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Due to my husband's advanced Parkinson's I plan to retire in October this coming year to become a full-time carer, and I'm reaching out for advice about handing over my clients to someone experienced and reliable. I have a Heart Internet Reseller account, and it's essential that anyone who takes over is also with Heart Internet as Heart will simply transfer domains, sites and mailboxes with no down time. They charge a fee for this - I think it's £30.00 per site, which I would expect the taker-overer (for want of a better word) to fund. I have 30+ clients, most of them long-standing, and most sites are not content-manageable and their owners require occasional updates. A few sites are around 15 years old and I'm sure their owners would welcome a mobile-friendly redesign. I charge around £80.00 annually per site for web hosting + £10/£15 domain renewals. That's it in very brief, though there are some variables which I won't go into now since this post is more by way of a 'feeler'. My main question is this - is anyone interested, and what would forum members consider a reasonable price per site? I'm not looking to make a lot of money - of more importance is someone who will look after my clients, most of whom I have a friendly relationship with. It's also essential that this person is UK-based. Opinions, advice and any questions welcome.

Ah! Me got wrong end, stick-wise... I thought you wanted a gradient for the body background!

Nope - can't see it, despite refreshing the page. Where have you hidden it?!

Glad to have been able to help, Guezela. I'm looking forward to seeing how it looks when you've uploaded it.

Try 'fixing' the background: body { background: white url(images/gradient.jpg) repeat-x fixed; } This way the background won't scroll and the gradient will always be in view.

Many thanks, Joel - I did this and it works just fine!

I want to transfer my current website to a new domain, but I'm worried about breaking the Google checkout setup. I bought a shopping cart system (Host Director) and the developer integrated this with Google Checkout for me, so I have no idea how it was done. If I move the site, is it as simple as changing the API callback URL in my Google Checkout settings? Marie

Ah.

I've had this problem and it turned out that the conflict of styles in the main stylesheet caused IE6 to ignore its stylesheet. Try adding the ! important declaration to your ieonly.css, like this example: #div {width: 100% ! important;} Note the space between the exclamation mark and 'important'.

Thinks... Is it a 24-bit .png? I seem to remember that png-8 won't work.

Love it! I'd add another section: "Time spent explaining to the client why their umpteenth "Can you just" will not take a matter of moments, since it would entail a virtual re-design."

I suspect that the reason your script worked before is because you used an image embedded in the HTML, as opposed to specifying a BACKGROUND image in the CSS. That said, I see no reason why your .PNG doesn't display in IE6, since there's no transparency in your image - it's .PING transparency that IE6 doesn't support. I don't have a solution but can I make a couple of suggestions... Remove this: background-repeat: repeat-x; repeat:y; It's not necessary as by default a background image 'tiles' horizontally and vertically. In your case, you don't want it to tile at all, so I'm thinking "background-repeat: none" is better suited. If that doesn't work, could you not save your image as a .GIF? Since it doesn't have transparency I see no reason to save it as a .PNG in the first place...

Hi Meschach, Coincidentally, the site that you've been helping me uses the "! important" rule. I used it to make the highlight the current page in the navigation menu. Here I've used the same style as for the hover state, but browsers refused to implement it until I added ! important because I'd already declared a style for the static links. In other words, ! important overrides existing style rules, something like this: #nav li a:link, #nav li a:visited { color: red; } #nav li a:hover { color: blue; } .current { color: blue ! important; } I then assigned the .current class to the "current" anchor: <li><a href="directions.html" class="current">Google Map</a></li> The ! important rule is also invaluable for print style sheets to override the 'screen' styles: #nav, #header, #footer { display: none; } #container, #content, #rightcol { width: 100% ! important; margin: 0 !important; } Note that there should be a space between the exclamation mark and 'important'. I hope this helps. Marie

Hello, You can use Dreamweaver's Find and Replace function to edit the entire site. You simply need to view your source code and highlight the block of text you wish to edit. Then you right click on it and choose 'replace'. From there you can choose to edit the text from either the current document only or from a FOLDER of documents. I did just this when I was adding a Google Analytics script to a large site. The script needed to be inserted just before the closing body tag, so I replaced </body> with this: </body> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-2962363-2"; urchinTracker(); </script> Be careful, though - you can't "undo" changes to the files that are not already open in Dreamweaver.

Many thanks for your perseverance, Meschach. I struggled with Flash but my limited knowledge prevented me from getting it to work. Good news, however - after much trial and error I've managed to configure Soundmanager (mentioned above) and IT WORKS!! Go see! Thanks again for all your help. Best, Marie

Bless you, Meshach - I'm all Googled out, having tried every search term I can think of. Soundmanager2 looked hopeful, but it's scant on instructions for the non-programmer and I think it's overkill for my needs.

Thanks, Meshach, I really appreciate the trouble you're going to. Unfortunately I think this is an example of the deprecated coding that I mentioned in my opening post. I imagine that it only works in older browsers, as it doesn't work at all in Firefox and in IE6 a new page opens showing Real Player - I haven't tried it in IE7. Looking in my Dreamweaver CS3 Behaviors panel (under "~deprecated") there's a "Play Sound" event, which inserts exactly the same script that your link gives. Thank you for your willingness to help but we're on the wrong track I'm afraid. You'd think it would be easy but it's evidently more complex than might be supposed. I'm hoping someone else has had this problem and can provide the solution... anyone?!

Still no luck I'm afraid...

Thanks very much, Meshach, but I'm afraid it doesn't work... <img src="images/matt-and-katie2.jpg" alt="Play music" onclick="document.getElementById('embMusic').src='dixie.mp3';">

The music would only play when the user clicks on the photo, not when the page loads. Sure, a few people won't think to click but I'm thinking that a lot of users will hover over the photo, see that it's a link and expect it to open to a larger photo... instead, they'll get "Going to the Chapel". It's my own touch of humour that I don't expect will meet with approval but I still want to do it.

The music would only play when the user clicks on the photo, not when the page loads. Sure, a few people won't think to click but I'm thinking that a lot of users will hover over the photo, see that it's a link and expect it to open to a larger photo... instead, they'll get "Going to the Chapel". It's my own touch of humour that I don't expect will meet with approval but I still want to do it. Thanks for the nice comment about the website.

I'm designing a wedding website for my daughter, and I want an mp3 to play when an image is clicked. I don't want any sort of player to appear when the image is clicked, I just want my MP3 to start playing. Ideally, I'd like the music to stop when the image is clicked a second time. I'm throwing 'best practice' (and good taste) out of the window, since the site will only be seen by family and friends. I've been struggling for days with this, Googling for scripts that either didn't work or that I don't understand how to configure (Soundmanager, for example) or using deprecated code that crashed my browser. I've now given up and I'm hoping someone here can help me. I have no programming knowledge so I'm afraid I will need some hand-holding... Marie

Yup, you got it. Would you believe I've just been on the phone to a copy writer: http://www.billhilton.biz He's going to look over the site and call me next Wednesday. If it comes to nothing (or he turns out to be unaffordable), I'd like directions to Wisely, please... Thanks for your input, Seth.

Spot on, Seth. Well, nearly... If it's unclear to you then there's evidently something amiss, which would explain why I'm getting very few orders. I think I've been to wordy... basically I'm trying to explain that I can register domain names and provide e-mail hosting, which they can set up from a control panel. At a later stage, they can upgrade their email hosting account to a web-hosting account if they want to publish a web site. Clear as mud?! I need a copy-writer, don't I... Marie

That's perfect - thanks, Ann. I've added your link, let me know if you want any of the text changed. My StatCounter tells me that quite a few people are exiting via Ashley's link, so you should get a few hits. My site is getting quite a lot of visitors - it comes out top in Yahoo for lots of relevant key phrases, but not so well in Google where it ranks 2/10. I'll be working on this and I'm hoping that this reciprocal link scheme will help, but any suggestions would be very welcome. I totally agree with you about the button! Fact is, I'm getting more clicks on that particular page now that there's a big fat button instead of a text link. I'll make it smaller though, and perhaps a bit more stylish - it was done in a rush. Marie