Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: no keywords

Hey all,

I posted last week about the need for someone to work on a project and did not give more info until a few days later and I fear I waited too long in posting so it fell to the wayside and the universe gave a collective "eh..."

The client I have wants a site like usediron.com. What I need is someone that knows DB well enough to work with me on this project and would not mind getting paid to do so...

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1373930.html

Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: browser

Hi all,

I've set up a new online portfolio and am having some trouble with positioning divs, especially across browsers. I'm sure there are other problems, but if you wouldn't mind taking a look and giving me any feedback you might have, I'd greatly appreciate it. Here it is:

http://www.zarasteadman.com

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1373674.html

Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: web

I have a client who wants to stream a 2 minute showreel of his work on his website. He currently has the showreel hosted with his own provider and available in low-band and hi-band formats, but frankly it looks pretty dodgy in both and requires any number of plug-ins in order to view it.

So, my questions are these: what can I do to a) improve the quality of the movie and b) improve the speed at which it streams? Obviously the host and the viewer's own connection speed has a fair bit to do with it, but are their any sure fire ways to make sure streaming video looks as good as possible?

Enquiring minds need to know :P

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1373302.html

Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: css, web

Okay, if this just happened once, I'd chalk it up to some error on my part -- something that I accidentally did and didn't notice. But this is twice now, and I'm completely confused.

Two times in the last month-and-a-half to two-month period, my main css file on the website I maintain at work was replaced with an older version. My local copy of the site (the only source I used to upload files to the site) is always the updated version, and all I have to do is re-upload my local file, and it corrects the problem. So, since it's not my local file that's the problem, and I only keep one copy of the file on the server, I have no idea how the old version keeps popping up.

It just happened again either overnight or this morning, and the really strange thing is that we just migrated to a new server, so everything is fresh and new, and the css file was the correct one yesterday. Somehow overnight, it turned into the old one... on a brand new server that's never even seen the old version! Again, my local copy is the correct one.

How is this possible? I'm completely stumped!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1373004.html

Date: 03/24/08     Keywords: no keywords

Some companies post only the current year, some post the range that the site has been up, i.e. Copyright © 2003-2008 Acme, Inc.

which is the best practice? Are there legal meanings for each really?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1372795.html

Date: 03/24/08     Keywords: web

Does anyone happen to know if there are Mac versions (or good equivalents) of these pc programs?
-Xenu Sitemap Generator/Link Sleuth
and
-Webshots

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1372324.html

Date: 03/24/08     Keywords: web

I am looking for a new online live calendar for my companie's website. I use Calcium right now and I don't like how you can't change the event settings individually - like if I want one course to be red and the others to be blue. The settings are universal for the whole calendar - I need it to have more options. Anyone know of a good one? The other option is building one by hand as a webpage, but I thought I would see if I could get any good reccomendations first. Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1371941.html

Date: 03/24/08     Keywords: css, html, java

http://www.carrieandjeanpierre.com/

My clients tell me that in IE, the menu text on this page is super tiny, and then when you click to proceed to another page, everything's proper size again.

I suspect this is a problem with the fact that I've used png images. They're so full of problems, but I'm a transparency junkie.

I *did* use a javascript to correct the png transparency issue in IE... maybe it's affecting the sizes too? But then why wouldn't it affect sizes of the other png images too? The reported problem is just with the menu images.

How do I view/resolve this issue if I can't see it? Is there any way of downloading/installing an older version of IE so I can experience the same problems as others using older versions?

Can any of you see the issue? I can cut and paste html or css code if you like...

Gah! I'm at a loss. Thanks in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1371715.html

Date: 03/24/08     Keywords: css, web

You guys were SO helpful with my last post in this community, I thought I'd come back for more help since you were all very encouraging and useful. :)

I've started reading up on CSS and I think I'm starting to really figure it out, albiet slowly. Luck would have it, situations have come up that mean they don't need the website anymore, so my website work was pretty much all for nothing. I'm trying to make the same website work for my trainer, who will still have her own business and will need more clients.

This is what I have so far. http://evergreenequestriancenter.com/fcfindex.htm

Please try your best to ignore the content on the page, as that will most certainly be changing. I've figured out how to appropriately use the div layers to get the look I want, as well as the unordered list as my navigation bar as opposed to my table. My problem comes in the fact that I'm trying to make the page look like the old version (see here: http://evergreenequestriancenter.com/fullcirclefarm.htm) where the only essential element that I'm missing is the circle graphic in the top left corner.

Seeing as how her business is Full Circle Farm, I really wanted to keep the circle in there, but I'm having a hard time slapping a graphic in there that is of good quality. I tried the line-draw feature in FrontPage, and then filled the background with the picture, which intially looks really good in Frontpage, and then looks like shi**y quality in Firefox (but seems to be okay in IE?).

I was looking for suggestions to how I could acheive this look.
Thanks so much for your time!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1371508.html

Date: 03/21/08     Keywords: browser, html, asp

I love the idea of font-size-adjust and its aid to legibility. But I'm having a problem about how to apply it in practice.

Let's say I define .signature { font-family: Venice, Genoa, cursive; } in my stylesheet. Venice happens to have a .415 aspect. Should I specify that here? I understand that this will scale the fallback cursive font (if Venice and Genoa are missing) to the metrics I am looking for. Great so far.

The problem I foresee is that I have not specified the font/size/size-adjust to be used generally, relying on the users' defaults—a good usability practice. Therefore I don't know what aspect it has. If we assume (for discussion) the browser is set to use Verdana (aspect .58) my Venice looks far too small to begin with. So what does it matter if the substitutes match Venice, because none of them are going to match Verdana.

How do I always scale as appropriate to match an unknown font aspect? Can I simply use font-size-adjust:inherit whenever I change the font, or do I need to? The W3 says the initial value for this property is none, though the value is inherited, so can I rely on the (arbitrary) parent element to have the correct value or not? If there is no initial value, what am I inheriting? I could apply a font-size-adjust to BODY (or HTML…which is preferred?) so that I do have a basis, but if the user's chosen font didn't have the same aspect, I'd be throwing off his preference for font size, right?

Please help me clarify what the best practices for using this property are!

x-posted

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1371173.html

Date: 03/20/08     Keywords: web

Hi everyone :) I'm trying to redesign an artist portfolio website in Photoshop (original layout was in Dreamweaver). I have the bare basics.. but when I get to slicing and creating rollovers and inserting Flash headers, my brain kinda seizes up and shuts down. Anyone know any good tutorials or feel like being a good Samaritan lol? :) My main issue right now is creating nav buttons that actually work.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1371090.html

Date: 03/20/08     Keywords: mysql, database, sql, web

If you are reading this and can create MYSQL databases from scratch to make a web app, I need your help and will pay.

Have a prospective client that wants a site that is very DB driven. Needs a quote and have no idea what kind of time frame could be delivered. If I get the project, you get work.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1370859.html

Date: 03/20/08     Keywords: mysql, software, sql, web, hosting

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So hereВґs the link again, do check them out:
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X-posted in geekgirlz

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1370447.html

Date: 03/18/08     Keywords: no keywords

This is a long shot.

I need a way to create curved corners that will let me do only one corner if I wish, and yet do multiple corners when needed at the same time? I looked at CurvyCorners, but I'd be stuck with only the one setting as far as I can see with that (as in either the one corner or all the corners on all divs).

Is there a way to do this without having more than one way to implement curved corners on the page? I'd rather stick to one for simplicities sake. If anyone knows how to do different options with CurveyCorners, that would be awesome, but it doesn't have to be that specific one.

Thank you!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1370175.html

Date: 03/17/08     Keywords: no keywords

Hi Everyone. I have a client who really wants to have a transparent favicon. It works great in Firefox of course, but IE7 still shows it with a white box around it. I made the favicon in Photoshop CS3 using the ICO plugin. It's at 8 bits/channel. Any suggestions on how to get the transparency to show up in IE7? Or is IE just a lost cause? Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1370040.html

Date: 03/17/08     Keywords: css, html, java

Hey all! I'm back with yet another question. After all that trouble figuring out how to open submenus on the side like an unordered list, and then formatting it, I changed my mind and decided to redesign my whole site.

Drop down menus! I am going to keep the menu I have on the left for really basic navigation (home, about, outside links page, etc) and have drop down menus across the top to navigate the content categories and subcategories.

In other words, I want to make drop down menus with submenus inside them... but I also want the links that open the submenus to link to pages of their own.

QUESTION: What's the best way to go about this? I have seen css, javascript and html tutorials. What say ye?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1369771.html

Date: 03/16/08     Keywords: css

Does anyone know any places to find great typography techniques?

Also, I need to know how to outline type with CSS. The outline tag doesn't always work.

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1369323.html

Date: 03/16/08     Keywords: html, web

Hello all, as this appears to be the most active html help community, I have decided to post here.

I recently redesigned the website for the stable that I ride at. (The old one was pretty dated.) It's fairly basic since I don't know many fancy tricks, but I do have a problem.

I was trying to get the look of frames on the page without using frames, since I've been told those are pretty outdated. So, I just stuck in a background images with the bars. Trouble is, I had to make the background image huge, so that when you scroll to the bottom, you don't encounter the end of the image. Likewise, in case the screen resolution settings are different, I also created extra space on the side. So, it's a pretty big image.

My only question is: is there a better way to achieve this look, or a way to make the background image load faster without losing the quality of the image?

Thanks very much for your time.

Website is here: http://www.evergreenequestriancenter.com

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1368862.html

Date: 03/14/08     Keywords: seo

Anyone know anything about this service? http://www.text-link-ads.com/
Is it worthwhile and reputable?

Also, anyone know any good ways to build SEO? Linking is turning out to be one of the harder things to do, especially since everyone wants money for your name to be with them, and not everyone has money to give out to get a good name. It's so hard...

Thank you.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1368531.html

Date: 03/13/08     Keywords: no keywords

I'm struggling with whether to allow users to change their username after registering. I have the code set up to check for existing usernames with ajax, so that part is fine. But is it considered best practice to allow or disallow change of username?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1368112.html