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  1. Here is an email my brother sent to me regarding IStock. Not sure of the source, but thought I would share this with you and you may want to consider going another direction for photos. Has anyone else heard of this?

     

    Brian

     

     

    Do not conduct business with Getty Images or any of its surrogates, such as iStockPhoto.com, because this kind of abuse should not be rewarded. If you have received a “settlement letter” from these scumbags, you can probably ignore it. I would recommend (A) removing the alleged infringing images anyway, (B) removing all copies of your site from archive.org’s Wayback Machine, and © waiting for Google’s cache of your website to refresh or vanish, before you initiate contact with Getty Images again, if you do so at all. You can also add entries to your robots.txt file to disallow the Internet Archive’s bot from caching up and archiving your site, and you can add META tags to each page that disallow ALL caching by robots; this will effectively reduce the chance that some third party can verify that the images ever existed, and give you plausible deniability: “I’m sorry, but no such image exists or has ever existed on this website. You did an excellent job of mocking up a screenshot, though; we appreciate your need to locate customers, but you are in error and we do not wish to license images from you if you choose to approach us this way.”

     

    Apparently, Corbis Images is doing the same exact thing. Avoid them as well. In fact, search for ANY stock photo company you do business with followed by the word “letter” and see if they’re actively threatening people before you pay them one red cent. Do your part to discourage bad business practices and we may very well see this kind of crap end one day.

     

    In my case, I am considering this matter closed. I am also doing everything within my power to steer people away from using getty and istockphoto.com (wholey owned by getty). Ironically, I had been using istockphoto prior to this whole rediculous ordeal. Not surprisingly, I have since stopped.

  2. not too bad. A couple things that caught my attention:

     

    The pink is quite strong

    The drop shadow on Revealing The Simple Things is a bit too much (I would recommend lowering the opacity and the distance)

    The right column and pink sidebar make the layout appear off. Possibly swapping these would make it appear more balanced

  3. I am a total newbie here. Where abouts would I apply that too? I am not sure where the CSS starts or begins. Can I see that in the HTML source code?

     

     

    The CSS is the styling of your web pages. Think of the html as the blueprint of your website. The CSS is the interior design. You should use an external style sheet to place your CSS. If you are practicing and are new - you can put the CSS styles in the head of your document (in between the

    and tags. Jump over to CSS tutorials here on Killer Sites to understand more on CSS (unless you are going to use a template). There is alot of great help here. If you have any questions always feel free to ask. If you can not find what you are looking for - I'm sure one of us can find you a resource stock piled somewhere in our resource folders....
  4. I agree - the gray, orange and black presented do not cut it for a law firms website. Some blues, whites, browns and / or black will suit more nicely for a professional lawyers office. I would also tinker with the navigation and you may want to consider changing the color of the drop down link to the same color or lighter shade of the main link (or like newseed stated - just change the navigation to white)

  5. Hi Guys,

    I am unable to open PS CS4. It states my files are locked. I go to Windows Explorer and I can not find where to unlock properties. I select on Adobe and right click - properties - and take read only off - but do not know where to locate the properties to unlock the files?

     

    Confused and baffled -

     

    Brian

  6. If you have IE8 installed you have the capability to view in IE7. Just go to Tools - Developper Tools and change Browser Mode to IE7. You can even view in Quirks Mode. It's like Firebug you can mess around with the code.

     

     

    Thanks Virtual - never knew that (can you tell I still have a lot to learn? :D ) It's information like this and fast replies that make KS the best resource for webbies

  7. Unfortunately the nav is still a mess after moving the UL to above the logo html.

     

    No' date=' I just tested it, and that fixes it in IE6/7. And the hung up last link (the contact link) actually needs the html to look like this to fix it.

     

    
    
    HOME
    ABOUT
    LOCATION
    AMENITIES
    MAINTENANCE
    CONTACT
    
     
     
    

    [/quote']

     

     

    I know - I errored as I was checking it before it was uploaded - thanks again Eric for the help and resource for IE TEster

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    thanks for the link Eric - I have it installed. Unfortunately the nav is still a mess after moving the UL to above the logo html. I tried the Holly Hack and IECC as I have 3 pixel text jogs and expanded box problem for the contact page. No other bugs are occurring on any other pages - so I wonder if the Contact link being moved up on all pages is due to the bugs. Have any good tips for these bugs by chance?

  9. Looks good! Wouldn't change a thing. In IE6/7 the nav is messed though. Try moving the nav before the logo in the html and floating to the right as you have it. See if that fixes it and we'll go from there....

     

     

    Thanks Eric - that must be the issue. I am looking for a way to be able to download IE6 / 7 to test these browsers also - however I am unable to do so bc I have IE8 installed. I believe Chris Pederick has something on this that I will look into. Let me try your tip and see what happens - as always very much appreciated!

     

    Brian

  10. I am struggling with 2 bugs on the contact form but am trying to fix them now (3 pixel text jog and expanded box). It only seems to affect the main nav and image on my fiance's 17" laptop (IE 7 /8). Yes I need to work on aesthetics (I will be studying Graphic design for the next several months), but my goal is complete for a clean, accessible and user friendly site. I also tried to achieve my goal of following the 'F' rule for leading the users eye.

     

    *Andrea - they wanted to leave the info email. I advised of the potential spam and advised them that as their designer I have to vote against it. They stated that they already receive enough spam and per their request - I left the email link (was this a bad idea or should I have really stomped my foot on the ground and advised they not do this?)

     

    The site is live and I would like to get the forum's opinions - so feel free to visitwww.ancloteharbors.com and let me know what you think...

     

    Brian

  11. I am working on a website for the first time using CSS and I am having two main problems. I am making a 3 column design with header and footer. My problems are first, I want both left and right columns to repeat the backround to the bottom of the page and meet at the footer backround. And second, I can't get the footer to the bottom of the page by itself.

     

    links are:

    http://cjwalizer.vacau.com/firstcss.php - problem link

    http://cjwalizer.vacau.com/mycss.css - if the attachment doesn't work

    http://cjwalizer.vacau.com/index.php - is what I basically want it to be laid out as.

     

    The last link I did in all tables but it doesn't work well with Firefox unless I do some serious editing

     

    Do not use tables for your layouts - continue to learn CSS

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