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Re: [therelief] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Okay, I got myself off track there, LOL. Back to the question:

So how would I code it if I want the background to be an image? I understand the HTML color values, but I don't know how to type it in since it's a background image (am I saying this right?).
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Re: [therelief] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Did the code I gave you for the navigation bar work?

If you want the background image use:

Code:

background: url(path/to/image);


inside whatever style tag you want.

- Jonathan
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Re: [jdgamble] How do I add a form field? In reply to
I'm still stuck on this background thing. Here's the code I entered on the CSS, but nothing is happening:

body { url(http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/images/bggreydiag.gif);
}

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Re: [therelief] How do I add a form field? In reply to
try:

Code:

.body {

background: url(path/to/image);

}

- Jonathan
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Re: [jdgamble] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Hmmm... still not working. Any other ideas?
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Re: [therelief] How do I add a form field? In reply to
I didn't mean the . on ".body", it should just be "body". Also, use quotes in the url like so:

Code:

body {
background: url('http://www.imagepath');
}

- Jonathan
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Re: [jdgamble] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Still not working...Here's where I put that (is this wrong?):

body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
color: #33332e;
background: url('http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/images/bdgreydiag.gif'); }
font: normal 11px tahoma, geneva, verdana, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
}
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Re: [therelief] How do I add a form field? In reply to
  background: url(http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/images/bdgreydiag.gif);


By the way the image does not even show up in a browser, make sure you have the image path correct to start with.


Sandra Roussel
Chonsa Group Design - Fresh Start Housing
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Re: [SandraR] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Success! Thank you!

Now I just have to add the white color so the white spacers aren't showing.

Also, any idea what needs to be changed with regard to that error message I get when I try to add the First_Name and Last_Name columns?
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Re: [therelief] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Oh, grrrrr---how do I change these two groups of code so that the background is white?

<table width="800" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="10" height="65"><img src="/images/spacerwhite.gif" alt="~" width="10" height="10" /></td>
<td>

</td>
<td width="10" height="65"><img src="/images/spacerwhite.gif" alt="~" width="10" height="10" /></td>
</tr>
</table>

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Re: [therelief] How do I add a form field? In reply to
<table width="800" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="white">
<tr>
<td width="10" height="65"><img src="/images/spacerwhite.gif" alt="~" width="10" height="10" /></td>
<td>
&nbsp;</td>
<td width="10" height="65"><img src="/images/spacerwhite.gif" alt="~" width="10" height="10" /></td>
</tr>
</table>


Sandra Roussel
Chonsa Group Design - Fresh Start Housing
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Re: [SandraR] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Thanks, and sorry--my bad--those were actually two different codes, but for some reason my post didn't recognize the space. Here's the other code:


</td>
<td width="10" height="65"><img src="/images/spacerwhite.gif" alt="~" width="10" height="10" /></td>
</tr>
</table>


Where do I put that white code in there?

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therelief: Sep 27, 2006, 10:25 AM
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Re: [therelief] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Its still the same - what you are asking is pretty basic HTML

bgcolor="white"

<td width="10" height="65" bgcolor="white">

Some great HTML resources:

http://www.domedia.org/oveklykken/articles.php

http://www.case.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/http://www.domedia.org/oveklykken/articles.php


Sandra Roussel
Chonsa Group Design - Fresh Start Housing
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Re: [SandraR] How do I add a form field? In reply to
I did try that before I asked, but it didn't change anything which is why I then asked. I'll go try again and see what happens.
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Re: [therelief] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Thanks for the resources--but I'm not here to learn html, nor do I have time to spare for all that. I'm simply trying to get the software we purchased to look and work the way we want it. I do appreciate all your help though very much!!!
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Re: [therelief] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Okay, here's what I already have in there and it is not changing a thing:

</td> <td width="10" height="65" bgcolor="white"><img src="/images/spacerwhite.gif" alt="~" width="10" height="10" /></td> </tr> </table>
<%include include_contentfooter.html%>

If you look at the page, you can see down at the bottom where the spacers are, but the background isn't changing to white: http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/directory/
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Re: [SandraR] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Forgot to add you may want to get a good WYSIWYG web editor, my favorite is Namo Web Editor.
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Sandra Roussel
Chonsa Group Design - Fresh Start Housing
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Re: [SandraR] How do I add a form field? In reply to
I would have done it different but what you need is:


<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="800"> <tbody><tr> <td height="10" width="10" bgcolor="white"><img src="http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/images/spacerwhite.gif" alt="~" height="10" width="10"></td> <td>


Sandra Roussel
Chonsa Group Design - Fresh Start Housing
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Re: [SandraR] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Success! thank you :)
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Re: [therelief] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Now, I'm back to working on getting the First_Name and Last_Name columns added. This is how I was told to fill out the form by someone else:

Column Name: First_Name
Column Type: VARCHAR
Column Index: None
Column Size: 255
Column Values:
Not Null: Yes
Default:
Form Display: First Name
Form Type: Text
Form Size: 20
Form Names:
Form Values:
Form Save Location:
File Save URL:
File Save Method: default
File Maximum Size:
Form Regex:
Search Weight: 1


However, I got this error message:

Unable to add column 'First_Name': Column First_Name was specified as not null, but has no default value

Do you know what needs to be fixed?
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Re: [therelief] How do I add a form field? In reply to
set not_null to no

- Jonathan
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Re: [jdgamble] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Thanks!

Okay, I've got those two columns created and I got the include_form template updated. Yea!

Now, I'm back to the orange nav bar thing.

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therelief: Sep 27, 2006, 5:44 PM
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Re: [therelief] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Use the code I gave you EXACTLY:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...orum.cgi?post=294137

- Jonathan
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Re: [jdgamble] How do I add a form field? In reply to
Thanks, I did end up finding that again--sorry, just got lost after everything.
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