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Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote:
>
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> One way to get "harmless" colour is to post text which has
> a few html codes in it. Thus:
>
> |~/ |~/
> ~~|;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;||';-._.-;'^';||_.-;'^'0-|~~
> P | Woof Woof, Glug Glug ||____________|| 0 | P
> O | Who Drowned the Judge's Dog? | . . . . . . . '----. 0 | O
> O | answers on alt.religion.scientology *---|_______________ @__o0 | O
> L |___&_http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk_________________________|/_______| L
> /clam/lynx/q0.html
>
>
> These commands are all expressed in ascii---they do not wreak havoc on servers.
Nice! But I think this might still confuse a lot of people. I'll have a
go at trying to explain how it works...
What Dave has done here is to write an html document (html is the stuff
that homepages are made of) showing his sig in different colours. To be
able to see the colours you have to copy it to a file with the "last
name" html or htm (for example "dave.htm"; it is the part from to
that you want to copy). When you open that file in your browser
(Netscape, Mosaic, Microsoft Explorer, HotJava etc) it will look good
and have the colours that are specified in the colour codes.
To make your own coloured ascii art in html you should start with the
codes:
(where the 000000 and CCCCFF are colour codes and can be changed into
anything that you want)
and end with:
......
An example:
Let's add some colour to Joan Stark's sig:
--
.{{}}}}}}.
{{{{{}}}}}}}. joan stark
{{{{ }}}}}}}}}
}}}}} _ _ {{{{{ ASCII Art Gallery:
}}}} 6 6 {{{{
{{{{{ ^ }}}}}
{{{{{{\ -=- /}}}}}} God put me here to accomplish
{{{{{{{;.___.;}}}}}}} certain things-- right now
{{{{{{{) (}}}}}}}' I'm so far behind, I'll never die!
`""'"': :'"'"'`
jgs `@`
Adding the beginning and ending codes would give us:
--
.{{}}}}}}.
{{{{{}}}}}}}. joan stark <spunk1111@juno.com>
{{{{ }}}}}}}}}
}}}}} _ _ {{{{{ ASCII Art Gallery:
}}}} 6 6 {{{{ <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/>
{{{{{ ^ }}}}}
{{{{{{\ -=- /}}}}}} God put me here to accomplish
{{{{{{{;.___.;}}}}}}} certain things-- right now
{{{{{{{) (}}}}}}}' I'm so far behind, I'll never die!
`""'"': :'"'"'`
jgs `@`
This will show Joan's sig as simply black on white. (Please note that I
have changed '<' into '<' and '>' into '>' in a couple of places.
This is sometimes necessary, the reason is that the computer would
otherwise interpret the things written between < and > as html code.)
Lets give her blue eyes and red lips, the part that you want to colour
should be placed between and , that would
look like this:
--
.{{}}}}}}.
{{{{{}}}}}}}. joan stark <spunk1111@juno.com>
{{{{ }}}}}}}}}
}}}}} _ _ {{{{{ ASCII Art Gallery:
}}}} 6 6 {{{{ <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/>
{{{{{ ^ }}}}}
{{{{{{\ -=- /}}}}}} God put me here to accomplish
{{{{{{{;.___.;}}}}}}} certain things-- right now
{{{{{{{) (}}}}}}}' I'm so far behind, I'll never die!
`""'"': :'"'"'`
jgs `@`
(yes, it gets messy sometimes but this should work....)
And now lets make her hair brown:
--
.{{}}}}}}.
{{{{{}}}}}}}. joan stark <spunk1111@juno.com>
{{{{ }}}}}}}}}
}}}}} _ _ {{{{{ ASCII Art Gallery:
}}}} 6 6 {{{{ <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/>
{{{{{ ^ }}}}}
{{{{{{\ -=- /}}}}}} God put me here to accomplish
{{{{{{{;.___.;}}}}}}} certain things-- right now
{{{{{{{) (}}}}}}}' I'm so far behind, I'll never die!
`""'"': :'"'"'`
jgs `@`
(mmmm.... very messy.... :D )
And then you can go on like that and colour anything you like.
......
I have an explanation on how to figure out what codes to use for the
colouring on my homepage:
http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/vk/docs/about_colours.HTML
And codes for when you need to exchange certain characters to make the
computer understand that they are not part of the html code you can find
here:
http://www.ts.umu.se/~r2d2/hitch/hitch5.html
have fun!
(and I hope it works in spite of the wrapping that my mail program will
inevitably do to this post... if it doesn't I will post URL's to a file
with that html code...)
--
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )
( llizard's animation site: http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/docs/ )