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Im practically today only checking it with IE and my beloved Foxy Browser (firefox)... But yesterday i was using opera too... By the way, the background color and the text color are both dark, i know, but the background color does not show, im sure it has to do with the floats... just dont know where...Thanks jlhaslip...

Yes i didnot quite catch it all you said, did not gramatically understand completely, Saint, but one thing is for sure, you do know how to put pretty pictures on the net:) (i really like yer sigs )

I want #nav_info to have a background color div#nav_info {background:#000055; color:black;}div#nav_info p#breadcrumb {float:left;}div#nav_info p#date {float:right;} But it doesnt show the background like i want, and id like to avoid as much as i can nesting into another div, does any body know how can i do this? If i put each paragraph a background color, it only shows for the part of the text they actually occupy in their own space, it leaves white areas between them... This is the xthml: <div id="nav_info"> <p id="breadcrumb">Usted está en: <strong>Inicio</strong></p> <p id="date">Viernes 13 de Octubre de 2006</p> </div> Thanks in advance!

Alright, it actually did help, it says you cant have a way to actually make a pop up with strict xhtml, but i just dont want to believe it:PThanks a lot! that script is really fancy, though i'd like to avoid as much as i can the use of java script, ill just have to stick with this one... so is it true? cant it be done (any other succesful way to add this behaviour withat js)? I have always thought that links that go to external pages should come up in a new window (or tab, for that matter), becouse is not the same server or website, and people gets confused, thinking it did come up in a new window, and thinking that closing it will restore to the past site... But thanks again!

I have ran into this issue; Strict XHTML 1.0 does not support target atribute... so what should i do? How will i use _blank pages with my stuff?

Thanks for your help! i will be reading those tutorials... but i guess i would only work with xhtml 1, either transitional or strict right now

if you are using a custom template you designed just upload your index.ext (where ext could be htm, html, php or other valid html extension) and you are set.If the template is designed with php includes, just upload all your files that your main files use, like this;index.php is your main fileheader.php is your header includebody.php is your body includefooter.php your footer includeAnd make sure the routes are the same so that index.php could succesfuly call those includes...If you are using a CMS template, you have to install first the cms which basically consist on you uploading all the cms files to your account, and then setting it up, by entering your address (example your site.trap17.com) and then youll be in the right address to start configuring your cms.Next you need to upload your template to the custom folder of themes or templates for the given cms, and then select it in the administrator of your CMS... Hope you know what im talking about, else you can post your questions here...Good luck!

I believe you are right, im beggining to get into this cms mania and im finding it great.The one that got me into all this, and was as easy as hell to learn, was wordpress but this is focused on blogging sites.Ive posted a few topics about cms, and the ones that pop up always as the best are mambo, joomla, xoops, and php nuke... But im having troubles to fully understand how they work to get my template done.There are several forums @ each of those cms homepages, you can find more info about those there.A few days ago i asked a particulary issue about cms, i was wandering which of todays most advanced cms were actually standard compliant, with xhtml and css for instance, and tyssen suggested me a few, but two of them, you have to pay for using them... So what i found in my personal experience is that joomla is not currently accesible nor standard. But wordpress and mambo are, i try the skin myself with the validator and it is valid xhtml transitional. I really love wordpress and the new beta wordpress multiuser that is avaible for download now seems really great and very promising. Ive found really cool templates that are valid and with great design. Im just loving all this cms thing, its really getting things easy for webmasters and non-technical website administrators and users in general, its awesome.Cheers...

Yes indeed it helps, thanks for the link, ill give it a look, anyway, i started reading about this modularization of xhtml 1.0, but quite not understood it, i mean what i think it means is that you would be able to write only those modules, for example, a form, but without having to meet all other modules, so it wont be necesary declarations for items that you dont need in this form, including <html> and <body>, although this is what i understood, it does not seem logical to me...

I was watching something about this on discovery channel, and how the creatures and plants that lived there managed to survive, and actually, this sulfure substances power this things up, but i dont understand what they do to support all this pressure, their bodys, muscles and bones or whatever they have must be hard as hell...

Is it only one type of xhtml 1.1 versus the three different types of xhtml 1.0 (strict, transitional-loose, and frameset)?Is it 1.1 only strict? What are the differences or whats this all about? I have heard something about xhtml 1.1 but have not actually seen one (not that i know at least)...Thanks!

You can also write the name of a color like: #table1 {border: 1px solid black;} And if you dont want all borders (top, right, bottom and left) you can specify it too: #table1 {border:1px 0 0 0} which (in the order i wrote above) will give 1pixel to the top border and cero to the others. You cant tell the style and color in this shorthand though..... Theres also a shorter - shorthand for width in the borders, which you can asign only two values to your border and it will assign the first one to the top and bottom borders and the second one to the left and right, like this: #table1 {border: 1px solid black;border-width:1px 5px} In order for this to work you must have set the other style and color attributes first... This also works for margin, and padding...

Alright ill browse those right away.I try to validate (to chech the xhtml validation) of the first two homepages and they were fine, but QneCMS is not valid xhtml strict, i think they should have to take that in if they are offering a valid system. But it was only one error, about misplacing a closing p tag. But ok the CMS itself might be good...And i thought i understood it but a friend told me something that made me recondisder... so am i wrong thinking that the validation of a website based on any given CMS depends on the template itself or its also affected by how the CMS was structured?Thanks tyssen! ill install them and ill try to learn them

You can try these: Pixel 2 Life It has tons and tons of tutorials, there are not so many of fireworks and dreamweaver, but you can start there. And if you do have other software you would find extremely useful for photohop. Also Flash kit Its for flash tutorials and resources, you will find very much about flash. Hope this helps you.

Aditionally, you can also take advantage of multiple other tools for creating websites, depending on what you want to do.Of course, dw would be the main, but if you use macromedia you can also suck all the advantages this house offers: fireworks, flash and sometimes those other tools like captivate and stuff.You can also learn how to use a CMS and get a lot of work done as easy as heck (im still learning it), like wordpress, i highly recommend it.You must also have a little bit advanced knowledge of xhtml, css and a basic knowledge of php. If you do you are set, you can start making your own template for your site in one of those Content Managment Systems and see how easy is to add/edit/change content (once its configured properly) and how easy is to change the entire design (feel and look) of your site...I also love dreamweaver but with time, and learning other things dw kinda becomes implicit, and im feeling overwhelmed with all this new technologies (actually theyre only new to me hehe)... I mean sometimes dreamwewaver is just always there and you dont even realize that its it whos doing the heavy job...

Which CMS are standar compliant?I know it also depends on the template, but not totally.I know wordpress is, and that joomla is not right now.So which are actually compliant (i would like to know particularly about mambo, php-nuke and xoops, but if theres another which is also as good as those...)?

I believe there are special hacks for writting cross browser css, to fix some netscape issues, but i dont have right now at hand the code, let me find it and ill post it here.

Thanks dragonfly! im getting more and more into cms, and i apreciate your help with this.I found wordpress a nice introduction, to a more complex cms world, but still having troubles. I have already been able to learn how to (and actually) modify templates in wordpress, but i think its a little bit more difficoult with joomla or mambo for example.I think i would only use one cms, the one i find is better, easier but also the one that feets most of my needs for the given site. And i dont want to discard the possibility to still use wordpress, within just one section or within several sections, im still learning and will see how much does it fit, but i want to count wordpress in becouse it just surprised me all that you can do, how easy is to learn and to modify templates and the look and feel so easy... I know its the same with other cms but as wordpress is meant only for blogging, it gets more simple that others, at least thats what i know.I started working in a place where they made custom administrators for web content, very small ones and very specific for each task it had to get done, but they were a lot and they are still working, but i want to take all this a step further (or lots of steps hehe). By that time i never imagined that there existed global content management systems, so i guess thats where they got the idea in the first place. I was totally amazed, and by the fact that there were some of those free...Thanks again!

Thanks! it is strictly necesary that order right?

What is the order and the syntaxis for the shorthand way of writting the font rules? like font:#000 arial, sans-serif center... etc...Thanks!

I understand, so it is not posible to have them in the same folder? i think i could use that, but i need to see which sections are going to be in which cms... and about guangdian I dont understand what you said, i mean the grammar, if you can write in spanish i also speak it, what i think you said is that why do i want to do that, its just i want to take advantage of some things about wordpress, and other things about other cms, im not much into cms but im learning... The main issue about this question, as i said before, is for aesthetics urls, i want to be able to enter a given section with the logical way of typing the address, like news, directory, products, etc... I think that the proposal of Tyssen sounds interesting, still id like to know if this is possible... thanks!

Can i install (without having troubles) multiple cms at the same server, in the same folder? Im testing various cms in this hosting, but each one in its own separate folder, in order to have more aesthetic URLS, for example, i would like the news section address to be like this:mysite.com/newsInstead ofmysite.com/joomla/1/?p=1Or something like that... But i think if i install several cms they would overwrite each other or be incompatible... so please if anybody can give me further explanation ... thanks in advance!-10730

I think the second question has been answered, but for the first one: Try removing the "px" from you rule and add !important to this (some times, some browsers wont apply a rule, but as soon as you add this, its starts working, its like a cheat code to fool browsers or something hehe, Tim Berners Lee received this from the hand of God himself and the w3c got it into their css standars). So the code you have will be like this: CSS body { margin: 0 !important; } I also added a semicolon in the end (which is not strictly necesary if you dont have any thing else in the same rule). You never know, all this is not suposed to be necesary but check this out tosee if it worx... -10730

Have you checked the folder permisions? You can check it out with a ftp client (dreamweaver has one built-in,but im not sure if it lets you check the privileges of a file or folder, if it does, i dont know where), or you can download filezilla, conect to the address with your login and password and right-click the folder to see its "properties" or "permissions" or "privileges" or "atributes" , depending on the software.They must be set to 777 which means that owner, group and public permisions will be to read, write and execute the file or folder.Im not really into invision power board so im not sure if i this doesnt work, what should you check next.Hope this workz anyway...-10730

I also had troubles with head section and dreamweaver templates. The problem was that head was not editable, but sometimes you could actually add a style by the graphic way, but if you tried to edit it from the code, it said a message something like:"The region you are trying to edit is a dreamweaver templates instance which is not editable. All changes will be omited"Or something like that, and it is very annoying. Its not the only problem ive had with it, most of my problems, in fact are something related to this... there are parts or regions that i do want to edit but dreamweaver wont let me. I know that i may be doing something wrong or with further reading i shall understand what is it, but i better dont do so.I was never really interested in templates (dremweaver at least), but as i started working on a site thats based on them, i had to get a little bit into it, and i dislike it.Now that a new version of the portal is going to come out, i will get rid of all this, and i will use only includes from php, wich i find my self easier and its also a cross-platform way of working, you wont need to use always the macromedia product to edit your 'templates', you can use free software to edit. Or you might be always with macromedia, but the people whos going to continue working with your site may not, so...Well its also my personal opinion, ther may be people who work fine with them, but i suggest also to avoid templates and work with server side includes.There was also a topic i started earlier in this "html, xml, etc" forum, about dreamweaver templates versus php includes, i just wanted to see the general opinion becouse i was kinda getting tired from it, and i think most people agree with this.Hope this helps you...