Date: 03/27/06 (Application Development)    Keywords: web

Expression designer tools to ship early next year. A first look at Expression Web Designer is due in June.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6054327.html

Date: 03/28/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: html, web

Hello,

I'm new here, but not quite new to web design. I had my own site that I built from pure html, but unfortunately my ex discovered my password and destroyed it. I don't really want to spend another 6 months typing out all the coding for another site, so I was wondering about programs I could use for it.

I bought FrontPage, but I'm finding it more difficult to figure out than just writing it myself. I was looking at Adobe GoLive CS2, but I really don't want to drop that kind of money on something if it's going to be as non-user friendly as FrontPage. Any opinions on GoLive or suggestions on another program that might be easy to use?

I put up a very unimpressive attempt at a homepage with FrontPage http://www.cosplaycassie.com This is the basic layout that I'm going for, but I'd like the main text box to scroll while everything else stays put. If I could manage something a bit more fancy using a different program, that'd be great. Thanks for your advice!

X-posted

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/310427.html

Date: 03/28/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web

I've been offered a contract job with the company I used to webmaster for to upgrade some old Perl scripts they use offline to upload new files, index articles, and other similar tasks. They are all fairly simple and shouldn't take longer than a few hours to work on. I've never worked on a contract basis, however, and have no idea what price to quote them. I'm not a professional by any stretch of the imagination, but I know enough to help them. Can anyone here advise me on what the "going rate" for such work might be? Should I charge a flat fee, or per hour, or both (i.e. perhaps a base fee plus an hourly fee)? I really have no idea.

What about if they need other types of work done? I can also do some server-side, CGI, and DBI Perl. I honestly don't know what they need yet; the request wasn't that informative. These jobs would obviously be a little more complicated and would take more time. Should I charge the same rate as for the offline stuff?

I hope someone here can help me.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/310187.html

Date: 03/29/06 (Security)    Keywords: browser, web, microsoft

Another company has released a third-party patch for a serious flaw in Microsoft's Web browser--but experts are warning people to be cautious.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6055051.html

Date: 03/28/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, mysql, database, sql, web, linux, hosting

okay, so now that i've been picking all your brains, reading all these books, and checking out all these tutorials, last night i finally said to myself, "self, i need a god damn website."

fast forward a few hours and now i registered a site and have some hosting thanks to godaddy. i have linux hosting because it said that's what is needed for php (correct?), but when I try to load my test page (which includes a .inc file), i get:

Warning: main(/include/header.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/blahblahblah/1index.php on line 1

now i tried to see if the file is where i put it (website.com/include/header.inc) but, for some reason, it loads as text. meanwhile, when i try to view a .inc file online from the site i've been maintaining for work, it asks if i want to download it. this gives me the impression that it's uploading wrong, which confuses me since i'm using Fetch both times without tweaking any settings.

is this a case of me just trying to jump the gun and it's possible that while the ftp stuff is up and running, some other "stuff" needs to finish getting installed by them? also, it says i can have up to 15 (or 10, i forget) MySQL databases, yet damned if i know what i'll be needing them for. is that needed for include files to work, or is that for other stuff i may need?

tried checking out tutorials but none really answer these kinds of questions, and i want to get a vague idea of what i should be asking godaddy customer support before i just sound like i'm trying to rush things too fast.

edit: okay, now i'm confused. if i reference "/images/image.gif", so root-relative linking works in that case. yet, root-relative linking DOESN'T work for the include file. things work fine if i just make it a link (ie: include/header.inc as opposed to /include/header.inc). pretty obnoxious... how can i fix this?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1086868.html

Date: 03/28/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, web

Hello,

I'm new here, but not quite new to web design. I had my own site that I built from pure html, but unfortunately my ex discovered my password and destroyed it. I don't really want to spend another 6 months typing out all the coding for another site, so I was wondering about programs I could use for it.

I bought FrontPage, but I'm finding it more difficult to figure out than just writing it myself. I was looking at Adobe GoLive CS2, but I really don't want to drop that kind of money on something if it's going to be as non-user friendly as FrontPage. Any opinions on GoLive or suggestions on another program that might be easy to use?

I put up a very unimpressive attempt at a homepage with FrontPage http://www.cosplaycassie.com This is the basic layout that I'm going for, but I'd like the main text box to scroll while everything else stays put. If I could manage something a bit more fancy using a different program, that'd be great. Thanks for your advice!

X-posted

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1086673.html

Date: 03/29/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web

Can anyone please tell me what is going on with this new Flash Shockwave player? In some computers I am not alerted to install or update it, and the flash on the website I am developing works just fine. On other computers I am asked to update it, and the flash will not load. Please someone tell me there's an easy explanation for this! I can't figure it out... thanks so much in advance.
http://author.www.purdue.edu/dp/psf/

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/310573.html

Date: 03/29/06 (Security)    Keywords: web

Phishregistry.org uses "fingerprint" of real site to root out fakes on the Web, then tells businesses if they've been targeted.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6055142.html

Date: 03/29/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Im looking to create a new website. Something with Message board capabilities, able to do polls, and a blog all in one. I was looking into using Vbulletin but it is costly. Is there anything similar to it that is less expensive? Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1087362.html

Date: 03/30/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, web

First, forgive me for my noviceness at this! I'm totally new to anything related to SSI (among other things).

I'm working on a previously composed (by somebody else)website with server side includes.
This is my first time dealing with SSI and I have a couple of questions.

First, I'm trying to validate the page, but I'm getting all these errors that are actually fine, because the validator isn't recognizing the code in the includes. Have I not set up my local files correctly? Or do I need them to be on an actual test server for this to work? It doesn't seem to be aknowledging that there's an include in there with more code.

(For example, the SSI file ends with an open table which is then closed in the body of the shtml. When Dreamweaver tries to validate the shtml file, it dings the closing table tags because it doesn't see that here are actuall open table tags anywhere).

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1087887.html

Date: 03/30/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web, google

My bosses want several videos to be available on our website, and I'm trying to get them set up as embedded flash videos (flv), a la video.google.com or www.youtube.com. Right now I have a one-hour long video, encoding using ON2 VP6 at 400 k (planning to do a high quality\low quality thing.) According to flash, this is going to take around 18 hours. Is that normal? Should I expect to devote several weeks of processor time to encoding these videos (there are several we need to put up,) or am I doing something wrong?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1087584.html

Date: 03/30/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Hey all. I can't decide on the colors for this website. I've taken a screencapture of each background color I was thinking of using. Was hoping you all could take a look and give me your opinion on which is best.. or maybe even suggest another color scheme. Thanks so much!



Black background:

I like this one, but I'm thinking it may be too dark..?

Grey Background:

I like this one too, but I think I want more of a contrast between the background and the content.

Thanks again. :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1088750.html

Date: 03/30/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, web, ebay

Well there's definately no going back now. I redesigned my website this week check it out and I kind of uploaded the new index file over the old one when I wasn't looking. I've spent the last week redesigning the site, there's a lot of muck and shit that had to go. The redesign wouldn't have been possible w/o the step-by-step guidance from photoshopcafe.com

Anyways if you're thinking that this looks a lot like some template you saw on the net, then you're right. I was greatly inspired by this template I saw when surfing ebay one day. Rip all you want, this page was ENTIRELY created by me, in Photoshop, Image Ready, and Dreamweaver. Sure I borrowed a LOT of the elements, but I'm happy with it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Let me know what you think. Thanks

PS. Looking for tips on DIV alignment, or websites that have a good walkthru on them. Additionally code/tutorials on getting css scrollbars to work in Opera/Firefox. And am I the only one where the scrollbar gutter is transparent in Opera 8.53? (on my website of

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1088335.html

Date: 03/31/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: web

I recently purchased a Lexmark Z735 printer and the test pages worked fine, the first 2 documents I printed worked well. Now when i print something it gets stuck on 99% and the job gets stuck in the print queue.

I looked on the Lexmark website and found the exact description of the problem and the fix was to enable bidirectional support. I thought that was fabulous and went to fix it but bidirectional support was already enabled and there is no way to ask anyone at lexmark without calling and I really only want to do that as a last resort!

Any ideas on what else I can try?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/608240.html

Date: 04/01/06 (Webmaster View)    Keywords: web, google

• Build Your Own Web 2.0 Application Using Fluff and Hot Air
• Google Romance
• Opera Models
• China buys Google

Related: Last year's April Fool jokes

Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/humour/april_fools_day_2006

Date: 04/02/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: web

I am interested in making a vertical image gallery(up/down) from a horizontal image gallery(left/right) for my webpage. Here is the original script:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/cmotiongallery.htm#

Would it be difficult to change the code?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/97505.html

Date: 04/04/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: rss, web

Relaunched search engine scans RSS feeds for images and allows users to search the Web visually.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6057317.html

Date: 04/04/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, virus, web, spyware

I'm pretty sure my computer has a virus of some sort. Every 5-10 minutes or so, my mouse goes out of control and moves haphazardly all over the screen, that "error" sound beeps continuously (it makes kind of a ripping noise), and my browser closes. Sometimes whatever program it is that's being executed opens up Calculator, or starts creating WinRar archives. It also resizes my windows and if I'm using Word, will put up that "Do you want to save before quitting?" exit prompt. It used to do this very occasionally, but now as soon as I reboot, I have this trouble.

My Symantec anti-virus keeps telling me that it detects Spyware.Apropos.C, so I followed the instructions to get rid of that on the Symantec website (search for the file in my registry and clean it out..I found it and I did) but my computer STILL has this trouble and I have no idea what it is.

Any suggestions that you have are very much appreciated, because this is making me insane.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/609437.html

Date: 04/04/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, web

Back again folks. A few weeks back, I posted this: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1084502.html. Looking for some crit and such. Since I have revisted my space, giving it a pretty extensive overhaul I guess, but keeping my color scheme.

So, here goes with the new design. http://web.presby.edu/~jwindek/

Not sure what I'm gonna do about the footer, I'm open to suggestions.

Anyways, crit away please!

P.S. Still working on IE fixes.

Cross w/ graphicdesign

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1090938.html

Date: 04/05/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: browser, asp, security, web

In Visual Studio 2005 I’m writing in VB for an ASP.NET website, when I Build my website and copy the files to a server I get error...
It says that I can not view the site I just wrote... however when I’m on the PC and I run it with debug or F5 the pages work correctly... What could be the problem?

The server is on the same LAN at my work and has our Intranet website running on it just fine…




Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/59935.html