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Page Building Questions
Why is there an advertisement on my page?
How do I upload my own files to Tripod?
What is HTML and how do I use it?
Can I make more than one Web page?
How do I delete my homepage or other files in my
Tripod directory?
Can I use page building programs such as PageMill
or Hotdog to make my Tripod homepage?
Can I use forms on my Tripod homepage?
Is it possible to use my own CGI scripts with my
Tripod homepage?
Does Tripod provide guestbooks for member
homepages?
Can I set up my homepage to require a password?
How can I get MIDI music on my homepage?
Graphics related Questions
How can I put more than one image on my homepage?
Why are people being prompted for a password when they try to view my page?
Page Counter Questions
How can I put a counter on my page?
Is there a way to look at my page without incrementing the counter?
Publicizing your Tripod homepage
Can everyone look at my homepage? What is my address?
I would like my page listed on search engines.
If you built your page
with the Custom page builder, simply click on the "Create or Modify a Custom
Page" link on the Homepage Builder homepage. You will be shown a list
of the files you have built. Click on the filename you wish to
modify. All of the HTML you entered before will be saved, and you can
change it or update as you wish.
HTML is an acronym for 'HyperText Markup Language', and it is a simple language used to format pages for the web. While you don't need to know any HTML to create a homepage on Tripod, HTML is easy to learn and will allow you to customize your page.
There are also many HTML tutorials available on the Web. A
Beginner's Guide to HTML is a great place to start. Look at the
Web Page Builder's Toolbox for even more resources.
Another good way to learn HTML is to find a page that looks good and then copy it. Web browsers like Netscape and Internet Explorer have an option to
'View Source'. This will show you the HTML code with which the page
is written. Use the page you are viewing as a template, and insert
your text into it.
For more information and other options, check out Netscape's LiveAudio
Syntax page.
You may conserve your 200k of disk space by linking to graphics on other sites. In the standard HTML image tag, you can specify a graphic anywhere on the Web. For example the following line links to the Tripod Homepage Builder graphic:
<IMG SRC="http://www.tripod.com/triteca/homepager/version1/img/smoking.gif">
You may therefore replace the URL between the quotation marks with the location of any graphic on the net. You should know the exact location of that graphic and when linking to graphics on other sites, you are subject to the traffic of the Internet and the load on the particular server that you are linking to. In other words, the images on your page might load slowly.
If you have uploaded your own graphics to your Tripod directory you can link to it as follows:
<IMG SRC="yourgraphic.gif"> For more information on how to upload your own graphics, please refer to the FTP documentation.
<IMG SRC="yourfile.gif">
<IMG SRC="ftp://[email protected]/yourfile.gif">
<IMG SRC="/bin/counter"> This code will produce the actual number of hits. You should put your own text around the counter number. The above HTML code for the counter will work for any page you have on Tripod.
Currently you cannot change (manually increase or reset) the number on your counter.
http://members.tripod.com/~[your member name]/index.html If you have a different name for your homepage, replace index.html with the appropriate name. Please note that Tripod member names are CASE sensitive as is the address (URL) of your page.
http://www.submit-it.com/
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Frequently Asked Questions
Here is a list of the most frequently
asked questions about Tripod's Homepage Builder.
For questions regarding FTP and uploading files to Tripod,
please refer the to the FTP FAQ.Why is there an advertisement on my page?
Allowing Tripod members like yourself to
maintain personal homepages costs a great deal of money. We asked our membership if they would accept ads on their page in order to keep the Tripod Homepage Builder a free service. The overwhelming response was "yes!" If you would like to remove the ad from your page, you have several options. You can also buy more disk space for your Tripod member directory. Tripod began placing ads on member pages on August 26,1996. The ads do not count against your disk quota.
How do I update my pages?
If you built your page with the QuickPage
builder, simply click on the "Create or Modify a QuickPage" link on
the Homepage Builder homepage. You will be shown a list of the files
you have built. Click on the filename you wish to modify. All of the
information you entered before will be saved, and you can change it or
update as you wish.
What's HTML and how do I use it?
Can I make more than one Web page?
Yes, you can build multiple pages with the QuickPage and the Custom page building options. Make sure that you give each page a new name and link to them from your homepage. Be aware that multiple pages will count against your 200k disk quota. Most pages take up about 7k of disk space.
How do I delete my homepage or other files in my Tripod directory?
You may delete any file in your Tripod directory by following the delete one of your files link on Tripod's Homepage Builder. You can use this feature to delete any file in your Tripod directory, including images.
Can I use page building programs such as PageMill or Hotdog to make my Tripod homepage?
Yes, you can create your own web pages using any Web page editor, or even write them from scratch. Once you create these pages, you must upload them to Tripod. Please use only numbers and letters (no spaces) when naming them. Also, be sure to include the ".html" suffix to the filename. If this is your first page on Tripod, you should name it "index.html".
Can I use forms on my Tripod homepage?
Yes, you can use forms on your pages. When
someone fills out the form, the information will be sent to your email
address. For more information, see the forms page.
Is it possible to use my own CGI scripts with my Tripod homepage?
No, members cannot upload or use their own CGI
scripts. A generic Form
Handler is available that will email you the form data, but
security concerns prevent us from allowing users to run their own CGI
scripts on our server. Tripod is in the process of making more CGI
scripts available to members and will describe their usage when they
are available.
Does Tripod provide guestbooks
for member homepages?
Tripod currently provides a basic guestbook. For
more information, check out our Guestbook page.
Can I set up my homepage to require a password?
No, due to significant security concerns, Tripod
does not allow members to password protect their homepages.
How can I get MIDI music on my homepage?
To make a MIDI file play automatically (on
browsers like Netscape 3.0 and others, with the proper plug-in) you
can take advantage of the wonderful <EMBED> tag, like
this:
<EMBED SRC="my_midi_file.mid" HIDDEN=TRUE AUTOSTART=TRUE>
How can I put more than one image on my homepage?
You can have as many images as you like on your Tripod homepage. You may:
Replace "yourgraphic.gif" with the file name of the graphic in your Tripod directory you wish to use.
Why are people being prompted for a password when they try to view my page?
People are being prompted for a password when accessing your page because you are placing images on your page via FTP which is password protected feature on Tripod. When you upload images via FTP, you are uploading them directly to your Tripod directory, not a separate ftp site. Therefore, the images are in the same directory as your page and you do not need to place them via ftp. For example:
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How can I put a counter on my page?
Using the QuickPage builder, you can select "Add a Counter" for one of the sections on your page. If you are building custom pages, the code for the counter is as follows:
Is there a way to look at my page without incrementing the counter?
You can check your page counters via email rather than having to view the page and increasing the counter. If you use the counter that comes standard with Tripod homepages, you can send mail to [email protected] with only your member name in the subject line and the server will send you back a message indicating the number of page views on all of your pages on Tripod that have a counter.
Can everyone look at my homepage? What is my address?
Yes, your Tripod Homepage is viewable by anyone on the Web. They do not need to be a Tripod member. Your URL is:
I would like my page listed on search engines.
The various search engines and indexes on the Web have their own submission procedures and you will need to submit your URL to those services individually. One Web site, Submit It!, is a free service designed to make the process of submitting your URLs to a variety of WWW catalogs faster and easier. The URL for that service is:
