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Karlprof
PostPosted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 9:52 pm 
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My host (that you suggested KP) are shutting down


Umm... err? I'm sorry, are you implying that it's my fault that a small business I happened to quite like got hit hard by the global recession and ended up going bankrupt?

It's unfortunate, and I'm sympathetic (though I did jump ship a while ago when it became apparant that they were hitting difficulties), but trying to call me out over it won't change your situation. And since you have until the 31st of September to back up your gooseberry fool and get a different host, anyway, it's not quite life-or-death yet.

In any case, they sent a quite comprehensive email on what to do; I can forward this to you if you didn't receive it. You will need a new registrar (take your pick, Winckle uses 123reg) and a new host (Apis or Register1).

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My host (that you suggested KP) are shutting down


Umm... err? I'm sorry, are you implying that it's my fault that a small business I happened to quite like got hit hard by the global recession and ended up going bankrupt?

It's unfortunate, and I'm sympathetic (though I did jump ship a while ago when it became apparant that they were hitting difficulties), but trying to call me out over it won't change your situation. And since you have until the 31st of September to back up your gooseberry fool and get a different host, anyway, it's not quite life-or-death yet.

In any case, they sent a quite comprehensive email on what to do; I can forward this to you if you didn't receive it. You will need a new registrar (take your pick, Winckle uses 123reg) and a new host (Apis or Register1).


Was just letting you know because I thought you already changed host, not saying it's your fault, just thought you wouldn't have known.

But yeah, they did the good thing and gave lots of notice which i'm happy about, I wanted to change anyway but now I have a motive for doing it.

How is Winkle finding 123reg, had some serious problems with them and Google, they wouldn't submit sites to it unless you paid them additional charges so had to move hosts and then they was stalling things.

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Ahhh right, sorry about that, bit defensive in retrospect!

Winckle just uses 123-reg for his domain, he uses Apis for his actual hosting. 123-reg have nothing to do with if he gets on Google or not (though neither do Apis really, that's a weird one that). As far as I know he likes them as a registrar though.

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Just started learning CSS (finally :oops: ), and it's nice to work through the tutorials in the CSS books that I bought off Amazon. Always handy having something to pick up as they're kept beside my PC/mac mini. :D

Looking forward to using CSS to create one specific guide template that'll work properly on a variety of devices (desktop and mobile). Will make porting them across so much easier! :wub:

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Is there anyone on here, able & willing to help me on developing a website? My background is in design & so i'm not good at the nitty gritty stuff. I was wondering if there's someone on here who might be able to help a fella out.
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Does anyone know any good tutorials for Dreamweaver?


A class project that I have is going to be to build a webmap using Google maps API 3 and the site the map will be hosted on will be constructed in Dreamweaver. I plan to use the W3Schools tutorials but is there anything else I will need to know?

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use notepad++ or you'll strawberry float up the whole thing

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Is that directed at me?

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Okie dokie, thanks for the tip.

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Does anyone know if it is possible to overlay collapsible panels onto a google maps frame?

Basically I mean something like what they have here...

http://www.flashearth.com/

I'm building the page with Dreamweaver, I know notepadd++ was suggested and I did get it to play around with it but for my course work I specifically have to use Dreamweaver.

So I have the code for the Spry collapsible panel because that is built in I'm just having trouble actually putting it on top of the google map portion of the page. Is that even possible or would it be best to just have it separate?

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Can anyone help with me validating/well forming my XML? It's the First XML assignment I've done, but cant for the life of me work out where I've gone wrong :(.

<?xml version="1.1" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
'[
<!ELEMENT createAccount (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT emailAddress*)>
<!ELEMENT authorLogin (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT location (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT postalCode ( #PCDATA | source)*>
<!ELEMENT source (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT dateOfBirth (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT month(line+)>
<!ELEMENT day (line+)>
<!ELEMENT year (line+)>
<!ELEMENT line (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT gender (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT maleRadioButton (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT letOthersFindYoutubeChannel (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT receiveYoutubeProductEmails (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT acceptTermsAndConditions (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT FemaleRadioButton (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT date (#PCDATA)>
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<root xmlns:h="http://www.youtube.com/create_account?next=%2Findex">'
<xmlns:f="http://www.youtube.com/create_account?next=%2Findex">
<createAccount>
<emailAddress>s.davidsusa@hotmail.com</emailAddress>
<authorLogin>SDavidsUSA</authorLogin>
<location>United States</location>
<postalCode>CH1 2J4</postalCode>
<dateOfBirth>
<month>January</month>
<day>21</day>
<year>1989</year>
</dateOfBirth>
<gender>
<maleRadioButton>Male</maleRadioButton>
</gender>
<letOthersFindYoutubeChannel>Ticked</letOthersFindYoutubeChannel>
<receiveYoutubeProductEmails>Ticked</receiveYoutubeProductEmails>
<acceptTermsAndConditions>I accept</acceptTermsAndConditions>
</createAccount>
<createAccount>
<emailAddress>Amy92@GMail.com</emailAddress>
<authorLogin>Amy92</authorLogin>
<location>United Kingdom</location>
<postalCode>ME7 2HA</postalCode>
<dateOfBirth>
<month>December</month>
<day>05th</day>
<year>1992</year>
</dateOfBirth>
<gender>
<FemaleRadioButton>Female</FemaleRadioButton>
</gender>
<letOthersFindYoutubeChannel>Not Ticked</letOthersFindYoutubeChannel>
<receiveYoutubeProductEmails>Not Ticked</receiveYoutubeProductEmails>
<acceptTermsAndConditions>I accept</acceptTermsAndConditions>
</createAccount>
<date>2011 04 05</date>


Stumped at the moment on what to do about it.

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Does anyone know of a decent preferably free HTML editor which is like the W3 schools editor (like in one panel it shows the code and in the other it shows a preview of the webpage, I'm not doing anything to fancy at the moment as I'm only trying to learn HTML as a general interest, rather than anything to do with a job or uni.

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There's no need to work like that at all. Just edit code in Notepad++ (I assume you are using windows) and test in a browser window by refreshing the page.

If you are desperate for side by side code/page views then I guess you could use dreamweaver - it's effectively free considering nobody pays for it anyway :shifty: - it has a design view that updates automatically as you code. It's a real system and screen space hog though.

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Dreamweaver is ace if you need a live editing environment with previews. Its only system intensive if you have a gooseberry fool system.

It does get a bit overcomplex sometimes if you edit things on the display panel rather than the code side, can add a shitload of superfluous code.

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I'm designing/developing my first website so far. It's a baby boutique website that I'm doing for my sister.

It's going quite well ATM, but I was wandering whats the best cart/payment method system to use. So far there's a gallery for the products (just using one off of dynamic drive at the minute, but I do plan on building one myself once I get used to CSS a bit more) and if you click on an image, a new window opens showing a bigger product picture & the information, through html.

There's also a button that links to a form for custom orders. So far there's nothing for payment on any of the pages, just some order & customer information (address, name, quantity etc). So I was wandering what to do payment wise: incorporate a Google Checkout or PayPal cart, or develop a database myself. My Database skills where quite good in college, but we didn't do much MySQL. If I did do a database, using some combination of MySQL & PHP & perhaps a bit of XML, I'm not sure what I need to be aware of Legally & Financially, if anything. Haven't done E-Commerce in a bit either.

I'd also like to say that Internet Explorer is a complete banana split. I've only tested in the latest versions of IE, Chrome & FireFox so far, and IE has strawberry floated up half of the images, gallery & links :fp:. I've yet to validate any of the pages (think I'm going to do this before it goes server-side & then once again when the server stuff (PHP, SQL, Capatcha, Cart[?]) etc has been done. Need to check it out in safari & opera as well as it goes.

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I'm designing/developing my first website so far. It's a baby boutique website that I'm doing for my sister.

It's going quite well ATM, but I was wandering whats the best cart/payment method system to use. So far there's a gallery for the products (just using one off of dynamic drive at the minute, but I do plan on building one myself once I get used to CSS a bit more) and if you click on an image, a new window opens showing a bigger product picture & the information, through html.

There's also a button that links to a form for custom orders. So far there's nothing for payment on any of the pages, just some order & customer information (address, name, quantity etc). So I was wandering what to do payment wise: incorporate a Google Checkout or PayPal cart, or develop a database myself. My Database skills where quite good in college, but we didn't do much MySQL. If I did do a database, using some combination of MySQL & PHP & perhaps a bit of XML, I'm not sure what I need to be aware of Legally & Financially, if anything. Haven't done E-Commerce in a bit either.


To be honest - and without wanting to sound like a patronizing dick - I really don't think you have enough experience to develop an ecommerce system. Apart from the complexity of developing software allowing you to manage hundreds of different little things, you need to consider how you're going to store data securely and run a stable application that won't kill your server under load... I would suggest looking into the various open source options out there, like Magento (even if it is a beast, poorly documented, and something of a mindfuck at first glance.) And I should know - I've been project lead on two ecommerce frameworks. It's NOT easy :< Alternatively, reading your post back - yeah, you could keep it simple and just do product/category/order management on your side, and process payments through Google or PayPal or something.

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I'd also like to say that Internet Explorer is a complete banana split. I've only tested in the latest versions of IE, Chrome & FireFox so far, and IE has strawberry floated up half of the images, gallery & links :fp:


If it breaks in the latest version of IE then that's your own damn fault for writing bad code.

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I'm designing/developing my first website so far. It's a baby boutique website that I'm doing for my sister.

It's going quite well ATM, but I was wandering whats the best cart/payment method system to use. So far there's a gallery for the products (just using one off of dynamic drive at the minute, but I do plan on building one myself once I get used to CSS a bit more) and if you click on an image, a new window opens showing a bigger product picture & the information, through html.

There's also a button that links to a form for custom orders. So far there's nothing for payment on any of the pages, just some order & customer information (address, name, quantity etc). So I was wandering what to do payment wise: incorporate a Google Checkout or PayPal cart, or develop a database myself. My Database skills where quite good in college, but we didn't do much MySQL. If I did do a database, using some combination of MySQL & PHP & perhaps a bit of XML, I'm not sure what I need to be aware of Legally & Financially, if anything. Haven't done E-Commerce in a bit either.


To be honest - and without wanting to sound like a patronizing dick - I really don't think you have enough experience to develop an ecommerce system. Apart from the complexity of developing software allowing you to manage hundreds of different little things, you need to consider how you're going to store data securely and run a stable application that won't kill your server under load... I would suggest looking into the various open source options out there, like Magento (even if it is a beast, poorly documented, and something of a mindfuck at first glance.) And I should know - I've been project lead on two ecommerce frameworks. It's NOT easy :< Alternatively, reading your post back - yeah, you could keep it simple and just do product/category/order management on your side, and process payments through Google or PayPal or something.


Cheers for the advice, think I'm going to do a standard database with the stock and such in it on my side in Access or whatever, & then just put the payments through paypal.

This has got me wondering though, I wouldn't mind turning this site into more of an e-commerce site, so what would I need to know and do? As I mentioned, my Database skills aren't that bad, top marks in college for any Database unit I did. MySQL I haven't had the chance to do much as the last time I did it was a few classes at the end of college on it. PHP is much of the same due to lack of access to a server to see the results.

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I'd also like to say that Internet Explorer is a complete banana split. I've only tested in the latest versions of IE, Chrome & FireFox so far, and IE has strawberry floated up half of the images, gallery & links :fp:


If it breaks in the latest version of IE then that's your own damn fault for writing bad code.[/quote]

Chrome & FireFox seems to display it fine with no problems though. Looking back at the page of the dynamic drive site I got the gallery from, it does say that the effect doesn't work in IE. Explains why some of the links doesn't work as well as they're wrapped around the images. Looks like I may need to find another gallery to use then as a lot of people use IE as their default browser.

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This has got me wondering though, I wouldn't mind turning this site into more of an e-commerce site, so what would I need to know and do? As I mentioned, my Database skills aren't that bad, top marks in college for any Database unit I did. MySQL I haven't had the chance to do much as the last time I did it was a few classes at the end of college on it. PHP is much of the same due to lack of access to a server to see the results.


Have a look at the Magento database structure. Click the orange link to the right of a table name to bring it up as an ERD with its relationships on screen. Yes, 327 tables is correct.

Ok, so that powers a whole lot more than just product/stock and categorisation info - but you have to think long term as well as immediate needs; how are you going to manage promotions on the site? how are you going to cope with failed or incomplete orders? how are you going to manage (and secure) user accounts and baskets?

By all means have a crack at developing an ecommerce system, but from the skills you describe you might do better to get into a generic objective-oriented MVC framework first and learn how to use object-oriented structures to increase development power across your whole site... if you jump in the deep end already, you might just get confused and drown.

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Can anyone help me out with this one:

I'm using the following CSS Code for my Gallery:

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.gallerycontainer
{
position: relative;
height: 610px;
}
.thumbnail img
{
border: 1px solid black;
border-radius: 10px;
margin: 0 5px 5px 0;
}
.thumbnail:hover
{
background-color: transparent;
}
.thumbnail span
{
/* CSS for enlarged image */
position: fixed;
padding: 10px;
left: -1000px;
top: 150px;
border: 1px solid;
border-radius: 5px;
visibility: hidden;
color: black;
z-index: 50%;
}
.thumbnail span img
{
/* CSS for enlarged image */
border-width: 0;
padding: 2px;
height: 300px;
width: 350px;
}
.thumbnail:hover span
{
/* CSS for enlarged image */
visibility: visible;
top: 0;
left: 350px;
background-position: 50%;
}


& I've added the following CSS for Margin & Padding, to the main Screen.css document, which is also lused on the gallery page;

Code:
/* margin and padding */
margin-right: 50px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
padding: 10px;


Now the problem is I'm getting large amounts of white space between each 'set' of the images in the gallery. I'm sure its one of the positioning elements used in the gallery.css file, where I think the problems are coming from. All the other pages (just linked to screen.css) are displaying exactly the way I want them to, and the screen.css doc contains no positioning elements.

Been trying to fix this for the past few hours (wrapping the gallerycontainer div in another div with different positioning elements, adjusting the amounts of margin and padding, making changes to both CSS files, changing both positioning elements), but I'm still getting the White Space. I'm stumped on this one. Google doesn't seem to have anything on this either.

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