bjarvis2785

Hi all, Just wondering if anybody could point me in the right direction for a booking system for a hotel website. I'm currently developing a website for hotels in wales, and would like to offer the ability to book directly through the website, and take a commission on the booking. are there any pre-made systems for this or would it be a custom job?

hi all, I'm currently in the middle of converting a template i got from the web to a CMS called PHP Fusion. Here's what the template should look like: http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/newave Here's the work in progress: http://www.b-jarvis.co.uk/test/ Now then, here's my issue. As you can see, i should have two columns - i can get two columns by specifying widths in px. This is no good to me as my right column is dynamic (in that it hides on certain pages, so that it becomes a single column the full page width - this is set by me in the admin panel of the CMS). What i need to do (ideally) is set the width of the right column to 380px and the left column to 100% - this way when the right column is hidden, the left column stretches to 100% width. I can't see to get it to work though... i'm almost certain this is possible, but not sure where i'm going wrong. Here's my DIV layout: echo "<div id='page'>\n"; echo "<div id='featured-intervuu'>".U_CENTER.CONTENT."</div>\n"; if (RIGHT) { echo "<div id='recent-intervuu'>".RIGHT."</div>\n"; } echo "<div id='sidebar'>".L_CENTER."</div>\n"; echo "</div>\n"; and here's my CSS: #page { width: 920px; margin: 0 auto; padding-top: 20px; } #featured-intervuu { float: left; width: 100%; margin: 0; } #recent-intervuu { float: right; width: 380px; padding: 12px 0 0 30px; background: url(images/img03.gif) repeat-y; }

if you are unable to purchase technick.com - have you tried technickel.com? It's a combination of the two domains you were looking at but also a little play on the word 'technical' - might work?

personally, i love the design but up until the actual content i don't think it looks very 'newsy'. I've seen the stdownloads site before and thought the design fitted well for the type of site, it feels fresh and is easy to view - unlike other download sites - but for me, it doesn't completely transport to the news site. The clouds i like, but i think it's the grass... if i was visiting the site, i wouldn't understand why it's there? To me, it looks like an image i would find on a site trying to sell me it's services. I would expect to find a cheesy testimonial overlaid on to it. I also don't think the glossy blue navigation suits the style of a news site, I'm not sure why, but i think it's just not what i would expect to see on that type of website - although maybe that's a good thing!? sorry if i haven't explained myself very well... just my opinion, but will hopefully give you something to go on.

top stuff! I'll give it a go, looks like what i need.

i have thought about that, but it's software that she is not familiar with and i wouldn't like the fact that she knew when i was online... she'd bug the hell outta me all the time. lol i figured if there was a website i could direct her too that would make a connection between computers with minimal user intervention (from her) then that would be ideal.

How do all, A family friend often asks me for help with her PC, but nine times out of ten it's stuff i could do remotely. The problem is she's not too handy on the PC and is also visually impaired so i don't really want to go setting up third party software on her PC that will just confuse her, so i am looking for a free web based remote desktop (if such thing exists). I need it as easy as possible without the client PC having to download any additional software. Any suggestions?

I think he means that pretty much any tutorial written these days just uses generic terms and do not always answer the question at hand because they are too generic - which i completely agree with. For example, a tutorial about a php contact list... Instead of using $foo1, $foo2, $foo3 throughout the tutorial use $name, $number, $address i hope that makes sense... It's like the old "hello world" at the start of possibly every tutorial ever written... don't do that, i'm very much a beginner, but there's only so many times i can skip the Hello World! Also, one thing that gets me about tutorial/resource sites is that most of them try and cram as much info in as possible... i would prefer a site that a beginner like myself can actually find what they are looking for easily

That makes perfect sense! I've never thought about doing that... thanks very much, i think i'll adopt that into my site designs if you don't mind

see now thats what i was concerned about. I have the keywords and the description held within the include - so yes, they are the same on every page, just the title's are unique. So, are you saying that i should not have 'site wide' keywords and description, and instead tailor them to each specific page? If thats the case i can already see how that would benefit, for example having 'contact' within the keywords and description for the contact page would be a good idea... at least i think...

top stuff, thanks

Hi all, For ease of use on a site i have just designed i decided to use a php include for the meta data, so each page on the site has the same meta info (keywords, and description). Each page title is still unique. By doing this will i suffer in the SEO world?

Hello all, I'm currently making a site that has a featured members box on the main page. Currently, this box holds the info like this: name Profile pic location It then scrolls from right to left with all the members in the featured group. i would like to get rid of the scrolling if possible because i think it looks cheap, so i have come up with the idea of having a grid filled with the info above, in maybe 2x rows, 5x cols Then at random intervals each picture fades out and then fades back in with another members details. Does anybody know how this would be done - i'm thinking possibly flash, but i have absolutely no experience in this so would appreciate any advice. I hope i'ev explained it clearly enough, but if not feel free to ask Thanks.

Hi Webopius, thanks for that. The site is actually using PHP but only for minor things (includes here and there and a small article CMS) so i'll take a look at the PHP Banner Manager. Thanks again!

thanks for that, i'll take a look. Whilst we're on the subject, would i be better off trying to get a complete management system that can track clicks/impressions/etc so that i can put in how long i want the banner to display for, and it automatically handles it for me?