Posts by roryt

Have you tried VLC media player? I think that might work. Post again if it doesn't. Sorry it has taken so long for anybody to reply.

Try the one I posted about.

I like the idea of it being the users default. Clever.

Isn't this just Quicktime in a pop up window? Not everyone will have quicktime so it may be better to use a flash based one.

Try running the virus scanner again and curing the infected files. It should still pick them up.

It looks like it's time for a major reinstall to me.

You should run a full virus scan to see if the problem is easily recovered.

If you still have all your original disks for the program it won't take too long to reinstall stuff. If you can format your HD and reinstall the OS as well.

Cloning the XP disc is Illegal no doubt. As for cloning your old harddrive I'm not completely sure, although I am pretty sure if you are cloning the operating system as part of that then yes that is illegal.

However, this is not the easiest thing to do because although most of the OS is on the hard drive there are some very significant parts of it on the ROM.

So simply.... buy XP (its not too expensive anymore) and copy your stuff across.... don't play with illegal things, because it may be hard to find someone to go to if it goes wrong!

Have you checked that the opacity is set to >0% for the part of the movie you want to see it in and is it definitely on the stage not dragged of at one point?

If it is an image is it still in the library?

There isn't much you can do in Fireworks that you can't do in Photoshop but many claim FW is quicker and I know there are more default styles etc.

I personally don't use it and do find it quite a bit harder to use the photoshop... strange really.

Sorry this is such a late reply.

Could you create a javascript pop up window then just put a player such as this in it?

Although you do need to be careful when using pop out windows because most popular browsers now tend to be pretty good at blocking them.

Hope that helps.

This is probably the easiest to use video player I have ever found:

Long Tail Video Player

Follow the instructions that come with the download. You can then use the wizard to set up the embedded object how you want it.

I would suggest you use the player that plays flv files. You can convert any of your videos to this format. This convertor may be worth a try.

I hope that helps.

This is how I would do it if you were using photoshop (i realise you aren't but as you still haven't told us what you are using I have no idea how to help in any other way).

• Open your image
• Use the magic wand and the lasso tool to select the t-shirt
• copy (don't cut - you will get a jagged white line around the selected portion when you past it back in) this from your image
• Past it, this will put it on to a new layer
• with this layer selected: image>adjustments>hue/saturation
• Now you can edit the colour of the t-shirt

So now I have told you how to do it in photoshop... basically you need to be able to select the t-shirt and preferably have it as a new layer and then edit it's hue/saturation.

See attached for what i did. This took about 2 mins.

This is what you html would look like:

<div id="border_links">
<p1><a href=""> link</a></p1>
<p1><a href=""> link</a></p1>
<p1><a href=""> link</a></p1>
<p1><a href=""> link</a></p1>
<p1><a href=""> link</a></p1>
<p1><a href=""> link</a></p1>
<p1><a href=""> link</a></p1>
</div>

And this is the css:

#border_links {
border: medium double #000000;
}

I have changed the css identifier to the id border_links because p4 refers to a paragraph of text which isn't really what you are doing.

Actually if anything it should be displayed as a list.

<ul>
<li><a href="link.html">link</a></li>
<li><a href="link.html">link</a></li>
<li><a href="link.html">link</a></li>
<li><a href="link.html">link</a></li>
</ul>

In this case you can use the style sheet to control the unordered list element (ul).

I have also changed you link syntax because it was wrong... but i think you knew that.

I hope that helps.

If the boundary is still there when you have selected a drawing tool (ie the fill tool) then it is actually on the image itself. So either do as Jen said or you may have to rub it out by hand or use the magic wand.

If you are using a background "photo" then put something on top of it so people can read the text clearly.

If you are using photoshop to design your website then start with a canvas of about 770px wide and it doesn't really matter for height but make sure you think about people will see as soon as they get your site on screen... so the first 500px or so.

However, it is better to have your widths displayed by percentage however if your site is quite graphic intensive it is extremely hard to do so. But some sites do it well: KevAdamson. If this is your first attempt at making a graphical website, then make it easier for yourself as so many do and stick with a fixed width. You can then have a large background image or if you care about your users bandwidth a small repeating one. I personally tend to use just some diagonal (1 pixel wide) lines that are repeated for the full width and height of the screen.

My website Photoshopthis(may seem like a shameless plug but I don't really do anything to the site anymore) does have a percentage width but it took me sooo long to figure it all out logically that I got bored and left some things unfinished. shame I know.

Hope some of that helps.

Well, I would do it all with photoshop and have everything else (like css and html) vaguely in my head to start with. It is a very lengthy process though just to show how you want it to be built.

Is it so you can pass this on to somebody else who will then build the site or will you be building it yourself using this as a guide line?

Something like fireworks might be a bit quicker at this actually if you learn how to use it well.

smarty9999,

It's quite difficult to see what is actually going on in your code. You need to be really careful with using formatting (such as where you have opened the "style" tag) inside your html, this should really be in an external document or in your <head>.

Do you mean vertical scrollbars? So does the header section have to much height.

Another thing to point out: you seem to have your <head> and <body> tags in this order:

<head>
</head>
<body>
</head>!!!????
<body>
</body>

This really does not make sense? Have you created this with a visual editor (Dreamweaver/frontpage) or have you hand coded it?

Hope this points some things out.

Am very sorry to anyone who was going to answer. i should really look further into queries before posting them.

All you have to do to achieve set the target of the hyperlink to the name of the iframe.

for instance: <a href="iframe_test.html" target="iframe"></a> In this example the iframe code looks like this <iframe src="" name="iframe"/> Hope that helps anybody who looks at this in the future.

Hi everyone.

I wondered whether you could help me. Basically i have a list of items in a table. Each item will have a hyperlink on it and i would like it to change the contents of an iframe i have on the page - which i guess means changing the src url. I am also guessing that the easiest way to do this will be javascript. I don't really want the page to refresh when the hyperlink is click just for the contents of the iframe to change which will probably be pure text so it won't take long.

If anyone has the code to do this that would be really helpful. I am not that confident with javascript to be honest so if you could make it as easy for me as possible that would be great!

Thanks

OK. So sorry. I should have tried before asking. It did turn out to be a partition. I don't know why it appeared though.

Resolution (for anyone interested):

Control panel > Administrative tools > Computer Manager > Disk Manager > right click on the unwanted partition > delete partition

And your done.

I'm in the process of reinstalling my whole pc. I have completely formatted C: and left D: (second HDD) as it was with my data on it. I have reinstalled XP and had next to no problems doing that. My first problem was it seemed to install two versions of xp in dual boot. XP media centre (what it should be) and xp pro (i don't own that!). However, i have just turned off the prompt for dual boot on startup and set media centre as my default os, so i'm not too bothered about that. Btw, xp pro came up with an error when i tried to boot from it anyway.

My main problem is that since i have installed xp again i have my two original hdd working plus now another one K: which is completely unformatted and i don't know whether it is a partition of one of the others or not so i don't want to format it to find out because i don't know what that will do :s

Does anyone know how i can get rid of this "new" hard drive?

I think thats what i'm going to end up doing. It even fails to restore so I don't really have much of a choice.

But if anyone has any other ideas i'll be happy to give them a go. I won't be reformatting it till the end of the week atleast.

Thanks

I am (attempting) to repair a computer for a friend and it is a typical teenagers computer ie. more things start up on boot than i have ever seen!

Moving on... THe first problem i came accross was an application error on Logonui.exe which read

The Instruction at "0x005e03c6" referenced memory at 0x005304c6". The memory could not be "written".

I looked online and found that you can get to the logon screen by clicking ok several times... so i did it and i got to the logon screen. Now: i was told there was no password and it looked like there was so I searched through several pages and managed to find out that if you just put the cursor in the password box and press enter it should logon. I did that and it worked! I then got through to the desktop - well the wallpaper and a blank screen. I opened the task manager and ran explorer.exe. I then searched for logonui.exe and it appeared in the normal place and the windows/prefetched folder and the windows/pchealth folder? I zipped all of the ones up from the pchealth folder and put the on the desktop so i can retrieve them (if needed). I then ran a full system scan with norton and it found 1 virus.

w32.virut!gen

Yes with a "t" not an "s".

It supposedly repaired it.

Then the strangest thing happened... the system fonts changed! ie the start button etc. …

OK, I will do that in a bit. It is on a different PC. I just have CSS and XHTML so far. It's very simple stuff.

Thanks.

~s.o.s~ if you could do me the favour of explaining how to do I would be so grateful because I know you are really good at this.

Thanks for your reponse and help so far.

Are you absolutely sure you can't use php or ASP on your server. What host is it on?

As you may have probably gathered Javascript isn't my strong point ;)

I want to be able to swap a class of one div when a link is in the :hover state.

Therefore I should be able to swap a background image.

Thanks for you help.

Once again, please could you give us a link.

I would still rather see larger hi-res images than a fancy 360* view.

Does that actually get rid of the click to activate border?

Just a thought, if your using a linux server, it might just be that the server is case sensitive and your WYSIYOG designer ignores that, had a similar problem a while back.

Very good point. I didn't think of that.

It is a really clever way you have used to make the roll over. I would never have thought of that.

I suggest you get rid of the 1 pixel white border that is a round the cream version. I also think you should consider using screen text rather than text in the images them selves.

That depends where the scrollbar is to be honest.

That didn't cross my mind but very true. Although they tend to look bad anyway ;)

It doesn't look right to me on Linux, the fonts are always weird looking, line-height is permanently screwed up, there's no zoom in/out, only "increase/decrease text size"

The zoom thing is pretty ennoying. Could you take a screenshot of firefox on linux?

Can I suggest that you change the tab buttons at the top of the page. They are bit nasty especially in their orangey yellow state.

I thought the UK PS3 wasn't going to be backward compatible. How did you make it work?

I think websites look more professional if they just leave the scroll bar alone because if you don't mess with it nobody will notice it.

exactly

The link is now broken.

yeh.... I could do that but I use my computer when it is on and people in my house get annoyed if it is on and i'm not using it. ;)

It is a much better choice to do it in your external style sheet no in your head

It should work as an external stylesheet. You need to make sure that you are getting the correct url from the folder that your stylesheet is in not the page it is displaying on.

Well spotted. I'm glad you managed to sort it

Good luck with the googling because that code doesn't show anything really.

I kind of stopped after a while because i felt my pc was slowing down. ;) it also gets very hot!

Well you could just change that folder to whatever? you can obviously also link to a complete url from there.

<style type="text/css">
body {
background-image: url(http://www.myimagehosting.com/image/image.jpg);
}
</style>

{just an example!}

how on earth did you actually find it?

NO NO NO....

Make it work in firefox first... that is vital!!!!

It is then pretty simple to make work in ie using internet explorer conditional css.

Looks fine to me in bothe ie and ff.

You may like to add the to the footer contain

*margin-top: 10px;

Because it is a bit close in ie

yeh... well You could make it look like its animated but it wouldn't be css doing anything more than just swapping one image with another

I like to think of the scrollbar as being nothing to do with the main page (being a ff user). Also i think it tends to make the website worse if you change the scroll bar.

ff isn't that bad looking anyway.

yeh... I barely every really use the <b> or <strong> tags because I style it in my css but I don't really find myself using bold text anyway tbh.

Do you mean like rollover animation? I suppose you could use gifs on hover which could create an animted effect. Other than that i am not sure... but very interested. Maybe you could link us to the article?