How to upload your character and
How to set up your character on your web page.
To upload your character (avb) we need a ftp program like WS_ftp or Cuteftp, which can be found at www.tucows.com or www.downloads.com. Each program has their own way of being set up, but the information used is the same, you can see how to set up WS_ftp here.
At this stage we have already included the URL in the avb (if not go back to this page), So all we have to do is upload using the ftp program you have choosen. Most programs use the "up arrow" button for uploading.
The URL you placed in the editor properties MUST be the same as what you upload. busy.AVB is not busy.avb nor is Busy.AVB, all files MUST be exactly the same.
You can double check by opening up the .AVS, do this by double clicking on the file or right click and choose open. Once in the character editor, go to file/properties and check your URL, it must be exact and with the same case as you upload.
An example if I was to upload a charcter called busy.avb I would put:
http://members.xoom.com/busys/busy.avb
As a general rule I try to keep everything lowercase and don't have any problems.
This part is assuming you know the basics of HTML, if you don't you can learn here. If you choose to use an editor watch out as most of them add the full path to your directory and this will have to be edited out for the characters link to work.
The editor will add something like: <a href="C:\My Documents\character files\charactersname.avb">, when all you want is <a href="charactersname.avb"> unless your uploading your character into a folder on your site and you'll have to included the file name as well.
To show your characters and allow people to download them from your site, you need one of two things (or both), pictures of the characters and the .avb file with link included. OR you could just write the name without picture for people to click on.
To display a picture or graphic the tag you need is this:
<img border="0" width="?" height="?" alt="description" src="filename.jpg(or gif)">
To display a link, the tag you need is this:
<a href="charactername.avb">character name</a>
- <img means we are putting in a picture/graphic
- border="0" means it has no border
- width="?" height="?" is the picture/graphics width and height which sets the dislayed size and allows the page to load faster
- alt="description" this allows people to see the file description while and after it loads
- src="filename.gif"> means this is the picture/graphic your using
To make the picture/graphic clickable we need to put a tag around it, like this
<a href="charactername.avb">character name</a>
- <a href=" means we are going to go somewhere (a link) lol
- charactername.avb"> this can be the full url (http://your url/charactername.avb) or the best way is just the file name in case you ever change servers or put in folders etc
- </a> means end the link, so anything betwwen the two tags are clickable, anything after the </a> isn't
So here is the whole thing
<a href="charactername.avb"><img border="0" width="?" height="?" alt="description" src="filename.jpg(or gif)"></a>
oops nearly forgot you might want to use a name as well, include the name after the pic/graphic with a <br> (line break) before it and it will center under the picture/graphic.
it would now look like this:
<a href="charactername.avb"><img border="0" width="?" height="?" alt="description" src="filename.jpg(or gif)"><br>character name</a>
Here is an example of what you get:
happy-b.avb
We could just use this tag with different file names and they will sit next to each other and sort itself on lines by itself or we can use tables to tidy it up
For tables and more HTML see my HTML site, ezhtml.