Thorned Rose

My biggest suggestion. Use an external stylesheet if you're not already! Makes it a heck of easier to change things. You call the style sheet by putting in the following code into the head section of your page: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="path to your stylesheet.css" /> In your html put <div id="myfont">text text text</div> for individual and unique elements placed in a block (line-break after) or <span class="myfont">text text text</span> for several items that use the same css and placed inline (no line-break after). (As a general rule use id for unique items and class for things that repeat throughout the page. Use div for block elements and span for inline) Your stylesheet.css would then contain: #myfont {font-family: Verdana, Arial;font-size: 10px;color: #ff0000;line-spacing: 11px;} Use # for unique items or . for items used repeatedly. (generally # goes with id and . goes with class) Whenever you change anything in your stylesheet it will be reflected on your page without having to change any of the html. There�s a really excellent website at http://www.cssbasics.com/ that can extend your knowledge of CSS. There�s also some excellent info on positioning at http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/ The WC3 has a page with lots of links for CSS: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Here�s a Google video on creating tableless CSS layouts: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (it�s quite long so it will take a while to load. When it does, skip ahead to the 12 minute mark) but it has very good information And http://www.csszengarden.com/ is a site that demonstrates what you can do just by changing the stylesheet (without changing the html). Oh and http://www.oswd.org/ has pure CSS website templates free to download (I used these to help me get started with CSS). I would send you to my own websites but as they also use Joomla, the use of tables might be confusing. Let me know if you need any other help. I know how daunting css can be when you start out, but I have been using it for a while now to make complete css based websites and I would never go back!

In Vista, they are VERY shiny to the point where I would say that these ones are actually slightly less shiny. But very beautiful all the same. And being a magpie, I am drawn to such beautiful, shiny baubles. Must..... resist...... clicking..... download........................... failing............. starting to point... at.. it.........clicking...................... Download Now button..... downloading....... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... DAMMIT!

No idea where you live so I can't tell you much other than what it is in New Zealand where it varies wildly depending on your experience and the job position. You could expect here anywhere from $25,000 junior/graduate/short term freelance to $60,000+ manager but I believe the average is usually around $30K - $45K. That's probably not much help seens as you are probably not in New Zealand, but well if anyone is curious or looking to move to NZ, there's my two cents

OMG, some of the crap and stupid things people have come up with in this post. Smaller? Less gravity? Spectroscopy results being altered by other planets water vapor?! (What you don't think they think of things like that. Not to mention, how many planets do you know of that have water on them that nobody else knows about?) I just love how people say, great! When can we move in? Now that humans have crapped in their own bed, they want somewhere else to live. This isn't about finding a new home for humans or terraforming Mars. It's a search for life not somewhere for humans to live and destroy all over again.The thing that I always have to laugh about most is - what happens when they do find life? And I don't necessarily mean 'intelligent life', just life full stop. I will thoroughly enjoy the rants that will be inevitable with religious types. I can only hope that when they do maybe it will be enough of a kick in the butt to the human race to have a little more unity instead of retardedly killing each other over pathetic reasons like religion or what piece of dirt Joe Blow lives on.

Yes, that is correct and also incorrect. You say they are tools and therefore it is the intent behind them that makes them dangerous. Well you are ignoring the fact that the sole intent of guns (hunting guns excluded obviously) is to maim and kill other people. My computer is intended to be used for playing games, or word processing, or surfing the internet or listen to mp3s as you pointed out. The same with cars - they are intended to get people from A to B. Neither my computer or car is intended to maim and kill. Yes, they could be used for that purpose but when was the last time you saw someone lugging a computer monitor around trying to injure and kill people with it? Intent is a very powerful thing. From a psychological point of view, it is much easier to kill with a gun because that is their intent and that is what humans associate with guns. We don't associate killing people with computers, cars, pot plants, bed linen etc so we feel less likely kill anyone with them. If you have a gun lying around handy, it is so much easier to make the jump from imagining killing someone to actually doing it.I don't think I have explained the psychology particularly well but I hope you get the drift.

oh yes he's been identified and already the racism started. They we're doing an interview with a guy who specialises in guns and their sociological impact etc and he was saying that he doesn't think that this will change anything, that people will blame this event on violent movies, computer games, depression, anti-social behaviour, bad parenting, drugs and the fact that the guy was from Korea - anything BUT the fact that easy access to guns was a big if not the biggest part of the problem.Gees.... I wonder how many people it will take to be injured, maimed and killed before the U.S. finally does something about it's crazy gun laws. Apparently the 30,000 odd people killed and 75,000 people injured each year aren't enough!

I was just waiting for some red-necked, gun-toting, arrogant type to come along and mouth off about how wonderful guns are and how wonderful they are. I knew it would happen because like religious fanatics, they can't help themselves. And like religious fanatics, they always have an answer, even if it completely contradicts reality. Well Watermonkey, you have once again shown just how ignorant, naive and arrogant pro-nra types are. Thanks for the laugh. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your rather zealous posts. Oh, and thanks for making my point for me.

Actually New Zealand is made up of several islands. I also find your use of the phrase "shooting your mouth off" rather ironic given the topic.Fake english accent? My, my that sounds an awful lot like a personal insult. If you want to be personal - well my mother is English and while I don't have a stereotypical 'Kiwi' accent because of that, I'm not sure I would call it "fake". As for wearing rose-tinted glasses - did you read my first post? Hardly rose-tinted. I've seen the effects of violence more than most. I don't read books of that nature because they are people's opinions. I prefer to deal with hard statistics. Nor do I see what one country has to do with this. My mother is from England, I'm not. I live in New Zealand. And last I knew, America and England don't constitute the whole of the western world. Guns are "outlawed" here in New Zealand and in Australia and most of Europe etc and yet you do not mention their gun rates - low. Perhaps because the statistics of those countries don't support your argument. And thanks Smack! I really appreciate what you said. (I'm a gal FYI) And thanks for doing the legwork on the links to stats and the like. I figured that somebody would probably accuse me of not having statistics or evidence to back up what I said but I was too tired this morning to look up links.

Duly noted not that it makes any difference I really wish Americans would get over the moronic idea that to solve gun problems you need more guns. Like I said, in New Zealand not even the police carry side-arms and gun-related injuries and deaths are virtually non-existent (mostly hunting accidents). Not to mention the fact that America has the highest rate of gun related injuries and deaths per capita in the western world! Also not to mention the fact that research has shown that there is a direct correlation between gun related injuries/deaths and gun ownership. If you don't know what correlate means, here's the 411: the more guns people own = the more injuries/deaths you get. Irrefutable proof that increasing gun ownership DOES NOT WORK! Take a lesson from the rest of the world and get over your testosterone filled, self righteous, patriotically deluded and idiotic ideas about gun ownership. You DO NOT have the right to own a 'weapon of mass killing'!

It saddens me that this comes as no great surprise. I live in New Zealand where this kind of thing is non-existent. What's also virtually non-existent is the use of firearms. It is exactly this attitude and culture in America that is causing so much trouble. "It's our god-given right".... since when is it any one's 'right' to own something that has the sole purpose of maiming and killing other people?! Truly, the stupidity is beyond my comprehension.As for Iraq, Anna Nicole, high school shootouts - they are ALL sensationalised. People watch their tv screens with bated breath for updates and the latest tolls or scandals. Nobody sees the true reality. War? - When you have a war in which thousands more innocent people die than soldiers, you know what you are doing is wrong. Where is the story about the pregnant woman who had a mortar land beside her that blew her unborn child a hundred feet away? - that's the reality of war. Where is the story about an entire village that was gassed - a woman fallen where she stood still hugging her dead baby in her arms? - that's war. Where is the story of the little girl with diabetes lapsing into a coma because the war has cut of her supply off insulin? - that's war. Where is the story of the man who's family is now starving to death because he had both his legs and an arm blown off? - that's war! And people want to mope and complain about the number of their soldiers dying?! They *chose* to join the army so they *chose* to potentially die. I feel sorry for their families but I have no sympathy for soldiers fighting a war in which so many innocent people are losing their lives. The boxing day Tsunami - the press was all over it. Sudan - the press was all over it. Where are the press now? Thousands of people are still dying every day - more than in Iraq or by guns or anything else and nobody gives a damn any more. Where is the story of the mother who's baby was murdered by genocidal soldiers? Or the story of the father who lost his wife and children because they starved to death? You don't hear their stories because they aren't in the good ol' USofA! Don't get me wrong. I feel a great amount of sympathy for the people at the highschool and their families. It just doesn't surprise me anymore.

Wohoo! I got it. I combined the two things you said jlhaslip to get: <input name="domainname" type="text" id="domainname" value ="<?php echo $_GET['domain']. '.' . $_GET['ext']; ?>">And it works perfectly. Thanks for all your help dude! You are a legend as always!

I can't give you the form for the part that generates the URL as that is a component for Joomla!, just that it outputs the variables in a url that looks like mywebsite.com/example.php?domain=mydomain&ext=com Here's a simple form (sorry it's messy) with how I want to output the variables domain and ext <form action="process.php" method="post"><input type=hidden name="subject" value="Domain Request"> <div align="center">Name: <input type="text" name="name" size="30" maxlength="30" /> <br /> <br /> Email: <input type="text" name="email" size="30" maxlength="30" /> <br /> <br /> Domain: <input name="domainname" type="text" id="domainname" value ="<?php echo "$domain" "$ext"; ?>"> <br /> <br /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send" /> </div></form>This form should display the variables in a text box as "mydomain.com". People can then finish putting in their name and email and hit send which should then send all the form info to an email address. My process.php so far looks like this: <?php@extract($_POST);$name = stripslashes($name);$email = stripslashes($email);$subject = stripslashes($subject);$domainname = stripslashes($domainname);mail('email@address.com',$subject,$domainname,"From: $name <$email>");header("location:form.php");?> It's displaying the variables from the url within the form that have me stumped so far.

Ok, what I need is for users to be able to select what address they want (e.g. mydomain + .com), click submit that then sends the variables 'domain' and 'ext' through the URL e.g. mywebsite.com/example.php?domain=mydomain&ext=com (the variables being mydomain and com) where they are displayed in a form mail as "Domain Selected: mydomain.com" that can then be submitted and sent to an email. In my form so far I have <input name="domainname" type="text" id="domainname" value ="<?php echo "$domain"; ?>">but it don't do poo and I'm sure that anyone in the know is laughing at my sad attempt at PHP but if you could please tell me how I call both variables from the URL so that they display in the form as one whole address (i.e. mydomain.com not my domain and com) that would be very much appreciated!

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Thanks Matt2 michaelper22, it's no prob. That was like that because I had put my template as default but hadn't finished uploading all the images needed. I still need to put up the menus and content yet too but when it's all done it will look like my test site http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ I really appreciate that you're looking out for me tho!!