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No... I only watch things when NetFlix gets them, it is on the waiting list. Was at the site though. I like my movies, but mostly horror, SciFi and war. That quote always seemed so perfect for web design when noobies want to do things for coolness and not usefulness.

States are their own entities so I can say little on any state other than Alaska. We have Internet Specialist 1 & 2 levels, fairly new designation. Then we have Analyst/Programmer I - V. 1 is beginner with little experience. 2 & 3 are able to work alone with supervision, 4 is capable of working alone and 5 is supervisory. That said we also have a hiring freeze after our Gov. based our budget on $76 a barrel oil after it was $134 and is now $32 or so. So no Hires or transfers within the state. The commercial market will vary state for state too.

Help on the board is free... Any of the regulars but me can help you for a fee. As for the first question... I would have my doubts about someone who spams the board.

There is no better as, as mentioned, the result is the same as the SE will see HTML. But No. 1 although not better for SEO, is easier on the developer and maintainer of the site.

Retro 90's - Jurassic Web Design

There are always chances... put with the economy as it is... the DotCom crash of 2000 put large numbers of developers on the street, so it is a hard market. If you live near your government, try them. Get a job with the state as a programmer or internet specialist... it is at least fairly secure work as it is not about making profits like private industry. Real schooling is good though even if the info is not the greatest. I got certified in Germany, had years under my belt... but when I got back stateside no one was interested as I had no college. Look at ITT's schooling, I was going to go for a degree with them, good training. But even local college have night classes or online courses. Get a degree and it will help. Also most schools have placement services for students and have contacts with local businesses who hire students to work in that area as they learn. Great sites are built daily by non classically trained people... but that pig skin does wonders trying to land a job with high end companies like those who turned me down. They thought I could not handle the stress as I was not classically trained... I guess being a Bodyguard and a team leader in the US Army Infantry is not stressful Few if any of the regulars here have official web developement schooling.

I think they do that for two reasons... errr 3... They were taught to use XHTML and are to lazy to change... They do not understand the issues and think it is the "in" thing... Or just to lazy to change the editors default use of XHTML DOCTYPE. When editoprs stop defaulting to that than we can get people to quit using it for no reason.

Don't use unique fonts. See the issue here is that people only see what Font is installed on their computer. If they do not have that Font, they will not see it. The browser will choose a Font IT THINKS is close to what you wanted. So you have no control over what they see. It may be a script on one machine that is hardly readable and on another machine with lots of Fonts it may choose some unique Font they have. A web site that cannot be read by the user is a waste of space and useless. It is less about being so original than making sites the majority of people can easily use. So it is best to stick with Fonts such as Arial etc. How many people do you think have that Font installed, 1%? 3%? IF you wish you can use it for the banner of the site and whatever graphics like links. OR you can use it in Flash Films. But on standard HTML, if we don't have it we won't see it and I do not have it on any of my PC's. Boring I know, and things have been done to try to give us that freedom... but none work yet. besides there is no telling how many people with disabilities will be negatively effected by such Fonts. Poor eyesight, cognitive disabilities, reading issues, etc. may find the content harder to read and understand with unique fonts. What you can do if you still want to is use it in the CSS, but be sure to add the standard fonts after it. This way if I don't have it, the browser will use the next font if I have it... or the one after that. [Thanks for making my post overkill Ben! and I workled so hard on it...]

Now-a-days, the only size that matters is the size of your bank account and wallet... which is to small in most cases.

Have a look at the 404 Research Lab, it might help, and while your at it... User friendly 404 error messages reconsidered. [i hope the research lab link is still good, it is blocked from my computer.]

Frames are outdated, cheesy retro 90's nightmares. They have been dropped and have no place in modern web design. Use a different solution as mentioned here. They are also problematic for people with disabilities. I would also strongly warn against music. Again it is cheesy and reto 90's. It can overplay the voice reading the site to blind users. It can be irritating. Most people surf with either no music, hence no speakers to hear it, or are listening to their own chosen music... which will get over played so to music files are playing making a mess. Add to that that odds are some, if not most visitors will not like "your" choice of music. If it is not "Your" own original music... there is a chance for copyright infringement or the host dropping the site so as to avoid a court case. If it is Midi...that is is not an issue... but the irritation factor increase through the roof. Most people will abandon sites playing music post haste if music slams into them overplaying theirs. I sure do. If she still wants music after all this... be sure that it is optional... not auto play, offer the user a chance to choose to turn it on... or at a barest minimum you have to give them the ability to turn it off in a hurry, make it obvious to them.

Someone else I mentioned it to called it a Damabyte... "Damn that is big!"

Who ever said US kids don't learn anything in school?

OK, it has been a while... corrected... 42. I have the audio books from some of his things... the one is with Thor, Odin and Loki and a Golden Eagle that is really a Tornado Fighter Bomber that upset Thor one day.... he is off on a tangent about late night Pizza and how Much Odin loves modern beds. But my favorites are the Probability drive (that turns missles into a whale and a palnt that thinks "Not again") before smashing into the planet and super intelligent shades of the color blue. Oh, and the cow that gets upset when Aurther does not want to eat any of it in the restaraunt at the end of the Universe.

Same here, program color pickers just do what is in that program. Colorzilla will ony pick up colors in Fx. But it is free.

Consider this, Time started basically before and after Christ. Then it was marked by wars, before cars, before electricity, that sort of thing. Example: In early 70's or so I was in Elementary school in Barnesville OH. My Father was an Art Professor at Ohio University, Belmont Branch. So he is/was a "Doctor." Our next door neighbor was a really old woman. She stopped us one day and because my father was "really smart, professor and all..." and asked if the weird weather of the time could be caused by "those rocks those astronaut fellows took from the moon?" That is funny today, funny then... unless you knew her. She was the last survivor of the original few families who settled there in the Ohio Territory. She got there as a small child in a covered wagon reading Jules Vern by candle light. This women saw Electricity spread, planes fly, cars spread and men land on the moon... the unthinkable. I mark my age as before and after MTV, Computers, things like that. My Highschool in Michigan had one computer running command line, dot matrix printer with the connected paper if you remember that and the phone sat in a cradle! I was the second person in the US forces in West Berlin to buy a CD player, the PX had none so I had to go to a German record store who sold CD's, 7 them, I bought to, The Thompson Twins and West Sides Story's SoundTrack. Of course I was there when the wall came down but that is beyond scope. Then MP3's, MP4's DVD's DVD Burners, HD and BlueRay as well as BlueTooth. I watched the 8-Track market die and watched Beta videos on my sisters machine. Technology changes fast as we know. Yesterday I overheard a conversation about having to take old state records and digitalize them as the Microfiche do not last as long as our legislature people say we must keep files... ca. 100 years. So how to digitalize the records of employess and what all else of 50 years of thousands of employees and maybe those from the Alaskan Territory as well. To get to the point: It is estimated that we would require mass storage of .7 to 1.5 Petabytes! Errr... Hugh? Google Pointed the way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte. Think about it. Many of us started with Floppy disks of 2.5 kb? My first USB stick was 256mb and I was happy, now 3gb is average. My iPod Nano is 8GB... My first PC with Win98 SE was 8GB in 1999 and that was midline. Now common are even external drives of 750GB and 1 Terabyte are getting affordable. That since my fist 8GB PC in 1999, so 10 years later we can start talking Terabytes. Cell phones that were first just used by rich folks and drug dealers are common and gone from carrying a battery pack or a WWII walki-talki sized thing to ones so small you can keep them in a cigarette pack and can barely see the buttons, not to mention push one at a time. A digital watch has more computer power than the first luner landers... 1024 Bytes in a Megabyte 1024 MB in a Gigabyte 1024 GB in a Terabyte and we are talking storage now in Pitabytes for large organizations, 1024 Terabytes... it is hard for me to fathom actually. That woman asked a silly question for a small kid who grew up on space and moon walks. he grew up to see reusable space ships, and probes on mars. and portable info on a web and portable music. Server rooms that took up buildings now take up closet space. We are half way there... 1024 petabytes is a Exabyte. 1024 Exabytes is a Zettabyte 1024 Zetabyte is a Yottabyte... Then? I guess a planet super computer run by mice to tell us what the meaning of 47 is... aka Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. What byte size will my computer have when I die of old age at 100 years? What silly questions will I ask my neighbors and their snot nosed son? We went from low Gigabyte to low Terabyte in 10 years. in 2019 will we have Terabyte Pcs that are under powered and high end Petabyte showing on the market? Just thinking at you...

I would go opposite, old PC for IE8 as it is still not final and has problems. Most things work in IE7. What am I saying!!! Now that M$N Groups have closed down... I don't even use IE anymore... Shangrila, a IE free world!

Don't know it. But the image needs to reside on your web site and to link it

As my Gov. would say... "You betcha!". That is if she were in the state long enough to talk to you... That is what we are here for, glad it worked.

Sure, I use Firefox Portable with the FireFTP extension and Foxmarks to sync my bookmarks when ever I use it. I also have PortableTor for anonymous surfing and Kompozer as an editor. Topped off with Dexpot portable for computers without dual screens.

If there is not index file then there is nothing to show hence the file structure. Rename your file index.php and it will display automatically. Under Construction is tacky... either leave the structure till you have something or call it Future home of and explain what the site will be. Under Construction is just to much retro 90's.

Web design is about code and not about tools. You would not learn how to build a house by learning to use a nail driver right? You would learn using a hammer because it is about technique and planning and not learning tools. One you can build a house you can learn to use a nail driver to speed the process (and easier on your back/knees). Same here. To start learning, use notepad, that is what I had to use in school (and a horror called Emacs). Learn the code and how to work with it. THEN when you can create web sites, move up to free editors to help speed the process a bit. Eventually if you are serious, you can spend big bucks on Dreamweaver. But trying to learn a program AND code will just slow you down and make you dependent on pushing buttons. So learn to code first and then worry about learning an editor. Stef's videos are geared towards learning to code independent of what editor you choose. But unless you want to work in the industry, you really do not need Dreamweaver. I use free editors now. I just used Dreamweaver to know it well enough as this is my profession and it is the standard for the industry and likely what you would use in a company. It makes things easier & faster... not better. Good web sites are produced by people, not tools. Alternative Editors for Web Development Do not fall for the Myth that Dreamweaver makes good sites or is needed to make good sites. You the developer do that, DW is just a tool. Avoid classes that teach DW along with web design. Take a web design class and then take a DW class if you like.

You are right more or less, everything we and Stef do is to teach web design. That is about code and not about tools. You would not learn how to build a house by learning to use a nail driver right? You would learn using a hammer because it is about technique and planning and not learning tools. One you can build a house you can learn to use a nail driver to speed the process (and easier on your back/knees). Same here. To start learning, use notepad, that is what we had to use in school. learn the code and how to work with it. THEN when you can create web sites, move up to free editors to help speed the process a bit. In your case, you can use GoLive. But trying to learn a program AND code will just slow you down and make you dependent on pushing buttons. So learn to code first and then worry about learning an editor. So Stefs videos are geared towards learning to code independent of what editor you choose. Just keep in mind, GoLive was a decent program but has been discontinued as Adobe bought out Macromedia and adopted Dreamweaver. But unless you want to work in the indeustry, you really do not need to upgrade to Dreamweaver. I use free editors now. I just used Dreamweaver to know it well enough as this is my profession and it is the standard. It makes things easier & faster... not better. Good web sites are produced by people, not tools.

Is your index page PHP? Is there a index.html on the web server? If you have an index.html or index.htm on your web server, that is the default and the server will only look for index.php when there is no Index.htm(l) Either delete the index.htm(l) or add some content to see if that is what is being called up, then delete it. The third option is to change the target of your domain name to speak directly to the index.php and bypass the index.htm(l). But deleting it is easier.

I recognize, Tahoma, Arial, Vedana and Georgia... nothing else matters. Oh, and I recognize the ones I don't like among those I do.