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Forum: Site Layout and Usability Apr 7th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 830
Posted By autocrat
Thats basic CSS Tab menus.
Plenty of examples on line, and a few different ways of doing it.
Basically, you use css background images (either for the curved ends, to to put a curve on the corners)....
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Apr 6th, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 1,387
Posted By autocrat
Well, if you send a link to the site, I'll pop in and have a look.
sometimes it's possible to "re-organise" a little to avoid the problem anyway.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Apr 6th, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 1,387
Posted By autocrat
MAybe a little late to the party... but are you wanting some form of "opaqueness" in the image (such as a drop shadow that can be partially seen through)?

If not, save the png with index...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Nov 7th, 2007
Replies: 9
Views: 2,850
Posted By autocrat
I'm confused...
When you say "dropdown list" ... do you mean a Form Select that acts as a jump menu... or a "list" of links with CSS/JS to make them appear/disappear?


I'm not sure how SE's...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Oct 7th, 2007
Replies: 10
Views: 3,007
Posted By autocrat
Glad that it's increasing from 800 to 1024....
why only 98% though?
I set the html/body to min-width: 100.2%... which invokes the scrollbar down the side (so almost all browsers are the same view...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 30th, 2007
Replies: 10
Views: 3,007
Posted By autocrat
Those are "across the board" stats - and may not represent the "user base" for a website (think, how many 45+ users have 1200+ monitors, and how many -25 have 800???)


Still - damned good set of...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 30th, 2007
Replies: 7
Views: 16,655
Posted By autocrat
Hmmmm

Well, when loaded and not used....
Top level H bar is Black links on Red.
Hovering over them makes them White.

When hovering over a Parent, Drop downs appear.
If the child link has...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 29th, 2007
Replies: 10
Views: 3,007
Posted By autocrat
1) Technically, the "best" is the one that most of your users will have.

2) I still use 800 as the minimum (776px).

3) Do you mean Flexible or Fluid? Flexible is equal to Elastic... it shifts...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 21st, 2007
Replies: 10
Views: 2,128
Posted By autocrat
If you look at your hosting account, you sould beable to find the php stuff... there are pre-built functions/classes for things such as stats etc.
You can use those for most tings such as referer...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 21st, 2007
Replies: 10
Views: 2,128
Posted By autocrat
Okay... thread links.
You refered to such items here, and have said you are not sure how they aare made.

You currently fetch data and build little forms.
Those forms hae a detination addres (in...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 20th, 2007
Replies: 10
Views: 2,128
Posted By autocrat
FAir enough.

Basically, Flat means all repsonses are to the Original item... where as threded/tiered etc. means you can respond to the original item or no response to the origianl item.

if you...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 19th, 2007
Replies: 10
Views: 2,128
Posted By autocrat
Right, with that out of the way...
It all depends on how you built your "forums".
is it threaded? (probably)
Is it Flat/Linear, Tiered/Leveled?

How fast is it (if you have several threads of...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 19th, 2007
Replies: 10
Views: 2,128
Posted By autocrat
Okay... just for the sake of you encoutnering the problems latter...
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread88871.html
Please read that and consider making the adjustments :)
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 7th, 2007
Replies: 1
Views: 1,343
Posted By autocrat
You would need some script to do that.
ADditionally, you would need some SMS provision.

1and1 hosting provides such things... alternatively, you cansign up to such providers who should giveyou...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 2nd, 2007
Replies: 2
Views: 1,115
Posted By autocrat
I dunno, I took the approach of having tiered costs over time (capping) as some domains are registered, then some one goes and sets up a company and registers trademarks, names and designs.... then...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 31st, 2007
Replies: 2
Views: 1,115
Posted By autocrat
(No idea if this is the right place... couldn't really see anywhere suitable, sorry!)

It's been in a couple of different threads... and I'm going to bandy it around a couple of communities...

...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 25th, 2007
Replies: 6
Views: 2,137
Posted By autocrat
? phpDesigner has a bug reporter?

Must be in one of the new versions... I'm still on 2005's (I've looked at the newer ones and can't stad them).

Still, in a way I guess it isn't the tools that...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 24th, 2007
Replies: 6
Views: 2,137
Posted By autocrat
Nothing personal, but I would state not to follow ... martin5211 ... adviceo n DreamWeaver - I've found a huge number of people don't actually understand what they do because they use software that...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 24th, 2007
Replies: 3
Views: 994
Posted By autocrat
Ah, sod it - I hate being tight and wanting cash :)

Most advertising companies or online marketing companies havereally shoddy search-engine data, so finding them is a nightmare (go figure).
...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 24th, 2007
Replies: 3
Views: 994
Posted By autocrat
Okay - two things I can do for you.
For free, I can suggest that you look into advertising providers or start a sponsorship/advertising program of your own.

For a service, I can provide details...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 24th, 2007
Replies: 1
Views: 812
Posted By autocrat
Personally, I'd go through the CSS applying...
border: 2px solid red;

to each element to make sure that it is containing the children correctly.
At least that way you will be able to see what is...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 23rd, 2007
Replies: 6
Views: 2,137
Posted By autocrat
Well, if you want to display the data, it has to go somewhere.

1) Email to you, you edit the page.
2) Save to file, page loads files.
3) save to DataBase, page loads DB.

I think those are...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 17th, 2007
Replies: 20
Views: 3,471
Posted By autocrat
Well, I gave you one list all... but some others to include as...

Useful sources...
http://pmob.co.uk
www.456bereastreet.com
http://bitesizestandards.com

Examples of differing CSS for...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 15th, 2007
Replies: 20
Views: 3,471
Posted By autocrat
It happens... no matter how long you've been doing it!

the trick is to look for stupid mistakes first!
you'd be amazed how many do a minor change... then send ages wonderig why it doesn't work......
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 13th, 2007
Replies: 20
Views: 3,471
Posted By autocrat
novel!

okay... if you are in windows, you can change the option to view file Extensions... and replace whatever it is called with ".txt" or ".css".

Alternatively, if you right click on the file...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 12th, 2007
Replies: 20
Views: 3,471
Posted By autocrat
Okay... you could look around some of the threads 'till you see "cscgal" as a poster... simply click on the name (cscgal), and a little dropdown should appear... oneof the options is "send a private...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 10th, 2007
Replies: 20
Views: 3,471
Posted By autocrat
... Hosts ...

So many out there, and most of them are resellers of resellers of resellers...

Avoid "Virtual" setups - they are not only limited in capability, many are poorly setup and tend to...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 10th, 2007
Replies: 20
Views: 3,471
Posted By autocrat
Good thinking...

maybe a word with "dani" (the ever so helpfuland enlightened cscgal?)... you could maybe do a "live walkthrough" of someone coming into the area of web design, and sort of...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 8th, 2007
Replies: 20
Views: 3,471
Posted By autocrat
Fantastic!

So glad that didn't come across as "uppety", "harsh" or plain old "nasty"... (I re-read it and kind of squirmed!).

So thak you for being so understanding and showing such willingness...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 8th, 2007
Replies: 20
Views: 3,471
Posted By autocrat
Okay.. please sit back and think.

You have come to a internet community, that like many others, is built up of the professional, semi-professional, the hobbyists and the amatuers.

All the...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 8th, 2007
Replies: 3
Views: 3,458
Posted By autocrat
Okay - I'm more than a little confused by your response.

Though obviously heartfelt and sincere, I do not recollect nor see, (and I have re-read my post), anything that would have suggested any...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 7th, 2007
Replies: 3
Views: 3,458
Posted By autocrat
Okay, may cause a minor arguement - but am dying to know what others think...

Should we be using CSS to create special effects and behaviours on websites?
The whole point of CSS is apparently to...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 6th, 2007
Replies: 27
Views: 7,929
Posted By autocrat
No difference - it should always, and I mean always, be well coded, and in almost all circumstances, accessible.

I have seen so many sites with damned clever bits.... and but for ignorance or...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 5th, 2007
Replies: 6
Views: 2,203
Posted By autocrat
Technically, Frames are often considered bad for the internet.... they tend not to be SE Friendly, not particularly good to Screen/Text-Readers either.

That said, if more for a "Web-Application",...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 5th, 2007
Replies: 1
Views: 890
Posted By autocrat
Okay...
I myself have not used OSC, but I know it is heavily template driven.

There should be a Cart Link visible automatically on the default theme. if you view the source, you should beable to...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 5th, 2007
Replies: 3
Views: 1,818
Posted By autocrat
... compengr ...
No offence, but what .. MidiMagic .. has said is very true - this is no little project you hae decided to go for.

That said, so long as you have the correct tables with the...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 19th, 2007
Replies: 5
Views: 19,395
Posted By autocrat
okay -still no reply to the browers...
Does it work on Opera, what about Konqueror etc. ?

Additioanlly - that is fine for Fixed Width - what about those of us that build Dynamic sites... with no...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability May 9th, 2007
Replies: 27
Views: 7,929
Posted By autocrat
Erm, why is it that when ever I see one of those "steps you take to build a website"... SEO/SES is always near the end?

Wrong! SEO starts wit hthe first line of code, as does Validation and...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Apr 29th, 2007
Replies: 27
Views: 7,929
Posted By autocrat
So many things to choose from :)

But I'd say the most important thing I do for ALL my sites is apply a little Thought & Consideration.

I try my best to ensure it works in both 800 and 1024...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Apr 29th, 2007
Replies: 10
Views: 10,880
Posted By autocrat
Ok....This thread is almost 2 years out folks.


...Korigirl...
So you want to generate some sort of smart, clever, pretty gallery?
It's actually easier than you think - and for most things you...
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