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So are we talking "I just posted a new blog about..." type of posts?

:| - OK, I'll bite. Why? I like the quote on the Twitter homepage by Eric Nuzman of "The Dead Travel fast" . He got that part right. Now I am anti-social. I do not have facebook nor visit it. Youtube I only visit for old music. I am not into social networking. I have a blog yes, but just as a mirror to what I write here. Not much of a following and that is fine. The net is trashed with Blogs that are just people talking garbage no one cares about. Websites poorly built and with worthless trash like my rusty beer can collection I use as an example. The net is flooded with scum to the point it is hard to find quality content anymore. So now, we have Twitter. The next big Fad, the next Buzzword, the next bandwagon everyone is jumping on. I see it as Steve Martin in "The Jerk", wandering down the street telling everyone he is in the telephone book, he is finally someone! This seems the same to me, I am on Twitter, I am finally someone!... until the next social fad comes around, IM, Websites, Blogs, Facebook or Myspace and now Twitter. So the question begs answer, Why would anyone want to know what I am doing at any one time? Why should I want them to know? Who cares if I am drinking a coke at McDonalds? If it is a matter of following postings... why not just read my blog? What use is anything real time if we do not live in the same city and wish to drink together? Anyone care to explain this? I am against Twitter is as far as I am against anything else cluttering the net and and the basic, everyone jump on the most recent Fad. Professional Blogs have been a great boon and I follow many, what does Twitter do professionally that a blog does not? What exactly am I missing here?

No, LOL only vaguely know what it even is. But does seem that we discussed this in the old forum and I posted a link about how professionals were abandoning Twitter. But as the old forum is difficult to get to and the search never worked well... seems like a good idea to start it here again.

Freeware, go to Snap Files and make your choice under Multimedia.

Even if you build the whole thing in Flash you still need a HTML version. How will the alternative user agents that do not support Flash use the site? How will the Search engine use the site if it is ALL just movies. How will those with disabilities use the site? Those with poor eyesight who need larger text, those with color blindness who may need different colors? The blind? All Flash web sites still need a text/HTML version for those who wish to access it without Flash. Otherwise you are blocking large numbers of people from your site which defeats the purpose.

That is the "Magic Wand" icon for selection tools. I seem to recall GIMP having it, but maybe under a different name.

- Thelma's comment may sound dumb, but it is the little overlooked things that get us, forgetting to upload images or having the upload fail without our knowledge. I personally have had both happen as well as forgotten to plug in the PC and wonder why it won't work. Or the printer that stopped working, I took it in and the guy shook it and a popcicle stick from my daughter fell out, then it worked fine.

Ha! I owe taxes the second year in a row! :mad:

That is all basic good design. The style sheet creates the consistency in the look and the HTML aka the template controls the consistency of the structure. So you need simply put together a template. That said, if it is for gamers, you would want to use a content management system or it may even be justified to create a web based Flex App. You would be catering to high end gamers mostly with good systems so a well built Flex application may make the site more interesting for them. Just keep disabilities in mind so you can be sure it would be accessible. http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/ and Flex Showcase

My former project is doing such things using Ajax controls. My current project would do it using Adobe Flex. http://flex.org/showcase/

What do you mean with a Style Guide? That is open to different ideas from different people. In theory your style sheet is your style guide.

Nice to see someone new, choosing not to use frames, there is that. Amazing that it keeps rearing it's ugly head years after it fell out of favor.

Firefox covers, Camino, Seamonkey, Mozilla, Netscape and on all three systems, as it is the top browser for Mac and Linux. Safari is now out for Windows and covers Mac, PC and Konqueror for Linux. Opera is used on all three systems, most used mobile browser and basis for the Wii online. So you see, if you are on PC you can do all the testing on your machine. If Mac or Linux, you will need online browser examples for IE.

Never heard of the term. But as stated above I would not do it, unethical.

Tables should only be used for tabular data, then you just style it with CSS, not make it. Think of a tackle box, or tool box, you know the segregated ones? That is like tables, rigid compartments you can only modify slightly and are always aligned horizontally. Divs are like an empty box, you can add many more divs or other elements into it as you please and move them around freely with only each other or the outer walls as limitations. You can put items in exactly the pixel position as you want, which is difficult if not impossible with tables. You can always stay with a look, but I prefer starting from scratch rather than trying to change code. Just do it right rather than mucking around with mistakes.

"Directories" means folders. Some folks prefer to have the web site subset into directories for each menu item. I do not, but there is nothing wrong with it. Every time the browser enters a folder it will by default show any file named index, unless a file name is included in the link.

... But the basic rule is "Firefox shows you what you coded... IE shows you what you want to see." If it is wrong in Firefox, then you coded it wrong. Correct it so it looks right... Then worry about IE. When IE8 is released it should show things the way Firefox does.

Have you had a look at my listing and read up on any of them? It is the sticky above. CMS (Content Management System) : Accessibility

WebAIM has done a Survey of Preferences of Screen Readers Users that may be of interest to some of you.

That is silly, the HR is rarely used in any web design these days. OK, you can place it at the bottom of the container holding the information. give it a absolute position say 5 pixels from the bottom of the container. Assuming the container is flexible and adjusts to fit the content, the HR will always stay 5 pixels from the bottom of the container, regardless of where the bottom is. CSS is less about code as looking at the problems from a different angle, you seem to look at it from the traditional HTML tables view. If I glue a bencil 5 inches from the bottom of the box... and lift and lower the box... it will always bee 5 inches from the bottom right?

No there is no size limit, but smartly you will. A page should not really be larger than 50kb. Smaller images translate into faster loading pages. Yes you should use the exact size in the source cold, keeps the page from jumping around. But always upload the size you need. You can make it smaller in the code... but you are paying for the full size of the image even if you do not show it that big.

Safari is available for PC that is very close to the mac version, it is also the base from Kopnqueror. Opera works on all versions. Google Chrome uses the same engine as Firefox and Firefox runs on all systems and is the power behind Netscape, Seamonkey, Mozilla, Camino... So if you use Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE you should be good and need at best testing for IE6.

Ha ha ha! Brining out the comedians now!

Why use Javascript? If they are images just use the alt attribute and if needed the title attribute. The imagemap itself can be CSS to rather than over complicate it with JS and make it useless for people using the keyboard to navigate or do not support JS. Night of the Imagemap

Posting your code linking it would help. But most often is: A) The Path to the file, if it is external, is wrong. When you saved it your program tacked on another ending. Notepad will save it as a text file, so myfile.css.txt. Click on it and rename it by deleting the .txt after saving it.