Re:[wdvltalk] Beginners XHTML book?

2005-09-02 Thread Stephen Caudill
Just bumping this to see if it came through. Any takers? Thanks, Stephen On 9/1/05, Stephen Caudill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've got a friend who's just getting into web design and is looking for a tutorial-oriented book to help get his feet wet. I'd definitely like to get him

Re: [wdvltalk] Beginners XHTML book?

2005-09-02 Thread Stephen Caudill
to switch from tables to css for layout. He gives examples and works through them step by step with you and you can download the code for the examples from his website. He also has a mailing list, which most of you probably know about already. HTH, Riva Stephen Caudill wrote: Hi all

Re: [wdvltalk] Need to upload a newsletter

2005-09-01 Thread Stephen Caudill
Install WordPress in a subdirectory. Simple CMS's don't get any simpler (or more extensible should you choose to really dig into it). - Stephen On 9/1/05, Peter MacGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest something that is absolutely dead simple and idiot proof? (Not that she is -

[wdvltalk] Beginners XHTML book?

2005-09-01 Thread Stephen Caudill
Hi all, I've got a friend who's just getting into web design and is looking for a tutorial-oriented book to help get his feet wet. I'd definitely like to get him started out right, so nothing that promotes table based layouts or runs from web standards in general like roaches with the lights on.

Re: [wdvltalk] OT: database for photos

2005-08-25 Thread Stephen Caudill
iPhoto on Mac. Does everything you've asked. Wouldn't know for PC. Maybe the image organizing software Google bought... http://picasa.google.com/index.html Dunno though. never used it. Oh! One other thought. If bandwidth isn't an issue, Flickr would seem to fit the bill with the addition

Re: [wdvltalk] Use CSS to change _other_ content on rollover

2005-08-24 Thread Stephen Caudill
Scott, An oldie but goodie from the Meyer-Man: http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html Does, I believe, what you are looking for. I've used the technique successfully several times (with a slight modernization to use position:absolute; left:-1000em; instead of display:none;, that

Re: [wdvltalk] Payment Gateway Help

2005-08-16 Thread Stephen Caudill
On 8/16/05, wwwpages [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are looking at Authorize.Net but am unsure whether that is just for US based customers? Does anyone know for sure? Most of the Authorize.net providers are US-based, AFAICT... there are definitely some international resellers though. Your

Re: [wdvltalk] Safari tweaking help

2005-08-11 Thread Stephen Caudill
I sadd it was untested ;) Couple of typos on my part: if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf(AppleWebKit) -1) { document.getElementById(tdMenuSolutions).style.height=88px; } seems to work for me. Note the spellings of indedOf and userAgent. hth, Stephen On 8/11/05, T-- [EMAIL

Re: [wdvltalk] any Mac/Safari users online?

2005-08-10 Thread Stephen Caudill
T--, I'll be back at my Mac this evening if you still need help then... Also, there's Dan Vine's wonderful resource, iCapture, here: http://www.danvine.com/icapture/ It lets you get a screen grab of a given URL in Safari. Since we seem to be on the netiquette tip lately, it's considered poor

Re: [wdvltalk] Creating a new thread [was == any Mac/Safari users online?]

2005-08-10 Thread Stephen Caudill
On 8/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're using an email client and you wish to ensure that you reply to the list, but want to create a new thread, just hit Reply on any message, then highlight and change the subject line appropriately (which you did in this case),

Re: [wdvltalk] MySQL irritation - mysql_num_rows returns blank string

2005-08-05 Thread Stephen Caudill
if ($numrows = 0) { should be if ($numrows == 0) { comparison, rather than assignment. - Stephen On 8/5/05, Galatek Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all ( at least I hope it is getting somewhere, my last few emails disappeared) Got an irritating little problem that is starting

Re: Fixed - Re: [wdvltalk] MySQL irritation - mysql_num_rows returns blank string

2005-08-05 Thread Stephen Caudill
Stephen Caudill wrote: if ($numrows = 0) { should be if ($numrows == 0) { comparison, rather than assignment. - Stephen On 8/5/05, Galatek Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all ( at least I hope it is getting somewhere, my last few emails disappeared) Got

Re: [wdvltalk] Mobile devices

2005-08-01 Thread Stephen Caudill
Todd, I just go the stylesheet route. My default handling is to simply set up a mobile stylesheet with only the most basic styles in it... nothing fancy, just functional. This is pretty dependant upon using tableless designs though. Looks like theres a good series of articles just started on

Re: [wdvltalk] Server issues?

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Caudill
FWIW, I've received all of your messages... Though this last one did get caughit in my spam filter. On 7/27/05, Scott Glasgow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's up with the list? I've seen nothing here since 2019 last night, including my own reply (sent twice) to Riva's last. Server problems?

Re: [wdvltalk] Writing a program question

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Caudill
Riva, Things like this can just as easily be handled by a closed intranet web application... I've written similar. As far as language, it's completely up to you. Classic ASP should be avoided, IMO. PHP is a bit more modern and very approachable, but still doesn't do a great job of enforcing

Re: [wdvltalk] Troubleshoot javascript (very easy)

2005-07-26 Thread Stephen Caudill
Tyme, Very close :0) You're just missing the declarator for the function (function): function showLeisureSub() { document.getElementById(LeisureSub).style.display = block; } For extra behavioral separation, you might even try this: script type=text/javascript function

Re: [wdvltalk] Perl error on server

2005-07-26 Thread Stephen Caudill
might reply to your host and ask them what the proper shebang line is... perl might be installed at a different location than the standard /usr/bin/perl hth, Stephen On 7/26/05, Portman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep. I even called tech support and they told me to check my code! trusz

Re: [wdvltalk] using quotation marks in an XML file

2005-07-18 Thread Stephen Caudill
did I miss something? Why not just properly HTML encode your content before putting it in the XML. Then there's no need to unencode at all... let the browser do the work. Single quotes should encode as: #39; hth On 7/18/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've an xml file used

Re: [wdvltalk] Payment gateway costs

2005-07-12 Thread Stephen Caudill
Riva, The prices vary wildly. A lot of it depends on the particulars of your situation, like the volume of business you expect the shop to do, ease of integration with the solution and your region of distribution. Merchantability within the Continental US is much less expensive than a global

Re: [wdvltalk] text editor for apple OS

2005-07-11 Thread Stephen Caudill
there are several very good ones... which you'll want to go with will probably depend on the languages you'd like syntax highlighting for. I use skEdit (http://www.skti.org/skEdit.php) for PHP and HTML as well as an all around editor when I need to make quick changes to a file, directly on the

Re: [wdvltalk] Newbie PHP-MySQL question

2005-06-10 Thread Stephen Caudill
Dan, Typically, I set up the database on the remote server before hand and only export the tables from my local DB to an SQL file, rather than the whole database. hth, Stephen Dan Staehr wrote: I'm trying to transfer a MySQL database from my testing server to my hosting server using

Re: [wdvltalk] PHP: determine if a directory is empty

2005-06-08 Thread Stephen Caudill
Pat Richard wrote: Without actually trying it, the first thing that comes to mind is to insert a counter in your while loop. If, at the conclusion of the loop, it only == 2, then you're likely in an empty directory (you'd have the . And .. To give you the two). Make sense? Something I nabbed

Re: [wdvltalk] [OT] domain names

2005-06-07 Thread Stephen Caudill
I'll second godaddy. been with them for around a year now and they've been consistently on the ball for the duration of that time. Also, it may just be my imagination, but I'd swear that domains propagate faster with them. - Stephen Portman wrote: Try godaddy.com. I have had only good

Re: [wdvltalk] one XML file == multiple XHTML pages

2005-06-06 Thread Stephen Caudill
Peter O'Brien wrote: Stephen, thanks for this post. Actually I wasn't doing xslt on the server before, so I'm just starting out now using PHP. First problem though, I have my basic stuff working live on the web, but not from on my local web server (mac os x 10.3) - attempts are just

Re: [wdvltalk] Website flashing

2005-06-03 Thread Stephen Caudill
Ah, IE only. That would be the FOUC or Flash of Unstyled Content. A quick google will bring up lots of info on it (notably the original bluerobot article that identified it and gave solutions for it), but here are a couple of quick fixes: rather than using a style block to link your

Re: [wdvltalk] one XML file == multiple XHTML pages

2005-05-31 Thread Stephen Caudill
just saw this... got caught in my spam filter for some reason. Are you doing the transformation on the server side? It sounds like you might be relying on the browser to do the transformation, which FF, IE and probably others will do happily, but spiders will not... Assuming you're not victim

Re: [wdvltalk] Windows XP Icon remapping

2005-05-20 Thread Stephen Caudill
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Hi all, Any one have any pointers on how to remap the Internet Explorer icon on a winXP desktop so it launches Firefox? Not precisely, but I can do you one close to it: http://www.firefoxie.net/ May even work out better for them, as it'll retain the same look and

Re: [wdvltalk] SCR: http://jva.caffeinegroove.com/

2005-05-04 Thread Stephen Caudill
Cheryl D Wise wrote: Both Mac and PC the contrast on the tagline is insufficient, makes it hard to read. I'll relay that to the designer and ask him to get me a higher res source file so I can re-export it. The text size if awfully small on my tablet 1400x1050 on a 12 screen and since you use

Re: [wdvltalk] SCR: http://jva.caffeinegroove.com/

2005-05-04 Thread Stephen Caudill
Portman wrote: Looks fine to me in IE6.0 WinME. Resolution: 1068 x 768. I am not sure what you mean by the funky navigation - that could be an IE but not showing anything (the links simply change color on mouseover.) I just mean a non-standard layout for the nav on the home page and then on

Re: [wdvltalk] [OT] Hello Again!

2005-05-04 Thread Stephen Caudill
Welcome back, Matt :) Sorry to hear they're microsoftening you, but good to have you back around regardless! - Stephen Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Hi all, Some of you know me from the Social List, some of you might even remember me from a few years back when I used to be on this list. I

Re: [wdvltalk] SCR: http://jva.caffeinegroove.com/

2005-05-04 Thread Stephen Caudill
Steven Olson wrote: It looks clean to me. XP: FF, IE 6, NS 7.2 NS 8.0 I did occasionally see a page do a strange multi-refresh ripple type of thing, but could not make it happen to order. I suspect it may have been caused by clicking on a link before the page was fully loaded. Ah! That would be

Re: [wdvltalk] SCR: http://jva.caffeinegroove.com/

2005-05-04 Thread Stephen Caudill
Cheryl D Wise wrote: BTW, what is wrong with using either keywords or percents for the font sizes if ems are a bit out of reach right now? Nothing at all. And it's certainly encouraged practice. I have simply had a *whole* lot of trouble trying to use any scalable unit of measurement for text

Re: [wdvltalk] SCR: http://jva.caffeinegroove.com/

2005-05-04 Thread Stephen Caudill
Regardless of being able to talk a client into it or not (and I do like your Can you comfortably read this tact) there is still the issue of maintaining branding on the site and dealing with flexible width layouts to accommodate flexible width fonts. I've seen *very* few examples in the wild

Re: [wdvltalk] ssl and cURL modules

2005-05-04 Thread Stephen Caudill
SSL is definitely an option. Just forego it for testing. In fact I've got a system in the wild that's non-ssl, as they physically take CC #'s over the phone after they receive an email notification. I do not believe CURL is required either. Are you sure these aren't *warnings* in the install

Re: [wdvltalk] DHTML advice sought

2005-05-04 Thread Stephen Caudill
Steven, I wish I'd have known it was on the menu earlier. I'd have advised against the Mystery Meat Navigation[1] then. MMN is bad on a lot of levels... Perhaps worst in this scenario: User with modern browser visits your site without JavaScript enabled. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.

Re: [wdvltalk] why create a mirror site?

2005-05-03 Thread Stephen Caudill
An URL to the site would be helpful. Without it, we'll just be casting around wild guesses. - Stephen janet wrote: Hello- I have been contacted by a local firm to do some marketing for them including perhaps some web site development. In reviewing their existing site, I see that in the source

Re: [wdvltalk] why create a mirror site?

2005-05-03 Thread Stephen Caudill
janet wrote: Sorry--the link was in the message but not clear www.ccivineyard.com Thanks Ack. Sorry. Um, stab in the dark: HTTrack[1] is an offline browser. Maybe they were using it to download a copy of their own site and edit it before uploading it again? As to the abundance of crap links in

Re: [wdvltalk] why create a mirror site?

2005-05-03 Thread Stephen Caudill
janet wrote: That is what I am thinking (trying to spam the search engines). I checked out another local reputable site that was listed as a link--and it also has a collection of crap links. I am sure this company doesn't know what is going on with their web site. I am assuming they used the

Re: [wdvltalk] javascript help request

2005-05-03 Thread Stephen Caudill
*everything* that's visible on the page has an onmouseover event. CSS rollovers wouldn't be a good idea, since IE has a lack of support for the :hover pseudo selector on anything except anchors. - Stephen Howard Cheng wrote: However, I'm not sure images actually HAVE onmouseover events, so

Re: [wdvltalk] setting up zen cart to test

2005-05-03 Thread Stephen Caudill
Shouldn't be any issues with setting it up in a subfolder... I've always done it that way... in fact I think the directions step you through installing it into a subfolder. btw, cygwin isn't for ftp action. It's a command line shell for windows that emulates a *nix environment and gives you some

[wdvltalk] SCR: http://jva.caffeinegroove.com/

2005-05-03 Thread Stephen Caudill
If you've got a moment, could you mosey by: http://jva.caffeinegroove.com/ and let me know if you have any display problems? Please note browser and platform. All comments on design, layout and the (I think) kinda funky navigation are, as always, welcome. Thanks, Stephen • The WDVL

Re: [wdvltalk] ftp access to localhost

2005-05-02 Thread Stephen Caudill
Joe, navigate one of the directories in question, right click it, select properties, go to the security tab and give all the users there Full Control. If it seems insecure and weird, it is... Welcome to Windows. I believe that should do it, but if it doesn't, let us know. - Stephen Joseph

Re: [wdvltalk] ftp access to localhost

2005-05-02 Thread Stephen Caudill
Okay windows folks out there... Cheryl? Directory permissions help for joseph? You've got me on that one, Joe. If it's XP and you don't see the security tab, I don't know what to say. Are you perhaps logged in without Administrator permissions? - Stephen Joseph Harris wrote: No, It is Xp.

Re: [wdvltalk] ftp access to localhost

2005-05-02 Thread Stephen Caudill
cygwin. It'll allow you to chmod these directories. - Stephen Joseph Harris wrote: Nope. Not doing it. Todd, can't find what you are suggesting. I have only the root user as user and administrator. I can't think that I have changed anything to bring this about! So far as I know nothing

Re: [wdvltalk] New Toy

2005-05-02 Thread Stephen Caudill
On 5/2/05, Cheryl D Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally broke down and picked up a new Mac. My timing was good because they had just marked down the remaining G4 1.33 Powerbooks. Now I have to find some of the ram I've taken out of other notebooks to upgrade the 256 it comes with to

Re: [wdvltalk] re http://www.startsomethingpc.com/

2005-04-27 Thread Stephen Caudill
Ross Clutterbuck wrote: Yeah I'll give it a shot: Dual 2.5GHz G5 8Gb RAM nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra Dual 30 HD Flat Panels OSX 10.4 Oh hang on that's a Mac... *snicker* • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web

Re: [wdvltalk] PHP: dates before 1970

2005-04-25 Thread Stephen Caudill
Amrit Hallan wrote: In PHP, when I try to process dates before 1970 I get an error. Is there a workaround? Are you trying to use epoch date on Windows? If so, there's a non-bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=14313edit=1 Best solution I'm aware of is to test your date parsing code on the

Re: [wdvltalk] .htaccess question

2005-04-21 Thread Stephen Caudill
Amrit, I dug around in my .htaccess and I've got nothing of the sort. I do virtual hosting on my local box though, so that setup wouldn't behoove me. In the past, for things like smarty lib, that require this sort of thing, I've simply added the path to my PATH environmental variable and it

Re: [wdvltalk] Page problems

2005-04-21 Thread Stephen Caudill
Just to share my favorite resource for deriving the right hack for the problem: http://dithered.com/css_filters/index.html have fun, Stephen On 4/21/05, jdmajor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I googled css hacks, and yes there are many opinions on the subject. I did find out that I am using this

Re: [wdvltalk] refresh a php page

2005-04-16 Thread Stephen Caudill
Steve, the reload method takes a parameter that forces a new HTTP GET... Typically you should only use this if the server has a new version of the file or disk and / or memory caches are off or broken. Here's the syntax: onunload=window.opener.reload(true); hth, Stephen On 4/16/05, steve

Re: [wdvltalk] Mind drawing a blank

2005-04-13 Thread Stephen Caudill
er... What part next to the url? The protocol? (e.g. http:// or ftp://) On 4/13/05, Portman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am drawing a blank - I am trying to think of what the little thing next to the URL in the address bar is called. Can anyone help me on this brain snooze day?? • The

Re: [wdvltalk] Managing different projects

2005-04-02 Thread Stephen Caudill
How bout BaseCamp? http://www.basecamphq.com It's not free and it's hosted only. However, it is inexpensive, and it's hands down the best project management software I've ever used. Most PM software is aimed at helping people keep their eyes on you. BaseCamp is aimed at making your workflow

Re: [wdvltalk] OT: Slideshow utility?

2005-03-29 Thread Stephen Caudill
Ugh. I really have no idea about how to do something like this with a DVD. If there's any possiblity of using a computer in any of this, you might check out Eric Meyer's S5: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ hth, Stephen Todd Richards wrote: Hi Gang - I'm in sort of a bind. A guy who I

Re: [wdvltalk] Text from an image

2005-03-29 Thread Stephen Caudill
I've seen this technique used before: have a form with just a submit button in it stating something to the effect of reveal email address. The form's action takes you to a server page that takes a querystring parameter, does a db lookup and retrieves said email address for display. something

Re: [wdvltalk] HTML/WYSIWYG Editor for Mac?

2005-03-29 Thread Stephen Caudill
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:13:20 -0800 (PST), Pace Computing Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, does anyone out there have any more ideas on what we could try here if the Contribute program does not work out? There was a thread a couple of weeks ago(ish)[1] about the NVU editor[2]. It's

Re: [wdvltalk] doc elements IE/NS, I can't remember

2005-03-26 Thread Stephen Caudill
Sounds like an interesting approach! Standard Disclaimer: --- This really sounds like a place where you should use a contact form and server side processing, yada, yada, yada. --- Um... let's see. You really have lots of options as to how to

Re: [wdvltalk] Weird table colspan issue

2005-03-26 Thread Stephen Caudill
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:39:41 -, Trusz, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen, Stephen, Stephen LOL! Drew, Drew, Drew :) Why tables? Database generated content? Be interesting to see how you handle accessibility in the table since it is really presentational not data driven. There

Re: [wdvltalk] Weird table colspan issue

2005-03-25 Thread Stephen Caudill
Krawec, Mark wrote: Stephen It's weirder than you might have thought. Just had a look at that page in FF 1.0.2 - displays as you described. In IE 6.0 - there's blank space beside the house image in both tables. In Opera 7.23 - there's a blank space beside the house image in both tables, plus a

Re: [wdvltalk] wdvltalk digest: March 24, 2005

2005-03-25 Thread Stephen Caudill
Pace Computing Limited wrote: Hi everyone, I have a client who wants to edit my HTML templates on his MAC. He has tried a couple of freebie downloads and a program called Freeway Express that he paid about $100 for. We tried for over an hour on three different programs to import my temlpate

Re: [wdvltalk] Weird table colspan issue

2005-03-25 Thread Stephen Caudill
Trusz, Andrew wrote: Yikie tykies, Stephen! I think the problem is with the display of the table. You are using the default -- automatic layout. This leads to weird math. Cell widths are based on Minimum Content Width (MCW) unless there is a supervening specific cell width as is the case for row

Re: [wdvltalk] Website text appears odd

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
Hewitt, Cheryl wrote: 2.) the style tag is a bit different, too. Pages with correct style: style About Us: style type=text/css Cheryl, Begging pardon, but I think you've got those backwards. The type attribute of the style element is required, so: style type=text/css is the correct thing to

Re: [wdvltalk] Some CSS layout problems

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
John Hughes wrote: Folks, I have a problem best illustrated in Netscape 7.1 on the PC in the following example John, The problem's also there in FireFox and I'd dare say that it's probably there in any standards compliant browser. The happy thing is that it's an easy fix. You've got two floats

Re: [wdvltalk] [OT] CV help?

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone got any advise, about how to word what I've mentioned above... to put it in the proper context... Tristan, I think the 'proper context' for what you're describing is a portfolio. Something I've done in my CV is to have it describe my education and

Re: [wdvltalk] Website text appears odd

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
Hewitt, Cheryl wrote: True. What I was trying to do was show her the only differences between her pages. By 'pages with correct style' I was meaning the pages where she like the way they were displaying vs the page that was causing problems. Ah. Gotcha. Yes, well... Continue where you left off.

[Fwd: Re: [wdvltalk] Website text appears odd]

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
It occurred to me that the *cough* thing could've been interpreted the wrong way... I actually meant to poke fun at myself for not actually looking at the page and just being a stickler on the validity of the code. So I hope I've not put anyone off with my misguided attempt at self-sarcasm.

Re: [wdvltalk] Some CSS layout problems

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
My cheeks are duelly notified and shall henceforth be very wary of you, Mr. Hughes. Very wary, indeed. :D seriously though, glad to be of assistance! ttfn, Stephen On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:52:34 -, John Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen, I could kiss your rosy red cheeks.

Re: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
I think what you're looking for is this: a href=http://www.google.com; onclick=window.location=this.href;Go to Google/a This ensures that folks without JS enabled still get a functioning link (the browser simply ignores the onclick) and folks with JS enabled get the fancy JS version... But why?

Re: [wdvltalk] PHP Shopping Cart

2005-03-19 Thread Stephen Caudill
My vote's for Zen Cart. http://www.zen-cart.com I've built several shops using it and it's just gotten better and better. It's an OSCommerce fork that stops much of the inherent suckage of OSC; namely adding templating, file over-rides, a greatly improved administration panel and much better

Re: [wdvltalk] Server down?

2005-03-19 Thread Stephen Caudill
heh heh! Ya... I was out of commission early yesterday, I had to go pick up my daughter, so I didn't get this til just now. Looks like you're heading down the path of my suggestion without me :) have fun, Stephen On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:24:27 -0600, Cheryl D Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah

[wdvltalk] [OT] Looking For Assistive Software Reccomendations

2005-03-18 Thread Stephen Caudill
Hi all, I'm going tomorrow to try to set up an old friend of the family who is blind and has recently lost her voice (seemingly permanently) with some assistive software to hopefully make her life a bit easier... She's been blind since I was a child and is very functional in her day to day

Re: [wdvltalk] [OT] Looking For Assistive Software Reccomendations

2005-03-18 Thread Stephen Caudill
Cheryl and Tom, Thank you both for the suggestions. I'll try them both out shortly. OS... good question. I'll assume windows (hopefully an NT flavor). I'll take a look at the built in M$ tools also. Thanks! Thanks again, Stephen Cheryl D Wise wrote: OS? Does she have Office installed? If so,

Re: [wdvltalk] Hunting a good PHP Guestbook and BB

2005-03-16 Thread Stephen Caudill
If you're looking for a simple (options and installation) and straightforward forum, you might give bbPress a gander: http://bbpress.org/ It's from the some wonderful folks at WordPress. In fact, it powers the WordPress support forums. Good stuff, for sure. hth, Stephen On Wed, 16 Mar 2005

Re: [wdvltalk] Loading problem

2005-03-11 Thread Stephen Caudill
That one did come through blank like that for me. First one I'd seen though. I just figured Cheryl'd been a bit quick on the send. - Stephen Peter MacGregor wrote: Is anyone else on the list getting emails with the message missing? This one of Cheryl's (see below) is just one of about fifteen

Re: [wdvltalk] Loading problem

2005-03-11 Thread Stephen Caudill
Riva, Looks like you've shaved a good 20k. According to: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=http://www.starqualitydesigns.com/soma/index.html it should now load in 9.01 seconds at 56k dial-up. Good one :) I think most people will find that satisfactory. hth,

Re: [wdvltalk] Nvu editor

2005-03-10 Thread Stephen Caudill
Why BBEdit? I've tried it and I just don't get it. Good syntax highlighting, but no code-completion / intellisense-like features. And it's muy expensivo. I hear so much about it, but it really doesn't impress me. Am I missing out on something? On Mac, I'm SKEdit and Eclipse all the way. I

Re: [wdvltalk] Nvu editor

2005-03-10 Thread Stephen Caudill
Matt C. wrote: I've been using BBEdit mostly because it seemed like a solid application, and it's FTP support works great. I just downloaded SKEdit a few hours ago, and it seems to work pretty well too. I'm bummed that it only has support for SFTP and not regular FTP. This pretty much makes it

Re: [wdvltalk] Nvu editor

2005-03-10 Thread Stephen Caudill
, if you're making changes then uploading them to the server to view them, this is a decidedly slower process than what you'd go through in DW... Can't really speak for BBEdit. hth, Stephen On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:19:45 -0500, Stephen Caudill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt C. wrote: I've been using

Re: [wdvltalk] Nvu editor

2005-03-10 Thread Stephen Caudill
DW: I do *not* like using it on Mac for the earlier mentioned reasons, but I think it's a swell editor and my first (and usually last) stop for editing on windows. I just keep it in Coder Layout (something the Mac version does not have) and use the Code View... it's a good IDE if you don't use

Re: [wdvltalk] Nvu editor

2005-03-09 Thread Stephen Caudill
Guess I'm kinda a power user. I'll use it today and let ya'll know what I think. I'd encourage some of the other codites on the list to do the same... NVU is built on XUL, Mozilla's application framework and seems to have some of their UI sensibilities. And it's a free, quick download. go

Re: [wdvltalk] Nvu editor

2005-03-09 Thread Stephen Caudill
Okay... looks like I fibbed. I can't use this today. I've got a heap of JS to write and NVU won't even open a .js file. Add to that, opening a file with only php (no HTML) makes it wrap the whole thing in HTML, BODY and HEAD tags and gives it a nice HTML 4.01 doctype. yay. You allegedly

Re: [wdvltalk] Database Newbie - Tips?

2005-03-09 Thread Stephen Caudill
Todd, I think what you're looking for is an introduction to database normalization. A quick google comes up with something from the WDVL network that looks promising: http://www.databasejournal.com/sqletc/article.php/1428511 here's another:

Re: [wdvltalk] javascript help

2005-03-09 Thread Stephen Caudill
Steve, I don't get a script error in IE or FF. It works in IE(6) fine for me, but FF does not. Looking at your script, in the function tallyUp(), you may try changing your element acquisition to use an eval... instead of: while (document.getElementById(singles + i) != null) {

Re: [wdvltalk] javascript help

2005-03-08 Thread Stephen Caudill
Got an example page posted? - Stephen steve miller wrote: Hi all. Could use some help with javascript. I am loading up a page with a variable number of columns depending on selections made on a previous screen. Each column contains identical textboxes which have identical names so php will deal

Re: [wdvltalk] javascript help

2005-03-08 Thread Stephen Caudill
Steve, Try as I might, I can't seem to wrap my head around what you're trying to do here. It looks like you're saying: 4 singles = 20 5 h/w = 15 2 p/c = 25 8 family = 30 Total Monthly = 445 I can find no mathematic correlation between any of those numbers. Am I missing something? -

[wdvltalk] [SCR] www.noregretsbodyart.com

2005-03-07 Thread Stephen Caudill
Okay Guys and Gals... I'm releasing another one into the wild: http://noregretsbodyart.com/ Normal drill... Resolution, Browsers, Load Time, etc... All comments welcome and appreciated. Particularly useful would be any speculation on the dissappearing list item backgrounds on any of the info

Re: [wdvltalk] [SCR] www.noregretsbodyart.com

2005-03-07 Thread Stephen Caudill
See my comments inline. On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:18:48 -0500, rudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://noregretsbodyart.com/ Normal drill... Resolution, Browsers, Load Time, etc... firefox, 800x600, no images, no javascript looks okay!! slight overlap in the main navigation menu items

Re: [wdvltalk] [SCR] www.noregretsbodyart.com

2005-03-07 Thread Stephen Caudill
Hee hee! Thanks for taking a peek, Franni :) I s'pose I might have added a warning about the pictures... I really shouldn't comment about the redness. Google will come back to haunt me. Suffice it to say that that was the most junior member of the teams third or fourth actual tattoo and the

Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread Stephen Caudill
Send them out forthwith to procure an Mac and do not let them re-enter the building without one. Seriously. Mac Mini's are cheap-a-cheap-a and pack a hell of a wallop... so long as you're not doing sound or video *editing* on them... then again a powerbook can easily handle that sort of thing,

Re: [wdvltalk] pulling my hair out

2005-02-26 Thread Stephen Caudill
I think you might be looking for: imagecreatetruecolor http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecreatetruecolor.php rather than imagecreatetruesize... Worth a try anyhow. If you continue to have trouble with it, email me offlist and I'll send you my PHP image resize script. - Stephen On

Re: [wdvltalk] PHP Questions

2005-02-25 Thread Stephen Caudill
Hey John, If your host is running 4.3.10, they support it... they've just got it disabled for security reasons. When PHP is run in safe mode in a virtual hosting environment, they cripple a lot of useful things like $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']... It's not too bad to hack around though. If you

Re: [wdvltalk] How is this done?

2005-02-25 Thread Stephen Caudill
As convenient as it would be, the command: man woman will yield no insight. fyi, Stephen (you may now commence throwing rotten tomatoes) Sheila Fenelon wrote: Amrit, I never heard of psftp. Google gave me a link to a putty help page. So I guess it's part of putty, and a DOS program? From Unix the

Re: [wdvltalk] Site Check please

2005-02-18 Thread Stephen Caudill
Joseph Harris wrote: Yes it is looking good in IE, page comes up, club link works. - but now neither opera nor firefox will open, looks like Revenge of the Bill. Joseph (Alas, I know what you mean about wrong folder!!!) Comes up fine in FF1.0 and O7.54 for me • The WDVL Discussion List from

Re: [wdvltalk] Next? [ Using SSH ]

2005-02-15 Thread Stephen Caudill
phpMyAdmin gives me joy joy response. http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/ Simple, web based app for administering one or several MySQL DBs. There is only one file to configure (the aptly named configure.php) to get it running, and if you follow their instructions, it'll be a cinch. Barring

Re: [wdvltalk] New IE?

2005-02-15 Thread Stephen Caudill
Cheryl D Wise wrote: QA: How Microsoft Is Keeping Pace with an Ever-Changing Security Landscape PressPass: What's next for Internet Explorer? Nash: We're very excited to announce at the RSA Conference today that this summer we'll release a beta of Internet Explorer 7.0 for Windows XP with Service

Re: [wdvltalk] [SFT] Time Tracking Software Suggestions [OS X / Unix]

2005-02-14 Thread Stephen Caudill
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:29:31 -0500, Scott Glasgow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pimpalicious (??) No doubt displaying my age and complete lack of coolth, but is pimpalicious good or bad? It's a Good Thing(tm): http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pimpalicious - Stephen • The

Re: [wdvltalk] Mac timekeeping program

2005-02-14 Thread Stephen Caudill
Thanks VERY much, Cheryl! I picked up the demo of Sambucus last night after making the post and it appears that it does everything I need it to. I'm still defining my standard of what to expect from Mac software though, so it'll probably take me a little bit of *real* usage before I can say

Re: [wdvltalk] Mac timekeeping program

2005-02-14 Thread Stephen Caudill
Cheryl D Wise wrote: No problem, a friend and I have a friendly Mac vs. PC rivalry. Never mind that we both have Macs and PCs or that when she saw my Tablet PC she fell into immediate lust (after one quick, why doesn't Apple make one?) BTW, which Mac did you get and did it come with Office for

Re: [wdvltalk] Next? [ Using SSH ]

2005-02-14 Thread Stephen Caudill
What's the object you're trying to achieve using SSH? Just a brief definition, to make sure we're on the same page: SSH stands for Secure Shell and is a method of logging into a remote machine to execute commands (it's a protocol, as well, if we want to get nitpicky). In essence, SSH allows

Re: [wdvltalk] pre-sold ecommerce customers

2005-02-03 Thread Stephen Caudill
Steven, In the future, if you wish to be taken seriously, please have sources and citations ready for your claims. I've not heard a single thing contributed to any conversation you have joined based on anything other than preponderance and speculation. - Stephen Caudill p.s. The quote noted

Re: [wdvltalk] blog description edit problem

2005-02-02 Thread Stephen Caudill
rudy wrote: i could never understand this love affair with pingbacks and hatchbacks and backtracks and all that other nonsense anyway Hey! I love my hatchback! 95 Honda Civic! Yeah, baby :) - Stephen • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To:

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