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Recheck your DW settings. Sounds like the got buggered up, likely the pointer to the test server has gotten changed. Other possibility is that something changed on your machine and the server is not starting as it should, does it start on start up or do you do it manually? It of course has to be running to to show the site right. My guess is that it is a simple accidental change in the settings in either DW or in WAMP

MadameBlack - Another idea. You could use disjointed rollovers (http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo2.html). The advantage here is that as soon as the mouse is moved from the thumbnail the image vanishes... it can be beat as described above... but for the right click grabbers who do not understand what is going on it can be frustrating as it disappears when the move the mouse.

OK, is this a photo album sort of thing? iFrames load an external page, so every image needs to be on a separate page. You may wish to use a disjointed rollover. The images are all on the one page but placed off page (due to wide screen monitors, use -999000px or more). When the linked image is rolled over, it moves the larger image on screen wherever you define it. One advantage to this is that it is a rollover, so when the mouse is moved the image vanishes and it can frustrate right click grabbers if they do not know what they are doing. http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo2.html

Yea, I was wondering about the accuracy and if it can be used to test other versions without having to have stand alone versions or virtual machines etc. I forgot to reply to part of the original question... Install Safari 3 for windows, it is good enough to be sure it works for Mac users. It is also based on Konqueror, the other big Linux browser so both are covered. Opera should be tested, aside a growing user base, it is the only well known browser available for mobile use (don't think Firefox has released theirs yet) and it is the browser base for the Wii. Firefox, if it works then it will work on Mac and Linux machines with Firefox, also SeaMonkey, Netscape, Mozilla, Camino... Google I think is worth testing as I use it to allot. But IE is the only one you really need to worry about version numbers with.

You can have as many as you want to pay for. Redtoysnetwork.com redtoys.net redtoysnetwork.info redtoysnetwork.tv (for a say a Flash version, TV is for multimedia domains) Just by all the domain names you wish to have, then point each one at your IP address for the site. In the site you would use then use the equivelant of Redtoys throughout. Nothing wrong with that. But keep in mind the use of domain endings. Most people choose Com even though the sites are not COMmercial. If it is informative, use INFO. If it is a network, use NET. If it is a organization, usually nonprofit, but not limited to that, use ORG. Multimedia is for Media based sites like Flash etc. Areo is airports, church is for Churches and XXX is pretty clear what it is for. Allot of new domain endings were added in the early 2000's, but few people take the time to choose the right one.

Have you tested it yet? The easiest way would to make the page with either a template or includes, that way you need not change every page of big sites, they will call up the code from a separate page, so you just change the code on that one page to test all pages.

I don't see why you would want a separate program. You can build it right into the web page and consider Ajax, that way it can do the number crunching at the same time the people are typing it in so they have an immediate answer when they are finished. It does the talking with the server continually while it is being used, so no delay waiting for the answer.

IE8 supports it now (supposedly). There is a meta tag that tells IE that the site should use the rendering engine for IE?.? In theory if you set the meta tag for IE6 and look at it, then change it to IE 7 and then run it as usual for IE8 and you should be good. This was done so lazy people need not rebuild their sites to standards, they can keep their poorly built sites and still use IE8. But I am not sure how accurate it is this way... any of the others tested it yet here? In theory we should be able to test all IE browsers this way.

Oh! OK, then I would strongly suggest Webucator, it is online training and very good. I learned SQL with them at my old position and my current position uses them all the time for all of our training, so maybe your company will foot the bill. You will need a good understanding of it as Webmaster. I have corses comming up in June and July for Oracle PL/SQL with them. It is always kind of hard to judge peoples abilities in forums if they don't come right out and say it.

It sounds like your just doing things on your own, not as work? W3Schools has some good simple SQL tutorials. Most everything is based on SQL. MySQL is just a SQL derivitive in both the database and the query language used. Oracle uses PL/SQL - still a SQL base language. So picking up some SQL is good all over, a key word or so may change but the basics are mostly the same. SQL and MySQL are free so the best bet. Then you will need to pick up some basic PHP at least. The PHP takes the data your MySQL query has called up and places it in the HTML structure. HTML is the front end, PHP is the organizer, SQL is the one who calls up and stores the data from the database. Clear as mud? :|

Well discussing prices is technically illegal, we don't want Oil companies agreeing on prices right? Stifles competition. So we are not allowed to speak of it. But it also depends on many things. It is your time you could spend with wife, kids, dog, zapping zombies or building other web sites. Wear and tear on your PC, taxes, insurance, food and drink... I will say double digits and not starting with a "1."

NOT Excel or ACCESS!!! You just need hosting that supports MySQL, SQL or Oracle. Or in Theory you could use XML. Any will work. Then you will need a query language like SQL or MySQL to query the database. Then a language that will create the web site around it. If on Linux/Apache, PHP would be best. If a windows server than ASP.net using C#. Other than those basics is depends on what the ndata is ad how you want it.

No biggy, it is just not a DW issue but a Flash issue... or HTML issue, either would be fine. Even beginners would work.

Yea, that is an example of correct structure. Using lists improves navigation for blind users and hence SEs. Otherwise use H tags in the correct order and be sure to have the most descriptive words in them. Accessible web development for Juneau and SE Alaska. "Everyone has the right to surf!" Mentioning the web site/business name is optional, it will be rare that anyone is searching for the web site directly. But this targets that I do not just build web sites, I develop accessible web sites. And I am in Juneau and SE Alaska specifically, but of course could handle all of Alaska or anywhere for that matter. Then I included my Motto that tips them off as to what I believe and do, maybe giving them an idea what accessible means or curious enough to ask. It makes it clear to sighted, blind users and search engines what i do, so the search engine can categorize me better as they want to give the user the type of sights they want. So I will be indexed as web development, accessibility, Juneau, Alaska and SE Alaska. This makes the SE "Happy."

Yea that is about it. Use theme important keywords or key phrases in Headers (without stuffing them, the header should read normally.) Metatags are not of much use any more but it dopes not hurt to have them in case the SE gop back to using them in the future. Also consider phrases. Would you search for "Web design" or would you search for "Web designers in Juneau Alaska" or "Flash designers in Kalamazoo County", " web Accessibility designers in Alaska", "Female web designers"... The point being that you just want web designers in your area or meeting specific goals, you do not want every web designer to ever be indexed in 25 years all over the planet. So use lots of phrases to describe the site. In the end, if they want to rank well or Nr. 1... you have to pay the price to get the links topside, money speaks louder than SEO plans. Also remember that SE are blind. They do not rank you on how pretty the site looks. So make the site accessible to Blind users and it will rank better with blind search engines. Good structure, good navigation, good content, as error free as you can get it.

I don't believe in Pay-per-click, so your paying allot of money because people clicked on your sites banner... does no good if they don't buy anything or you don't sell things... it is just a money drain.

I started reading and decided it was Spam... but then again Thelma and a couple advanced members did not so I bow to the majority... I thought it was another "read my article" type of thing. And Thelma? Don't go getting any ideas about me bowing before you more often...

It was the same with me when I got here... To stay top of your game... forums are a must.

Internet Law is a real grey area. Only a Lawyer can really answer you. You can file a complaint with the top most domain name group... I dop not reacall the name off hand, I think ICAAN. Right off the top, I would say their stunt is unethical but legal. The simple answer is you should have bought both names and pointed to your site. along with .NET, .INFO etc. Actually, why .com? Is it commercial? are you selling things? If it is more informative then it should be .info or .net maybe. I would leave .org for official use by the town. Check and see if both your and their spelling is available in .info and then grab them up if not along with .net or .org. and point them all at your site. You could officially ask them to give it up or sell it to you as they are all but copying you, they could have used another word than exposed and it could fly in court, but again a lawyer would be the answer. I cannot use a name that is identical to big groups all except the spelling, I cannot use WaltDissnie.com... unless I can prove that is my name and how it is spelled. In Germany a guy had a web site for years based on his last name Ferrari, he lost and had to quit using it, but the car company had to buy it from him as it was his legal name and they had no web site when he did his. In the 90's it was common for dirt bags to buy popular names and not use them, just wait till it became popular and sell it at a profit. Some guy named Obama is going to run for president? Buy his name, say Obama.com. Then when they go to create a web site... you own it and they have to buy it from you for big bucks sort of thing so the courts and ICAAN got hard on such things. Whitehouse.com was a porn site long before Whitehouse.gov went online. Imagine that when school kids wanted to visit it. The porn site was quite successful, but the owner finally volunteered to close it due to the confusion. In Berlin Germany we had a fellow who was the last of the family line of Vlad Dracul, he was adopted. He went on a rampage sueing anyone using vampires or the name Dracul etc., but the courts tired of him and began refusing such cases from him. he even claimed sole right to the use of the term Dracula or use of the image etc., but the courts laughed him out as that belongs to the Bram Stoker blood line as the character name was ficticious and only based on Dracul. So you see there are presedence to register a complaint about this site using a name identical to yours. But is it worth the money to follow up? In theory why should I not be able to buy the same name but a different ending as you have the one I wanted? They would look at the web site, if I am clearly trying to ride your wave... they may do something... hard to say. I have LSW-WebDesign, there are other LSW sites out there but we cannot complain about it as one makes knives, another is part of a university... there can be no confusion as we are in different businesses. So it is tricky, expensive and is it worth the trouble? You could maybe claim copyright on the anme and it may work.

To better explain: 1 em is the same as 100%, you can use either. The important thing to understand is that different users will choose different font sizes in their browsers to fit their needs, we all have different eyesight, so you should not choose the font size, the user should. They may also choose a font that works better for them, so Verdana font is larger than Arial font. So ideally you suggest the general size using em or %. These base the size on the chosen font and font size the browser uses. 1em / 100% is the default size that the user has chosen for the browser and the chosen font (users can override your font choice). .8em / 80% of the default font size and choice (smaller) 1.2em / 120% of the default font choice and size (larger). So 1.2em / 120% for headers. .8em / 80% for say Copyrights. This way you are saying what should default , larger or be smaller based on what the USER NEEDS to be able to use your site. Websites will never look exactly the same between browsers as even the standards compliant ones are written by people who may understand the standards differently. They need to look good, but a difference is margin or text size should not be a show stopper. If they were all exactly the same... we would be back to having only one.

My Bad, All German's still get Good Friday and Easter Monday off. Been away from Berlin top long already. Even the Godless Prussions get it off. *grin*

You can't just publish a photo. It will have to be embedded in a HTML web page. That you create with Dreamwever or better by hand while your learning using notepad or some such program. Then the page and the photo will have to be uploaded to the hosting server. Either per FTP as mentioned or they will have a tool to upload the page and the photo for you. You need to learn how to do things first, read the GoDaddy help. Go through the tutorials on Killersites main site.

I had March 30th off to celebrate "Seward's Folly". That was what they called it when Secretary of State Seward negotiated the purchase of the Alaskan Territory from Russia in 1868 for a whopping $7.2 million (19 cents an acre). It was seen as a poorly thought out purchase. *snicker* But stores were open and schools on. Only state workers got the day off.

Not in Alaska, and I doubt any states really. I think Bayern (Bavaria, Germany) still has it as a Holiday, but the godless Prussians around Berlin and Brandenburg never did. Damn Bavarians always had more holidays than us.