Posts by roryt

Like Matt said they are only gonna be worth money if you managed to get something like wait.com or what.com not just random letters. You might make a few dollars but if you want to make hundreds or thousands you are better off looking for longer domains that might actually mean something to someone.

However, luckily for you the first one of those domains has still not been taken!!!;)

several poor antidisestablishmenterianistic losers, filled with MONKS, exploding.

a giant snail

power --> king

I fill your memory stick with useful information such as when the world is going to end and give it back.

I put in hob nob

Also, if people don't want their im details to be displayed they can just take them off. The whole register barrier isn't really very big anyway, you can tell that by how many people have just signed up and never posted.

The fact that you are giving the information to people who may not want it makes it spam. It is also giving free advertisement to someone

I still can't tell whether you want to rotate an ad or a image?

If it is an image there are alot of codes on the web but this one may help you:

Put the following code where you would like the image to appear:

<script type="text/javascript" src="rand.js">

Then save the following javascript as "rand.js":

// JavaScript Document

var mess = new Array('<img src="pathtoimage.jpg" alt="IMAGE TItle" name="Name" width="276" height="181"/>','<img src="image_path.jpg" alt="Image Title" name="NAME" width="274" height="181"/>');
var max = mess.length;
var num = Math.floor((Math.random() * max));
document.writeln(mess[num]);

There are only two images here but you can use as many as you like, just seperate by comma.

Hope that helps you.

CSCGAL comes to the recue....

It is pretty funny when you answer someones question that is at the top of a thread when someone has bumped it up by posting another question and you realise that it is about 2 years old....

I have heard that daniweb now has a css code snippet. It is a bit of a long one as well. (i couldn't think of anything that was small that was interesting);)

If you like firefox why not just stick with it. However, the best thing to do is type that code into google. By taking a quick look I think it could possibly be to do with a lack of RAM access but you need to just search for the code yourself.

I never liked the GIMP so I decided I would try and beat it with photoshop ;). I managed to get a gif that is less than 6kb. Obviously perfect quality. I can tell that iamthwee is probably gonna come back with a gif that is about 2kb now.

You could also go for my png file which is slightly smaller still. They might be worth using. I would stick clear of the photo on the background, you want to make the website professional and so just look at any pro website and guess what you notice...

have that red

Try clicking on the UK flag at the bottem of the page... ;)/quote]

I think I prefered the french version because that way I didn't get insults I could understand :(

healthy --> exercise

How did you slip that one in there with out me seeing. Your a sneeky one happygeek. Or maybe it is because I only have one eye.......not really. Sorry

Exactly, I have to have the latest and best thing! There is no doubt in my mind about that. lol

But the odd thing is that css isn't listed in the code snippets library... that's probably why he requested it.

That is why, because it isn't in the code library.

Hint hint Rory :)

I posted a tutorial on styling text fields the other day. Sorry it wasn't a code snippet. I will try and think of one and post it;)

Aren't people on this forum clever and evil. I would never thought of putting it in a different thread and hoping it would get moved.

I can see why it would effect the forum growth.

I think he may be referring to the ability to edit a posting? Which did used to be there but became time limited after one chap threw a wobbly and edited away all the content of his blog in a hissy fit.

No I was refering to the preview bit. I can understand why you would do that for the edit thing though.

Happygeek, you obviously do alot of blogging on daniweb wouldn't you be interested in a preview feature?

I mean it isn't anything major but it is nice just to see what it looks like before you submit. Just an idea, thanks for the quick response

with the clown

it must have

lurking in the

Hi,

I wondered if anyone could tell me why the preview feature has been taken out of the blogging system?

I hadn't noticed it before but I went to preview my blog entry a minute ago and the button wasn't there. I was actually really suprised and confused.

Cheers

Just an idea:

Many forums stop you from posting any threads until you have say 10 posts. The only problem I can think of (it is quite a big problem) is that there is a high number of interesting support requests on a users 1st post. Like I said just an idea.

I have been looking for something like this for so long.

Now, I know there isn't really strict coloring for css but is there anyway we could have a code property for it?

and fled for

Ouch....

Any thoughts on my idea of a daniweb team?

and left this

Fortunately I have Firefox, here's how DaniWeb looks when AdBlock and Filterset.G plugins are running. Neat, eh?

I couldn't live without it.

Definition of Live - To take part in fun and effective discussion and other activities on the internet ;)

and had one

I use your gin to fuel my body because of my lack of water and you are left with the bottle.

I put in a bottle of gin to replace ~s.os~'s.

Then later we

to follow taxis

eat it--> Sprouts ....eerrrr

you get some of these magnets (i got some for christmas and they are really cool, check out some of the videos)

I put in an Aqua Blaster

Following a sentence

Are you sure you have gone through the full installation progress. I think your system will have rebooted twice to this point. If you have finished the installation properly you have a strange problem. Have you definately got the latest version and have you let IE7 go through your firewall? This is the obvious reason why it would not let you open web pages.

That's called Dual booting. This should help you http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic9371.html

Alien --> ET

(i think we have been on this subject before)

I have been told that unless you have some basic knowledge of databases and server-side script it is a bit hard for you to do. I would still advise you to try your luck in the ASP/PHP forums though. They might be feeling more helpful than my friend was;)

Although forms are one of the most boring elements of any website, styling them can be a dangerous business. All too often it is forgotten that the way a form looks will impact greatly upon what the user uses it for. Change the style too drastically and the user might not recognize it as a form at all. In this tutorial you will learn how to style the text field element just enough to make it look good but without ever detracting from the fact that it has to be easily recognizable as a text field from a form.

You will require the following software before you begin:Graphics editor
Text editor
You must create your graphic first, which needs to be a shadow on a white background. Importantly, the object that the shadow is coming from must not be visible. The image should be 1*25px with a white background.

You must also create a new HTML file, within which you need a form and then a text field. Your html should look like this:

<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Styling a text field</title>
</head>
 
<body>
<fieldset><legend>Text Field Effects</legend>
 
<form action="" method="get">
<input name="Search" type="text" value="Search" maxlength="200" />
</form>
</fieldset>
 
</body>
</html>

You now have to add a class to this text field, which you could do using the "selector" "input" but …

Surely a web chicken would:

The web chicken crosses the road and forgets that it has.

Great jokes though

You may like to try posting this in the PHP or ASP forums because what you are doing is a bit more than just standard html. If you don't know php or asp and don't really want to learn I can suggest something like www.netvibes.com which is a superb customizable web page which you can save to your account on their website. Just take a look. Logically what you have got to do is set up a database which will have fields for each part of your page. Your wife will then submit the form and it will write her entry to the database. The server side code will then call the field and display it. Unfortunately I don't know php well enough to help you. If you keep checking back I might be able to get you a reply from a friend.

I hope this helps you a bit.

BBC Web Design Competition

The BBC launched a web design competition to redesign their frontpage for them a while back. I stumbled on it today. The reason I am posting is because I was quite suprised to see the poor designs submitted to this competition. You can see them at the link above. I wondered what you guys thought.

I also thought what would be cool is the next time one of these competitions comes up we could have a Daniweb submission. In this way I doubt it would actually be possible not to win. The only problem is the time. If anyone is interested in working in some kind of team to do this in the future under the name Daniweb (if that is alright with the queen herself).

Your thoughts please....

Cheers

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a stylish looking content box for your website. Before you start, however, you will need to have two custom patterns which should each be from a 5*5px image that just has a pencil line drawn diagonally across it. You need to create one of these with the pencil line color #000000 and one with #1b9a1b.

1) In Photoshop create a new document, sized 900*900px, and with a transparent background. You are creating a box that is so big so that you can use it for any piece of content simply by resizing it.

2) Fill the first layer in white for visibility purposes by using the Paint Bucket tool.

3) Now create a new layer and select the rounded rectangle tool. Set the radius to 60px, the color fill is not important for now. Your image should look like this:

4) You need to add some layer styles to this, so right click on this layer within the layer pallet and select blending options, then add the following styles using the colors as typed on the images below:

5) Now you have the basic look of the box itself and you could just leave it there. However, you are going to add more detail …

Ultimate edition! Nothing else is good enough. If you give it a name like "ultimate" you would expect all the best people to buy it. ;)

Do you mean one that keeps rotating whilst the page is being used or one that displays a different ad(image) each time you refresh the page.

If the site is an actual business venture then you should try advertising in some womens magazines and possibly newspapers. You should also make some posts in other people forums (that are on your topic) with your domain in your signature.

You should keep up google adwords and try other advertising campaigns. I received an information pack from microsoft the other day about Microsoft Adcenter. You may like to research that.

Good luck

I have never used their service or any template for that matter but I have to say that all their templates are actually very similar.

You must remember to create a web page you need alot of patience and skill in certain areas you don't have to be a pro to make a good site you just need a good idea and some basic knowledge in how to create it. This forum can basically go down as your basic knowledge.

Any, didn't your company pay you to make it yourself? Those templates honestly look OK but they are all similar and the last the a business wants is to have their website confused with someone elses.