Date: 10/06/06     Keywords: html, java

I thought of a better way to ask this.

How do I make it so when you hover over one part of an image map, the whole image changes...and when you hover over a different part of that image map, the whole image changes to something else?

I'm using XHTML but this may be something you do with JavaScript.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1175091.html

Date: 10/06/06     Keywords: software, web

In June I designed a gallery website for a local photographer. At the time it was discussed that she would want to make ongoing changes to the site, small text amends and swapping-out images in her portfolio, and I assured that it would be a simple process. I asked, as I always do, if she would be interested in learning to use the software to update her own site and she said no, that she would rely on me to make any changes for her.

When she agreed the quote for the site, I sent her a copy of our terms and conditions which clearly state:

After work on the client's web-site has been ceased, **** will not be held responsible for the maintenance, monitoring or upkeep of said site unless otherwise agreed in writing.

A couple of weeks ago she called me and asked me to cost up how much 16 new pages to add to the gallery would be. When I sent her the quote for the new pages, she didn't reply to my email, so I assumed she was (as I suggested) getting quotes from other companies.

Then last week she called me and asked me to make some changes to her pricelist 'as a favour'. I said that of course I would make the changes, but naturally there would be a charge for doing so. She asked how much and I told her that we had discussed our hourly rate at our initial meeting and that changes to the site were charged at our usual hourly rate, with a minimum fee of £10 per amendment. This is the same arrangement I use for ALL my clients (I currently maintain 63 websites) and have never had any mis-communication before.

Today, her husband called me. He told me that 'all the other web design companies he'd obtained quotes from had included the price of maintenance in their prices' and that he had just assumed we were doing the same'.

Does anyone here (UK-based or other) quote on this basis? And, if so, how the hell can you give a quote based on a contract that may extend indefinitely and incur infinite workhours???!!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1174978.html

Date: 10/06/06     Keywords: no keywords

I have two images on a page, one which is an image map, and I want the -other- image on the page to change when you hover over different parts of the image map.  The 2nd image is a little sign and the words will change to show what part of the image you're hovering on.  How do I do that and/or what would that be called so I can look it up?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1174534.html

Date: 10/06/06     Keywords: html, web

Does anyone know if there's a way to make a scrolling box within a web site in FrontPage? I know how to make a scrolling text box, but I need to add pictures within the box, which that won't allow me to do. This is the site I'm working on, though that only shows what I was able to salvage. Something went horribly wrong with it, and now I'm trying to rebuild with a program as opposed to the pure HTML mess I made before. The scrolling box is the only thing I can't figure out. If it can't be done with the functions in FrontPage, does anyone know the code for it?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1174509.html

Date: 10/05/06     Keywords: browser, css, web

Okay, I admit it. I can't do it. I can't get my site to render correctly in Internet Explorer for Windows. The site in question is The Lucky Cat Studio.

I've been banging my head for four weeks Googling and trying to fix it so it'll work in IE for Windows. Can someone help?

My browser of choice is Firefox, and because I'm on Macintosh, I had to have a friend look at my site and tell me how it looked on his Windows XP Internet Explorer 7. Which is simply put, wrong.

My problem is that in IE for Windows, the main body (in white rounded boxes) appears below the sidebar navigation. It is supposed to appear on the right, next to the sidebar navigation.

Here is the CSS.

Thank ye Web Guru(s) in advance for help rendered.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1174249.html

Date: 10/05/06     Keywords: browser, css, html, microsoft

So how many of you have begun testing with IE7 "Release Candidate 1"?

And can we discuss how to address the problem of Microsoft halfassing CSS standards, therefore rendering my perfect-in-all-browsers-but-IE-except-hacked-for-IE6-so-it-looks-perfect site incorrectly, hacked or not? Where is there a site that can tell me yet more hacks for this POS?

My anger is consuming me.

edit: ok i kind of spoke too soon. if i use the * html body hack instead of the !important hack, i can keep ie 6 and 7 separate because ie7 no longer supports the * html body hack .

it's not 100% perfect but it will do.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1173978.html

Date: 10/05/06     Keywords: no keywords

Has anyone ever had a chance to participate in a speed networking event? I received an email today about an event later this month and I'm thinking about participating. Here's a post of one person's experience: http://blogs.iabc.com/chair/archives/2005/04/29/ive-been-speed-networking/

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1173659.html

Date: 10/05/06     Keywords: xml

Greets folks. Is it possible to access an external XML file using xmlDoc.load? From what I have seen all of the XML files have been local. So is there a way around this?

Thanks all.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1173327.html

Date: 10/05/06     Keywords: php, html, sql

I've had it. I am sick of their downtime. I have php,SQL, html,and video and audio files that have to move to a new home.

Where should I go? I want solid uptime, none of this bullshit. Who can you really stand by for your paying clients?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1173187.html

Date: 10/04/06     Keywords: technology, web, seo

I thought this was an interesting article.
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18 Questions Your CEO Forgot to Ask When Building Your Website

Why are you always retrofitting and re-optimizing? Your CEO (or other decision maker) didn’t ask the right questions. You need to know how to build and promote a website from the ground up to be successful. Picture your perfect web presence. Visualize web 2.0 Zen. Now work backwards and apply these principles to your website among various time, budget, legacy technology, and personal ego obstacles of varying degrees in the way of your quest towards website enlightement. Welcome to the world of SEO.

There’s a big difference between an “ideal website” built in a vacuum with an unlimited budget and no competition versus retrofitting, optimizing, and improving and existing website. These are the questions your CEO forgot to ask. Make sure they get asked. If you understand the IDEAL website and the value of each component that would go into it - you can understand how to balance financial and time budgets for the highest ROI on a project, and overcome the normal hurdles that every company faces. These are the top questions your CEO forgot to ask.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1172898.html

Date: 10/04/06     Keywords: php, css, html, asp, java, web

tasha's post was interesting to me, because I'm coming at learning web design from the opposite end; I've got a decent grasp of working with the back end (X/HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, etc.) but haven't had a graphic design course since high school. I was also considering the Art Institute because I've heard it mentioned in this group a lot. But I also notice that a lot of people say degrees are "a nice extra" at most. And right now I'm working full-time and won't have the means financially to go to school for at least a year. So my question is this: do any of you have recommendations for how to learn the aesthetic side of web design on my own time with a limited budget?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1172512.html

Date: 10/04/06     Keywords: html, xml

Is it possible to parse an XML document from a URL, or must it be from a file.

Reference pahe here: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/importxml.html

Thanks all.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1172316.html

Date: 10/04/06     Keywords: web

http://webtypography.net/toc/

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1172051.html

Date: 10/04/06     Keywords: web

I talked to an art institute online representative today and applied to get a web design diploma. It's not even associates, but that damn thing cost $15,000. O_O Anyways, I was just wondering if a web design diploma is looked at as a piece of shit paper. I just want to get an entry level position with a web design company and eventually be a senior web designer.

I talked to a westwood rep today, but the 3 year bachelors program for $60,000 just wasn't as appealing to me at the moment.

So - is a web design diploma worthless?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1171787.html

Date: 10/03/06     Keywords: css, html, web

Hi. I'm a graphic designer, but not much of a web programmer. In fact, I'm not even sure if "programmer" is the right terminology. I do a little hand coded html, but mainly use Dreamweaver. I'd like to be able to code to today's standards without the use of a program, or at least not one as controlling as Dreamweaver (I feel like I'll never be able to code without depending on it.)

Any good book suggestions? Websites are good too, but I prefer a book so I can take it with me. I tried working with CSS for dummies, but it seemed more focused on the bells and whistles of web design as opposed to structure and standards. Since I'm a designer, I'd like to come up with the bells and whistles myself :P

Thanks :)

x-posted to graphicdesign

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1171696.html

Date: 10/02/06     Keywords: php, css, html, web, shopping

I am considering enrolling and attending the Art Institute Online for graphic design. I may go back for the Web Design Diploma if I like it but I figured the actual graphic design would require more formal education than the web design would. Does anyone have experience with AI or know someone who does? I would love to hear about it.

Has anyone ever coded a webpage in Lisp? I am working on putting together my own website to sell Body Jewelry and my husband thinks we should code the checkout/shopping cart/etc., in lisp and do all the pretty stuff in HTML/CSS. He's always been rather fond of lisp but I'm not sure of using it in this format. He is against PHP because he believes it has a lot of flaws and leaks though PHP appears to be the most popular as of late. What do you folks think?

I recently came across this program called ReCapture. Basically when someone prepares to checkout and are filling out their information, but leave before officially submitting it, this program notifies the owner of the website. If enough information is filled in, like phone number and/or e-mail, the owner can then contact that person to find out why they stopped the checkout process. It's suppose to be used more as a customer service tool then as a seller tool. The owner/employees who call are not suppose to insist the person buys something or offer them other products, but just try to find out if the potential customer left for a reason they can fix, or if they just forget provide a reminder, or if they have questions answers them. I'm a little unsure about it, because I think it's a little envasive but a couple people I know rave about it. What do you guys think? (Also, the company can not sell/trade/etc., that contact information be in violation of the NDA. The same goes for trying to sell.)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1171444.html

Date: 10/02/06     Keywords: web

Hello everyone, I have a question and I'm hoping that someone here can help me. I am working on a corporate website and my client is specified that he'd like to have a few links to embedded video clips.

The files I've been supplied with are Quicktime .mov files. The dimensions are 320 X 240. I have never coded for embedding video clips before and I'm running short on time to produce a page template for showing one video at a time.

Is there anyone who could help me out by providing either a link to a solid (and quick) tutorial or a sample snippet of code? I'm developing this website without WYSIWYG help so I'm comfortable working with code providing that it'll work the way it should in Firefox and Internet Explorer (at the least).

I offer my thanks in advance.

(apologies for crossposting a tad)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1171105.html

Date: 10/02/06     Keywords: browser

Up until recently I'd been using the multiple versions of IE setup to test pages in IE3-IE6. Now that IE7 is coming down the pike I decided to give that a try, so I made a folder with all my original IE files and installed the new browser. IE7 has installed properly but IE6 (from the copy folder) now won't work (but all the others do). Is there a similar fix available that will allow me to run IE6 in addition to 7 and 3-5.5?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1170616.html

Date: 10/01/06     Keywords: browser, css

Greets all. I recently upload a css file, like I've done a million times. However upon viewing the page the style is applied to, the style hasn't loaded. Upon viewing the style in a browser window, I'm told the file is Forbidden. I receive the same message when I try to validate the file as well. Any ideas?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1170393.html

Date: 09/30/06     Keywords: no keywords

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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1170007.html