Date: 10/01/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: web

I got a webcam 'sans' the installation cd or drivers. It's some shitty no-name one from China so there isn't much online.

All I know is it's call "Retail plus+" model: RP-CAPU-835

I did find it at the website but it wont let me download it [1] the link to download it is blank

Is there any universal drivers or anyway to get it going?


Any help greatly appreciated

x-posted

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/985490.html

Date: 10/01/06 (Security)    Keywords: browser, java, web

Mozilla is investigating hacker claims that the Web browser has a serious flaw in the way it handles JavaScript.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6121608.html

Date: 10/02/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web

Hello everyone, I have a question and I'm hoping that someone here can help me. I am working on a corporate website and my client is specified that he'd like to have a few links to embedded video clips.

The files I've been supplied with are Quicktime .mov files. The dimensions are 320 X 240. I have never coded for embedding video clips before and I'm running short on time to produce a page template for showing one video at a time.

Is there anyone who could help me out by providing either a link to a solid (and quick) tutorial or a sample snippet of code? I'm developing this website without WYSIWYG help so I'm comfortable working with code providing that it'll work the way it should in Firefox and Internet Explorer (at the least).

I offer my thanks in advance.

(apologies for crossposting a tad)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/358175.html

Date: 10/02/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, css, html, web, shopping

I am considering enrolling and attending the Art Institute Online for graphic design. I may go back for the Web Design Diploma if I like it but I figured the actual graphic design would require more formal education than the web design would. Does anyone have experience with AI or know someone who does? I would love to hear about it.

Has anyone ever coded a webpage in Lisp? I am working on putting together my own website to sell Body Jewelry and my husband thinks we should code the checkout/shopping cart/etc., in lisp and do all the pretty stuff in HTML/CSS. He's always been rather fond of lisp but I'm not sure of using it in this format. He is against PHP because he believes it has a lot of flaws and leaks though PHP appears to be the most popular as of late. What do you folks think?

I recently came across this program called ReCapture. Basically when someone prepares to checkout and are filling out their information, but leave before officially submitting it, this program notifies the owner of the website. If enough information is filled in, like phone number and/or e-mail, the owner can then contact that person to find out why they stopped the checkout process. It's suppose to be used more as a customer service tool then as a seller tool. The owner/employees who call are not suppose to insist the person buys something or offer them other products, but just try to find out if the potential customer left for a reason they can fix, or if they just forget provide a reminder, or if they have questions answers them. I'm a little unsure about it, because I think it's a little envasive but a couple people I know rave about it. What do you guys think? (Also, the company can not sell/trade/etc., that contact information be in violation of the NDA. The same goes for trying to sell.)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1171444.html

Date: 10/02/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Hello everyone, I have a question and I'm hoping that someone here can help me. I am working on a corporate website and my client is specified that he'd like to have a few links to embedded video clips.

The files I've been supplied with are Quicktime .mov files. The dimensions are 320 X 240. I have never coded for embedding video clips before and I'm running short on time to produce a page template for showing one video at a time.

Is there anyone who could help me out by providing either a link to a solid (and quick) tutorial or a sample snippet of code? I'm developing this website without WYSIWYG help so I'm comfortable working with code providing that it'll work the way it should in Firefox and Internet Explorer (at the least).

I offer my thanks in advance.

(apologies for crossposting a tad)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1171105.html

Date: 10/03/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: html, virus, antivirus, web

My roommate is having a connection problem with her Logitech webcam, and I have no idea how to fix it. She is not running a firewall program, all appropriate ports are open, and her internet is properly configured. She has gotten it to work before, but it has mysteriously lost the ability to connect when she came to the University. Does anyone in this community have any ideas about what might be wrong?

Here she explains the problem in her own words:

I bought a Logitech Quickcam Messenger from Target expecting it to properly work with my mac iBook. I immediately found out the camera wasn't compatible with my laptop. After quite a few hours of research I finally found a way to get it to work. I had to go into my router's html page, into advanced, and into forwarding to change the in and out ports to properly accept the cameras image. I also downloaded a program called Macam, which was recommended to me. Now I'm not sure what necessarily got the camera to work but it was fine all summer. Now I've come to college and have an ethernet connection. Of course I can't change the forwarding settings but I was told from the tech help that all the ports necessary are open, so that's not it. It's really wierd to because I can recieve someone else's video image, and I can see my own with the camer, so it's properly connected, but when I send it to someone else, it says it's waiting to be sent and then it cancels. It simply can't get through. When I got here I also had to download Symantec Antivirus, so I'm thinking that might have something to do with it. But that seems very wierd and unlikely, especially since I can recieve someone else's image. Please help me out if you have any ideas!!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/987017.html

Date: 10/03/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, html, web

Hi. I'm a graphic designer, but not much of a web programmer. In fact, I'm not even sure if "programmer" is the right terminology. I do a little hand coded html, but mainly use Dreamweaver. I'd like to be able to code to today's standards without the use of a program, or at least not one as controlling as Dreamweaver (I feel like I'll never be able to code without depending on it.)

Any good book suggestions? Websites are good too, but I prefer a book so I can take it with me. I tried working with CSS for dummies, but it seemed more focused on the bells and whistles of web design as opposed to structure and standards. Since I'm a designer, I'd like to come up with the bells and whistles myself :P

Thanks :)

x-posted to graphicdesign

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1171696.html

Date: 10/03/06 (Security)    Keywords: software, web

Flaw in how Net phone software handles Web links could enable an attacker to launch arbitrary code on some Macs.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6122390.html

Date: 10/04/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

http://webtypography.net/toc/

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1172051.html

Date: 10/04/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

I talked to an art institute online representative today and applied to get a web design diploma. It's not even associates, but that damn thing cost $15,000. O_O Anyways, I was just wondering if a web design diploma is looked at as a piece of shit paper. I just want to get an entry level position with a web design company and eventually be a senior web designer.

I talked to a westwood rep today, but the 3 year bachelors program for $60,000 just wasn't as appealing to me at the moment.

So - is a web design diploma worthless?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1171787.html

Date: 10/04/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, css, html, asp, java, web

tasha's post was interesting to me, because I'm coming at learning web design from the opposite end; I've got a decent grasp of working with the back end (X/HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, etc.) but haven't had a graphic design course since high school. I was also considering the Art Institute because I've heard it mentioned in this group a lot. But I also notice that a lot of people say degrees are "a nice extra" at most. And right now I'm working full-time and won't have the means financially to go to school for at least a year. So my question is this: do any of you have recommendations for how to learn the aesthetic side of web design on my own time with a limited budget?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1172512.html

Date: 10/04/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

The search company is letting Web developers use its mini-applets on their own sites.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6122593.html

Date: 10/04/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: technology, web, seo

I thought this was an interesting article.
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18 Questions Your CEO Forgot to Ask When Building Your Website

Why are you always retrofitting and re-optimizing? Your CEO (or other decision maker) didn’t ask the right questions. You need to know how to build and promote a website from the ground up to be successful. Picture your perfect web presence. Visualize web 2.0 Zen. Now work backwards and apply these principles to your website among various time, budget, legacy technology, and personal ego obstacles of varying degrees in the way of your quest towards website enlightement. Welcome to the world of SEO.

There’s a big difference between an “ideal website” built in a vacuum with an unlimited budget and no competition versus retrofitting, optimizing, and improving and existing website. These are the questions your CEO forgot to ask. Make sure they get asked. If you understand the IDEAL website and the value of each component that would go into it - you can understand how to balance financial and time budgets for the highest ROI on a project, and overcome the normal hurdles that every company faces. These are the top questions your CEO forgot to ask.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1172898.html

Date: 10/05/06 (MySQL Communtiy)    Keywords: mysql, sql, web, hosting

My current contractor has a number of websites that were developed by a whole lot of different people. Because of the NDA, I can't cut & paste the code involved, but has anyone heard of a Error # 30 when using MyIsam tables on a 4.1.x MySql server? I've ransacked the documentation trying to figure out what caused this because the current solution offered by the hosting company is unacceptable.

Some more specifics... the error was with a UPDATE that took a field value and set it to myField = myField + 1; It's been bothering me because I have the mysql source code and I've tried walking through the code to figure out where this phantom error code came from.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mysql/104322.html

Date: 10/05/06 (HTML Help)    Keywords: html, web

Hey. Okay my problem: I made an image map for a website navigation menu. It worked perfectly. Then I tried to make the background image of another site into an image map, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that without screwing up my html coding. Any help on making background images into image maps would indeed leave me truly grateful. Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/htmlhelp/2356712.html

Date: 10/05/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web, shopping

I have this "challenging" site I must develop and as there are design elements such as headlines, text and images overlapping and in non-standard for web fonts I've found no other option than to develop these portions in Flash. Also this site must be integrated with an existing shopping cart system so doing it entirely in Flash is not an option at this point.
Anyhow I would like to embed the Flash so it proportionally sizes to the screen width. When I specify no border parts are cropped off at certain screen sizes and with exact fit, the content is distorted. If you couldn't tell I am not very experienced with Flash and I'd appreciate any suggestions anyone my have.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/358883.html

Date: 10/05/06 (PHP Development)    Keywords: cms, php, mysql, css, html, sql, web

I am looking for some opinions on how to best approach creating a web site with a CMS system.

I was originally thinking of implementing various bits of code freely available online and then merging them to play nicely together as one for a client of mine but came across some rather unique-looking packages on the web. One of these packages is Typo3, although I have some concerns about it.

Typo3 seems to be amazing in the sense that it literally "has it all"--guestbooks, galleries, tracking, comments, CMS, easy editors, etc.--but this is also what worries me. As a web designer and developer, I adhere to strict XHTML/CSS standards and to the separation of content and representation for web design. My concern is that as a huge monolithic package, it looks terribly susceptable to some terrible, broken HTML and design-procedures that would be near impossible to fix.

I have also come across CMS Made Simple but haven't had much of an opportunity to delve into it. It is very likely to suffer from these same things, although I do not think, from memory, that it was as full blown a project.

Now keep in mind, I am a much stronger designer than developer but I am quite able to dive into code and hack and adjust things as needed as I have experience in PHP, MySQL, and the like. Does anyone have any experience with these packages or others like them? Would it make more sense for me to develop an entire system from scratch or by piecing smaller works together?

Any recommendations or opinions would be very much appreciated.

PS. If this was a due-by-next-week thing, it would be a no-brainer. The client wants this done ASAP, but not necessarily so fast as to comprimise quality.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php_dev/72753.html

Date: 10/06/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, web

Does anyone know if there's a way to make a scrolling box within a web site in FrontPage? I know how to make a scrolling text box, but I need to add pictures within the box, which that won't allow me to do. This is the site I'm working on, though that only shows what I was able to salvage. Something went horribly wrong with it, and now I'm trying to rebuild with a program as opposed to the pure HTML mess I made before. The scrolling box is the only thing I can't figure out. If it can't be done with the functions in FrontPage, does anyone know the code for it?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1174509.html

Date: 10/05/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, css, web

Okay, I admit it. I can't do it. I can't get my site to render correctly in Internet Explorer for Windows. The site in question is The Lucky Cat Studio.

I've been banging my head for four weeks Googling and trying to fix it so it'll work in IE for Windows. Can someone help?

My browser of choice is Firefox, and because I'm on Macintosh, I had to have a friend look at my site and tell me how it looked on his Windows XP Internet Explorer 7. Which is simply put, wrong.

My problem is that in IE for Windows, the main body (in white rounded boxes) appears below the sidebar navigation. It is supposed to appear on the right, next to the sidebar navigation.

Here is the CSS.

Thank ye Web Guru(s) in advance for help rendered.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1174249.html

Date: 10/06/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: software, web

In June I designed a gallery website for a local photographer. At the time it was discussed that she would want to make ongoing changes to the site, small text amends and swapping-out images in her portfolio, and I assured that it would be a simple process. I asked, as I always do, if she would be interested in learning to use the software to update her own site and she said no, that she would rely on me to make any changes for her.

When she agreed the quote for the site, I sent her a copy of our terms and conditions which clearly state:

After work on the client's web-site has been ceased, **** will not be held responsible for the maintenance, monitoring or upkeep of said site unless otherwise agreed in writing.

A couple of weeks ago she called me and asked me to cost up how much 16 new pages to add to the gallery would be. When I sent her the quote for the new pages, she didn't reply to my email, so I assumed she was (as I suggested) getting quotes from other companies.

Then last week she called me and asked me to make some changes to her pricelist 'as a favour'. I said that of course I would make the changes, but naturally there would be a charge for doing so. She asked how much and I told her that we had discussed our hourly rate at our initial meeting and that changes to the site were charged at our usual hourly rate, with a minimum fee of £10 per amendment. This is the same arrangement I use for ALL my clients (I currently maintain 63 websites) and have never had any mis-communication before.

Today, her husband called me. He told me that 'all the other web design companies he'd obtained quotes from had included the price of maintenance in their prices' and that he had just assumed we were doing the same'.

Does anyone here (UK-based or other) quote on this basis? And, if so, how the hell can you give a quote based on a contract that may extend indefinitely and incur infinite workhours???!!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1174978.html