Date: 07/14/07     Keywords: browser, web

Sorry, I am almost done with the page now but I have one more (hopefully simple) question:

Here is the page so you can see what I mean.

I have been working with the latest Firefox on a PC to make this website. Now that I'm almost done and it's ready to go onto the actual classics department address I decided to check how it looks on every computer I could find. I checked on IE on another PC and a Mac, in Firefox in another PC and Mac, and on Safari on a Mac. It worked, for the most part, pretty well on all the browsers and different resolutions except one glaringly huge problem with IE (of course). The main links (with the drop-down menus) don't have enough space and the last link is going directly below the first one, and of course messing up the menus. Is there any simple way I can make this work on IE without having to make the entire site (table) wider? Or is that the easiest way?

Thank you once again,
Courtney

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1282184.html

Date: 07/13/07     Keywords: html

Hey everyone I need some quick help on this so if anyone can offer assistant I would really appreciate it.

I am making an image map so different areas of an image will open different links in a lower frame. I used to do this a lot. The HTML page with the image map works just fine.. but once I put that HTML in frames the clickable area is not in the right spot and is a bit larger! Why would a working html file have different map coords once put into a frame?

This is my image map code that works fine unless it is in a frame.

[img src="menu1.jpg" usemap="#shapes"]

[map name="shapes"]
[area shape="rect" coords="130,90,240,110" hrEF="chris.html"]
[/map]


My frameset code is this:

[frameset framespacing="0" border="0" frameborder="0" rows="50%,50%"]
[frame src="menu_top.html" name="top"]
[frame src="menu_bottom.html" name="bottom"]
[/frameset]


Any idea what is causing this? Maybe something in the image map code or frameset code that could be messing up the map when loaded in frames? Thanks for any help.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1281562.html

Date: 07/12/07     Keywords: browser, css

I'm coding a site for a local business. It works just fine in everything but IE. Not usually a problem - I just use conditional comments to filter out IE browsers and direct them to using an IE-specific CSS file.

But this site is slowly killing me: http://www.1skinnygirl.com/clients/kidtalk/

The wrap in IE6 has about 120px extra whitespace to the right. I cannot figure out why this is happening. I've even had it happen once before, about a year ago, but those particular memory cells must have self-imploded.

In IE6 and IE7, there is some overlapping amongst the boxes on the right side. I know this is because I have the top margin of the "Why Choose KidTalk? / Make a Payment / KidTalk, Inc." group (ul#otherpages) set to -1.5em; it needs to be this way for every other browser.

I've attempted to set it to 0 for IE, but it's not working. For some reason, conditional comments aren't working; star hacks aren't working; nothing is working. I am very frustrated. Please help - I only have to fix this before it can go live and I can get final payment. *Sigh*

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1281199.html

Date: 07/12/07     Keywords: php, web, spam

Spammers can be so strange sometimes.

I received an email through a form on one of my websites, and I got to be mildly flattered for a little while.

Hello, Your site is great. Regards, Valintino Guxxi

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1280809.html

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

Hello all. :)

I am just putting this out there.

I have no web design skills. Well, maybe basic html. I'd love to do a trade with someone though who is a designer. I could offer photography and custom cyanotypes in return for website construction. I'm looking for a site that will be used for my import business. So sales, travel blog.

Some of my images can be found at:

http://latentimages.deviantart.com/

If anyone is interested just drop me a note on my journal.

Thanks. :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1280633.html

Date: 07/11/07     Keywords: browser, css, html, web

EDIT: Okay, I'm slowly making headway, I forgot about floats and clears and all that fun stuff, and I managed to get the layout to work the way I want in IE7, but of course, as these things happen, the codes aren't working in Firefox. These two anamolies are what are happening in that browser:
1) When I make the entry div id float left, the background inherent in the pagebody div id that contains the entries and the sidebar disappears.
2) The background from pagebody won't repeat as the sidebar increases in size. The background WILL repeat, however, if the entries increase in size. I don't understand why it will for one and not the other when both are contained within the same tags.

It also seems that while the sidebar will now align vertically with the entries in IE7 it won't on Firefox.

Any help appreciated, the files to take a gander at are:
http://nolifeproductions.com/html/leaf/index.txt
http://nolifeproductions.com/html/leaf/leaf.css

(Also I realize the bugs more than likely come from the IE side of things, but IE is what I'm used to working in and generally I don't have such aggravating problems between browsers so I'm at a pretty good loss.)


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Allrighty, so I'm making a journal layout, conceivably I want it to look like this:
http://nolifeproductions.com/html/leaf/
And it (seems) to be working fine as it is, but I was just wondering a couple of things about CSS. Everything in that layout essentially is positioned relatively, so it can float and recenter itself depending on a person's browser size. However, in that particular version of the layout the sidebar is positioned absolutely else it would look like this:
http://nolifeproductions.com/html/leaf/index2.html
The sidebar is shoved under the entries, which makes logical sense because it's floating relative to the position of the entry tags, however is there a way to have the sidebar remain relative in its position but have it look like it does in the version it's absolutely positioned?

And finally, one more question, concerning the version with the sidebar positioned absolutely, if the sidebar is longer than the entries, the background pattern I have repeating in the pagebody tag won't extend along with the sidebar, even though I have the sidebar contained within the pagebody. IE it looks like this. I assume it's because of the absolute position, but again I was wondering if there was a way to fix it that I'm just not figuring out.

I am trying to keep the CSS as simple as possible because I was making layouts with the common user in mind so they can easily implement it instead of having 20 pages of confusing codes, so if there are solutions to these problems that are simple I'd be very excited to use them. I wouldn't be surprised if the solutions are so simple I merely looked them over, which is so often the case, amirite.

Thanks for any help.
Oh and to make your life easier:
Here's the CSS for the position:absolute sidebar layout
and here's the CSS for the position:relative sidebar layout
It's a bit messy, I haven't streamlined it yet, sorry.

(Also, let me apologize if my "lingo" isn't the "official jive" of the webdeveloper world, and I hope that I'm making some sense. If you need me to clarify just ask.)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1280341.html

Date: 07/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

I am having trouble clearing a float.

I have a 2 column layout.
The left side is a vertical menu (float:left;), the right is the content area.

#page-container { width: 780px; margin: auto; text-align: left; }
#content { margin-left: 225px; line-height: 18px;}
#menu{float: left; width: 205px; padding-left: 10px;}



Within the content area I would like to display some items in a "catalogue" format with another 2 columns.

ITEM NAME

*IMG* (float:left) DESCRIPTION GOES HERE AND WRAPS INLINE WITH ITSELF

*dotted line to separate from next item*

I created a new container within #content called #catalogue to display this secondary 2 column content.

#catalogue {width: 510px;)
#catalogue .left{width: 110px;float:left;}
#catalogue .right{margin-left: 110px;}
.dottedline {padding-top:10px; border-bottom:dotted 1px #666666;}

The problem is that the dotted line isn't clearing the image float on items that have very short descriptions. When I add clear:both to the dotted line it's ALSO clearing the #menu float from the #page-container, not just the float within my new #catalogue container.

Strangely, the dotted line isn't extending the full width of the page when this clear happens, it's staying within the confines of the #content area but it's putting a huge gap between my first item and the dotted line (the vertical menu is quite long)

Wtf do I have to do to get a dotted line to clear the catalogue item/description block but NOT the main menu? (simply moving the dotted line div up within the #catalogue div didn't work)

Item

Description

Etc

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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1280109.html

Date: 07/11/07     Keywords: web

has anyone been to this conference?

http://2007.webjamsession.com/

Just wondering. It sounds relatively inexpensive and interesting.

Any suggestions for conferences that are happening later this year?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1279929.html

Date: 07/10/07     Keywords: database, web

I have two forms for a website that I need to put in database format. Could someone please help me with that? I don't know what to do.

I need to know a code to organize the data of a form and email it to someone. Please help.

I need it to do a find/replace operation.

Find	Replace
&	Line Break
+	Space
%2F	/
%2C	,
%3A	:

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1279488.html

Date: 07/08/07     Keywords: no keywords

But I need to make a e-newsletter and I would like to know some tips beforehand.
I was looking online and saw some place that charge a fee to run your newsletter.

To do it myself, would it be enough to make something up in photoshop or is that just going to make a file too large to mail for some people.

What have you done in the past in order to produce a e-newsletter? What should I watch out for?

Any sites or advice would be greatly appreciated before I start anything.

Danke!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1279150.html

Date: 07/07/07     Keywords: web

Hey everyone.

I'm pretty new to designing for the web. My code works great in Firefox and Safari, but my footer and h1 (link color) are all screwed up in IE.

My footer is shortened to about half the page size. Can anyone please offer some help?



h1 code and link code
h1 {
font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, san-serif;
color:#CBCAB6;
font-size: 2.5em;
letter-spacing: 1px;
line-height: 100%;
margin-top: 25px;
margin-left: 25px;
width: 550px;
}

a:link {text-decoration: none; color:#CC1100}
a:visited {text-decoration:none; color:#E35152}
a:hover {text-decoration:none; background-color: #AADD00;color:#CC1100}
a:active {color:#CC1100}

a.active {background-color: #AADD00}

a.footer {text-decoration:none; color:white}

a.header {text-decoration:none; color:#CBCAB6}

footer code
#footer {
background-color: #E35152;
position: absolute;
top: 1250px;
left: 0;
right: 0;
height: 50px;
padding-left: 10px;
}



Also, I'm using Lightbox to display my images, and it completely doesn't show up in IE. Help on that too please!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1278916.html

Date: 07/06/07     Keywords: css, web

Sorry if the topic of this post is pretty basic -- our non-profit can't afford to hire a web developer, so we're trying to build a site ourselves. We're making progress in understanding CSS, but there's one thing I don't understand:

Let's say I have a webpage with a navbar, header and footer. The navbar is an unordered list of links. I can get this far. But I want the navbar, header, and footer to persist for each of the link options on the navbar.

The dumb way of doing this, I guess, is to simply write the navbar, header, footer, etc., into every linked page. But every site with a CSS-based navbar seems to have a way of producing the linked page within a div. From looking at page source, it isn't obvious to me how they're doing it.

My thanks to anyone who can offer a dumbed-down explanation for how this works.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1278236.html

Date: 07/06/07     Keywords: php, html, xml, database, java, microsoft

I'm trying to teach myself how to use Ajax with PHP. It's been years since I've used JavaScript for anything so I'm beyond rusty.

I've been using the Apress Beginning Ajax with PHP book and I've been learning quite a bit, but I haven't found a single code sample from that book that actually worked the way it was written.

So, I come to you with my situation: Right now, I have one field in a form. There will eventually be more, but I'd like to see if I can get just a single field to work for me before I start jumping ahead. Anyway: 1 field on a form, and one submit button. In theory, when I click on the submit button, I'd like the value to be input into the database.

I have bigger ideas for what I want to do with this project, but for now, just a little success with the database updating would be nice.

Note: The code is based off of a contacts form I found on the internet. I figured for learning purposes, it would be a good way to start, that way, once I figure out the trick to making ajax do what I want in this instance, I can write my own.

  
    
    
    
    
  
  
    
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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1278123.html

Date: 07/06/07     Keywords: no keywords

Is there a way to display a mouse pointer over a non-linked area, such as a TD cell?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1277750.html

Date: 07/05/07     Keywords: php, browser

OK, I have a site redesign going on at and it works fine in most browsers. The problem I'm having is that IE 7 and Firefox don't seem to accept a percentage in the height variable. It keeps setting the height to some very small size (around 100 pixels, give or take 20) rather than the 65% of the available space like I spec'ed.

Any ideas how to fix this other than what I did (which was to do a PHP if/elseif/else function to call in separate segments for the iframe depending on the browser set)?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1277636.html

Date: 07/05/07     Keywords: no keywords

...is it still 600 x 800, or have times changed?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1277233.html

Date: 07/04/07     Keywords: no keywords

I downloaded and installed movable type and was wondering if any of you knew of any graphic design portfolios that were set up using MT as a content management system?

can you add fields for client, medium, content, image, etc.?

Also, anyone know of any tutorial sites for doing something like this> My intent is to use MT not only for a blog but updating other types of dynamic content. Pictures, reviews, etc.

thanks!!
Josh

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1277116.html

Date: 07/03/07     Keywords: hosting

I'm thinking of switching my hosting company and I've been looking at dreamhost.com.

Basically I'm looking for opinions on this company - are they any good? Are they reliable?

If you've used them or use them currently would you recommend them?

Thanks in advance :)

X-Posted

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1276687.html

Date: 07/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

I've created a Flash banner, and it's currently 525KB.

Is this considered too big? The site's audience may be on dial up (living in regional areas).

Don't know if this is relevant but: my Flash banner uses 5 bitmap images (around 45kb) at 75% quality. I have Motion Tweened these. Then the rest I have are vectors.

How can I reduce the file size - hopefully to 200KB?

Sorry, this is my first time using Flash.

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1276427.html

Date: 07/02/07     Keywords: css, html, java

i was wondering if there was a pure css way to make an image popup. i've seen a few on cssplay.co.uk and dynamicdrive.com but i want something that will pop up over the rest of the site with the ability to put html underneath it if i want to (captions with links maybe). i was wondering if anybody here knew of anything that i didn't. i'm currently using javascript to achieve the results i want and i'm not happy with how it has been working. the page is http://1919hemphill.org/calendar.html if you want to know what i'm talking about.

thanks a lot in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1276339.html