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Designs Advice: Last 35 Posts http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Designs Advice: Last 35 Posts en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:47:38 +0000 gdzin on "Illustrator selection arrow problem" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/illustrator-selection-arrow-problem#post-230 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:28:48 +0000 gdzin 230@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Today I faced to this problem. solution worked for me. Thanks :) fatboyjim on "Page layout Dreamweaver" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/page-layout-dreamweaver#post-229 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:33:52 +0000 fatboyjim 229@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ <a href="www.960.gs">www.960.gs</a> fatboyjim on "which browser: firefox, IE, or safari?" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/which-browser-firefox-ie-or-safari#post-228 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:04:48 +0000 fatboyjim 228@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Design for Firefox. Fix for later versions of IE, then test others. boostyoursitesseo on "Non programmer learning SEO" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/non-programmer-learning-seo#post-227 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:09:46 +0000 boostyoursitesseo 227@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Check out Easy SEO tips & tricks Ebook for $39. It is a book on Search Engine Optimization for the non programmer. <a href="http://www.boostyoursitesseo.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.boostyoursitesseo.com</a> rogerg07 on "which browser: firefox, IE, or safari?" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/which-browser-firefox-ie-or-safari#post-226 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:53:10 +0000 rogerg07 226@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ which browser is mostly used to test your web pages on? which browser has the most problems reading codes correctly? Macgraphie on "Multi page training manual using InDesign" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/multi-page-training-manual-using-indesign#post-225 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:18:39 +0000 Macgraphie 225@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ I am working with InDesign to produce a training manual that contains recipe cards of multiple products. Some method sections are duplicated on every page, and as the manual progresses the content as been revised. This creates a lot of backtracking to ensure all the previously build cards are the same. I am about to begin a new updating phase of the manual I was considering the use of XML as a method to edit the duplicated content more efficiently. Does anyone have any experience building training manuals, I would appreciate any ideas regarding the handling of this type of project. Regards! Jenn on "Getting started as web designer - advice?" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/getting-started-as-web-designer-advice#post-224 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:16:31 +0000 Jenn 224@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ I would like to transition from ASP.NET development to designing and building sites on a freelance basis. I have the basic mechanics of XHTML/CSS, and am about to start classes in Photoshop/Flash and "Web Publishing" at my community college in a few weeks. Can anyone give any pointers on the best way to actually get started? I think that the first thing I need is a portfolio, but how to get the work to populate it? My thoughts on this so far are: see how far I can build on school projects to make them worthy, find a few people to make free websites for? Am I headed in the right direction so far? fatboyjim on "New to Programming & Design" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/new-to-programming-038-design#post-223 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:48:38 +0000 fatboyjim 223@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ I would head in the direction of php and mySQL for database driven CMS sites. More people are wanting much more control over the content of their sites and so want to be able to edit it them selves. jscotty11 on "New to Programming & Design" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/new-to-programming-038-design#post-222 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:03:31 +0000 jscotty11 222@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ I have just recently started learning web design & programming. I have just completed an XHTML & CSS course and now trying to decide which course to take next. I'm seeing a lot of need for those that have PHP skill, but I also see a lot of need for Javascript, C#, C++, VB, etc. Can someone please help me lead me in the right direction. To help your advice, my goal is to start freelancing website design and hope to move into my own business. Thank you all for any advice. daveg on "Non programmer learning SEO" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/non-programmer-learning-seo#post-221 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:52:53 +0000 daveg 221@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ A great book that I use is: Building Findable Websites, ISBN: 0-321-52628-7, I got my copy at Barnes and Noble but I'm fairly certain you can get a copy from Amazon. It's about 240 pages -fairly small for a computer book - and is a quick read that will give you some background that you will find helpful. It's focus is Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond. Price was $40 U.S. Even if you aren't doing the work it's wise to make sure the 'advice' you are getting is accurate. Knowledge is power; especially when you are the one paying someone else for theirs. Happy Trails, DaveG fatboyjim on "Online booking" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/online-booking#post-220 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:33:13 +0000 fatboyjim 220@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Hi 2d, I decided to go with <a href="http://www.eviivo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eviivo.com/</a> frontdesk. They have not finished renovating the property yet so the job is on hold for the time being. I'll let you know how it goes. fbj sloeg on "My New Site!" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/my-new-site#post-219 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:17:37 +0000 sloeg 219@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Hi TrackBeatz, check out a few tutorials on using Flash and actionscript, or if your looking for an alternative program you can explore a program called swish <a href="http://www.swishzone.com/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.swishzone.com/index.php</a> . If time is important you could always get a freelance flash designer/developer to do the work for you, depending on the amount of work it may even cost as much as the software. TrackBeatz on "My New Site!" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/my-new-site#post-218 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:26:08 +0000 TrackBeatz 218@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Hi im opening up my own site <a href="http://www.trackbeatz-records.co.uk" rel="nofollow">www.trackbeatz-records.co.uk</a> but i need a decent flash layout fully coded and in expandables but i dont now what programs to use. I cant code either can anyone teach me? Thankyou. idesign on "Page layout Dreamweaver" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/page-layout-dreamweaver#post-217 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:55:17 +0000 idesign 217@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ yeah 2dcandy is right, start with tables until you get the feel for creating page layouts. For some help in starting with table layouts, take a look at <a href="http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/tables/basictables.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/tables/basictables.html</a> 2dcandy on "Blocking images from being removed from webage" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/blocking-images-from-being-removed-from-webage#post-216 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:49:30 +0000 2dcandy 216@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ thanks drew, great help 2dcandy on "Online booking" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/online-booking#post-215 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:48:09 +0000 2dcandy 215@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ guess no one is much help on this one. Did you manage to find a suitable service, if so please post it up. Thanks. 2dcandy on "Help. Need advice from the pros." http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/help-need-advice-from-the-pros#post-214 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:45:58 +0000 2dcandy 214@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Even though the text is unselectable if its present in the source code of the page, then the search spiders will see it and index it. 2dcandy on "Page layout Dreamweaver" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/page-layout-dreamweaver#post-213 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:42:26 +0000 2dcandy 213@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Hey and welcome to the world of web design. My advice is to start using tables and position the width etc of each cell till you get a good looking layout. A more advanced approach and the industry standard is to use CSS cascading style sheets. Using CSS you could add a absolute style to the img tag. eg <code><img src="image.jpg" style="position:absolute;top:50px;right:400px;"/></code> good luck dcstreets on "Page layout Dreamweaver" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/page-layout-dreamweaver#post-212 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:05:33 +0000 dcstreets 212@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Hi there I am new to this so.. I want to put my images where I want them on the page How do I do this please, as at the moment I am using.......to move the images along until they look right Thanks Daz DJ on "Non programmer learning SEO" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/non-programmer-learning-seo#post-211 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:44:23 +0000 DJ 211@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Hello I just had my site created DJsPaintingInc.com and am trying to learn about SEO. Of course the company that created the site is working on it but I would love to learn more on my own to assure they are doing the best job possible. Do you know of any books or articles that may educate me enough to get up to speed. Thanks and if any of you have time feel free to provide feedback on the site. As a small business owner I often have to learn from experts as we can not afford full time staff for such projects. DJ on "Help. Need advice from the pros." http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/help-need-advice-from-the-pros#post-210 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:36:23 +0000 DJ 210@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Thanks I will forward your advice. My last question is you stated that even though the text is unselectable it is still present in the code but does this reduce the googlebots ability to read or hinder it in any way. My goal is to keep working on SEO to get my site up there. The goal is to come up when searching for painters in bloomington normal. I wonder how long it will take for us to rise up in the rankings. Any other suggestions are more than welcome. drew on "Help. Need advice from the pros." http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/help-need-advice-from-the-pros#post-209 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:31:13 +0000 drew 209@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ DJ no need to stress, even though your text is unselectable, it is still present in the source code and will get spidered by googlebot etc. I would suggest that the menu links in the header should be text rather than images, these are keyword rich and at the top of the page. Also shorten the length of your title. DJ on "Help. Need advice from the pros." http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/help-need-advice-from-the-pros#post-208 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:28:09 +0000 DJ 208@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ My site DJsPaintingInc.com was recently designed but you can not highlight the text or any part of the site. I have been told this will hurt ALOT with ranking and searches. They claim it is because of the way I wanted the site designed in terms of appearance. Please Please tell me your thoughts on this and how it will impact my site. My old site had the same issue so I had told this company it could not be that way here. Am I worrying too much or can you really not have a the appearance I desire without sacrafice of SEO. Please any input is apprecaited as I am stressed. fatboyjim on "Online booking" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/online-booking#post-207 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:08:04 +0000 fatboyjim 207@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Hi all, I have a job creating a site for self catering holiday cottage. The place will be on a weekly let from Saturday to Saturday and will require a foolproof booking system for the owners to manage. i.e. one time setup. All bookings to be made on-line and payment taken by card on-line. Anyone know of a suitable service? A morning on google hasn't helped much. Regards, fbj annebach on "mootools jquery spry or script.aculo.us" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/mootools-jquery-spry-or-scriptaculous#post-206 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:43:30 +0000 annebach 206@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ With both libraries functioning well, my own decision came down to the fact that the jQuery team tends to take into consideration the thoughts and concerns of design/development communities who would like the major js libraries to function well TOGETHER if ever the need arise, while the developers of Mootools have a very pronounced leaning in favor of an exclusive/proprietary library. Since both function well, I feel it's clearly best to adopt the library that at least TRIES to play nice with others. I find that jQuery is a very community focused project while Mootools is a strictly Mootools focused project. rockstar on "javascript problem" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/javascript-problem#post-205 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:25:01 +0000 rockstar 205@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Ive been messing with this page all day and for some reason no matter what I do it wont work right the page is a form with javascript validation.. and the validation works fine, but no matter what it still sends you to the cgi, ive gone through every tutorial and website i can find and i cant figure whats wrong with it. If some one could take a look at it for me that would be great. <a href="http://rockstar.we.bs/firehouse-graphix-web(form).html"> heres the page </a> maybe a second pair of eyes can find whats wrong here drew on "cascading menu with premade background images" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/cascading-menu-with-premade-background-images-3#post-204 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:51:24 +0000 drew 204@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ maybe something like this will help <pre><code><ul id="nav"> <li>Heading <ul> <li><a href="">Menu1» drop</a></li> <li><a href="">Option1</a></li> <li><a href="">Option2</a></li> <li><a href="">option3</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Grunts <ul> <li><a href="">Menu2 </a></li> <li><a href="">Option1</a></li> <li><a href="">Option2</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>menu3 <ul> <li><a href="">Option1</a></li> <li><a href="">Option2</a></li> <li><a href="">option3</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul></code></pre> Styling it To get started, all of the lists need to be jigged around a bit — namely, the padding and margin set to zero and the list-style set to none: <pre><code>ul { padding: 0; margin: 0; list-style: none; }</code></pre> Now we need to transform the first-level list into a horizontal menu bar. There are a number of methods to do this, discussed in detail elsewhere. We could display the list-items inline (display: inline), but for this example, we are going to float them to the left. <pre><code>li { float: left; position: relative; width: 10em; }</code></pre> The position has been set to relative because we want the position of the second-level, nested lists to be relative to the first-level list items and the width has been set to space it out a bit. The dropdown menu is coming together. The next step is to tackle the second-level lists that will be the dropdowns themselves: <pre><code>li ul { display: none; position: absolute; top: 1em; left: 0; }</code></pre> This positions the second-level lists absolutely (pulling them out of the flow of HTML into a world all of their own) and sets their initial state to not be displayed. If you substitute display: none with display: block, you will see the need for the top and left properties in Internet Explorer, because without them, IE will align the second-level lists to the top right of their relative parent rather than the bottom left. Unfortunately, this IE fix will mess things up in browsers like Opera, so add the following CSS to reset the top and left properties on all but IE browsers: <pre><code>li > ul { top: auto; left: auto; }</code></pre> And now, making the sucker work. To make a second-level list appear when its parent list item is “rolled over,” we simply need to add the following: <code>li:hover ul, li.over ul{ display: block; }</code> Which says that any list that is nested in a list item that has the cursor hovering over it should be displayed. Finally, because the lists are floated left, the content underneath it needs to be set free of the floating by applying clear: left to it. Now add this JavaScript <pre><code><script type="text/javascript"><!-- startList = function() { if (document.all&&document.getElementById) { navRoot = document.getElementById("nav"); for (i=0; i<navRoot.childNodes.length; i++) { node = navRoot.childNodes[i]; if (node.nodeName=="LI") { node.onmouseover=function() { this.className+=" over"; } node.onmouseout=function() { this.className=this.className.replace(" over", ""); } } } } } window.onload=startList; -></script></code></pre> Heres an example: <a href="http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/bones/" rel="nofollow">http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/bones/</a> rockstar on "cascading menu with premade background images" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/cascading-menu-with-premade-background-images-3#post-203 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:58:35 +0000 rockstar 203@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ sorry the customers page is <a href="http://www.pinktoesdesigns.com">here</a> rockstar on "cascading menu with premade background images" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/cascading-menu-with-premade-background-images-3#post-202 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:06:59 +0000 rockstar 202@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ alright so now im trying to make a cascading(dropdown) menu for my <a href="http://www.ptdesigns.com">customers page</a> i basically want to take the pre-existing menu bar and add drop down menu effects to the products and designs portions i have several images already made, now i need the code to make them functional rockstar.we.bs/images/menu_02.gif rockstar.we.bs/images/2menu_02.gif rockstar.we.bs/images/2menu_03.gif rockstar.we.bs/images/hilite1.gif rockstar.we.bs/images/hilite2.gif rockstar.we.bs/images/hilite3.gif rockstar.we.bs/images/hilite4.gif all the code i have found so far has been for plain menus and doesnt refer to how to add images for backgrounds any help would be appreciated, thanks sloeg on "Photoshop howto show full path in title bar" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/photoshop-howto-show-full-path-in-title-bar#post-198 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:34:01 +0000 sloeg 198@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Pausing with the mouse pointer over a document window's titlebar will display a tooltip containing the document's full path. 2dcandy on "Photoshop howto show full path in title bar" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/photoshop-howto-show-full-path-in-title-bar#post-197 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:28:40 +0000 2dcandy 197@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Hi guys, does anyone know how to change the title of the working document in photshop. It shows as "openfile.psd @ 100% (layer/info/8)" so that it will show the full path to the .psd file. Will make it alot easier for me to see what file im working on, I have alot that have the same name. admin on "Design Blog" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/design-blog#post-196 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:21:21 +0000 admin 196@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ The new blog is now online and in beta. I know there are still a few problems with it and will be fixing them over the next few days. If you have any suggestions or have found anything that doesn't look right please let me know. Also if anyone would like to write any design articles for the blog, that would be very welcome. Send me an email or post here and I will organise login details for you. hope you enjoy the blog. DA admin rockstar on "Blocking images from being removed from webage" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/blocking-images-from-being-removed-from-webage#post-195 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:34:11 +0000 rockstar 195@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ yeah it seems to work for IE7 as well most of my images have been placed in tables as background images as well, so the "oncontextmenu=false" in the head works better as well im not too worried about going as far as watermarking though because we have a downloadable catalog as well, so they could just as easily download that, and the watermark will begin blocking views that our customers will need to see so im more of trying to slow them down than stop them but thanks, that helps me out alot Sam drew on "Blocking images from being removed from webage" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/blocking-images-from-being-removed-from-webage#post-194 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:32:16 +0000 drew 194@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ hey rockstar. In most modern browsers you can disable the right-click menu for a particular image. To do so, you can use the event handler oncontextmenu="return false;" within the IMG tag that defines your image: <code><IMG border=0 src="..." oncontextmenu="return false;"></code> As for alt-printscreen you can try this but i don't think it works for IE7. <pre><code><HEAD> <script language="javascript"> function clearData(){ window.clipboardData.setData('text','') } function ccd(){ if(clipboardData){ clipboardData.clearData(); } } setInterval("ccd();", 1000); </script> </HEAD> <body ondragstart="return false;" onselectstart="return false;" oncontextmenu="return false;" onload="clearData();" onblur="clearData();"></code></pre> Basicly if anyone can see it, they can and will find a way to grab it. There are hundreds of different ways to get images, browser cache, image capture software.. even the snippet tool in vista. I wouldn't waste my time implementing any of the suggestions above, but rather digital signatures or watermarks. Have a read up on this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_watermarking" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_watermarking</a> Some companies like digimarc have services to track other sites using your images. good luck, Drew rockstar on "Blocking images from being removed from webage" http://designsadvice.com/forums/topic/blocking-images-from-being-removed-from-webage#post-193 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:32:16 +0000 rockstar 193@http://designsadvice.com/forums/ Hi I work as the website designer for a graphics design studio in the past we have had some of our designs stolen from the site by people who have either used the right-click-save method or the alt-printscreen method I know there is a way to keep people from using the right-click-save method, as i have seen it on other pages I would like to know, a. how do you do that b. how, if you could, would you stop the alt-printscreen method and finally c. are there any other ways people might be able to steal my images, and if so, how would i stop them from doing so? thanks Sam Wilson FireHouse Graphix, WebDesigner