Date: 03/15/06     Keywords: css

Hello everyone! This community is usually very helpful, so maybe you can enlighten me about pull-down menus. It appears that they can only be constructed when an image is the reference mouse-over item, but I am tired of always making images for menu items in order to make a pull-down. I am using CSS... any help on this? Tutorials I've found use images, so I am not sure where else to look. Thanks in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1079075.html

Date: 03/14/06     Keywords: oscommerce, web

I'm using osCommerce and Chase Paymenttech to set up an online store for a client. This is my first time doing it. I've been asked for the url and gateway. I'm assuming the URL would be where the osCommerce catalog is sitting? What about gateway? I've asked the network guy in the office but he didn't know.

x-posted to webdev

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1078851.html

Date: 03/11/06     Keywords: css, html, hosting

Hey guys,

I know most people here already have their own businesses or get by on freelance - but is anyone looking for portfolio work? I have a non-profit job on my plate, and I just don't have the time for it now. It's a pro-bono job, but something that could be potentially great on a portfolio. Like I said the site is for a non-profit which will be based on typepad. The owner has already bought her domain, and hosting and has a blog through type-pad (completely customizable).

If anyone is interested please, please give me a shout. If you have your own site, or one or two you have designed before for others it would be great to see so I would know you would be able to do the job. Previous experience with typepad or movable type is a plus! the logo graphic is done. Basically what you would be required to do is just set up the site template, and configure the site for the owner to add content.

XHTML/CSS designers only. NO tables.

More information will be provided when I've found someone.

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1078292.html

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: php, asp, web

Can anyone here recommend a good book for learning ASP? I've been using PHP for a few years but it seems that most of the jobs I'm applying for these days needs some sort of ASP experience. I'd rather have a book than try to learn from a website.

x-posted to webdev

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1077982.html

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

I have a problem with a small 'artistic' website. I want to make it entirely horizontal, but my problem is that the mousewheel does not work for horizontal scrolling.
Is there any way to get the mouse wheel working on a horizontal scrollbar? HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, anything.
Thanks so much in advance :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1077671.html

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: web, hosting, google

Hey guys. I've taken up a project to help out the family of a missing person in North Carolina. I'm researching some cheap web hosting plans for them.. something they could pay monthly.. and was just wondering if any of you had ever purchased a plan like that before. I don't want them to have to pay a ton of money for this, but I don't have the space for them on my own host either. Been looking around on Google, but wanted to hear some personal experiences/recommendations if they are any.

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1077453.html

Date: 03/09/06     Keywords: no keywords

Hey all,

Ever design a site so many times over a span of years that you start to run out of ideas on how to place the menu items?

I've got a Internet Radio station at www.9412.com and the site's design has been like this since Nov 2005 with the exception of my changing the top of the site and the colors of the sides of the site (root level only) about 20 minutes ago to start trying to liven things a little.

The site I think suffers from having a menu that's either too long, menu items not being titled as well as they could or both.

The home page gets pretty lengthy and I'm kinda afraid that if I do a brief sentance and have a "more" link to the entire thing visitors won't see the entire info.

Heck, if you don't see something there and think it should be I'd like to hear it!

There has to be banner ads on the site.

Thoughts, suggestions, flames, etc. will help greatly!

Thanks!
Chris

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1076825.html

Date: 03/08/06     Keywords: browser, css

Adding a new post so the other doesn't get too cluttered. I've fixed the CSS code so that it looks a little better. Again, this is the link.


/* all lists */
#navmenu, #navmenu ul {padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style: none;
line-height: 1;
width: 75em;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica;
font-size: .7em;
color: #52686F;
font-weight: normal;}

#navmenu a {display: block;
width: 5em;}

/* all list items */
#navmenu li {float: left;
width: 10em;
padding: 5px;}

/* second-level lists */
#navmenu li ul {position: absolute;
background: #C2C3BC;
border: 1px solid #8C856B;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica;
font-size: 1em;
width: 10em;
left: -999em;}

/* third-and-above-level lists */
#navmenu li ul ul {margin: -1em 0 0 3em;}

#navmenu li:hover ul ul, #nav li.sfhover ul ul {left: -999em;}

/* lists nested under hovered list items */
#navmenu li:hover ul, #nav li li:hover ul, #nav li.sfhover ul, #nav li li.sfhover ul {left: auto;}

These are my questions:

1. In IE, is there a fix so that the menu will fall below the main item instead of beside it?
2. How can I get my links to not wrap? I tried resizing the LI, but all that does is add extra space to
the right side.
3. In Firefox, not sure about other browsers, the width of my menu is too large, but if I resize in IE, it
screws the whole thing up.
4. If I wanted a border separating each link in the dropdowns, in which element would I place the border
style?

I hope those were clear enough. Thanks again for everyone's help!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1076660.html

Date: 03/07/06     Keywords: web

Photoshop question.

Cross-posted to as many communities as I can because it's urgent.

Okay, I'm sure everyone is familiar with the magical desaturation that happens when you Save For Web. I need my images to NOT be desaturated when I Save For Web. Saving regularly is not an option. I have tried converting the colour profile. I have tried setting Save For Web to uncompensated colour, to "use document colour profile". I want my Save For Web images to have the SAME colour saturation as my "Save" images. I am using CS2. WHAT CAN I DO?

Original version (saved normally at high quality, 57k) versus Save For Web version (7k):

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1076390.html

Date: 03/07/06     Keywords: css, html

Has anyone used the Suckerfish Dropdown menu? I'm trying to create a menu for my personal site, and the drop downs are working.. sort of.. but I can't get them to look right.

Click here for an example of the menu.


My HTML:

< ul id="navmenu" >
< li>< a href="index1.html">Home

Date: 03/06/06     Keywords: software, web, hosting, shopping

I'm a programmer who has recently been pushed into a position of web designer where I work. I'm designing a very small site for a customer of ours, and they would like the ability to accept orders online. They wanted a simple form that would email orders to them. I knew I could easily program such a thing, but told them that email is not secure for collecting credit card information, and that they would most likely need some sort of shopping cart software. The company which they purchased hosting through offers a shopping cart program for $9 a month. Otherwise I can try to implement some free shopping cart software.

My question is this: Is there any way to do secure ordering the way they want without a shopping cart? They don't want to use PayPal, or any other service that costs them money per sale. They simply want a form to come to them listing the order and the credit card info, which they can then process themselves. If not, then can anyone suggest some good free shopping carts that are simple to implement (I imagine they'll want to update on their own once the site is live)? I apologize if my questions seem naive. Like I said, I am new to web design.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1075783.html

Date: 03/06/06     Keywords: java

I've got a form with radio buttons that very often start out without any choices selected. I'd like to be able to use Javascript to undo a selection by re-clicking it (via mouse or keyboard). Has anyone ever worked on or seen anything like this?

(cross-posted to other design and development journals)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1075620.html

Date: 03/04/06     Keywords: no keywords

I have a huge problem.
I haven't been able to design anything for the last couple of months because I can't seem to get any fonts to work on my photoshop.
All of the font files are fine, they're not corrupted: It's just that when I go to type something, the type tool flashes on and off as usual, I type: but nothing shows on the image.
Sometimes the layer window will show what I've written (I can't remember if it hasn't shown it at all before); and I cannot seem to figure out what's wrong.
I've tried reinstalling more than three times, and it's still not fixing itself.

Can anyone please tell me what's wrong with my Photoshop and how to fix it??
Please?




x-posted like a mad woman
oh and also, if this is not allowed, please delete it on behalf of myself: my apologies!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1075446.html

Date: 03/03/06     Keywords: php, web, yahoo

yesterday, after the Y!SB version of Movable Type refused to properly work with a non-their-version of bigPAPI (which i needed for a stat-tracking plugin to work) i was advised to install bbclone instead.

this, too, doesn't work because yahoo doesn't let people upload .htaccess .htlock .anythingwithadotinfrontofit files.

doing some more research, i found awstats, which doesn't require hidden files, uses the log files generated by Y!SB already (so that's what they were there for, i says), and doesn't require me to tear my hair out.

being oblivious to perl and consoles and so on also made me have to find this thread (http://coderforums.com/showthread.php?t=17248) which explains how to configure everything without knowing how to code.

so uploaded all the stuff, ran the program, everything worked great.

and by that i mean everything worked great on day one (sorta like the movable type plugin).

now, when i try to update awstats and get the information for today, i get this message:

Error: Couldn't open server log file "/logs/access.log" : Permission denied

Setup ('/cgi-bin/awstats.www.websitewithheld.com.conf' file, web server or permissions) may be wrong.
Check config file, permissions and AWStats documentation (in 'docs' directory).

and i'm confused as hell because i didn't change anything! same stuff as yesterday! at most, the log file may have started anew (I think it saves the old log file and then generates a new one per day), but still what's the deal here?

i really really hate Y!SB more and more every day and i'm not web-savvy enough to know what the hell it keeps doing to screw me over.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1074932.html

Date: 03/02/06     Keywords: web

I am codiong out a site in dreamweaver 8. I've made my top nav, side nav and footer nav into seperate library files. the look fine, however, when I update a library file (changing link text or path), the changes are there in the code when I save the file. It asks me if I want to update the other files that are using this library file and I say yes. I the log as it goes through and looks at all the pages, but it makes no updates anywhere. I made the library files correctly, they're atatched correctly and the code in all the pages that call the library files looks right too. When I made library files I saved them as library files - I believe the ext is .lib or something like that. Should I be saving them as something else? what am I doing wrong?


Should I post this in the webdev community as well?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1074447.html

Date: 03/01/06     Keywords: web

Having a difficult time uploading a website from Dreamweaver...

Does anyone have any tips that might be useful?

Any help would be much appreciated!!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1074294.html

Date: 03/01/06     Keywords: web

So I've been using Movable Type on a website's blog and installed a plugin called statwatch which lets me see how many hits it gets, where it's linked from, and so on. Now on the activity log. i get tons and tons of these messages. it isn't doing anything bad as far as i'm aware except being amazingly obnoxious. I redownloaded this bigpapi thing that runs a ton of plugins and uploaded it, but it still get this same message. what do i have to fix so this thing shuts up?

Plugin error: /blog-mt1/plugins/_BigPAPI.pl Global symbol "$cache_dir" requires explicit package name at /blog-mt1/plugins/_BigPAPI.pl line 116. Global symbol "$cache_dir" requires explicit package name at /blog-mt1/plugins/_BigPAPI.pl line 116. Compilati

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1074063.html

Date: 03/01/06     Keywords: php, software, database, asp, jsp, web, microsoft

Has anyone here ever used FileMaker Pro (http://www.filemaker.com/)? I have one client who is starting up a Pilates studio and she's looking at http://www.pilatessoftware.com for her internal management. She would also like to have the website interact with it (ie. have members log in and register for classes, etc.) It seems that the network ready version of the Get Physical (pilatessoftware.com) uses FileMaker as it's underlying database. The FileMaker site has the following:

ODBC/JDBC source
Exchange data with other applications via the ODBC/JDBC source support in FileMaker Server 8 Advanced. For example, you can replicate FileMaker information to other database products, use other reporting tools with FileMaker data, or build JSP or ASP websites based on FileMaker data, using popular tools such as Lasso Studio, Dreamweaver MX 2004, Adobe GoLive CS, and Microsoft FrontPage.

So it seems that I can get the info from the program but does anyone know if I'd be able to send info back to it? or is it a one-way channel?

x-posted to webdev, php

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1073667.html

Date: 03/01/06     Keywords: web, google

Howdy! Does anyone have any idea how Google indexes images for their Image search? I have an artist client who would like her paintings to come up under 'Images' as well as the Web search, but I can't seemt o find any info on how to do this.

Alt-tagging seems to have no effect and - judging by the images that come up when I image-google my own site - they're not catalogued that often anyway (the image is about six months old). The criteria for listing an image seem to be completely abitrary, but maybe there's something I don't know?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1073389.html

Date: 02/28/06     Keywords: css

I just spent 45 minutes trying to fix a site that wasn't really broken.

I am using a lot of height="100%" calls and things like that to make the pages be 100% high so those that do not have a lot of text won't just end half way down the page. The content is being placed in a master table that's 760 wide and centered.

I had no DOCTYPE call on most pages, so I put in

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1073113.html