Cute l'il balls of fur!

[hellziggy]

chebutykin's garage kittens are sooooo cute! And soft! And fluffy!
They were settled enough for them each to be held & checked out. They don't appear to have any fleas, & their ears look mite-free!
Also, it was determined that there are two girls and three boys. Cheb is dangerously close to falling in love with the little orange boy. It's just that whole decision thing: kitten or letting cajones breathe...
We both took pictures & I'll try to post mine tomorrow...
We just don't see enough of chebutykin now that she's not living in our basement... I'm thinking that an El Loro dinner is needed in the near future.

Still haven't figured out how to get a *&%$$ing background gif to show up in my web pages. Cheb went through the code with me & we found a few things we thought it might be, but we were wrong! Grr. Maybe I can catch Bill tomorrow night on campus and he can enlighten me... It's just so frustrating because it even looks right when I Preview in Browser. It's not until it's actually up on the site that I can see that the image isn't there. Also, since the background is blue, I am using white text which doesn't work well when there is no background image!

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[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

The background image file is in the same directory as the .htm file, right?

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Yup. I have determined that it is evil and it hates me! I tried rebuilding one of the pages from scratch, setting up all the style sheets from the beginning. Still didn't work. The worst part about it is that I am still up, and it's not even due for over a week. I just wanna figure it out!
But I'm not looking at it any more tonight!

[wiredferret.livejournal.com]

Things I had trouble with:

Is the background image actually on the server?
Is the path to it relative or absolute?
Are other graphics showing up? If so, is your background image tag correct?

I'd bet on the path, myself. I always make that mistake.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

1. yes
2. I'm not sure. I'll have to check tomorrow (I can't bring myself to look at it any more tonight)
3. There aren't any other graphics. The focus of this assignment was using style sheets to format text. I just wanted a nice background behind all my text. *pout*

[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

I looked at the source code again.

* The backslashes are still showing up in the br tags and the css link tags.

* The image is either not there at all, read-protected, or unreadable by the server. According to the code, it should be here:

http://www.dreamflyte.com/SharonClass/Text/TextBackground.gif

But I get an error when I try to access the graphics file directly.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Hmm. The picture is there at that address. Maybe the issue all along has been my picture & not the code... I'll try putting in a different picture that I know works.

When I took out the backslashes it didn't work at all, so I sent it through the markup validater at http://validator.w3.org/ & it said that those tags should have backslashes because they are self-terminating, or something like that.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

f*ck me! All this time the problem has been the frelling image instead of the code!
I never even considered that option! Thank you! Now I can try to figure out what is wrong with the .gif...
Damn, it looks hideous with a random photo tiling the background!