FirefoxRocks

First of all, you don't create websites with CSS, you style websites with CSS. As for the "basic code", you could tell that using internal CSS style sheets with your HTML documents is through the use of the style element. This is how you define an internal style sheet in HTML: <style type="text/css"> ...some style info here... </style> This is how you define an internal style sheet in XHTML: <style type="text/css"> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/*><!--*/ ...some style info here... /*<!]]>*/--> </style> You don't need to learn CSS in a specific order, you learn the properties that you need to use first. Of course you must learn the correct syntax first, which is this: tagname {property: value} So if you want to colour paragraphs blue, you would do this: p {color: blue}Each pair of properties and values are separated by semicolons. This is basic CSS, there is a lot more out there about CSS, search it for more information.

Is the extra 2x really that big of a speed increase? I don't know because I don't usually burn DVDs and I haven't investigated disc burning times anyways. But my DVD burner claims to burn DVDs at 16x, but I buy DVD+RWs that are labelled to be 4x, and they burn within a reasonable amount of time, so I'm not complaining.

Yes, this is through JavaScript and the XmlHttpRequest object (I think that's what it is called). If you need to do it through a server-side scripting technology such as PHP or ASP, it is technically called AJAX (asynchronized javascript and XML). But as for client-side scripting, you can do it all through JavaScript. Here is a real live example: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ The JavaScript is right on the page, it isn't in an external file. As you can see, it loads an XML file into the browser and grabs the text nodes of specific elements into variables, which I can pass onto the correct <div> or <td> or whatever. Hope this helps

Background sound is one of the most trickiest things of web development. This is because1. A cross-browser, valid XHTML method is hard to implement.2. It is considered to be annoying as users may not like it.However, with valid (X)HTML, you can use <object> I suppose, but it doesn't work as well in Internet Explorer. You can workaround that with a conditional comment. Here is the code: <object data="soundfile.mid" codetype="audio/mid"></object><!--[if IE]><bgsound loop="3" src="basdanse.mid" /><![endif]-->

These tutorials are quite old. I also don't see why they can't teach valid XHTML Strict (or even HTML Strict) because their pages are almost all valid XHTML strict except for the <embed> element in the sound one and an unescaped ampersand in a referral link in some other ones.I know that they skip the "technical details" of HTML, but still, they should teach valid HTML Strict, not transitional.

Black and white photos can appear to be sharper and will increase clarity if the picture was good to begin with. It can also attract attention (grabs the viewer's eye) when used appropriate in places with lots of colours around. Of course, all of this is assuming you mean grayscale; black and white would strictly be #000 and #fff. Colour adds life and brightness to the image, but can be dulled out if it is too saturated. Depending on the nature of the image, you may or may not wish to use colour. Blues, purples and greens are considered to be cool colours; reds, oranges and yellows are considered to be warm colours.

Is there a way to control where the cursor is by means of moving it through a number of characters of the text inserted?

GMail has really good spam filters, Yahoo! Mail has really strict filters from personal experience. Most email clients nowadays (Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc) also have their own built-in spam filters, so they can be made compatible if necessary. I usually get around 20 or so spam messages in my GMail per day, but the spam filter has only made 2 mistakes in the past year and a half.Be careful of what you blacklist, you do not want to make the mistake of blacklisting everything from a specific domain (live.com, yahoo.com, hotmail.co.uk, gmail.com, shaw.ca, etc, etc). Your friends may still use those email providers, even though you don't.

I had a trial version of Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student which just expired 2 days ago. I use OpenOffice at the moment, it is suitable for basic Word, Excel and PowerPoint functions. Nothing too fancy.The Ribbon was really nice in my opinion, it allowed greater work efficiency when you got used to it, which I did after about 10 minutes of a Microsoft introduction video. As for Vista, I haven't really experienced it but I have read lots about it and the interesting things about it are speech recognition and user account control.OpenOffice does lack some of the features found in Microsoft Office, such as grammar checking (a plugin is available), support for DOCX and the new "openXML" formats (this isn't that important), and it does lack the power of Microsoft Office in certain things, most noticeably when compared to Microsoft PowerPoint. But remember, it's open source and free, you can't expect too much out of it

I used to use this when I "vista-ized" my computer. It is in a way similar to the GNOME user interface thing. However, I uninstalled it a few months ago because it was extremely slow if you have a program that hangs or if you have task manager open. But still, it is an improvement to the alt-tab thing in Windows XP.

This is quite nice actually. I am wondering if this could be made using The GIMP or other free image editing programs like Paint .NET or Xpaint. Even with advanced programs (although I've never heard of 3D Studio Max), this would probably take a while if you have little to average experience working with the software.More digital photography is being released every day, it's a new revolution in art.

Yes, because the XML parser cannot allow you to generate contents on the fly, you must use DOM things to do it. So something like this should be necessary: newElement = document.createElement("img");newElement.alt = "Some alternate text";newElement.src = "urlOfYourImage.png";document.getElementById('yourdiv').appendChild(newElement); A bit much, eh? And by the way, the correct MIME type is application/xhtml+xml, not application/xml+html.

Try using a different FTP client or connecting through Windows Explorer. If cPanel works ok, this may be an FTP problem. In Windows Explorer (this is assuming you are using Windows XP): 1. Open My Network Places 2. Make a new network place 3. Type in your account details. 4. When done, double click on the network place and type in your password when prompted. 5. If that works, it is a problem with your FTP client. If you aren't using Windows XP, go into Internet Explorer, type in http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. If you determine it to be a client problem, try using FireFTP for Firefox.

If you think that Photoshop is too expensive to purchase, Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a bit too bulky, and the GIMP a bit hard to use for editing photos, then I'm sure you'll find Picnik to be a better application. If the above doesn't apply to you, give Picnik a try anyways URL: picnik.com/ Picnik is an excellent tool for editing photos, especially if they are already online. This is because Picnik can import photos from popular photo hosting sites, including Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa and the one and only Facebook. If the photos that you need to edit aren't online, that's not a problem because you can upload the photos from your computer into Picnik also. It isn't emphasized much, but you can also connect a webcam and take a picture from there if needed. Also, entering the URL of any image is possible. The photo editing features are presented on the Edit tab in an easy-to-use interface. As with photo editing/enhancing software, there is a button labelled "Auto-fix", also known as Auto Correct or "I'm feeling lucky". Although auto-fix usually enhances the picture, it made some pictures unnaturally bright or blue in some cases. Standard features such as Rotate, Crop, Resize, Red-eye removal and Sharpen are available. The resize option allows you to keep aspect ratio (labelled Proportion), but if you want to make the picture stretch or fatter, you can uncheck that. Brightness is called exposure, which opens a little panel to allow the adjustment of brightness and contrast. Colour temperature and amount (saturation) can be adjusted as well, although the auto colour option may make the picture to be too warm or cool. With the free version of Picnik, a small set of special effects can be applied to your picture. This includes basic ones such as Black and White, Sepia, Soften, Matte, etc. Some other ones include Snow, Boost, Invert and Cross Process. Doodling on your picture is also allowed. A much wider range of special effects are available if you decide to purchase Picnik Premium. Text can also be added to your photos, with easy adjustments to size, colour, alignment and font. Basic and holiday fonts are available for free, system and other special fonts are available in Picnik Premium. The opacity of the text can also be controlled by the Fade slider bar, which most programs do not offer as an option. Shapes can also be added to the picture. The free ones include geometric, basic, speech bubbles and photo imprints (copyright, registered trademark, attribution, share-alike, non-commercial usage, etc). There are also plenty of holiday-dependent shapes (for February, there are hearts, presents, candy hearts, kisses, and stamps). Again, shape opacity can also be controlled. With premium, more shapes are unlocked. Touchups are available, but unfortunately only in Premium. There are only 2 available: Teeth Whiten and Blemish Fix. A frame/border can also be added, either a rounded border or a normal one. Drop shadow and Polaroid can be added in premium. When you are done with editing your photo, you can automatically save it back to where you got it (I only tried on Flickr and Facebook), email the photo, print it, add to Flickr slideshow or download it back to your computer. There may be other options depending on if you connected other sites to your Picnik account. Overall, I think Picnik is a wonderful replacement for Photoshop if you are looking for something free and less powerful. If you need more features, Picnik Premium is available for $24.95/year. Some features that would even make my photo editing tasks more easier would definitely be batch editing, because I usually only do photo editing when a bunch of pictures arrive, and I usually do repetative tasks with them (resize, compress, save). Give Picnik a try if you are interested. Regards, FirefoxRocks P.S. I found out about this from CNET Download.com.

There are a lot of these types of software out there. Some of them are actually freeware. I do not notice a huge performance increase while using something like this unless I have had lots of programs used in the current session. I do not use these anymore because it is not necessary on Linux and it isn't worth the memory that they take up on Windows.

Erm...as for IE, you can probably use a conditional comment for an <iframe>. It's a dirty trick as XHTML will parse it as a comment but it will still be rendered in IE (as only IE supports conditional comments). It works for me in Safari, what version are you using? I tried it in Safari 3.0.4 Beta and Konqueror on Ubuntu and they both display the <object> as intended.

Can you provide a reference URL to what you are quoting? This information needs to be verifiable as with any other piece of information.As for Microsoft, I don't really care. I use Microsoft products when necessary but I prefer open-source software when it is available.

Don't you think I already use Firefox? And by the way, I use Firefox, Opera, Safari, Avant and Internet Explorer only when necessary (but of course not on Linux). I use RocketDock for Windows so I think that the Dock in Mac would be sufficient for me I do use Mozilla Thunderbird but I am more used to using the web-based GMail interface and also for Windows Live Hotmail. As for RSS, I use Google Reader only when necessary and the in-browser "live bookmarks" to keep track of weather from Environment Canada. Otherwise, I don't use RSS all that much. Does LimeWire work on Macs? It's open-source, but I don't know if it is Mac-compatible. I use it on Linux. Is this something similar to Boot Camp (something that I've heard of)? Or is Boot Camp a partitioning utility thing? Also, is VMWare something similar to this Q Emulator thing? I think that QuickTime and iTunes would be sufficient for me on a Mac. MPlayer I use on Ubuntu, it's really basic and can play DVDs for me. Well there is Microsoft Office for Mac, but it isn't open-source. I don't think my parents would buy that either, so OpenOffice all the way. AbiWord is quite simple and can run from my USB drive, I've never heard of NeoOffice before. I use Audacity on Windows and Linux as well as my USB drive. Very useful for some quick sound editing. I use the GIMP, I have it on Linux and I use it on Windows. A bit hard to learn for beginners, but you get the hang of it once you explore more of its options. Once you learn the GIMP, Photoshop becomes easily (it could be the other way around, but I don't know). I think I would prefer a text editor for editing HTML sites, but I'm trying NVU on Ubuntu right now. I don't like WYSIWYG software much, but when needed, I do use it. I write HTML faster though. Thanks for the list of software, I'm sure that many others will find it to be useful. As for getting a Mac, I don't think my parents are that interested in it.

This must be a really difficult project that you are taking on to create an online photo editor. Unlike "software" software, web software is primarily based on PHP (or another similar server language like ASP, etc) and Flash. Of course you'll need HTML and CSS for the browser to display the information, but the program works on PHP and other scripts and stuff. A better example of an online photo editor would be Picnik. It allows importing photos from various photo hosting services and social networking sites such as Facebook. You may be able to pick up a few pointers on how the whole thing works by visitng the Developers section and looking at some samples: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Hope this helps.

This is very interesting. Does it work on corporate networks? If it does, is there a way to disable this as this is obviously a huge security risk!

I think that Mac computers are a great thing. The security is excellent and I've heard that the support is much better than most computer manufacturers, although I'm 99% satisfied with the support from Dell. If I got a Mac, I would need to learn how it works thoroughly and reteach my parents how to use computers. I do use Safari and RocketDock to simulate a Mac though, they are quite nice.Since Mac is based on UNIX, it is somewhat similar to Linux, although I'm not sure to what extent. Things that I would miss in Macs would be running security scans and similar tasks (Windows Update, etc) because they aren't necessary on a Mac. I also do not like the ease of use that Macs have. They claim that you can do amazing "multimedia" things in simple clicks, I do not necessarily like that.1 thing that I have always pondered about was that can Macs actually run certain tools to write HTML (not WYSIWYG editors, but advanced text tools like Notepad++ or something similar). And of course there is this one thing in Windows Vista that isn't present on Macs, my favourite system setting, the User Account Control. I'm dying to get Windows Vista just to experience User Account Control. It sounds very exciting, and I'd love to see the prompts pop up asking for my password. Of course there is a similar thing in Ubuntu, but it just isn't the same.All in all, Macs are excellent. For new users, they can get acquainted to Macs pretty easily I think, but for the Windows user, adaptation may be a bit difficult to follow through.

The game does look quite extensive, although not much information is given before you register. I think that it would be appropriate for 14+. ;)What I don't like about the game is that its pages (TOS, home, about) is invalid HTML (no doctype, <style> in inappropriate places, etc). Something that simple shouldn't need to use that many table cells to organize.

I'd recommend coding the pages with (X)HTML, styling them with CSS, adding special effects with JavaScript and when you move up to a more advanced level, learning a server-side scripting language such as PHP or ASP to work with MySQL or any SQL database.I do not recommend using a WYSIWYG editor as they generate almost always unsemantic code that is often invalid HTML. For coding my pages, I used to use HTML-Kit but now I use Notepad++ more because it is more portable. On Linux, you can use Pico or a graphical text editor such as Gedit (don't know the equivalent for KDE, Kedit?).Remember, web development is different from web design. Designers work with the layout, UI and appearance of the page more (CSS and images). Developers work with the content and how the page works (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, etc).And yes, using images to design the whole page and then mapping certain sections to links is definitely not the way to go.

The title attribute creates ToolTip/rollover text on almost any element. The alt attribute is valid on <img /> elements and is to specify alternate text which is used if the picture is not loaded, if it is a screen reader, etc.JavaScript can also be used to do this with onmouseover, but I do not see a reason why. CSS can also be used for the hover pseudo-class so that a special effect can be created with the test.

If Yahoo! and Google became partners then that would be great because both of them have great products and they could definitely improve if they shared there ideas and stuff. As for Microsoft, it doesn't look like it will acquire Yahoo! anytime soon unless they raise their bid by a few billion. More info here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/