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Oct 6, 2004, 2:02pm

I actually liked that 3d Homepage icon on the main page of Activeworlds
Inc. website so, since the icon is copyrighted by AWI, my question is: is
there any free icons out there that shows a rotating 3d house? It would make
a nice icon for my website for use as button to return to homepage.

Heh, even I liked that rotating money icon or house icon in Grand Theft
Auto: Vice City so I guess rotating 3d icon is something I like. ;)

Oh, by the way, in case you're wondering, that 3d e-mail icon on Eep's
website is really good one as well. Luckily enough I found the similar one
to it at http://www.mcfedries.com/graphics/icons/mail2.gif and it was
actually a public domain image, as stated by the website. Unless Eep made
one that is so strikingly similar to it. ;)

As on the matter of posting PNG images in newsgroup, I didn't have
website yet and I wasn't actually sure if those free website provider allows
any images to be hosted upon their own website for other than website uses.
Actually, I haven't had chance to at least do some shopping since I don't
have a website right now (and I am not sure if free sites will last long
enough, as in the case of Stas.net shut down, taking down my website. Since
then, I've been paranoid. :/ ).

The things is that for some reason I actually have a strong preference
for PNG rather than GIFs or JPGs although I still used them anyway. I can't
seem to figure out why I have that preference but I guess that have to do
with the fact that the Microsoft Paint allowed the support for PNG and that
the PNG is merely a novel thing, as it is not really as much popular as it
is with the JPG or GIF. I have tried to create some drawings in PNG format
but I was rather a crappy artist so I have to use images I can find
somewhere else.

Now, there's an idea I've thought up for my website but I'm pretty sure it
has been done by others before: creating a network of pages on different
domains to create a website. For instance, you might have few pages as part
of your website on angelfire.com while other pages are on tripod.com and
geocities, thereby forming a website. Unforunately, obviously, it would
create a slowdown.

But at least I generally preferred to have my future/upcoming website to
be geared toward the high-speed internet users and as well the Internet
Explorer users so it may not be compatible with Netscape Navigator (or
Communicator, for that matter) or Mozillia (did someone says Godizilla? ;P).
It's not like I have any REAL business, or otherwise I'd be losing money
alot, so I have nothing to worry about anyway.

Anyway, does anyone have any freewares to recommend for me to try for
designing websites (graphics, HTML, audio, etc.) or any freebies such as
graphics or sounds for that matters? Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
help, or any kinds of responses to my post here. Have a good evening (or
morning for anyone else on the globe ;P). :)

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Legion
Chairman of Rockford Township, Phin County, Alphaworld
Governor of Commonwealth of Rockford (state)

Oct 6, 2004, 3:58pm

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> Anyway, does anyone have any freewares to recommend for me to try for
> designing websites (graphics, HTML, audio, etc.) or any freebies such as
> graphics or sounds for that matters? Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
> help, or any kinds of responses to my post here. Have a good evening (or
> morning for anyone else on the globe ;P). :)
>

How about using Mozilla's built-in web page editor? <at least it will steer you away from the evil:)>

BTW - this ng will not let you post such a huge PNG (or jpg ) files any longer thanks to your ignorance!

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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Oct 6, 2004, 7:22pm

Notepad is a very nice, free program to write HTML. Trust me, learn to write
it in the code format and not using programs like Dreamweaver or something,
makes life a lot easier.

As for tutorials on how to write HTML - http://www.lissaexplains.com
It is aimed for kids, but it has a lot of information on it.
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<snip pointless chatter>

>Anyway, does anyone have any freewares to
>recommend for me to try for designing websites
>(graphics, HTML, audio, etc.)
>or any freebies such as graphics or sounds for
>that matters? Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
>help, or any kinds of responses to my post here.
>Have a good evening (or morning for anyone else on the
>globe ;P). :)

> --
> Legion
> Chairman of Rockford Township, Phin County, Alphaworld
> Governor of Commonwealth of Rockford (state)

Oct 6, 2004, 9:14pm

Make sure though, that you're learning W3C HTML and not IE specific HTML!

[View Quote] > Notepad is a very nice, free program to write HTML. Trust me, learn to write
> it in the code format and not using programs like Dreamweaver or something,
> makes life a lot easier.
>
> As for tutorials on how to write HTML - http://www.lissaexplains.com
> It is aimed for kids, but it has a lot of information on it.
> -----
> <snip pointless chatter>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Oct 7, 2004, 9:23am

[View Quote] Actually, DreamWeaver is a great program to use if you have the cash to
hand over for it. The code view is terrific, with colour coding and much
more. It's easy to set up CSS styles with DreamWeaver also.

If you are learning HTML though, start purely with Notepad (or another
basic text program which colour codes your html).

Once you know HTML, you can start to use programs such as Frontpage,
DreamWeaver and any other WYSIWYG editor, because with HTML skills, you
are able to format the rubbish programs like Frontpage make, and produce
a really good site out of it.


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DreamCities.net - A Community for All (http://www.dreamcities.net)

Oct 7, 2004, 12:32pm

OMG IE HTML = NO

>_<

[View Quote] > Frontpage

Oct 7, 2004, 1:53pm

Seriously, shut the hell up and stop putting every words in your post in
caps. >_<

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Legion
Chairman of Rockford Township, Phin County, Alphaworld
Governor of Commonwealth of Rockford (state)
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Oct 7, 2004, 1:56pm

I actually did got impression that Dreamweaver sounds certainly good ones to
get. So that should help, although I'm not sure how much expensive that
software is. But I'll certainly look into it at the store. A big thanks for
that suggestions. :)

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Legion
Chairman of Rockford Township, Phin County, Alphaworld
Governor of Commonwealth of Rockford (state)
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Oct 7, 2004, 2:18pm

Thanks for tips and links. I certainly think that Notepad has
advantages, although I think there are many applications out there that are
Notepad PLUS extra text-editing capabilties such as tags list where you can
choose a tags and then insert it in the HTML document. It's certainly nice
feature I liked.

UltraEdit has that feature. Of course, it costs money and it's shareware
which cannot be brought in store. I don't like ordering via online. I prefer
either mail or check orders OR purchasing via retail stores in local area.

Recently in Paducah, Kentucky, we've had a new Best Buy store opened
there, which results in various new options to shop for in local area, such
as NVIDIA (sp?) GeForce graphic card (which I'm planning to purchase for my
desktop computer someday) and certain new software such as Abode Photoshop
(I believe), etc.

I can't buy these software right away, as they are considerably
expensive, so I am seeking out freeware for right now while I awaits for the
day when I'm able to afford to buy certain expensive software that are
useful to designing a website.

However, that link to a website you provided for was actually somewhat
useful, as it not only provides tutorials on how to write HTML, but also
provides graphics and tools as well links to certain free softwares. Not
only these free software they provides links to are for website designing
but also apparently 3d modelling, drawing, etc. so that should keep me busy.
:) Anyway, have a good evening and may God bless everyone in the world. :)

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Legion
Chairman of Rockford Township, Phin County, Alphaworld
Governor of Commonwealth of Rockford (state)
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Oct 7, 2004, 2:19pm

Wow, that was really an insulting reply....

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Legion
Chairman of Rockford Township, Phin County, Alphaworld
Governor of Commonwealth of Rockford (state)
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Oct 7, 2004, 3:00pm

In short, as long as you have sufficent ability Dreamweaver is absolute God,
especially for developing huge sites using your own templates, PHP MySQL and
other scripting languages etc, also it has rich integrated testing and
html-validation systems.

- MR

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Oct 7, 2004, 6:27pm

[View Quote] Well, this isn't a binary newsgroup.

Oct 7, 2004, 8:13pm

And you were whining a few posts ago about insulting replies... if you don't want them, don't give them.

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Oct 7, 2004, 10:43pm

Forget it. I'm not gonna continue this stupid thread anymore. And you,
Tony M, are ordered to leave me alone. Last time I heard you, you were
flaming me about my comments telling AlexTheMartian to do the research. Back
before that, you told me to do the research. You know, I decided to not
respond to your earlier comments in Andras' newsgroup flaming against me
about my comments telling AlexTheMartian to do the research but now here I
am, that you are flaming me again.

I will respectfully ask you to leave me alone. Besides, this was your
only reply in this newsgroup in a significant period of time since you've
last replied here and on the same day. Sounds like you're targetting me
here, perhaps having grudge against me. One more time flaming me again and I
will have you filtered (if I ever figured that out). Once filtered, your
comments against me won't do any good. Capiche?

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Legion
Chairman of Rockford Township, Phin County, Alphaworld
Governor of Commonwealth of Rockford (state)
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Oct 7, 2004, 11:04pm

[View Quote] If you plan on filtering someone, you don't need to write an essay about it: just filter and be done with it. Public displays like this don't help your cause.

Oct 7, 2004, 11:22pm

[View Quote] http://usenetshit.info is a great site to visit if you wish to learn
CSS. Brucie is a terrific coder in HTML, CSS and PHP.

For example, visit some of his pages and go to 'View Source'... Enjoy!


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DreamCities.net - A Community for All (http://www.dreamcities.net)

Oct 8, 2004, 6:01am

[View Quote] > http://usenetshit.info is a great site to visit if you wish to learn
> CSS. Brucie is a terrific coder in HTML, CSS and PHP.
>
> For example, visit some of his pages and go to 'View Source'... Enjoy!
>
>

That is a cool site! Thanks for the link.

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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Oct 8, 2004, 7:01am

[View Quote] Glad you like it.

Brucie is a frequent poster to alt.www.webmaster and alt.html on Usenet.
Strange character, great work ;o)

Anduin

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DreamCities.net - A Community for All (http://www.dreamcities.net)

Oct 8, 2004, 5:56pm

http://www.activeworlds.com/images/house4.gif

This is the graphic icon for house that I'm referring to as "rotating 3d
house icon". My question to Activeworlds Inc. is this: Is it okay to use
that graphic for my webpage? Surely my website isn't for commercial-purpose,
as I currently have no interests in making money off my website.

I actually liked that graphic and would make a nice icon for clicking to
return to my homepage and also would make a nice icon for a link to 3d
Homepage section of Active Worlds official website in my AW section.

My website are planned to be home to Rockford Township (in Alphaworld),
the state of Rockford (generally covering universe-wide networks of towns
that some friends of mine and I've created), Circle of Peace Inc., a virtual
company that doesn't actually make any money at all anyway (it just
basically manages the network of towns under the state of Rockford through
maintainence of roads/highways and other aspects of public works in there),
and et cetera. So it's pretty much a personal/non-commercial website.

I haven't determined what website providers to use for my website,
although at this point I'd have to go with free webspace providers
unfortunately. Plus, apparently there has been some discoveries of existing
free image hosting networks but I'm still investigating it so not much to
say about it. Certainly an important thing to know that at any time you
considers a new services or products from a companies or businesses, you
must throughly investigates it and especially the fine prints that may
exists somewhere in there. Anyway, enough about that.

I've apparently discovered a quite good (and free for some reason) HTML
editor at: www.chami.com/html-kit/

Any other recommendations to make for my website? Heh, we should've
brought back general discussion newsgroup. But don't assume that, in
considerations of recent threads started by me that somewhat ((I doubt))
prompted Alphaworld cell data limit increases ((I doubt)), the newsgroup
will be brought back because I just say that. ;) No promises. :P

Jeeze, I've written another essay-like piece. ;)

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Legion
Chairman of Rockford Township, Phin County, Alphaworld
Governor of Commonwealth of Rockford (state)

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