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because I understand a little and I think it is only free for a year and I don't know what kind of contract I'm entering by signing up there. I don't know about you, but I don't want my domain to disappear to nothing after one year, when everyone is used to it (and me ending up with thousands of advertising brochures in Flemish..)

Sorry for double posting, but I wrote it in HTML now. I included a little tool to calculate back and forth and I showed the different font sizes (be sure to try zooming). The JS tool came quite handy for my purposes, so I hope you can make a use of it too (if not, then your web-layout is EVIL ) Pixel <ââ> em-quad If you would like to see something where I tried to use only EM (except for images and google ads ), then check my Vocabulator Test The English version exists already but I did not update it yet. Feedback welcome btw.

Hey, I'd like to ask you what the best settings are, when working with Xisto FTP servers. I've an advanced ftp client integrated in Adobe Golive and I'm not sure what to do with the options It was really slow some time ago, so I was hoping to change something about it by using the right options. I searched the site and found one post, in which OpaQue said, that secure ftp was disabled. No problem for me, it just slows down anyway.But now I'm wondering about Passive Mode and Connection Keep Alive. I just turned off Passive Mode and it seems to work light speed compared to before. And Connection keep Alive: Is that just a simulation by GoLive and in fact it just connects again everytime you use the FTP? I tested a little and I think so. If it is not a simulation: Does it slow down the connection?Does anyone know if it is normal for the FTP to be slow, when you connect from Europe?Thanks a lot if you know more and if not my research might help anyway.

Hej! Welcome round here... I'm from Belgium and I spend quite some time in the Netherlands I actually just wrote because I'd like to know what anti-kraak means (house jacking is not known to me either). just curious

I don't know what picture you want to put that button on, but slicing a picture is not that difficult if it is not a difficult shape. If it is, like on your splash page, a rectangular button, then you can slice the part above, put it in a table with neither border nor padding, then you can slice the part above and put it into the same table at the bottom. then you slice of the right and the left part and there you go! all you need is a table with fixed widths 3 columns, 3 rows... doesn't sound that difficult to me. You should consider this if it proves difficult for you to design an imagemap.If you decide to slice and position in CSS: Create a Layer with the width of the whole image and then position the parts inside, this will make it as easy as in a table.Now that you have gotten that many parts, it might be time to "reveal the picture" ;)I have GoLive and I can slice/map it for you, if you tell me what to map. It goes really fast. I can also remove the strange tags, guy talked about, I don't know about them, but it is some time ago, that I did it. But I would make it valid.

I once wasn't able to connect to my router (neither WLAN nor LAN) because I set up the connection settings to interfere. I think I gave myself an IP, but the router expected me to use DHCP or the other way round. Try changing your IP distribution settings, ok?

right now there are no articles in the FAQ ^^ did never use it before and dont need to use it now, but maybe you should change that. If that is the wanted status: nevermind

I don't welcome homophobes (No, I'm not homosexual) and I hope that the others agree with me there.

Adobe GoLive and Photoshop have this functionality too, just for fairness and because I use them :-)But you were talking about splitting up the picture (also a solution if it is just a rectangle). You can do that with a lot of graphic applications. Just save the original picture, crop(PhotoShop function name)/chop it into parts and put it into a table (or layers or text lines). That will do the job. Then you just link the certain part.I disagree with Reaver saying that it would be usually a rectangle I disagree. The great thing about imagemaps is that you can define any shape (really tedious without a wysiwig).You might consider using onfocus="this.blur()"because it looks a litte bit stupid when a part of an image is highlighted (but you rob the user of his function to use tab for links this way).

Ok, as far as I know a comuter that can run iTunes can also run QuickTime. You get it seperately here! If that makes problems, uninstall iTunes and install it with QuickTime. You need at least Windows 2000/XP or Mac OS X, but then it should work. –– –– –– –– The multiple computers issue: Apple is forced to keep you from transferring music from library to library because it is illegal! But they did not establish an extremely good protection and there are several ways to transfer music anyway. –– –– –– –– 1. of all your iPod can also be used as an exterior hard drive (because this is what it is ) The probably easiest way, is to copy the music you want to transfer on the hard drive (without using iTunes). This way you keep the folder structure and you can transfer it to any other computer. Be sure to copy the Music to a newly created folder on first instance of the ipod, so that the folder path is: mypod>mynewfolder>**music** Of course you can copy whatever, not only music. Don't copy it into one of the existing folders. That is difficult because some folders are shown on windows (with different invisibility settings) but not on mac and vice versa. Advantage: easy to do and the other computer does not even need iTunes. Disadvantage: Music can NOT be played with the iPod and if it is a lot and you don't want to delete the original iPod music database you might not have enough space. –– –– –– –– 2. The music you have on your iPod, which is playable, can also be copied from the iPod. It is not that well protected (it was not, on the iPod photo, but I don't know about iPod nano). The music is in an invisible folder. On windows you can show it using the "View"-options and on mac you do it with the Terminal or a third party application. If can point you to some if you want to. Advantage: Music can be played on the iPod and be accessed over iTunes on one of the computers. Disadvantage: The music files do not have a file organization at all. They are stored in folders by the name of "F00" till "F99" without any sorting. If you need only a particular song and you know its name, it will be easy to find, but if you want all albums by one artist, get ready for some t e d i o u s work! –– –– –– –– 3. Use Xplay by Mediafour I used it once in the tryout mode (has full functionality I think) and it worked fine (but slow) for me. It will organize your iPod into a nice folder structure and you can take and give the music you want. No need for iTunes. Advantages: no need for iTunes, files can be heard on the iPod, both computers can access them like you want to (also with iTunes still) Disadvantage: third party application needed, does NOT exist for Mac OS X and it is neither free nor open source, so it might be quite a little behind current development all the time (driver updates etc.) Maybe someone who has more experience with the app can say a little more. –– –– –– –– You should not steal music!

You should remark that the attribute "target" is transitional and marked as deprecated by the W3C (world wide web consortium) and that Javascript is not available to every web user.finaldesign, you should distinguish Java and Javascript ;)The reason you got two windows when you used target="_blank" and window.open is that you set up two events at the same time when someone clicked.Another important thing is that a lot of users (especially me ) feel annoyed if they are robbed of their window handling features (this is only about scrollbars and resizable, because the other features can be re-enabled in most browsers I use). It makes your site inusable to people who need to enlarge the font or something (imagine a 300% resized page in a very small window, which you cannot resize and which is designed to fit the content perfectly.). Users with low visual acuity will hate you, because they are forced to transport the URl to a new window or not able to read the content at all! For reason why your webdesign should be resizable see my post "EM vs. Px" in the How-To/Design sections.Oh and don't pop up windows "onload" ("onmouseover" "onmouseout" "onunload" and so on) because users hate it and a lots of browsers/extensions block it.

I use Mac OS X and feel pretty safe doing so. But I'm behind a router so that is a different deal. The only software I use is Little Snitch, which alarms you when an app tries to connect to the internet. Until now I haven't gotten anything suspicious until today, when "configd" a Mac OS X service constantly tried to access the net. I didn't do anything and when I pinged/traced/whoised the IP I didn't get anything with a name...

lol that really is the cliché texas way ^^I don't exactly know how these security cable/slot things work, but the slot on my Apple iBook seems as if it was just an attachment to the case... Pretty easy to break if you ask me, you could even take the LapTop without any mark of the breaking I guess. I don't have confidential data on it, so I don't care, but wouldn't something that is connected to the hard drive or something be better?Otherwise I would say, be sure to have a good insurance and having the creative data backed up..Do you think, that there are any good solutions to protect your computer from being used when stolen? I mean a password probably doesn't prove to be a good protection, does it?Anyway maybe you've heard of it: Trust and be trusted! If someone from the staff steals it, that's sad but if you can't trust them, then you are really screwed ^^ I mean what kind of situation is that, when you are afraid of leaving stuff in your apartment? That's paranoid at least if you are not unjustifiably rich

Hey Yudzzy, you have to include more information to make people able to help you otherwise they can just guess and if that doesn't help you, you might also think about what you did wrong. But well, let me try my part: You are trying to send information from a form field to a script which is supposed to save the information somewhere, right? Did you write that script yourself? Could we see the source code for the page with the submit form on it? A working example of a form (in HTML): <form action="script.php" method="post" name="FormName"> <input type="text" name="textfieldName" size="24" /> <input type="submit" name="submitButtonName" value="submitButtonLabel" /> </form>I do not believe that the submit button can make any problems. It just has to be type="submit".You have to ensure that there is a working script at the other end. If you want really useful help for your problem, then you have to provide us with more information! // Ruben

you should rather translate the terms and conditions, because it is always nice to know what you sign up for. I'm not a crack at Flemish, but:Door het versturen van dit formulier, verklaart u zich conform met onze algemene voorwaarden.sounds a lot like "by using this form you agree to the terms and conditions".and well you can't agree until you understand right?

Belgian Language! Good one! Lol, fellow you should learn something about Belgium.. it is a three-language country. The official three languages are German, but is only for a small part of Belgium (where I come from); French (with a few differences, they speak it in the so-called Wallonie) and Flemish (pretty much like Dutch, they speak it in so-called Flandern). The website is in Flemish and sadly this is the language I'm worst at. But as far as I understand it, you have to supply your contact information and the domain is only free the first year afterwards they'll contact you and want you to sign a contract. I might be wrong, Flemish really is not my strongest side, but I suppose that's the way it is (anything else would be too good too ^^).I haven't tried signing up, but it seems as if they will give you the domain if you don't supply real information anyway (says something about "in 5 minutes" and how are they going to verify an address in that time). I also think you need a Belgian phone number/address.. Hehe I got one Good luck you folks!

good one @ guyI never heard about this, thanks for bringing up this "ancient news".I heard about the paper thin LCDs though, but hey let's be honest, people don't get used to the new media computer that fast that it would/could replace all the other medias.I also think this is a bluff somehow too, because if you think it over there are quite some disadvantages. The ones m^e mentioned but also the great danger of a loss of all data because of some central or maybe the exposure of all data. You also have to keep in mind: Even though high-speed internet connections which allow you to do this stuff are possible, the whole high speed would be (at the moment) much more expensive than the current solution and I think it will take some time until this changes.

@plot: If that is the case then sorry, I was a little bit too tired to recognize all intentions @guy: It is not that simple! The Drag'n'Drop feature is a really great thing (I think Google is really innovative, even though they don't keep to the rules .. But it has a lot of advantages: 1. it is loading fast 2. it can be personalized using RSS 3. but you can access it anywhere 4. RSS feeding is a really nice (even though minor) newcomer on the internet and a lot of sites offer feeds for their changing contents. 5. It supports the Gmail Atom feed which I didn't get to work in my FireFox yet What do you have in it? I have the news, a magazine, cinema reviews, the quote of the day, the word of the day, the urban word of the day, Reuters Oddly Enough and Gmail of course. Now that I'm abroad and using different computers and so on, this is my real homepage and I always get a good start for the internet there. There should be a RSS-feed for Xisto latest posts or latest replies to your post, don't you think so?

Yes, the friends who signed up were from Germany. Are you German?I don't think they should drop the brand. They should buy the other brands. googlemail is much too long! The best thing would be @google but that's probably not possible :-(

The included gmail support is new at least :/ I'm sorry that I wasn't aware that it is old, it was new for me and as you can see not only for me. I was not able to find the old topic where it was discussed earlier using the search (no i did NOT try for hours using every imagineable search term). I think you should watch your tone, ok I'm new and I don't know about everything that was discussed earlier but you cannot say that this is my fault.

Thanks folks! Yes, I'll put up a better version in HTML later this week (I don't know about you, but right now it's quite late in Sweden). The German article I referred to already has that stuff, but I'll come up with a nice graph too. As an answer to mzwebfreaks question: The EM is originally derived from typography, meaning the width of the letter "M" or the dash "–" (long dash, not short dash "-"), which usually had the same width in a font. Nowadays the meaning has extended (since M does not exist in Chinese for example). It now means the height of a font. Since it is derived from typography I thought it should be possible to define the size of a font in Adobe Photoshop or InDesign with 'em', but it is not possible (not for me at least, I tried!). I read some stuff about its history now and I think it goes way back in history to the time where they still placed little iron thingies on their printers and the em-quad was a space of the width of an –.. Something like that. Nowadays at least on the internet (what matters ) em is a relative size! I think it has lost its meaning in typography (which is the only meaning that would matter in Photoshop, because relativity does not mean anything to pictures). The new meaning means nothing in Photoshop or Indesign, because you create fixed Bitmaps, pixel for pixel, where there is no setting to which one could refer relatively (like the 16px/96dpi setting of a normal user browser). Did this make it clear? I hope so.. I'm a little tired.. if you don't understand, ask again and I will put some brain power on it Also interesting to read (found them only now) is the article by the W3 Consortium (for some reasons the links there are dead, but the article is interesting as is!)

Hi, I'm an exchange pupil on a Swedish gymnasium. When I come back to Germany next year I have 2 years of school left, then I'll try to become a journalist or something in this direction.I might use my limited computer and web design skills to help in my friends circle on a private basis to make some extra money while studying but I'm pretty sure that I'm too impatient to code big stuff and I got no sense for design or not much at least ^^ I'm learning...

EM vs. Pixel and why EM is better A lot of the leading websites nowadays have fixed sizes, made to fit into a 800*600px resolution screen, but this has disadvantages: People with an unusually high resolution, see a tiny website or people with limited visual acuity have problems reading the text. Normally this should not be a problem because all leading browsers have the ability to zoom (Opera even zooms pictures). But, a problem that probably everyone has encountered when zooming a random webpage is the following: The sizes grow unproportionally and in the end you end up with different text fields covering each other. The whole layout is completely messed up! Why is that? Because most of us use pixels to define the sizes of their different boxes and fonts! You can avoid this bad behaviour by using em-Quads for sizes What is an em-quad? The name is onomatopoetic for M wideness. But this is not the real meaning anymore, nowadays, we use em as a percentage of the size of the parental element. for example: <div style="font-size:21px;"> (21px absolut) <div style="font-size:0.9em;"> (90% = 18px) <div style="font-size:0.9em;"> (90% ≈ 16px) <div style="font-size:0.9em;"> (90% ≈ 15px) <div style="font-size:0.9em;"> (90% ≈ 13px) <div style="font-size:0.9em;"> (90% ≈ 12px) </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> Let's say if I get more than two feedback posts for this I will put up a HTML-version where you can really see the sizes! Whoever uses mostly CSS in his websites will now that the parental element for a lot of the content boxes is in most cases the <body>-Tag. So what to set up here? Since the em-implementation in problem child browser Internet Explorer is not 100% correct, you need to implement a little fix. <style type="text/css"> body { font-size: 100.1%; }</style>is the best setting. Other commonly used settings like 1em (not good for many browswers, but very common), 100% (problem reason in some browsers) ,1.01em (IE thinks this is the same as 1em) cause problems!But what does this mean 100.1%? Percent of what? Well, as you might have noticed, browsers give the possibilty to set up a default font size in the settings (default-setting will normally be 16px)! So 100.1% of the default font size (if someone has an extreme setting here, then he probably wants it like that. If you set up absolute font sizes you override his setting and his will and make him an unhappy customer. I don't like unhappy customers, do you?) The advantages of EM (for you and your users) First of all: The advantage for your users (customer is king ): Writing with Em-quads is barrier free. Every user can zoom your website and view it best for his visual acuity, even if they use Internet Explorer which does not support zooming of absolute values! Then there is an advantage for you too, because sometimes life is fair (YES, m^e, sometimes it is ) If you set up your font-sizes like this: <style type="text/css"> body { font-size: 100.1%; } div#content { font-size: 0.8em; } h1 { font-size: 1.5em; } p { font-size: 1.2em; }</style></head><body><div id="content"> [SIZE=5] <h1>headline</h1>[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]<p>Textextext</p>[/SIZE] [SIZE=2]<span>footnote</span>[/SIZE]</divThen all sizes are dependent on the top level div-box: #content.If you notice now, that the sizes don't fit in your layout perfectly, than you have to make only one change for the div#content box (->0.9em for example) and all the sizes are changed (while the relations are kept)! It admit, sometimes this can also be bad, but I would say: Not as often as it is good! How To Make All Browsers display the same (relative) size A problem, which occurs from time to time, is that the same values are displayed differently in different browsers. You can avoid this by using awry values (like 0.63em) instead of rounded ones. This makes the browsers interprete them more precisely, but don't ask me why! To give you an impression how you can translate Pixel-Values to em, I hereby include a table. It assumes the settings: body { font-size: 100.1% } and the user-setting 16px for the font-size. font-size:10px -font-size:0.63emfont-size:11px - font-size:0.69emfont-size:12px - font-size:0.75emfont-size:13px - font-size:0.82emfont-size:14px - font-size:0.88emfont-size:15px - font-size:0.93emfont-size:16px - font-size:1emfont-size:17px - font-size:1.06emfont-size:18px - font-size:1.12emfont-size:19px - font-size:1.19emfont-size:20px - font-size:1.25emfont-size:21px - font-size:1.32emfont-size:22px - font-size:1.38emfont-size:23px - font-size:1.44emfont-size:24px - font-size:1.5emfont-size:25px - font-size:1.56emfont-size:26px - font-size:1.63emfont-size:27px - font-size:1.69emfont-size:28px - font-size:1.75emfont-size:29px - font-size:1.82emfont-size:30px - font-size:1.88emfont-size:31px - font-size:1.94emfont-size:32px - font-size:2.01em (It is a simple thing: Just multiplicate the Pixel value with: 0.06(period)27 and you get the em-value). If you want to build yourself a graph in some graphing application use this formula:1.38/22 * pixel = em And not only font sizes... Until now I only wrote about font sizes, but you should know that you can and should apply the em-values to other sizes in your document too! This implies that you have a quite flexible layout, but since this should be everyones ambition: Now you have a powerful standard to use, when creating flexible layouts. If you have for example a box with text in it, the box width:200px and the font-size:1em and you just change the font-size, then the text will be bigger than the box! (Some browsers don't do this behaviour but they are non-standardized â problem child MSIE again). This can be avoided by avoiding absolute values in widths and heights and whatever too: If your width in that box was 12em, then it would grow according to the font-size. The box would look precisely the same, just bigger! The relations stay! Of course you would not put too much text in a small box but, if a user zooms, then the same thing happens as if you did. So: Be prepared, use EM. You will not be able to use em-values for widths and height unless a parental element such as body has a percentage set as width. So use the default setting, that I described above (body { font-size: 100.1% } )! You should of course also use the em-value for padding, margin, border and wherever you can set up sizes. In every case the reason is: If someone enlarges your page he won't have to see a broken layout. Why EM and not EX or %? The reason against using %: % is dependant on the width of the parental element, not the font-size! EX(this stands for: height of the letter "x"). Normally 1em should be = 2ex, but this is not always true, since it is dependant on the used font (in Firefox for example). So ex can not be a standard size, since available fonts are not the same on every computer! The next step in flexible web design Still, you will notice that people might have to scroll horizontally, when they enlarge the contents. You can avoid this if you have a completely flexible layout, where you do not use "position:absolute" to position elements but more relative things like: float:left (for the menu on the left) and margin-left:4em (for the div-layer with the content in it). This way, if someone enlarges the website that much that there is not enough place for the content next to the menu, the content will just go to the next line. This is very convenient for users with low visual acuity, but it limits the possibilities of your webdesign of course. But if you have an completely CSS-based webdesign you can define different stylesheets for different media (@media), so you might want to use this. This tutorial is heavily inspired by a German article by Ingo Turski (The German Article), which is probably better and more complete. But I think, that the knowledge should be available to everyone here, so I rewrote it in my style in English. On his web-site you can find a good example of completely flexible web design and examples for the differences of em/ex/%. It doesn't require knowledge of the German language to see the layout!

Ok good to know :-) But now that I'm hosted and that I have some credits I could help fellows with low income?I think it would be cool if points could be awarded by non-hosted members because this way, people who enjoy your website could help you by awarding you credits (instead of a money donation they give you a time donation. I kinda like that idea, because I am myself not able to donate money). You make the rules, of course, but well, I plead for some small changes for fairness :-)

I know! This works too, but my Personal Web Sharing gives me a different address (see above). Is the public IP always working Personal Web Sharing? Because when I start to test on my router I don't want to try to access my public IP all the time, when it is the wrong thing to do.