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Re: Rundll-error loading

It appears to be related to your adsl modem.
http://startup.iamnotageek.com/srch-rundll32%20amecsa.cpl,%20RUN_DLL.html
Do you have one? lol

You can either try reinstalling the modem software, or if you're happy your pc is working fine you could use hijackthis or msconfig to stop it attempting to load.

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Re: Reduce video size

I like powerdirector
http://www.gocyberlink.com/multi/products/product_main.jsp?ProdId=4&lang=enu
But it costs a fair bit.

You could look into flash video streaming.
http://www.vitalstream.com/macromedia/index.html
At one stage I looked into it and I think I found mostly shareware products to do it with.

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Re: Padding and margins

It appears that for a div, IE in standards mode (with a strict or transitional doctype) adds padding and margins to the width.
In quirks mode, without a doctype or with an incomplete doctype, it subtracts them.

Mozilla adds them all the time.

I don't think this is the same for IE5 though. Maybe I'll test it out later.
Try testing this page with and without a doctype:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test page</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#first {
  border: 1px solid #000;
  width: 200px;
}
#second {
  border: 1px solid #000;
	padding: 50px;
  width: 200px;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="first">&nbsp;</div>
<div id="second">&nbsp;</div>
</body>
</html>

This means that for an image in IE in quirks mode, padding is simply ignored.

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Re: Padding and margins

If I read your query correctly, it's the box model problem.
As I remember it, Mozilla takes the width and adds padding and margins, whilst IE takes the width and subtracts padding and margins...
So the answer is yes and no. lol
I believe some people use a strict doctype and the problem doesn't occur.
I just nest two divs, one with the width and one with margins/padding.

I haven't tested it, but I believe patate is correct that an image shouldn't change size when you add margins...

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Re: Div percentage height, centered and scrolling... or not...

style and script tags should be in the head section of your document.
Clear up your validation errors and it should start working in more browsers.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nugit.co.uk%2F%3Fdirr%3D1Home%252F1Products%252F1DVD%2BPlayers%252F2Portable

Stylesheets should have a .css extension.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.php">
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nugit.co.uk%2F%3Fdirr%3D1Home%252F1Products%252F1DVD%2BPlayers%252F2Portable

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Re: Do I need Breadcrumbs?

No I don't think you need them - your site doesn't appear to have that many levels.
If you draw your site as a tree diagram, from what I could see every page is linked at the top level, so you'd only end up with one or two levels.
If you took a site with 5 or more levels to it, then I think you'd need breadcrumbs.

As it is, you appear to have an excellent navigation system and a neat design.
Nice work!

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Re: Making web site fill browser screen

update: working in both but with a horizontal scrollbar in FF

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Re: Making web site fill browser screen

update: working in IE, but not Firefox.

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Re: Overfloat? IE6/win?

lol
I usually use @import to hide my code from version 4 browsers, and IE5 upwards supports shorthand, so I don't bother avoiding them.

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Re: Overfloat? IE6/win?

I've split it into a top bar and a bottom bar. Hence 2 divs each.

The %'s position the corner image - this one is in the bottom right, so it's 100% accross and 100% down. The color then fills in the rest.

I guess it would work equally well with my original code.
The key change is that the images are no longer transparent, so the white area around the pink masks the pink background...

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Re: Making web site fill browser screen

Hi Mark
I've had a look at it, and I can expand the headers, footers, right tabs etc, but I can't get the main content area to expand.
Basically it's been designed with too many tables, and everything is absolutely positioned from the top right. This means you can't set widths easily on it.
I'll zip up what I've got if you like, but it's an awkward one to do.

The only real way to make it an expanding layout would be to rebuild it from the ground up.

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Re: Overfloat? IE6/win?

Do you really need a min-width on it? small screen devices like pda's render without your stylesheets, so unless someone has their browser window squashed into a tiny box, you should be ok.

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Re: Overfloat? IE6/win?

I don't have the colors right here, but see the attached zip file for the way I think I'd do it.

For some reason I've been trying to get a min-width thing to work on it - did you want that or have I got mixed up with someone else?

If you take out the hr tags (for the min-width), then it works perfectly. Otherwise it needs some tweaking.

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Re: Overfloat? IE6/win?

So which way round should the colours be?
A purple rounded rectangle on white, or a white rounded rectangle on purple?

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Re: Overfloat? IE6/win?

lol
what exactly do you want it to look like?
Do you want to make a rectangle in that purply colour with rounded corners, on a white background?
Do you want a white rectangle with rounded corners on the purplish background?
Send me a drawing if you like.

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Re: Making web site fill browser screen

I handcode all my stuff in a text editor, so the dreamweaver template isn't much use to me...
Could you create a page, zip it and send it to me?

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Re: designing with em / ex ?

actually it depends
If you're going for AAA accessibility then yes. If not, then it doesn't matter that much, since people who need to can disable your stylesheets and view it as they wish.
I'd say it's more important to get it into CSS to get that flexibility, than it is to be able to change the font size.

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Re: Making web site fill browser screen

If you post a link to a page with the template applied, or a zip of the template applied, maybe one of us can suggest something - the ability to expand and fill the screen depends on the design itself.

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Re: "add this site to your bookmarks" in firefox

This function appears to work in both:

<script type="text/javascript">
function addBookmark(title,url) {
if (window.sidebar) { 
window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url,""); 
} else if( document.all ) {
window.external.AddFavorite( url, title);
} else if( window.opera && window.print ) {
return true;
}
}
</script>

I'm using that with this link:

<a href="#"
        onmousedown="addBookmark(&#39;Williamsons Oldham&#39;,&#39;http://williamsons-oldham.co.uk/&#39;)"><img src="graphics/bookmark.gif" alt="bookmark this page" border=0 /> Bookmark this page</a>
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Re: designing with em / ex ?

Well, just make sure there's room in the layout (i.e. specify columns wider than they need to be) for some text expansion, and you should be fine. If you show us the particular page you're having difficulty with then maybe someone can give you some specific help...

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Re: Overfloat? IE6/win?

Is this something like what you want?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Page title</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#tl {
  background: url(tl.gif) 0 0 no-repeat;
	border: 1px solid #000;
}
#tr {
  background: url(tr.gif) 100% 0 no-repeat;
}
#br {
  background: url(br.gif) 100% 100% no-repeat;
}
#bl {
  background: url(bl.gif) 0 100% no-repeat;	
	height: 300px;
}
-->
</style>

</head>
<body>
<div id="tl"><div id="tr"><div id="br"><div id="bl">
testing
<hr style="width: 300px;" />

</div></div></div></div>
</body>
</html>

I've used the css background property to create the corners. I'm not 100% sure what effect you're trying to create, so it may need some tweaking.

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Re: Overfloat? IE6/win?

Are you looking for the 'min-width' property, which is unsupported by IE but has numerous work arounds?
http://www.doxdesk.com/software/js/minmax.html

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Re: designing with em / ex ?

You can set widths using ems, but what exactly is your problem?

If you set font sizes for particularly problematic areas in px then they don't change size in IE6.

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Re: accessability?

You can read my accessibility rant on my CSS controlled site if you like. ;)

Note particularly the 5th quicktip - CSS for layout where possible - therefore it's not essential, though it makes it easier.

If you find me a tables based site that looks like it can't be done with CSS I'll tell you whether it can. :lol:

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Re: Recommendations for Web Site creation

No problem - best of luck with your projects.

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Re: Recommendations for Web Site creation

I code all my html by hand, in software that is absoltely free, so I can't help you with the editor.

Forum software I suggest you get something like www.phpbb.com - all premade for you.

Domain names, well there's www.godaddy.com or www.oneandone.co.uk - both cheap.

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Re: Cross browser CSS

yeah what's happening is that IE subtracts margins and padding from the width, wheras the official box model (as used by Mozilla) adds them.

So what you need to do is nest two divs, i.e.
<div><div>

then apply your margin-top to the top one, and your height to the second one.

That then avoids the box model totally.

There are numerous hacks for getting IE to read one value and Moz the other, but there's no guarantee on their effectiveness with future browsers.

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Re: Cross browser CSS

No problem, but in that case you might get a box model problem in moz/IE - check it out, if it appears as different heights let me know and I'll tell you how to fix it.

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Re: Cross browser CSS

on div.center change the absolute positioning to be margins

div.center{
height: 400px;
margin-top: 100px;
margin-left: 160px;
margin-right: 160px;
background-color: #ffff66;
}

That should work.

IE doesn't support positioning from opposite sides.

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Re: Online designer products

What's the object of the questions?

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Re: Need Help Getting Reader on to my Web Page

This usually works:
<a href="file.zip">link</a>
I think there's a better way, but I think it involves altering the server settings.
If you're using dreamweaver or frontpage or one of those editors where you don't see the actual code, then insert a hyperlink in the normal way and just point it at a zip file.
Have fun!
Dave

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Re: Daniweb navigation issues

Thanks Dani!

Well, it is getting a bit complicated. There are an awful lot of levels to the site, but if they're all attracting the requisite number of visitors then I don't see a problem.

I'm not sure I'm a fan of the colors - the original daniweb colors just go together too well I guess.

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Re: Adjustable position X & Y via CSS

have two nested elements, one inside the other. Centralise the outer one then put the right margin on the inner one.

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Re: Daniweb navigation issues

I'm sorry, I don't care enough to read all that. Do you have an executive summary?

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Re: specifying one site's address icon to another site.

I haven't tried this, but I think it should work.
First go find the icon you want
http://www.cingular.com/favicon.ico
save it somewhere convenient

then in Internet Explorer:
open favourites
right click on the one you want
click properties
on the 'web document' tab choose 'change icon'
click browse
find the file you want to use

Can't find the option in Firefox tho.

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Re: XP with a mind of it's own

check your msconfig (that is, go to run on the start menu and type msconfig) startup - see if you have anything stray in there.

Beyond that, is the pc excessively hot? have you run scandisk?

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Re: computer reformatting

can you finish reformatting it? what are you using to reformat it?

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Re: Lost HDD

what make and model are the drives? some fail in odd ways

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Re: specifying one site's address icon to another site.

so you don't own either site, but you just want the favicon for one to appear for the other?

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Re: Lost HDD

sounds like the bios isn't taking your changes properly... try updating your bios by downloading the latest version from your mobo manufacturer.

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Re: Lost HDD

sounds like you haven't changed your bios settings to reflect the new hard drive arrangements. Have you?

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Re: Lost HDD

unplug one cdrom, one hard drive, one floppy, - basically make it so there's only the motherboard and the hard drive, together with the devices that you will need to see if it's working.

Try a few of the different connectors on the power supply to see if any of the cables are damaged.

When you say they used to work together, is that in this machine?

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Re: Lost HDD

So did they use to work together, have they suddenly stopped working, or is this the first time you've tried them in this system?
What happens if you disconnect the power and data cables from everything else in the system, and just boot with one of them?

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Re: Floating Menus: I have a problem, can you help me figure it out?

Same spec as Dance Instructor, but I noticed the page took some time to load even on broadband, and it didn't work till the page was fully loaded. Even then it was slightly out of line. But it was usable.

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Re: Image appears on some browsers, doesn't on others

Hi
You need to check those files have been uploaded to the server (that's the logo), and the other one is probably just the way Microsoft have coded it. Try one of the convertors:
http://www.webdevstore.com/tools/frontpage.htm
http://www.suodenjoki.dk/us/productions/articles/tidy_integration_article.htm
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Re: Safe Menu's ?

well it works...
At the end of the day you can't cater for everyone, but you can do your best.
I have netscape 7.2, not 6. What does it do? Would it still work if the top level links provided access to sub-menus on new pages?

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Re: How do i load a image on the same page ?

or you can use my simple accessible iframe implementation
http://www.emdevelopments.co.uk/demo/iframe/

Replace the numbers with your pictures.

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Re: Safe Menu's ?

For your menu, the typical method is a row of links for each section across the bottom of the page. You may have seen that sort of thing somewhere.
If you look at http://www.klproductions.com/webcomponents.html you can see a neat implementation of the breadcrumbs thing.

As to includes... If your server supports PHP or SSI you can use those to include blocks of code. So say your drop down menu code is the same on every page, you can use an include (either php or ssi) and have the menu in a separate file. When you call that file with your include, it's contents are included in the page that is served to the user.
The separate file will only contain the block of code that deals with the menu - it won't be a html file in it's own right.

http://www.webdevfaqs.com/php.php#include

When you're developing locally it makes previewing difficult, but you can either install some web server software on your pc, or you can get html-kit from www.chami.com and install the php extension.

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Re: tutoring for CSS ?

basically html transitional lets you get away with sloppy code, html strict means you have to do more via css to replace the attributes that they have removed. No real hardship!

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