Date: 07/13/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Can one produce a translucent image for the web so your background will show through?

I figured how how to do it with a PNG, and it looks great in IE and Safari on a Mac but doesn't work at all on the PC. Is there a way to make this work on a PC as well?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/927131.html

Date: 07/13/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Company seeks to move beyond pop-ups, tests search service that analyzes Web surfers' habits to deliver personalized results.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Adware+maker+Claria+steps+into+search/2100-9588_22-5787106.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 07/13/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, browser, css, database, web

This is driving me crazy. Any help would be much, much appreciated.

I'm redoing the site template for this intranet website I'm designing - the Dreamweaver template I'd made using tables is completely, inexplicably fubar on certain pages of the site. I got sick of messing with it and told my boss I was going to make an all-new, CSS-based layout, and that was that. He agreed to let me do so.

Everything's been going fine...I've been doing my primary testing in FireFox, but I've been doing testing in IE6 (mostly because that's what almost everyone in this department is likely to use), as well as minimal viewing in Opera 8 and Netscape 7.

Suddenly, things broke. Now I have part of the content text repeated below my footer text. See link here:

http://www.shifuimam.com/php_tutorials/database_trial/drfe/template.php

I've discovered that if I remove the "float: left" property of the lefthand area of the site in my CSS, it fixes it. However (of course), removing that element completely throws the site layout out of whack. I'm about to do absolute positioning of all the elements and throw this template out the window.

I beseech you, please, please help me.

Oh, and while I'm at it...I want the gray lefthand column to extend to the bottom of the browser window, regardless of the length of the content. In all browsers, setting the "length" property to "100%" makes it too long, because there's stuff ABOVE that navigation bar. Any ideas?

X-posted between shifuimam, webdev and webdesign.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/219531.html

Date: 07/14/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, yahoo

Yahoo service will translate English and French sites into German to broaden scope of Web search.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Parlez+vous+Deutsche%3F/2100-9588_22-5787824.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 07/14/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: web

Hello All.
I am writing an app that emails a document located in a directory below the root of the website.

site/documents/file.txt

I want to be able to figure out what the path to the file is dynamically so that the app is portable.

I am doing it this way for now and it seems to work.

$x = pathinfo($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);

$path = $x['dirname'] . '/docs/';

Is this a correct method? How do you do it?

Thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/318984.html

Date: 07/14/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, yahoo

Yahoo service will translate English and French sites into German to broaden scope of Web search.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Parlez+vous+Deutsch%3F/2100-9588_22-5787824.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 07/15/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

I took over the administration of a website for a local Quaker group a couple of months ago. The site has now been successfully redesigned (and actually works!), but the committee wants to register some extra domain names and have them pointing to our current server. The site has a hideously long URL (I have no idea who picked it or why - but they must have been insane) and it would be easier if there were some shorter ones that are easier to remember for promotional purposes.

It's a .org.uk domain and they'd be looking at registering more .org.uk domains. Can anyone give me a reliable price for them? I've put in a query to the hosts and would like to see just how much they hike the price up.

Could someone also give me a quick run-down of what I'm likely to need to do? I have a vague idea that the we'll need to get the DNS to point the new domains to the IP address of the servers, but I'd like to feel a little more comfortable and knowledgeable when I talk to the comittee. I'd also like to check against what the hosts tell me - they aren't a company that I'm familiar with, although so far the admin of the site has been fairly straightforward and reliable.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

x-posted to webdev and webdesign.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/928568.html

Date: 07/15/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: web

I took over the administration of a website for a local Quaker group a couple of months ago. The site has now been successfully redesigned (and actually works!), but the committee wants to register some extra domain names and have them pointing to our current server. The site has a hideously long URL (I have no idea who picked it or why - but they must have been insane) and it would be easier if there were some shorter ones that are easier to remember for promotional purposes.

It's a .org.uk domain and they'd be looking at registering more .org.uk domains. Can anyone give me a reliable price for them? I've put in a query to the hosts and would like to see just how much they hike the price up.

Could someone also give me a quick run-down of what I'm likely to need to do? I have a vague idea that the we'll need to get the DNS to point the new domains to the IP address of the servers, but I'd like to feel a little more comfortable and knowledgeable when I talk to the comittee. I'd also like to check against what the hosts tell me - they aren't a company that I'm familiar with, although so far the admin of the site has been fairly straightforward and reliable.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

x-posted to webdev and webdesign.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/220285.html

Date: 07/15/05 (Security)    Keywords: web

Combined mass-mailing worm and network worm attempts to hijack computers and to launch a DOS attack on Symantec's Web site.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Worm+spells+double+trouble+for+PCs/2100-1009_22-5790416.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 07/15/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, browser, web, hosting

Hello everyone! I'm at a real loss with this website I'm developing. You might remember I posted about making an enrollment form, and you were all super helpful. The thing is that the server hosting the site does not support any scripting, so I've had to code the page the retard way (http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/itsi/testitems/EnrollmentForm1.htm). The people want there to be at least a confirmation page show when the person submits the e-mail, which I have included. However, the page shows up if the user presses submit, regardless of whether or not it has submitted, and in a new window. This is just done using Dreamweaver options to open a browser window upon submit.

Can anyone take a look at it and tell me what in the world I can do for these folks? I've looked online, everyone says PHP, scripts... I'm going nowhere on it.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/928935.html

Date: 07/17/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: web

I had a client just ask me if I could do an auto run CD for them. No problem. He, however wants to know if it's possible to have it detect if there's an internet connection and if so, have a link point to the live website, but if there's no connection have the link point to conent on the CD. Is there a client-side language out there that can handle this?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/220905.html

Date: 07/18/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

I'm using Dreamweaver MX 2004, if it matters. This is my first time using a webpage maker.

The problem: what I see when I "design" is not what I see in "preview."

in design (desired)

in preview (undesired)

As you can see, the text in the first box is no longer centered vertically, and also, the width grew. It looks as if maybe the whole table width increase too.

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong, and how to fix that? Thanks in advanced. ^_^

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/931013.html

Date: 07/18/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Numerous Web sites that promise to dredge up personal data are raising concerns about an upsurge in identity theft and fraud.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Online+private+eyes+draw+privacy+complaints/2100-9588_22-5790691.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 07/18/05 (Security)    Keywords: web

Scams involving fake e-mail and Web sites are increasingly originating overseas, making them harder to trace and block.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Between+phishers+and+the+deep+blue+sea/2100-1009_22-5790349.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 07/18/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: html, asp, web

trying to migrate client off of a ASP driven site to well something that is not a dirty hack (their site not IIS/ASP).
They have a nifty form setup (behind a password protected page sorry) in ASP where you click a choice from a list of four options and then you get bellow it a form to fill out. Now I took an idea from http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/dynamicforms.html (a great site btw) and have the forms per say working. Its just that there is content under the space where the forms would show up and now as a DIV it just writes over it. Is there a simple way to "push" the html down? other than making the bottom part a div and hiding it (and then I am back to a dirty hack)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/222114.html

Date: 07/18/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: asp, web, microsoft

i tried adding an additional domain to my primary website and used this asp code:
(unmodified version)
<%
sname = Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")
sname = ucase(sname)
if InStr(sname,"DOMAIN2") <> 0 then
response.redirect "directory2"
else
response.redirect "index.html"
end if
%>

(modified version)
<%
sname = Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")
sname = ucase(sname)
if InStr(sname,"DISCOUNTPACKAGE") <> 0 then
response.redirect "dps"
else
response.redirect "default.asp"
end if
%>

i pasted the code in the default.asp of the root directory of the primary site, but i get this error now when i used it, HELP!
http://www.wholesalepackaging.com
---------------------------------------------------------

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0400'

Expected statement

/includes/Top_Template.inc, line 1

Option Explicit
^

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/221641.html

Date: 07/19/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: browser, web

A group of Web developers that goaded browser makers into following standards is setting its sights on scripting.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Standards+activists+target+scripts/2100-9588_22-5793767.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 07/19/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Most Web Designers, especially in this forum, seem to be code experts. You all have seemed like a very knowlegable resource and you know how code, navigation, and graphics should be done effectively.

I am not a coder, I'm trained in graphics. I believe that most people benefit from being experts at both creativity and technicality, but I am still not yet a coder.

It seems that as complex as coding is, graphic artists need coding specialists. Perhaps there are coders who need graphics specialists as well.

I have a freelance proposition from someone who needs my graphics abilities, not my coding. They want me to be creative and they want to code it themsselves. Wow. Perfect match right?

Do any of you work this way? Are you strictly a coder, do you make graphics and code, or do you ever get jobs that simply call for you to be creative and make graphics? How does payment work when you're the graphic artist but you're not building the site?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/931198.html

Date: 07/19/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: browser, security, web

GreaseMonkey is a popular Firefox extension which allows lots of great enhancements to your browser using third party GreaseMonkey scripts. Yesterday a serious security vulnerability was found which exposes the hard drive content of GreaseMonkey users to any website you visit. Windows as well as Mac users are affected. And there is more. Here are [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/critical-security-vulnerability-with-greasemonkey-firefox-extension/

Date: 07/19/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: blogging, web, hosting

News Corp is bolstering its newly-formed internet unit by spending $580 million on Intermix - the company behind free blog hosting provider myspace.com. Intermix owns and runs about 40 websites but currently the best performer is myspace.com. Myspace is a blogging and networking site. It brought in 15.6m viewers in May, according to comscore Media Metrix. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rupert-murdoch-buys-blog-hosting-site-myspace/