Date: 04/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

index page
about us page
one of photo page


what do you think about it...

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1093770.html

Date: 04/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

Anybody know where I can get a halfway decent (read as working) free password protection script? Doesn't have to be terribly secure, but of course, the more secure the better.

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1093507.html

Date: 04/07/06     Keywords: web

Hi everyone,

I have a client who asked me to do layout designs for websites, and she wants to charge me per hour. which is ok, i guess.... But she always asks "how long will it take? I want to know how much I will have to pay you."

Is the client being reasonable? If she asked me to make an entire website (layout, coding, etc), then I can give her a rough timeline. But when it comes to just layout designs which I'm being charged 15-20$, I don't think this is fair. For layout designs, I personally think that it should be a fixed payment.

The only thing I don't like about doing layout designs per hour is that I often don't get enough for the work I put into it. Does anyone else agree? Since making layouts doesn't involve an entire website, a basic layout could take anywhere from 2-4 hours. If I'm going to be paid so little, I'd rather not do it. It's not worth my time and work. How can I make the client understand this? She doesn't make websites, so she obviously doesn't know where I'm coming from.

Any advice would be apprecitated.

Thank you!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1093288.html

Date: 04/07/06     Keywords: software, html, spam

This is a really specific question, so I know there's probably a slim chance, but I'm hoping someone here has had experience with trying to send html e-mail from Lotus Notes.

The plan was to put together and html e-mail and save it as "Stationery" (Note's version of a Template) for our sales reps to use to personally send out to individual contacts (rather than blasting SPAM). I didn't look into sending HTML e-mail through Notes (the system our company is all on) until after I put together the design. Now, after researching for a quarter of my workday yesterday, I come up blank. From what I gather, it's not possible to send HTML e-mail through Notes until version 6 (we're on 5), and even then, it requires some major scripting (not my forte, and not ideal for sales reps either!).

Can anyone confirm that it is just not possible, or should I keep researching? Is there third party software that we could use with Notes to do this? And would it break the bank to get it for multiple users (all of our sales reps)?

If the HTML is a no go:
Has anyone had any success using the Table and Import Image features to design e-mail with embedded images, and do e-mail clients outside of Notes handle these e-mails, or do they just break them up into a bunch of attachments?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1092960.html

Date: 04/06/06     Keywords: web

I had no idea but the publishers DK give away free clip art from it's UK web site. As per usual, your use must be non-commercial but it's a decent sized library. Handy indeed!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1092432.html

Date: 04/06/06     Keywords: web, google

Hello all. I'm a photographer (soon to graduate) who needs a flash website made for an online portfolio. Firstly, I'm not sure where to look in terms of finding somebody other than a random google search. I'm also not sure what to expect in terms of prices. I understand some sites can cost thousands of dollars, and I certainly can't afford that as a student. What should I expect and where do I start? Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1092170.html

Date: 04/05/06     Keywords: php, css, web

What is everyone's favorite/most used web design resources online?

To be fair, here are some of mine:

• http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com


• http://www.php.net


• http://www.csszengarden.com

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1091515.html

Date: 04/05/06     Keywords: no keywords

hey do any of you have any tutorials on how to create graphical scroll bars instead of using the big bulky scrollbars?

thank you in advance

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1091213.html

Date: 04/04/06     Keywords: html, web

Back again folks. A few weeks back, I posted this: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1084502.html. Looking for some crit and such. Since I have revisted my space, giving it a pretty extensive overhaul I guess, but keeping my color scheme.

So, here goes with the new design. http://web.presby.edu/~jwindek/

Not sure what I'm gonna do about the footer, I'm open to suggestions.

Anyways, crit away please!

P.S. Still working on IE fixes.

Cross w/ graphicdesign

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1090938.html

Date: 04/02/06     Keywords: no keywords

This is more directed at the corporate people in the community.

As wordpress gets more popular, are you finding that the ability to produce skins quickly (for clients that wordpress would be a decent solution for) is of importance. I have set up a few wordpresses in the past with kind of terrible skins (when I first tried to tackle their stylesheet), but now it seems I can do it fairly well, but in the world of corporate design is that even of importance?

shameless plug http://mypickspal.com is the skin I did last week which I think turned out fairly well.

Also I think people should post their favorite wordpress skins they have under their belt.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1090371.html

Date: 03/31/06     Keywords: no keywords

Greets all. I'm having a hell of a time trying to get text-shadow's to work. I apply them, but they don't show in FF or IE. Any suggestions?

The code:

#navcontainer ul{
margin-left:0;
padding-left:0;
list-style-type:none;
font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-variant:small-caps;
font-size:14px;
text-shadow:#999 3px 3px 3px;
}

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1090155.html

Date: 03/31/06     Keywords: browser

I have a question regarding the overflow: inherit property. I'm hoping I explain myself correctly..


When I use an image for the background of div, such as this:

#content {position: absolute;
left: 200px;
top: 162px;
width: 600px;
height: 438px;
background: url(images/content.png);}

and I use a div class for the actual content such as this:

.contentbox {position: relative;
left: 170px;
top: 5px;
width: 400px;
overflow: inherit;
margin: 0.5em;
padding: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
line-height: 16px;}

I use the inherit property to display text in my < div class="contentbox"> when its height is more than that of the background image in < div id="content">. I had to do some playing around with this because I had never dealt with the situation before. I noticed that if my .contentbox was positioned with absolute, it wouldn't work. So, I changed to relative positioning and it works. In IE.

My question is.. is there a better way to go about doing this? If not, how would you get the same effect in other browsers? I'm only able to check on Firefox and I know it doesn't work there. Not sure about any other browsers.

I hope that's clear enough. Sincerely appreciate any input/suggestions.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1089445.html

Date: 03/30/06     Keywords: web

Hey all. I can't decide on the colors for this website. I've taken a screencapture of each background color I was thinking of using. Was hoping you all could take a look and give me your opinion on which is best.. or maybe even suggest another color scheme. Thanks so much!



Black background:

I like this one, but I'm thinking it may be too dark..?

Grey Background:

I like this one too, but I think I want more of a contrast between the background and the content.

Thanks again. :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1088750.html

Date: 03/30/06     Keywords: css, web, ebay

Well there's definately no going back now. I redesigned my website this week check it out and I kind of uploaded the new index file over the old one when I wasn't looking. I've spent the last week redesigning the site, there's a lot of muck and shit that had to go. The redesign wouldn't have been possible w/o the step-by-step guidance from photoshopcafe.com

Anyways if you're thinking that this looks a lot like some template you saw on the net, then you're right. I was greatly inspired by this template I saw when surfing ebay one day. Rip all you want, this page was ENTIRELY created by me, in Photoshop, Image Ready, and Dreamweaver. Sure I borrowed a LOT of the elements, but I'm happy with it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Let me know what you think. Thanks

PS. Looking for tips on DIV alignment, or websites that have a good walkthru on them. Additionally code/tutorials on getting css scrollbars to work in Opera/Firefox. And am I the only one where the scrollbar gutter is transparent in Opera 8.53? (on my website of

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1088335.html

Date: 03/30/06     Keywords: html, web

First, forgive me for my noviceness at this! I'm totally new to anything related to SSI (among other things).

I'm working on a previously composed (by somebody else)website with server side includes.
This is my first time dealing with SSI and I have a couple of questions.

First, I'm trying to validate the page, but I'm getting all these errors that are actually fine, because the validator isn't recognizing the code in the includes. Have I not set up my local files correctly? Or do I need them to be on an actual test server for this to work? It doesn't seem to be aknowledging that there's an include in there with more code.

(For example, the SSI file ends with an open table which is then closed in the body of the shtml. When Dreamweaver tries to validate the shtml file, it dings the closing table tags because it doesn't see that here are actuall open table tags anywhere).

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1087887.html

Date: 03/30/06     Keywords: web, google

My bosses want several videos to be available on our website, and I'm trying to get them set up as embedded flash videos (flv), a la video.google.com or www.youtube.com. Right now I have a one-hour long video, encoding using ON2 VP6 at 400 k (planning to do a high quality\low quality thing.) According to flash, this is going to take around 18 hours. Is that normal? Should I expect to devote several weeks of processor time to encoding these videos (there are several we need to put up,) or am I doing something wrong?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1087584.html

Date: 03/29/06     Keywords: web

Im looking to create a new website. Something with Message board capabilities, able to do polls, and a blog all in one. I was looking into using Vbulletin but it is costly. Is there anything similar to it that is less expensive? Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1087362.html

Date: 03/28/06     Keywords: php, mysql, database, sql, web, linux, hosting

okay, so now that i've been picking all your brains, reading all these books, and checking out all these tutorials, last night i finally said to myself, "self, i need a god damn website."

fast forward a few hours and now i registered a site and have some hosting thanks to godaddy. i have linux hosting because it said that's what is needed for php (correct?), but when I try to load my test page (which includes a .inc file), i get:

Warning: main(/include/header.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/blahblahblah/1index.php on line 1

now i tried to see if the file is where i put it (website.com/include/header.inc) but, for some reason, it loads as text. meanwhile, when i try to view a .inc file online from the site i've been maintaining for work, it asks if i want to download it. this gives me the impression that it's uploading wrong, which confuses me since i'm using Fetch both times without tweaking any settings.

is this a case of me just trying to jump the gun and it's possible that while the ftp stuff is up and running, some other "stuff" needs to finish getting installed by them? also, it says i can have up to 15 (or 10, i forget) MySQL databases, yet damned if i know what i'll be needing them for. is that needed for include files to work, or is that for other stuff i may need?

tried checking out tutorials but none really answer these kinds of questions, and i want to get a vague idea of what i should be asking godaddy customer support before i just sound like i'm trying to rush things too fast.

edit: okay, now i'm confused. if i reference "/images/image.gif", so root-relative linking works in that case. yet, root-relative linking DOESN'T work for the include file. things work fine if i just make it a link (ie: include/header.inc as opposed to /include/header.inc). pretty obnoxious... how can i fix this?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1086868.html

Date: 03/28/06     Keywords: html, web

Hello,

I'm new here, but not quite new to web design. I had my own site that I built from pure html, but unfortunately my ex discovered my password and destroyed it. I don't really want to spend another 6 months typing out all the coding for another site, so I was wondering about programs I could use for it.

I bought FrontPage, but I'm finding it more difficult to figure out than just writing it myself. I was looking at Adobe GoLive CS2, but I really don't want to drop that kind of money on something if it's going to be as non-user friendly as FrontPage. Any opinions on GoLive or suggestions on another program that might be easy to use?

I put up a very unimpressive attempt at a homepage with FrontPage http://www.cosplaycassie.com This is the basic layout that I'm going for, but I'd like the main text box to scroll while everything else stays put. If I could manage something a bit more fancy using a different program, that'd be great. Thanks for your advice!

X-posted

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1086673.html

Date: 03/28/06     Keywords: css

It's concerning CSS (I think)...

minusthebear.com

I was wondering how they stylized the tooltips on the video links. I've seen colored tooltips and tooltips that track with the mouse and all that. The rounded edges are what was so suprising. Anyone have any ideas. I spent a while looking throught the style sheet file and couldn't find anything. I'm *kinda* new to CSS and plan to really get into the layout side of things very soon.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1086343.html