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Forum: Site Layout and Usability 9 Days Ago
Replies: 3
Views: 794
Posted By almostbob
the technologies that allow fantastic effects have a very large trade off in load time, no-one sees the effects becuase they click away
Javascript as noted by Caffeine above is an exception, what...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability 9 Days Ago
Replies: 4
Views: 393
Posted By almostbob
http://www.freefind.com/
Forum: Site Layout and Usability 19 Days Ago
Replies: 2
Views: 537
Posted By almostbob
image placement is easy with css
css can be an external file that all the files on a site reference, great way to set the style for the entire site, then should you wish, you only need to make a...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability 20 Days Ago
Replies: 5
Views: 2,993
Posted By almostbob
stream webcam?
piece of cake, using YAWcam (http://www.yawcam.com/) at each building. (property manager)
surprising how 'slip and fall' occurences stop when webcams over the carpark and pathways...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Nov 13th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 686
Posted By almostbob
actually none. webmaster is an admin
to be an author as well needs languages
html for sure
asp/php depending on host support, to give life to pages
and a willingness to drag yourself thru a mire...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Oct 30th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 906
Posted By almostbob
make yourself a page
a really enormous wad of text
images are insignificant as jpg and png are already optimized and nobody should be bmp-ing
make 2
one with gzip enabled, one without
compare...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Oct 23rd, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 1,191
Posted By almostbob
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.htm?www.yoursite.com...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Oct 20th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 1,278
Posted By almostbob
the current W3C reccommendations are device resolution independent, Ems %age dimensions adjust to all screen sizes and user preferences
Web editors that can layout in % are freely available
Web...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Oct 15th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 1,229
Posted By almostbob
I dont have an answer, but I'm fascinated by the question
I remade my tables hard
I did a lot of find and replace<!--almost-->
<table> <div class='outer'>
</table> </div>
<tr> <div class='row'>...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Oct 13th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 1,518
Posted By almostbob
bringing it to current best practice would help
fixed width central column looks ridiculous on a widescreen monitor, creates horizontal scroll bars opn a small monitor or small browser window
font...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Oct 8th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 1,517
Posted By almostbob
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...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 25th, 2009
Replies: 12
Views: 3,888
Posted By almostbob
apache Mod_gzip mod_deflate will compress on the fly if enabled in apache or php headers
and browser accept headers are there

best speed tweak has been,
given that transparent.gif is a 1*1px...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 22nd, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 1,084
Posted By almostbob
No, actually I don't

read the FAQ on the Host
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 18th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 1,397
Posted By almostbob
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ may help you work out what to do to to speed it up
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 15th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 1,397
Posted By almostbob
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<!-- @(#) $Id$ -->
<head>...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Sep 2nd, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 476
Posted By almostbob
add to the above, miss-spelled includes case-sensitive servers where this.jpg may not be the same as this.JPG
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 16th, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 486
Posted By almostbob
the mobile version, of my site is at the subdomain m.mysite.com
this codescrap first in www mysite.com/index.php redirects
<?php $mobile = "http://m.mysite.com/";
if(preg_match('/Windows...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jul 31st, 2009
Replies: 11
Views: 846
Posted By almostbob
get a google webmaster tools account,
Follow all the directions
I get my sitemaps made from the sitemap tool at http://www.auditmypc.com/
Google have a good set of howtos to tell google how to...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jul 30th, 2009
Replies: 11
Views: 846
Posted By almostbob
resubmit your sitemap to google, to update all old links
tell google not to index images
use apache mod_rewrite to redirect all direct calls to images to the homepage.
put a sitesearch widget on...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jul 28th, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 637
Posted By almostbob
do not full screen the layout software
drag the edges of the window to a 1024*762 size
design in the window

or better ::
Use current W3C recommended best practice:
design the screen layout in...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jul 23rd, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 82,437
Posted By almostbob
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jul 14th, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 951
Posted By almostbob
Portable-apps versions of Firefox, Opera, Avant and several other browsers, made to be installed on thumb drives so do not write to the registry or try to become default browsers, installed to thumb...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jul 9th, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 25,845
Posted By almostbob
Layout programs do not produce optimised code
they can do many things, but only the way they were programmed to do
often thimes the best result is to go into "code view" after the page layout is...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 25th, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 690
Posted By almostbob
<style type='text/css'>
<!--
hr { width:80%; color :#ddeedd; background:#ddeedd; }
.hr1 { width:50%; color:#00ff00; background:#00ff00;text-align:center; }
.hr2 { width:75%; text-align:right; }...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 24th, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 690
Posted By almostbob
it couldnt be as simple as the foldernames, Catagories categories, could it?
feel free to slap me by proxy if its a stupid response
...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 23rd, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 2,630
Posted By almostbob
Hierarchical : tree structure each page is accessible from its parent(s) and child(ren), by link
webbed: multiple links and pathways exist from page to other pages regardlesss of the position in the...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 21st, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 825
Posted By almostbob
Dont have a safari browser installed,
apple wont 'play nice' with the other 5 browsers,
even MS 'plays nice'r than apple
push your site through http://www.browsershots.org (blatant plug) and see...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 21st, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 690
Posted By almostbob
What website, of the billion/trillion or so on the web, which one is yours,
what code isnt working, in what language,
psychic assistance is much more difficult.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 20th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 825
Posted By almostbob
screen shots in IE FF opera maxthon avant

look pretty close to me, problem is, exactly? I might be missing it?

Lose the autoplay video,
it'll kill you in search engines
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 15th, 2009
Replies: 9
Views: 966
Posted By almostbob
If you can make the images used for buttons scaleable, the image will be viewable at all screen resolutions, it will take a little manual editing of the frontpage code.
Frontpage code is very...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 13th, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 461
Posted By almostbob
I would be extremely displeased at any site that attempted to manipulate my hardware.
My choice
That being said, there are a number of coupon sites that limit printing to 1, by a flash script, dont...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 11th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 1,084
Posted By almostbob
It is possible, check the FAQ of the host,
It depends on whether the host permits it,
more than is it possible,
there may be a fee (everything has a fee)
My host ( in .ca not .uk ) allows...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 7th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 735
Posted By almostbob
asp for windows hosting
php for *nix hosts

LiKe Macs & PCs (windows & ASP are the Mac of the server world)
about 2% think that .asp is the best thing since sliced bread
the other 98% just go on...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 4th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 604
Posted By almostbob
post the 'wrong' menu code, its easier to edit than compose new
and one of the gurus will be able to fix it
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 3rd, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 890
Posted By almostbob
Read the instructions by Google, in the prior link,
Google explain the use and submission of sitemaps
Nothing any one else has to say really matters, does it
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 1st, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 890
Posted By almostbob
Links,
your content has to be good enough that other sites post links to it
the more sites that link to you, the more often search spiders will find reference to your site and the higher it will...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 1st, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 890
Posted By almostbob
Google webmaster tools (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard)
has a very good section on how to get indexed, and get good rankings
do not use a link exchange, they are negative in...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability May 28th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 735
Posted By almostbob
They list both in the $9.96/month category, and have a fairly helpful helpdesk,
even though I'm not a subscriber to their service there was immediate email reply.
help desk rep said " have the...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability May 22nd, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 900
Posted By almostbob
google webmaster tools (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard)
google webmaster help (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/)
read the hints, from the people blamed for search...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability May 21st, 2009
Replies: 15
Views: 4,068
Posted By almostbob
an old, form of html gives font sizes as <small><large> etc
directly below the //change font size you will see the code includes <small>some text </small> to set font size.
The script is old, and...
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