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Jewel · #16 (**permalink**) 05-21-2008, 04:42 PM

Hi James,

I just came to answer Podlod and saw your reply!

Since you looked at that page I have actually added three more pictures. What an ordeal! Remember, I am using the blockbuilder and I am slowly, inch by inch, learning html as I go along. (for anybody thinking about sbi...you don't have to do any of what I mention below with SBI...this is my choice to go a little advanced and out of the box)

I found an sbi article which talked about image galleries and had some html code to place the pictures in a horizontal view. It had code for three pictures (just replace the "variable code" with your own particular site names) and text below them. I copied and replaced....then somehow reached into the recesses of my mind from learning Cobol and Fortran many many many years ago to look at the code. Even though the specific commands are different, the basic concept of writing code still remains the same which you probably already now..anyway I am getting off track. So I was able to figure out sort of what the meanings of the codes were (I have also been visiting the w3 school site to learn some code.)

I deleted a bunch of bells and whistles in the template code and narrowed it to two pictures on each line. I also found the code to make the image clickable to the larger image. I didn't put the text under the picture because the copy on that page is so simple.

Do you think I should still make those thumbnails larger? Does it look more balanced now?

I have been trying to figure out how to make it say "Click here for larger image" when the mouse is hovered over the picture. I got it to do it...but then when clicked it brought me back to the home page instead of the larger image of that thumbnail, so I deleted what I had put in there and I need to figure out how to do it right.

Overall I think it looks good..but I am exhausted by this process of trial and error AND I am not happy with the way I am learning. It is too haphazard.

Can you recommend a good HTML and/or CSS book I can use while I am doing this? I would like a book to sit in front of me while I am doing it...rather than having to flip back and forth constantly between windows on the computer!