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Hey everyone. I have quite a bit of experience in website design and development such as html, css, javascript and php. However I'm sure this question has been asked before but "what should I learn?" I don't work in this industry I just have it as a hobby so what are the key languages I should learn. I've heard about cake, ruby, wordpress, joomla, ajax but don't really know much about them and if they are worth learning. Basically if anyone can give me a list of things they think I designer/developer should have, let me know. Thanks

Hi everyone. I have a working website and I want to use a cms to be enable other to update the content. Considering that I have the website already made which cms do you reccomend for me to use? I'm currently using a trial of Joomla but from looking at it, it seems like a cms designed for people who don;t have any coding experience. I haven't found a way I can just upload all of the work I have done and then use joomla to update the content. Can anyone help me with this or point me in the way of some good tutorials?

I have been making a website for someone and have now finished and was wondering if anyone knows the best way for them to update the content themselves as they have no knowledge of how to code? I've heard about CMS software but am not sure which one to use or how to install them. Another question I have is when if the best time to install a CMS system. Should I complete the site first and then install it? Thanks for any help.

I have a very frustrating problem. I have a div that is hidden at the top of the screen and I am using jquery to make it appear when a button is clicked. However when it appears there is a gap between the left of the div and the left of the screen. It's only about 10px wide but I can't get rid of it. I've set the margins to everything to 0 but it doesn't seem to work. This all I have in the body of my document and I have attached my style sheet. Thanks for any help. <div id="top_bar_hidden"> <p>This is the hidden top bar</p> </div> <a id="change_background" class="btn_slide" href="">Change background</a> style.css

I have a row of checkbox above a div and I depending on what checkbox is ticked I want the content of the div or the actual div to change. I was just wondering if anyone knows the best way to do it and could point me in the right direction?

I was wondering if it's possible to make links open applications. For example I have a yahoo messenger link on my website and if the users clicks it I would like it to open up yahoo messenger if they have it installed on their PC. If not then it would take them to a download page for yahoo messenger.

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I have a div that I want to sit at the bottom of all of the content on the page. So if there is one line of text it will sit at the bottom of the window and if there are 1000 lines of text it will sit at the bottom. However I don't want it to be fixed in place so if there a scroll bars on teh page the user will have to scroll down to see it. If I use absolute positioning the div will move up if you scroll down and with fixed position it is always sitting at the bottom even is there are scroll bars Let me know if I have explained this well enough. Thanks

Hey everyone. I have this bit of jquery code that makes a div appear when a link is clicked. $("div#colour_holder").css('display', 'block'); However I was wondering if it's possible to set a time for when it display so for example it displays 2 seconds after the link is clicked. Also I just want it to appear with no fade effects or anything. Thanks

I was just wondering if anyone knows of any good tutorials for jquery image hovers and animations. What I want to achieve is find a simple way to increase the size of an image while hover over it. I know this is easily done in CSS but I want to increase to be gradual rather than instant. Any help would be good. Thanks

I'm trying to write a simple jquery function that increase the height and the width of a list item by 1.5 but can't seem to do it. I've posted my css and jquery below. Thanks for any help. ul.gallery li.galleryli { height: 150px; width: 150px; } <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $('.galleryli').hover(function() { var increase = 1.5; width = $('.galleryli').width() * increase; height = $('.galleryli').height() * increase; $('.galleryli').animate({'width':width, 'height':height}, {duration:200}); }, }); </script>

What do you mean by that? Do you mean I need to paste all of my code. The website I'm talking about is www.colourbrush.co.uk. Thanks

I have a piece of javascript that changes a second select menu depending on which option is selected in the first select menu. However this doesn't seem to work in IE8 but I'm not sure why. <script type="text/javascript"> function list1change() { brochure_select = document.getElementById('brochure_select'); order_property_details = document.getElementById('order_property_details'); if (order_property_details.selectedIndex==0) brochure_select.style.display = 'block'; else brochure_select.style.display = 'none'; } function list2change() { window_select = document.getElementById('window_select'); order_property_details = document.getElementById('order_property_details'); if (order_property_details.selectedIndex==1) window_select.style.display = 'block'; else window_select.style.display = 'none'; } function list3change() { flyer_select = document.getElementById('flyer_select'); order_property_details = document.getElementById('order_property_details'); if (order_property_details.selectedIndex==2) flyer_select.style.display = 'block'; else flyer_select.style.display = 'none'; } </script> Here is the html used to call the function <select name="order_property_details" id="order_property_details" onchange="list1change(), list2change(), list3change()"> Does anyone know why this is?

Thanks I've changed it but still doesn't seem to work. Do I need to put "{" anywhere? <script language='javascript'> function list1change() { div1 = document.getElementById('div1'); div2 = document.getElementById('div2'); div3 = document.getElementById('div3'); order_property_details = document.getElementById('order_property_details'); if (order_property_details.selectedIndex==0) div1.style.display = 'block'; else if (order_property_details.selectedIndex==1) div2.style.display = 'block'; else if (order_property_details.selectedIndex==2) div3.style.display = 'block'; else div1.style.display = 'none'; div2.style.display = 'none'; div3.style.display = 'none'; } </script>

Hey I have a select menu and when you select option 1 I want another select menu to appear, if you select option 2 I want another select menu to appear etc. I'm using JavaScript to do this. This first one works but the others don't. Can anyone help me with this? <script language='javascript'> function list1change() { div1 = document.getElementById('div1'); order_property_details = document.getElementById('order_property_details'); if (order_property_details.selectedIndex==0) div1.style.display = 'block'; else if (order_property_details.selectedIndex==1) div2.style.display = 'block'; else if (order_property_details.selectedIndex==2) div3.style.display = 'block'; else div1.style.display = 'none'; div2.style.display = 'none'; div3.style.display = 'none'; } </script> Thanks for any help

Just a simple question. Does anyone know what won't is used on the headings on this website. http://www.123app.co.uk/index.php The headings are all image files so I don't know how to find out. Thanks

I have this code so far if it helps but still doesn't seem to work <script type="text/javascript"> function updateAction(formSearch) { if (formSearch.map.checked) formSearch.action == 'search_list.php'; else formSearch.action == 'search.php'; return true } </script> <form action="search.php" method="get" onSubmit="updateAction(formSearch)" name="formSearch" id="formSearch" enctype="text/plain">

Hey everyone I have three checkboxes and a search button and when the search box is clicked I want it to take the user to a certain page depending on the checkbox value. I tried to do it in PHP but this didn't work so I think I need to use JavaScript as that's client side scripting. I've pasted below how I tried to do it. <?php if ($_GET['display'] == 1) { $search_form_redirect = "search.php"; } else if ($_GET['list'] == 1) { $search_form_redirect = "search_list.php"; } else if ($_GET['map'] == 1) { $search_form_redirect = "search_map.php"; } else { $search_form_redirect = "search.php"; } ?> <form action="<?php echo $search_form_redirect; ?>" method="get" name="formSearch" id="formSearch" enctype="text/plain"> Thanks for any help

http://www.aspire-dns.com/beta_layout/search.php When you view this page in chrome the sidebar doesn't load up. Its strange because its loads fine in IE and Firefox. Also I'm not sure whether its a html/css problem as if you refresh the page sometimes it appears for a split second before dissapearing and sometimes it does load properly. Does anyone know what might be causing this? Thanks

Thanks for your help. Yeah I know there are hundred of error but they mainly all & and = characters that has been generated by php. I'm not doing the development side just the design side. I've had a look through all the errors but can't seem to see what's causing it. Thanks

http://www.aspire-dns.com/beta_layout/index.php Hey When you view the above site in either Chrome or IE you see that the wrapper div doesn't contain all of the content meaning the site looks very unattractive. Does anyone know how I can sort this? Spent hours on it already and got nowhere Thanks

Hey again everyone. Sorry for mutliple posts. I have an input field which has default text in it that clears when the user clicks it. However the text only reappear when you refresh the page. Ideally I'd like the text to appear in the text move again as soon as the user clicks somewhere else in teh page. Here is my code at the moment. <input class="last" name="txtCriteria" type="text" value="enter road name or postcode" id="postcode" onclick="this.value = '';" maxlength="20"/> May I want some kind of offclick on onmouseout command? Thanks for any help

Hey everyone. Does anyone know how you can uses checkboxes while making sure that the user can only select one checkbox and not multiple checkboxes. I know that this is achievable with radio buttons but my clients is adamant that they want to have checkboxes. Thanks for any help

Hey I have a div that I want to center so I have made the width 200px and set the left and right margins to auto. I have then put an image in this div so its centered. However the images in this div are going to change and they are all different size. To make sure the images are always centered I want to use the overflow property. I was wondering if there is a way to center the overflow? I could do margin-left: -50px if the image is 100px wide but then that won;t work for images that are 300px big etc. So I was wondering if there is a way to center the overflow automatically no matter what size the image is? Let me know if I need to explain this better because I got confused writing this. Thanks

Hey everyone I have a javascript function that runs a mortgage calculator. However when the user clicks calculate the function works but the page refreshes. Does anyone know how I can stop this? I assume so kind of preventDefault thing. Here is the code for the calculate button. <ul class="sub"><li><label class="pad2"> </label></li><li><input class="submit" type="submit" value="Calculate" onClick="computeForm(document.form1)" /> <input class="submit" type="submit" value="Reset" onClick="resetForm()" /></li></ul> Also if you want to see the site where the problem is - http://www.aspire-dns.com/beta_layout/index.php If you click on "how much will my mortgage cost" on the right you will see the mortgage calculator. Thanks