Everything posted by jammy
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Search engines and PDFs
I have a site on which I have quite a number of PDFs, and they pull in quite a large percentage of my visitors. I also gain 100% of my revenue for this site through Adsense. I've recently realised this presents me with quite a problem: Whilst Google is doing well at finding these PDFs and indexing them and placing them in search results. However, every time someone then clicks on the link in the search results, they view the PDF in the browser, rather than viewing the PDF within the design of my website and crucially without seeing any of my Adsense adverts. What I had hoped I could do was just to add a redirect to my htaccess, and then that way any time someone tried to directly access the PDF they would be redirected to my webpage with the PDF in the viewer. Unfortunately this broke the link within the viewer as the viewer was also redirected back to the webpage it was sat on! So, basically what I'm looking for is a way to allow the search engines to continue to index my PDFs, but for them only to be viewable within my webpages. Asking the impossible?
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Couple of small CSS padding issues
Two different areas of my site, but despite having no margin or padding attributes, the objects seem to be spacing themselves out by a good 15-20px! Top in IE6: Top in Chrome: Footer in IE6: Footer in Chrome: Link: http://www.thetvrsite.com Any help very much appreciated!
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Think I'm going to cry - CSS fluid tableless layout
But with the centre column set as fluid the borders that should travel along the side edges of the image would stay there.
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Think I'm going to cry - CSS fluid tableless layout
But surely, if say left is at 40%, then centre is always set at 250px, then setting right at 30% may not extend to the end of the screen, or may extend past it?
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Think I'm going to cry - CSS fluid tableless layout
OK, I best explain exactly what I want, as my friend thought it would be easy at first. Everything is kind of relative around that middle image. The 'cell' that the image is in should be exactly the same size as that image, therefore if the image is in a table cell or a div, its size must be fixed. The top row, and left column must be fluid, at about 45-60%. The bottom row and right column must be fluid, but extend to the edge of the screen. The borders must edge the middle image, and extend to the edges of the screen. It must all be fluid, so the page appears the same regardless of resolution.
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Think I'm going to cry - CSS fluid tableless layout
Sorry, you've caught it whilst I'm in the middle of going from tableless, to tabled. Managed to get hold of a web-designer friend of mine who said the original design would be a nightmare in pure CSS. One question I now have though, is no matter what I do I can't seem to get border-collapse: collapse to work? :S
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Think I'm going to cry - CSS fluid tableless layout
It looks like a very simple layout, to me at least, but after struggling over it for several hours I seriously need help. Here's what I'm trying to do: Here is what it currently looks like - www.thetvrsite.com
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North Korea
NK aren't too popular with China at the mo. In fact China has recently stopped supplying NK with food aid. Whether China's position would change during a war situation remains to be seen, but I imagine it would, but I doubt we'd see a repeat of Vietnam. I don't think NK is much of a threat, not because of the reasons wizely gave, but mainly because I think NK are largely incompetent. I don't think any country can afford another war in the world at the moment, especially America and Russia, perhaps China is in a slightly better position. The two rockets NK have so far fired off have been failures, and they even decided to bomb their own mountain! Lol Ok ok, I know it was just a test. Unfortunately if things do escalate, it is the South Koreans I feel sorry for, as they'll come off worse! :S
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Copy theft - jane-shearman-design.com
Maybe it is people on WDF that are seeing links in your signatures and deciding to use designs/copy. Might be an idea for some admin/mods to see if they can find any email addresses on these websites to check against WDF accounts.
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car insurance
TVR Cerbera (4.2) and a Mazda MX5. I decided against moving out and getting my own place and instead bought my dream car. With today's property prices I'm glad I did!
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car insurance
Older cars do have a crumple zone of sorts, well some do. The classic Mini has lots of curves in its body which are excellent at absorbing impact energy. I help run a classic Mini forum and we have a topic going specifically for details and images of crashed Minis, and in most of them you can see that the passenger compartment is not as affected as you might first think. The main problem is that sometimes the doorframe can distort and wedge the door shut. Early 90s cars had little to no accident protection. Volvo were at the forefront with SIPS in the early 90s, but it wasn't until the mid to late 90s, and the increased awareness of the NCAP tests did manufacturers really start to think about passenger safety, crumble zones, etc. Yes, today's cars are a lot safer, but please don't think they all are. Have you ever seen a Saxo or a Kia in an accident!? The other problem with modern cars with 50 billion airbags is that if they go off then you can kiss you car goodbye. When an airbag goes off it causes so much damage to the interior, and costs so much to put right that in most cars its cheaper for the insurance company to write it off. This is compounded by crumple zones, which do exactly what they say on the tin. It might not be a big accident, but bumpers, wings, etc are all designed to just fold up, so whereas with a 90s car, driving into a wall might have resulted in a body panel you could have just pulled back out and painted, with a new modern car you'll be into replacing panels, etc.
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car insurance
I'm 23 and have two cars. I won't say what they are for fear of people thinking I'm boasting but, one is group 20 that I pay £600 a year on. My daily drive is group 10 I think and that costs me just over £600 a year. Go figure.
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Which Design?
Try it with the border, but without the shadow of the border over the grey box. And yea, change the font/style of the contact details, bit hard to read.
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CMS for company products website?
Forget CMS, I'd probably go with something like VirtueMart. Used to be a bit of a pain to set up, but it is a very good system and the last install I did went relatively smoothly!
- Taking leave...
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Any lotto players here?
As a precursor, let me state that I suck at probability. Ok, so if you found out that a certain ball game out in 25% of draws. Then lets say it hasn't appeared in the last 6 draws, could you state that it is overdue an appearance? Work out which balls are the most overdue and only every play with them? Doubt you'll increase your chances of winning 'the big one' but might get a few more tenners in your lifetime!? Shouldn't be too hard to rustle up a Access Database to analyse the previous draws in this way either?
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Position background image from the right?
Thanks for the suggestion guys. The float right didn't quite work. Due to the menu system inside another nested div it was messing around with the layout. In the end I went with Onigiri's tip of adding space to the right of the image!
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Position background image from the right?
The two background images are on separate nested divs: The problem is the track outline on the right is in its own div that is aligned to the right, and at a fixed 80px. If I use a % on the bit that is inside the menu div then it won't position properly on various screen sizes/resolutions. I guess I could change the track outline div to a % position but I'd rather see if I can align the background image in another way. Guess I just prefer to do things the hard way! lol
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Position background image from the right?
The image of the track outline on the left is in its own div, with a z-index of -1. The part of that image that cuts across the menu div is a separate image set to the background of the menu div. Now I need to do the same with the image of the track on the right, however I don't know how to position a background image from the right??
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Made me explode and then cry
Car accidents involving old ladies.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxZFfHxjMEk
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What the chuff?
I've heard if you stroke your twitter, it usually starts to become responsive again.
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What the chuff?
Sure there was an article posted up here the other day about the Web 2.0 bubble beginning to burst, and that Twitter and Fb were losing a fair bit of money on unsustainable business models. Might be Twitter trying to reign in costs.
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Just For Fun - An Acronym Quiz!
Unlucky when one walks under a ladder you're up?? Anywayyyy, 17/20 for me, but I guessed most of them!
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What the heck is that?
Its a tadpole and that boat with sailor is actually carved from a matchstick.