Page has been tested for compliance with INDUSTRY (not MS-only) standards, using the free, publicly accessible validator at validator.w3.org. It passes in some important ways, but still needs work to fully meet HTML 5 expectations..No "tutorial" as such... but there are rems in the sourcecode, and the start of one in a .txt file.
But you DON'T NEED ONE to Just Use It
"It" being a simple little program to throw pictures up in a little window in the corner of your screen. (Or a whole-screen window, if you wish, but you might as well use the Windows screensaver for that, no?!)
And the "picture" can be a picture of some words, which is why the thing is called a "quotes" server.
A few readers will have webservers. If you do, you can use this to make a static page dynamic! Your static page can have a picture on it that automatically changes. Not on already fetched copies of the page. But to delight anyone who revisits your page.
Want to know more? Write me! Details below.
Enjoy! If only "just" using it. Even more so, if you Do Things with the very basic source code.
Here's the link to get a zip file with all you need. It even has a "starter set" of images..
You can get
To "just use", you only need to put BasicQuotes.exe somewhere, and the folder "QuotesSupply" in the same folder.
Change the images in "QuotesSupply", and, WHEN YOU'VE RESTARTED QuotesServer.exe, you'll get different images in the display.
Please get in touch if you discover flaws in this page. Please mention the page's URL. (wywtk.com/lut/basquo/basicquotes.htm).
If you found this of interest, please mention in forums, give it a Facebook "like", Google "Plus", or whatever. If you want more of this stuff, help!? There's not much point in me writing these things, if no one feels they are of any use.
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Unlike the clever Google search engine, this one merely looks for the words you type, so....
* Spell them properly.
* Don't bother with "How do I get rich?" That will merely return pages with "how", "do", "I"....
Please also note that I have three other sites, and that this search will not include them. They have their own search buttons.
Page has been tested for compliance with INDUSTRY (not MS-only) standards, using the free, publicly accessible validator at validator.w3.org. It passes in some important ways, but still needs work to fully meet HTML 5 expectations..
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