Ok I found a picture and I wanted to make it into a layout. When I asked the webmistress how you do it (sinc eit was originally a layout but had no HTML) she told me to go to view source on internet explorer which I did. But I have no clue what to do with it. My website is geocities and I am crappy at big HTML crap. Help!

I think what you need to do is code the layout...how you want it to look, you know? The first thing you need to do is learn HTML....so start reading lissaexplains!

http://lissaexplains.com/basics.shtml

I get HTML it's just I can't upload my picture as a layout...

euhm, you have to make a layout first.....

Just code your html in an .html file from notepad. Then upload the image and the .html file and you should be done. So anywhere in your html you should linke to your image to let it show up in your layout

Love,
mirna

there are a lot of different codes to use...which do you suggest?

you said you get html.. no offense really, but how come you don't know where to start then?

http://lissaexplains.com/basics.shtml

read those codes first, it's the best way to start with. I can't give you any codes, becuase it's not just copy and paste to do. With that you will never learn :)

Love,
Mirna

I know a little HTML and what I meant to say was one code said backround= another had many different HTML codes and so on...I was just wondering which was the best to use for a geocities type of website since all are different....I've already read the basics too :D

we are not mind readers, so we could not have known you where talking about background=whatever. Please be more specific the next time.

now what do you want to know? about which part of a layout?

Love,
Mirna

ok well I was browsing Lissa Explains It All site and I went to the neopets page, I liked the layout so I copied the code. I do not get what they mean by the adress of your picture. I know I might sound really...stupid but I'm not that great at computors even though I'm trying really hard to learn.

you copied someone else's coding? that's not really that good, it's copying someone's part of the site. They worked for it to code it too.

but with adress of the image they mean the adres of the image you have uploaded.
So for example your site is www.yourdomain.com and you upload an image called myimage.gif then your adress of the image will be:

http://www.yourdomain.com/myimage.gif

Love,
Mirna

Gah, what I meant to say was I went to Lissa neopets page and copied the coding she gave. Ok so as long as I upload it it will be www.geocities.com/mysite/blah.gif?

yes, unless you make a subdirectory (folder) then the adress will become longer. Like this:

subdirectory: pictures
url: http://www.geocities.com/mysite/pictures/myimage.gif

and so on. You can also link it like this if you have got the .html file into the same directory as the image:

<img src="myimage.gif">

or when you have got it in a subdirectory (the image):

<img src="pictures/myimage.gif">

Love,
Mirna

I did what you told me to and somehow it didn't turn out. If you have the time maybe you can tell me what I did wrong http://www.geocities.com/demonloving It's the second page but somehow it doesn't turn out when I write the Full URL. I just want to thank you so much for your help. I greatly apprieciate it.

you have linked:

http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif

unless you have got an account at geocities.com with the name "clipart" the image will show. But when i filled in the url in my adress bar i did see nothing.

IF the image does excist, it will not show either because geocities.com doesn't allow direct linking from site to site. Unless you have got that image on your own account (demonloving) then it will work

also urls like these:

http://www.yourimageaddress.com/yourbkgimage.gif

don't work, becuase the are not valid urls. Just in case you are wondering :)

Love,
MIrna

Yeah..I did upload it onto my account and the code I used had a few places to put in a backround image in which I typed....http://www.geocities.com/demonloving/inuyashaw7.jpg hence the pictures name