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their opinion of the best way to do it form the visitor’s perspective, from
the coder’s perspective, from the design cosmetics perspective or from their
own perspective. Almost none of them will agree! This poses quite a
dilemma for the burgeoning web designer who simply wants to know what they
should do right now. Here then, are some simple answers for such a person
— not the fanciest, perhaps not the most ideal from some points of view,
but these are quite simple and get the job done. After all, as we all know,
it’s content that rules!
there are four options: top, left, bottom and right. You could
theoretically place them in the middle and modify the surrounding area, but
to do so would mean you are dealing with a much more esoteric site than this
topic is intended to deal with! Personally, I favor the left. It seems to
me to be the most natural place for a contents list. That being said, the
top is a great place for a group of headings. The choice between these two
would have to depend on what makes sense for your content. It may be that a
group of headings across the top takes you to different sections of the
site, while each section has a content list on the left to take you to the
various pages in that section. I am not a big fan of contents on the bottom
or on the right, except for links to related information that may be in
other sites. The bottom and the right also have to contend more with screen
resolution problems. It is no fun the develop a site with lots of
interesting sections if nobody can find out they are there because the
contents have disappeared off the right or dropped off the bottom! Now
let’s look at "How?"
One method which does not fit this category is to create a table on each
page that contains the contents list. Each time you change a link, you
would have to change every page on which that link appears. It’s doubtful
you’ll do that more than once or twice without making any errors!
have a means of automatically generating navigation features. In FrontPage
you can us "Shared Borders" (for more information, use the indicated term as
a search term in FrontPage’s Help system — for more about FrontPage, see
https://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/webmaster/toolbox/article.php/3473411
) into which you put navigation elements using the "Navigation" view. This
method works, but depends on the particular program to support it and takes
you a little further away from the actual code, thereby reducing your level
of control a little.
various site pages. This is called Server Side Includes (SSI). We have an
article (see
https://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/asp/article.php/3470021 ) that
includes a very nice section with examples on how to do this. The trouble
with this method is that it depends on the server permitting SSI. While
most do these days, there are still some that don’t. You might want to
check with your service provider before writing a ton of code using SSI
(unless of course, you just want the practice!)
peanut gallery! In the old days (and the Internet is getting older!) frames
were shunned because they looked ugly and a lot of browsers didn’t support
them. Almost every modern browser now support frames and those frames can
have zero width borders so you dont even have to know they’re there.
Judicious use of contents, sizes etc. should also prevent the need for
scroll bars appearing in the middle of your page. "How?" Easy! There’s a
neat tutorial right here:
https://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/frames/ Go ahead and dig
right in! With a frame on the left for contents, one on the right for the
body of the site and possibly one across the top for titles and even group
headings (see
https://www.htmlgoodies.com/legacy/tutorials/frames/2atonce.html for
advice on how to change both the contents and the main body frames with one
click of a subject header) you should be all set.
simple to maintain navigation system for your site.
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to be black, which works well on the left bordered side of my page, but not
on the right side which has a black background. Is there anyway to change
the color just one or two links without changing the color of all the links?
and other attributes to whichever links you want. For instance if you want
one of your links to be black and another to be white you would set up a
style sheet like this:
<style type="text/css">
a.one:link {color: #000000}
a.two:link {color: #FF0000}
</style>
Place the style between the <HEAD> tags. Now apply the class to the actual
links in your HTML like this:
<a class="one" href="default.html">This link will be black.</a>
<a class="two" href="default.html">This link will be red.</a>
profile, when he did this it brought him to another page where he clicked
the first link on it. After he did so his homepage was changed to this
site, which is a porn site. it would change back after he tried deleting
all memory and stuff. Also his AIM profile had the link added to it. He
can erase it but whenever he signs on it comes back.
problem falls into the realm of spyware or hijackware. There is a lot of
information available on these topics as well as a variety of ways to fix an
infected system. I recommend doing a search with your favorite search engine
(Google, Lycos, Ask Jeeves, …) using the keywords "spyware" and
"hijackware". I’m sure you’ll find the solution to the problem.
[You might also check out the lead piece in this issue:
https://www.htmlgoodies.com/letters/232.html -Ed.]
click on my thumbnails to see larger images in a new window… easy.
However I found a site that makes it hard for people to save/steal copyright
materials- it makes the new window close when it is clicked on… I can’t
figure out how to do this.
still steal your images because the images have to be downloaded to your PC
for your browser to display them. The body tag would look like this:
<body onClick="window.close()">
This will only work if the window was opened using the JavaScript
window.open command.
specify a constant width for a drop down menu, and secondly, how to you
change its colours?
select tag to specify that. Here is an example:
<select name="sel" style="width:80;color:red;background-color:yellow">
<option value="yes">Yes</option
<option value="no">No</option
</select>
This example would limit the select (dropdown) to 80 pixels, the text will
be red and the background color of the select will be yellow.
regardless of screen resolution?
body {
background-image : url(image.jpg);
background-position : center center;
background-repeat : no-repeat;
}
with the height and width of the image):
<body>
<table height="100%" width="100%">
<tr><td valign="center" align="center">
<table height="__" width="__" background="image.jpg">
Any text on the background
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
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great place to get help from others who, just like you, are developing web
pages. Many different topics appear in the forum, and a new one will appear
if you create it! Here’s a sample of recent topics:
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=91421
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=91424
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=91350
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=91427
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=91429
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[January 17, 2006] After a breakout year for continuous data protection
technology, we examine the different players and approaches and look at what
the future may hold.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3577931
New Linux Kernel Patched
[January 17, 2006] The first Linux kernel of the year gets a point upgrade
as work continues on the next version.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3577946
Google Tries Radio For Revenue
[January 17, 2006] The search giant purchases dMarc to explore another media
source.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3577856
Microsoft Collab Tool Could Woo IBM Set
[January 17, 2006] The software giant is looking to be a thorn in Big Blue’s
side ahead of next week’s Lotusphere event.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3577786
Cuban All For Multi-Tiered Internet
[January 17, 2006] Without tiered service levels, Mark Cuban says, broadband
Internet will not reach its full potential.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3577896
GPL 3 Draft Released
[January 17, 2006] New license takes aim at Patents and DRM.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3577701
Xilinx’s Digital Signal Score
[January 17, 2006] The company buys AccelChip for DSP boost.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3577796
Analysts See Big Year for Grid
[January 17, 2006] The coming year will be an important one for grid
computing, according to a report by The 451 Group.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3577831
Online Shopping Boosted By Security Confidence
[January 16, 2006] Consumers report high confidence in software and services
that thwart online bad actors.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3577631
Coffee, Tea or Broadband?
[January 13, 2006] FCC sets May spectrum auction date for airline broadband
service.
Read the article:
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3577531
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Windows Tech Goodie of the Week
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Accessing and Updating Data in ASP.NET 2.0: Data Source Control Basics
In this article series we’ll examine the five built-in data source controls in
detail. This first part, however, examines the concepts shared among all five
data source controls and how ASP.NET 2.0’s data Web controls work with their
associated data source controls at runtime. Read on to learn more!
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/011106-1.aspx
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Bracket Your [Table Names] for Access via OLE DB
Having trouble switching from ODBC to OLE DB for your Access database queries?
Getting weird and unhelpful errors? This little tip might just be the solution.
http://www.asp101.com/tips/index.asp?id=129
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Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, & BizTalk Server 2006
Launch Event When I first heard that Microsoft was planning a series of events
to celebrate the launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk
Server 2006, I was all excited. It was late October and I knew that the products
were due to ship any day. I’d be one of the first people to see all this great
new technology and I’d finally get my hands on the actual release versions… or
so I thought.
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/060112.htm
And Remember This …
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1966 The US Lost a Nuclear Bomb in Spain
For many years during the cold war, the US flew B-52 bombers carrying nuclear
weapons around the globe all the time. With this number of flights accidents
will inevitably happen. The Pentagon has admitted to more than three dozen
accidents with these planes in which nuclear contamination occurred or weapons
were lost. In 1966 one such "Broken Arrow" incident received world wide press
attention when a B-52 collided with a KC-135 tanker over Palomares, Spain. The
B-52, which was attempting to re-fuel, hit the fuel boom of the tanker, tearing
the fuselage of the bomber open and igniting the fuel. The KC-135 exploded,
killing all four of its crew members. The crew of the B-52 baled out and
parachuted to safety. The plane went down near Palomares. The bombs on board at
the time were not armed, but the explosive material in two of them did explode
on impact, cratering the fields and spreading radio-active Plutonium over the
area. 2,000 personnel were involved in the clean-up, during which 1,400 tons of
contaminated soil were shipped to the US for disposal. The US settled some 500
claims for damage to health by local residents. A third bomb was recovered
intact from a dry river bed nearby, but a fourth was lost at sea. A massive
search effort continued until the bomb was spotted by a submarine on April 7.
The US does not disclose information concerning nuclear accidents for security
reasons, and people may have been unknowingly exposed to radiation resulting
from such accidents. Today there are two H-Bombs and one Uranium core lost
somewhere in Wassaw Sound off Georgia (US), in the Puget Sound in Washington
state and in the swamplands near Goldsboro, North Carolina.
Today was also the day that in: 1861 patent for a flush toilet with a
water tank and pull chain granted to Mr. Thomas Crapper; 1871 patent
granted for a cable car (first went into service in 1873); 1926 George
Burns married Gracie Allen; 1928 patent granted for a fully automatic
film developing machine; 1929 Popeye made his first appearance; in the
cartoon "Thimble Theatre"; 1946 the first meeting of the United Nations
Security Council was held; 1969 the Beatles released Yellow Submarine in
the UK; 1969 Led Zeppelin’s debut album was released in the US; 1987
President Reagan signed a secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran;
1989 a gunman opened fire in a schoolyard in California, killing five
children and wounding thirty; 1994 a 6,6 earthquake hit Los Angeles,
killing 60 and causing $30B in damage; 1995 a 7.2 earthquake hit Kobe,
Japan, killing 5,372; 1998 Paula Jones filed sexual harassment charges
against President Clinton;
Born today were: in 1706 statesman Benjamin Franklin; 1820 English
novelist Ann Bronte; 1880 movie creator Mack Sennett (Keystone Kops);
1899 novelist Nevil Shute; 1899 gangster Al Capone; 1922
actress Betty White; 1925 actor Rock Hudson; 1927 singer Eartha
Kitt; 1928 English hairstylist Vidal Sassoon; 1931 actor James
Earl Jones; 1934 ventriloquist Shari Lewis; 1939 TV personality
Maury Povich; 1942 boxer Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay); 1949
comedian Andy Kaufman; 1956 actor David Caruso; 1962 Canadian
actor/comedian Jim Carey;
