Date: 12/12/06     Keywords: software, web

I'm setting up a website for a local charity, and I have it in mind to set it up for people to make donations online (isn't that the point?). I've never done this, however, and I don't have any idea how to start. Are there any services (Paypal-esque perhaps) that are set up to handle this? Are there any software packages already written specifically for this purpose? What's involved in personally processing credit card donations, or would we be better off using a service as mentioned? I have no experience with this, either with making donations online or receiving them, or with any brand of e-commerce, so any advice at all would be appreciated.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1195234.html

Date: 12/11/06     Keywords: software, css

hey all
later tonight i should have a post describing my hellish transparent png css drop down menu for you. if it gets finished, that is. in the meantime, cyberduck keeps crashing on me and runs so slow. any suggestions for good free mac ftp software? even shareware if it's super awesome.
thanks you helpful creatures.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1194607.html

Date: 12/11/06     Keywords: web

Greets folks, couple of things. I'm now maintaining this website for some folks and if possible, you can see where one the links are clicked, the image disappears. I imagine its more than likely do to something in this code:

a:link.home{
	background:url(home.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
	display:block;
	height:50px;
	text-decoration:none;
	width:250px;
}
a:hover.home{background-position:-250px;}

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1194426.html

Date: 12/08/06     Keywords: web

I've got a situation. I'm working on a site promoting a book that is part of amazon.com's affliate program. In the program they provide you with your own special link to a webpage, where your book is displayed very small with another link to Amazon's main site where you can buy the book. Bascially you get credit for the "hit" to Amazon's site when the user clicks on the special link which then takes them to Amazon to buy the book.
It's a pain in the butt to have to click on one-->button in your site-->button on special link site --> to amazons site to buy the book.

I've made a button in my flash file, when you click you get two windows, one is the hit site (which i have resized very small and out of the way, the other is the amazon site you would have gotten had you hit the special link site. So I'm getting the "hit" (i think, if i'm not, please someone tell me) but eliminating the need for the user to then have to click the special link site because the amazon site is already there.

My question is-- is there anyway to totally eliminate the "hit" site, get the hit, but somehow have the window not appear at all? If anyone knows anything about amazon's program, please let me know! I'm worried that by having a button launch both sites, that I might be loosing the hit all together!

Thanks for reading that long-winded question!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1193991.html

Date: 12/07/06     Keywords: spam

I use Matt's formmail script on a couple of the sites I host and, recently, the script has been abused a lot by spammers. As a result the email addresses associated with the form have been blacklisted by AOL and the two clients I have who are with AOL are now not receiving their form results at all. Instead I'm getting the rebounded emails (as the admin contact) with a 554 error.

I've read that changing the name of the formmail script to something else solves the problem of spam abuse, but is there any way to get AOL to 'un-blacklist' their form results that are getting junked?

Also, they're both using the AOL email client thing (which I'm not that famiiliar with) rather than Outlook, so the formmail results are having to be forwarded to their AOL email address rather than using a standard POP mailbox set-up in Outlook. I don't know if switching them to a POP mail account would solve the problem or not.

Does anyone have any advice?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1193740.html

Date: 12/07/06     Keywords: css, java, google

hello everyone,
i am trying to figure out the best way in css to make a navigation menu that uses transparent pngs for the links, but also has dropdown subnav items (also transparent images).

i know i'll have to use some javascript for the IE6 transparency, but i really want to keep this as clean as possible. i've searched google and a list apart - i know about image sprites, the suckerfish menu, and the transparency javascript, but how do i combine the drop down with the image transparency? i just can't get my mind around this one. any help would be so greatly appreciated.

thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1193480.html

Date: 12/06/06     Keywords: php, software, security, web, shopping

I have this project, which started out as a relaunch of a relatively simple website for a photographer, and is getting more and more complicated. Which is fine, as long as I'm getting paid and I *know* what to do... ;-)


Part of the website is a simple php based ordering system without payment options (customer chooses photos, orders, gets a confirmation/invoice email; photographer also gets confirmation email, waits for customer to pay via check or bank transfer, then sends photos to the given address).

We had discussed including paypal payment, but now my client wants her customers to have the option to pay directly with their credit card when ordering. I've never done anything like this, and am not sure what is the best and most simple way to implement it.

I know some providers (no provider/host yet, so I'm open for any suggestions) offer e-commerce/shopping cart software, but I'm not sure if that's what I'm looking for, as I don't want to change anything with the ordering system itself if possible. What I do need is a way to initiate the transaction of a given sum of money from the customer's credit card to my clients bank account; including security issues and whatnot.
Is the best/easiest way to use e-commerce software? Is it possible (for someone who's not a total newbie but not a php guru either) to do that with a php script?

Any help, suggestion, information is welcome, thanks. :-)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1193123.html

Date: 12/05/06     Keywords: no keywords

Hello All!

NothingButBudz.com is seeking a designer to create a Myspace profile layout. We're looking for an advacned profile, not the typical Myspace profile your friends have.

Not so much, but Tila's Myspace profile is infamous. View her profile at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=41736

If you'd like to be considered for the job or have any questions please send us an email to budz@nothingbutbudz.com.

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1192463.html

Date: 12/05/06     Keywords: html, java, web, hosting, shopping

I'm designing a website for a friend. I have a pretty basic knowledge of html but that's about it. I'm good at simple sites. My friend wants a shopping cart, and would prefer not paypal since it can't calculate shipping. Her hosting plan comes with AgoraCart but I can't figure out how in the heck to integrate it seemlessly into my web design. From what I see it only lets you put in a header and/or footer and you can make no changes to the body. This site isn't just pictures and buy now so that's a problem.

So the impossible dream questions. Does anyone know of a shopping cart that is: Free, can be integrated into the body and let you add things around it, doesn't require extensive knowledge of perl, java, etc, and works with Dreamweaver would be nice but not required (i can use other html editors).

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1192352.html

Date: 12/02/06     Keywords: browser, css, web

Hello all. I'm an active member of graphicdesign, and have recently added webdesign as i'm becoming more involved with web development for a couple client projects.

I'm in the process of a CSS-level overhaul of my site, biesdesign.com. I do not plan to edit the content pages at all, only the CSS that controls layout. The site is currently laid out entirely in an external css file, so that shouldn't be a problem.

My issue is that my redesign will look best on monitors with screen heights in excess 900px, so I need to create an alternate css file for smaller monitors (to allow the client to revert to my site's current design or a slightly modified version thereof) and need to create a method where the client's browser remembers which CSS layout they're using when moving from page to page so that they have a consistent experience once they've chosen. I realise at this point that I'll likely have to insert several lines of code into each page, but that isn't a problem. I just don't want to have to maintain two websites to accomodate for monitor sizes. When I add a page, I need for it to be immediately a part of both experiences, if that makes sense.

Any ideas?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1191941.html

Date: 12/02/06     Keywords: web

hey everyone

come this spring, i'll be graduating from college! yeah! i'll have a degree completely unrelated to design (mathematics), but i've been working in the field without breaks for 8 years now. i know what i'm doing, i do good work, and i feel that i'm qualified for most of the web design jobs i see out there. i'd like to work for an ad agency, and in-house design group for a big company, or a university. i am not interested in freelancing.

i'm searching craigslist, monster, random companies i like, and i'm finding a ton of jobs, but i don't know when the appropriate time to apply for these jobs is. a lot of these jobs seem to come and go pretty quickly. i know web design isn't a field that companies really recruit for, so i was wondering what everyone here might suggest. how early is too early to apply for a job? if i found a job that i love in, say, february, would it be weird to apply and say that i can't take it until i graduate in may?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1191806.html

Date: 12/01/06     Keywords: hosting, spam

Hey there, who would like to have a 20 US Dollar gift certificate for hosting services with Siteground.com?

I am one of their customers and got 4 certs to give away for Xmas from them. Have a look at their site and what hosting they do - it´s quite amazing what they offer for a price of about 70 Dollars per year (50 Dollars with the gift certificate).

Just let me know your email and I´ll send one to you. Oh, and if they have your email, they do NOT spam you, promise.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1191488.html

Date: 12/01/06     Keywords: web

I was checking out the university jobbank and came across a listing for a receptionist position (which I am NOT interested in) for a CPA firm, but noticed that even though they have a company.com web site name, their web site is not yet developed. I'd like to submit my resume to see if they might be interested in hiring me to design their web site, even though the job listing is for a receptionist. For all I know, they may have someone to design their web site, but I'd still like to try to submit my resume and see if they might be interested.

Is this even appropriate? How do I word this paragraph in my cover letter in a professional way?

"Upon reviewing the (Name of University) Jobbank, I noticed the job listing for a Receptionist position, but also noticed that the www.nameofcompany.com web site is not yet developed. If you do not currently have someone in line to develop your company web site, I would like to apply for the position and I am available to meet with you at your earliest convenience to discuss this possible opportunity, my qualifications, and my portfolio with you."

Thoughts? Suggestions?

I'm just not sure this is even appropriate considering their job listing is for something entirely different.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1191315.html

Date: 12/01/06     Keywords: asp, web

I have a contact page in .asp on a website for a client. The company is based in Canada, so I built the site in English and am now translating the site into French. (Well, changing everything so it is French, sadly my French skills let me read, but not write.) Anyway... everything is going well, but I need to change the "send" button on the page to an "envoyer" button.

The button and text are created by the script, so I would like to avoid having to place an image there. Does anyone know how to get the text from "send" to "envoyer"?

Please help... I've never had to do this before.

Thank you!

ETA, 11.06pm: Well, just changing the script value from "send" to "envoyer" seems to be working. Need to upload it to the server to check for certain, but that seems to be it. Easy fix.

Thanks for the help!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1191088.html

Date: 11/30/06     Keywords: browser, web

Greetings all!

I posted a few days ago re: Flash encoding video for the web...I think I found a good mix of quality with load time. Would you please proof?

I'm seeing if it plays back on most systems with the following qualities:

I'm looking for:

A) Quality. How does it look? How does it sound?
B) Stuttering? Does it start to drop frames / have choppy playback? (Audio should be fine, video may skip)
C) What Platform are you on (Mac/PC), what browser, if you have dialup or broadband, and a rough estimate of your processor and RAM...all of these factors determine how anything Flash-based plays back.

http://lucidsound.com/flash/

It's a 1.5-2 minute video trailer of a doc for Spike TV that I did the sound for several months back. Yes, it begins with black...audio starts before video, and the file DOES autostart...no need to hit play.

WARNING: It contains graphic images of the 9/11 tragedy.

Many thanks for your time all!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1190430.html

Date: 11/29/06     Keywords: asp

I was wondering if you would be able to help
me out. Right now I’m in the process of putting together an on-line
Catalogue to sell clothes on the net; I am having
Problems with one aspect of the catalogue, shipping. it seems pay pal doesn't
Support the method i wish to use. Basically I have six different options for
Shipping (Canada post, Canada express, USA post, USA express, international
Post, international express) each one having a different cost; I would like
To have it so that the buyer, after selecting the options for the item, then
Selects the proper shipping option, based on where they live and how fast
they want it.

Thanks in advance :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1189889.html

Date: 11/28/06     Keywords: browser, web

I'm using Sorenson Squeeze Compression Studio on a Mac for some video encoding. Using the ON2 VP6 compressor (as opposed to the Sorenson Spark), I'm encoding movies into Flash for playback on the Web.

That's not the problem.

The problem is that I find the movies to be stuttering (frame rates dropping) as the movie plays on. When I encoded them, I opted to allow frames to drop to keep the audio going, so that is to be expected. What I'm not getting is the concept behind the flash architecture that would cause the stuttering.

Why?

Because I'm viewing these locally before they go live; so I know it's not a bandwidth issue. I've adjusted the data rate to a respectable 400 kilobits/sec.

It may be the computer I'm playing it back on (AMD 1.4Ghz, 1GB RAM), but I'm wondering if there is a fundamental way Flash uses a web browser for display that is causing my encodes to bottom out.

Thanks all!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1189479.html

Date: 11/27/06     Keywords: web

STARCATS.CO.UK is for sale.

CLICK HERE for more info and placing bids.

Yes, my dear Star Cats fans, it´s the end of an era, but me and my kitties haven´t lived in the UK for 3 years now and don´t intend to return, and the Star Cats site has already migrated to become the all new Haus von Fluffenstein.

If you are interested or know anyone who would be, please place your bids.

The name would be great for a pet shop or cat charity site for example. Of course, if someone can and wants to afford it for a personal website, they are welcome too! :)

Xposted in cats_with_claws, goth_cats and gothtrademarket

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1189329.html

Date: 11/25/06     Keywords: php, html, database, web, hosting

I need some help with web work ... a few hours per week worth ... if you already know html &/or php, I need ya ...

Examples ...

:: Web site pages are designed, graphics/layout is done ... just need someone to make up the new pages; make tables + add text ...

:: A client's blog program has been added ... php ... I will provide graphics ... need you put the graphics in place, edit pages to size specifications and help set it up for the client ...

:: A client needs a store ... I'll install the program, I need you make it look 'pretty' ...

:: I moved my board ... php ... from one server to another ... some of the posts are missing, I didn't realize it for about a week, have a back-up copy before the move ... need you to go through the posts find out which ones are missing, then add the missing posts to the database ...

:: I need graphics ...

Et cetera! Et cetera! Et cetera!

I will pay via PayPal, postal money order, give you free hosting, &/or pay for a few on-line subscriptions/renewals ... depending on work completed and your preference ...

I have lots and lots that I need help with, let me know what you can do and point out a few examples ... please + thank ya :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1189002.html

Date: 11/22/06     Keywords: css, html, web

ok this may seem like a silly question but I'm gonna ask it anyways.

How do people make tableless websites?

I dont know much about XHTML or CSS at the moment but I'm mostly working using Dreamweaver MX 2004. Yeah i know its old but I havent had a reason to upgrade it yet but if this XHTML and CSS thing is in it then I will probably have too. Can anybody point me in the right direction on this?

thanks

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~ B ~

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1188616.html