LuluG
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Hi I wasn't sure where to post this, but hopefully it's in the right place. If not, I'm sure someone will tell me!! I need to do a clean instal on my pc and would like to know the steps I need to take in order to ensure that, when I reinstall Dreamweaver CS5, my websites and test sites still work ok. I've been able to find one or two bits of information online, but nothing which gives a comprehensive guide. So far, I've backed up my Site Definitions. I've also copied all my websites and test sites, ie html files, css files etc to an external HDD. That said, the live site wouldn't copy across for some reason. I've had to manually copy each file and all bar one seems to have copied ok. Is there anything else I need to do before I wipe my hard drive? Once I've reinstalled all my software etc, what steps do I need to take to get my websites back onto my pc successfully to ensure that they all work ok? Many thanks.
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Hi, missed this yesterday when I was going through the replies. Thanks for your post. I'll work with width/height for the moment and see if that works for the 'rogue' images. If not, I'll post a link. Many thanks.
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Thanks for this variation on RowruffDesign's suggestion. Much appreciated.
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Thanks for this. Yes I can do that and it seems to work, but I still don't understand why the problem only affects certain images.
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Hi, I have created a simple website and all the images are sized using Photoshop CS4 beforehand. When viewed in Chrome and Firefox, the images all appear as they should do. When viewed in IE9, a few of the images throughout the website are larger than they should be. They are not confined to one page, it's generally one image out of several wich is affected. Here's what I've done to try and sort out the problem, without success: - checked Internet Options to make sure that Enable Automatic Resizing is not checked, which it isn't - checked the code and there is nothing I can see which should force certain images to resize. - xhecked that one or two of the affected images are correctly sized which they are. To make sure, I deleted one of them and did the work again in Photoshop. IE9 still resized the image to be 1" approx. bigger. Can anyone suggest anything else I can do, check etc? Hope to hear from someone soon. Many thanks.
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Thanks, Mike. Good link - I can see I will be using it ... a lot!
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Thanks for your post, Mike. To be honest, I'm not sure what code I'm using! What I've learnt so far is mainly from online tutorials and books so I imagine that it could be a 'bit of this' and a 'bit of that'. Silly question perhaps, but how would I know? Any recommendations on where to start to learn about HTML and CSS?
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Thanks for your post, and the link. I can see that I need to learn a lot more about DOCTYPES!
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Thanks for your post, porkchops. I'll look into HTML5.
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Hi, I'm new to web design and although I have read a fair bit about DOCTYPE, I find it all a bit confusing. I was wondering what DOCTYPE those with more experience would recommend to someone who could best be described as keen amateur who has been asked to design a few sites for friends. Some of the sites may be viewed by IE 6 and 7. I use Dreamweaver CS5. To date I have used this: <!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"> But have also used this to get IE6/7 to look ok: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> Any advice you can give would be much appreciated. Thanks (in advance)!
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I've just checked it in IE7 and the drop quite possibly equates to the height of the top level menu's. It's a spry menu bar, not sure if that helps (or hinders!)? OK, progress of sorts! I went back to your link (jsFiddle) and read through it again and suddenly it all made sense! There was just a flat line across the top of the menu bar. I added your cleared statement to index.html and my templates and have a box around the spry menu. I removed a margin I had previously set to force the image away from the menu. However, the cleared statement makes no difference to my Contact page. Would you be able to have a look at it for me to see what is happening?
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Quite possibly, but not sure.
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Hi, I've decided against having a background image, but am still having one or two problems with the display in IE6 and 7 which some of the potential users may have. The main image should only be a couple of mm below the menu bar, but drops by about 1/2" in IE 6/7. Not sure if it's linked to the float problem. I've loaded the test site here: www.gomeril.co.uk. I'd appreciate your comments. Thanks.
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Hi, I'm quite new to website design and can't write javascript as yet. My CSS is 'trainee level' so please be gentle with me! I've recently installed Fancybox 1.3.4 which works fine, but I'd like to make some changes to the way the gallery displays. The caption appeared 'over' the image, but I wanted it 'inside'. Below is the code I cut and paste from Fancybox website, which I then adjusted as shown: <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $(".fancybox").fancybox({ 'transitionIn' : 'none', 'transitionOut' : 'none', 'overlayColor' : '#000000', 'overlayOpacity' : '0.90', 'titlePosition' : 'over', <!-- was 'inside' --> 'titleFormat' : function(title, currentArray,currentIndex, currentOpts) { return '<span id="fancybox-title-inside">Image ' + (currentIndex + 1) + ' of ' + currentArray.length + (title.length ? ' ' + title : '') + '</span>'; } }); <!-- was fancybox-title-over --> </script> This bought the title inside (see attached), but the text is displaying partly outside the frame. I would like the text aligning to the left, possibly made bold, with the 'Image 1 of 3' text showing on a new line below it, ie This is a title for an image Image 1 of 3 The existing styling for fancybox-title-inside is as follows. Whatever I try, most of the changes don't have any effect, or make the display worse: .fancybox-title-inside { padding-bottom: 10px; text-align: center; /* tried left, made no difference */ color: #333; background: #fff; position: relative; } Can someone help me with the javascript and CSS to do this please? Many thanks.
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Thanks, Mike. I prefer 'root > img > galleries > gallery_1' and, as there seems to be no problem re slowing things down or whatever, I'll go with that. Makes things easier to find.
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Thanks for your post, FizixRichard. It's only a small site so I'm unlikely to hit any limits.
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Hi I'm new to website design, so apologies for asking a basic question. I'm want to start adding images to my gallery pages and would like to start with 'best practice' re setting up folders. I have an 'images' folder directly under the root folder and, from what I've read, it's best to have all images in one folder. I was going to place the images for each gallery within a sub folder, ie myWebsite > images > gallery1 (gallery2, gallery3 etc). Does that sound ok, or would if be better/faster loading etc if the gallery folder are directly under the root folder, ie: myWebsite > gallery1 (gallery2, gallery3 etc). Any advice that more experienced designers can give me would be much appreciated. Many thanks.
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Thanks, Robby. Interesting idea. I'll try it out.
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Thanks for your post, and the recommendation re FileZilla. Where do I edit the project properties? If I look at the Site > Manage area (or Settings) the path for all the folders I have point to the folder I tried to move. If I alter the path, it just changes the 'top level' folder name, ie the one I tried to move. The Address for each page is showing correctly, for example: file:///C/Users/myName/desktop/ContactFormTest/contact.html Would it reset everything back to the way it was if I uninstall DW and reinstall it, and what impact would that have on my completed project and those I have been using for testing?
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Thanks for getting back to me. I'm really new to website design, so using DW seemed the easiest option as there are loads of books, tutorials, forums etc. The urgent bit was because I had just finished a complete site (after all the testing) and was due to upload it for the customer to look at yesterday. The completed site folder was on my desktop so has ended up as a subfolder of the folder I was trying to move, along with everything else on my desktop. I couldn't upload it because the site no longer exists as such. I can't start from scratch because everything has become a sub folder of the folder I tried to move! I somehow need to undo what I've done, but I don't know how because I actually don't understand what has happened. Any ideas as to how I could progress would be very much appreciated.
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Hi It seems that I have had a lot of people viewing my question, but no responses as yet. I've just realised I forgot to say that I use Dreamweaver CS5. Is more information needed, something I've not included that would enable someone to help me?
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Hi I have a lot of web 'sites' in folders on my desktop which I use to test things out like forms, lightboxes etc. None of them are live. I wanted to tidy up the desktop so created a new folder with the idea of moving all the dummy sites folders into it. I moved one folder but when I moved the second, I got the message: "The root folder you have chosen is the same as the folder for site 'ContactTest'. This may cause some operations, such as synchronization, to work incorrectly. Proceed anyway?". As the folder I was transferring wasn't terribly important, I thought I would see what happened so ok'd it. When I tried the site, it wouldn't work so I decided to move it back out to the desktop. When I did this I was received this message which I ok'd: "The cache will now be recreated because the name, root folder, HTTP address of cloaking settings of the site have been changed." The result is that all my desktop links, folders etc are now in the dummy website folder as files and sub folders?! If I delete the links, they are deleted from the desktop. I have no idea how to put everything back to the way it was. Can anyone help me please?
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Thanks, pat24. I've seen a few of these packages, but they all have the same sort of issues that you have to address in Photoshop, ie cropping or squashing to achieve a reasonable image for the thumbnail. I know that you can also use height and width within the html. I was just interested how/what the more experienced designers do.
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Hi I can create thumbnails using Photoshop but have the usual problems re not all images fit into a rectangle, square etc. I've noticed that some website gallery thumbnails don't seem to have this problem. The images fit really well. I was wondering if anyone knew how to do that, is it specific software, or is it some kind of cool scripting?
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Hi I've set up a Gallery page using Fancybox which I want to style using CSS. Do I add the styling to my main styles.css file or the jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css file? It works fine in both, but I wondered if there is a 'standard' way of handling this type of thing.