Date: 06/25/05     Keywords: no keywords

Anyone see Kirupa's site of the week for this week? It hurts my eyes!

http://www.furax.ca/

Side question: How does one go about making the rollover effects used on the menu blocks on this site?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/912501.html

Date: 06/24/05     Keywords: browser, css, asp

A company has me working on their pages. The picture in the link below is in an tag, and the oval links are also images set at a higher z-index. Everything displays perfectly until we attempt to print the pages out - the ovals are sent to the background.

I tried a little test with overlapping images and zindex and printing, and it all went smoothly, so there is something wrong with my css that's messing up print jobs.

http://www.dcicheeseco.com/dci/main2.asp - page
http://www.dcicheeseco.com/dci/info/css.css - main css document
http://www.dcicheeseco.com/dci/e.css - temp print css document

This is really hard to troubleshoot because there is a fair amount of CSS, it displays correctly on my screen but not on the page, and I have to keep renaming the filenames (the first problem was the company's browsers caching stuff I didn't want it to). Any help / knowledge would be greatly appreciated - it's my first time messing with the print media type.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/912368.html

Date: 06/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

More irritatingly nit-picky graphics related questions :P

I've set this page up with the main image as background (as someone here recently pointed out I was slicing uneccessarily!), but - unknown to me - some people with Windows IE view PNGs as having a solid grey background, so to them my elegantly overlaid logo looks like a solid grey block.

The problem is that my GIF of the same logo looks like this:



It seems fine on a white background, but on a coloured one...icky bitmappy edges.

I know this is a bit of an age-old problem with GIFs and fine-ass fonts like UltraLights, but can anyone suggest a solution?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/911723.html

Date: 06/23/05     Keywords: php, database, java, web

Here's the page:

http://www.shifuimam.com/php_tutorials/database_trial/drfe/resources_lj.php?id=1&sort=codedesc

See the little cross things next to "Assemblies,Engineering" and "Assemblies,Manufacturing"? Click 'em. They open a litle box with revision history information for that document. I'm using a little javascript I found online to swap the image between the "+" and the "-" (like browsing a folder tree in Windows Explorer, etc etc).

However, the script isn't working correctly. I want each image to switch independently...if you click the first "+" it switches to a "-", but if you click the "+" in the next row, it doesn't switch. Then you have to click them each a few times to get them both with no history showing and with the "+" displayed. What do I need to fix?

Script:

webdesign

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/911355.html

Date: 06/22/05     Keywords: web

I have recently joined a research project for which I've been appointed to make a few updates on a very unhealthy website. I have been asked to add an enrollment form and I was given a printed document to follow that seems to request pretty basic user information. Anyway, I would like to know before I get started the best way to go about this, overall. I will be using Dreamweaver and am unsure of a few specific items: How and where do I store the input data? Where are the options located to build the boxes for users to enter information? I once experimented with FrontPage years ago on this, but I'm sure you wouldn't urge me to use that. Any help or links to guidance would be appreciated. Thanks!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/910962.html

Date: 06/22/05     Keywords: google

I like Google. It brings in far more visitors to my site than all the other search engines and links put together! There are a couple of things which cause trouble for me and my site though.

Partial indexing, like this Google Search of The Warp Zone. My entire site was crawled and indexed by Google within a few days of the site launch, but now half of the pages have disappeared from the SERPS, and the rest have been totally stripped of their descriptions and titles. All the newsgroups suggest this is caused by DNS problems, but I'm not convinced, as I've never known my site or it's services to have any downtime. My pages were all crawled and downloaded fully, and Googlebot visits me around once a fortnight. Does anyone have any better suggestions as to why this happens to my sites (and many other people's sites) every few months?

The other problem I have, is that when my pages do appear properly in Google, they are often very out of date despite being crawled recently. Google seems to revert to old versions of my pages. It still has a cache of a page on one of my other sites, which was completely redesigned nearly three years ago! In fact it has been redesigned twice since the version which appears in the Google cache. The page in question has been crawled thirteen times in the last five months alone...

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/910717.html

Date: 06/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

1. ogs.ru
2 .kors.ru

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/910588.html

Date: 06/21/05     Keywords: web

This is more a coding thing than a web design issue...but maybe someone here can help me.

I need some help doing something that is probably quite simple.

I've been using a basic form for email sign ups..the results of which are then e-mailed to me. That works fine.

What i need now is a way to create a survey with about 15 questions the results of which will be e-mailed to me.

I can understand how to do this if it's on one page. But how do i fix it so that you only view one question per page...then submit to go to the following question... ??

I'm a bit lost and .. not really even sure what to search under to get an answer.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/910123.html

Date: 06/21/05     Keywords: php, html

So I start here :
http://www.soft-gel.com/test/feedback.html

and this is my sendmail processor :

< ?
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;

mail( "kathleenh@soft-gel.com", "Feedback Form Results", $message, "From: $email" );
header( "Location: http://www.soft-gel.com/comps/shades/sales_complete.html" );
? >

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Soft-Gel\test\sendmail.php on line 5

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Soft-Gel\test\sendmail.php:5) in D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Soft-Gel\test\sendmail.php on line 6

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/909504.html

Date: 06/21/05     Keywords: software, hosting

Can anyone help me understand streams vs downloads? I'm researching starting a music hosting site and have a few questions

01. How does download a song compare to streaming it bandwidth wise? If I stream a 3mb song or download a 3mb song is it consuming the same amount of bandwidth?

02. Where can I find more information about streaming music? Is there software involved? What the most common (or only way) to get a file to stream rather than download.

03. Are there different stream qualities? I've heard something about it and never really put thought into it until I realized the stream quality from MySpace.com is much worse than PureVolume.com (Could just be me). How do you control the quality of your stream?

I think that's it for now. Thanks in advance.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/909309.html

Date: 06/21/05     Keywords: browser, css

What do you think is best for setting up the layout of a page? Absolute positioning with CSS? Tables? Combination of the two?

I'm familiar with both, but just unsure of which is most effective. And which tends to have less browser issues...although I suppose if you know what you're doing, the cross-browser compatibility of your pages isn't an issue.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/909055.html

Date: 06/20/05     Keywords: html

I think I've just been looking at code too long, because this is probably a really simple fix...

Here's my form code :
< form action="MAILTO:e-mail@here.com" method="post" enctype="text/plain" >

ETA : so much for the pre tag...

now, the actual e-mail part is working, but how do I get the site to then go to a confirmation page? the way I've learned it, I'd set that conf. page as the action="http://gohere.html"...but I need the results to be e-mailed to a salesperson - how do I send the e-mail and forward them to a confirmation page?

Thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/908586.html

Date: 06/19/05     Keywords: php, web

I have a website that's currently using b2 (one of my partners installed it last year). We really don't like it and want to change to something else, but this is a new area for me as I've never used something like this. I'm wondering if anyone has a recommendation for a PHP script for content management. There's too much stuff to just make static pages (artist profiles, reviews, calendar, etc).

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/908144.html

Date: 06/17/05     Keywords: templates, browser, css, html, java, web

[First of all yes when I set up internet explorer to be one of the browsers to view my webpage I called it Microblows in dreamweaver so I do click preview in microblows.]
I don't quite know what to change, I can edit code as needed but don't get my problem. Unfortuneately the webpage is not online cause I can't get rid of the old version before putting the new fully functional one up so I'll put the code in a cut. The problem is though that when I preview in microblows I get to see it as I should, the corner images line up properly and I see the proper coloring [bg one course and table background one are two different colors.... well three if you cound the few cells in the table that's white]. When I preview in firefox [1.0.4 if there's a newer vers feel free to let me know] however there's a problem... the whistspace is still there in the middle of the table however the color that should be in the rest of the table surrounding the white is nonexistant for coloring... it's just the same color as the background of the page. This is driving me bonkers cause it's more important for it to work with the browser I use [at least to me].
Oh and yes I use dreamweaver.


All bracets have been replaced with squared ones.


[!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"]
[html][!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/Main.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" --]
[head]

[!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" --]
[title]Hawks-Haven.com : [/title]
[!-- InstanceEndEditable --]

[meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"]

[style type="text/css"]
[!--
body {
background-color: #9898ce;}
body,td,th {
color: 4C0A54;}
a:link {
color: AE538F;
text-decoration: none;}
a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: CA6F9A;}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
color: AA33B0;}
a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: CA8C9C;}
.style1 {color: #FFFFFF}.style2 {
color: #000000;
font-weight: bold;
}
--]
[/style]

[/head]

[body]

[script type='text/javascript']
//HV Menu v5.411- by Ger Versluis (http://www.burmees.nl/)
//Submitted to Dynamic Drive (http://www.dynamicdrive.com)
//Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com for this script and more
function Go(){return}
[/script]
[script type='text/javascript' src='menu/exmplmenu_var.js'][/script]
[script type='text/javascript' src='menu/menu_com.js'][/script]
[noscript]Your browser does not support script[/noscript]

[table width="98%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="d15f5f" bgcolor="d15f5f"]
[tr bgcolor="d15f5f"]
[td colspan="5"][p][img src="Graphics/AhavaBanner.gif" width="486" height="91"][br]
[/p] [/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td width="86" rowspan="3" bgcolor="d15f5f"][/td]
[td width="45" height="44" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"][div align="left"][img src="Graphics/TopLeftCorner.gif" width="34" height="36" align="top"] [/div][/td]
[td width="528" rowspan="3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"][div align="justify"]
[!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Body" --]
[p]Hee[/p]
[p]This Page is Under Construction...[/p]
[p]Tune in later for actual content... amazingly enough given time it will come...........[/p]
[p align="right"]...................just give it a little bit of time, it will come. [/p]
[!-- InstanceEndEditable --][/div][/td]
[td width="65" align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"][img src="Graphics/TopRightCorner.gif" width="36" height="34" align="top"][/td]
[td width="17" rowspan="3" align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="d15f5f"][div align="right"] [/div]
[p align="right"] [/p][/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td height="68" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"] [/td]
[td width="65" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"] [/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td height="44" align="left" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"][img src="Graphics/BottomLeftCorner.gif" width="36" height="34" align="bottom"][/td]
[td width="65" align="right" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"][img src="Graphics/BottomRightCorner.gif" width="34" height="36" align="bottom"][/td]
[/tr]
[tr bgcolor="d15f5f"]
[td colspan="5"][div align="center" class="style1"]
[p class="style2"][br]
Ahava Moo is copyright from 2001 onwards, the style of the page may have changed but all previous style and content as well as current: graphics content design and style as well as anything else under this domain unless otherwise noted. [/p]
[p class="style2"]
Last Updated :
[!-- #BeginDate format:fAm1a --]Friday June 17, 2005 11:27 AM[!-- #EndDate --]
[/p]
[/div][/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

[/body]

[!-- InstanceEnd --][/html]

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/907293.html

Date: 06/17/05     Keywords: html, web, shopping

Ok, I have about a million questions that my husband asked me to ask. He's doing web creating and managing and doesn't know exactly what he's doing.

1. On this page http://www.silversupplies.com/catalog/gem_stones/plates/redcorral/plate10/plate10.shtml is there a way to click on the picture of each individual stone and have it paste the product information (price, stone name, etc) into the "shopping basket" thingy? As it is right now, everyone buying anything from the site has to copy the info and paste it into the box. Can we bypass C&P and just have it do it on a click? If not, what else might work?

2. Do search engines index everything on a site? How does that work? My husband's boss's friend (who has a crappy ass website but still gives the boss advice) says any information in a table won't show up on a search and so you shouldn't use tables. Is this true? How can you organize a website without tables?

3. How do you increase hits to a site without paying for a service?

4. I don't remember any of the other questions. I may make a post again later. Thanks for your help.

5. I remembered one more: The boss has about 40 domain names that he keeps registered but doesn't use. He wants to redirect traffic from any of the names to his site. Can he set himself up on a computer as his own server (like, on a Mac G5) and not have to pay for anything (except for keeping the domain names registered)? Or will he still have to pay some fee or for some service or... I don't even know what to ask. But does that make sense? As long as his server computer is always running, can he act as his own server and redirect hits to his main website? (he has domain names like silversmith, and silversmithing: really good ones that people would probably try to type in, and he wants them to go to his website, silversupplies).

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/907148.html

Date: 06/16/05     Keywords: browser, css

Apparently LJ doesn't support CSS, so to see the CSS version of the mosaic look here.

It looks right in IE6; please let me know if you don't see a pattern of different colored squares in any other browsers. Thanks!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/906999.html

Date: 06/16/05     Keywords: php, web

does anyone know a website or the codes to make an in-built PHP web counter for your website and maybe a tag-board too?

i hate relying on websites because sometimes they crash and lose everyone's accounts so i'd like to just do it myself now.

thanks in advance =)

(ps: i'm PHP-stupid so make it easy)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/906743.html

Date: 06/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

what about http://the.count0.ru/ ?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/906149.html

Date: 06/15/05     Keywords: browser, css

Today I've had a chance to do a little experimentation with CSS. I've made a couple of test pages:

• Testing overlapping boxes


• Testing placement of multiple boxes

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/905662.html

Date: 06/15/05     Keywords: html, web

Hi, I've been reading/commenting for a while, but this is my first post.

On my website the content is divided into columns (and a header) using divs. Each column is subdivided into sections to manage the content. For some unknown reasons, the first few lines in the middle column are indented, aligned with a div in the header and a div in the righthand column.

Here are the relevant bits of code:



#title {
border:1px solid #F6B33D;
margin:5px;
padding:5px;
text-align:center;
height:190;
width: 1000px; /* the columns are in a 1000px wide container div */
}

#middle {
margin:0px 200px 0px 200px;
padding:2px;
border:1px solid #F6B33D;
position: relative;
top: 83px;
bottom: 10px;
}

#left {
margin:0;
margin-right: 0;
padding:3px;
width:170px;
border:1px solid #F6B33D;
position:absolute;
top:220px;
left:15px;
overflow:hidden;
}

#right {
margin-top: 200px;
margin:0;
padding:3px;
width:170px;
border:1px solid #F6B33D;
position:absolute;
top:220px;
right:15px;
overflow:hidden;
}
/* centres the divs within each column */
.centerContent {
  text-align: left;
  border: 1px solid F6B33D;
  /*border-left: 10px solid #000;
  border-right: 10px solid #000;
  border-bottom: 10px solid #000;*/
  margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 10px 5px 10px 5px;
  background: #23272b;
}
/* centres the title of each div in each column */
.centerTitle {
  text-transform: lowercase; font-family: Arial, helvetica;
  color: #F6B33D; background: #000;
  margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 2px 2px 2px 10px;
  letter-spacing:5px; text-align: left;
  font-weight: bold;
}

    ">disp( 'name', 'htmlbody' ) ?>
   

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/905252.html