Killer
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So I downloaded IE9 earlier and thought I'd see how my latest project looked in it. I was surprised that things weren't quite right. There weren't any major layout issues, but the text looked weird, and it was all bunched up. I turned on compatibilty mode and hey presto, it was fine. The text looked normal again, and was properly spaced. So whats the deal, why does the site only look right in compatibilty mode? It's valid XHTML 1.1, with this doctype: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
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Where are you downloading Lightbox from? If you download the Zip here - http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/#download There is a folder in the zip called js, containing all of the required javascript for lightbox.
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Java - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28programming_language%29 Javascript - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
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i don't really understand the scam in the original post? You're getting free advertising by the sound of it?
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A build. This was assuming the £500 didn't include an O/S or monitor. If it does that would change things of course. CPU - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/251595 MOBO - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/252615 GPU - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/198817 RAM - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173122 CASE - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143854 HDD - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/193712 PSU - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/190751 DVD - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/250228 Total (with 5 day free shipping) - £491.36 This is a powerful quad core Sandy Bridge setup, featuring a USB 3.0 and SATA3 motherboard, with a fast 1TB HDD and a low profile silent GPU, just enough to give you the extra outputs and help out with graphical output, but it's no money wasting gaming GPU. Be aware of the Sandy Bridge mobo issue though, as mentioned on the mobo description. It's not a massive problem as long as you don't use those SATA ports and you will be able to get a replacement mobo without the problem when they're available at no extra charge.
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I've nothing to add but I'd just like to say thanks for mentioning ySlow, handy tool I didn't know of before.
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Welcome to web design! This is probably going to be a recurring problem with cross browser design, but things are usually always fixable. If you post the source code or link to the live site we should be able to help.
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I thoroughly recommend the reseller package from TSOHost - Tsohost. Their service is second to none in my opinion, they don't oversell themselves and if you're a UK host with UK clients, the fact their servers are based in the UK is a huge plus for both you and your clients. Prices are from £149 per year to £349 per year, easily recoupable (is that a word?) from your clients depending how many you have of course. Oh also their claims of 99.9% uptime are true, but in the unlikely event that you do have downtime more than that (About 43 minutes in a month) you'll get that months hosting for free. Simple as that.
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PHP is used all over the internet for thousands of different reasons, so it's definitely very efficient, when it's written well. Bad PHP/overengineered PHP can slow things down though, you're right. PHP includes really are exremely simple though, all you're basically writing is one simple thing. Open PHP, writing that you want to use the include function and then specifying where the file to be included is. Super simple.
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I would also advise php includes. Basically build the whole page up, then cut out parts of the code that are repeatable on each page, save them as php files then link to them. So as a very crude example, imagine this is your index.php <div id="header">this is my header content, it's the same on every page</div> <div id="main">This is the variable part of my site, it changes on each page</div> <div id="footer">This is the footer, it's the same on every page</div> Would become <?php include('header.php'); ?> <div id="main">This is the variable part of my site, it changes on each page</div> <?php include('footer.php'); ?> and you would have of course a header.php and footer.php with the contents of them.
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Looks useful, I'll give it a go. Thanks.
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Yeah I'm working with PHP and obviously have MySQL and have looked into it, but from therein I don't know what I'm doing. That's kinda what i was asking here, where do I start?
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Well of course, but it's such a tiny ammount does it really matter?
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Hi guys, Just so it's clear to start with I'm not looking for any offers of work hence why I've not posted in the looking to hire forum, so don't send me any offers. I'm just wanting to get an idea if I could do the following work, or if not how much it might cost. Ok, so I am redesigning and rebuilding this website - http://www.foofighterslive.com. It documents live performances by a rock band Foo Fighters, detailing venue, setlists, recordings and such at each show. There are currently over 1000 single files, one for each date. This is obviously not a very good idea for a multitude of reasons, so I'm wanting to consolidate it all into a database somehow, then just have one show.php generated for each show from the db. This is the problem though, beyond some stuff in MS Access I have little experience with databases, and nothing in online ones. So, what would I be looking at doing for a project like this? I assume there would need to be several tables in a database like all of the songs, the venues, dates etc that would all be relational, and then add a frontend web admin panel to add/edit shows. It seems like a hell of a lot of work to me, where on earth would I even start learning myself? If it's not something I can learn and do in a couple of months myself, how much would I be looking at paying someone to do the work? Again don't submit any offers, I can't afford to pay for anything right now. Just looking for an idea of cost.
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Can I ask why not?
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What I've found very effective is adding an extra mandatory field to the signup page, making it a question that is simple to answer for visitors of your site, but won't be guessed by bots. I had a forum running with reCaptcha but it was still getting 10+ bots signing up a day. I added a simple question that any human visiting the site would know and instantly bot signups went to 0. Very effective. So on that site you might ask "What is the traditional colour of a wedding dress?" and then obviously set the only acceptable answer as White. If the person attempting registration doesn't answer correctly, they can't register. This is with vBulletin though, I don't know how easy it is to add something like that to other forum software.
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http://www.lipsum.com/ Just paste it directly into the code part of your page. Not sure what you mean by text going horizontal.
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Thanks for the advice. That copyscape site seems handy for what I want to make sure isn't copied. The other site was handy as well, thanks. When it says to add this to your head: <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/" /> Does that just have to be on the index page, or every page on the site?
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We all know that trying to stop people copying stuff from your site is quite pointless. Be it a photo or section of text, if someone wants to copy/save it they will. Whether you prevent right clicking all together or using some trickery to stop photos downloading, people will find a way, and a copyright notice at the footer of the page isn't really going to bother them. So I'm not looking for a to stop people downloading images from a site or copying text, what I want to know is if it's possible to add a warning box when people attempt to save or copy certain pictures or sections of text. They would still be able to do what they want after the warning, but I want that to serve as an extra warning that what they're copying/saving is copyrighted. The official Formula 1 site does this with it's pictures: http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2011/3/11808.html But I'm more interested in text. Say the text on that page was copyrighted text, is there a way I could show a similar warning whenever someone highlighed the text, or attempted to copy it? Again, I'd still like them to be able to copy it, just get an extra copyright warning first. Cheers
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It doesn't seem to be working. I've got it very simple: <input name="email" type="text" class="input" value="email" /><br /> .input { background-image:url(../images/trans2.png); width: 960px; } Like I say the transparent png is definitely transparent, I could for example use it for a background in a normal DIV and it'll show as intended, but as above for an input field it just turns solid. No, single CSS file.
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As the title suggests really, is it possible to somehow use a semi-transparent png as a background to form fields? I've tried with a transparent png set as a background but it just shows up as a solid color instead. The PNG is definitely saved transparent, I can use it somewhere else on the page and it'll be transparent, but not the form field? I'd assumed it's not possible but I'm sure I've seen transparent backgrounds on contact forms around the web. Something like this: Thanks.
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I'm still looking to do this. Another browser I've found that doesn't work with @font-face is the Playstation 3 one. I know it's a minority but I'd still like for them to have a decent site to look at. At the moment I have a custom font but there is no backup font that is as small at the same font size. I just need to be able to use for example size 18 in the @font-face font but size 12 in the backup font. Is it possible maybe to add a conditional statement to load a different CSS file if the browser doesn't support @font-face?
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I have the video converted to SWF now with Adobe Flash but I still can't stop autoplay and now it's looping. Even when I do the settings in Adobe Flash and preview the output it does it, autoplays and loops, even though the code it generates clearly says not to: <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="272" id="Untitled-1" align="middle"> <param name="movie" value="Untitled-1.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <param name="play" value="false" /> <param name="loop" value="false" /> <param name="wmode" value="direct" /> <param name="scale" value="showall" /> <param name="menu" value="true" /> <param name="devicefont" value="false" /> <param name="salign" value="" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> <!--[if !IE]>--> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="Untitled-1.swf" width="480" height="272"> <param name="movie" value="Untitled-1.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <param name="play" value="false" /> <param name="loop" value="false" /> <param name="wmode" value="direct" /> <param name="scale" value="showall" /> <param name="menu" value="true" /> <param name="devicefont" value="false" /> <param name="salign" value="" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> <!--<![endif]--> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash"> <img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" /> </a> <!--[if !IE]>--> </object> <!--<![endif]--> </object> What the hell is going on? Why isn't it working properly?
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Ok I have what I thought was a very basic task. Embed a video in a webpage (hosted with the site, not from youtube or something). The video I have is a MOV but needs to be downsized so needs encoding any way so I thought ok, I'll encode it to FLV and embed it with fash player. Easy I thought. Well no matter how many ways I find to embed flash video none of them work as I want. They either only seem to accept SWF rather than FLV or I can't get non-autostart with a play button or the video just plain doesn't load. Then I tried things like jwplayer but they have a watermark. So can someone please stop me from going insane and tell me how to.. - Embed an flv video in a webpage that works in all browsers with flash installed - no control bar (skip/volume/size etc) - no autostart - no watermark - just a play button for them to start it which appears again when it's finished. I never thought something so simple could be so frustrating!
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In brief the magazine style is an interesting idea but then I was disapointed when I visted othe pages and the style was gone. I'd like to see the whole site in the same magazine style if the home page is like that. As it is now you have that page which is fairly unique (not entirely sure I like it from a navigation point of view though) then the actual content pages seem to be faily generic template styles. Just my thoughts.
