pork stew with lots of roots and cabbage..
Hold on to your hat its going to be windy tonite

Flash sucks
flash intros penalise in search, annoy your customers
anything that makes the page load longer, kills customer retention

Got to give Kudos for the self confidence,
&
you found a great place to ask questions if confidence isnt enough

the user agent chooses its own default style, and there is (to my knowledge) no CSS attributes you can change to determine the masking character.
Of course, this is possible if the password field is...

the only opinion on link exchange that matters
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356
The most common effect is downgrading

Deleted by MIB

ul#navigation { width: 12em; top: auto; left: 0; bottom: auto; right: auto; position: fixed;} /* should put the menu in the centre of the left edge of the page, you can set the position explicitly I...

sames as IE6/png, conditional css with eot fonts for IE
or wait till IE supports css3 properly (looks out window, watching for Hell to freeze over)<!--[if IE]>
@font-face { font-family:...

1/4 century plus 2, my Kids are older than that
I feel OOOLLLDDD
Happy Birthday, and welcome to the long downhill
"remember when" "I used to ..." and all the other boring old people things that...

local is the local pc font store, I think, from the web server, even a web server installed locally it requires a url
something like@font-face {
font-family: GraublauWeb;
src: local("Lucida...

Q&D validation,
run the site through http://www.browsershots.org in browsers for each OS
IF w3c html validation errors are egregious it will show blankscreens in some (or many, sometimes ya really...

noticably faster load
screen fonts sized around my basefont, Thank you
all good

Some parts of the site use fixed size text, px, 10px is 1.8mm high on my screen, and does not resize if I Select larger.
the W3C reccommended fonts sizes for screen display are em and %, each of...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=php+youtube+clone&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq= (http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=php+youtube+clone&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=)

includes, for menues copyright etc, are code scraps incomplete files stitched together by the server an served as 1 file
framesets are made up of full files with headers et al and each takes longer...

coffee and fig newtons

The font of the web site may make not be the font displayed on the user browser, if the font is not one available on the user browser the closest 'family' will be used, and may look different or...

depending on the language used as the front end to the mysql back end,
php $date=strtotime('string');
asp $date=DateTime.Parse('string');
in sql getdate($date)

don't use those codes look em...

standard tips and tweaks

http://websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
http://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
http://demo.opera-mini.net/demo.html?www.hd-fractals.com/...

Dumb as a stump, , but 3/3

dont use fixed sixe column it looks less than effective on widescreen monitors and creates scroll bars in part screen windows, users do not scroll, they leave
set the margin, dont set the inner,...

OPP and NSW Police
I live in both countries, they can be described equally
The best Police Force money can buy

<?php
/* connect select db etc */
$flat=("SELECT C.Latitude, C.Longitude FROM Cities C JOIN Countries Co ON Co.CountryId = C.CountryId JOIN Regions R ON R.RegionId = C.RegionId WHERE C.City =...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7x1ETPkZsk I'm my own grandpaw

A caveat applies
There is not enough information to provide accurate answers, to try to elicit information is the portal remotely hosted
if remote they may have a support desk Do you control the...

WYSiWYG what you see is what you get
as in "FrontPage is a wysiwyg editor"

the code sample at the top of the prior reply should be cut and pasted into 'html view' in frontpage if you use it
the...

Inline <strong><font size> crap is not used with xhtml/css
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webtoolhub.com%2F&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en css3...

Where the file is accessed by <a href='download.php?file=thisfile.pdf'>download Thisfile.pdf</a>

mysql<?php /*download.php*/
If (!$_POST['file']='') {
/* validate $_POST any amount of form...

its called CSS, cascading style sheets
a basic tutorial is http://www.w3schools.com/css/

simply you put a link in the head of each file to the stylesheet
and in the stylesheet define the look of...

server processing, the google search would be for, apache mod_rewrite
too, have index.php in the folder and link to the folder
also works when you dont want the folder directly linkable...

the javascript calls the php script on the server and writes the returned html into the same div p or other tag that the original was written
The JQuery library has good instructions and basic...

On a strictly code based critique
Tables are not used for layout, they do not display any part until the entire table is rendered. CSS positioning is used for layout
Fixed size elements body, fonts...

Dont format the date time in the database
text formatted dates are for humans to read, sql is not human does not need any of that and it makes the processing slower
sql Date, php date, unix...

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ may help you work out what to do to to speed it up

you are trying to run php from the local file system /C:/Documents and Settings/rEd_xiii21/Desktop/programming/ERDI Website Final/Duplicate of Edited Site/
that wont work, even if it is the same...

this is better<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> ...

<a href='download.php?$filename=whilemyguitar.mp3'>the beatles-while my guitar gently weeps</a>
<?php /* download.php */
if(!session_id) { $hiddenfile="../absolutepath/polkamusic.mp3"; } // evil...

My only answer, dont use any of the sql date formats, text dates are tedious to manipulate, they have to be converted to numeric for any operation which takes al lot of time and processing
a...

http://devphp.sourceforge.net/
using the portable version on a thumbdrive in customer offices
the full version on my pc

Glad it all helped, examples stick in my mind better too