Date: 12/29/05     Keywords: no keywords

I am looking for a good Windows FTP client.
I've used WS_FTP for years but I'd like something a little better laid out and put together.

What do you all use?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1034211.html

Date: 12/27/05     Keywords: php, css, web

Because work was a bit slow due to the holidays and all (just got out of college and working as an assistant art director in a startup magazine) I'm trying to convert the magazine's website to w3c standards (as of right now the page has quite a few frames and i know that's a near arrestable offense) as well as cutting back on all the tables and so on used. Since everyone here at work isn't overly net/code savvy (including myself, but i'm good at picking up on the stuff), I've been trying to figure out the best way to accomplish what I want*, and it seems that along with the CSS I've been teaching myself I need to get a fair enough understanding of PHP as well. Are there any sites available that give good tutorials on how to create a general template using PHP?

(*So what do I want to do? The website itself is pretty minimalist. The magazine title and a menubar are going to be at the top, the main content (an article, info about the magazine, contact information, whatever page they're currently on) will be under that, and to the right of the main content some banner adspace is going to be available. I pretty much want to make it so that if more menu items are added and if the banners change, I only have to tweak one file instead of going and changing each and every file. My original plan was to make one file with an iframe set up for the main content, but after some stern educating I learned that's just as troublesome as using frames as a whole.)

One of the php tutorials I read so far claimed that using include tags that contained things like the menu and banner ads was the best way to go (so each page just had includes tag that referenced a .inc file which could change whenever you wanted) (link), while another wrote about what i see on a good number of sites where your page is set up as "whatever.php?id=007", so the content is flowing onto the template (link). From what I'm understanding, it seems they're both wanting me to have the opposite stuff used as the content to flow in. The first wants me to flow in the stuff that generally stays constant (menu/adspace), while the second wants me to flow in the stuff that isn't constant (articles, contact information, and all the stuff that goes on seperate pages). Which is the best one possible? All that stuff is W3C safe too, right?

Thanks in advance!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1033749.html

Date: 12/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

OK guys. A client of mine is looking to redesign www.seniormomentum.us. If interested, please send me your portfolio, rates, etc.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1032283.html

Date: 12/17/05     Keywords: php, css, web

Hello everyone. I need some critiquing of a website I'm re-doing at work. It's for the company I work at. I'm still learning CSS so I know it's not spectacular. I'm really just wanting to know if you all think the design works or not. What looks good.. what could be better? That sort of thing. I'd really appreciate any feedback you guys can give!

Link:
http://www.aacapartsandsupplies.com/index4.php

Disregard the actual links. They're linked back to the old website for now.

Thanks!!!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1031827.html

Date: 12/16/05     Keywords: php, oscommerce, shopping

So I'm setting up a shopping cart for a new site for a client, using osCommerce. I've start customizing it to fit in with the design of the site, entering things into the catalog, etc. Turns out it's a lot more complicated than she wants.

What she wants is just static pages, with an 'add to cart' button, and actual cart that I can customize tothe site, and after all the information is said and done it gets emailed to her, so she can enter it in with ProPay.

Any suggestions of a PHP script to use? I've done stuff like this using PAyPal, CCNow, etc, and can setup a osComemrce site fairly easy, but she wants very simple...

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1031468.html

Date: 12/16/05     Keywords: web, seo

I've been using a bit of script that loads a random image, URL and text into a page each time the page is loaded.

This seems to work fine for up to 15 images/arrays, but over that, it starts to complain that:
"Error: 'image.href' is null or not an object"

Here's the code:

function create() {
        this.width = ''
        this.height = ''
        this.src = ''
        this.href = ''
        this.border = ''
        this.mouseover = ''
        this.sponsor = ''
}
scs = new Array()
for(var i=1; i<=19; i++) { scs[i] = new create() }

scs[1].width = "437"
scs[1].height = "292"
scs[1].src = "images/splash/Ritz.jpg"
scs[1].href = "http://www.theritzlondon.com/"
scs[1].border = "0"
scs[1].mouseover = "Click here to visit The Ritz"
scs[1].sponsor = "The Ritz"

scs[2].width = "400"
scs[2].height = "316"
scs[2].src = "images/splash/nhac.jpg"
scs[2].href = "http://www.nh-hotels.com/portal/page?_pageid=9,424&_dad=porweb&_schema=PORTAL30"
scs[2].border = "0"
scs[2].mouseover = "Click here to visit NH Hoteles"
scs[2].sponsor = "NH Hoteles - The Amsterdam Centre Hotel"

scs[3].width = "400"
scs[3].height = "266"
scs[3].src = "images/splash/nhcc.jpg"
scs[3].href = "http://www.nh-hotels.com/portal/page?_pageid=9,424&_dad=porweb&_schema=PORTAL30"
scs[3].border = "0"
scs[3].mouseover = "Click here to visit NH Hoteles"
scs[3].sponsor = "NH Hoteles - The City Centre Hotel"

scs[4].width = "400"
scs[4].height = "316"
scs[4].src = "images/splash/nhdh.jpg"
scs[4].href = "http://www.nh-hotels.com/portal/page?_pageid=9,424&_dad=porweb&_schema=PORTAL30"
scs[4].border = "0"
scs[4].mouseover = "Click here to visit NH Hoteles"
scs[4].sponsor = "NH Hoteles - The Doelen Hotel"

scs[5].width = "318"
scs[5].height = "400"
scs[5].src = "images/splash/nhghk.jpg"
scs[5].href = "http://www.nh-hotels.com/portal/page?_pageid=9,424&_dad=porweb&_schema=PORTAL30"
scs[5].border = "0"
scs[5].mouseover = "Click here to visit NH Hoteles"
scs[5].sponsor = "NH Hoteles - The Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky"

scs[6].width = "400"
scs[6].height = "319"
scs[6].src = "images/splash/nhsh.jpg"
scs[6].href = "http://www.nh-hotels.com/portal/page?_pageid=9,424&_dad=porweb&_schema=PORTAL30"
scs[6].border = "0"
scs[6].mouseover = "Click here to visit NH Hoteles"
scs[6].sponsor = "NH Hoteles - The Schiller Hotel"

scs[7].width = "400"
scs[7].height = "320"
scs[7].src = "images/splash/hch.jpg"
scs[7].href = "http://www.hastingshotels.com"
scs[7].border = "0"
scs[7].mouseover = "Click here to visit Hastings Hotels"
scs[7].sponsor = "The Hastings Culloden Hotel"

scs[8].width = "400"
scs[8].height = "369"
scs[8].src = "images/splash/hmb.jpg"
scs[8].href = "http://www.hotelmajestic.es"
scs[8].border = "0"
scs[8].mouseover = "Click here to visit the Hotel Majestic Barcelona"
scs[8].sponsor = "The Hotel Majestic Barcelona"

scs[9].width = "400"
scs[9].height = "422"
scs[9].src = "images/splash/hi.jpg"
scs[9].href = "http://www.hotel-inglaterra.com"
scs[9].border = "0"
scs[9].mouseover = "Click here to visit the Hotel Inglaterra"
scs[9].sponsor = "The Hotel Inglaterra"

scs[10].width = "400"
scs[10].height = "275"
scs[10].src = "images/splash/hlb.jpg"
scs[10].href = "http://www.lebristolparis.com"
scs[10].border = "0"
scs[10].mouseover = "Click here to visit the Hotel Le Bristol"
scs[10].sponsor = "The Hotel Le Bristol, Paris"

scs[11].width = "400"
scs[11].height = "403"
scs[11].src = "images/splash/hmraa.jpg"
scs[11].href = "http://www.solmelia.com"
scs[11].border = "0"
scs[11].mouseover = "Click here to visit the Hotel Melia Roma Aurelia Antica"
scs[11].sponsor = "The Hotel Melia Roma Aurelia Antica"

scs[12].width = "300"
scs[12].height = "414"
scs[12].src = "images/splash/h71.jpg"
scs[12].href = "http://www.hotel71.com"
scs[12].border = "0"
scs[12].mouseover = "Click here to visit Hotel 71"
scs[12].sponsor = "Hotel 71, Chicago"

scs[13].width = "267"
scs[13].height = "339"
scs[13].src = "images/splash/ebhih.jpg"
scs[13].href = "http://www.hiexpresshammersmith.co.uk/"
scs[13].border = "0"
scs[13].mouseover = "Click here to visit Somerston Hotels - Express by Holiday Inn Hammersmith"
scs[13].sponsor = "Somerston Hotels - Express by Holiday Inn Hammersmith"

scs[14].width = "435"
scs[14].height = "336"
scs[14].src = "images/splash/rg.jpg"
scs[14].href = "http://www.royalgardenhotel.co.uk/"
scs[14].border = "0"
scs[14].mouseover = "Click here to visit the Royal Garden Hotel"
scs[14].sponsor = "The Royal Garden Hotel"

scs[15].width = "440"
scs[15].height = "320"
scs[15].src = "images/splash/cml.jpg"
scs[15].href = "http://www.lucienbarriere.com/localized/en/portail/hotels/nos_etablissements/castel_marie_louise/index.asp?choix_1=la_baule&choix_2=castel_marie_louise"
scs[15].border = "0"
scs[15].mouseover = "Click here to visit the Lucien Barriere, Castel Marie-Louise"
scs[15].sponsor = "Lucien Barriere, Castel Marie-Louise"

scs[16].width = "435"
scs[16].height = "336"
scs[16].src = "images/splash/hb.jpg"
scs[16].href = "http://www.lucienbarriere.com/localized/en/portail/hotels/nos_etablissements/hermitage/index.asp?choix_1=la_baule&choix_2=hermitage"
scs[16].border = "0"
scs[16].mouseover = "Click here to visit the Lucien Barriere, Hermitage Barriere"
scs[16].sponsor = "Lucien Barriere, Hermitage Barriere"

scs[17].width = "435"
scs[17].height = "336"
scs[17].src = "images/splash/hb.jpg"
scs[17].href = "http://www.lucienbarriere.com/localized/en/portail/hotels/nos_etablissements/hermitage/index.asp?choix_1=la_baule&choix_2=hermitage"
scs[17].border = "0"
scs[17].mouseover = "Click here to visit the Lucien Barriere, Hermitage Barriere"
scs[17].sponsor = "Lucien Barriere, Hermitage Barriere"

scs[18].width = "435"
scs[18].height = "336"
scs[18].src = "images/splash/hb.jpg"
scs[18].href = "http://www.lucienbarriere.com/localized/en/portail/hotels/nos_etablissements/hermitage/index.asp?choix_1=la_baule&choix_2=hermitage"
scs[18].border = "0"
scs[18].mouseover = "Click here to visit the Lucien Barriere, Hermitage Barriere"
scs[18].sponsor = "Lucien Barriere, Hermitage Barriere"

scs[19].width = "435"
scs[19].height = "336"
scs[19].src = "images/splash/hb.jpg"
scs[19].href = "http://www.lucienbarriere.com/localized/en/portail/hotels/nos_etablissements/hermitage/index.asp?choix_1=la_baule&choix_2=hermitage"
scs[19].border = "0"
scs[19].mouseover = "Click here to visit the Lucien Barriere, Hermitage Barriere"
scs[19].sponsor = "Lucien Barriere, Hermitage Barriere"

var n = Math.random() + ''
n = parseInt(n.charAt(19))
if(n >19) {
        n = n - 19
}
else if(n==0) {
        n = n + 19
}
n += ""

var image = scs[n]
var sc = ""
sc += ' \n'
sc += '


 ' + image.sponsor + ''

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1031171.html

Date: 12/15/05     Keywords: php, software

I just read through this article about properly managing or preventing bad clients by creating a proper work flow: http://www.creativebehavior.com/index.php?PID=194

An excerpt follows:

"Project management for the freelance designer.

You can ask anyone in the creative services industry, everyone at one time or another has had the client from hell. The difference between the good clients and bad clients isn't actually all that great. Most clients are demanding, and what all the projects done yesterday. In my experience good clients and bad clients will push you to do your best work. It's the approach the client takes that makes them feel like the "monster" client. Some clients can be micro-managers, asking you to change the design until it look's like a pile of horse puke, other clients can give you no direction at all yet hate everything you produce. The only constant factor in this equation is you. After working on multi-million accounts with large advertising agencies all the project problems seem to have a common thread.

"Communication is key"

When ever there is a break down in communication the project goes south fast. And the common thread to the communication rests with the designer. It is critical as designers that we communicate effectively with our clients. Part of communicating effectively is using the right tools, and documenting the process. This way as you enter the design phase with a client you can record your communication in a central location so everyone is aware of the process. Many companies use project extranets to post versions of design studies. Regardless if you are a thousand person company or a small interactive company like me a project extranet is critical to communication of the project. By using a project extranet you can post changes to the designs as the client requests them. I typically leave all old versions online so if the client asks for the same change twice I can direct them to previous versions that they didn't like before. (and let me tell you clients often forget what they ask for!)"

He goes on to give eight effective project management steps and a software suggestion. It's a good read.

x-posted to graphicdesign

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1030923.html

Date: 12/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

I don't think charging $75/hr may be a great start for new freelancers, but this article is a great sum up of what you should be thinking about when you are charging for a job: http://www.jdempsey.com/2005/12/14/designers-how-much-to-charge/

(via http://del.icio.us)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1030859.html

Date: 12/14/05     Keywords: php, html

If you are in biznatch for yourself, here are some good articles:

http://www.strangebrand.com/93/the-first-year-7-lessons-learned.html

http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/small_biz_101_cash_flow.php
The tip about chasing invoices the minute they are late is a no brainer but super important.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1030403.html

Date: 12/14/05     Keywords: php

I have a PHP script that I got from somewhere.. can't remember where.. that I have modified into an order form. The script works and the information is emailed to the specified address correctly. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to have only the objects selected emailed instead of everything. Does that make sense? I can supply a copy of the script I am using to anyone if they need it.

Thanks!!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1030109.html

Date: 12/13/05     Keywords: software, web

Truly it's been an uninspiring December. I received from my recruiter a web design assignment that turned out to be worse than expected.

I arrived onsite to find that they did NOT have any of the software of connections that they told the recruiter they did have. I, like a sap, said that I had all that was needed at my house and could finish the job from home. Big Mistake! I told the person in charge that I could get the work done in 4 to 6 hours. Which I did on a Sunday from my house.

Well, Monday came and with it were several revisions from the company and pdf's showing how they wanted the pages laid out. Along with that I had to wait until Tuesday to actually put the pages online as they had to call 3 people to get the right IP address, username and password.

I get all the work done. (What was supposed to be 3 pages and some edits turns out to be 13 pages and LOTS of edits) And I then submitted my time card to my employers to sign. Sunday + part of Monday + Tuesday =20 hours. Yep, 4 to 6 hours to get the original work done and the rest of the work week to totally obliterate what I made and make it conform to their pdf's.

Now for the cherry, on the sundae. They tell the recruiting agency that they don't understand why they have to pay for the additional time on Monday and Tuesday. So, the recruiter call me and I write out a complete list of everything that I did, including the additional pages and all the time I spent reworking what I'd finished on Sunday.

I'll never volunteer my resourses like that again for the a placement job. If they don't have the stuff I need to complete the work on site, then tough tittie. I'll call the recruiter and get the hell out of there.

That and the fact that I'm unemployed for the holidays makes for the grouchy _stag

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1029810.html

Date: 12/13/05     Keywords: no keywords

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1029422.html

Date: 12/11/05     Keywords: templates, web

so, i've been working on building a photo gallery into my website. i was suggested by people in this community to use Gallery and so far it's working out pretty good. The only problem is there are some adjustments i want to make that i don't know how to. I've checked the forum and the FAQ etc which helped for some things but not for others.

so what i'm asking for is if there is somebody who knows a lot about the program or customizing templates that i could work with on this project. i would appreciate a little help with some specific things.

i can pay you back with webspace or an email address on the site or something like that. I also knit, sew, and cook (if you live in the boston area, haha).

thanks again!
tay

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1029248.html

Date: 12/09/05     Keywords: php, html

So I'm slowly working on a script to automate displaying galleries. I've got everything to work except one little thing:

Basically, in the script, a person creates a directory and uploads their files via FTP. Once this is done they run one of my scripts, which copies the pictures to another directory, after resizing, watermarking, etc. All the part works fine.

The problem is the script cannot delete the original files once the copying has been done. The problems looks like ownership permissions. I noticed that when the script creates the other directory and files the owner is set to 'nobody'. But when I try to delete the fiels that were uploaded (either by unlink or by using exec() to run del) I get the following error:
Warning: unlink(admin/upload/viking/060F0835_RT8.jpg): Permission denied in /home/internet/public_html/chanta/galleries/admin/process.php on line 57

I've tried, through the script, to chmod the files so anyone can work with them, but I get the same Permission denied error.

I know that I had trouble through FTP deleting the files the script created, so I had to write another little script to delete those files (And dir) if needed.

Any idea what I can do here? There is always the fallback of having the user delete the uploaded dir via their FTP client, but I'd like to avoid it if at all possible, since htey might be doing a large batch of uploads at one time.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1028698.html

Date: 12/09/05     Keywords: php, html, asp, java

Anyone know of a way I can have a page that generates links of the contents of the folder? and yes i know if i dont create an index page it will automaticaly generate a templated page with links of the names of the items. The reason that wont due is i need the links to open to a blank target page if i do that to the template then all the folders with no indexs will have the popup window *blank target*

Oh yeah to make this worse the only languages I can due this in are Java ASP HTML maybe if im lucky DHTML; if this is super easy to do in PHP i will try to get them to install support for it on the server but i doubt it =(

oh and ill throw in a few bucks if you can get me through this quick =D

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1028546.html

Date: 12/09/05     Keywords: web

comments and critique my design
http://operator.net-tech.us/website-devel/revamp/

and if possible explain to me why the navigation menu in the subpages acts funky in IE (pushing the rest of the menu down)
thanks in advance.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1028019.html

Date: 12/08/05     Keywords: web

Hello everyone. This is my first post here though I've been lurking for a couple of months. I was wondering if there had ever been any questions on creating skinnable websites. Does anyone possibly know of some good tutorials or information on them? I'm interested in using one for my personal website, but haven't really had much luck in figuring out exactly how to create them.

Thanks for the help!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1027838.html

Date: 12/07/05     Keywords: html

Frames. Frames are evil as we all know, but they still have their uses.

My company's application requires frames to keep the load down. Unfortunately, this also means that I'm having a couple problems with scrolling in my header frame.

I've tried the following method:


That didn't work, so I tried:


Anyone have any ideas on how to force the frame to stay at 0,0 coordinates?

-Shade

PS: Note, XHTML 1.0 frameset

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1027508.html

Date: 12/06/05     Keywords: web, yahoo

Hello! Sorry for offtop =))

Mavis Applications is currently looking for expressions of interest from any
interested international parties that would like to find a reliable Russian
outsourcing partner. We are willing to offer several mutually beneficial
cooperation options. If you are interested in establishing a business
relationship with a dynamic, with a 6 years operational experience and already well-known Russian
Web-design & Web-development team, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

E-mail: alex@mavisapps.com
Yahoo messenger: mavis965
ICQ: 143-912-188
www.mavisapps.com

Best regards, Alex Malkin.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1027085.html

Date: 12/06/05     Keywords: software, database

How can I explain to a complete layman the difference between a database site - where she can upload her images and add text etc online - and her own brochure site, which has to be edited with software and then uploaded via FTP? She doesn't understand why she can't just 'go in and fiddle with her pages online'.

Does anyone have an amusing similie or metaphor I can utilise?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1026862.html