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    August 03

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    Due to the changes in msn and the amount of time it is going to take to update and check my 5 sites this one will no longer take comments and will not be updated.
     
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    PLEASE KEEP A LINK TO IT ON YOUR SITE SO THAT YOU CAN COME BACK TO LEARN MORE WHENEVER IT PLEASES YOU.
     
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    April 23

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    Lesson Thirty-Three - Full Page Blog With Custom Lists Inside

    This Lesson Will Show you how to make your blog module as wide as your page and then have all your custom lists appear inside it down the right hand edge.
     
    This is how this page is set out
     
    This code will only be in effect while the blog containing the code is visable on your main screen. This means as soon as the blog containing the code is not visible when your page is opened by your visitors the screen will revert to it's original form of a separate blog column and custom list column.
     
    • To begin you need to choose the layout of: Left hand wide column and a narrow right hand column.
    Do this by choosing customise while you are on the Edit my page view. Then select layout. Then select the layout described. Don't forget to Save.
     
    • Next You need to put this little code in your custom box at the end of the rest of the html. </table>
    Then Save
     
    (If you don't have a custom box find out how to add one by following lesson 13 on this page.)
     
    • Next Make a new blog entry and click on html. Put this code onto the page that opens.

    </table></table><table><tr><td><div><div><table>

    (Nothing else must go in this blog with the code. So title it something you will recognise and can come back to - for Instance -  the name of your site. Then if the code stops working you can copy and paste the html into a new entry and it will start working again. You must then delete the first entry or the two tables will conflict with each other.)

     

     

    WHEN YOU PREVIEW YOUR SITE YOU MAY FIND THAT THE MAIN BLOG TEXT STARTS TOO FAR DOWN THE PAGE WHILE THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN STARTS AT THE TOP.

    THIS IS CAUSED BY THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN CUSTOM LISTS BEING LONGER THAN THE BLOG ENTRIES. SIMPLY GO INTO YOUR BLOG SETTINGS AND CHANGE THE NUMBER SO THAT MORE ENTRIES SHOW ON YOUR PAGE.

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    February 04

    Lesson Thirty-Two - Adding A Shoutbox For Guest Comments

    Please leave your comments here

     

    View shoutbox

     

    To get your free shoutbox

     

    CLICK HERE

     

    1. Register for your free shoutbox by clicking on the above link
    2. Collect your shoutbox code from the site
    3. Add a new entry to your blog
    4. Click on <html>
    5. Copy and paste the code to this new page.
    6. Click on <html>
    7. See the notice 'View shoutbox' Edit as required

     

    THANK YOU FOR TAKING THIS LESSON PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT ON MY SHOUTBOX.

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    January 30

    Hello and Welcome

     

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    WELCOME TO INDIA'S DEN OF SPACES INFORMATION

     

     
    HERE YOU WILL FIND MANY USEFUL, UNUSUAL AND ENTERTAINING THINGS TO ADD TO YOUR MSN SPACE.
     
    THERE ARE LESSONS TEACHING YOU HOW TO ADD DIFFERENT EFFECTS TO YOUR SITE AND LINKS TO SOME WEB PAGES WHERE YOU WILL FIND SOME EXCITING EXTRA'S
     
    I OWE MOST OF MY KNOWLEDGE FOR THE LESSONS YOU FIND HERE TO THE EXPERTS - PLEASE VISIT THEIR LINKS
     
     
      
     
    PLEASE USE AND ENJOY - LEAVE LOTS OF MESSAGES - ASK FOR HELP AND SPREAD THE WORD.
     
     
     
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    Lesson Thirty-One - Animated Background

    PUT THE FOLLOWING HTML INTO YOUR BLOG
    CLICK ON <HTML>
    COPY AND PASTE IT THERE
     
    ENTER THE URL ADDRESS OF YOUR ANIMATION WHERE SHOWN IN THE HTML.
     
    IT MUST EITHER BE IN IT'S OWN BLOG OR AT BOTTOM OF LAST BLOG
    THE ANIMATION WILL AFFECT ALL PREVIOUS ENTRY'S
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    <pre></table></table><table background="URL OF PICTURE LOCATION"><tr><td><div><table style="display:none"></pre>
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    Lesson Thirty - Scrollbar

    Enter content here.

    Here is the HTML to enter a scrollbar into your blog:

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    <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: orange 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: orange 1px solid; SCROLLBAR-FACE-COLOR: #999999; SCROLLBAR-HIGHLIGHT-COLOR: #ffffff; OVERFLOW: scroll; BORDER-LEFT: orange 1px solid; WIDTH: 100%; COLOR: #000000; SCROLLBAR-3DLIGHT-COLOR: #000000; SCROLLBAR-ARROW-COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; SCROLLBAR-DARKSHADOW-COLOR: #000000; HEIGHT: 200px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #999999" align=center>
    <DIV align=left>

    Enter content here.

    </div>
    </div>

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    • Click on <HTML>
    • Copy and paste this HTML into the window that opens.
    • Click on <HTML> again and see the words - 'Enter content here'.
    • Enter your content.
    • When you have entered enough content to fill the box then the scrollbars will appear.
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    January 26

    Lesson Twenty-Nine - Rainbow Writing

    GO To wHeRe yOu cAn mAkE ThIs

     

    Crazy Beautiful Rainbow Writing

    Take-Me-Now

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    Lesson Twenty-Eight - Visitor Timer

     

    Here is a counter to tell your visitors how long they have spent on your site.

    Copy and paste the timer onto your next blog.

    Timer designed by Remy See his page by looking in my experts column.

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    September 24

    Introduction

     

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    WELCOME TO INDIA'S DEN OF SPACES INFORMATION

     

     
    HERE YOU WILL FIND MANY USEFUL, UNUSUAL AND ENTERTAINING THINGS TO ADD TO YOUR MSN SPACE.
     
    THERE ARE LESSONS TEACHING YOU HOW TO ADD DIFFERENT EFFECTS TO YOUR SITE AND LINKS TO SOME WEB PAGES WHERE YOU WILL FIND SOME EXCITING EXTRA'S
     
    I OWE MOST OF MY KNOWLEDGE FOR THE LESSONS YOU FIND HERE TO THE EXPERTS - PLEASE VISIT THEIR LINKS
     
     
      
     
    PLEASE USE AND ENJOY - LEAVE LOTS OF MESSAGES - ASK FOR HELP AND SPREAD THE WORD.
     
     
     
    LOVE TO YOU ALL OLD AND NEW FRIENDS ALIKE
     
    INDIA
     

    Email Me

     

     
    LIFE BEGINS AT 40
     
     
     

    JOIN THE RING

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    Lesson Twenty-Seven - Changing The Order Of Your Column List

    I was asked recently if I knew of a way of changing the order of the items in a list. There is only one way I know of and depending on the length of your list it can be time consuming.
     
    1. First you need to know that every new item added to a list is placed at the bottom.
    2. Next you need to know that every time you edit any information on one of those items when you save the changes that item goes to the bottom of the list.
     
    So here is what you do
     
    • Go to Edit My Page and find your column.
    • Click on Edit List
    • Now you have a complete list of all the items in the list.
    • Start with the item you want to appear first in your ideal order.
    • Click on the Edit pencil then click Save.
    • Don't do this action too quickly or you get an error message. Leave a second or two between clicking on edit and clicking on save.
    • Continue to do this until you have the order you desire.
    • Don't expect the list to change in front of your eyes. Nothing will appear to change order until you refresh the screen. You don't want to do this until you have finished the editing.
     
    Hope you find this useful
     
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    Lesson Twenty-Six - Keeping All Your HTML Codes Safe.

    This is the best advice I can give to anyone who is making improvements to their site using HTML.
     
    FIRST:
    Open a word document.
    Click on File
    Click on Save As
    Title it 'My MSN HTML Codes'
    Save it to your desktop
    Click Save
    THEN:
    Everytime you use an HTML code copy and paste it into this document and save it. Make sure you title the code so you know what it does.
     
    Now if anything happens on your site, and you need to reload the code, you have a record of it. Then you don't have to remember where and how you got it in the first place.
     
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    Lesson Twenty-Five - Return To Home Page

     

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    Here is my button to return to the home page. Click on this button and it will return you to my entry page.

    Here is how to make one for yourself.

     

    • Find a small picture/icon that you would like to use as a button. See column heading Clipart & Animations.
    • Upload the picture/icon to a storage site. See column heading Storage sites.
    • Open a word document and copy then paste the following code into the page.

    <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><A href="http://spaces.msn.com/members/india-e-jones/#toppage"><FONT size=5><IMG style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; LEFT: 355px; VISIBILITY: visible; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; WIDTH: 31px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid; TOP: 240px; HEIGHT: 33px" height=28 src="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b264/songfairy/Welcome/Backgrounds%20Banners/bfly.gif" width=30></FONT></A>&nbsp;Fly Away Home

    • Change the blue URL with your own space address
    • Change the pink URL with the address of the picture/icon
    • Change the green text with your own message e.g home or start.

    Copy and paste the revised text into your blog wherever you want your visitor to be able to return to the top of the page rather than have to scroll.

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    September 18

    Lesson Twenty-Four - Embedding Photo's In Your Text.

     
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    I HAVE BEEN ASKED HOW TO EMBED PHOTO'S INTO THE TEXT. SO HERE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS.
     
    THE PHOTO'S YOU WANT TO USE SHOULD EITHER BE STORED ON A STORAGE SITE (SEE EXAMPLES UNDER STORAGE SITES ON MY HOME PAGE) OR IN YOUR OWN PHOTOALBUM ON YOUR SITE.
     
    COPY AND PASTE PICTURES  FROM YOUR PHOTOALBUM INTO YOUR BLOG. THEN PUBLISH ENTRY.
    YOU WILL NEED TO DO THIS BEFORE YOU CAN ALTER THE POSITION OF THE PICTURE.
     
    OPEN THE BLOG AGAIN
    RIGHT CLICK ON THE PICTURE - YOU GET THIS LIST
      • HORIZONTAL ALIGN
      • VERTICAL ALIGN
      • SIZE
    HORIZONTAL ALIGN
     
    FROM THE LIST CHOOSE 'HORIZONTAL ALIGN' TO TELL THE PICTURE WHERE YOU WANT IT TO BE IN RELATION TO THE TEXT
     
    WHEN YOU CLICK ON THIS YOU WILL GET ANOTHER MENU WITH THESE CHOICES
    • REMOVE
    • LEFT
    • RIGHT
    • CENTRE
    REMOVE
     
    THIS WILL REMOVE ALL PREVIOUS SETTINGS - CLICK ON THIS FIRST TO MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO DEFAULT SETTINGS
     
    LEFT
     
    HORIZONTAL LEFT - PICTURE ON THE LEFT OF TEXT
    THIS ENABLES YOU TO WRAP THE TEXT
    TO THE LEFT OF THE PICTURE
     
     
     
     
     RIGHT
    HORIZONTAL RIGHT - HERE THE TEXT IS ON THE RIGHT OF THE PICTURE.
    THE TEXT WILL WRAP AROUND THE PICTURE 
     
     
     
     
     
    CENTRE
     
    THIS WILL ALIGN THE TEXT SO THAT THE TEXT WILL WRAP BOTH SIDES OF THE PICTURE.
     
    VERTICAL ALIGN
     
    WHEN YOU CLICK ON THIS YOU WILL GET THE FOLLOWING MENU
     
    • REMOVE
    • TOP
    • TEXT TOP
      • MIDDLE
      • BOTTOM
      • TEXT BOTTOM

    USE THESE COMMANDS TO PLACE THE TEXT IN POSITION AGAINST THE VERTICAL LINE OF THE PICTURE.

     

       

     
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    September 13

    Lesson Twenty-Three - Using Permalink

    What is Permalink?
     
     
    When you click on permalink it opens up a box with the exact address
    of that blog as it is found on the web.
     
    With this address you can acurately find that page
    out of the many millions of pages on the web.
     
    Copy and paste this permalink into a custom list.
     
     
    Have fun
     
     
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    Lesson Twenty-Two - Placing An Image In A Blog

     

    Choose your Image that you want to place in the blog and have it hosted by a storage website.

    There are many of these. For some suggestions, see my column headed Storage Sites.

     

    I use photobucket and am very pleased with them.

    The following directions apply to photobucket

     

    When you have uploaded your photo it will be stored in your album and it will have 3 codes attatched to it. You can easily copy and paste these codes.

    • The first code is the URL. When ever you see a piece of code that has a URL in it you can replace it with your URL code
    • The second is a tag. You use the tag to reproduce the image into your blog.
    • The third is an img. You use this to reproduce the image into someones online guestbook.

    We are concerned here with Placing the image in your blog.

    This is very simple.

    • Copy the tag
    • Open the <HTML> in your blog
    • Paste the tag into it.

    By default the image will appear on the left of the blog.

    Add this piece of code before the tag to place it either in the center or on the right

    <div align=center>

    or

    <div align=right>

     

    Have fun
     
     
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    September 11

    Lesson Twenty-One - Adding A Playlist To Windows Media Player

     
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    With this code you can add a playlist to your Windows Media player so that your visitors can choose
    which track they want to listen to.
    It will also play through the playlist automatically.
     
    This is quite complicated to follow so please take each step slowly and make sure you follow each step closely.
     
    • If you don't have Windows media player on your site Go Here
    • Open Notepad ( click in this order - start, programs, accessories, notepad)
    • Select File - then select Save As
    • Save notepad as Playlist.mp3 - (Change this to be the format of the items in the playlist. eg. .wma or .avi etc. all tracks must have the same format.)
      • Save as type - all files 
    • Copy and paste this code into notepad
    • <ASX Version="3.0">
      <title>NAME OF MUSIC LIST</title>
      <entry>
      <title>NAME OF SONG</title>
      <author>NAME OF ARTIST</author>
      <Ref       href="THE URL OF THE MUSIC FILE"/>
      </entry>
      </asx>
    • Save
    • Change the information shown in Green.
    • NAME OF MUSICLIST - Call it whatever you want so you will recognise it. I called mine simply Playlist
    • NAME OF SONG - Or track.
    • NAME OF ARTIST - Who is it made or performed by
    • THE URL OF THE MUSIC FILE - Get this from your storage site
    • To add more tracks copy and paste this section only:
    • <entry>
      <title>NAME OF SONG      </title>
      <author>      NAME OF ARTIST      </author>
      <Ref       href="THE URL OF THE MUSIC FILE      "/>
      </entry>
    • into the code above immediately after the </entry>
      and before </asx> This is really important.
    • You can enter as many new tracks as you like
    • Make sure you save your work often.
    • When you have finished you can upload the playlist to your storage site. (see storage sites column on my home page)
    •  Collect the URL of the playlist from your storage site and paste it into the media player make sure the player is set to display mode FULL
    • SAVE
    • PREVIEW PAGE
    • FINGERS CROSSED
    • This code was imagined and created by Jawarlock
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    September 05

    Lesson Twenty - Framed Text

     
     

    The Best way to describe this little code is to illustrate it.

    This is a song I have written

    Please do not copy it. 

     

    The Child Behind The Woman's Eyes

     

    She is huddled in a corner with her face against the wall

    She is shaking in her misery without the strength to call

    Won't someone out there help her before she has to fall

    She's the child behind the woman's eyes

     

    The nights are long she cannot seem to sleep

    She knows what's coming she hears the footsteps creep

    She hears the breathing her heart is filled with fear

    In that moment her mind has disappeared

    She's the child behind the woman's eyes

     

    She is hiding no one hears her cries She is pleading stop these awful lies She's the child behind the woman's eyes

     

    He says he loves her but all he gives is pain

    He says he needs her and here he comes again

    She wants to believe him but still it hurts the same

    She is the child behind the woman's eyes

     

    You can't see her She's used to keeping still

    Cos she know the consequences will

    Be more frightening than stiffling her cries

    She is the Child behind the woman's eyes

     

     

    You need 3 pictures for this code. Upload them to a storage site. There are some links to storage sites on this page.

    Copy the URL of the pictures and place them in the places shown in this HTML code.

    HERE IS THE CODE:

     

    <table border="1" width="558" cellspacing=40 background="http://picture 1"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing=40 background="http://picture 2"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <table border="1" width="100%" background="http://picture 3"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="300" >ENTER YOUR OWN TEXT HERE</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>

     

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    Lesson Nineteen - Opacity Settings

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    IN THIS LESSON YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO:

     

    • Make a picture for a background lighter or darker
    • Fade out into the edges of the picture
    • Fade into the middle.
    • Change the style of the fade

     

    FIRST TAKE A PICTURE

    Upload it to a storage site like Photobucket (For other suggestions see list heading 'Storage Sites')

    Copy and Paste the picture URL into this code where indicated:

     

     <IMG style="filter: alpha(Opacity=100, FinishOpacity=100, Style=2)" src="Your-Picture-URL">

     

    Opacity=100 - This is the start Opacity

    FinishOpacity=100 - This is the finish Opacity

    100 = Normal  0 = Invisible

     

    Now all you have to do is decide where you want the Opacity to start and finish.

      • Where you start it, the picture will be darker
      • Where you end it, the picture will be lighter.

    To choose the start and finish you change the Style=2 number

          • 1 = Fades Left to Right
          • 2 = Fades Centrally
          • 3 = Fades From Corners

     

     Style 1

     Style 2

     Style 3

    Making the Pictue into a Watermark

     

     

    Change both Opacity settings to be the same number This one is 50/50 you can take away as little or as much of the colour as you need.

     
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