Date: 11/16/07     Keywords: no keywords

ok, it's close. better if the striped kitty were actually black. enjoy nonetheless!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1331503.html

Date: 11/14/07     Keywords: html

Just so ya'll are aware, gmail new renders email in a whole new way. Whatever new way this is totally fucked up some HTML i had functioning in it's older version.

You can switch to view things under the previous system they had going, but I really doubt most users will care to do that, similar to how they still all use IE because that's what came with their computers.

If anyone knows what the exact chages are, i'd love to hear them and how to solve it.

crossposted to graphicdesign

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1331082.html

Date: 11/13/07     Keywords: browser, css, database, web

I'm currently having an argument debate at work whether it's worthwhile to nitpickingly fix uneven type rags on the web (in a fixed-width div) via line breaks, forced justification, adding spaces, changing type sizes, changing word and letter spacing with CSS (sometimes on individual lines and words), changing the size of the box, etc. much the way one would do on a print piece. My argument is that type renders with slight differences across browsers and platforms, and that trying to manipulate it so precisely is not only insanely time consuming and has to be re-done with every new page -and- every copy change change, it may not look precisely the same across different browsers and different default fonts, or even if people increase type sizes above the default, and if the type doesn't render exactly the way it does on our screens, micro-adjustments may cause even more awkward rags or spacing.

For a large, dynamic, database-driven site, of course this would be even harder, but we're working on it for our small, static corporate site of maybe 10-20 pages that we don't expect to be updated every time. My argument is that it'll end up being a lot of time spent on something that may not work everywhere or backfire, but I'm being outvoted. I would really appreciate any experience or advice dealing with this issue, aside from making the whole thing an image or a Flash file.

I'm posting this in both webdesign and graphicdesign since it's both aesthetic and technical.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1330777.html

Date: 11/13/07     Keywords: web

Greets folks, I'm perusing my code here and can't figure out why this drop-down (suckerfish) isn't cooperating in IE6. If anyone could offer some advice, I'd sure appreciate it.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1330595.html

Date: 11/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

Hey all,

I'm currently having issues with all of my CS3 programs. It won't even start up. I tried uninstalling it, but they all failed.

Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated as I really don't feel like going back to a clean computer. Although, I will if I have to.

Thanks!

Kat =^..^=

x-posted in various comms.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1330293.html

Date: 11/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

my client has a friend who is looking at his site with ie7 and is getting a time out error. but he can view the site in firefox. i've checked the site in ie6 & ie7 (along with safari and firefox) and don't see any errors. the site loads quickly as it should.

so why is this guy seeing a time out error?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1330019.html

Date: 11/09/07     Keywords: web, shopping

Do clients normally set up merchant accounts and gateways for their website shopping cart or are the website developer supposed to?

thanks

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1329717.html

Date: 11/09/07     Keywords: web

Tell me everything you know/have heard/seen/believe/hope for with respect to enterprise-level content management systems. What companies and brands are you familiar with? Do any stand out as shining examples of all that's right and good in the world of website management?

Every day that I come to work and attempt to do anything, really, with our sites, I want to throw my arms up and shout, "What were you thinking?!" I don't know if it comes down to needing a brand new system or just a complete overhaul of what we're using now (Serena Collage®), but something needs to change.

It doesn't help that I am alone in being responsible for a multinational web presence representing a rapidly growing company, currently with 500 employees. The company's ass-backwards attitude about anything and everything having to do with the internet doesn't help either.

!$@&#%%^

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1329512.html

Date: 11/09/07     Keywords: browser, java

I'm trying to build a thumbnail gallery with pretty much the exact same functionality as istockphoto has. That is, one a cursor rolls over a thumbnail, a div shows containing a larger version of the image with a position relative to the cursor position. Additionally, depending on the browser window's size, the div will have an adjusted position so that it remains in the browser window. I hope that makes sense. Just check out the search results of any istockphoto search to see what I'm talking about.

Anyways, my javascript skills are beginner to decent (in that I can look at a script and figure out what's going on), but if anyone can point me to a tutorial on this it would help me immensely. Thanks in advance.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1329231.html

Date: 11/05/07     Keywords: web

i know its a bit late, but i just found this on the interwebs and LOL'd

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1328824.html

Date: 11/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

Sometimes the worst thing we can do for our clients is give them exactly what they want.

http://www.whoneedsdesigners.com

^Brilliant.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1328593.html

Date: 11/02/07     Keywords: css

So i posted about the suckerfish class vs id problem yesterday. I just used 2 different ID's.

Now I thought i fixed my ie7 sticky problem. When i click somewhere on the page and then mouse over a menu the top menu drop down just sticks, but not the secondary menu.

http://www.dmu.edu/_a/index.cfm



http://www.dmu.edu/_a/css/homepage.css

I have the fix inside of a conditional comment for ie7:



#nav li:hover, #nav li.hover {
position: static;
}

#nav2 li:hover, #nav2 li.hover {
position: static;
}





Anyone know why this isnt fixing the top menu from sticking?

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1328370.html

Date: 11/01/07     Keywords: html, web

http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/example/

so every breed/variety of suckerfish dropdowns i can find on the web use an ID. I would like to find something that uses a CLASS so i can have more than one dropdown menu on one page.

Anyone know of anything like this?

Thanks,

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1328066.html

Date: 11/01/07     Keywords: php, html, web

Hi guys. I come to you out of desperation!

Well, not desperation, but I am pretty dang confused.

I just bought myself a domain recently with godaddy.com, but now I have no idea what to do with it. What I wanted to do with this domain was just to have an upload.php page available to myself only (possibly password protected or something?) so I could have a place to upload all of my art and garbage like that. I just got sick of using photobucket and crap, so I thought I'd do this.

A friend of mine also had this setup. She had a website (also domain purchased from godaddy.com) and it wasn't... really a website. You'd go to the main page, ie www.whatever.org and it would just be a filler page she designed that said 'coming soon' and behind that, there was a url that was accessible to herself only for uploading.

I have no idea how to achieve this. I have the php script saved as a .html document but I don't know what to do with it!

Help?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1327777.html

Date: 11/01/07     Keywords: html, web

I'm working on a website based on a free design template and I've run into a problem. When I add more text to one of the pages the whole design jumps a few millimeters to the left. Take a look at the site here. Click on the "Another tab" tab to see how the design changes. Why does this happen and what can I do about it? This template is slightly out of my league when it comes to html knowledge, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1327543.html

Date: 10/31/07     Keywords: css, web

I’ve a little project in mind which requires a simple website. What I need is a single web page designed – a template, if you will – and some basic graphics (which can be royalty free/legal clipart) to accompany it.

As this is a little project my budget isn’t huge. In fact, I think $100 is about appropriate. Whereas that’s certainly not enough for a whole website all I’m asking for here is a single page design.

I’d prefer something done in CSS. If you like to code with accessibility in mind then that’s very much what I want.

I’ll pay by PayPal.

If you’re interested then please drop me an email at ‘the’ ‘at’ ‘arhg’ .net. If I get a lot of interest then I’ll probably want to see portfolios. I’ll get back to people with a little bit more detail with what I have planned.

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1327332.html

Date: 10/31/07     Keywords: no keywords

I found this today: Photoshop Secret Shortcuts

Some of these are very nifty. Too nifty not to share. Enjoy!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1326530.html

Date: 10/30/07     Keywords: html, java

I have an application which requires signifigant data entry by end users. Batch file processing is not possible. An example of the form is below, though there are 45 columns of data to enter in the app. Numeric values for left and right text boxes

   
       
       
       
   
   
       
       
       
   
   
       
       
       
   

#1	< >
#2	< >
#3	< >

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1326071.html

Date: 10/29/07     Keywords: web

I am in need of some assistance.

I'm trying to come up with options for really good places to both host a webpage and purchase a domain name.
I need options for a site that's more than likely not going to get very big.

Right now I use http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net for my own website, but this'll be for someone elses, and I don't want to pick something just because I use it, even though I'm very happy with their service.

SO, please can anyone help me with places that they've had a really good experience with?
I would greatly appreciate it.

(x-posted)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1325754.html

Date: 10/26/07     Keywords: asp, java, google

Ok, we've got a form where people put in their first name, last name, email address, and a five digit number. On the confirmation page, we want to return to them: the first initial of their first name and full last name and then the first initial of their first name, first initial of their last name, and the five digits they put in.

For example, if I entered:
First Name: Brittany
Last Name: Jackson
5 Digits: 12345

I would want returned:
bjackson
bj12345

We are using Javascript for it, and where it previously worked, it suddenly stopped working. Thanks to all of your wonderful suggestions and help, I now have it working in Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari, but it won't work in Netscape or Firefox and I'm not sure why. I have searched and googled it, but haven't come up with an answer.

On the form page, the javascript we have in the header is (with the script type="text/javascript" in the appropriate < >'s, of course:

//script type="text/javascript"
function verify(forms) {
var errors='';
if ((document.forms.first.value == "") || (document.forms.last.value == ""))
errors+="Please enter your first and last name.\n";
if (errors){
alert(errors)
return false;}

fa = document.forms.first.value.charAt(0);
la = document.forms.last.value.charAt(0)

var len;
var aryText = new Array()
var hyp = "";

if (document.forms.last.value.indexOf ('-') != -1) {
len = document.forms.last.value.indexOf('-')
for (var i = 0; i < len) i++; {
aryText[i] = document.forms.last.value.charAt[i];
hyp = hyp + aryText[i];
}
document.forms.username.value = fa.toLowerCase() + hyp.toLowerCase();
}

else if (document.forms.last.value.indexOf (' ') != -1) {
len = document.forms.last.value.indexOf(' ')
for (var i = 0; i < len) i++; {
aryText[i] = document.forms.last.value.charAt[i];
hyp = hyp + aryText[i];
}
document.forms.username.value = fa.toLowerCase() + hyp.toLowerCase();
}

else{
document.forms.username.value = fa.toLowerCase() + document.forms.last.value.toLowerCase();
}
document.forms.code.value = fa.toLowerCase() + la.toLowerCase() + document.forms.ssn.value;
return true;
}
//

The words after form relate to the fields in the form.


And then in the body, under the start of the form class we have (obviously these would have the start and end tags (<>):

form class="forms" name="forms" action="apply.asp" method="post"

input type="hidden" name="code"
onchange="javascript:this.value=this.value.toLowerCase();" /
input type="hidden" name="username"
onchange="javascript:this.value=this.value.toLowerCase();" /

On our confirmation page/asp page we have:

//