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OK, quickie on alt attributes (not tags)... Alt stands for Alternative text, that is to say if the image is not available (goofed up names, changed paths, images turned off, text browsers, cell phones dropping images to conserve bandwidth and screen readers for blind users...) the alternative text replaces the image. If you look in any decent browser, the text will not show when you mouse over the image as it is not supposed to. IE is the only browser that does this incorrectly, as usual. The text should not show.

You can always save a copy and then play around. That way if it is screwed up beyond help, you can use the copy... or just copy and paste the copy code over the goofed up version.

You should reconsider. A. One solid image background is going to have to be quite large, no page should be over 50kb, odds are the image alone will be and take a while to download. B. What happens when the content is longer and the image tiles, will it tile smoothly or look bad? C. How is the contrast? The image likely has darker and lighter shades of color that will cause lots and little contrast with text segments of the content. This will make the4 text not only very hard for people with cognitive as well as Vision disabilities, it can irritate even the average user. Lots of eye strain involved with trying to read text that fades in and out of the background and different colors. To combat that you may have to fade the image to the extreme, almost making is useless.

I did that for a while on me site... but most sites I have done are now offline. But it is important either way as you will be held responsible as it has your name on it. Believe me it is embarassing to find your premier site no longer online in a job interview... :/ Keep checking, expecially just before interviews or meeting customers.

LOL... tell that to my boss!

I like to insert my links externally with includes. The fewer nav bars the better for instance. So if I want my footer links to be the same as my global links. I can do that with on simple insert of LI's placed between hard coded UL's right? But the relative paths will be different between index and the general pages that are in a pages folder. If I have HTML static pages mixed with dynamic pages they too may be in different folders. So for whatever the reason, different pages in different folders will have different paths and all different from the index page. So by using full paths to each file... it does not matter where the page is in the scheme of things. I was taught relative was better, but that was 1999/2000, I gave it up a few years later as the difference is speed was laughable. But yea, more preference, neither are really good or bad, I find full paths more flexible.

If you make templates that is fine. But to use someone else' template for your portfolio would leave me as an employer wondering just what you think you are. Also web development portfolios are usually customer based. So keep tight rains on it. Customers will sometimes change things and when an employer looks at it... "You" misspelled something and chose poor colors... you didn't but your name is on it, you offered it so no one asks if the customer changed things. Also be sure it is online... I missed a job because the business went under without telling me and they visited the site to see a place holder from the host . Good to note somewhere if possible that you are not responsible after a certain date... as I did in Germany, so if anything is screwed up I can say I have not touched it since 2006.

There I would disagree, I like specific links. with the full url. You could always use an include, on your PC with local paths and the same name on the server with full paths... it would just read whichever one is where he is at. But do be carefull about editors doing the linking... they will use a link to your hard drive and it is then broken web side. Be sure to always use web style links, even if that means doing it by hand. Editors do not always convert them for you very well.

Not directly. But if you place the text is a span you can make the span have a border... But the problem is if you want a border on every line... can't see it happening as the line length would be different depending on browser size and resolution so what is the end of the line on one machine, could be the middle of a sentence on another. {See! Got distracted by real work and now that I answer it is taken care of... figures. Looks like I misunderstood anyways.}

What is stripos? What is it meant to do?

Yes you can and yes you should... search engine will pick it up eventually and if it is not done... leaves a bad impression.

It has to be on a web server... The current link online is file://///sv-001/public/Ben%27s%20My%20Documents/Robey%20Newsletters/winter-spring%202009.pdf... so apprently on a physical server in your network. Anyone not in the network cannot reach it. It needs to be http://www.whatever.com/whatever.pdf. Also never leave spaces in names, it can cause all sorts of headaches. %20 is plank spaces in the names. %27 is '. You should not even have folders with ' on your netwrok and especially not on web servers. Drop all spaces in file names and either use a -, each word starting as a cap and placed together or even Undelines... though that is not the best. BensMyDocuments/Robey-Newsletters/winter-spring2009.pdf for instance

Just keep in mind it only works with double digits sets: #ffffff = #fff #ffcccc = #fcc #008f53 cannot be shortened

They already have the option, either right clicking and choosing new window or Tab... or middle clicking in tabbed browsers will open the link in a new tab usually. All you could do is force them to have a new window and that is not good. Never force things on the user. It is also an issue with those users with different disabilities. I like that you want to give them the option... but they already have it built into their browser. It is their job to learn to use the tools they have.

LOL - can't they just switch hosts? He should be able to point mail forwarders to wherever he wants, same with the domain name... so just point the short domain name towards the longer one... but I guess it makes sense... I couldn't imagine any normal benefit from it.

Inquiring minds want to know... Why? You want it or a customer? Is there supposed to be an advantage? Never heard it suggested before.

Thanks, but that seems to be software related to their product. We have had 6 blackouts already since Jan, but none while working on this DB. The servers all have backup power as well as my machine. The worst is that I am being told and imaginary someone is editing the same info, but no one is and I get no actual error message to track, just the message. I get the same message when logged in as my neighbor, but he can and did make the change for me from his machine, so it seems it is related directly to me machine. Oh well, the rush is over... untill I run it again next week... But in my searches I had not come across this page. Thanks.

Cache will get you every time Even the experienced of us still get bit in the backside by it. All my browsers are set not to cache anything to avoid that. Cache is set to "0" and/or it is set to look at the site on the server every time.

...and this is why genetic engineering needs to be closely watched. http://users.qld.chariot.net.au/~sanjo/what_the.html http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TbWDw-pxrc4/SKpNUxJYbRI/AAAAAAAAAFc/RPwzCnQ63zI/s320/dogapillar.jpg

I am using an Access query to call up a member's info. This query has been used for years to handle this person. I need to total the sums of a few rows into one and delete the old row. When I have made my changes, I am told that I am trying to save changed information after someone else changed things and it drops my changes (now I have saved them). I can paste them in, but any attempt to delete the other rows tells me "The Microsoft Jet database engine stopped the process because you and another user are attempting to change the same data at the same time." There are no other users changing this data but me. Rebooting access or the OS does not help. My collegue can make the changes while I cannot, but it is my job so I can't run to him every time. But it shows that it has to be my machine. It is windows XP, using an Oracle database. Access 2003 SP1. This happens regularly and I need to get it fixed. I am new to mucking around with Access and am new to Oracle as well. I suspect my machine is making two connections to the DB, but do not know how to fix it.

Why not just have it on every page? There is no reason not to and it allows navigation regardless of what part of the site the user enters. For ease of maintenance... use the includes as noted above.

Google is your friend. But do not use meta tag redirects - they were used by spammers and porn sites so badly that odds are it will hurt you with the search engines.

We had a Flasher... who was it and where did they go? What happens with Flash disabled? Can you still use the site?

Just a technicality, but it can cause confusion. This is JavaScript (JS) - it is a scripting language from Netscape. Java is a Programming language from Sun Microsystems. They are two different critters.

Depends on the Language, Perl, Python etc. yes... PHP does not use the cgi folder. PHPFormGenerator