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Of course you're new, I was just trying to give you some ideas beyond simple formatting using HTML tags - if there are marks/credits to be had then that's where they'll surely be.

Anne's suggestion is in line with what I mentioned about using javascript to do something when you move your mouse over an area. My idea was to display a randomly selected background image from a few you provide, changing either on page refresh or every x seconds. I think though, that you would need to use server-side scripting code in your CSS file or client-side javascript in the HTML document.

The latter is just more of what Anne showed you, the former is likely beyond your scope, requiring a scripting language such as PHP or ASP. I think I've long since lost the (simple) code necessary, although I'll post it if I run across it in the next day or two. Sorry for the bum lead there.

You're sensible to start now, 4 weeks is nothing and you'll only get ideas once you've begun. World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards is where I would start, pick a topic and follow their tutorials.

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Cheers SM. Im off till monday so going to sit down tomorow and plan something out, also the wife is out so 100% peace and quiet.
Might do something about Led Zeppelin or Rolling Stones music or Biography.

Of course, then you risk alienating or boring your audience with what is essentially reams of text. Why not document something more current, such as CERN's new large hardon(sic) collider which recently went online? You could potentially then include an RSS news feed, which should be pretty simple and would give you a good opportunity to use your marquee scrolling to good effect.

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this is the only acceptable use of scrolling text on a website.

personally i find the deprecated marquee tags a bit jerky, a nice bit of JS will make the text scroll smoothly and generally be easier on the eye.

but what do i fucking care, to be honest. webdevs* are an uppity bunch, whose ACCESSIBILITY! STANDARDS! COMPLIANCE! mantra stems from the insecurity of knowing children leave secondary school with enough knowledge to knock out a perfectly serviceable website.


*yes, i am. and i'm really fucking good at it too, before somebody who used dreamweaver to make their mum a website for twenty quid shouts at me.

Don't forget to make it W3C WAI compliant.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - home page

a lot of that WAI stuff is contradictory too.

a while ago i got a site belonging to a very large chocolate maker upto scratch, i quickly found myself going slowly mad adding meta data nobody will ever care about, only to take it out again because the next level of compliance dictates that you can't put X in Y.

edit: only for the cunty auditing company they get in to check to site to be so desperate to actually find something wrong they come back with a combination of a few 'nice but not essential' level stuff we couldn't implement for technical reasons, and some bottom rung stuff that was contradicted by higher levels of accessibility and we err'd on the side of better compliance.