Frvade, and the train of thought

Recently, I was asked to write down how I figured out the Frvade puzzle. Now everyone's train of thought is different, so my route of thinking may leave you scratching your head. I won't lie; I did receive help on these. Little hints here and there to put me on the right track, because in this game, what you're absolutely sure is the answer turns out being the complete opposite. I will only do the first five right now, and later will add more. So let's get started.

Level 1:

No source needed for this one. The instruction on the picture says it all. So in the address bar simply remove level1‚ and replace with level2.

Level 2:

The source says, Think positively. After viewing the URL, I noticed that there was a no‚ so being the positive thinker that I am, I changed it to yes.

Level 3:

This is where it starts to get tricky. This level also begins a new way of getting to the next level. By now, you should be checking the source. In the future, remember to always look for a line like this

“<area
href="http://www.frvade.com/red/../red/power/blind.htm"
coords="260,389,17" shape="circle">”

This means that there is a part of the picture that is clickable and will popup a username & password box.

For me the dominoes looked a lot like Braille. This led me to do a Google search for charts that show Braille and the words that they mean. From there it was just properly matching it up.

Level 4:

After staring at this source for over an hour, I realized that the scroll bar was quite small, indicating that there was something else there. After looking at the code a little closer you'll see this line font color="#000000" which is telling whatever text after that should be the color black. Knowing that all this was underneath the picture it was just a simple matter of highlighting, or just take the numbers directly out of the source ;). Now what to do with the numbers? In the source, it says to use the ALT method. Anyone using windows will have at one point played with all the cool little symbols that can be made using ALT + (and the numbers). This set of number spelled harmonica.

Level 5:

In the source, the image name is screen69. I knew I wasn't on level 69, so why is it saying that? Then I realized all you need to do is change it to screen5.jpg, and place that in your url replacing harmonica.htm.

Well that's it for now. I'll write up more later, The Office will be on soon, and I can't miss it.