daver

excellent thankyou. I have got the contract that eskymo created that i am using for a project now. thanks for your help

Hi, ive been doing small web projects for people over the past couple of years and have decided to launch my own site and actually start advertising for work. I plan to resell website design, hosting, logo design, the usual stuff. the questions i would be gratefult if someone could answer are: 1) do i need to protect myself with any legal documents on my site? terms of service, privacy policy etc ? 2) i am not having any transactions go through the site, will i need a SSL cert, is it worth having one just for customer confidence, or even as a working example for reselling ? 3) ive had a look at some ssl cert reseller sites but havent been able to choose one as yet. can anyone recomend one? many thanks in advance dave

fantastic thanks alot. so it was the relative positioning that was throwing everything out ? its strange that it would do that for one browser and not another though isnt it ? thanks again dave

ok ive added this to my style sheet as you advised: a { color:#cc7108; outline:none; overflow:auto;} a:hover{text-decoration:none; } still no luck....

yeah sure. ive had a look in notepad++ and maybe ive been looking too long cos i cant see it. page is: http://www.swaleitservices.co.uk/index.html thanks

ie works properly. when u hover over the image you can click and the link will open in the new window as planned. in firefox when i hover over the image nothing happens.

ok thanks. il look into it more why firefox wont accept it then

hi i would like to display a picture and once clicked i would like it to open in a new window. This works fine for IE, however firefox seems to jiggle the code around. i say this as when i look at it with firebug it moves the target="" to before my href="". il show the sample code below: <li> <a href="http://www.sforsugar.com" target="_blank"> <img src="images/sforsugarthumb.jpg" alt="SforSugar.com" /> </a> firefox displays as: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sforsugar.com"><img alt="SforSugar.com" src="images/sforsugarthumb.jpg"></a> is this a known behavioural difference for firefox and would i have to enter another line of code specifically for firefox, or am i doing it incorrectly and cannot see it? many thanks dave

hi WDF think i registered here before but never got round to posting anything. i been designing as a hobby on and off for a few years and have just decided to start up a small side business. not going to actively market myself, mainly going to work on word-of-mouth and just see how it goes. look forward to making a contribution if i can dave

hi gordon thanks for replying. i been looking around and i think its like you have done where i am going wrong. i have not been floating left the main content container, just the sidebar so it looks all wonky. i cant try this remedy til i get home but from what i have seen im guessing your right. thanks for your help daver

hi. im kinda new to css and have been trying to create the following layout for a site. i want a header at the top going all the way across the screen. then 2 divs underneath, one 185px wide(#sidebar) and the other filling the rest of the area(#content). then a footer which goes all the way across the bottom. i have created a div for each and a div around all of them called #container. the problem(s): i have floated the #sidebar to the left and given the #content div a margin of 180px. This makes it sit where i want it to with regards to the #sidebar div. however it seems to drop a little bit away from the header leaving a gap. there is no margin or padding on either div, apart from the 108px margin to bring it out from behind the #sidebar. i have tried absolute positioning which works fine until i auto center the #container, then it throws everything out and i go mad. ive been reading about haslayout and what triggers it etc and cant get my head round it. any help ta

hi, my footer occasionally moves up the page to the side of the left navigation bar. am i right in thinkning i have to insert a clearing float beneath the left hand navigation bar ? if this is true how do i go about doing this many thanks daver

ok thanks, prob not best practice as you say , but maybe could do something with it. ta for your reply

yeah i think so, am at work so can only print this out and try it when i get home the only other way os to just make it a rollover which i was trying not to do, but hey, if i have to i have to ta for the reply

hi, im kinda new to this. im just working on my first site and are having some problems making a horizontal panel of buttons for the top of my site using css rules eg a:hover , etc . i have set my links into a <ul>. the problem i am getting is that i would like the whole of the button's background to change when the mouse is over the button, also have all of the button be clickable instead of just the text inside it. so far i have managed to get the text colour and the background just behind the text to change colour, and can only get it in a vertical men bar. thanks in advance dave