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It does help, thanks. I thought I might be making it a bit complicated! And thanks for the quick response. S

This will seem so simple to seasoned developers, I hope. I've been out of the game for a long time and just building a site for a friend. She wants a horizontal menu with four items. Three of the items are simple links to new pages, the third has a dropdown list of sub-menu items that appear on rollover. Is this possible? I've found plenty of jQuery menus but not one that allows what I am looking for. Can anyone help? thanks

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, but I'm sure some kind bod will point me in the right direction. My client's web host has moved their website to a secure server only allowing pre-authorised IP addresses. I do not have a static IP address, never saw the need before. Is there a way round this, I work on a mac, is there a way to assign a static IP or does this have to be provided by my ISP? I'm on BT btw. cheers

Can you point me in the direction of one of those old chestnuts? This one has given me lots of debate about Olympic logos but not much to help me in my quest for recognition in my team! Ho hum, back to being all-round creative goddess again....

Haha, how true! To be fair he is giving me an opportunity to redraft my job description and title but only coz I'm making waves about it all. I guess the struggle is for the term designer to be really understood for all that in involves and not just some kind of Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen (uk peeps will know him) character who just chooses the curtains and cushions!

In the big picture, no. In the fact that multimedia developer gets paid a whole lot more than me! because no-one really knows what she does and designers well... they just make stuff look good don't they? hell yeah it matters!

I work for a large organisation as a 'Website Designer' and have done for the last three years. In that time though my work has grown to cover all kinds of stuff: structure design and development; content writing and development including editing content submitted by others; video work including storyboarding, scripting, shooting and editing; Flash based interactive work, including ActionScript, video and graphics; interactive training packages; photography; plus the usual graphic design, html, css, javascript etc. I also cover for my boss and deal with issues when he's not there (which is often)! I'm feeling like the job title just doesn't cover what I do and have always felt the word 'designer' summons up in the minds of the uneducated (my management) images of superficial input, choosing the colours, fonts and images, arranging the page, making it look 'pretty'. Anyone got any great ideas for a new job title (apart from All-round Creative Goddess) that I can put to my manager that is a bit more relevant in today's industry. We already have a multimedia developer who does mainly video work. cheers everyone

I need to be able to send out an html based visual message by email. This used to quite simple, create the html page in Dreamweaver, copy the html into a word html source and then "send to" the recipient via word. The newer version of outlook express (my email software) no longer supports sending html via word so I'm having to start all over again to find how to do it. Does anybody have experience of doing this and can you point me in the right direction? I'm using Dreamweaver, Word 2003 and Outlook 2007. thanks

Thanks so much, and for being so quick! One day I will learn php but it's so hard to know where to start!! diolch yn fawr (thanks very much in welsh!)

I am working on a bilingual site which has one folder for english site and another for the second language (welsh). The two folders are mirrors of eachother so all the files names are the same, just with a different folder name ie. english/contact.php welsh/contact.php The navigation that switches from one language to another is a php include but I'm not sure how to create it so that, when clicked, the 'welsh' link takes my visitor from one page to the equivalent page in the welsh folder. I currently do this with a static html navigation and hard code each link seperately but really need to make this work dynamically. Can anyone help me out here? many thanks

Did you get this working Stu, I'd be interested to see. cheers

Found a way of doing this with <li><a <?php if ($thisPage == "onea") { echo ' id="active"'; }?> href="onea.php">menu onea</a></li> on my menu and <?php $thisPage="onea"; ?> <?php include ("menu.html"); ?> on the linked to page added #active {font-style:bold; background-color:#fff;} in my style sheet and it seems to work. Think I'm gonna check out the tutorial ElanMan mentions too for the function which will be useful. thanks for the tips guys! My next task is to expand an accordion menu at the right time/place! Should be fun!!

Not sure if this is the right place to post, but here goes.. If I have a php included nav menu on my pages, is there any way for the menu to recognise which menu item is active and be styled accordingly? BTW: I'm not a php whizz, just using it for included menu on each page. many thanks

You are genius! Took me just the right amount of hair pulling to suss it out. Don't you just hate it when it's too easy? Managed to work it out, but only by pasting the javascript links from WK's page source rather than the code in the instructions. Did you have to do that also? thanks for your help, much appreciated!

Well I might do... on my next project! For now its all set up and running in Lightbox!! thanks for the tip

Anyone know how to change the lightbox files to do away with the current prev/next buttons on rollover and replace with simple text at bottom? e.g. Image 1 of 24 | prev/next I've seen it in a few places, but not sure how to change the css/js files. thanks

I just tried that, and it seems to work fine. Well in Firefox anyway. It was quote rather than apostrophe marks that had thrown me until I read this post. Cheers everybody!

OK, so not so great from an accessibility point of view?

that looks like it might do the trick! works w/o javascript enabled and collapses/expands one at a time! great! PandS - not sure that your menu does both, but thanks anyway... many thanks

Thanks everybody for your suggestions and sorry for the delay in responding. Am looking at using an expanding menu list to achieve this as its all text content and i want it to degrade gracefully when javascript is switched off. peguin what do you mean by the (fragile) above? Do you think it will misbehave in some browsers??

Can anybody help me with an expanding menu where new item collapses when another item is selected? Only one expanded menu item at a time. Also the menu needs to degrade gracefully with javascript turned off i.e. all content still visible. Everything I've found so far either doesn't work w/o javascript or has more than one expanded item at a time. many thanks

My client wants the user to be able to click on a word or picture and then relevant text to appear beneath which then changes when they click on a different word or picture I'm guessing its some kind of visible / invisible div but not quite sure how to go about implementing this. Can anyone point me in the right direction or let me know of any issues with doing this? Thanks