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around 4 seconds then off then back on then off again in the same spot. This process will continue and never stop untill i power down the psu or press the power button again. It is not even getting to read from the drives but seems like some kind of power problem or something similar. My PSU is not a cheap stock unit but a semi decent £60 500w unit that has worked great for the last few years with no problems. Its just that the sudden loss of one of my HDD's before I stripped it makes me wonder if it the psu was under stress and could no longer power this drive and stripping the PC down was its last stand before it dies. I know that the PSU is the most temperamental part of a pc too which makes me wonder. Does this sound accurate or not, im not exactly an expert you see but can quite accurately find my way around? Does anyone else have any suggestions? I think im gonna plug in all the bare essentials and make sure that they are all fitted correctly, leaving all GPU's and expansion cards and fans etc well away and if it still will not power up then Im gonna buy a cheapo PSU just to test. If it powers up then il go out and pay for a decent one. Does this sound like the best idea? Id be happy if a pro out there could perhaps provide me with a bit more guidance

Hello. I realise that this question is not relevant to web design however i could not think of a better place for support. Recently my slave SATA HDD disapeared from windows and did not even display in the drive manager, The HDD is a good quality western Digital blue caviar 160gb or something like that and is not even 12 months old. This happened very suddenly which was strange as it is only used to hold a few small files such as software etc. I regularly strip my pc to clean all the dust from inside so i figured that id give it a clean and look inside since it was very overdue. After removing cleaning and replacing everything I can now not get it to boot. It will power up for a few seconds then just turn itself off straight away. I realise that this is usualy down to something not being fitted correctly but I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction.

Iv always used transitional documents up til now but have recently started with strict doctypes. I was doing fine untill a realised that you could not use <a> types such as _self, _blank and so on. I cannot understand why these have been removed and why it is no longer essential to use them. So I presume that as standard within a strict document a hyperlink is automatically set to _self. Im just guessing here but that is the type i use 90% of the time so I can get away with that, however what happens if I want to use a different type such as _blank or one of the other? Im sure there must be another valid way to do this without leaving XHTML. Please note that I do not use javascript either as it is something I have never started to learn. I suppose it may be time since iv heard there is a way to to this using js but Im sure there must be some other way. Thank you.

Iv just finished building a webpage and all was perfect but somewhere along the line I have accidentaly changed something within the css i think as I cannot get the footer alligned in the page foot. The footer links are perfectly aligned within the page foot and to the right. The sitemap container is supposed to be on the far left hand side of the foot directly opposite the sitemap links. The main footer should sit underneath about centered as much as possible. The settings were all fine untill something changed so i cannot be that far from getting it. Im still new to raw coding so any help would be highly appreciated. 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You code you have supplied makes no change whatsoever when viewed in a browser and also the visual view on my editor also is wrong now whereas using the code i provided before it was okay in the preview but no good in the browser. I think that the fault is actually with one of the other css rules. Im gonna take another look

Hey. Iv been developin a site. but im having problems aligning my sidebar text into the sidebar. along with my content area's ob the right. Iv tried everything but its doing my head in now so i feel no other option is available other than to seek advice from the pro's. Here is my home.css #wrapper { width: 1024px; height: 1000px; background-image: url('../images/home_theme.png'); margin: auto; color: #FFFFFF; } a:link {color: #FFFFFF;} a:visited {color: #FFFFFF;} a:hover {color: #00FFFF;} #header { width: 413px; height: 20px; margin-top: 16px; float: right; text-align: center; font-weight: bolder; } #content_head { width: 650px; height: 115px; float: right; clear: both; margin-top: 114px; margin-right: 32px; } #content { height: 337px; width: 621px; float: right; margin-right: 47px; margin-top: 250px; } #sidebar_text { height: 338px; width: 301px; clear: right; margin-left: 21px; float:left; } and here is my index.html <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>Home</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="description" content="" /> <meta name="keywords" content="" /> <style type="text/css"> body { background-image:url('images/website_background.png'); background-repeat: repeat; } </style> <link / rel="stylesheet" href="css/home.css" type="text/css" media="screen"> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="header">Tel: 01782 818097 | Email: <a href="mailto:support@andys-motorcycles.com" title="email_andys_motorcycles">support@andys-motorcycles.com</a></div> <div id="content_head"><h1 align="center">Motorcycle, scooter & motocross spare parts & accessories available to order online now.</h1></div> <div id="content"><p>Do you need to buy motorbike, scooter or motocross parts fast? If so then you're in the right place. With over 30 years experience in the bike trade we are able to quickly and easily deal with any problems our customers may encounter with their bikes. With full workshop facilities & experienced mechanics on site, any mechanical or electrical repair is swiftly dealt with avoiding high garage costs that many other dealers will charge. A Local recovery service is also in operation during normal business hours for breakdown recoveries across the Stoke on Trent area.<p> <p>In stock: Piston kits, Tyres, Clutch Plates & Springs, Inner Tubes, Gaskets, Oil, Indicators, Bulbs, Seals, Filters, Reeds, Levers, Cables, Brake Pads & Shoes, Performance Parts, Ignition Coils, Brake Discs, Exhausts, CDI Units, Grips, Stickers, Cosmetics, Headlights, Handlebars, Stainless Hoses, Drive Chains & Belts, Sprockets, Generators and much, much more...<p> <p>Head on over to our fully operational online store where you can browse for the parts you require and make an immediate purchase. We send all orders made before 2pm out on the same working day and aim to get orders with their customers within 3 working days. Do not worry if you cannot find the parts you require online as we have far too much stock to list and will still be able to help. Get in touch with us and one of our staff will be more than happy to supply you with what you are looking for.<p> </div> <div id="sidebar_text"><p>We stock spare parts and accessories for most major Japanese, Italian, French, Spanish and even Chinese motorcycle and scooter brands.<p> <p>Aprilia, Derbi, Baotian, Gilera, Kawasaki, Superbyke, Yamaha, Piaggio, Suzuki, Peugeot, Honda, PGO, KTM, Haotian, Skyjet, Malaguti, CPI, Cagiva, Mini Moto's & Pit Bikes are just some of the makes & models we stock spares for.</p><p>Established at our store in Stoke-on-Trent for over 30 years we have the best local stock of new and used spares for a wide variety of bikes & scooters. For enquiries on how to buy used parts contact the shop during business hours on 01782 818097.</p> <div id="adsense"><script type="text/javascript"> google_ad_client = "pub-5431799335873325"; google_ad_slot = "1322372698"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div> </div> </body> </html> My visual preview on my html editor shows everything lined up absolutely perfectly however when I view within a browser the sidebar text and sidebar adsense ad shows under my main content text but floated to the right. Iv recently converted from Dreamweaver wysiwyg to raw html coding do please be patient with me as this is my first web project ever by hand. Thank you.

That has answered my question realy - google cannot see css. I completely understand that html is for content and css is for styling but i was just wondering how to define a header tag as ewven though it is content is does also seem to apply a style to the text. Thank you for your answer.

What I was realy asking was how to differentiate when to write rules with CSS and when to use HTML. Obviously HTML is the main language for web design and therefore most important but if html is so important then what is the use of css. I was realy asking from the point of SEO and search engines since this is also one of the most important feature for web designers.

When writing a header that is sitting inside its own DIV or table is it better to add the H tag aroiund the text itself via HTML or will the search engines see it just as well if written within the .css rule attatched to the same document? Im one of those designers that likes to write most of his code all nice & tightly with .CSS rather than html. I tend to try and keep my HTML minimum but i do not know whether this is bad for SEO. Can search engines immediately tell that the most important text on the page or h1 when the code is written seperately with CSS. Most things are not realy eltered by this but I was not sure about the header tags. Thank you.

Right. Well in the case of this website i cant change the look so if possible i need to try and edit my current theme. I do still have the psd templates and am currently trying to sort it out but im a little inexperineced. What would be your next move on this site. I am currently trying a teqnique where i save the entire page as a single .png file and enter it as a single css wrapper background and then code all the main content areas -header, footer, contentm sidebar, etc - with css by hand. Do you think this would make my site perform better or would it still be slow to load the wrapper css backgound image which is actually the entire page.

Iv fugured it out. Image paths in css are relative to the style sheet, not the html. This is the code that finaly did it for me background-image: url('../images/home_theme.png'); Thanks for trying though

Well iv changed the code exactly how you typed it but still will not atatch. What is wrong?

Hey. Sorry for asking something that is probably daft to many of you but i have only just moved onto raw coding rather than using dreamweaver so im very rusty now. I simply cannot get my html page to link to my .css file unless i write in inside the html file itself rther than having the seperate .css file. Where am i going wrong? wrapper.css #wrapper { width: 1024px; height: 1000px; background-image: url('images/home_theme.png'); } index.html <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="description" content="" /> <meta name="keywords" content="" /> <link href="css/wrapper.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></link> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"></div> </body> </html> Thank you

I do manually create my own slices around the main content areas as well as navigation area however upon saving for web & devices photoshop automatically creates a whole host of other slices to account for the rest of the space on the shape that sits inbetween the slices i made. Check my page - http://www.andys-motorcycles.com

But i want all of them! What im trying to do is reduce the ammount of slices that photoshop is automaticaly creating around the slices i did actually create. If i dont export them all i have giant blank spaces inbetween the slices i did select. Is there a way just keep the slices iv created and have the rest of the page as a single image?