dmpinder
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dmpinder got a reaction from chicagolimo in Links to forumsI wish someone would tell the spammers that!
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dmpinder got a reaction from Weedy101 in Links to forumsI wish someone would tell the spammers that!
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dmpinder got a reaction from danners2003 in Links to forumsI wish someone would tell the spammers that!
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dmpinder got a reaction from mrludable in Newsletter Issue - Outlook 2007Hi Al,
Outlook sometimes blocks images by default. You can enable it to download images, but it is also possible that it is refusing to do so for certain email senders / domain names. It would be a good idea to get your client to check Outlook's settings, and add your sender domain (and MailChimp image hosting domain) to their white/allow-list.
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dmpinder got a reaction from nuksies in iFrame virus?Hey,
The first thing to do (I know I'm repeating here), is to change ALL of your FTP passwords. Change your main one, and any other sub-account you might have (if you set them up).
Secondly go through all your files on your local drive to make sure the code isn't already in your local files.
Next run a complete virus scan of your computer with a few different scanners to make sure it's nothing on your PC, but to be honest I've not heard of a virus clever enough to look for HTML files to insert code.
If you've done all these and still having problems, then it looks like your host is having a problem with their server. It's quite likely that their server was hacked and someone is playing havoc with a number of websites. Ask them to check other sites on the server to make sure they're OK.
If it still persists... I have no idea.
Hope this helps
Darren
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dmpinder reacted to sussextech in multiple domains pointing to 1 siteHi Boss!
As far as I'm aware there isn't an issue with this. Just remember to use a 301 redirect and check the header status is correct. You can use this tool for that: Header Status Tool.
Remember also to ensure your canonicals are sorted, - the non-www is redirecting too, as well as the www. Additionally, you can also use DNS to do this. Here is an article over at Google Webmaster Central about pointing multiple domains at one website.
Hope that helps!
ST
@seodave
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dmpinder got a reaction from BenGoodman in How to comment .tpl filesCommenting on .tpl files is done {*like so*}
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dmpinder reacted to zed in Identify default fontjust did a quick Google and it seems that FF may want some strict declarations of the Font
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=0&oq=firefox+arial+&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_en-GBGB401GB401&q=firefox+arial+font
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dmpinder got a reaction from Dan Mackman in rollover images going off screen!Ahh right OK. I saw that you're not using a DOCTYPE - that might be the problem.
Insert this into the very first line of code (it should be before everything else in the code):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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dmpinder got a reaction from Dan Mackman in rollover images going off screen!Ahh nice one, I was just trying to work out the problem myself.
Good luck,
Darren
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dmpinder got a reaction from Dan Mackman in rollover images going off screen!I'm not quite sure why IE is pushing it right to the top. It could be because there isn't much available vertical space for it. Try adding a dozen <br> after the image gallery to increase the vertical space and see if it works then.
Darren
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dmpinder got a reaction from Dan Mackman in rollover images going off screen!Dan,
This isn't a solution to this particular problem, but a suggestion for avoiding the problem entirely. How about having one fixed box where the rollover images appear, instead of having it always appear under the image. Then you can use your Javascript to make the one box change to whichever image is highlighted. You can float this box to the left, or have it below, or whatever, because it would be static.
Darren
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dmpinder got a reaction from Dan Mackman in rollover images going off screen!Yeah that's a good solution, lightboxes are pretty good. Although personally I'd prefer (as a user) to have one which has Previous and Next controls - makes it easier than opening one, closing it, opening another, etc.
Darren
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dmpinder got a reaction from Dan Mackman in rollover images going off screen!Dan,
I'm surprised a lightbox software is using absolute positioning for something like these images. It's not a good method of doing it, and is prone to looking wrong as soon as something else changes on the page and pushes the images down/up, which it looks like has happened here.
My recommendation is you find another lightbox program to use (a simple but effective one is Slimbox), but if you want to continue using this one, you're going to have to edit the CSS to make these magnifying icons fit in place. You should add:
.enlargecaption { margin-left:5px; margin-top:-13px; }
...to your CSS sheet to align all the icons to the bottom left. As previously mentioned, be aware that if you add another paragraph above the images for example, the images will move down but the icons will remain in the same place. You'll have to change the CSS sheet again to compensate. This is why absolute positioning sucks for this kind of use.
Let me know if you have any further issues with it, but please consider my recommendation, I think it'll save you some time and a pretty bad headache keeping everything inline.
Darren
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dmpinder got a reaction from Dan Mackman in rollover images going off screen!I'd recommend you take the time to use Slimbox - the vast majority of it is HTML anyway, you shouldn't need to do anything with Javascript, and you appear to have CSS knowledge, that's all there is to it. There is some usage text on the website to explain how integrate it, which basically boils down to just a few steps:
- Upload all the relevant files to your server
- Include the CSS and Javascript files in your header
- Include the rel="lightbox" code into your links and you're good to go
If you're determined to stick with the current gallery then I don't think I can help you as I think you're going to come across more problems when you try to get your site working in older browsers, which using absolute positioning is going to make difficult.
Darren
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dmpinder got a reaction from Dan Mackman in rollover images going off screen!Hey Dan,
No worries, we're here to help.
I can see straight away you're not referencing the Lightbox CSS file properly. Remove the <style></style> from the header, it's not needed when you're linking to an external file. I think you'll find a bit of an improvement then
Darren
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dmpinder got a reaction from Dan Mackman in rollover images going off screen!No problem Dan, this is why we're here.
Do me a favour and +1 my post that helped you? Helps my Rating on this site. Thanks!
A couple of tips about using Lightbox:
- Add the code title="My Image" to your <a> to include a caption in the lightbox image, e.g. <a href="image.jpg" title="My Image">...</a>
- If you have more than one image you can link them into a Gallery by amending the rel="lightbox" to rel="lightbox[galleryname]" instead. This will mean that Previous / Next buttons will appear in the Lightbox to scroll between them.
Good luck, and feel free to PM me if you have any problems.
Darren
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dmpinder got a reaction from irn3rd in Side scrolling siteHey Ben,
Do you mean something like this? http://www.queness.com/resources/html/scrollto/index.html
Darren
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dmpinder got a reaction from Isaac M in how to find the position of the buttonsHey,
Here is an article about using CSS Sprites, and the background position rules you should apply.
http://www.askapache.com/css/css-background-image-sprite.html
Darren
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dmpinder got a reaction from Maxson in How do you call a person...Web designer?
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Hey Harry,
You need to left float all 3 divs you want side by side.
So your CSS would look like:
div.left_column, div.middle_column, div.right_column { float:left; }
You'll need to then set widths (or not if using fluid layout) and appropriate margins in order to put whitespace between the divs.
I'd also recommend clearing these 3 divs so they don't screw up your navi div or footer. You can do this by putting the following code before the left_column div and again after the right_column div is closed:
<div class="clear"></div>
You'll also need to put this code in your CSS for this to work:
div.clear { clear:both; }
Good luck!
Darren
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dmpinder got a reaction from Maxson in Font propertyI think what you're looking for is:
cursor:default;
Place this in your CSS where you want the cursor to remain the default pointer.
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dmpinder got a reaction from sash_007 in 8 errors away to pass w3cYou might be able to totally validate your pages, but sometimes the truth is you simply can't. Whether it's scripts or 3rd party content you used, sometimes you just have to accept you cannot validate everything.
Heck, not even google.com, microsoft.com, or yahoo.com validate fully.
The way I look at validation is this: do as much as you can, because it does make a difference, just don't spend so long on validation that it risks the overall project timeline or budget. A useful hint though - validate as you develop the site. It's so much easier to validate a few errors as you write them then it is to conquer 200 errors at the end of the project. It also creates good habbits when you realise the errors you make.
Darren
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dmpinder got a reaction from lazytycoon in Count to 1 million
