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Thanks for the reply. Doesn't that mean though they essentially they could use my whole design, including media and another company passes it off as theres? That doesn't seem legit when I've created everything.

Hi Guys, Looking for some help. I was today informed by one of my clients that they are employing a new webdesigner to redesign their website. They were my first ever client and are a large theatrical agency, I expected this as a new guys has joined the team and seems to want things changed around. Anyway, our current contract ends in February and we are currently having an issue as to who has the right to what. For example, for this site they sent me original showreels, cvs and pictures. I then formatted these, cropped, coloured, edited, resized, retabbed etc and made them user friendly for the website. In my opinion they should not be able to download that stuff and use it on the new site with no credit to me as it is work I have produced. Am I wrong? If they put the formatted cvs, cropped pictures and encoded videos on their new site is that not stealing my work. As it was my first client there is no clause in the contract about termination or who owns what. But I really don't think they have the right to redistribute the media I created for them. Isn't that under my design copywrite? Help - not sure where I stand or what to say.

Thanks for the link - I tested all those methods over the past few days. The Jquery one works great, but the problem is it fixes the background image and I want it to scroll down with the content. It also pushes my divs to the back so I assume I'll have to use a z-index.

Hi all, When I make a site I usually use a wrapper div to center my site and any extra space is filled with a block background colour - so it looks ok on all browsers regardless of size, dimensions etc. However on the new site I am making, I wish to use a background image which fills the whole screen and has a header type image that fills to each side of the window. I tried doing these separately but had no luck so have just mocked up one background image to play with until I get something sorted. I have made the background image very big, and after a lot of searching on the net have found a way to get the look I want. But I have a problem in that when I scroll up and down, the page is also jumping horizontally. Disabling the horizontal scrolbar has solved the problem aesthetically but the horizontal sliding/jumping is annoying me. I'm also not sure I have achieved the right code for doing what i want to do, and want to get some advice before I go ahead and make the site/graphics for real. If anyone could take a look and give me some advice I'd appreciate it. I hope I've explained myself ok. Page CSS

I run an actors website. They wish to have their showreel on the site not only in Flash format so it plays in a browser, but also so that people can download it and keep it should they wish. Which is the best format to have the video file in? Which format will work on both Mac and PC and not require the user to download anything extra. Ideally I guess a file that opens with Windows Media Player and Quicktime. Is there such a thing or will there always be someone who has to download something extra etc?

Thanks for the replies. YouTube isn't really an option, it's not deemed as very professional by some members of the industry. I need the video to be on my site and that's all.

Updating this topic and in need of some more advice. SWF files have been working fine, they load so quickly and play the clips perfectly. However I am looking to add longer videos which will definitly require controls as it's for an actors (me) showreel. People watching will want to play and pause etc. So I'll need to use flv files. Right now I can't afford the commercial license from Longtail in order for the Shadowbox Flash Player to work. Are there any alternatives that anyone would recommend? Any flash players with controls that don't cost the earth?

Thanks for all the info and advice guys. I think for now I will stick with swf as I can't afford the licence for the flash player right now. It does the job, would just be better if there were controls.

Using just a blank page at the moment to test it out as I'm taking over from the current designer. It's at http://www.andrewnash.info/test.htm Thank you.

Thanks Darren. Checked both of those settings and have removed everything else on the test page I'm working on and still nothing. I have adapters, languages, libaries, players and resources installed on the root, plus shadowbox-flv.js, shadowbox-swf.js, shadowbox.css and shadowbox.js. Am I missing anything?

Thanks for your reply Darren. I converted my files to flv and they wouldn't work. I think I may have to install a separate file to use them. ??? So I converted them to swf and they work fine. Really pleased with how fast they play, and the lack of buffer time. However I notice there are no controls for play, pause, stop etc. Anyway around this?

Thanks guys. I will give it a go and see what happens.

Hi all. I'm using Shadowbox to embed/view a video on a website I'm making. The video is coming straight from my server, so no YouTube etc. Which is the best video format to use so that every visitor, no matter which browser, OS etc can view the video? The max length of the video would be 2mins. Is it swf? Many Thanks.

Thanks for your reply. I made the change, which I think I've done before. I've tried so many tuts. Now the page has just gone blank white. I think there must be something wrong with my configuration. The blog works fine on its own, other php files work on the server. I really don't know what is wrong with it.

Thanks again. I posted on the forum a while ago but no one replied. Will keep trying.

Thanks for your reply. That was near to the code I was using. For some reason it's not working. The page doesn't even seem to be recognising the require function.

Have been trying to work around this for weeks and I am so stuck. My site is in HTML/CSS. I created a blog theme in Wordpress to match my site and I'm pleased with the way it turned out. All I want to do is display the last 3 posts on the index page. My index page is currently a htm file, but I've read I will need to make it a php file in order for this to work. So I've changed the extension, followed numerous tuts and it will not work. The blog is up and running fine http://www.edenstreet.net/blog The page I'm using to embed the posts is currently http://www.edenstreet.net/test.php Any help or pointers as to where I'm going wrong would be appreciated. Apart from contact forms I'm a PHP newbie!

I've just installed Shadowbox and have made a very simple test page - just to play around with overlay options etc. All I have is a mini pop up gallery and a YouTube video - both of which work fine in Firefox, but in Internet Explorer....nothing. I know Shadowbox works in IE. So is there a special tage I have to use or have I done something wrong. If anyone wants to check out my test page it's here. Thanks. FIXED - I had a stray comma in my code!

Thanks for the replies. I tried out the first tut. It took me the whole of yesterday and I have achieved exactly what I wanted to. I recommend the tut to Wordpress novices like me! By the time it got to the actual CSS styling I was familiar enough with the Wordpress/php lingo to go it alone with the CSS knowledge I have. Very pleased.

Thank you. About to get to work on the first tut.

I wish to use a blog on my existing website which is made using CSS/HTML. I have downloaded Wordpress and tried several tutorials to make the blog look the same as my website. I intergrated the blog and thought I'd cracked it, until I clicked on the actual post and was taken back to the classic theme. Now I realise I had only created a blog stream into my webpage, rather than recreate the look of my site for the blog. So to make the entire blog run seamlessly with my site and look like it's just another standard page, do I have to recreate a new theme? If so does anyone have tutorial links? The ones I have tried seem to not match the latest version of wordpress. Thanks.

Yay it worked!!! Thanks Pat. I'm well chuffed.

Thanks for your reply Pat. I put the code in the Head section but it returned two errors.

After joining here and reading a ton of posts I have ripped my very first website apart and started the CSS and HTML from scratch. I just put both in the W3C Validator and pleased that they only came back with 4 errors each. Most of the corrections were mistakes like missing semi colons and alt tags for images etc, but a couple I need help with. On the CSS it queries this: img, div, li, ul Property behavior doesn't exist : url(iepngfix.htc) I assume that's because that code is a hack/fix. Is there anyway to make it validate? It's my only error!! On the HTML it queries: No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8. and No Character encoding declared at document level If anyone wants to actually look at either page the addresses are www.edenstreet.net/test.css and www.edenstreet.net/test.htm Thanks in advance!

Bookmarked this one. Great list. Thank you.