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  1. Hi,

     

    I haven't moved over to IE8 yet and was wondering if any of you have?

     

    If so, what can you tell us about it ... does it work well from a users perspective?

     

    BTW, if you are using IE, let me know if any of our pages are screwy in it.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Stefan

  2. Yea, I use VMWare Fusion with XP installed on my Mac too. It works really well.

     

    BTW, that is the easiest way to test on multiple browsers - use a virtual machine. I actually use VMWare Workstation on the Windows for my software demos and application testing as well.

     

    Stefan

  3. Hi,

     

    I've heard through the grapevine that Windows 7 is nice. In fact, I've heard it is much better than Vista. Some of nerd friends say that Windows 7 is what Vista should have been.

     

    I did not upgrade to Vista after trying it, so I stuck to XP and I also got a Mac - nice!

     

    Anyway, I was wondering if any of you have tried Windows 7 yet?

     

    Thanks,

     

    Stefan

  4. One last thing, with IE8 and Firefox 3, you can now use CSS tables to get this done MUCH, MUCH easier.

     

    .. The problem is that IE7 does NOT support CSS tables (they basically work like HTML tables) so we are stuck using the standard CSS methods.

     

    Stefan

  5. These days, this is all done via CSS. Just load up a Dreamweaver liquid layout template and look at the CSS code.

     

    I'm sure someone around here can go into a some detail about the actual CSS you can use to achieve this . Hint: look to margin settings in your CSS.

     

    In the olden-days, we used to create liquid layouts with table width's set to percentages.

     

    ... But that is old-school and should be avoided.

     

    ;)

     

    Stefan

  6. Hi guys,

     

    Did any of you notice my new Javascript video tutorials? Some of you may have seen them in recent Web Designer Magazine issues ... anyway, you can find them here without having to buy a copy of the magazine!

     

    I've worked on improving the sound quality with brand new recording equipment ... to compensate for my less than professional speaking ability!

     

    ;)

     

    ... Ah, nobody is perfect.

     

    Let me know what you think.

     

    Stefan

  7. Hi,

     

    Well we've updated so far:

     

    http://www.killerphp.com/store/index.php

     

    Our new online store and shopping cart. It now displays videos related to the ones you selected in your cart.

     

    http://www.how-to-build-websites.com/

     

    My beginners tutorial on web design. We have also been cleaning up and re-skinning pages within killersites.com, killerphp.com and others. I will soon release a new micro-site:

     

    killerjavascript.com

     

    ... For my new set of videos on beginners Javascript. They've started appearing in Web Design Magazine last month.

     

    CIAO.

     

    Stefan

  8. Hi,

     

    Between my fast approaching moving date and work, I've haven't had time to hang out here. So, how is everyone?

     

    In other news ...

     

    As some of you may have noticed, we've been actively updating killersites.com and the satellite sites - we needed the updates I think.

     

    So my question to you guys is:

     

    1. what do you think?

    2. do you think we are getting too commercial?

     

    Thanks,

     

    Stefan

  9. Your question is unclear; are you saying one page is a .asp and another is a .php?

     

    Regardless, you should avoid using multiple server-side languages (PHP, Coldfusion, ASP, Ruby etc ..) in the context of one site. We have it here, simply because killersites.com has been around a while and years ago, I was a big fan of Java and so I used JSP pages. Now though, all the new stuff is in PHP.

     

    For typical websites, you will see the use of one server-side language along with Javascript for the AJAX stuff.

     

    Stef

  10. Hi,

     

    Sorry about the problem. Paypal was having issues with their system and it was not firing off confirmations.

     

    I think I manually got everybody last night, but if some reason I missed just email or PM me I will take care of it.

     

    Thanks for your patience on this.

     

    Stefan

  11. Hi,

     

    I've just wrote about how to land a web design job. I figured given the current economic downturn, that a lot of people may be looking to jump into the game. The blog post:

     

    http://www.killersites.com/blog/2009/landing-that-web-design-job/

     

    -

     

    I also created a short podcast on the subject as well .. for those who prefer to listen:

     

    http://www.killersites.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/landing-web-design-job-soft.mp3

     

    Let me know what you think regarding the content, sound quality etc ...

     

    Stefan

  12. Hi,

     

    I'm not one to promote my videos, but when approaching any web design project, even from the perspective of the client, it makes good sense to at least understand the basics, so that you can have a much better idea what you would need to do to satisfy your business requirements or idea. So in short, you should learn basic web design:

     

    http://www.killersites.com/web-design/

     

    Once you understand the basics, you will have moved from being totally blind, to having an understanding of what web design and web sites are all about. For your project, you would be best to use a prefabricated subscription based template/CMS rather than build from scratch.

     

    ... At least for most projects.

     

    I hope that makes sense.

     

    Stefan

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