Date: 02/28/07     Keywords: no keywords

Has anyone seen any really good instruction manuals done in flash? (it could be for a game, driving a car, really anything.)
Any links are appreciated!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1225824.html

Date: 02/27/07     Keywords: css

Just wondering why everything aligns correctly in FF but not in IE on the pc side.


http://2amstudios.net

http://2amstudios.net/2am_simple.css

I have it set up with a nifty image switcher thing (technical term yes i know!)

but i have the image taged with an id liek this:

#placeholderprint {
padding:0px 0px 5px 30px;
}

with 30px as the left padding. IE does not seem to recognize this. Why?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1225484.html

Date: 02/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

I've never had a portfolio. I'm trying to piece one together.
This is my first crack at this.
I know it needs some major work still.
But I figure I can throw it out there to be hacked apart.
Tell me what you think.
(P.S. Ignore the resume link, it's not properly styled yet.)

http://work.arcticpalace.org

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1225437.html

Date: 02/26/07     Keywords: cms, php

what's everybody's favorite CMS system nowadays?

i'd prefer something free and/or open-source.
:]

oh and i like php.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1225064.html

Date: 02/26/07     Keywords: spam

I apologize if there's a better place to ask this, but I'm at my wit's end.

I have a pretty basic Movable Type blog on my domain, and for the most part, it works like a dream. But I get an inordinate amount of TrackBack spam. MT filters out a huge amount of spam, both comment spam and TrackBack spam, but there's one IP address that has been plaguing me with TrackBack spam for two or more years. If I'm diligent about adding the domain names it uses to the SpamLookup Keyword Filter, I can nip most of it in the bud, but it's a full-time job keeping the addresses just from this one IP address (including "theproshops.org", "bestdrugshop.org", "hqcasino.org", "cell-phones-world.org", etc. — it changes every week or so) updated in the filter. So I have a few questions:

1. Is there any way to block an IP address from commenting or TrackBacking? If so, how?
2. Why is this IP address so effective at circumventing my filters? The sheer volume? The filters, I've noticed, filter out hundreds of messages from this address, but I nonetheless see a dozen or two a week get through if I don't keep the filters updated. Is there any way to better train my filters?
3. What can I do about this repeat offender? Why is this address still in business after two or more years? I've followed the IP trace to look for someone to whom I could complain, but the lowest recognizable authority is telia.net?

The address, if anyone cares, is 83.219.129.118. The IP trace:

Tracing route to kus.info39.com [83.219.129.118]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

[snipped for privacy]
 12    59 ms   131 ms   115 ms  pxr00asm-1-0-0.bellsouth.net [65.83.236.4]
 13    61 ms    60 ms    61 ms  so-4-3-0.gar1.Atlanta1.Level3.net [4.78.212.101]

 14   117 ms   119 ms    62 ms  ae-1-53.bbr1.Atlanta1.Level3.net [4.68.103.65]
 15   145 ms   146 ms   145 ms  as-0-0.bbr1.London1.Level3.net [4.68.128.109]
 16   147 ms   191 ms   151 ms  ae-12-55.car2.London1.Level3.net [4.68.116.144]

 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18   149 ms   150 ms   146 ms  ldn-bb1-link.telia.net [80.91.251.18]
 19   210 ms   161 ms   161 ms  hbg-bb1-link.telia.net [80.91.249.11]
 20   172 ms   176 ms   171 ms  s-bb1-link.telia.net [80.91.249.221]
 21   173 ms   196 ms   173 ms  s-b3-link.telia.net [213.248.66.2]
 22   179 ms   180 ms   174 ms  s-fre-i2-link.telia.net [213.248.101.10]
 23   241 ms   186 ms   189 ms  dialog-110639-s-fre-i2.c.telia.net [213.248.101.
78]
 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 25   197 ms   245 ms   196 ms  kus.info39.com [83.219.129.118]

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1224730.html

Date: 02/25/07     Keywords: web

A friend of mine paid someone to do a webpage for her. He did a decent job, but he will not make make the updates/insert the correct text that she has asked him to (kind of taking it upon himself to put some things on the page).

She was considering letting him go and asking me if I could work with the page.

Its a flash design. Since she paid him for the webservice, when she decides his services are no longer needed, he would be required to give her the .fla files, right?

And would it be considered unethical for me to continue on a webpage someone else built, in a situation such as this?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1224539.html

Date: 02/24/07     Keywords: blogging, web

I have a former/current client and he suddenly wants a blog. I have no experience with setting up a blog site from scratch and am trying to find some quick tutorials on how to make this guy a blog site using his already existing two web sites (and host) but I need to make it VERY easy for him to update and manage on his own.

This guy is REALLY slow when it comes to computers (i had to walk him thru the process of checking his web-based email and have spent many hours on the phone just teaching him how to navigate certain web pages.) I'm wondering if I'd be better off to just create a customized blog for him on one of the many developer-hosted blogging sites and be done with it. If so, is there a particular blogging site that is best for someone in the health field? I've only dabbled with Blogger and LJ.

any tutorials or suggestions are welcome!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1224298.html

Date: 02/19/07     Keywords: browser

My background is obeying repeat-y and this is what I want. However, I want it to repeat vertically from a starting position only. I have specified it's starting position (which it respects when repeat is set to no-repeat), but it repeats vertically above as as well as below it's starting position when I ask it to repeat-y. Please help :)

PS: This a cross browser problem for me right now.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1223827.html

Date: 02/19/07     Keywords: php, css

I admit it - I'm an old dog. I've been doing tables for so long that I'm stuck.

I've got a client that is a realtor and I found a great php script for realtor listings. The problem is trying to get it to conform to my look and feel.

It's in CSS... and while I can try to reverse engineer the CSS and move around the DIVs, I'm unable to figure out why a few little things won't work in FF but will in IE. Specifically, the bottom of the demo listing at www.conxis.com/bobcox/search

In IE, the width looks nice and in line with the rest of the white area. In FF, it gets smaller when we get to the last section.

I'm open to suggestions on how to edit a site with CSS in play for layout. I've been using HomeSite for years, but wonder if I need something different.

Thanks,
Chris

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1223447.html

Date: 02/18/07     Keywords: web

i'm making an email form for my website, and was wondering why [after setting the variable for the input area], this text will show up inside the boxes when the movie is published or tested...





Am i missing something in the actionscript... or something else?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1223305.html

Date: 02/17/07     Keywords: css

I'm working on a site of course and trying to combine the Holy Grail of A List Apart and the 100% Background of CSS Play.

Here's the problem I have however.

Any suggestions?

I'd like to keep the black-outlined box at an 85% width.

Thanks all.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1223051.html

Date: 02/16/07     Keywords: web

I've built a website for my company and am in the middle of tweaking it. Some friends have told me that they can't see parts of it in IE6. Can anyone tell me why and how to fix it?

Here is the url: www.myonestopshop.org

Thanks in advance.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1222683.html

Date: 02/16/07     Keywords: blogging, software, css, html, web

I am not a web developer by trade or experience; I'm most familiar with blogging software for online publishing and layout than I am with hand coding or what I think of as "hard" development. That said, I created this site with Dreamweaver and based its layout and design on a template they provided.

I can't, however, seem to get the page title and nav bars aligned between the index page and the others (e.g. vs photos or vs details). Could someone please suggest what I need to clean up in there to make them line up properly?

Further to that point, I see from the HTML that the pages are set up with tables. Isn't that considered sort of passé, now? Aren't the hip developers using DIVs and CSS to set up tabular or columnar or whatever layouts they conceive for their pages? And if so, how do I do that myself?

Also (no flames please), can you set these up with a WYSIWYG interface like Dreamweaver? Or is the code just so damned neat and tidy that it's no more hassle to do it by hand? I'm open to that too, if it's really not hard to learn. You see, I have two kids. Which means no spare time. :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1222520.html

Date: 02/15/07     Keywords: css, html, web

I need help seeing what's screwing up in a little thrown together navigation:
http://www.scottopic.com/testnav/News_Releases2.html
It's all onClick events which are supposed to open and close similar to a file tree, and then close out all of other top level options whenever another top level choice is clicked.
It uses simple a simple Show/Hide script to toggle the display state of the secondary navigation layers from display: none to display: block and back.

Simple,right?

Well, I was happily pretending like I knew what I was doing in IE6, and while it's code-ugly, it did the job.
But now looking at it in IE7, the display of the sub-navigation layers seem to essentially open behind the main navigation. If you click "Dentists:, it essentially works right, but then see the problem as you click "Agents/Brokers", "Purchasers" and so on - above a certain point, it looks like nothing is happening.

Any hints or ideas what may be going wrong here?
I'm not necessary asking for anyone to reshape the code, but a poke for my cobwebby brain may help out here, including outright faults in my code/styles and/or esoteric problems in IE7.

Handy link to the CSS:
http://www.scottopic.com/testnav/nav1.css

Note: it also does a similar 'trick' in Firefox, but that's not the primary concern at this stage.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1222223.html

Date: 02/15/07     Keywords: php, templates, css, html

Is there any chance I could enlist someone's aid in putting together a phpbb style for a new forum I'm doing?

I'd like a dark, gritty, industrial feel to it.

I'd also really like the templates to be fully xhtml/css compliant, but that can be split into two tasks. I can attempt that myself, but I need to brush up on my XHTML and CSS skills. Or if you're good with XHTML/CSS but not necessarily with graphics, maybe you can help me in that regard.

Here are a couple examples of themes I like to give you an idea. The top example is probably the best, and the theme I normally use is Zarron's Charcoal3Steel.

design - http://osc.template-help.com/forum_12926/
Charcoal3Steel - http://zarron.com/
side tabs - http://osc.template-help.com/forum_12882/
dance - http://osc.template-help.com/forum_11934/
Ambience - http://www.extremepixels.net/phpbb/index.php?s=35
Tren_z - http://www.extremepixels.net/phpbb/index.php?s=58
mechanical_creator - http://osc2.template-help.com:8081/forum_13468/

I like how some of these break up the layout with some white space, putting navigation tabs on the left, and utilize non-standard lines to break up the usual boxy layout of phpbb. Sometimes it is just the same blocky layout, but the graphics have nifty tabs and curves to dress it up.

The artist who helps me would obviously still own the work and would decide distribution rights of it as they wish.

Thanks for your time!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1222052.html

Date: 02/14/07     Keywords: no keywords

I've got a graphic that was done for a flash file and it's 72dpi. I need to get this re-created at 300dpi so I can use it to make a t-shirt.

The graphic can be seen at www.9412.com and it's the "Randy Fender & The Gizmos" graphic.

If you are interested, let me know? I need to know cost :)

Thanks,
Chris

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1221634.html

Date: 02/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

Is there an hack that I can add to my site to make it work in IE? Right now it works in FireFox and it looks out of line in IE, is there a way to make it look alright in IE?

http://www.silence-stars.net

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1220957.html

Date: 02/11/07     Keywords: php, mysql, sql, web, linux, apache

I hate to be a bit obtuse. However, I wanted to gather people's thoughts on using Linux as a web development/design platform.

Are there any users out there that have used Linux and/or Windows in this capacity?

If so, what web dev/design tools for Linux do you find helpful and/or comparable to Windows-based applications (outside of GIMP, Apache, MySQL, LDAP and PHP-Eclipse, of course)?

Finally, if your user requirements for a website gave you the choice of either Mono or PHP, which would you pick and why?

Thanks in advance!

*cross-posted to linux*

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1220790.html

Date: 02/11/07     Keywords: java, web, seo

So, I wanted to make a website with a particular effect on all my images, including images with links. All of the images on the page will appear in grayscale through a filter, and then on mouseover, they will fade into the original color scheme of the picture, and then when there is no mouseover, it will return to normal. In an ideal world, the mouseover will not change the entire image back to the original coloring, but only just a portion, like a spotlight. I remember seeing this done before on a website I can no longer find. It seemed to also glow with silver in the color change.

The codes I have found online over the last few hours are similar, but not quite what I want (most have been javascript with fade elements or opacity that work on the whole image). I was wondering if anyone knew of a code that was like the one I had in mind or would be willing to help me make it from existing codes that are similar?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1220449.html

Date: 02/10/07     Keywords: php, web

What's the best way to display navigation on a webpage without using IFRAMES? And what's the best what to do it? I want to use PHP but I am not quite sure on how to code that.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1220305.html