I’m working on my website, just trying to make things pretty. Well, I’m using advanced HTML editor at geocities.com. For some reason I cannot get any “gif” pictures to work as body background. “jpg” pics work, but for some reason “gif” files won’t. Does anybody know why? Does anybody know what I can do about it?
I don’t even understand the question.
Pardon me while I slink off, feeling incompetent.
pepperlandgirl, are you talking about your main page or one of the linking pages? I just checked the source code on your main page and it appears as though you used geocities’ webpage creator to do it so that it coded the page for you. That’s entirely different than using the advanced HTML editor they offer where you write the code yourself. In their code, they used a .gif image as the body background, and of course it worked just fine…
<body background=“grn005.gif”>
If you save whatever page you’re working on (even if it’s not right, or the images aren’t working) and tell me which one it is, I’ll go look at your source code and see if I can find your error, k?
Ok, originally http://www.geocities.com/pepperlandgirl4/pillow.html
was giving me problems. But that seems to be working now for some reason I don’t understand.
however
http://www.geocities.com/pepperlandgirl4/sea.html is still kicking my ass for some reason. There are others, but if you can tell me what’s wrong with this one, I could probably fix the other.
Thank you so much Shayna, I really appreciate it.
pepperlandgirl:
Both pages are using a .gif file for backgrounds. What exactly do you want the pages to do?
“…I need somebody, Help! Not just anybody! You know I need someone! Help!”
Anyway, if all those technical explanations don’t work, go into MS paint, and change the file type to .jpg. It’s really easy, use the save as command, then select file type.
What she said.
Scotti
I’d love to help you, pepper, if I had any clue what you were talking about. Well, I do know that my scanner doesn’t work well unless I save the pic as a jpg file, but I don’t know what that is, or the difference between that and a gif file.
And, for all I know, HTML may just mean “Hold The Mayo, Louise.” 
<leaving before she feels any stupider>
Ok, I checked the source code on your sea foam page and I see a .gif image on the background just fine. However, I would suggest adding a few lines of code as follows…
Always begin your page code by telling it that you’re writing in html with the <html> tag. You can give your page a title that appears at the top of the browser window if you want, and you can include all your body codes in one set of brackets. Like this:
<html>
<title>Sea Foam by pepperlandgirl</title>
<body background=“grn041.gif” text=“F0FFFF”>
Then type the text of your poem here.
Then close with…
</body>
</html>
If it were me, I’d also put the geocities banner ad at the bottom so you don’t get that popup window thingy in the corner. The code to insert right above the </body> tag is…
<center><!–#geoguide–></center>
Then go activate your geoguide banners through the file manager. They say you have to put them at the top, but I never do - all mine are at the bottom of my pages. In fact, you can insert a few <br> codes in there to move it way down the page so it’s not so visible.
If this doesn’t help and/or you have any more questions, give a holler, ok?
Ok Shayna, I did what you said, and the background is still not showing up…at least not on my comp. Maybe other people can see it on their’s. Or maybe geocities is just STUPID! I don’t know, but thank you again for the help and the advice. I really appreciate it.
Wellit is showing up on mine, but here’s another option to try. I downloaded the gif image (by right clicking on the bacground and choosing “save background as”) and then uploaded it to my website. Here’s the image url…
http://www.geocities.com/shayna61/grn041.gif
Open the image and download it to your computer by right clicking on it and choosing “save as” or “save picture as” (whichever your browser says) then upload it back to your geocities file manager. Then it should work. IF you upload it to a subfolder, you should include the subfolder name in the code (for instance, background=“images/grn041.gif”)
Let me know if that works.
What browser are you using? When you hit your refresh buitton, hit Shift-Refresh (pr is it Ctrl-Refresh??) to make sure you’re clearing the cache each time you view. Netscape is notorious for not refreshing properly.
And more importantly, those free sites like Geocities SUCK!
Well I guess if it’s showing up on yours, then it’s fine. “Pillow Talk” didn’t work on my computer for a while, and now it’s just fine.
I did what you said, and then I exited because I don’t want to deal with it anymore tonite. Tomorrow I will check and see if it’s working. It probably will be.
Thank you for all of your help.
OMG! Guanolad you were right! That worked! Yay!
I’d also suggest putting font tags in your code as well. That way the font is consistent on everyone’s computer regardless of what their default settings are.
For instance, right before your first line of text you could put, <FONT face=“arial, helvetica” size=“2” size=“3” face=“arial”> or <FONT face=“arial, helvetica” size=“2” size=“2” face=“verdana”>. Those are 2 pretty common fonts that every computer has so they’re pretty safe to use.
Don’t forget to close it, though. At the end of your text, but </font>
You might like this website… http://www.niagara.com/~cmonkey/course/course.htm?
It is a very easy tutorial on HTML codes that will be very helpful to you. It’s written in very simple layperson’s terms so that it’s really easy to understand the logic behind the codes. Once you get the basics down, you can learn a whole lot at http://www.htmlgoodies.com
Good luck!
Well crap. The uvb seemed to read my example of font coding. Ok, try this but use the right brackets…
(font size=“3” face=“arial”) or (font size=“2” face=“verdana”) or any other combination of font size and face that looks good to you.
Yeah, you really have to do a full reload to see changes, otherwise your browser is loading the old pages from a cache to make the web faster for you.
The best thing to do is get both Netscape & IE. Then if you can’t see the changes with one, open the other one & check.