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  1. Site in two languages

    in HTML/XHTML

    Posted

    As I'm not lazy, I'll translate both texts myself (or, better than that, I will ask the client to provide the English version of his texts). At least he is not a writer or something like that, with tons of text to translate.

     

    I was just wondering about the necessity of having every single file in two versions. Maybe, in a future, when I improve my php skills, I'll have both texts located in a DB and I'll just use a little function to switch between Spanish and English (Gosh, why didn't that Esperanto language work..., that would be easier then...)

     

    Thanks

     

    Eduardo

     

    The easiest way would be to just do what John/Wickham suggested. But, if you only have "one" section on each page that needs to be swaped, then this would be another way to go. Just put your spanish in the other div. Then you don't have to ever leave the page your on. If you have multiple areas on each page, then style switch would be the other way to go.

  5. Adult Bailout

    in Open Forum

    Posted · Edited by Eric

    "Any Money?"

     

    Looks like I jumped the gun a little - just paid all the bills - still in the game! I just had a woes-me moment.

     

    "Don't you get paid for modeling too? My wife did that for a while, I know its good money (if you can get work)"

     

    Not yet I don't. I let it go a couple years back to pursue other things (like web design for one). Plus, it was getting too hard to juggle with my main job (watching 12 kids - or 8 rather - plus my own 2). So now, I'm making the phone calls, getting it going again. Originally, I didn't want to make a comeback untill my balding head matched my ageing face (like around 55 yrs old or so), but, gota do what you gota do...

  7. My image disappears in IE

    in CSS

    Posted

    Yes, I jumped the gun with my celebrations earlier, I was so delighted to have recovered my images in IE that I neglected to check how everything looked in FF - and of course, as you rightly point out Thelma - half the page had lurched to the right.

     

    When I put in the doc type declaration, everything magically resolved itself, without me having to change anything else. My pics now show up in IE and all looks OK in FF. I am just amazed that the declaration is so important. I had no idea.

     

    Another lesson learned.

     

    Thank you so much, Thelma. I'm very appreciative of your help.

     

    Must go now, I've got 85 errors to check out! :D

     

    Cheers,

     

    Chris/gunsock

     

    I neglected to look at it in FX with that fix. I see your good anyway. But, in the future, "when" (not if) you have a "haslayout" issue. You can "usually" safely add either of these to fix IE.

     

    IE7 min-height:0;

    IE6 height:1%;

  8. My image disappears in IE

    in CSS

    Posted

    Hi All

     

    I suspect this is an old chestnut. I'm changing all the pages on my site to the 3 col CSS 'holy grail'as in Matthew James Taylor's page at:

    http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/ultimate-3-column-holy-grail-pixels.htm

     

    Its fine in FF but in IE my image disappears.

     

    This page is typical:

    http://hollywoodsgoldenage.com/movies/42street.html

     

    I've spent hours searching and googling and I gather its the float:left property which causes the problem. But so far I've not been able to find an answer. Is there a simple solution to this?

     

    Many thanks. :)

     

    Chris/gunsock

     

    haslyout issue! Add this...

     

  9. Adult Bailout

    in Open Forum

    Posted · Edited by Eric

    As some of you may know, amongst some others, I am a landlord and a childcare provider. Just a little example how this economic thing has hit everyone.

     

    For the last two years my wife and I have been maxed out here in our daycare (12 kids), with a long waiting list. Now, going on six months now, we have only 8 kids (3 of which are part-time) with zero phone calls. Before, for the last five years, the phone would ring all day - almost irratatingly so!

     

    My income property: Before, I would not even have to put a sign up in order to rent it out. Just an ad on Craigslist and I would get 40 phone calls the first day. Now - nothing! The only calls are loosers and looky-lews.

     

    So apparently, no one is buying houses, or renting, or working (therfore needing daycare). So I guess, everyone one is living in a cave somewhere, not working, and living off top-romin or something. Weird...

     

    I can always get myself out of a jam if I "had" to, so I'm really better off than most I presume. But I refuse to touch any of my nest-egg. So, this is probably the last month I can pay my bills by myself. My parents may be filling in the gap for a while if things don't turn around soon. Sucks!!!

  11. I'm torn, which Custom Search do you prefer?

    in Advanced Web Design

    Posted · Edited by Eric

    I found all these free perl scripts also http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/resources/website_search_script.php3

     

    This one looks like the easiest install of the bunch http://www.kscripts.com/index.html

     

    And I asked to be included in there hosted program - we'll see. http://www.perlfect.com/freescripts/search/

     

    And when I say "easy" I mean it seems somewhat "hard". Maybe I've just never messed with Perl, so all the things they are talking about sound totally greek to me. Any suggestions? Thanks!

  12. I'm torn, which Custom Search do you prefer?

    in Advanced Web Design

    Posted · Edited by Eric

    I think there are a couple of things that make it feel disjointed.

     

    First off, is the thick black header. It feels a bit out of place. Second it the scrollbars - that tells me "this is from somewhere else" - I may be the exception to this, though.

     

    Finally, there is about a 200px gap of the right side of your search area.

     

    I don't think its a bad choice, to be honest - I'm just partial to search engines that output into your template. They are more trouble to set up, but feel part of the site because they *are* part of the site.

     

    One more, offtopic question - why is the "male" symbol on your page rotated 45deg clcokwise? I've always wondered that :)

     

    Thanks Lyndsy for your thoughts! Ya, I didn't really like the black header either. I just quickly changed it from it's default blue color. Scrollbars - ya I see what you mean. 200px gap, hmmm - I don't have that on mine. But I'm going to keep looking for a free solution that out-puts the results on my page.

     

    The male symbol - I just thought it matched up better (with the female one), in the space they reside in, with it pointing down. I rotated it - just thought it looked better that way. Normally I'd say something immature like, "I don't do things because others say it should be done that way". But that idea directly goes against this whole post. So I guess that's not all-together true then - sometimes others opinions are important to me...

  13. one image on top of another

    in CSS

    Posted

    thanks Eric I'm guna try it out immediately.

     

    The second thing is about what Ben was mentioning about the php:

     

    I know it isn't a php page yet, but if its going to become one later by adding php code, shall I save it now already as PHP or not?

     

    Yes, save it as php. That way, later, you won't have to change it, and therefore in the process, changing googles, and everybody else's bookmarked links.

  15. I'm torn, which Custom Search do you prefer?

    in Advanced Web Design

    Posted · Edited by Eric

    Thanks for looking! I lean towards the first one also I think.

     

    "feels like not part of site"

    Really? Even though I'm not actually leaving the page, it still feels disjointed and not part of the site? I was thinking that not having to leave the page you were on was sort of a nifty feature. And the popup box is dragable and resizable.

     

    I settled on those two because they were the ones with the least amount of ads. All the other free ones have their branding next to the search input box. Hmmm... I'll look into that Perl one and see if I can find one that out puts the results on my own site, and in it's own page. That would probably look more professional uh?

  19. I'm torn, which Custom Search do you prefer?

    in Advanced Web Design

    Posted · Edited by Eric

    I'm torn, which Custom Search do you prefer? Both are free and work with or with out JS.

     

    http://www.visibilityinherit.com/projects/search.php this one seems more custom and personalized, and you never leave the page your on!

     

    http://www.visibilityinherit.com/projects/google-search.php this one is Google, but you leave the page your on to view the results, and I get paid for the ads that are placed on the results page (how much - probably pennies). You "can" have the results plopped into your own site, but, the width has to be at least 800px - that's 80px wider than my site. And you "can" do on over lay (sort of like the one above), but, the shadow over your site (like light boxes) only works in IE.

     

    Votes...

  20. Anybody know of a "Inline CSS - To - External CSS Converter"???

    in Advanced Web Design

    Posted

    Dreamweaver CS3 has a function like that...

     

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    Ya, I saw and used that, but it seems to only do one div at a time. I couldn't get it to do the whole page. Can you?[/quote']

     

     

    I haven't really used this feature. We played with it in class for about ten seconds as a lab lesson. But, according to this page of Adobe's tutorial you can:

     

    Select multiple rules before moving them

    In the CSS Styles panel, Controlclick (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) the rules you want to select.

     

    Cool, thanks, I'll give it a try...

  21. Anybody know of a "Inline CSS - To - External CSS Converter"???

    in Advanced Web Design

    Posted

    Other than copy, paste and search? :D

     

    Yes, other than that. I'm putting together some what of a custom search for my site. The product I decided on has a lot of nice and free features. However, it spits out a lot of dirty inline styles and invalid html. I've found a solution to make the code validate, but not an easy fix for the inline css. Funny, seems to be a lot of external to inline converters, just not the other way around.

  25. IE6 is leaving soon... ?

    in Open Forum

    Posted

    I don't think IE6 is all that bad. Grant it, I haven't designed the amount of websites anywhere close to what you guys have, but I have made a lot of demos and such. I can say one thing, at least whenever (usually at least) IE6 is throwing me some trouble, I know exactly what the error/bug is. It's been diagnosed to such a degree, that every bug has the equivalent of a book in it's name. That's more than I can say for like Chrome, and Opera on a few occasions.

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