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  4. Host website and email separately?

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    I've got this one worked out, as well. Thanks, guys! :)

     

    (The client decided to just simply forward the small domain website to the large domain website and keep all the emails at the smaller domain host.)

    As a followup, you can use a host's 'Add-on' domain service to host two domains on the same account and get two separate email services as a result. I do this with a couple customers that want a different domain for email and web (don't ask why LOL).

  5. Need good articles on how and why to use Headers (h1 - h6) correctly

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    I started using H1 to wrap logos a couple years ago if they contained relevant and significant text that describes the page/site. My thought was this is good for accessibility and search engines because it clearly defines the role of the company name and tagline.

     

    As I continue reading about search engine likes/dislikes, Google would rather have ONE H1 per page. So, I am switching gears and instead of using H1, I may use a to wrap it and I make image replacement possible regardless of the the logo's and text's container. An element is enough to perform image replacement. I believe the W3c recommendations suggest using one h1 too, although I don't recall a strict recommendation.

     

     

    My initial question was a request for references for what I (and most of us here) already understand about header usage.

     

    My second topic was a thought somewhat related to this because I've been changing how I approach Header tags and logos. And, I want to solidify my approach and pass it on to other folks I work with.

     

     

    Sometimes as we develop sites we wear blinders because there is so much going on and going into the development of a site layout. Especially when working against deadlines. So, I do my best to question myself and love having this resource to read what other folks have to say too! :)

  6. Sharing a drive over a network

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    With Win 2K and newer, go to your computer's System Properties, Computer Name and create a Workgroup name and do the same on the other PC. Restart and you are now part of eachother's networks. Next, be sure to 'Share' some folder or use the default Public folders to pass data back and forth. Using a shared drive - right click on the drive and choose the Sharing properties to set it up. If your PC's have passwords, you will need to login remotely the first time and set it to remember. or just login each time...

  7. Blog advice

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    Sounds like you should really consider WordPress and integrate the current design and content.

     

    Or, install a stand alone comment script that can integrate with any page type. search for open source commenting script or comment script. Some cost less than $30 USD

  10. Need good articles on how and why to use Headers (h1 - h6) correctly

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    Allow me to poll opinions on something that is related to this subject.

     

    Should the site's logo be wrapped in a H1? Or, a P, or nothing at all? What do you think is most effective for SEO and semantics? I'm starting to think that nothing at all is better, but I'd like to hear other thoughts before I standardize my (new) approach of this. I've seen situations where the logo is in a H2 or H3 before an H1 appears on a page which is incorrect inmho.

  13. Anyone good at recognizing fonts?

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    I know this is probably too lat, but there are sites to help ID fonts like, http://www.identifont.com/identify.html, http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ (you might have already tried this one), and http://www.bowfinprintworks.com/SerifGuide/serifsearch.php

     

     

    The first link says that it could be Berling and lists other possibilities: http://www.identifont.com/identify?16+HIDENPOT+76U+NEX+F+3S9+76Q+4W+3B6+97+6B+9J+3AK+G39+19U+4C+A0+U+M

  15. Wordpress: Add Date to Recent Posts list?

    in Blogs and CMS

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    this is completely untested in WP but... I was up really early in the morning yesterday writing this to pull in WP posts for a CMSMS project ;)

     

    <?php

     

    global $db;

     

    $wp_query = "SELECT post_date, post_title, post_category, post_name FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = 'POST' AND post_status ='publish' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 5";

    $result = mysql_query($wp_query) or die("Error: " . mysql_error());

     

    while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {

    $date_format = date("Y",strtotime($row["post_date"]));

    $post_date = date("m/d/Y",strtotime($row["post_date"]));

    $post_title = $row["post_title"];

    $post_name = $row["post_name"];

    $post_cat = $row["post_category"];

     

    echo ''.$post_date.' – '.$post_title.'';

    }

     

    ?>

     

    This will produce a list of 5 article dates and titles linked to their full articles like this:

     

    02/26/2009 - Post-Title

     

    So here is the tricky part. This uses SEO Pretty URLs and you need to know your permalink structure.

     

    The example above uses post-year/post-name

     

    If yours uses post-month/post-day/post-year/category/post-name then some changes will be needed:

     

    1st change is to the line $date_format = date("Y",strtotime($row["post_date"]));

     

    change to $date_format = date("m/d/Y",strtotime($row["post_date"]));

     

    The second change is to this

     

    I would add this into your sidebar template - let me know how it works out.

  19. Anyone see a way to fix this demo in IE6?

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    Well this is timely because I need something like that. I already have it coded' date=' but will try yours to b/c with a sticky footer, mine is not flowing downwards and pushing footer downwards to accommodate. Probably b/c of sticky footer,

     

    But, what about having the first tab open to show its content on page load?[/quote']

     

    I am the Fire-Starter...! Now this is truly unique - one of a kind! :cool:

     

    It's Inflow, defaults with first link open, no hacks, only IE6 needs hover JS (or you can use an anchor to get rid of the IE6 JS), works everywhere. Only drawback is that the first content has to be input twice. If anyone can find another way to do it without having to input the first link stuff twice I'd be very interested in seeing it! Making it show as default is easy! But making it disappear when the other links are hovered over, and not take up space, and stay inflow, is a whole different bag of apples! I tried with JS for a while (giving focus on the link) but I couldn't get that to fully work. But this does!

    http://www.visibilityinherit.com/projects/tabs-example4-default2.html

     

     

    Or I also did default on this one. Which in comparison, was a piece of cake because of the fixed height container. Although, this one would still be my choice. Less movement! http://www.visibilityinherit.com/projects/tabs-example2-default.html

     

    Edit - Now I just need to find a way of making some money doing it... But I guess that would take away the fun...

     

     

    Yeah fixed height is the easy part. The challenge is the elastic vertical container. Interesting solution - I wouldn't have thought to use duplicate content with a

    #tabs #default {tabs-exa...ult2.html (line 86)

    left:0;

    position:relative;

    }

  20. .shtml file includes

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    If you are using godaddy, you might need to use this in your .htaccess file instead of AddHandler x-httpd-php .shtml

     

     

    AddHandler php .shtml

     

    If you succeed in changing .shtml to .php so that the page is processed as PHP, will the SHTML work?

     

    Maybe you can save your code in a separate file, like rss-feed.php, and then include using .shtml includes.

  22. Anyone see a way to fix this demo in IE6?

    in CSS

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    Well this is timely because I need something like that. I already have it coded, but will try yours to b/c with a sticky footer, mine is not flowing downwards and pushing footer downwards to accommodate. Probably b/c of sticky footer,

     

    But, what about having the first tab open to show its content on page load?

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