Date: 05/02/06     Keywords: css, html, java, security, web, hosting, shopping

Hello all-- hoping to get some advice about security, and/or online stores. I am designing a website for a friend of the family and she wants it not only to be informational but also for customers to be able to order products online. She really has no idea what she is asking for because she doesn't really know how any of this works. I am a graphic design student who is familiar with html, css and some java script but I don't know ANYthing about ssl or encryption or anything.

So, I have looked at websites like Verisign, who offer certificates and I have this question: what does that actually do for a business?

And I have viseted sites such as Networksolutions.com who offer secure hosting with a shopping cart pachage and what not for $99/month... and I am wondering is this pretty much standard for hosting? Can I do better?

I am sorry if these are all really obvious questions. I have read books and searched online but nothing is better than personal experience and advice.

If you don't know the answer, perhaps you know who I might ask who might... I was thinking perhaps the business owner could contact her credit card company (the service through which she accepts credit cards), and they could probably give her some idea as to what to do to accept credit cards online...

Anyhow. I have known this woman my whole life and I am doing this for free (because she is desperate and isn't making a lot of money yet and because I am so underqualified... obviously).

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1101886.html

Date: 05/01/06     Keywords: technology

Hey guys, wondering your thoughts on domain privacy. For example having:

Registrant:
Host.Com, INC
1548 N Technology Way, #D13
Blah, Utah 84097
United States

Registered through: Host.com
Domain Name: YOURDOMAIN.COM
Created on: 15-Nov-01
Expires on: 15-Nov-09
Last Updated on: 18-Mar-03

Administrative Contact:
Host.Com, INC whois@host.com
1548 N Technology Way, #D13
Blah, Utah 84097
United States
8017659400 Fax -- 8017651992


-VS-

Registrant:
John Smith
123 Your Street
YourCity, YourState 12345
United States

Registered through: Host.com
Domain Name: YOURDOMAIN.COM
Created on: 15-Nov-01
Expires on: 15-Nov-09
Last Updated on: 18-Mar-03

Administrative Contact:
Smith, John jsmith@youremail.com
123 Your Street
YourCity, YourState 12345
United States
YourPhoneNumber

Thoughts?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1101784.html

Date: 04/28/06     Keywords: php, mysql, database, sql, web

Hello all. I am in the process of starting a member's section for the website at my job. My boss wants members to be able to login and view information that is specific to them.. such as pricing, sales history, etc. What I'm wanting to know is what is the best way to go about doing this? A PHP/MySQL database? Something different? This will be my first time doing anything like this. I'm really looking forward to it as I'll be able to learn some new and interesting things, but where's a good place to start? I appreciate any suggestions you guys can offer. You're all always such a huge help!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1101500.html

Date: 04/28/06     Keywords: no keywords

...are the best,
Oh yes.

http://www.fotthewuk.co.uk/.

G'waaahn, don't be shy, give an old anticipatory-reciprocitist an opinion.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1101239.html

Date: 04/27/06     Keywords: web

Just to let everyone know who might be interested, I've just set up:

uk_designers

Basically it's a community for...uh...designers based in the UK (or wanting to be based in the UK!), who want to discuss all kinds of work related bollocks: pay, degree and postgraduate courses, job prospects, college courses, training, asking and giving hints and tips, asking design-related questions etc. I've noticed that both graphicdesign and webdesign, although fab, are very US-designer-heavy and, as a lot of the things that trouble designers in this country seem to need knowledge of how the system works here in terms of employment, training, work experience and what the various courses entail etc...well let's just say there seemed to be niche, so I have attempted to fill it!

Anyway, a community is only a community if people join and post, so this is just a quick pimp to say, if you'd like to join up and x-post, please feel free!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1100852.html

Date: 04/26/06     Keywords: browser, css

hey guys, I was wondering what everyone's take is on layers in Dreamweaver. I never really incorporated them into a design, and now that I've applying CSS I am wondering if I should learn how to use layers also. Are there issues with browsers, is it Dreamweaver specific, and is it worth it to learn layer usage? thanks for comments!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1100654.html

Date: 04/24/06     Keywords: php, web

http://webxact.watchfire.com/

i've seen people link validataor.w3.org a few times, but i've never seen this. just wanted to drop a note!

edit: let's add one for color blindness, too: http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1100264.html

Date: 04/24/06     Keywords: no keywords

Okay, on IE, this site I'm designing looks fine, but on Firefox (the most recent version), it looks weird.

Amon Lab

The very bottom of the page, where it displays the lab's address, it's nudged enough where the last line is below the border of the footer. But like I said, on IE, it appears fine.

I have it as it's own div, thinking that would fix the problem, but the same problem persists. I think it might have something to do with the way Firefox handles the

tag.

What should I do to correct it?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1099963.html

Date: 04/24/06     Keywords: css, html

Hello,

I need some help with a site I am designing. The basic layout has been defined as a table and I'm trying to use CSS for the main content. I have a background image for the content area and a scroll box where the actual text will be placed defined as ".content" (the text) placed on top of a colored element ".contentBox". The reason why I have these separated as such is because I would like to use the opacity/alpha option so that the background image shows through the content box, but doesn't effect the text. You can get the idea
here (note - the opactity effect is not recognized by IE). The first problem, as you can see, is the bg image begins to tile. This first example has the bg image inserted with HTML (tr background="images/body.gif" height="536"). I cannot find a method for preventing the tiling with HTML, so I instead use CSS (url(images/body.gif) no-repeat), but the image will not show at all. Here is my attempt with CSS background image. Can anyone see where I'm going wrong here?

Style code below the

body {
background-color: #BAB9B9;
}
body,td,th {
color: #333333;
font-size: 12px;
}

.content {
width: 510px; height: 400px;
position:relative; left: 280px; top: -390px;
font-color:#000000;
overflow: auto;
z-index:100
}

.contentBox {
background:#a2b5b0;
opacity:.35;filter: alpha(opacity=35); -moz-opacity: 0.35;
width: 510px; height: 400px;
position:relative; left: 280px; top: 10px;
z-index:50;
}

#bg {
background-image: url(images/body.gif) no-repeat;
z-index:5;
}


Many thanks in advance!!!
(x-posted lightly)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1099500.html

Date: 04/24/06     Keywords: php

I'm having a problem with PHP; a variable keeps being set to zero, when it's supposed to be set by ?page= in the URL. The source is here. The file itself is here, along with descriptions of other problems. Only WhyBeFurry.inc and warningPage.inc are uploaded in the content functions.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1099161.html

Date: 04/20/06     Keywords: php, programming

I just finished my second semester as a Comp. Sci major, completing a course on basic Programming. We also learned some C++.
During the C++ portions of the program, we occasionally used *.DAT files to store information wihich could be called by the main program.
I was wondering if there was any equivalent for PHP, which I've just started learning. To spell it out; is there any way to store information in non-PHP files which PHP can call from and write to? If so, what are these files?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1098673.html

Date: 04/18/06     Keywords: php, web, hosting

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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1097960.html

Date: 04/15/06     Keywords: web

I'm realy unhappy with my site right now, after spending a year on it. No amount of changing things around, redesigning etc. makes it better. I've wasted a good week on a design that turned out to be rubbish, and now I've got a headache because I feel crap at the whole web design thing. I'd much rather work on other things, but the site needs to be done!

Anyone else feel like this?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1097438.html

Date: 04/14/06     Keywords: browser, css, html

I'm giving up. I can't find any difference in the code between certain pages and yet they display differently.

I'm working on www.ezdrycarpet.com. In Safari, Firefox, etc, (the good browsers) the blue background of the links bar on the left always goes all the way down. In IE, it does on some pages and won't on others.

For example:

http://www.ezdrycarpet.com/allergen.html - blue bar ends after the text.
http://www.ezdrycarpet.com/upholstery.html - the blue goes all the way down like it's supposed to.

I can't figure out what's breaking that bar on allergen.html. It's not badly nested DIVs (the page validates), it's not CSS because it works on other pages, It's not content length ... any help would be much appreciated.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1097190.html

Date: 04/12/06     Keywords: no keywords

hey this is a pretty basic question but can anyone tell me how you make text pop up when you hover over an image in dreamweaver 8?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1096628.html

Date: 04/11/06     Keywords: css, web

Hey! I'd love some constructive criticism about my web design. Coding, looks and the general feeling you get from the site.

WHIRLWIND - My personal site in swedish. This site contains most of my life. Diary, photo diary, ego-gallery, art, design, sewing, fanlistings etc. There is a english section where you can read translations of the links so you know what is what and where.

http://www.whirlwind.nu


MASK OF SORROW - This is a page I made for my guild in World of Warcraft. Note that the graphics NOT is by me. I only did the coding.

http://www.maskofsorrow.net


IMAGINATIONS - This is just a thing I did when I was bored the hell out of my regular site packed with stuff. I wanted to make something really simple solemnly based on css. I'm not sure what to use the site for since I did it only for fun.

http://iskall.nu/~carnelian/imaginations


SO, love, hate, critizise, praise and whatever. I want opinions. Thank you!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1096231.html

Date: 04/11/06     Keywords: software

So I have a client that wants to stream audio online. The thing is, they are a traditional FM radio station, and basically want a direct feed of the FM station, commercials and all. I'm a bit confused on how to do this - they'd like to do it for as cheap as possible, which means I should probably look into open source software. But the part I don't get is getting the same FM streaming online. How do I get it in mp3 format to stream it, live? Thanks for any help.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1096013.html

Date: 04/10/06     Keywords: blogging, web

Crossposted from webdev since I think this community gets more play...

Question, because it isn't totally obvious on the Greymatter website. Can I organize entries not by date, but in categories? I am working on a recipe site, and the user needs a content management system that is easy to use and update. I immediately through of Greymatter. However, she also needs to be able to put the recipes in sections (ie, entrees, desserts, appetizers). Is this possible with Greymatter (before I go in and try to make it happen)? If not, is there a good mod to do this with?

Are there any other free, open-source blogging systems that can achieve this result while still being 100% customisable and integratable that I do not know of?

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1095666.html

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

I'm developing 2 sites that have a horizontal navigation menu. Normally, I frown on horizontal menus because it doesn't allow for expansion of "areas", but the recent layouts tend to look better with a horizontal menu. I'm in a bit of a bind, because the only navigation drop down/slide out is a CSS driven layout with JS, but I can't get the hort. menu to work with it. It was suggested that I use a DHTML menu with layers, but I have never attempted that.

Could you all give me some advice or suggestions? I like the look and feel of the JS menu, but I know that about 10% of the users disable JS in the browsers and sometimes the JS prevents the links to be cataloged for search engines. What is the positive/negative aspects of using DHTML for the menus? Does anyone have a good tutourial for it? I'm using Dreamweaver 8.

This is one of the websites:
Haunted Studies

Cross Posted... A lot.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1095287.html

Date: 04/08/06     Keywords: css, html

Okay - i'm hoping this is an appropriate place to ask this. how can i control the vertical scrollbar in mozilla - firefox? is it css, html..neither? i seriously cant find anything but im not sure if im even looking in the right places for it. i just want to get rid of the dang thing. im fairly knowledgable with coding - but this is just beyond me. if anyone could point me in the right place - id be really grateful.

thank you very much.



i dont want to get rid of it i guess - im sorry. id like to be able to change colors like in ie? im sorry if im not explaining it properly.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1094051.html