with CSS. Clicking on the Quasar logo on the bottom right works the way it should on the shorter pages that don't really scroll like
this one but on longer pages like
this one, where I have to scroll to the bottom to click the link, the div shows up at the top of the page. Is there anyway to make it center vertically on the current screen when the visibility is set to visible? Would resetting the margins/top placement work?
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/875630.html
Link Help
Date: 05/11/05
Keywords: html, web
OK, you know how sometimes images that are links get the box around them? How do you make it go away?
My husband is helping to build this webpage, and we can't figure out why the buttons at the top have the link box around them, but the photo in the center of the page is also a link and doesn't have the box. We want all the boxes to go away. The only way I know how to do that would be to change the alink, vlink, and link colors to the same as the background color, but that would make any text links disappear too (I'm such an html cheater *laugh*). On this site, there are text links that need to be there.
Just ignore the fact that the page is littered with random links to things: my husband makes links to the pages he's working on while they're still in progress. This page I linked to above isn't the real front page of the site, it's just a test page too. Once he can figure out the buttons thing, maybe he will make it the front page, but for now we're stuck.
I think it's relatively simple, but I can't figure it out. (Oh and if you have any other suggestions for this page while you're looking at the buttons, feel free to share). Thanks in advance.
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/874989.html
vicious Critiue and Help needed.
Date: 05/11/05
Keywords: no keywords
http://www.soulrequiem.com
The entire site reflects my ADHD, and theres more to put up.
I wanted opinions on what you all think might look nice for a redesign before I mess it up too badly.
And feel free to ignore the petz subdomain. I could break almost any major design rule with that and it would be a rose among thorns.
Also, any ideas for the fanfiction subdomain are welcome. I'm lost with that so I haven't touched it.
:-P
*hops around*
Anyhow.
Thanks for the opinion.
Rules:
No Flash
No background music EVER
No busy backgrounds
I'd like to stick with dark colors and lighter text.
I need to design a Gallery/archive for Anime/Movie screencaps.
Studio Colors: Red, Black, White, and grayscale accents.
I need to keep the text at least 10-12pt
I prefer serif fonts as they look finished.
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/874516.html
lj-cut code..?
Date: 05/11/05
Keywords: web
Is there any way to do an lj-cut type link in a non-livejournal weblog? I know it uses a relative link (#something), but can you hide the text block and whatnot? I'd be interested to try something, if it's doable.
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/874251.html
Simple Javascript rollover effect... or is it?
Date: 05/11/05
Keywords: html, java, web
Alright, Javascripters of the Web Design community. I'm very, very new to Javascript. So new, that I can't get a simple rollover effect to work. Here's the issue:
I'm using validated XHTML Strict, which means there are no names, only id's. Firefox doesn't seem to have an issue with this and keeps chugging along without a fix. Internet Explorer doesn't do the rollover, but it also doesn't report an error. Here's my code:
if (document.images)
{
document.news = new Image(85,30);
document.site = new Image(85,30);
document.news.src = "images/news1.gif";
document.site.src = "images/site1.gif";
}
function focusOn(imgName) {
if (imgName=='news')
document.news.src="images/news2.gif";
else if (imgName=='site')
document.site.src="images/site2.gif";
}
function focusOff(imgName) {
if (imgName=='news')
document.news.src="images/news1.gif";
else if (imgName=='site')
document.site.src="images/site1.gif";
}
Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated, since I have to finish this stupid effect before I go on to more important jobs.
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/874143.html
terrible logo = terrible web site?
Date: 05/10/05
Keywords: web
I'm a fairly new web designer and this problem has been coming up quite a bit: The company I will have to design a site for will have the ugliest logo ever -and I have to design the site incorporating this terrible logo. What to do? If I just use colors from the logo and design as normal, then the logo looks super out of place. If I design with the logo in mind, then the site looks as ugly as the logo itself. Has anyone else been in this situation? What did you do?
Thanks.
-Lydia
PS- The companies in question will not go for a logo redesign, either. ugh.
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/873951.html
new - a request.
Date: 05/10/05
Keywords: web
i have a domain which i've had for ageees now, www.threesimplewords.com.
i've never used it, mainly because i have no idea how.
i was wondering if anyone would be interested in making me a really small cute website for free, all i want is a main page & a gallery. in return i'd be willing to offer as much of my web space as i have spare, cause i'm not gonna be using it.
if anyone is interested let me and that'd be great.
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/873291.html
Web Accessibility
Date: 05/10/05
Keywords: web
I noticed the issue of web accessibility come up in the comments to a recent post and got the impression that some people here aren't aware (or perhaps not fully aware) of the problems that disabled people face and the subsequent need for a good designer to take in to account designing for said disabled users.
Now before you flame me, let me say that there are obviously times when it doesn't make sense to design for disabled users: blind users and an art portfolio site, for instance.
A few months back, Jakob Nielsen's useit.com was brought up, but the high-handed tone and irrelevancy of Nielsen's Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design and the fact that the site looks absolutely horrible repulses people that don't already feel accessibility to be an important issue.
So I dug through my bookmarks and got together a nice little primer on why accessibility is important, the first several links are flash applications that simulate what it's like to use a web site while hindered by some form of disability:
With those out of the way, here's a bigger read: Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Accessibility. I highly suggest reading at least the first five "days", which describe five different hypothetical users and the difficulties they face. It's even well-written.
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/872791.html
Shameless plug NO CRITIQUE PLZ.
Date: 05/10/05
Keywords: web
Hellos! I just joined here. I'm not special or anything, but I have a website. ^-^ http://taiyoken.net and one upcoming, slowchemical.nu! I design furry and anime related fanlistings. I also have a talented hostee who can be seen at Firecatgraphics.
Edit: DO NOT give me critique about my website. I am not looking for help on it, I'm not looking for fancy critique. I'm just someone who joined who is plugging her domain. Okay? THX. PS, don't tell me what I can and cannot do. =) I wanna see other peoples sites for fun, not to criqtique.
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/872653.html
External HTML file in Flash?
Date: 05/09/05
Keywords: php, html
Hey everyone, here is my problem:
My client wants an all-Flash portfolio site. At a certain section of the site, the page will "slide in" from the right side of the screen. Easy.
Now, he wants an email form on this page. You know, enter data, click send, and it goes to his email address.
How do I accomplish this? Can you do something like this in Flash? I don't know php, cgi, or any of that... so I have a big problem, yes?
I was thinking of finding a site like Bravenet that will offer free email-forms or something. I assume this would be in an anti-flash environment though, so I am also wondering if you can load external HTML files in Flash somehow.
I dunno, I'm confused. Help!
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/871775.html
wav file as bgsound in firefox
Date: 05/08/05
Keywords: no keywords
The subject should speak for itself... I have this wave file I want to play as the background sound to one page in my site and it will play fine in IE but not in FireFox. Here's the code I've been using:
http://www.amberkaye.com/cats.wav" LOOP="infinite">
I put this right after the end head tag, before the body tag. Am I placing it in the wrong place? Is the coding not up to date? Like I said, it works fine in IE, but not in firefox.
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/871064.html
textareas in LJ
Date: 05/08/05
Keywords: no keywords
How do I make a textarea have a specified height and width... in LJ? It works fine when I tell it to do it everywhere else... but in LJ it doesn't do it right. Why not?
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/870867.html
Help with css
Date: 05/08/05
Keywords: browser, css
Ok, I have a problem. I posted about this in some comments in this community... but, just in case some of you didn't see it in that post, I'm going to post it here too. I'll put it under a cut.
The following is the code I used in my Angelfire site for a .css file. It works perfectly in IE but not in FireFox. In FireFox the fonts still load how they're supposed to but the background information doesn't load. What am I doing wrong? Oh, and I did verify that it's pointing in the right direction. What I mean by that is... the file that I'm telling it to load for the background exists in the specified location. Here's a textarea with the code, I don't know how else to post it.
Since downloading firefox, I have changed my Angelfire site and amberkaye.com site to include the css information in the header of each .htm file... which makes sure it loads correctly in both browsers. So neither site points to this .css file anymore.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/870454.html
This is really really hard...
Date: 05/07/05
Keywords: no keywords
I'm not ready for this.
I know I'm not. Everything on here is much too basic, even for my own standards.
This is my portfolio for the time being. I am (though I have an exhausting day job and sick/pregnant gf to tend to) trying to forge ahead with some more powerful pieces.
Please comment, critique, smash critique.
But I'm begging you.... if it sucks - tell me how to get better.
Thank you.
http://virgilproductions.com/
(x-posted graphicdesign)
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/870252.html
Domain redirects
Date: 05/06/05
Keywords: hosting
Ok... my friend has this account with smugmug.com and he wants to set up a domain name that will automatically redirect to the smugmug address. He doesn't want to pay a hosting fee, he just wants to pay for the domain registration, if he can get away with it. How do we do this and who do we go through?
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/870119.html
Obscure
Date: 05/05/05
Keywords: browser, web
Here's an obscure one.
I'm looking for a web page where you can submit an URL and which returns the source code of that web page.
There's http://www.wannabrowser.com but I want to be able to bookmark the results. Actually, I want to be able to ChangeNotes the results but the needs are the same - I don't mind having to build query strings myself.
Essentially, what I'm trying to set up here is an alert for when a site's source code changes. Any ideas?
Ta.
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/869288.html
Creating A Calendar In CSS?
Date: 05/05/05
Keywords: css, html, web
I need help with creating a calendar in css, can someone help me out.
This is what I have to do:
1. I have to create a new blank file and save it as caldendar.js
2. Then within the file, I am supposed to insert a function named calendar() that has a single parameter named "caldate". The caldate parameter stores the date the user wants hightlighted in the calendar.
3. Within the command block of the calendar() function, I am to create an array named "MonthName" that stores the names of the twelve months. Th first element in the array, MonthName[0] should have a value of "January" and completes the rest of the array similarly.
4. Then I am to create an array, "DayName", that stores the three letter abbreviations of the seven weekday names, starting with DayName[0] ="Sun".
5. After the DayName array, I am to create a date object variable named Calendar_Day. If the value of the caldate parameter is equal to "today", set Calendar_Day equal to the current date and time; otherwise, set Calendar_Day equal to the date specified by the caldate parameter. [B](Hint: use the command: Calendar_Day = new Date(caldate)).[/B]
6. Use the getDate(), getMonth(), and getFullYear() methods to extract the day of the month, month number, and four-digit year from the Calendar_Day variable. Store these values in variables named ThisDay, ThisMonth, and ThisYear, respectively.
7. Then I am to use the doucment.write() method to write the following tags to the Web page:
| Month, Year |
Where [I]Month, Year[/I] is the name of the month and the four-digit year. [B](Hint: use MonthName[ThisMonth] to display the name of the month; use the ThisYear variable to display the year value.)[/B]
Now this is what I have done?
8. I am to create a For loop that writes a table row containing seven table heading cells. The For loop should generate the following HTML code:
I don't think I did any of this right, so can someone point in the right direction.
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/868601.html