EJayCee

Thanks so much for all your help! Needless to say, it's working now. You've saved me a lot of trouble, I can't thank you enough.

This is so strange... I know there must be something wrong with it still. I've changed it to pixels, but it still shows up the same. Do you think you could please have another look at it? I've uploaded the changes.

I did everything you asked me to, but it still shows up the same as before. Should I forget ems and just use pixels for the entire thing, or is there something I missed? Thanks a ton for all your help!

Hi all, This is a site I redesigned for a B&B a while back: Southern Forest If you look at it in IE6 you'll see that the main content area has stretched out, and is out of alignment with the navigation/header area. Now, I know about creating alternate stylesheet for IE, but to be honest I'm not sure where to start. Any help is appreciated. I don't know what it looks like in other versions of IE, as I'm on a mac and haven't had access to the others, so if you can check please let me know. Now, I am aware that it may not be the prettiest, nor the best coded site in the world (I can't help but cringe when I see those stupid workarounds...) but this was when I was just starting out… And you should have seen what it was like before. ^_~ Thanks!

Of course you did. No need to apologise. ^^

Yeah, I know. I'm so glad it wasn't me It's all fixed now, so that's good. I can back to being stressed over worthwhile things now! And I am no man, my friend.

thankyou.

Mmm.. I've been doing some research into inheriting bad code... And given that it doesn't affect the appearance of the site- that much- I don't think they'll want me to do it... Well, I might propose it next year but for now I work on doing the changes they want. It just takes up far too much time and effort to be worth it at the moment.

0.o thanks. That's... weird. As I get deeper into this site, I feel my headache getting bigger... The navigation is so frustrating.... *sigh* ^^

Just took over the maintenance of this website, because their previous guy up and disappeared.... It's one of those things that looks good, until you look closer. http://www.farsouthtasmania.com Get a load of what the h1 tag is around on the front page! And it's below an h2 tag! It's scary. Plus, the css styles used are counter intuitive, and they often use inline styles. And I have trouble reading the way they've structured it. And even the file structure of the thing is scary. So many pages, images outside of an image folder, css and javascript in the same place as all the other files, and everything is all jumbled up. And the content management system the group were using was Contribute. I could go on and on. I think this is going to be a headachey site, though I might just have fun tearing it apart. does anyone know what a file with an extension like this is for? It's totally empty of anything: doverhotel.html.LCK Whew. Anyway, I was wondering whether there was anything in particular anyone can see that might pose problems for me.

yeah, thanks. ^^ brr. HAckers are scary. *runs and hides*

That's the thing- Jumba is a very good host! *sigh* ^^ Hackers are a designer's worst nightmare. Well, I guess that they're anyone with a website's worst nightmare, really!

Two websites I designed... hacked... *bursts into tears* Ah well. At least I'm a clever girl and backup everything. but still! I'm with Jumba, on the Kookaburra server, and everyone on that server has been hacked, which basically means we're all stuck with "Ownz by linuXploit_crew" where our site used to be. Seriously, how childish do you have to be to want to destroy other peoples hard work like that? If you're clever enough to hack, you're clever enough to do something that doesn't ruin everyone else's day. *groan* Rant over. ^^ I suppose it had to happen to me sometime- just one of those things, I guess. *sigh* Anyone else had that happen to them?

Thanks for that! I'll definitely be able to use that technique, though probably not in this instance... Is it possible to keep the text there, so that it doesn't disappear when the mouse goes away? Or is that only possible with Javascript?

Are you using IE6? IE6 is one of the most annoying browsers in existence. It doesn't support PNG transparency, but most other browsers- those that aren't archaic- do. Should you feel it necessary to keep the transparency in IE6, you might find this page useful... http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6 But I don't bother with hacking so that IE6 users can see what all the other browsers can. IE6 should be abolished, not encouraged! Hope I've been of help!

Hey, I'm designing a site for someone, and they want the kind of functionality where you have a series of images, and if you hover over on one the text underneath the images changes without having to reload the page. Now, I know this needs to be done with Javascript, but I know absolutely nothing about it. Please, if you post a piece of JS code, tell me exactly what to change in order to adapt it to my site... as I said, I don't know anything about it. Thanks for your help!

Thanks all. ^^ Ach, I fear I still have so much more to learn... Wait, I already knew that. XD So, tis the <cite> tag then... Of course it's the <cite> tag. I must join those who hang their heads in shame now... *huddles into the corner* Thanks so much.

Should I wish to select a certain part of text- for instance, the author's name that comes after the quote within a blockquote- in order to style it, is it OK to use a <b> tag? I don't know how else I would do it. In the case I'm speaking of, I'm not even using it to make the text bold. ^^

Aiii. Scary! Brings back bad memories. first person I learnt the basics of HTML from, said blink was a "way cool" effect. Took me a while to shake his influence off.... brrr...

G'day! You sure got it right that this is a good place to be. I'm only new (to the forum and design) and the sheer amount of help I've received is fantastic! Not sure exactly what "expression design" does, but do be careful. If it's the kind of program that writes your code for you, it's very easy to get lazy... It's incredibly important to learn HTML and CSS well (CSS being very, very important as it's now what's used for layout rather than tables... something newbs to design often don't learn for a little while, which is rather terrible but such is life... Alas, but I was a victim. ), otherwise the program can do things you're not prepared for it to do, and completely unaware of as it would be happening behind the scenes. I used Dreamweaver until I realised that I wasn't learning web design: I was learning Dreamweaver. I use Coda now, a brilliant program, but I think it's just for the Mac... Ach, but I'll spare the technicalities. Welcome to the fold, and enjoy, mate!

Thanks for that, I'll definitely go with the CSS3 choice. It saves so much stuffing around, and I really don't like having to add extra bits of code in where I feel they're not necessary. And anyway, while it may be nice to have rounded corners, squre ones look just fine as well.

OK, first up I'm not entirely sure what grey box it is you're having trouble with. Could you please explain? Which piece of text is inside it? I can see that you've got some white sticking out but I'm not sure if that's your problem area. Tell me that, and I should be able to help you.

Well, in this case Google is not my friend. The searches contradict, and many are outdated, and I surface from them only feeling slightly more bemused than before. I thought four corner images were the go, until something else said it was a circle, and something else said you do it with heaps of <b> tags- which I find cluttered- and something else said "stuff all the other browsers! Just use border-radius and let the others see in squares!" Well, obviously I'm not going to take the latter option, but seriously, what do I do? I feel like waving a white flag to all these browsers and telling them to AGREE! So, my question boils down to this: "What is the best way of doing CSS rounded corners? OR should I just forget it and go with boxes?" Thanks in advance, I appreciate it.

Thanks so much for that... ^^ You've saved me a lot of trouble.

I'm designing a webpage for someone who wants me to create an image for them with the Kanji for "One Straw". I've found the kanji for "one", and the kanji for "straw". Though I am a bit iffy on which way around the words would go in Japanese. I know that it's different to English but I want to know if that is the case in this particular example. Would it be "one straw",as it is in English, or "straw one"? Thanks for your help. ^^