This could be a single page of a student's drawing, or a couple of photos, with text below -- maybe text written by the student to explain the project, drawing, or whatever. On your main page might be a list of clicktexts, each calling one page containing one student's work:
To make that list into a menu, you would use the <A href="filename.html"> right after the <li> HTML-mark that makes it a list, calling each html-file that contained that student's work. You could also dress up a simple list menu up by repeating a single graphic:
RETURN to TICKS PAGE by punching out Smiley Fool, or use your NetScape BACK button. I'll explain why all those little smiley fools don't really slow things down much, unlike real life where one smiley fool can really, oh nevermind. Wait, don't go yet!
Look at this doc with VIEW SOURCE. Notice the background color is set with BGCOLOR, and the rather low numbers in both BLUE positions set a darkish blue -- but not a pure color, there's a kind of plaid. BGCOLOR often does this. It matches Smiley Fool's background blue pretty well -- and that's the only way you can achieve a "floating" effect on such backgrounds. But on the Big Smiley Fool, you can tell the difference. Transparency won't work, and the plaid can't be matched in a single background color on your graphic.
If you set Smiley's background transparent, enough of the darker parts making up this blue would show through the transparent color to make him float in a black or very dark blue square. This is why many of us like background tiles even for plain colors.
Another problem caused by dotty or plaid BGCOLOR backgrounds is it fuzzes the small type so it becomes hard or impossible to read. That can be solved by setting <H4> at the beginning and end of your doc, as I usually do. This makes all text bold.
Okay, time to leave Smiley Fool Page, here and return to TICKS and find out about Smiley and other repeated graphics, which can dress up a page without much load time overhead.
Have a nice dayWhile I'm ordinarily fussy about plagiaristic uses of my graphics or text, anyone may download and use Smiley Fool for any purpose whatsoever. I don't want to hear about it.
Last updated: Thursday, February 08, 1996 - 12:11:51 PM