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Kyle Undefined

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  1. Going to college for a degree is good, but for a certificate, you would be better studying the material yourself. To find a mentor, I would find your local web design companies and talk with them and see if they can help. My boss is my mentor, he is so great at what he does and I can go to him for help and he will walk me through it so it clicks. I'm a self taught programmer and I'm studying for Microsoft Certifications. Dreamweaver is a great tool to make websites, it's fast and very helpful. I'm no Graphic Designer so I can't help you much with getting it working with Dreamweaver, all I know is that our design team uses Photoshop and then slices the layout for html and that's what we use. As for the second question, that's not a bad site at all, I like the clean colors and rounded colors. Keep up the good work! I would say go with Wordpress, fitting your design into a custom template wouldn't be hard at all. Whether you choose Joomla or Wordpress, you're going to have to edit the template to match her site. If you need help with getting the site layout into Wordpress, let me know and I'll help the best I can.
  2. Ha I am, getting a new host as we speak lol.

  3. @Kyle (Ha, sounds like I'm talking to myself), thanks for the feedback, with this particular clients site it's hard to tell what type of audience will be using it. It can very from the young to the old, so the warning message does make the most sense. Thanks for the stats, I look those up when I first found out the problem earlier today. @Webkiller, Thanks, I think that's what I'm going to do.
  4. I had received an email from one of our clients today, a field that is required on the online form was left blank when they received the email from the site. I knew it had to been an issue with the validation, since I didn't add any server side validation. (I know I know, bad. This was built several months ago before I was really into site perfection, I just did the task at hand and didn't improve it, man those were the bad days). So I dug into the issue, found out that IE6 was the culprit, which wasn't a big surprise. So I added some server side validation and all was well, and this is where I'm at a cross road... (For months now I've been trying to get my boss into the "newer" technologies of the web, but he's stubborn like me in his ways. Don't get me wrong, we're not using outdated stuff, I just want to be on the front line. I've finally was able to get him to the point of considering jQuery last month. This month, we've deployed two jQuery functions into our site which gives great SEO and user functionality. I've also been talking to him about dropping IE6 support since it's a pain in the arse, and he's on board with that one.) So anyway, back to the point, sorry for rambling. I have script that detects the browser and version, and if it detects IE6 then it displays an unobtrusive popup with links to other browsers and IE8. My boss and I were discussing what to do with the site if a user is using IE6, do we allow them to use the site and when that popup comes up warn them that their experience on the site won't be as great? Or disallow access until they upgrade? What is the best solution? I'm leaning toward letting them to continue use the site but warn them that they're using an outdated browser. Especially since some people are wary of upgrading/new browsers or like how they have their current one setup. It wouldn't be fair to them if we blocked total access, but a nice warning should be alright. I know I'm no professional in my industry, but I try to do things that the pro's do. I want to get the community thoughts on the issue before going to my boss and discuss what we should do. Anything is appreciated! Thanks!
  5. Even better, robots.txt file, here's an example: # robots.txt for http://www.site.com/ User-agent: * Disallow: /Admin/ Disallow: /Content/ Disallow: /UserControls/
  6. I would use NetBeans to write the code since it has a wonderful GUI and can help with HTML writting, then just upload the changes through the CPanel. I don't know anything about CPanels since I've never used them, so I can't help you there.
  7. Figured out why my site was redirecting to Google, the server was DDos'd so they changed changed the name servers and made the old ones pointed at Google. Ha, so my site is back up, in all it's hideous form...

  8. The only way to get PHP running on a Windows server is running WAMP, so yes, you need to get a different server.
  9. You could use Google Calendar, updating the availability and having a form that the user could submit would be easy as well.
  10. I really don't know why it's doing that...I'll have to talk to my web host and tell him to fix it lol.

    I'm kind of glad it's doing that right now, it's ugly just horrible, that's why I'm redoing the design. It should be done later this week, depending on how much work piles up.

  11. Yes, the jQuery.click event needs javascript. I used "position:absolute" in my example since that's what I thought I used, but I used "display:block", like yours Wickham, great example.
  12. There's no border in Chrome.
  13. I would add the pointer cursor through javascript just in case the users javascript is disabled. Would keep the confusion of the user down if there was a pointer hand and when they clicked nothing would happen. I'm glad you got it working, the site is looking very good, keep it up.
  14. I think I've found your problem, you're making all the menu items with the class "item", and when you're clicking a div, the jQuery is selecting the href attributes of all the item divs. Try renaming a div to a unique name and update the jQuery and see if that works. Also try putting it in the "jQuery(document).ready(function($)" and see if that helps.
  15. Why are you returning false? That cancels out the click, and try this: $(this).find("a").attr("href"); The positioning on the a tag is just to get it to show, and it takes up only the space in the item div.
  16. Susie, my example makes the whole div clickable and leaves the H2 a link.
  17. I just did this on my site, here's an example on how I did it. Hope it helps. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Test Page</title> </head> <body> <div style="width:100%;height:100%;"> <div style="width:500px;height:500px;background:#333;"> <div style="width:500px;height:100px;background:#666;"> <h2><a href="newpage">Grinders</a></h2> <a href="#" style="height:100px;width:500px;position:absolute;"></a> Clickable Div with no text in link </div> <div style="width:500px;height:100px;background:#999;"> <h2><a href="newpage">Stromboli</a></h2> <a href="#" style="height:100px;width:500px;position:absolute;text-indent:-9999px;">Link here</a> Clickable Div with text in link </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>
  18. You could have it so that with every post, a user gains "points" for the next rank, but also have it where users can add/subtract points due to quality. For example: A user joins the site, starts posting information that isn't helpful or related. The new user would get points for each of those posts, but let's say I see the post and mark it negatively, that would take away (a) point(s) and keep that user from gaining. It's hard to explain what I'm thinking, but I hope I explained it well enough.
  19. I'm the same age. I like the new look of the contact column, good job, that's much better logically and for SEO. I like the poll, but I had the ability to vote twice, the second time I just hit vote without an option and now I can't vote again. The rounded corners on the top piece looks good, but I would round all the corners. Right now, all I see is the top corners rounded. Also, behind the top piece, there are square corners popping up behind the dark area (screenshot http://imgur.com/600eZ.png), I would round those as well. I like how you don't do the CSS hack for rounded corners in IE, it's not worth the trouble. Your poll.css file won't validate since you have the -mozilla, and -webkit properties in it, just in case you didn't know. It's looking good though, you're doing great, keep it up. I don't know the rules about posting to other forum sites, but if I break them just tell me and I'll correct it. My friends forum is programmingseo.com, and my companies site is acfconsulting.com
  20. Currently updating my site design, added Twitter connect. Should Facebook connect be added too?

    1. MaryD

      MaryD

      yes you should add it too.

    2. Kyle Undefined

      Kyle Undefined

      Thanks for the comment, I added it an hour after posting that lol.

  21. Of course Google and YouTube is going to be using HTML 5, two of the major sites that are. Another reason why these major sites don't pass W3c validation is most likely because they use custom toolkits to build and render the pages and use outdated methods. Since W3c validation is good, it doesn't have to be done, which is why a lot of them don't worry about it. I like my sites to validate with W3c standards, I really don't know why, but that's just me. At my work, I'm still updating our toolkit which uses older methods of creating javascript (Inserting the "language" attribute in the script tag, using the "name" attribute on images instead of "id", etc), and the home page has 54 errors which is a lot less than the interior pages.
  22. Haha, that's funny. You're no longer a Moderator
  23. I know it's an old post (kinda), but wanted to clarify that how you close a tag doesn't affect SEO.
  24. Ah yes, you're right. Totally forgot that part about the declaration, thanks
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