Date: 03/15/07     Keywords: no keywords

Hello everyone, I need to create some simple sounds and was wondering if in your swf making you have run into situations where you needed sounds, simple bleeps etc. I don't need to make looping "music," just kind of different alert noises. Do you know what kind of program I might use to create these? It might be used by the public at large, so I am also concerned with legal issues, etc. Any experience-mentions would be very appreciated!
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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1232471.html

Date: 03/15/07     Keywords: php, software, html, web, google

I need an easy method of adding template-like content such as headers into websites, with the following requirements: I want to be able to change the contents of the template and reapply it to all the pages which use it, and I DO NOT want to use anything that requires a script be run every time the page loads. That is to say, I'd like to be able to take care of this before I even upload the webpages and not rely on php includes and the like.

It would seem to me that this is something lots of people might want do do. Even if not fully automated it should make static html sites easier to maintain and dynamic websites more efficient, but I haven't had much luck finding any information, much less a development environment which would automate it. Plenty of stuff lets you apply a template, but I don't think any of what I've looked at lets one change the template and then reapply it.

Every google search I do looking for information on this dumps me at Smarty's doorstep, but if I'm reading their website properly, Smarty is a caching engine and something constantly running, which is close to the exact opposite of what I want. If I recall correctly, dreamweaver does something like what I'm looking for, but I don't really want to buy proprietary software, especially not when I'd mostly be paying for wysiwyg functionality I don't need or want.

Am I missing something very obvious (don't say frames, please), is this common and I'm not reading program helpfiles properly (doh), am I mistaken that anyone would want to do this, or what?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1232166.html

Date: 03/14/07     Keywords: browser, css, web

I'm new to CSS and I'm trying to create a portfolio site for myself. right now i'm just trying to get the layout how i want it and then i'll worry about the other visual elements. the problem is internet explorer. it looks fine in other browsers and looks wrong in some versions of IE. why??? what do i need to change so that it looks correct across the board?

the website is http://www.lydiaplottel.com
see the code here: http://www.lydiaplottel.com/style.css

thanks in advance.


this is how it is supposed to look:


this is how it looks in some versions of internet explorer:

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1232111.html

Date: 03/14/07     Keywords: browser, html, web

http://nikibrown.com/test/new.html


2 problems:

the background image at the top does not repeat along the entire top of the page.

i have the image in a background of a div:

#top {
background:url(images/bgtop.jpg) repeat-x;
height:24px;
width:100%;
}

repeat x with 100% width should go across the entire page right? In safari and FF on mac it only spans however big my browser window is...help?

Anchor links:
This is just a one page portfolio, i want the links on the left to go to the anchor links within the page. Is there a way i can control the exact position the browser goes to when a user clicks on a link?
Right now the browser will go to where my is barely on the screen, i want it to bring it all the way to the left. does that make any sense...sorry this is wordy.

x-posted to graphic design and web design...and probably webdev

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1231676.html

Date: 03/12/07     Keywords: php, database

does anybody know of a good 'letter to the editor' script or have any ideas?

i'm helping a political advocacy group who'd like to help people email local newspapers and/or congress people with letters, etc

i found local ink:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/localink/

and i have everything set up but i have no idea how to add newspaper/zip code information into the database correctly. i tried with phpMyAdmin adding it in manually and that didn't work either.

any ideas? would appreciate any help in the right direction with somebody who's done something like this before, either with local ink or something else.

thanks so much!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1231367.html

Date: 03/06/07     Keywords: browser

I'm working on an online portfolio and was wondering if anyone had any tips on making it cross-browser friendly... looks fine on Mozilla but looks like a train-wreck on Internet Explorer!

http://www.steadman.net/zara

(none of the links work just yet btw)
thanks for any and all suggestions

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1230764.html

Date: 03/06/07     Keywords: html

What's a way to format this so it will appear the same everywhere, ie. on LJ friends lists or when reposted to other people's blogs? All I have now is a million line breaks, which doesn't seem like the greatest idea. Is it any better to have a few empty TDs?

http://apocolis.com/factory-boxtest.html

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1229964.html

Date: 03/05/07     Keywords: html

has anyone ever seen something like this that works with side scrolling?

http://www.brandspankingnew.net/specials/anchorjump/anchorjump_01.html

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1229692.html

Date: 03/05/07     Keywords: google

Please don't run away because of the title. I'm working on a template which would include a sidebar with the ability to leave comments without refreshing...hence the AJAX implication.

Now, the big issue at hand is I have NO knowledge on how to do this. Here is the template I'm working with. ( clicky )

On the right you'll see the comment box, and above is a small bg image which looks like a quote bubble. So I want the submissions to appear over the bubble. And here is the catch, only three comments are to be allowed on the page. It needs to auto delete any (older) comments beyond 3. And a maximum of 100 characters per submission.

IS THIS POSSIBLE?

Of course it is. But I don't know how to do it. I've googled and ... damn it's a big world out there.

Suggestions or offers?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1229394.html

Date: 03/04/07     Keywords: no keywords

another mystery I'd love to solve is why, when I have developed a *lovely and beautiful* template that looks fine,and I create a bunch of pages from it, and they look fine for a while...suddenly they start displaying an "E" in certain sections. It would be easy if the E developed in editable sections of the pages, but no! It lives in the uneditable section. Ok, so it's coming from the template, right? WRONG. it only exists in the pages. So to get rid of it, I have to detach the template from the page, take out the E, then reapply the template to the page. Ok, problem solved, right? WRONG! NOW Dreamweaver doesn't recognize the Document Body or Document Title sections of my file (sometimes others) and so throws a fit when I reapply the template. I reassign these sections to "nowhere" and things look ok, but I secretly wonder if there isn't something weird goin on somewhere that won't appear until later.

Can anyone recommend a witch doctor to get rid of this voodoo???

Or the answer might be the "upgrade" spell...

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1229298.html

Date: 03/04/07     Keywords: web

Sorry if this is terribly mundane, but I'm finally getting into the swing of making my website, and I have a design problem.

I'll try to explain what I'm looking for: I want what looks like two in-line frames on the page, one that contains a number of text links (ie, About, Writing, Links, Email, etc), and the other that appears blank until you roll the mouse over the text of the text links. Then I want a description of the link to show up in the second frame. Normally, I think I'd just use two frames and a target command of some sort (I did it once before), but this time I don't really want the second frame to be a frame. I want it more like a transparent (invisible) table cell where the background of the main page can show through. I just want it there as a blank spot so that words can show up there on mouse-over of my text links.

Am I coherent? It's late. maybe not. Anyway! If anyone knows what I'm on about and can help, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1229017.html

Date: 03/04/07     Keywords: web

I'm trying to create an artwork gallery, and I want to put Lightbox (or something similar) on my webpage. The problem is, the entire layout I've created uses iframes, and the lightbox window only opens within the frame (which kind of defeats the purpose.

How could I set it up, so that I can have links on the page within the iframe that open a picture in a lightbox window outside of the frame (covering the entire whole page)?

I've found one solution (I think) online (in a forum by somebody going by the name "Sean K")...but the explaination was far too complicated for me to understand.
If anybody could help me, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1228565.html

Date: 03/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

I need this "thing" that's done in Flash. Will try to explain what it is...

It's a rectangle with 5 numbers in the bottom of the flash movie. Each one corresponds to a image so if you push the 3 button, you will see the image that is listed as #3 in the file. The images will rotate and when say #4 image is showing, the number 4 on the bottom will be highlighted to indicate that's what it is. If you click on the image that's being shown, you will be sent to a related page.

Hopefully you have seen this or know what I am talking about and can point me in the direction of where to get the FLA.

It's for a Realtor that wants to show Featured Listings on the home page of their site. Im hoping it's easy for them to update on their own.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1228498.html

Date: 03/03/07     Keywords: html

If so, then read this!

http://registerflies.com/registerfly-the-real-deal-4.html


The gyst of it is the company is in shambles and you should seek a new registrar and and try to move your domain names as soon as possible, if you still can.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1228068.html

Date: 03/03/07     Keywords: templates, css

Hey folks, wondering if I can get some empathy here...I'm stsill using Dreamweaver MX for Mac (haven't felt the burning need to upgrade)...and weird things happen sometimes. I use templates and CSS stylesheet for my projects, and sometimes, for no particular reason, things start suddenly appearing oddly. Like a

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1227842.html

Date: 03/03/07     Keywords: web

pardon me for barging in unannounced...but I have a dilemma. It's been awhile since I made any sort of webpage and now someone wants me to do some updates to their page. I've been doing stuff to the site which is great but my problem is this:

I want to put a background image on the page that just sits there while the rest of the page scrolls over top of it.

have a look if you like, at the Home History Research Project
news page (which is normally inside a frame, but that's not important).

So I just want one instance of the background image, and the list of links to scroll over top of it while the image stays put.

much MUCH thanks - I have no idea how to do this!

Thank you.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1227608.html

Date: 03/03/07     Keywords: asp, web, hosting

Hey, can someone tell me why after submitting an email form on my website, it will reload my website in a different window? You can test it all you want, go ahead submit to see....

Heres my the script in the action layer:
set(mailuser, "wendy922@gmail.com");
set(targetpage, "none");
stop();


and heres the script on the SUBMIT button:
on (release) {
getURL("gdform.asp", "lower", "GET");
}
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(75);
}



It maybe just be my control panel with my hosting service. I'll check.
The Website: http://www.staaadesigns.com

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1227346.html

Date: 03/01/07     Keywords: xml, google

The site I manage at work is going to start taking in an XML-based newswire, and I need to be able to have it display in a nice way on our site. After speaking with the people who publish the wire, they said my best bet would to check out XML Style Sheets. Anyone know of a place where I can read up on this stuff? A quick google search didn't seem to give me anything I'd be capable of really using.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1226745.html

Date: 03/01/07     Keywords: web

Do any of you know what website that offers downtime monitoring that is hassle-free and the service is reasonable good?

On the same boat, if I couldn't depend on my web server cron job, will that website help me, too? Or is there any other website you can recommend? The cron job I'm talking about is to check a web page content for every specific time.

And the last, I'm doing a form for dummies. I need them to input their screen resolution, if they don't know, I would like to redirect them to a web page that will output their monitor resolution. Is there such a thing? (I understand it might need cookies enabled)

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1226286.html

Date: 02/28/07     Keywords: hosting

How do you folks keep yourselves organized when it comes to domains, hosting, etc..

I'm soon going to be tasked with somehow organizing and compiling records of all our different domains and all associated information into a way that makes it easy for us to find passwords, double check expiring domains, etc.

Do you keep it all digital or keep hard copies?

If you have a hard copy suggestion that would be very handy as well because that's what my boss would prefer.

thanks in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1226021.html