Posts by roryt

My more recent websites validate with XHTML 1.0 transitional with no errors or warnings. But still i have to use hacks but i could do the same with additional style sheets (if i thought it would make a huge difference.)

Do you use tables then? bit old fashioned ;)

What about inline-blocks? Will they work?

They work in FF which is good but, if you read this you'll see why i wouldn't use them:

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html

Have left PC over night. Tried turning it on again and it won't. So I am guessing that means it isn't over heating... because surely nothing can over heat in under a second (which is how long it stays on for).

I was thinking: could it be something on the motherboard failing which automatically turns the PC off?

Help! Please!!!

Well.. the only microphone for PC I have has no power to it. There are two types of power for a mic: battery powered or Phantom power. 99% of computers don't have an output for Phantom power, so if it did have to be powered, there would have to be a battery involved. My mic doesn't have a battery so I presume you don't need a powered mic.

Hi everyone,

My computer has just completely died :scared:. I have posted another thread about this in the last few days (when it started happening) but it was just turning off and would turn back on again after a couple of seconds. I have had the computer for about 3 years so it seems strange it has suddenly started to happen.

Now it won't turn on at all. I have tried a fewdifferent things so far:

1. Taking power plug out and leaving a few minutes, putting it back in and trying to turn it on again
2. I started to unplug various things from the power supply (inc. both disc drives, hard drives, fans, floppy disk, memory card reader). At this point all external peripherals were unplugged
3. Just testing the power output from the individual power lines out of the power supply: i got a reading of 3v on each pin

At all these points the system turns on, spins a fan round once and turns off again... just leaving the power supply on.

As you can tell, I have a feeling it is the power supply. I have tried to clean all the air ways as much as possible so there is no risk of over heating. Although something does seem to be getting hot, but i can't turn the pc on long enough to tell what it is.

This is my PC's spec:

• Pentium 4 - 3.6ghz (with hyperthreading)
• 4 Gig …

I don't use CSS hacks. If I have to make special arrangements for some browsers, I let php decide, and I write a separate class for each browser for the element in question. I have a variable called "$browser", which contains a short name for the browser, like IE or IE7, FF or FF3, OP or OP9, or SA (I don't know version numbers here but this is only an example).

This code is not tested, so there's no guarantee that it's free of errors. The intent is to show my method.

$class= 'class';
if (isset ($browser)) $class .= $browser;

// And the use of the class:
<div class = $class .....  >{div contents here} </div>

.. and then I define the different CSS definitions:

.class { this is the generic class}
.classIE { this is for IE}
.classIE7 { this is for IE7 only}
.classOP { this is for Opera}
.classFF { this is for FireFox}
.classSA { this is for Safari}

The first could be used for everything that is common; the later are used for specific adaptions.

One expression that I particularly like is { display:none} which can hide an element for the browser(s) of your choice.

I guess that is a similar concept to creating a extra style sheets for different browsers. I guess that is a more symantic way of doing things.

Just more time consuming. Are there many differents in rendering between Opera, FF and Safari? I normally find that once you get the site …

This is posted in the wrong forum really but I will help!

You need to either set the width of the pages (or the div or table that it is contained in) to either about 770px or 100%. This will ensure that to an extent your content will shrink to fit your window. However, all the elements inside your page need to be set with respect to the containing width as well. Post a link to your page if you are having trouble and I'll try and help more.

Try this:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/dropmenuindex.htm
and
http://www.milonic.com

I don't know of any that are point and click style, most of these kind of things involve some sort of coding.

If you have any problems, repost.

This is a kludge. You can't count on any undocumented "feature" like this (actually a violation of standards). Software changes in either IE or in some other browser will cause it to fail. It also should not validate.

What would you do it then? I have no idea how else you can get around it. You will always have the problem of there being different setting places browsers add padding whatever you do. Unless you make a different style sheet for the IE browsers.

In that case yes they are a block level element, HOWEVER the way the <li> tag is used on this site it is inline, so they all display along one line: in this case you cannot set the width.

Have a look at this page:

here

And the source:

<!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=utf-8" />

<title>Setting the width of the LI tag</title>
<style media="screen" type="text/css">
#inline li{background-color: #CCCCCC; display: inline; width: 100000000px; }
#block li{background-color: #CCCCCC; display: block; width: 150px;}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<h1>The width of the &lt;li&gt; element</h1>
<div id="block">
<h2>Block level</h2>
You can change the width to be set.
<ul>
	<li>List item one</li>
    <li>List item two List item two List item two</li>
    <li>List item three</li>
    <li>List item four List item four</li>
</ul>
</div>

<div id="inline">
<h2>Inline element</h2>
Using the &lt;li&gt; element as an inline element is required for this website because he wants to display the menu horizontally.  The only way you can do this AND set the widths is to use them as seperate DIV tags set to float left.
<ul>
	<li>List item one</li>
    <li>List item two List item two List item two</li>
    <li>List item three</li>
    <li>List item four List item four</li>
</ul>
</div>

</body>
</html>

You can see I have set the width of the tags displaying inline to 100000000px and it makes no difference at all.

If you can prove me wrong, i would …

If you open up Network and Sharing Centre does it show you are connected to the internet?

If so if you use firefox then do you have any proxys set up? (Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Settings) It should say No.

What error message do you get on the firefox screen?

You should try RCA's customer support. Your post has been on here for quite a while which probably means nobody knows an exact answer. Be careful when formatting things in the future!

Good luck

No I don't think getting rid of addons will take care of it but, try installing firefox 3.0.5, that might help.

It may be worth posting your problem on here.

Also what operating system?

Above post is true. But mics are also Condensor or Dynamic. They are for different purposes.

They also have different pickup paterns, such as figure of 8 and cardioid.

But basic mics should just work through your sound card.

Could you post the name of your usb stick. It sounds like the files are corrupted. Recovering corrupted files is not very easy at all!

hahahaa they are unbelievably geeky... but funny. :D

Glad I could help... I remembered just after i posted that it was called stock exchange and that's what you had been using so I half expected a post back say... THat's what I'm already using idiot.

But glad I point the paid for bit out. I think it is a pay per image one as well.

WinFF looks good.

The standard for ipod video playback is MP4 H264 QVGA. If your files aren't in this exact format they won't play.

What version of firefox do you have? And what add ons do you have installed?

Give it a try, it should work... or atleast pick something up.

If you're thinking of buying a new microphone (for pro standard use) then get:

- Shure SM58 - really just for live vocals and some studio vox work... but doesn't give the full freq range.
- Rhodes NT1 - Recording pretty much anything, can be used as an ambient mic, good frequency range pick up. If you want to do a studio recording of voice - this is the one.
- Shure SM57 - if you want to record from amps or a snare drum.

It will be fairly cheap for you to try what you have... just get an XLR - JACK lead and a large to small jack adapter. Simple.

Let us know what works out.

I've never looked for graphics like icons and things but this is a fairly good stock photo site: http://www.sxc.hu/ and they have a partner who are a paid for site: http://www.stockxpert.com

Hope that helps.

You need to set any widths on your page using percentages. If you post your html I can show you what you need to change to make sure it fits any page.

Hope that helps.

Well I don't use realplayer at all because of the reason... it is really dodgy.

Itunes and VLC seem to do the job for me though.

Good point though, if you don't have quicktime or windows media player for WMV and MOV files, what does it do!?

Hi JBennet, You have certainly racked up the post count etc since I have last been here!

It definitely isn't overheating. It could be the power supply. Anyone else have any ideas? I really hope it isn't the power supply... ugghh

I use notepad to write the code, a digital camera for images, and either Corel Photo-Paint or mspaint to create the graphics.

I wasn't saying everyone has Photoshop, but something similar, like paint shop pro, corel photo-paint, fireworks, GIMP etc etc. Or even Paint but i would be really interested to see some good interface graphics you have created with Paint.

Of course you can set a width for a list item.

No you can't: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#Computing_widths_and_margins

<li> is an inline non-replaced element. It won't work.

Let's just give up designing until all browsers become standards-compliant. :p

I can't wait for that day....

I may look very against percentages but, yeh they are great if you start off your design with them in mind. And you will get more headaches along the way unless you are absolutely thinking about every single letter you type.

It is strange how many problems IE (mainly) causes by just not being compliant with the simplist little things... like width!

Oh and to everyone who is having problems with web browser compliance then use firefox from now on and use the IE Tab. You'll never have to click that annoying E again.

Been as you have a fixed with layout to your page then setting them as percentages won't help. As far as I can see you have not set a width (which obsviously you can't for <li>'s) or any padding?

You need to set the padding in pixels (as this gives you more control because a single pixel is smaller than 1% of your navigation bar) and then use the * before the padding selector to give you the difference needed in ie.

The idea of the percentage is to allow you to vary the width of elements on your page depending on the users windows size. Now your site doesn't as a whole allow you to do that so there is literally no point using percentages at all.

Even if you went through and changed everything to percentages, no you wouldn't be able to use percentage widths for each menu item because you can't set a width for a list item.

If you change your entire design to include percentages then that will completely change your website??? What is the point of that. It looks good as it is and is perfectly accessable to 99% of your users.

The simplist and most time efficient thing to do will be to go through and add the * in where ie doesn't agree.

Remember if your outer width is set (which yours is) then there is absolutely no point in using percentages anywhere because they will …

Something very strange has started happening to my PC recently. For some unknown reason at completely random times, for example when clicking a hyperlink or when changing window, the computer just turns off. Then the front power button won't turn it back on again. You can hear the computer still power adapter wearing away so there hasn't been a power cut or any loss of external power. Once you turn the computer off by the rear power button it will then switch back on and be fine once you turn it back on.

I have Windows XP Media Centre on a Intel Pentium 4 PC.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Every web developer uses something that does the same or similar to photoshop, unless they are designing a purely text base website.

cfajohnson: i presume you have no good quality images on your website then? or none that you have made yourself atleast.

Yeh I think only the first search listing will display like that but I don't think google maps will make any difference.

Forms are definitely one of the things css left behind. It is not easy to make one look good. You should be able to do it though if you have some knowledge.

It's quite difficult for me to explain exactly what to do because there is no set way of doing anything but just think of a grid on your page and make sure everything lines up nicely.

If you have anymore specific question please reply.

You should try some tutorials for photoshop to get some ideas and then start building your own.

As for ideas.... i have loads.... but they're mine! ;) What ever you do keep it simple otherwise it will look rubbish, there is a style at the moment of creating things that look like paper etc. You could have a go at that.

Also, when you update quicktime, does it not ask you what mime types to associate?

That's what i thought.

Your file must be on a web server and be accessed via http. Otherwise everyone would be able to get to any file on any other person's computer as long as they are connected to the internet.

Now I would love to tell you there is a set way of doing this! I thought it was to do with submitting a google sitemap (you'll find details here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/) but actually i now am not so sure. My friend has a website that gets a listing like that but definitely doesn't have a sitemap from google.

I think the google sitemap stuff might help you but it will also be down to how many pages and how big your site is, and how many visitors you get.

Please let us know if you find anymore.

ok So when you set the padding for the menu items you used ie. So now you need to set them so they work perfectly in firefox. Then use

.menu_item { padding: 5px; *padding: 7px;}

IE is the only browser that will read the selector after the asterisk. This means you can change this padding until it fits for IE.

Despite what Midimagic says, you won't be able to set that up with percentages.

Good luck!

Midimagic: This uses the default play on the computer, that is the point!

For anyone else who thinks they can help more than I have. To open the attached file you need to drag the link in to your browser's address bar and it should download.

Oh right. So you want to just basically copy what you already have but for a t shirt.

Well the simplist way to do it in flash is to create the image of the t-shirt in various different colours, then when you rollover the colored box, then make the image of the t-shirt change.

I'm sorry I have actually forgotten how to do it! But it is a fairly simple thing to do in flash from what I can remember. I wouldn't bother trying to create a script to dynamically change the colour.

Midimagic:

The most detailed designs are made using pixels dimensions. There is simply no way to do it using percentages sometimes. And when done right pixel made layouts can work on almost any resolution. I realise there are always problems when moving to smaller browsers but even percentage set layouts have problems when made very small if not done correctly.

Now as for cross browser issues: speaking of FF and IE they both treat pixel and percentage widths the same way - one adds the padding set on to the width and the other presumes it is included in the set width (IE).

In the interest of pleasing anybody who reads this thread: here is the way to do it without images: http://www.html.it/articoli/niftycube/index.html

MidiMagic:

I don't think he wants to create the webpage from visio (or an equivalent) just a design of the data flow and possibly page structure. Not actually export any of this into a web page.

Yeh as Buddylee17 said, they aren't supported fully yet and will be part of css 3.0 i believe. Now as for making them in photoshop, if you are just uing a flat colour for the button then what you need to think about is creating a transparent gif file that simply covers the corners up of a rectangle that you create with html.

There are also some javascript ways of creating rounded corners aswell. I believe that daniweb either does or did use them for a while to create the boxes around the forum posts.

Fireworks and Photoshop are definitely not good for this purpose.

Dreamweaver is definitely not the answer. I'm not sure microsoft visio is intended for web design style things?

Oh now i get it!

I wasn't to sure what you meant by structure? Do you mean physically structure (design wise) or the data flow structure / coding structure? By the looks of it, you have posted this in the wrong forum. May I suggest you repost in one of the coding based forums on this page http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum31.htm

I was more refering towards the interface design with photoshop. I see what you mean now though.

After a quick google:

Try this link: http://www.osalt.com/visio and http://dia-installer.de/index_en.html

Let us know how you get on.

So, here's my issue. I want to buy an EEE PC with Windows. But I want to replace the hard drive. Any advice on how to copy XP on to the new drive?

Thanks,
Nick

Sorry, I think John A might be right... we do appear to have gone rather of topic.

Yes Korento, You can LEGALLY clone your hard drive onto an upgrade as long as you don't use the two at the same time.

Now I don't actually know of any hard disk cloning packages however some people will. If you want to clone an XP disc (to keep a backup of it) then you can use a program like Alcohol 120%. However the second you install XP on a second machine that is in use at the same time as you original machine you are breaking the EULA.

Sorry John A I think people realise what you are saying and we all understand what the various terms mean but I believe the argument (or discussion) is continuing because we are all talking about slightly different things.

Yes there is a Safari for windows and has been for quite a while!?

I suggest you run the scan on the program caperjack suggested and then uninstall any program that you think may have been infected and reinstall them... and if that doesn't work you will have to reinstall XP.

Once you have your computer back to normal: make sure you have a antivirus program that runs scans regularly, a spyware program, a malware program and a good firewall... most of which can be found in caperjack's very helpful signature!

Good Luck

Yes you could consider a hard drive a storage device but it is an active in use storage device.

Agreed. The question is if you clone the drive, will you still be running the old computer aswell. If so that is illegal without a doubt. Otherwise it seems to be legal if you only intend to use one copy of windows at a time.

However, it would be much better performance wise if you reinstall everything and forget about the cloning business.

Another thing to point out is if the windows genuine advantage system even suspects it may be a copied version of windows then it will drive you insane until you buy a new copy.

I would go with option two because then if you ever want to change your original css file you will only have to change it once.

Let us know if this hasn't worked for you.

I have never had any problems doing sizes in pixels. I have also never actually had the problem of different IE versions doing different things with my website. The only browsers you need to worry about are IE 6, 7 and 8 + FF + Opera. Then once they work the rest tend to control them in a similar way so your ok.

Makz, could you post a link to the page with your problem not an image. That might help people see exactly whats going wrong.

Thanks