Tech Support Pits:

From Kristine===

Dear Webby,
I finally realized that not having a web page is worse than 
not being in the phone book, it's like having no phone.
Making a business card style page was no big deal, I just
saved my resume as HTML and uploaded it. That was so easy
that my dumb sister's chihuahua could have done it.

I made a bunch more pages and now I want some invisible
links to those from the front entrance page, some links that
only work if somebody has been told where they are hidden
and wipes their mouse over them to see them.

I know the colors for the background, text and links are set 
in the  line, but that is for the entire page. If I
set the link color to the page color, then ALL the links 
become invisible.
How do I get around that?
Kristine

Dear Kristine
use a paint program and capture a little block or bar of
page background. Save that as link.gif. 

Then use that picture instead of the link text. For example:
(Delete the periods after the "<, that is just so that the example
code shows instead of it being a command)

<.a href=page22.html><.img src=link.gif border=0><./a>

And that's it. When you want to allow somebody to view 
page 22, then you just tell them to wipe their mouse over 
the spot where you got that little block hidden, and click 
on it when it becomes visible.

If you know how to make pictures with transparent 
background, then you can make one with writing in 
page background color on transparent background, and
even spell out the name of the link. The writing will be 
invisible until you wipe a mouse over that spot on the page,
but it will become visible then, because the selecting inverts 
the colors.

An example without the code revealing period is just 
below here. Wipe the mouse over it to see it.

You can of course write anything you want onto that link
picture.

Have FUN!
DearWebby