Tucker

Set the line-height to the height of the containing element.

Hi, What do you guys think to site wide links? I have a lot of contacts with sites, that I could *persuade to give me a site wide link. In the past i've seen good results from these, but i'm hearing they're a bad idea. How at any point could Google penalise for such links? They have been around since the start of the web!

Try: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

1. Gradients can work, and look very modern if done correctly. Never fade grey to a colour, just looks plain ugly imo. 2. Give your right column some padding, text should never be touching the edge of its container. 3. Content area generally needs more breathing space, and more contrast (lighter bg) as already said. 4. Top area seems pointless

Not that I can think of. Why would rebooting a server cause its settings to change?

Ewww notepad? Don't you miss the pretty syntax colouring?

Nothing wrong with that, works for me. There must be more to it, can you paste your entire code?

SlogBot?

Photoshop is an amazing bit of software, but for vector support I've always found it hard work. Fireworks really is the king for clean vector layouts, FACT!

It's probably taken but, Bloooogle or something

Ok it's a reserved character and should percent-encoded. But it still works fine, see attached. I think I will swallow my pride and change to hyphens.

Intel Core 2 Duo processor = Much Better! Good prices here: Ebuyer

Hmm if you're on a budget, surely a Mac isn't going to be affordable? You've kind of got your priorities with the spec the wrong way around. RAM is very easy to upgrade, and cheaply too, so don't let this be a deciding factor. Get a Core2Duo, you'll be future proofing it as best you can. I'd also say the screen is important, get at least a 1280x800 screen. For a programmer this is a bare minimum.

Not one of you has given me a reason not to use a plus!

I got a Hostway VPS, most reliable VPS i've ever come across

Hey mate, I used to be a bit of a vinyl collector myself, probably much of a different style no doubt! I'm going to be honest with you here, but I hope since you're a beginner you won't take this to heart, you should see my first website lol. 1. Your using a beige background with a 16 colour pallette blue, that's just not very pleasing on the eye. It should be very easy to change the colour of all links, although i wouldn't know how in your software. 2. The logo/text on the header graphic you have created is very pixelated, for no reason. You should look for a decent graphics program for this. 3. I think the buttons down the left hand side look cheesey and don't suit the style at all. 4. The are also many places you have got a graphic and just scaled it in your HTML editor, this is really bad and it's what makes images look pixelated. On the plus side, it looks like your content is very good, well written etc.

Hey Penguin, I tried hacking one of my own config files and whatever I did, i couldn't read the variable like $dbusername etc. Presumably it's not possible as I have register globals off?

Same HTML but with this JS: <script type="text/javascript"> function hideDivs() { document.getElementById('div1').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('div2').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('div3').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('div4').style.display = 'none'; } function showDiv(id) { hideDivs(); document.getElementById('div'+id).style.display = 'block'; } </script> Above example if you have 4 divs named div1-4. The show div function concatinates the string 'div' with the value of the select box (1-4), making it show the relevant div.

Glad i'm not the only one that feels soo strongly about this stuff!

The best way to import it is from command line, if you have access. If not try something like navicat, it has no file upload so won't be a problem. Navicat Free Trial

What I experience a lot of is temporary freezes, stopping you from switching tabs, or just making it very slow. My theory is JS heavy and Flash websites cause it. It seems to take a long time to render certain pages. Prime culprit for me is : http://eu.wowarmory.com/

This is what i'm talking about. When i click that button I have to wait 20 seconds (DW kinda locks up) before I can edit the site settings. On both my PCs i'm using a local fast hard disk, plenty of memory, one is quad core, the other dual core. I've since reformatted my laptop and it's not doing it on there any more, even though I don't actually use that for work.

No problem!

In your code you have: </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> I haven't traced all the divs back to their start tags, but i think you need to do something like this to stop the left floated div overlapping its container. </div><!--end of content_main div--> <div style="width: 740px; height: 10px; clear: both;"><!--clear--></div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> If this doesn't work, then you may need to change content_main to a floating left div. Tuck

Are you sure? It was my understanding you only that to do this with font names containing spaces or odd characters..