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Nov

<DOCTYPE> does not matter!

"Surprised? So was I. Blog author Justin James, who is involved in the W3C's HTML 5 Working Group, discusses this and four other oddities you may not know about HTML in his blog article 'Five HTML oddities that you may not know'"

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in Website Design Forum

Nov

Adobe CS4 Downloads are available.

"Not certain what day they were actually released, but it appears CS4 downloads are now available for all products."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in Digital Art and Drawing Forum

Nov

How do people pay you ?

"I was thinking how if you are a freelance web designer do people pay you for what you have done? I have people paying by check and bringing in the money by hand, is this what most people do or is there an easier way?"

Read More... — Started by tastysite in General Discussion

Nov

Ever wonder what failing hard-drives sound like ?

"Here's a list of 35 different hard-drives including audio clips of the strange noises they make as they fail. There's also some great pieces on each of the included hard-drive manufacturers & common failings of their drives. This list is compiled by a data recovery company, so I'm guessing they've heard it all when it comes to dead drives."

Read More... — Started by joebert in Hardware

Nov

How should I setup my Windows/Linux enviroment ?

"I am a fairly basic computer user who is setting up a new computer at home for the first time. [The computer] already has Windows XP Pro as the operating system. I am keen to explore the use of a Linux operating system like Ubuntu or Mint and learn more about free programs that work with Linux and give me the operational functionality I need in a free environment..."

Read More... — Started by outback in General Discussion

Nov

Is SEO Dying ?

"I found a very interesting article about SEO that makes a number of good points about how the SEO "industry" is quickly dying off, and anyone who is basing their career on that type of work will need to quickly adapt to changing market conditions within the next three year or find a new job."

Read More... — Started by spork in Other Search Engines & Directories

Nov

Favorite Javascript frameworks?

"Who's got a favorite and why? I don't usually use a lot of JS but I have a project that's going to require me to learn a framework. So whats the best one? Mootools? YUI? JQuery? something else? Also if anyone has any good resources for learning said favorite framework I would be very interested."

Read More... — Started by graphixboy in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum

Nov

Digital Art Competition #43: Weather (climate) - Voting

"It's that time again folks! Please Vote!"

Read More... — Started by 613flavah in Competitions

Nov

Whois Phishing

"There's a rather convincing phishing-type email floating around lately which targets domain owners, asking them to verify their contact information. The goal of the phishers is unclear, but they appear to be getting the email addresses they target from whois information. Read on to get a glimpse of the email & insight on possible motives."

Read More... — Started by SB in General Discussion

Oct

Exchange Email issue smtp;550 5.6.0 Lone CR or LF in header

"Anyone with some expertise in MS Exchange 2003 (server is 2003 SBS) - I could use some help. I have two employees that work remotely. For over four years I've had them set up with mail forwarders to pass mail from their exchange accounts to their Roadrunner emails. All has worked fine with zero issues until Monday. Since then emails sent from within the company domain are forwarded to them just fine, but emails received from external sources appear to reach their accounts at our exchange server (I've verified by opening their accounts here that emails are being received at their domain accounts), however, instead of being forwarded to their Roadrunner accounts and NDR is being created and returned to the sender."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in Microsoft Windows Forum

Oct

What would you like to see in a Social Network?

"Hi all, What in your opinion do you find appealing in a social networking site. e.g. The ability to write blogs, Be Customizable, good messaging facilities. What would you like to see in a social network?"

Read More... — Started by ben_sigma in Website Design Forum

Oct

phpMyAdmin: Error #1045-Access denied for user 'root'@local

"Hello Members. I have successfully installed the following: IIS ver 6, php ver 4.4.9, MYSQL ver 5.0.67, When i tested through command line i get no error and i am view the php pages on the browser without any hitch. In the beginning when i was trying to connect to MYSQL through simple php script i was getting an authentication error which i could resolve by using OLD_PASSWORD."

Read More... — Started by pearl15 in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum

Oct

PHP Namespace Support Syntax Change

"If you've been following the development of PHP namespace support, you're probably familiar with the double-colon syntax already being used to access static members of a class. Well, they're changing it..."

Read More... — Started by joebert in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum

Oct

Most Appealing Colors of 2008

"I am trying to get a new clothes Design Company website going and I want to include the most appealing colors of 2008. Is there a place where I can check them? I think some websites look cool in blue and orange like hotel hotline, myTino and MSN, is there any way of doing a cool black site?"

Read More... — Started by Emily0415 in Website Design Forum

Oct

Feed the needy and test your vocabulary!!

"It's a word game basically, and it gets hard really really fast, but for every word you get right a sponsor will donate a certain number of grains of rice to be sent to the poor and hungry. And the guy that set it up doesn't take a dime of it - it all goes directly into charity. Pretty cool really..."

Read More... — Started by celandine in General Discussion

Oct

Errors opening media files

"I download alot of TV series that are aired overseas (before Australia gets them.. And i have quite an organised system on my computer.. Everything has its own folder.. For example.. All my Heroes season 3 go into one folder, which is on my desktop until i have all the episodes, But, when i try to open the folder i get the "Windows Explorer had to close because of an unexpected error" message.. and then explorer restarts. It happens to my Californication folder, and some other movie folders or whatnot that i have.. And also, my Media player doesnt want to play these files either, it has to "Close" so i end up using my VLC player for all movies. So i start thinking its something with the media files.. But my music works fine in Media player.. So, im not sure what the problem could be.."

Read More... — Started by sexcbubz in Microsoft Windows Forum

Oct

404 Errors Cause a Penalty?

"I have a site with many pages that are regularly updated. Often a page needs to be replaced with entirely new content because the old content expired. In this case, the title, content and URL all need to change. Would having regular 404 errors from expired pages that have been removed cause a penalty with Google for the pagerank on the site?"

Read More... — Started by undoIT in Google Forum

Oct

Google Enhancing Search Results for Forums ?

"I just noticed that Google is adding a strip of info which includes the number of posts, number of post authors, and the time/date of the last post to the top of search results pointing to forum threads/posts. So far I've seen it for VBullitin and phpBB3 forums, including Ozzu."

Read More... — Started by joebert in Google Forum

Oct

Firefox 3.1 to support CSS @font-face Rule

"One of the most requested features Mozilla recieves from developers is to add support for the CSS @font-face rule. This rule enables developers to specify a true-type font file (*.ttf) for a specific font a developer wants to use while rendering a web page."

Read More... — Started by spork in Website Design Forum

Oct

Photography Competition #43: Alone - VOTING

"At long last i have managed to get around to uploading the poll to the "Alone" competition. Voting lasts for 5 days. Good Luck!"

Read More... — Started by SB in Competitions

Oct

Wikipedia Moves to Ubuntu

"In a few months, Wikipedia will finish a major transformation by moving from a combination of versions of Red Hat products to Ubuntu Linux Version 8.04 on all 400 of its servers that support the Web site. The move to all-Ubuntu was primarily done with the goal of 'making our own administration and maintenance simpler,' [Brion Vibber] said. 'We decided that we want to standardize on something.'"

Read More... — Started by joebert in Unix / Linux Forum

Oct

The Best Answer for "Why should we move to Linux"?

"One of my friends saw my free Ubuntu cd, which I got from the Ubuntu site. Then my friend asked me, "Why should we move to linux?" He is using pirated stuff & even though I always mention Linux is free, he always says that his Windows XP is also "free" and the stuff inside that also "free"."

Read More... — Started by gamekiller in Unix / Linux Forum

Oct

Opera 9.6 Available

"Version 9.6 for Opera is available. Other than some misc under the hood improvements, it doesn't look like there's much to get excited about with this release."

Read More... — Started by joebert in General Discussion

Oct

Berkeley Breathed to retire

"Bye Bye Opus Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is retiring, leaving a hole in Sunday comics pages after nearly 30 years because he wants to save his strip’s main character, Opus, from being dragged down in the current political climate."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in General Discussion

Oct

Flash Competition #3 - Slide Show - VOTING

"Voting has begun and will last for 5 days."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in Competitions

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.