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Mar
10
It's Doodle 4 Google time again...
"If you live in the U.S. and have children K-12 who enjoy art and doodling, I'd suggest looking into google's annual doodling contest. This year's theme is "If I could do anything, I would...""
Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in General Discussion
Mar
10
A great way to increase web traffic
"Hi, I really believe that web traffic can be greatly increased if you focus on the needs of your target market first and try to post content that are truly valuable. I have noticed that when I really work on some creative approaches in my content that there is a surprising increase in the response. It is not enough that you've got everything on your site. It is in the way that you form your content that matters. Your wording and presentation always has to appeal to "the person" for it to have a better response. Your conversion rate would greatly increase if your content always puts the other person first."
Read More... — Started by glazyd888 in Google Forum
Mar
07
Arstechnica.com Encouraging Visitors to View Ads
"If this were a smaller company or individual, Google would have disabled the account and confiscated any unpaid earnings the moment it hit Diggs home page with a generic "You are a risk to our advertisers" email under the "Encouraging Clicks" Adsense policy. For some reason, Arstechnica seems to be getting away with it though."
Read More... — Started by joebert in Google Forum
Mar
02
Opera 10.5
"Opera 10.5 looks like it's ready to go. Here's a few things I've noticed right off the bat."
Read More... — Started by joebert in General Discussion
Mar
01
Microsoft to allow users choice of browser
"Microsoft is to release an update today which will give users in Europe the choice of web browser. This comes after a recent deal with the European Union who accused Microsoft of abusing it's market position."
Read More... — Started by SB in Microsoft Windows Forum
Feb
23
Help with GZIP
"I need help with compressing some files. I think GZIP is what I want to be doing, but I'm in a ASP/IIS environment. So, I don't have the cool Apache/PHP options a lot of people use. I've tried IIS compression, but I didn't detect any improvement whatsoever."
Read More... — Started by s15199d in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum
Feb
23
PHP Optimization Tips
"I wrote a database access wrapper a while ago and made it public. Someone emailed me and asked me why I didn't use any PHP Optimization Techniques such as making some functions within a class static. I never really bothered with memory optimizations because all of my scripts were relatively quick. But now, I would like to learn some of those techniques.Any tips?"
Read More... — Started by Bogey in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum
Feb
23
Does Translate Fetch Pages ?
"When you plug a URL into Google Translate to have the page translated, does Google fetch a fresh copy of that page or does it just return a translated version of their cached copy of the page ?"
Read More... — Started by joebert in Google Forum
Feb
23
Photography Competition #58: Shadows/Trees - poll
"Which photograph do you think should win the Shadows/Tree Photography competition? Make your vote count!"
Read More... — Started by SB in Competitions
Feb
21
Dreamweaver vs Coda
"I know this question might meet with some resistance, as most of you code by hand. However, jump into this one from a designer's point of view. Not necessarily solely a WYSIWYG visual editor, since I know enough CSS and HTML to get around, but more of a quick and helpful tool to get things done. I have always relied on..."
Read More... — Started by Travis Coats in Website Design Forum
Feb
21
Ensure TOS is Read by Embedding Password
"I just had a crazy thought. What if the password a visitor had to use to login to their account was derived from instructions scattered through the TOS they had to agree to? For instance..."
Read More... — Started by joebert in General Discussion
Feb
19
Setting up a Technical Library
"Unfortunately we had our training budget at work ripped out from under us so now we are forced to setup a library filled with books so we can teach ourselves. I was hoping some of you could offer some suggestions on the following Networking and Server Administration themed subjects..."
Read More... — Started by grinch2171 in General Discussion
Feb
18
Oracle, Microsoft, and the Rug Google is Standing On
"Considering that Oracle acquired Sun who acquired MySQL, both of which controlled technologies Google uses extensively in the form of databases and Java, what are the chances that Oracle and Microsoft could work together to pull the rug right out from under Google ?"
Read More... — Started by joebert in General Discussion
Feb
17
Anyone Playing with Google Android ?
"I broke down and installed Eclipse on my Ubuntu box so I could use the ADT plugin and play around with Android applications. So far I've managed to get helloworld and the cubes live wallpaper sample to compile and run in the emulator. That's pretty much it though. I'd like to get in to it a little more so I can whip up some live wallpapers for a Nexus One site I started recently. Anyone else been playing with Android ?"
Read More... — Started by joebert in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum
Feb
15
Where it's at
"I was just typing random phrases into my address bar and came across whereitsat.com. It's a neat little site, basically a big map with special locations relevant to Pop Culture marked that you can click on and learn a little more about."
Read More... — Started by joebert in General Discussion
Feb
14
Educating Clients is a Waste of Time
"I give up on trying to educate people. Nobody wants to know how anything works, or anything other than how much it is going to cost and when it will be done. From now on I'm just going to agree with everything they say, tell them a completion date half as far into the future as I anticipate, and just spout off ridiculous numbers that I would crap myself if anyone agreed to pay."
Read More... — Started by joebert in General Discussion
Feb
14
Writing a Wordpress Plugin
"I am going to write my own WordPress Plugin (from scratch). I'm wondering if anyone here has had any experience doing this and if they can offer any suggestions. I've been looking for some sort of comprehensive list of all the "hooks", "Filters" and "actions" and what they are used for."
Read More... — Started by Bill_Thompson in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum
Feb
13
Adwords Voucher Scheme
"So Google sent me another $100 Adwords voucher for Valentines day like they seem to do on every holiday. I always end up giving them away since I can't use them and I'm too lazy to manage multiple accounts. I was bored the day I received this one in the mail though and I got to thinking."
Read More... — Started by joebert in Google Forum
Feb
10
What's the point of "-safari" and "-webkit"?
"With all the new css3 properties, it seems kind of pointless for mozilla and safari to require us to type their engine kit in front of the property before declaring it. Why not just set it up to be the actual property?"
Read More... — Started by mindfullsilence in Website Design Forum
Feb
10
Infection Rate of 'Auto-pilot' Sites
"Has anyone come across any studies/reports/etc that put a number on the amount of known infected web sites that are using so-called 'auto-pilot' scripts that make it possible for web site owners to just 'set it and forget it' ?"
Read More... — Started by joebert in Website Security
Feb
08
Keep $0.04 eCPM Link Unit ?
"Half of me says that it's better than nothing, the other half is screaming *opportunity cost !* at the top of its' lungs."
Read More... — Started by joebert in Google Forum
Feb
07
Favicons for Bookmarking
"I was just looking through some log files and noticed a visitors browser made a few page requests before it actually asked for the favicon, which got me thinking. There's favicons, that small icon in the address bar, but what about an icon designed specifically for when people bookmark your site either in their browser or with some sort of social networking gizmo? Apple iPhones/iPods have what's called an apple-touch-icon, which basically serves the same purpose. Why not regular PC browsers? It would be nice to have something to tell me how many visitors are bookmarking a site."
Read More... — Started by joebert in Website Design Forum
Feb
07
Keeping an Eye on Partner Sites
"Do you keep an eye on websites you partner up with regularly ? If you don't, maybe you should. If you do, maybe you should look a little harder."
Read More... — Started by joebert in Website Security
Feb
04
HipHop for PHP - Transform your code
"Yes, it's about the Facebook PHP rewrite."
Read More... — Started by SpooF in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum
Feb
04
Microsoft's Creative Destruction, words from Ex-VP D. Brass
"Dick Brass, Vice President at Microsoft from 1997-2004, speaks out regarding Microsoft's self-destructive behaviors that stifle creativity and the negative corporate attitude surrounding the Silicon Valley giant."
Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion
Featured Tutorial: Multi-Column Layout Using CSS Float
For this tutorial, we're targeting a layout that has three columns of content with spaces at the top and bottom for a header and footer. The page will be a fixed width and will also be centered in the browser's display area (the figure to your left).
We'll begin with an XHTML page structure in its most simple form. In the <head> of our document, we'll point to an external CSS file.
Once upon a time, web developers used the HTML element <table> to layout content columns. This practice is now recognized as cumbersome and not very semantic.
These days, instead of using <table>, we use the <div> element as a container for content. Once you get the hang of it, using <div> becomes very liberating and greatly reduces the amount of markup needed to layout a page.
This is an intermediate level tutorial that discusses one method of multi-column page layout. It assumes the reader has a good knowledge and understanding of HTML and CSS.
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