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thanks heaps for the feedback - i'm reviewing it & will look into the vid courses when i get time over the next week. one thing to note, the links will be graphical buttons with different states so not sure if lists or divs would be more appropriate for those..?

i'm working on a simple osite, and am trying to horizontally center a flash movie... pretty basic problem & what's worse is i've done this before lol. i've tried adding center tags in both the html page & css, but nothing seems to work, only absolute positioning can place it... so there's something simple i'm missing. link below: http://www.flamecgi.com/public/housing.htm the site isn't even half finished obviously & everything is text placeholders... one other weird issue when the page first loads in Chrome the space beneath the flash movie & title are white...? IE, FX & safari don't seem to have this issue so not sure what's happening there..? any help much apprec & apologies in advance for the newbiness of my questions lol.

ok i've removed the z-index reference from the css, would be keen to find out if the flash shows on macs i'm working on updating the layout to avoid the content clipping problems that are on some pages, but will keep the combination fixed-liquid layout... just don't like purely fixed at all. as you said moving menu bar to the top is an option which i'll investigate. thanks for your feedback so far

thanks for your reply - i will rework the code a bit but i'm not sure there's much point - it seems its impossible for me to test the site if i can't see the glitches... it works fine on all browsers i have including IE...? what version of IE did you test with on a PC...?

thanks that would be awesome its flamecgi.com. i'm quite new to web design so i'm sure my code is far from perfect lol. cheers -paul

I'm an animator by trade & have recently tought myself the basics of html & css, my website is functioning with flash movies using AC_RunActiveContent.js. It works great on all PC platforms I've tested it on, whether in IE, firefox, chrome or safari. However I've just had some new advertising clients look at the site & complain that the movies don't load... they're using Safari on Apple platform, but I don't know any more specifics than that. I wasn't aware of anything else I needed to do to ensure compatibility with Macs but is this likely to even be the problem...?

because i'm new to web design & don't really know anything better for my small website - and i need this page working pretty soon so no time to do a site redesign [yet]. so any idea then?

in certain places on my site i've got links which will open two html pages in different frames, using the following: i've found this very useful, however i can't get it to work on one page which is a 5 second re-director after a feedback form, initial code is in the head below: this will open the home.htm in the current main_frame which is what i want... but i'm not sure how to load another htm page into another frame which i need to do... its probably quite simple but i've been at it too long lol. any help apprec.

as per the subject, i've got 12 thumbnail images laid out in two 3x2 grids, using CSS relative alignment. looks perfect in IE8 and behaves just how i want when resizing window, same behavior in FX, looks *almost* perfect... but each small thumbnail is two pixels out vertically.. argh! of course i can line it up in FX but then it will be out in IE in the CSS i have specified a 1 pixel border around the thumbnails, but haven't used padding.. could this be the reason for the mismatch in browsers..? any tips apprec.

i've got most of my feedback form layout pretty nice now, used class identifier to change mandatory text field names to a different color, but i just need to find a tutorial that guides me through actually making them mandatory so it brings up a dialogue box or something if the mandatory fields aren't complete... i couldn't find this in the archives..? any tips or links to form tutorials much apprec i also figured out i need to disable the enter key on that page somehow.... as when filling out the 'comments' section and they hit enter for next line, it sends automatically lol.

hi guys - thanks for your replies ok... problem solved.. the problem was i am the world's biggest moron and misspelled cgi-bin i forgot the hyphen between cgi & bin lol.

the last part of making my website is a feedback form, and i'm having trouble getting it to work. basically i downloaded the free form2email.pl CGI script, and edited it as instructed. i uploaded the pl file to my cgi-bin folder, and the html contact page to my httpdocs (so the html is told to action="../cgibin/form2email.pl" however browser says it can't find can't find the pl file... i've enabled execute permissions on the pl... ? is my path wrong or is it likely something else..? as a test i tried copying the pl just to httpdocs and it found it, but firefox tried to open the pl file lol, i'm guessing its supposed to be in cgi-bin... as if you couldn't tell already i'm a total newb at this. any help much apprec.

nevermind.. this has been fixed. it appears that when the page is live it works in IE8, but not locally. *&%^ i wasted a lot of time on that lol.

ok... thanks - i copied and pasted that exact code, replaced the 'caldera' with my movie (& added html, body & head tags), and it finally works in firefox HOWEVER, i still get the activeX / script warning in IE8. have you actually tried that script in IE8....?

AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0','width','482','height','314','src','test_movie.swf','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','test_movie.swf' ); //end AC code