bassmish123

Morning all, We have a vacancy search function on our website but I don't think it looks great or offers the best functionality to our users. The information is pulled through from our inhouse database so we are slightly limited with the data we have. http://www.fuelrecruitment.co.uk/jobs/ I would appreciate any ideas or suggestions to make it more user-friendly and attractive. Thanks so much in advance! Michelle

Hi all, hope you can give me some advice. I've just built a DW site, www.fuelrecruitment.co.uk, now my boss wants a CMS (even though I'm the only one in the office that would edit it anyway!) I've been looking into different options: Wordpress, Drupal, CushyCMS, even Contribute. I have a couple of questions: - A lot of people are recommending Wordpress but how much work would it be to take the whole site and re-do it on Wordpress? And would I then be restricted on options for future development when compared to DW? - Is there a solution that I could plug-in/extend on DW so that users could edit the basics but would still allow me the ability to edit code etc in DW - Our current website links to our bespoke database that updates the vacancy page every 15 minutes, could this potentially cause problems when using something like Wordpress? Basically I'm looking for a solution that still gives me control but allows simple edits by other users to keep my boss happy! Thanks guys

Hi everyone, I have followed David Power's tutorial on linking to specific tabs in an Accoridion widget. I have got a test page working: http://fuelrecruitmenttest.co.uk/linktest.html which links to specific stories on my news page. My problem is, I'm adding news stories in the accordion panel, so the newest story goes on the top. Javascript counts the top panel as 0, the second panel as 1 etc etc. So if I was to add a new panel, any previous links I have to the top panel would be to the wrong story. My question is, Is there anyway of counting from the bottom panel up? Or any other workaround that people can think of eg: giving each panel a unique identifier so that the links remain the same even when new stories are added. Thanks!

So my brilliant IT support chap offered the following fix which has worked a treat: <br style=”clear:both;” /> in front the sidemenu div. Sorted! : )

I've just noticed that when I view the homepage in IE and zoom in, it looks fine. But all the other pages break on zoom. The plot thickens!

I did come across the hasLayout phrase a lot when trying to fix the issue - haven't had any experience of it myself but will look into it : )

Thanks Paul, I had wondered whether changing the sizes to em instead of px would help. I'll give it a go!: ) PS can you explain what a neuralgic element is please?

Hi everyone, hopefully someone can help with this. When I view my site: www.fuelrecruitment.co.uk in IE8 and zoom in, the layout breaks. I've tried different position:, clears: overflow: and display: attributes on the divs but nothing seems to fix it. So frustrating as it seems to zoom in fine in other browsers. Can anyone advise please? Many thanks Michelle

Fixed it by removing the text-align: centre; attribute from the CSS for a: active a:active { text-decoration: none; text-align: center; } No more jumping links!

Hi everyone, I'm sure there's a simple answer to this: when I click on my menu links, they jump to the right, eg: http://fuelrecruitmenttest.co.uk/career_guidance.html The above link is to the test site, here's a link to the main site where the links dont jump: http://www.fuelrecruitment.co.uk/specialist_sectors.html I've changed the width of the vertical navigations menu but cant see how this would affect the links? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks so much! Mish

Hi, thanks for the advice! I've tried it and still looking weird... back to the drawing board!

Hi all, please can I get a fresh pair of eyes to help with a simple div flow problem? http://fuelrecruitmenttest.co.uk/submitcv.aspx something weird's happening with the layout, I know its because one of the div tags it too wide and is upsetting the flow but I cant find it! I'd be so grateful if someone could point out whats going wrong. For comparison purposes, http://fuelrecruitmenttest.co.uk/testing/columns.html uses the same layout but looks fine. Help! many many thanks Mish

Is there a way of tracking visitors to a site that I cant paste code into? Basically I've redesigned a website and would like to see how the new design compares to the old one. However, I dont have access to paste html into the old site as the designers wont give us ftp access. I don't really need detailed data, just basics like number of visitors per month etc.

Thanks everyone - I went with a spry accordian in the end, its looking pretty good : ) The test site is almost done, would be great to hear eveyone's opinions when its up!

Hi there - I'm hoping someone can suggest a fairly simple way of adding a 'read more' and 'read less' function on my website. I have several testimonials that I want to add to my main page, but to keep it neat and to avoid users from having to scroll through loads of text, I though I could have some 'teaser' text, and if they wanted to 'read more' it then reveals the rest of the text. I have seen this on lots of other sites and hopefully its simple enough! I am using Dreamweaver but am happy adding code manually. Many thanks.