Date: 08/29/07 (Web Development)    Keywords: web

Alright, I've designed a small website for my mom, and I love the design. There's supposed to be a picture of a rose floating over the bottom right corner of the page. (like if it were lying across a book on a desk)
Well, when the rose is there, you can't click the scrollbar.
Is there any way to have a floating image that doesn't count as content?

Link to the Site

EDIT:

never mind. I decided to put the content scrolling to the left of the rose and above the rose would be a clear div used for posting the possible appointment/business hours/announcements/ect.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/433036.html

Date: 08/30/07 (Software)    Keywords: web, linux, spam

Greetings and Salutations!
I have an interesting issue.

I am running a mail / domain controller on SELinux.
There is a webmin interface installed.
There is webmail.
The mail service is a variation of sendmail called SquirrelMail.
The mail server is also running ClamAV and SpamAssassin.

Tuesday a problem appeared around 11AM where the outbound mail service just stalls.
I starting looking at the queue and I noticed an inordinate amount of replies to bad addresses from the Mailer Daemon that are timing out. On peeking in on them I discovered that they are bouncebacks on emails sent to bad addresses here and that they are spam (no surprise there). Many of these messages are stalling in the queue and I suspected that this was the problem. Clearing the queue did not fix the issue, but restarting sendmail did and still does make the outbound process work.

So, last night, I updated ClamAV (no update needed), sendmail (update completed) and SA (update completed).
I hoped that the problem would go away but it did not. In fact, it is now worse. The frequency that I must manually restart the sendmail service has gone up.

In an effort to provide less overall interruption to my users I created a cron task to do this for me.
Here is the script:
#/bin/bash
#this is to restart sendmail
date >>/etc/mailcron.log
service sendmail stop>>/etc/mailcron.log
service sendmail start>>/etc/mailcron.log
echo "mailtab1 process done
">>/etc/mailcron.log

Now, here is the interesting part.
The cron is set to run every 10 minutes (minutes ending in 3)
It runs.
The output put into the log file when it runs automatically is incomplete:
Thu Aug 30 11:23:01 EDT 2007
mailtab1 process done

So, obviously the script it running, but it is only time-stamping and informing me that it is done.

The more interesting part is that when I run the task manually it works:
Thu Aug 30 11:25:19 EDT 2007
Shutting down sm-client: [ OK ]
Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: [ OK ]
mailtab1 process done

WHY?

I need a solution to one (or, preferably, both) of these problems. I also have a second script that does the mailreload command.

My current plan, based on some of the mail server logs showing errors with the ClamAV milter, is to uninstall and reinstall clamav tonight afterhours. Thoughts?


Cross-posted all over the place

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/software/75058.html

Date: 08/30/07 (Computer Help)    Keywords: web, linux, spam

Greetings and Salutations!
I have an interesting issue.

I am running a mail / domain controller on SELinux.
There is a webmin interface installed.
There is webmail.
The mail service is a variation of sendmail called SquirrelMail.
The mail server is also running ClamAV and SpamAssassin.

Tuesday a problem appeared around 11AM where the outbound mail service just stalls.
I starting looking at the queue and I noticed an inordinate amount of replies to bad addresses from the Mailer Daemon that are timing out. On peeking in on them I discovered that they are bouncebacks on emails sent to bad addresses here and that they are spam (no surprise there). Many of these messages are stalling in the queue and I suspected that this was the problem. Clearing the queue did not fix the issue, but restarting sendmail did and still does make the outbound process work.

So, last night, I updated ClamAV (no update needed), sendmail (update completed) and SA (update completed).
I hoped that the problem would go away but it did not. In fact, it is now worse. The frequency that I must manually restart the sendmail service has gone up.

In an effort to provide less overall interruption to my users I created a cron task to do this for me.
Here is the script:
#/bin/bash
#this is to restart sendmail
date >>/etc/mailcron.log
service sendmail stop>>/etc/mailcron.log
service sendmail start>>/etc/mailcron.log
echo "mailtab1 process done
">>/etc/mailcron.log

Now, here is the interesting part.
The cron is set to run every 10 minutes (minutes ending in 3)
It runs.
The output put into the log file when it runs automatically is incomplete:
Thu Aug 30 11:23:01 EDT 2007
mailtab1 process done

So, obviously the script it running, but it is only time-stamping and informing me that it is done.

The more interesting part is that when I run the task manually it works:
Thu Aug 30 11:25:19 EDT 2007
Shutting down sm-client: [ OK ]
Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: [ OK ]
mailtab1 process done

WHY?

I need a solution to one (or, preferably, both) of these problems. I also have a second script that does the mailreload command.

My current plan, based on some of the mail server logs showing errors with the ClamAV milter, is to uninstall and reinstall clamav tonight afterhours. Thoughts?


Cross-posted all over the place

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/812585.html

Date: 08/30/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, google

I came across an interesting project in RentACoder which is obviously taking advantage of RentACoder to do its dirty job - pushing its critic / competitor to page 2 of Google. The project specification is as belows: THE SOLUTION: We NEED this persons website to be “pushed down” to page 2 on google when our [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/abusing-rentacoder-for-black-hat-seo/

Date: 08/31/07 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: css, java, web

Greets folks,

I have no problem creating a random image generator in Javascript, but I would like to perhaps create a random div generator.  What I would like to have is a random image appear and text that accompanies that image.  Does that make sense?

Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

Cross to _css and webdesign.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/139754.html

Date: 08/31/07 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: php, html, java, web

Hello everybody,

I am trying to create a table of "events". What I would like to do is have this table be updatable via the webpage itself. I am comfortable using javascript, HTML, and some basic PHP, but would like to avoid PHP as much as possible. 

Is there anyway to accomplish this? 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/139891.html

Date: 09/01/07 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: programming, html, technology, asp, java, web, microsoft

Hi all,

I've been battling with creating (rather modifying a custom page someone else before me has created) a custom master page for my company for a while now; it looks great-ish, but there's a major flaw in there, behind the scenes it's full of errors; I have to link the master page to just about every file such as newForm.aspx and etc. further the most major issue is that a non admin user can't see the custom content; but farm admins can see the custom content just fine.

I suspect there's a whole lot missing in the master page (as I've tried the same thing with a default page, and it worked fine, so my permission settings are fine, even though for non Admins it says "error: access denied", the issue is the master sheet for sure, since the error dissapears  when i switch back to one of MOSS default masters) thing is i don't have enough knowledge of master pages (I am relatively new to SharePoint 2007; having worked with 2003 years ago. I've never done any major customizations like this one)  to fix it on my own, even though i've spent the past few weeks trying to do so.

The project I'm working on (an intranet for a media company) is due to go live Sept 9th, thing is, without proper user permissions it'll be tricky to make it work properly, and I've been battling with the master page for about two weeks now trying to make it work, I fix one issue, but keep finding more.

I appreciate any and all the help i can get on this one as all the code's starting to look the same to me now, and maybe a fresh set of eyes will help.

Master page code and screenshot of what it looks like and what it should look like for all users below the cuts, if you need any extra info please contact me, and I'll provide for you; I really really appreciate it if someone can help me out on this one.








<%-- Identifies this page as a .master page written in C# and registers tag prefixes, namespaces, assemblies, and controls. --%><%@ Master language="C#" %><%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint" %><%@ Register Tagprefix="SPSWC" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %><%@ Register Tagprefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %><%@ Register Tagprefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %><%@ Register Tagprefix="PublishingWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %><%@ Register Tagprefix="PublishingNavigation" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %><%@ Register TagPrefix="wssuc" TagName="Welcome" src="~/_controltemplates/Welcome.ascx" %><%@ Register TagPrefix="wssuc" TagName="DesignModeConsole" src="~/_controltemplates/DesignModeConsole.ascx" %><%@ Register TagPrefix="PublishingVariations" TagName="VariationsLabelMenu" src="~/_controltemplates/VariationsLabelMenu.ascx" %><%@ Register Tagprefix="PublishingConsole" TagName="Console" src="~/_controltemplates/PublishingConsole.ascx" %><%@ Register TagPrefix="PublishingSiteAction" TagName="SiteActionMenu" src="~/_controltemplates/PublishingActionMenu.ascx" %><%-- Uses the Microsoft Office namespace and schema. --%><%-- The head section includes a content placeholder for the page title and links to CSS and ECMAScript (JScript, JavaScript) files that run on the server. --%>









<%-- When loading the body of the .master page, SharePoint Server 2007 also loads the SpBodyOnLoadWrapper class. This class handles .js calls for the master page. --%>

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/63910.html

Date: 09/02/07 (Mozilla)    Keywords: html, web

Lately FF seems to be pulling old HTML on some web pages, such as my own, when I'm building them.  I'll be doing testing, changing the page, and refreshing - but FF doesn't seem to be catching the changes, until I clear all personal data and restart (this is is mac) - is here a hard reset I can do to the history to change this?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/398117.html

Date: 09/03/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, google

Compete is a relatively new player in website ranking and third party analytics, a space dominated so far by Alexa rankings and Google PageRank. Whereas Google PageRank is an approximate ranking for a single page, Compete rankings are, like Alexa, for the entire site and they offer it for free. In my initial analysis compete [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/compete-free-website-ranking-analytics/

Date: 09/04/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, css, web

So, I have made a few sites lately that require a little CSS workaround so I can get absolute positioning that is horizontally centered.

What I have been doing to achieve this is to create one div, with a width of 100%, and I absolutely position it to whatever position I want it to be on the page, vertically (top: 68px, or whatever). Then within that div I place a second div for my content, specify a width, and set the margins to auto. Voila: centering.

I have been wrestling with something bizarre on my latest website, however (and unfortunately, it's not online yet for me to show you the code). Despite the fact that none of my elements are wider than the window size, a bottom side-to-side scroll bar appears, and my theoretically centered items are moving side-to-side. Very slightly--no more than 25 pixels or so. (And this happened both in Firefox and Safari; I have not yet tested it in a Windows computer.)

I had a sneaking suspicion this may relate to my background image, which is 800px wide and therefore possibly wider than my window--however, when I moved the window so that part of it was offscreen and resized it to a gigantic width, the problem remained. Also, why would a browser use the background image as a basis for percentage widths, and not the window itself? So, question one: what do you think is making this happen?

To continue with my story:
A not-very-helpful fix was to set my parent div to 95%. This completely eliminated the problem of it moving around, but of course, threw off my centering. However, after restoring it to 100%, on a whim, I changed the positioning from absolute to fixed. Everything is now working fine in both browsers?

What's the story on this? I have read that fixed positioning is less all-around compatible with different browsers than absolute positioning... But I'm realizing, as I write this, that I don't fully understand the difference between fixed positioning vs. absolute positioning. In what instances would you use one instead of the other, and why? And why do you suppose my particular content is working properly in fixed, but not in absolute, position?

Disclaimer: This is really less of a "help me with my code" question and much more of a "give me your input on fixed and absolute positioning in general" question. So if you're going to say, "post the code and I'll tell you what's going on," and nothing else, don't bother about it--If I still have a problem later, I will post the code, but right now I'm more interested in hearing general thoughts. :)

x-posted to web_design.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1305227.html