need to download, to run on my computer. The RTE (Run Time Environment) is just a portion of the requirement for you to create and compile Java programs.
I did download the Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition 1.4.2_12, which is a 0.2 version of what I used to create the tutorial (original, 1.2.2). That seemed to install with no problems. I went to www.cnet.com > Developer Tools > Tools and Editors, then scrolled down till I found TextPad (which is the editor I used to create the tutorial).
After a successful download of each, I was able to just, and only just, download each, typed the code for the First.java in TextPad (make sure you are saving it as First, and as type *.java or it won't work), then, after going to Tools > Compile Java in TextPad, getting the compiled version of First, then running Tools > Run Java Application, was able to successfully run the First program.
Name: shivani
E-mail: chaseshivani@yahoomail.com
Question: We can use always (char) for System.in.read();, but why we cant use int? Is there any other way to take input of int value from user except the way of Integer.parseInt(args[0])?
Answer: Every key on a keyboard that can be used as input are unicode characters (numbers, letters, signs, etc.). The System.in.read(); only recognizes them as characters and cannot differentiate a 3 from a W or a 4 from a G and so on. If you were to try to add 3 and 4, you'd get 34. The same would happen if you tried adding 20 and 45; you'd get 2045. Since you never have a need to add W and G, or @ and $, you can leave those as characters. For Java to be able to recognize numbers as numbers, you need to parse them with the Integer.parseInt(args[0]). Once this is done, they will no longer be characters, but integers.
Name: bobby
E-mail: jrxslosi@yahoo.com
Question: Your classes and methods lesson is very confusing to me and was wondering if you could explain it in another way.
Answer: sum() would be a method. What sum() could do is add two or more numbers. It could also calculate an equation or hold values to be printed. This all depends on what arguments are sent to it. Our example is using integers (int). You would send arguments value1 and value2 to sum() like this: sum(int value1, int value2). You can then use the method to combine the arguments such as:
public static void sum(value1, value2)
{
int add;
add = value1 + value2;
System.out.println("The sum is "+add);
}
Now, where sum() gets its values from is the main() method. This would be done like this:
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int num1 = 40, num2 = 30;
sum(num1, num2);
}
By sending num1 and num2 from the main() method to the sum() method, you are saying:
num1 = value1
num2 = value2
sum() will create an integer value named add, then set add to equal 70 (40 + 30 = 70 or num1 + num2 = add). sum() will then print the message and insert the value of add at the same time.
As for classes, classes are the part of the programming that contains the methods, values, and arguments. You would contain the above programming in a class like this:
public class Numbers
{
}
If you wanted to use any of the programming from the Numbers class, you would use a constructor method like this:
Numbers myNumbers = new Numbers();
You can then pull any information from the Numbers by using the get instantiation like this:
myNumbers.getAdd()
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