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  1. I am just curious...

     

    Has anyone taken my avatar and put the pieces together just to see what I look like?

     

    Reason I ask is that I am about to replace it with something else and I am just curious if anyone suceeded.

  2. The broken images has nothing to do with the problem I am focusing on. The problem is that the CSS doesn't render via FX. The Firebug tool doesn't see it but the FX Web Developer's Edit CSS tool does see it in which it would then renders the css.

  3. Can someone please check these two links out: (remove spaces)

     

    prin gleandzim ring.com/store/pc/catalog/storemap.html

     

    myli ghtin gshop.com/shop/pc/catalog/storemap.html

     

    In IE, the CSS renders but for some reason it does not via FX. However, if you click on Edit CSS via the FX Web Developer Tool the css renders (minus the background images).

     

    It just occurs for the store map which is generated by Product Cart software. Now to note, I opened both of those storemap.html files and it had over 10,000 lines of code in which it showed a good chunk of chinese text/font within the code.

     

    Keep in mind that these two sites were built by someone else.

     

    I am baffled by this and I am not sure if this is some kind of hack or what.

  4. You didn't say how wide the footer is going to be but let me assume that it's 900px wide and based on the code you gave it looks like the banner images are 200px wide each.

     

    You can do this with one css class and id:

     

    #banner-wrap {width: 800px; margin: 0 auto;}

    .banner {float: left; width:200px;}

     

     

    This will place all four banners horizontally and centered.

  5. Like everyone else, choosing a good billing/invoicing tool is a difficult task to fit your needs. For the very serious busy developer, using QuickBooks is probably the best approach which allows you to do that very thing plus keep a database of clients. In addition, you can sync your QB with your business bank account.

     

    But for those that are not ready for QB or any other commerical software or do not desire to save their data on someone elses online site software then you might want to check out a couple of these open source software that you can download and run on your own server:

     

    Simple Invoices

     

    Bamboo

     

    Simple Invoices has more features than Bamboo which is good for those that need need them. It seems to be a bit difficult at first to navigate around and understand what does what but thereafter is quite good.

     

    Bamboo is a trimmed down tool compared to Simple Invoice but very effective for those that don't need all the extras.

     

    @Susie,

    To answer your question, you can use Simple Invoice to create your clients. There is a note box (text area) that you can add all the information you have on your client (i.e. email, domain, ftp, etc.). It also have 3-4 custom field that you can modify to fit your need.

  6. Firstly, I am not familiar with this type of menu script but I did notice this in the html that might shed some light:

     

    cart_browser_ie = true;

    cart_browser_iemac = false;

    cart_browser_ie4 = false;

    cart_browser_safari = false;

    cart_browser_konqueror = false;

    cart_browser_transitions = true;

    cart_browser_opera = false;

    cart_browser_mozilla = false;

    cart_browser_shadows = true;

    cart_browser_slides = true;

    cart_browser_overlays = true;

    cart_browser_hideselects = true;

    cart_browser_addeventhandlers = true;

    cart_browser_contextmenus = true;

    cart_browser_noncustomcontextmenus = true;

    cart_browser_expandonclick = true;

    cart_browser_recyclegroups = true;

     

    I notice that mozilla, opera, etc. are set to false. Assuming this is the menu function, try setting them to true instead of false.

     

    Secondly, this menu is not SEO friendly.

  7. Internet Explorer IE8 RTM is available here:-

     

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/

     

    It's better than IE7 but there are still lots of problems.

    I haven't downloaded IE8 yet but I remember there was some kind of meta tag that you can insert into your web page to tell IE8 to render IE7. Is this still the case? If so, I am going to slap in that meta tag on all the sites I have done because of the problems with IE8.

     

    Thanks.

  8. Keep in mind that the paragraph tag

    has default margins/paddings. You have set your footer paragraph to be the same width as the container but in IE6 it will add the default padding.

     

    You have the footer width set and so there is no need to set your footer's

    with a width.

     

    Remove the width: 770px; from #footer p

  9. The logo should be just that...a logo. For Google, Yahoo, etc. they will not care. The

    tag can define the business name and a short page title and the h1 should be used for the page's content title.<p> </p> <p>I don't use </p> <p>, <span>, <h1>, etc. for the logo. I only use a div. The logo will not serve any purpose beyond what it was intended to do. Wrapping a <h1> tag around the logo will only limit your ability to one heading for all pages unless you use a h2 or another h1 but we all know that using two h1 in incorrect and I think some search engines penalize you for inproper use.</h1> </h1></span></p>
  10. If you will notice, the header gets chopped off at the bottom when the site is viewed 1200px or higher. Your logo image was keeping all the other divs below until that logo gets so far out (1200px or more) away from that top nav that the nav slips up next to the image because there is enough room for it to thus the green background stops at the right of the logo and likewise on the other side.

     

    To solved this, you will need to add height: 110px; to your #header. This will allow the all other divs to fall below the header thus allowing the green bar background to spread horizontally.

     

    This will bring up a new problem. The right #sidebar-last needs to have clear: both; so that it will drop down into the #content div.

     

    Some of the concept of html/css coding is a bit messy in which it can be done differently but this clear up your major issues.

  11. The other issue is with ecommerce stores. When you check out, it uses https in the url. While on those pages, any links that uses paths like this will send the page to https://www.domain.com/store/products.htm but it will render the 404 error because the actual url should be the standard http (without the 's').

     

    Of course you can set redirects for those pages but then you would have to keep updating it everytime you change or add a new links.

  12. Yes.

     

    If you are just coding HTML, you can view the pages offline all your want without a server.

     

    If you are coding with PHP or ASP, then you will need to install a server on your computer so you can view them offline. WAMP and XAMP for PHP.

     

    For ASP, you can use Window XP/Vista built in IIS which you can find listed as Windows Components in the Add/Remove section of the Control Panel.

     

    You can't run both unless you define each one it's own port setting.

     

    If you have MS Expression Web, it will allow you to view both PHP and ASP but you will still need to install PHP files in order for php files to work.

  13. Frontpage is ok but only if you know HTML well enough to determine some of the garbage it produces that way you can avoid using deprecated tags like

    . You also didn't indicate if your use CSS or not. From the looks of it, you don't.

     

    In Frontpage, you will need to look at the Code View pane where you can see all the coding. Look for the first table (right after you body tag) which looks like this:

     

    cellspacing="0" height="799"

    style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid #000000" width="815">

     

    When you need to do is add a new inline css to your existing style: margin: 0 auto;

     

    Here what it should look like now:

     

    cellspacing="0" height="799"

    style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 0 auto;" width="815">

     

    If you are serious about website design, you may want to start learning some basic HTML and CSS fundementals. They are essential to developing good code so that it works all browsers. Otherwise, chances are that it will not work like you would hope.

  14. Depending on the hosting account, some will let you host 2 or more domains together. Why not put both domains on the same host especially a host that will allow you at least 100 email accounts and then you don't have to worry about pointing one domain for email and another domain for web.

     

    Otherwise, you'd be paying for two host..one for email and the other for the web site.

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