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Feb 14.2007

Hey guys! Im a complete beginner and im only a boy so be gentle:rolleyes:

Ok I use AOL, but my problem is not solved me switching to Internet Explorer.

I have red the first page and part of the second page on learning HTML.

I have created a VERY VERY basic page on notepad using what I know from reading.

I tried .htm (I use xp) and nothing happend. When I used *.html (the star is important?). Whe I save it under this file type and click save several times a little aol comes up witht he rest of my documents with whatever I called it by the side.

I click this and it simply opens up the notepad page. When I click open or AOL and IE under file it isnt there after alot of searching.

Can anyone please help me? I’m sure this is a commen basic problem but I really want to learn.?

Thanks guys!

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@aj_nscFeb 14.2007 — I'm not sure exactly what you did. But you need to save your file as something.html where something is whatever you want to call it. You can't save it as *.html, you need to give it a name. If that wasn't your problem, sorry, thats what I gathered from your post.
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@Tweak4Feb 14.2007 — Just to clarify, on Windows machines, "*" is a wildcard character. Basically, "*.html" means "every file that ends with '.html'". It isn't a valid filename, and the machine won't let you name a file *.
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@the_treeFeb 14.2007 — Just to clarify, on Windows machines, "*" is a wildcard character. Basically, "*.html" means "every file that ends with '.html'". It isn't a valid filename, and the machine won't let you name a file *.[/QUOTE]Using an asterix as a wildcard is a common feature in search functions, but not a restricting function on filenames. Under both Posix and NTFS file systems you may use any Unicode character (actually, you can only have filenames a maximum of 32768 characters long, but that's another story). The machine should have no trouble letting you name the file *.html, although index.html is much more urm... normal.
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@engihabFeb 14.2007 — OK YOU ARE USING notepad SO

AFTER YOU WRITE YOUR CODE

GO TO SAVE YOUR WORK

JUST WRITE YOUR FILE NAME LIKE EXAMPLE.HTML

IN THE FILE NAME ... OK

THEN CHOOSE THE [B]ALL FILES[/B] FROM SAVE A TYPE

THEN CLICK SAVE

TRY IT AND EVRY THING OK ?
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@Fable_464authorFeb 15.2007 — Ive tried your suggestions and nothing seems to work. IT comes up saying File Not Found. P.S I am a beginner to EVERYTHING on the technical side of computers... almost ish.

Im trying to learn scripts and so forth because I know what I want to do as work.

Please continue with your ideas.

(P.S...again. The file name I put in IS correct...so.)
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@the_treeFeb 15.2007 — [i]Exactly[/i] what file name are you using and how are you trying to open the file?
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@Fable_464authorFeb 15.2007 — well i used the example given here

example.html

(no caps)

I use open file on AOL it auto goes to the browser. It just isnt there. Ive had a quick look around for it to. Also as stated that message comes up when I type the file name in.
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@Fable_464authorFeb 15.2007 — I dont really want to use IE either btw.
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@aj_nscFeb 15.2007 — Beginner to everything eh? No problem, we'll do this step by step.

Step 1 - Go into notepad and type in all the example code that you wanted to

Step 2 - (see attachment) When you go to File and click "Save" or "Save As" (either or) you will see the image that I have attached. Click on "Desktop" (it's on the left side and looks like a button), then type in what I have typed in the file name field - example.html, then click save.

Step 3 - Go to your Desktop and double click this file, it will most likely open up in Internet Explorer.

I know you said you don't want to use IE, but we just want to see if we can get to the bottom of this first.

Let us know what happens

[upl-file uuid=926e4e09-11f0-4058-a8aa-1450b464a4a5 size=34kB]saveas.JPG[/upl-file]
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@Fable_464authorFeb 15.2007 — Thanks very much I'll just try it. BTW I know what the desktop button is but thanks very much! =P. I suppose you could say I use the computer alot but dont know much about behind the scenes.
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@Fable_464authorFeb 15.2007 — Ok FANTASTIC. It has come up with the white page and my simple message (on AOL as it is my default server.)

Now any Ideas on how to make it show up when I click open files?

I would liekt o learn some stuff from you guys also.. maybe the guides do that but 1-1 is alot better.=P if theres anything basic any of you want to teach me. =D
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@the_treeFeb 15.2007 — Default browser dear, not server.

Right click on your file and go for the Open With dialogue, set whatever program you like to be the default for opening that type of file.
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@Fable_464authorFeb 15.2007 — Ok Ive done this. However still when I go into File - Open it wont apear.
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@Fable_464authorFeb 15.2007 — Wohay! Ive got it to work thanks for all your help guys! Now if there are any nice things you want to teach me go ahead. Or if not thanks and maybe we will talk again when I know a bit more.
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@engihabFeb 15.2007 — ok if it so

try you file with your ie or whatever you use

then your test should show up

if not tel us ?
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@the_treeFeb 16.2007 — Honestly, knowing that AOL is a hulking great piece of crap is kind of where my knowledge ends on that topic. I don't know exactly how it handles getting things off of the file system and I certainly don't know all the intricacies of its bugs.

You may want to either use a browser that someone actually knows about like Internet Explorer or Firefox (AOL hasn't had been a statistically significant browser for the past five years) or if you really insist on using the AOL browser (I can't imagine why, the few times I've had to use it I have just got really angry) then maybe you should set up a local web server using WAMP or XAMPP and get at your files that way so AOL doesn't need to worry about them being local files, although then you are talking about a much steeper learning curve.
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@Fable_464authorFeb 16.2007 — Ok then. Saying im using IE. I agree AOL bgus you around but I use it becuase it there and... I duno why I dont change it..

Anyway so.. yea fire away
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