Well,
here is the result of my pluging away trying to understand the HTML world. As you can see, I'm playing with tables, table borders, images, image borders, animated gif's, colors, etc. Boy, have I got to learn a hell of a lot more! The most difficult thing is to find what one is looking for, e.g., how to have separate tables or images with different colored borders lined up horizontally with a space in between. Nowhere did I see this shown and explained. I googled and googled and googled for a week to no avail. I finally was able to do this by the good old and reliable if sometimes time consuming 'cut-and-try' method. I can see that if I want to come out with a "properly designed' complex page, I will have to resort to specialized software like Dreamweaver or GoLive or such. And yes I better get myself a book on the subject.
Of course I found that different browsers render things differently. I understand this, as browser design, like other software, is an evolving process. For those with IE 5, you will hear background music which is not present with Netscape, nor iCab, nor Opera. I don't know about Safari as my OS 9.0.4/9.1 does not allow me to load it.
I would appreciate if some of you could check and report on the rendering of my page with various browsers versions, Mac or PC. On my Mac, I know that Netscape 4.79 messes things up, probably caused by incorrect or incomplete coding on my part. iCab 2.9 shows the correct layout but does not show any table or image borders. IE 5.1.7, Netscape 7.02, Opera 6.0, work fine.
For those of you that may look at the source coding, you will notice a space between the steps. Currently it's my way to easily recognize where I am in the coding.
jb
