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I would not use bold letters on the left menu, once you have it white on black, being bold they are hard to read. I like the rest of it. Greetings Sarah

Thank you so much! I will give a try to the fresh install, I think. I had found the config.php and looked at it yesterday and I prefer not to mess around with it... I am quite confident not to get too much of an headache now...

Oh, after clicking around a lot on my panel I found that actually I have phpMyAdmin! Well, so now I will try what to do. Should I make a fresh install and link my already existing database to it or is it better to copy the already configured CMS ?

The CMS I am using is CMS MadeSimple - it is in fact really simple and very nice to use. Now the funny thing is that my free account has PHPMyAdmin, but the new one has not (I am already considering giving it up and leaving it as it is on the free one, but I was convinced that free stuff cannot be good)(in fact the free one is the best of my three accounts so far) Is there any other way to get the data from one database to the other? It looks I will have to copy/paste my way through all the work I have already done. Great lesson in patience...

How difficult is it to put a CMS and its database onto a new server? So far I could not find out how to get the database ore copied or uploaded to the new server and I don't know if I can just remove the ready installed CMS from one place and throw it on another... looks I got myself into a lot of work and trouble by starting things on my free webspace and planning just to transfer it to the new server later...

Me too, #3. But the leaves on the C look a bit silly for my taste. The leaves on your first example were more serious (well I can't explain that much better, sorry...)

One day ago I changed the data on the site of the company where the domain is registered. But then the company emailed me they cannot change them as long as this issue with the primary nameserver is not solved. That it can take a while to change the nameservers I know. But I have no idea what is this problem that keeps the company from getting the whole process started at all...

I bought some webspace with a company and have a domain registrated with another company. When I was trying to change the Nameservers to my new webspace I got a mail from the company where I registered the domain telling that the domain in question was not configured to the primary server, or something like that, in portuguese it said "Dom?nio 'mosaico.pt.' n?o est? configurado no servidor de nomes com o endere?o IP 195.22.11.235 (prim?rio)." Whatever that means... I was told to contact the other company and there I was told that the change would happen in a few hours. But more than a few hours passed and it happened nothing. Is it normal to have to wait so long? Could it be the company where I have registered the domain delaying things for any reason? And what does this cryptic message mean at all? In my control panel the domain appears together with the IP number of that server... Just would like to know if I was not a bit too fast to complain to the company where I bought the webspace... though the fact that I could not access their control panel page all day long yesterday should be reason enough to complain... Greetings, Sarah

my (not professional) opinion: The second one is great! The first one looks a bit boring, professional but very distant and cold. The second one is much more friendly, interesting and those orange-green leaves are beautiful. Greetings Sarah

Thank you so much! Does not look as bad as I thought, really. I was counting already with Gigabytes and more. Have I mentioned how much I like this forum? You are so very helpful and patient here, I am really thankful and hope that later on I will be able to help others as well. (Right now I probably would rather confuse people... I am still so refreshingly clueless about webdesign...) Greetings, Sarah

Sorry, that is because I have no experience at all with forums and their sizes, I just imagine that it will be significantly more than the average website, or am I wrong? - Maybe you can give just an idea instead, something like: How small would be a tiny little forum? How big can a forum get? The only thing I can be sure is that the one I want to make would be anything in between the two - I know that is vague, but it will help already to give me an idea.

It is to be a forum that might earlier or later have quite a few images, but nothing huge. Is it very problematic to go for something free like Forumco? Besides the awful noisy heartattack-causing banners they put? If not, how much space would a forum take? Greetings Sarah

Thank you a lot! This works fine! So as I understand it, utf-8 works for all characters, why people use the ISO stuff? Greetings Sarah

Thank you all so much! Everything in place, gif-images, buttons in line and you saved me from big headache of rethinking all my design. I am really happy now!! Greetings, Sarah

I will try that in the evening when I return to my own computer, but I am still wondering - ISO-8859-1 should be good enough, or not? At least all information available on the net tells me that it is fine for portuguese characters...

Well, the png would be the smallest of the problems that IE6 has with it, and I can change these, I think they are not essential. The positioning issues are more difficult - the buttons appear on the proper place horizontally, but each of them occupies an own line, if that explanation is more or less understandable. And that is the point I could not fix so far...

This works fine in the usual browsers and looks nice. But is there anyway to fix it for IE6? I need it to work, because even though the rest of the world seems to have upgraded to IE7 lots of Portuguese and Brazilians seem to stick to the infernal IE6. If there is no way I will have to say goodbye to it and find something more plain and simple. Home Quem Somos Mosaicos Galeria Novidades Cursos Como Aderir Links div#navbar {background-color: #3e5f61; height: 44px; width: 875px; margin:0; padding: 0; } ul#navlist {list-style: none; margin: 1px; } a.button {background: transparent url('buttona.png') no-repeat scroll top right; color: #444; display: inline; float: left; font: normal 15px verdana, arial, sans-serif; height: 38px; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 6px; padding-right: 18px; /* sliding doors padding */ text-decoration: none; } a.button span { background: transparent url('buttonspan.png') no-repeat; display: inline; line-height: 38px; padding: 10px 0 10px 18px; } ul#navlist a:hover {background-image: url(buttonahover.png);} ul#navlist a:hover span {background-image: url(buttonspanhover.png);} ul#navlist a:active span {padding:5px 0 3px 18px;}

Associa??o Nacional da Arte do Mosaico Home Quem Somos Mosaicos Galeria Novidades Cursos Como Aderir Links Bemvindo ? p?gina da Associa??o Nacional da Arte do Mosaico ANARTEM A ANARTEM foi fundada para todos os artistas e amigos do mosaico classico e contempor?neo portugu?ses e nacionais, para promover o mosaico como forma de arte e para ajudar os artistas do mosaico a estudarem esta arte milen?ria e a produzirem e exibirem as suas obras.

Thank you! Margin & padding: 0 on the ul fixed it.

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Hello Eduardo, I know that way of feeling just too well. I was always attracted to design, but the confusions of life just dragged me into different directions. Now for some years I work as a selftaught artist and designer and sometimes I feel that the works I try to do really suck. So what to do with that? I think the solutions for the problem applies both to art and design. First solution is: Go study design. In my case impossible - one son, a household, my art and eight horses keep me much too busy to even just think about it. Second solution: Learn to find out why things suck and why they don't. It requires some practice but I guess brought down to essence it just is the same you would learn when studying design: For example, look again at the page you like and try to find out why you like it - down to every detail. Then change some things to see what you feel about it after. Do the same with pages you don't like. I believe this method is harder than to "just learn the rules" but as you start to rely on your own experience it is more solid, too. You don't just copy things that someone told you are right. Bad thing about it: You might not be able to explain your client why one thing looks better than another... then it come in handy some books to get the vocabulary of what you are doing... Greetings Sarah

Thanks a lot! That helps, I am on the run to check that.

Thank you all. So the list is: PHP CMS MySQL to get an interactive site going? What exctly are doing database and CMS, anyway? I still halfway understand what I do with PHP and I know a MySQL database from my shop template wich I started experimenting with - in that case it would contain a list of articles to sell. I guess a Content Management System manages content... but how exactly? Is it not the same as a database? Sorry for these probably most stupid questions possible. The price of consequent autodidactic learning are huge gaps where the dim light of our interest never tried to shed light. Greetings Sarah

If this belongs into the beginners section, just put it there... This year I will have to start thinking about creating a dynamic website - you know, not just looking pretty and with buttons to click, but the complex stuff. It is to be the site of an art association. Paying members should be able to upload photos, people should be able to fill out forms to register, maybe even a forum could be involved. So far it just looks mount everest to me. I would like to get some ideas about what will be necessary to learn besides my HTML and CSS? I have a vague idea that probably this will involve PHP and databases but I am a complete idiot concerning these things (so far) - where can I find databases and programming explained for complete idiots? Where do I start planning this site? Is there a good step-by-step tutorial for anything like this around? What am I forgetting that will get me stuck for months without getting anywhere? And what could cost a site like that if I let anyone build it for me ? (Once I should be busy doing art, not web design... ) Greetings, Sarah

I found cubecart quite nice and easy.