Posts by almostbob

post your buitton code,

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

I feel a little petty

2oz pack of jellybelly beans

and would appreciate a job for my youngest

read the javascript, it makes perfect sense to me :)
browse the w3c javascript tutorials for better help, array processing, and the dom
most I have used for so long I dont think about it any more, but I'll try
df expands to document.forms.[subscript] where subscript is the position of the form field, by order of its creation in the html code
the hidden field for the password is the first form field subscript 0
the input field is second, subscript 1

<script type="text/javascript">
var k=0;
var df;
//onload monitor document.forms[1] (input)
window.onload=function() {
df=document.forms[0];
//onkeyup[1] (input)
df[1].onkeyup=function() {
// read each character position in [1] 
// write it to the same position in [0] (hidden password)
df[0].value+=df[1].value.charAt(k);
k++;
// obfuscate [1](input)
for(c=0;c<df[1].value.length;c++) {
df[1].value=df[1].value.replace(df[1].value.charAt(c),'#');
}}}</script>

rewrite rule should redirect any call to sitemap.xml to sitemap.php if mod_rewrite is compiled in to the apache server, by default it is, but...
just change the second filename to ''whatever your script is''.php

Your xml script with php in it, will have to be a .php file for the parser to run on it, use php headers to set the output to the expected text/xml

there would have to be a foreach somewhere in your array processing to get each element, I think

outsourcing the image is one way of increasing connection numbers
the http protocol limits the number of connections (2) to each domain,
exactly how i dont know, but it can be finessed

images on a subdomain pics.mysite.com
scripts on a different subdomain scr.mysite.com
text/php/html files on www.mydomain.com

the http parser can then make 2 connections to each subdomain, a total of 6(http max) and pages download faster without offsite hosting of the images
--edit--
found a link http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-speed-subdomains.html

10px is huge on a 17inch 640*480 display
10px is readable on a 17inch 800*600 display
10px is small on a 17inch 1024*768 display
10px is invisible on a 17inch 1280 * 1440 display
and occupies the whole screen on a blackberry

px are not the W3C recommended dimension for screen display
ems and % adjust to screen settings and are the recommended dimensions
Dreamweaver is not a particularly good choice as a layout tool
Incidentally
on my monitor
30px, is 2.4mm high,
and the 950px body, would occupy 44% of the 2160px screen, ? ?

apache mod_rewrite in the .htaccess file
any calls for sitemap.xml ,,,

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml? sitemap.php

so just make your php script a php script

that's the reason to post the code
your code,
not the library code
even though the library code IS as likely to be -poor

Inline tags <b><font><u><i> etc are, at best, frowned upon, in xhtml, html4 and above and should be replaced by css
<h anything> styled to your preference, is better than <b>old

Post the code
why expect somebody else
to go to your site
hash there way through the links to find your javascripts,
repair them
and post the answers

and in 'other browsers' the css may not work
mozilla dom and IE dom use different,
there may be some failure
this is a javascript for setting visibility in both major dom

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
(document.getElementById) ? dom = true : dom = false;
function hideIt(id) {
 if (dom) {document.getElementById(id).style.visibility='hidden';}
 if (document.layers) {document.layers[id].visibility='hide';} }
function showIt() {
 if (dom) {document.getElementById(id).style.visibility='visible';}
 if (document.layers) {document.layers[id].visibility='show';} }
//-->
</script>

<a href='*' onclick='hideIt("thisdiv")' >Hide thisdiv</a>
<div id='thisdiv'>this text should hide aor reappear onclicking the link</div>
<a href='*' onclick='showIt("thisdiv")' >Show thisdiv</a>

and it may not work all the time either, (damn safari)

And of course the other thing to consider with a 100% flash site is what are you going to do if people don't have flash installed? Are you going to have a non-flash version of your site for people without flash? or are you simply going to write them off?

Good point
large corporates, many of who use flash in their websites block flash from being installed on pc on the lan
the big dollar customers won't see the fancy work
and may block the site entirely because of flash
I know the control I have over the access point between my lan and the www,
I do it to annoy my kids

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

Single best,,
Read how-tos from Google, Google101
they are beginner instructions,
start at the beginning,
so much of what is on SEO reccommendation sites, is exactly what google say do not .

for me it is 3am
corrected text should read
The nocache code previously listed should be inserted in "page.php" not "getImageFromDatabase.php" else that code is output to the browser

<script type='text/javascript'> language= is deprecated

Have messed this up b4
If the nocache code is getting displayed in the browser in the output window
Assuming the page displayed is "page.php"
page.php includes the line <img src="getImageFromDatabase.php" alt='database blob image'> or something similar
The nocache code previously listed should be inserted in the <head> of "page.php" not "getImageFromDatabase.php" else that code is output to the browser as well as (or instead of) the image
the nocache code should work

MSN search
died because it could not compete with googles market share, replaced by
Live search
died because it could not compete with googles market share, replaced by
Bing search
will die because it could not compete with googles market share, replaced by
whatever is next

Yahoo search
died because it is ineffiecient, dead but wont lie down

ASk hasnt quite died yet, and such unique results, good going guys

Forum for Bing, wait a while - wont be needed

SEspiders are good but
consider the worst case
If the search engine misses something, hiccups, when spidering your relative links and does not record a baseref
then your hard written pages end up linked as ./mypage at google http://www.google.com/mypage.html not http://www.mysite/mypage.html
and you get KOed in your search engine ranking

Google101, the webmaster tools help screens have a long dissertation on why NOT to use relative links

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 just a standard text field, and you manually mask the input with a javascript event handler (onKeyup/onkeypress, probably). You could even declare the field as type="password" in the HTML, then have your JS function modify the DOM to change its type. I'd be a little wary about doing this, though; the browser implementation is almost certainly pretty solid, and circumventing established security functionality to roll your own is rarely a good idea.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script type="text/javascript">
var k=0;
var df;
window.onload=function() {
df=document.forms[0];
df[1].onkeyup=function() {
df[0].value+=df[1].value.charAt(k);
k++;
for(c=0;c<df[1].value.length;c++) {
df[1].value=df[1].value.replace(df[1].value.charAt(c),'#');
 }
 }
 }
</script>
</head>
<body>
<noscript><div>Without javascript enabled you will be unable to login</div></noscript>
<form action="http://www.google.com/">
<div>
<input type="hidden" name="password">
<input type="text">
<input type="submit" value="submit password">
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

It is a bad idea
repeated :: it is a bad idea
each browser user expects the character that their browser uses as a mask
dont mess with it

Many people are fixated on high SERP position but I and many others advocate focusing on the quality of your content rather than designing your page for maximum SERP results.

Great comment,
comparing current search results with the practices of prior years, and looking at the wayback machine
there are huge changes in algorithms used,
it wont be long till pages designed solely to maximise SERP are a negative impact and lessen SERP

"one warning" is always, for direct entered html, 'utf-8 assumed', just in case a non-translateable code is used

special purpose fields like the ICRA ratings system end up in meta tags

Tea and GirlScout cookies
the mint choc ones

^ Nope
< prefers Marital arts :)
V really does martial arts?

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

Again, Google have a pretty coherent statement about why you should submit your site for to the addurl page, http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=70897&hl=en and why you should submit a sitemap,

Sitemaps
Submit a Sitemap to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover.

and why you should get a webmaster tools account for your site
All the **bovine fecal expletive deleted** posted that you should do nothing and let google find your site on its own, is exactly that,
Google very obviously know what google want from site owners, and give instructions,
Google call it Google 101
What I think,
he thinks,
they over there think,
really does not matter a ** expletive deleted **
when Google have 99%(exageration maybe) search engine share, then they make the rules, following them is pretty easy

The w3.org validator won't allow trying to validate it's own pages

That seems kind of suspicious. I never tried that

common sense,
what better way to DOS a site would there be than have it endlessly validating itself, so you exclude self references
same as most disable the current page from menus, coz its pointless

Well there wasnt any mention of Java before, that complicates things to me.
javascript some,
all I know about java is to point you at http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum9.html

I use it to keep my logo in the bottom right corner of the page as .logo { top: auto; left: auto; bottom: 2px; right: 1px; position: fixed;} You may have to set either top or bottom to a measure to fix it in place, its been a while since I thought about it,
set either top or bottom to 100px as a test

Deleted by MIB

The object is not to die for your country but to make the other **expletive deleted** die for his."
George S. Patton (US Army)

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 didnt, I like left:auto;right:0; better to put the menu on the right side of the page where it doesnt matter not sure about text flow around the menu, dont have a menu to test it on */
ul#navigation li { list-style: none; background-color: #039; border-top: solid 1px #039; text-align: left; margin: 0; }
ul#navigation li a { display: block; text-decoration: none; padding: .25em; border-bottom: 1px solid #3399FF; border-right: 1px solid #3399FF; }
a:link, a:visited { color: #FFFFFF; }
a:hover, a:active { color: #000000; } 
a:hover { background-color: #fff; }
p a:link, p a:visited { color: #000; }

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: GraublauWeb;
   src: url("GraublauWeb.eot"); }
<![endif]-->

http://webfonts.info/wiki/index.php?title=%40font-face_support_in_Internet_Explorer

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 will appear in your conversations, and younger (damn) people will roll their eyes about.
Put off reaching 30, and dont join the invisibles

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 of competig technologies to accomplish whatever unspecified task you plan for this website
dont reinvent the wheel, there are scripts for masny applications prewritten that do work, and integrate well

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 Grande"), url("fonts/GraublauWeb.otf") 
format ("opentype"); }

http://webfonts.info/ font-face browser support details on browser differences

apache mod_rewrite in .htaccess

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml? makesitemap.php

sitemap generated from the database whenever anything looks for a sitemap

the rar file contains text only, but yes it would be silly to take my word for it,
google.co.uk/search?q=leaked+UK+postal+database
if you prefer to follow the links
it is a large 230MB text file, that takes some time to open in even a fast editor

details lost in prior post, went something like

In US Au and others post codes relate to areas not streets so you cant get a street name from the postcode
in UK Can and others post code refers to a street, or to part of a long street, so the postcode can provide other details
the publicly available(free) database is limited in scope, and the lookup tool is robot resistant
the database is altered at regular intervals with creation and amendment and deletion of postal codes, so the lookup detail is onlly as good as the date of the database

first few lines of the text file are

PZ_Postcode,PZ_IntroductionDate,PZ_GridRefEast,
PZ_GridRefNorth,PZ_County,PZ_District,PZ_Ward,
PZ_UserType,PZ_GridStatus,PZ_Country,PZ_WardStatus,
PZ_NHS_Code,PZ_NHS_Region,PZ_Long,PZ_Lat,PZ_OSRef,
PZ_Update
"AB101AA","20070339","39420","80630","00","QA","MH","1","1","179","1","SN9","S00",-2.097472,57.147616,"NJ9420006300","08/07/09 00:00:00"
"AB101AF","19951239","39410","80640","00","QA","MH","1","1","179","1","SN9","S00",-2.099127,57.148513,"NJ9410006400","08/07/09 00:00:00"
"AB101AG","19951239","39420","80630","00","QA","MH","1","1","179","1","SN9","S00",-2.097472,57.147616,"NJ9420006300","08/07/09 00:00:00"
"AB101AH","19951239","39430","80630","00","QA","MH","1","1","179","1","SN9","S00",-2.095819,57.147617,"NJ9430006300","08/07/09 00:00:00"
"AB101AJ","19980739","39410","80630","00","QA","MH","0","1","179","1","SN9","S00",-2.099125,57.147615,"NJ9410006300","08/07/09 00:00:00"

not so much street names, but great for google mapping

Lost some details of the post, damn edits
In UK Canada Yes
In US Au no

for the uk get the database to import to a sql table or red from perl
here
http://88.80.16.63/leak/uk-post-codes-2009.bz2
or buy it from the post office

Yes
http://www.baraha.com/

seance
incense not the candle thing the :@ angry one
seine

Elephant

I find quirks mode causes problems it renders very differently in different browsers, and goes invisible in some.
I know the code I write works in my browser, and thumbdrive versions of other browsers.
The quickest way to find if code works is to test it in lots of browsers,
I push BrowserShots to do so, major screw ups have blankscreens, bad displays or error messages in the returned screenshots.
Valid code, gives less screwups in real browsers
Valid code with no fixed sizes for elements (ems %), except graphic elements that actually are fixed size (<img>), even display very similar in different browsers and different OS different resolutions

dont use the code off that site its Crap
no dtd
parameters dont exist
tables are outdated
parameter values should be quoted
This site is a mashup of the worst that they could copy from somebody else

<html><HEAD><TITLE>Welcome to Getref.com</TITLE>
<link href="style/stylesnew.css" type='text/css' rel='stylesheet'>
</head>
<body bottomMargin=0 leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 rightMargin=0>
<table height=520 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=900 align=center border=0>
<tr>
<td width=900 height=20>
<table cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%">
<tr>
<td><img height=20 src="img/basepage/topleftcorner.gif"></td>
<td class=toptopborder>&nbsp;</td>
<td><img height=20 src="img/basepage/toprightcorner.gif"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td vAlign=top align=left>
<table height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=900 bgColor=white border=0>
<tr height=136>
<td class=topleftborder></td>
<td class=topbglogin vAlign=top bgColor=white>
<table cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0>
<tr>
<td>
<table cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%">
<tr>
<td align=left width="33%" colspan=3><img hspace=15 src="img/basepage/Getref002.gif"></td> 
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0>
<tr>
<td align='center'>
<a href='purchaseadvertising.asp?position=11'><img src='img/110x40forsalebanner.gif' border=0></a>
</td>
<td align='center'>
<a href="http://www.partnerwithpaul.com/go/21425" target="_blank"><img src="img/TopRightButton.gif" width="110" height="60" border="0" /></a>
</td>
</tr>
<!--<tr>
<td align='center'>
<a href='purchaseadvertising.asp?position=13'><img src='img/110x40forsalebanner.gif' border=0></a>
</td>
<td align='center'>
<a href='http://www.cool-freebies.co.uk' target='_new'><img src='img/MiddleRightButton.png' alt='image' title='Free Banner by Bannersketch.com' border='0'></a>
</td>
</tr> -->
<tr>
<td align='center'>
<a href='http://gifts.freebiejeebies.co.uk/87352' target='_new'><img src='img/LowerLeftButton.gif' border=0></a> 
</td>
<td align='center'>
<a href='http://www.apple.freebiejeebies.co.uk/116806' target='_new'><img src='img/LowerRightButton.jpg' border=0></a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width=60px></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td class=toprightborder></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class=whiteleftborder></td>
<td vAlign=top align=left height="100%">
<table height=275 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><Tbody>
<tr></tr>
<tr height="100%">
<td>
<table height="100%" cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=5 width="100%" 
 align=center bgColor=white border=0>
<Tbody>
<tr>
<td vAlign=top align=middle width="70%">
<table class=details height="100%" cellSpacing=0 
 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0>
<Tbody>
<tr>
<td width=9><img height=23 …

Dont use fixed sizes, the W3C recommended screen layout is % and ems. the site looks weird on 2400 widescreen. about 1/4 width
show the customized css code for comment,
there are some css mavens here

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 mess up :) ) browsers
if the site displays right in the target browsers, the html/css errors dont matter so much

Standard test beds
http://websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ Speed tweaks http://validator.w3.org/ html check http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ css check http://demo.opera-mini.net/demo.html?www.yoursite.com handheld http://www.browsershots.org other browsers

many problems (if present) will show

my db is simple, numeric data only, but i went here, MYSQL Charsets to find out how to display other character sets, it was complicated, thats when I decided to set numeric tables (chickened out)

write the descriptions into <divs> with different ID, not the same id visibility hidden
then for the onclick event change the visibility of the div to inline or block

<img src='thisimg.jpg' width='216' height='136' onclick='document.getElementbyid("thisdescr").style.visibility="inline";setwaittime("document.getElementbyid(\"thisdescr\").style.visibility=\"hidden\"",5000);'><div id='thisdescr' style='visibility:hidden;'>File Name - thisimg.jpg<br> File Size 15KB</div>

unchecked code thought process