Date: 03/11/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: programming, asp, web, hosting

Been LJing for several years now and with my web design aspirations increasing, I figured I'd look for some good Web Design related LJ communities to join.

I attempted a CompSci BS degree at the University of N. Florida, which didn't work out well and I left basicly hating programming. "Just because you're good with computers doesn't mean you should be a CS major" was the lesson learned.

What I have interest in is web design. I've been maintaining a homepage for many years (and am working on a bit of redesign to it lately) - http://www.geocities.com/JL_Stinger/ if you're interested, though I don't consider it terribly impressive. Quite frankly, if I had to do it all over again, I would've gone for a web design program of study in the first place, but that's a long story...

Can anyone recommend anywhere good in Florida, or failing that the southeastern US, for a web design degree? There seem to be very few places that offer them, and practically none that offer a BS degree in it. If I was doing it all over again, I'd probably go to the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale (or Atlanta or wherever), but that's just too much cost right now.

For that matter, how important is a degree in the web design field, especially a AS vs BS? Do most places only offer a AS because that's all you really need or what?

Can anyone recommend a good free hosting site? GeoCities isn't what it used to be, but I don't know any better place to move my site without paying money (which I'll do eventually, but not yet).

Any particular advice anyone cares to share with someone trying to really get into the web design field?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/179768.html

Date: 03/11/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: web

I am designing a website for my commercial site design class, and we have to come up with a logo. Before I submit my final product, I was hoping for some feedback...please vote on which you like best, or tell me why they all suck.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/629489.html

Date: 03/11/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, web

Thank you to everybody for the suggestions you posted with regard to ideas for the last-minute portfolio revamp. I've got all of my content set up and my pages planned out, now my only problem is the fact that I can't get my page layout to look the way I'd like.

It should look like this:

However, I can't seem to pull it off. Both Firefox and IE are giving me different results and I'm sure I'm missing something small. I'm just not sure what it is. The page itself is located at http://www.debbierussell.ca/v2/portfolio/ and the CSS code is embedded in the page for now. I'll be making it an external stylesheet as soon as I have it working properly.

All help is appreciated. Thanks again!

- cross posted to webdesign and webdev -

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/829183.html

Date: 03/11/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: web

I swear I looked up and down this journal to find an answer to my question, but I could not find it at all, so I'm really really really sorry if this has been answered somewhere else.

My question is: How can I configure Thunderbird to be my default mail program?

I am running OS X and every time I click on a mailto: link, the stupid Mail program that comes with OS X pops up, not Thunderbird. I went to the Mozilla website and read some freaky deaky thing about how I have to click on Tools > Options.... But here's the funny thing.... There IS no Options selection. I found Account Settings under Tools and there wasn't anything there about making Thunderbird my default mail program.

Can anyone help, please? :)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/260748.html

Date: 03/11/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: css, web

Thank you to everybody for the suggestions you posted with regard to ideas for the last-minute portfolio revamp. I've got all of my content set up and my pages planned out, now my only problem is the fact that I can't get my page layout to look the way I'd like.

It should look like this:

However, I can't seem to pull it off. Both Firefox and IE are giving me different results and I'm sure I'm missing something small. I'm just not sure what it is. The page itself is located at http://www.debbierussell.ca/v2/portfolio/ and the CSS code is embedded in the page for now. I'll be making it an external stylesheet as soon as I have it working properly.

All help is appreciated. Thanks again!

- cross posted to webdesign and webdev -

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/180381.html

Date: 03/12/05 (Web Hosts)    Keywords: web, hosting

All of our Shared Web Hosting packages have been updated to include more bandwidth and disk space. All existing customers have already been upgraded, so you should see these changes immediately. Our site is currently in the process of being updated to include new services we are offering.

Date: 12/19/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: browser, security, web, microsoft

Here's some interesting observations from the article: FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks. Today, it's the Internet Explorer code that is long overdue for a top-to-bottom redesign, one that would treat security as integral, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-in-nyt-the-fox-is-in-microsofts-henhouse-and-salivating/

Date: 12/19/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, hosting

I went to a website in search of a blog and I got: Get Hosted! Account Cancelled! The previous webpage was shutdown due to hosting issues. If you need hosting also here is some info.A shared web hosting account is an account on a web server that hosts your website while sharing resources with other shared hosting [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/get-hosted-account-cancelled/

Date: 12/18/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: java, web, google

Keith posted an interesting article countering the hype generated by Google Suggest & GMail - Google Suggest and GMail are a step backwards I think there are two things which makes Google Suggest interesting. People now realize there is a way to use javascript for live update of sections in a webpage, which for some strange [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/whats-so-great-about-google-search/

Date: 12/18/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: browser, web, microsoft

Some interesting quotes from the article: FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks. For the first time, Internet Explorer has been losing market share. Today, it's the Internet Explorer code that is long overdue for a top-to-bottom [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-in-nyt/

Date: 12/11/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: php, web

Using php 5.x is not documented in the manual, there are lots of questions with few answers, redundant hints etc. Even php 4.x users will benefit from this as it shows how to enable php only in a single web application, instead of all web applications as all the existing docs state. Enjoy!

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/running-php-5x-on-windows-using-tomcat-4x-or-5x/

Date: 12/11/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: web

Some glaring mistakes of website design are discussed and solutions provided. This page will be continuously updated as and when I encounter new atrocities which stand out in their own right.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/few-donts-of-web-page-designing/

Date: 12/07/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: web

My review on MSN Search elicited the following response from MSN Search's Weblog: Angsuman Chakraborty thinks that we released the Beta too early. He also questions the veracity of our site descriptions. I want to respond to this by re-iterating that there is no human intervention in our Index; all results are based on our algorithms. In [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/msn-search-features-hand-crafted-results/

Date: 12/01/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: java, web

Things have heated up recently in different Java forums with wide ranging topics. A case in point - JBoss, for example, is a company which people love to adore or hate. Frankly I haven't worked with JBoss, however I can tell you about Weblogic when it was Tengah. And it had major league problems, to say [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/an-appeal-java-developers-lets-make-peace/

Date: 11/28/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: web

Wiki's allow collaborative editing of web-sites. Most wikis like the original c2 wiki allow anonymous users to modify the web pages, including complete deletion of contents or insertion of external links. Most of them do maintain backups, few don't. A targeted script based attack can very easily modify/delete a large number of these pages by [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wiki-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen/

Date: 03/12/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: html, web

Thanks to those who critiqued my website the other day. I didn't know it was so bad, everyone else said it was good, basic but good. I'm working on a new version now. I'll repost the new version soon.

From what I got here, I'm glad I didn't post my site to htmlnazis...

Thanks again!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/631027.html

Date: 03/12/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, browser, css, html, sql, web

Hi all. This will be my first post to the community, so before anything I'd just like to say how educational its been reading your posts all this time. Now then, here's my contribution.

I've recently been playing with what I think is an interesting technique for adding relevancy and context to my pages. Basically, I embed a small, invisible message within the HTML of a page or within the link to that page which is only visible to people who follow special links. This enables me to embed certain so-called "relevancy messages" on the destination page of a link that helps keep visitors oriented when browsing through my site. (This is exceptionally beneficial when back-linking to old blog posts!)

A much more detailed explanation of what I'm talking about is on my site. A brief explanation of what I first did is this:

1. When I write links that reference my old pages, I go back to those old pages and insert a named anchor (or tag the element with an id to reference in my link with a fragment identifier).


2. I add a title to that element so I can hide it within the HTML for visitors who browse normally, but show it to visitors who follow links to that fragment.


3. I've added a style rule in my pages to display that title text before the fragment only for visitors who follow the special links, specifically, *:target::before { content: attr(title); }

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/180840.html

Date: 03/12/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, blogging, html, java, security, web

i'm building my own blogging system for my website, and i was interested in having a bit of security when it comes to code in the comments.

• disallow html code


• disallow javascript


• special tags (standard BBcode - [quote][url][img])


• keep it xhtml1.1 compliant

webdev

php

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/272239.html

Date: 03/12/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, blogging, html, java, security, web

i'm building my own blogging system for my website, and i was interested in having a bit of security when it comes to code in the comments.

• disallow html code


• disallow javascript


• special tags (standard BBcode - [quote][url][img])


• keep it xhtml1.1 compliant

webdev

php

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/181116.html

Date: 03/12/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: css, web

CSS is an astounding piece of feces; in fact I think it is an insult to feces to be put in the same league as CSS. Oh what a web of deceit we weave! Web designers were agog with excitement when CSS first came. I can still hear shouts of - no more tables, global modification of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/i-hate-css-i-hate-hacking-php-hacks/