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welcome to Xisto Becky, i too am from the ever so sunny UK i hope you enjoy your stay with us all. You have made a wise decision deciding to get hosting here. Keep posting quality posts and i am sure you will have your hosting in no time.good luckoverture

do you want to record the vids that are streaming onto your hard-drive? if so you can use Camtasia. i am not sure of the size or price, i think it is free but there might be free copies available. you can record whatever is streaming videos mainly and then save them to your hard-drive. i don't know much about this piece of software cos i just got told about it a few days ago. try googling it and see what comes up.

unfortunately, i don't believe that you will be able to get more space, even by suggesting trading hosting credits for it. You should think about getting paid hosting if you have almost run out of space, was it you who also ran out of bandwidth a while back or someone else? if this is the case you should be getting enough visitors for you to put adverts on your site like google adsense or whatever and get money by getting visitors to click them (nothing fraudulent though). about the folders, i am not sure, i think one of the mods or admins will have a great understanding of what the folders are and which can be deleted.

I think you have to save the file with HTML output to re-create the template again with the edited bits. I am assuming that you have or they have sliced the photoshop image already, slices define the table, rows and columns. if you go to File | Save for web - click Save and select .html from the dropdown menu this should re-create your template for you.

"What can I do with XHTML that cant be done in HTML?"you can't do anything with XHTML than you can with HTML. The reason many websites are now using valid XHTML and CSS is that they want to become better web designers and make the experience much better for all. Like i said using XHTML is all about conforming to better standards, if you dont want to be bothered with the latest web standards then dont both with XHTML. Its not like not using XHTML would make you or anyone a bad designers but the standards which most people now follow make a good programming practice. "I really dont see the big difference except for having to add a / at the en of tags that dont needs to be closed in regular HTML"that is basically, boiling it down to its simplest form, it! adding slashes to certain tags.XHTML compliant coding helps in developing cross-browser compatible websites. i am sure that most people have seen websites which look good in IE and crap in Firefox or on a completely different computer. basically it helps people see your site the way it is SUPPOSED to be.

Hey, i just finished my shoutbox template with CSS. I decided to make this topic to see if anyone wanted to test their CSS skills to see if anyone could come up with a neat skin. This is by no means a contest i just wanted to see who would take part. I have uploaded the shoutbox template and its CSS file. You can download them here: HTML Template: Shoutbox Template CSS File: Stylesheet I made this shoutbox skin to look the same in IE and Firefox which it does. It would be cool if you can test the shoutbox skin on IE and Firefox before uploading, if not that is ok just tell me in which you tested it in. You can show the result by either replying here with the link to the HTML Template and the CSS File, only if you can upload them. If you cannot upload them then just pm me with the HTML Template and CSS File attached. You can do whatever you want with the CSS file, add small images, change sizes and so on. if you use images and cannot upload them to your own space, then please pm them to me aswell. Please do not use large images. You cannot alter the HTML Template in any way, you can only change the CSS File. I will be keeping all of the skins made and i will make a little showcase on my site with credits to who made it. Could you please make sure that the HTML Template is named like so: yourusername_shoutbox for example: overture_shoutbox Could you please make sure that the CSS File is named like so: yourusername_style for example: overture_style Hope to get some replies. Enjoy!

lol. my debate with warbird has gone a little off topic for this topic. warbird: if you want to know more i think a new topic should be made where people can help with examples and things. you should be ok now after the link i have given, that should solve your reservations.

but you don't have to stop using HTML!. HTML is the fundemental language for web design/programming. without HTML you would not be able to build a website. look here: XHTML also search the forums there are a couple or great topics about XHTML. the site i listed gives you all you need to know. using XHTML is all about conforming to a new standard of web design, making it better for all.

XHTML ISN'T another language for you too learn. it is just a stricter version of HTML. people saying that annoys me lol. look up XHTML and you will see for yourself.

Well, i was in the rock band B-52 (god knows who they are) + others (i died of AIDS in 1985 and i am buried in Georgia USA somewhere (sorry to put a downer on things)), a basketball star, a doctor, a journalist and an artist :DI AM GREAT!

@Trishtt: shoutmix has moved to new dedicated servers now and is apparently a heck of a lot faster. unfortunately because thousands of people are using it, it had to be changed into a free package and a paid package, the paid package gets a lot more features. it is still a great thing on the net, probably the best shoutbox service on the net.

I am not sure if you want to show a page of something based on the variables in the url, if you wanted to retrieve the PID and CAT vars then you would use this: $_GET['pid']$_GET['cat'] then if you wanted to show something based on those got vars you would do an/multiple IF statements. A better idea is to use the switch() case statement: switch($_GET["pid"]) { default: include('index.php'); //the default page to be shown break; case "downloads": include('downloads.php'); //shows the downloads.php page break; case "news": include('news.php'); //shows the news.php page} the switch() case statement is basically used to replace multiple IF statements using the same var. you would use $_POST when you are getting stuff from a form, but use $_GET or $_REQUEST when getting things from the URL.

i think he ment using them as the optional text. what others will see you as on their contact list like: "overture - The common antelope is the only animal known to play contract bridge."

none of those links work l337

you should read what moonwitch said. you will probably NOT get more bandwidth as OpaQue cannot grant it to a selected individual as everyone will begin to want it. if you need more bandwidth like moonwitch suggested start paying. i believe that is the only way you will get what you need this time.

You may have to change the lala.xml permissions to 777 to be able to read, write and execute the file. You can do that in the File Manager. that should work.

Hey, hit your self in the jaw lightly a number of times every now and again when you have a toothache, works better when you have a toothache on the lower jaw :)worked wonders for me! seriously! no really!

I understand what you mean szupie :)if you have something which spans the width of the page like a gradient then you can set the background of the table or cell to the colour which it fades out to and then cut the image so the image itself ends where the actual colour begins. also if you have a continuing pattern of maybe 4 different coloured lines instead of making it 1024 pixels long or whatever to fix the width of the screen just take a slice which is the height of the image and a pixel in width and set the background to repeat that image.don't know if that was any better szupie lol.

I have to suggest Shoutmix. It is probably the best you will find on the internet. I think registration is still available, but you can read the news as to what has happened there. they have over 20,000 users in under a year i think. the service is fantastic i have heard, i haven't used it as i always make my own.

A site with good looks does not always have to be flooded with graphics. however if you do want a lot of graphics to make the site look good then it all depends on the compression of the graphics. you can only compress them a certain amount without losing quality. a good idea is to always use Jpegs or Png's as the image types. NEVER USE BITMAPS The good looks depends on how talented the designer is. If you cannot think of anything decent or you can but you cannot make it then the site isn't going to be worth much unless you have a very rich content. sometimes minimilistic is best. for my site i don't have many graphics except a header and a few section titles. I have used CSS to make the site look a lot better, a good and constant colour theme is always good, for mine i use white and light greys with a nice red and green for the header although the amount of those colours has been minimised. A good decent looking site with a fast loading time is not always possible, you have to have patience and usually you cannot whip up a good site in a couple of minutes. look around the web for examples there are many many great sites out there with a lot of graphics and many with only a couple but very effective graphics. If you want the site to be a little faster you should look into JAvascript Image Pre-loaders so all of the site images are cached once and do not have to be downloaded on every page that is visited. Also you can optimise the coding, get rid of un-necessary lines of code and silly little things like Javascript and DHTML features (clocks, cursor following images and the like). good luck. patience is a virtue

I think you just mean a layout (template) for your website. Well first learn html and how to do Tables. You use tables as a structure for your site - to make columns and rows which will be filled with text and/or images. Basically experiment, you can search in Google for "free website templates" and you will get an idea of how it is done. some may offer the code for you too learn from.

I understand and that is cool. Hey if it works use it! good luck on other ventures into the world PHP programming

Billwaa: you can scan the image and upload it and show it here if you want. you must put the copyright notice and the source from where you got it though like m^e said. :)the way you have described it makes it sound quite cool. hope you upload it or find a link for us to visit

I like it. The phone iteself looks cool however the bit that the cord goes into shouldn't be blue in my opinion, try making it a dark grey. Also on the phone cord try putting some vertical-ish lines on both sides maybe 3 on each side perhaps a pixel or 2 in width.|||light. dark. lighterhowever don't blur them cos that defeats the whole purpose of vector art lol.i apologise if this isn't much help or whatever i am still quite tired. :)good luck and keep on vectoring!

well by looking at it we CAN tell that there is an issue or two. i have just tested it and there are a couple of things you can do to improve it. The only reason that the html/javascript code does not work is because of the link replacement that has been put in place as it replaces the < with < or > or whatever. thus resulting in the code not being executed. if that the link replacement code was not in place then it would work like what Jipman said about the Javascript. this could be solved using the str_replace() function or just using the htmlentities or strip_tags() function.you also have no wordwrapping feature which means that it could break the layout if something doesn't want to put it into an i-frame.to all:however if you still want to use the htmlentities() function with the wordwrapping and Link Conversion you WILL most likely have alot of issues and would have to re-code the link replacement code to ignore word breaks and html code with wordwrapping and so on.you could also think about using the trim() function to remove all white space from the beginning and end of a string. this could be good if you had a feature to check if the Name and Message field are left BLANK instead of just checking if they equal (name & message) respectivly. if the user does not want the shoutbox in an I-frame then you or whoever should think about creating a new file to house the bulk of the code for storing the text so there is shoutbox.php which shows the shouts and shows the form and another seperate one which keeps the code which is processed when the shout is submitted instead of having it process itself. this also eliminates the ability for some stupid person who keeps pressing F5 which would keep re-submitting the form data so it would be harder to flood the shoutbox. If you have a non-embedded version you should think about using the HTTP_REFERER to return them to whatever page they shouted from so they don't have to keep searching the site to find the page they were on.may i ask why you use the strftime(); function instead of the just the date() or the gmdate() function as your not using the setlocale() function to go with it? nice little shoutbox though.