whyme
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You can save your self the burden of having to see these problems by inserting a preloading code in html page. add this chunk of javascript to the <head</head> tags of your page: <script language="javascript"><!--var myimages=new Array()function preloadimages(){for (i=0;i<preloadimages.arguments.length;i++){myimages[i]=new Image()myimages[i].src=preloadimages.arguments[i]}}preloadimages("image1.jpg","image2.jpg","image3.jpg","image4.jpg");//--></script> replace image1.jpg to image4.jpg with the pictures that you are using, add more as prefered. and replace <body> with this: <body onload="preloadimages()"> by doing this, all your images will load before the site shows, so the on mouse over will automactically show up if you have a slow connection. hope this will help, -whyme
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There's been some limitations with the DTD validator, so that might have been what's causing the problems.btw, snlildude, nice header graphic.
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After a long search for "big-bucks" on the internet, i realize that it wil never be the case, that said, I have found some programs, although no "quick money earners" still provide a somewhat fair amount of money, (for the amount of work that you actaully do). Here are three programs that I joined, and sends you emails daily with links each worth around 0.25 cents to 0.75 cents. (Yes, not even one whole cent). Although this is a dimunitive number, they realy do pay you money, and aren't about to scam you. You get around 30 - 50 links a day, and for each link you click in that email, you get 1/4 of a cent to 3/4's of a cent. although the sound of getting such little money is stupid, if you do the math, it really does add up: 50 links a day x 0.75 of cent each = 37.5 cents a day. put this into weeks: 37.5 cents a day x 7 days a week = $2.62 Dollars a week put this into months: 37.5 cents a day x 31 days = $11.62 dollars a month put this into one year: 12 months x 11.62 dollars = $139.44 dollars a year And if you join all three programs, then you get $418.32 dollars each year. Not bad for just clicking links. of course, you will get more money depending on how long you've been a member and for what kind of links you'll get, so here ends my talk about money earners, as i've found that there's no such thing as a free lunch, but you can always pickup a few pennies. When you see these websites, the page designs will be so horrible that you'd think of leaving, but, you'll grow to adapt to them. So here are the three programs: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://beehivemail.com/ -whyme
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When you generate DHTML rollovers in frontpage, Frontpage should prompt you to save a seperate javascript file when you exit the program. I took a look at your page coding and saw this: </script><script language="JavaScript1.2" fptype="dynamicanimation" src="file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20Office/Office10/fpclass/animate.js"></script> right now, your javscript file is sitting in your hardrive, so your website's DHTML doesn't work. this means that you need to upload your animate.js to the same directory of your i2sl4.html, and also, change the coding: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20Office/Office10/fpclass/animate.js to just: animate.js If you need anymore help, just give me a PM. -whyme
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First of all, amusing little app you have here, especially the singing of the "Know I know my ABC's". Congrat's on the new app.-whyme
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A Snake Eating A Kangaroo Not for the faint at heart
whyme replied to whyme's topic in General Discussion
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My Concept Artwork sketches/studies/lineart etc.
whyme replied to Noferura's topic in Art & Creativity
some great artwork you've got here, i recommend that you sign up for a http://www.deviantart.com/ account and display your art work.-whyme -
Your site's working properly, and it's HTML 4.01 complaint. I can't seem to find your navigation bar.
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Being the XHTML and CSS freak that I am, I have decided to create a guidebook on developing websites using XHTML, CSS and implementing Web STandards. While this is not a step by step tutorial on making websites, and nor is it a beginners guide to CSS and XHTML, this is a handbook where you can learn from other website examples, and grab insight from my own opinions, and then implement it onto your own website. This guidebook is divided into three chapters, each covering a different aspect of XHTML, CSS, and Web Standards. With out further ado, here starts Chapter 1. Ultimately the most important aspect of a website, layout is what drives your visitors to your site, what powers your imagination and what people judge you by. With a good layout, comes good traffic. In my opinion on what justifies as a good layout is: Simplicity Do not cram your site with thousands of little animated gifs, nor place random links with no apparent structure. The simplest sites often bring out the most potential. A great example is http://monc.se/. Lets take a look at their website. Monc is displayed through the varied use of contemporary colors, brown, light grays, and white. The site starts off with a bare patterned navigation bar consisting of three links. This gives the user less stress of being bombarded with links and can avoid confusion among which links to click first. As we move down to the white content box, the logo is clearly displayed without any obstruction, letting the user know exactly what site they are seeing and the name of the site. A clear heading bar, Who We Are immediately tells the reader what the content will be about, and will provoke them to move to the main content. As we move onto the main content, one can see how the text is not scrunched up and removes the strain on the eyes. The effect that Monc used was the following CSS property: font-size: 70%; line-height: 1.7em; By shrinking the font size using percentages, the font size will not change through using different OSes of different browsers, therefore implementing a high accessible standard for everyone. The line-height attribute adds spacing between each line of text, making it more readable and spacious. Before I move onto the other aspects of the site, Id like to note that the site uses the Verdana font for the entire site. Why use Verdana, studies show that we read 0.6 times slower when we are reading text off our computer screen. If youre using some obscure font, like Comic Sans MS, your readers will take longer to read your text, and it will also be harder for them to read it, either way, Comic Sans MS is still a horrible font. This is why they created Verdana; Verdana was created specifically for websites. It is meant to have increased visibility and speed up the reading process, this is why you see almost all the major websites, like Microsoft, Apple, Sun, all use Verdana. They want their customers to get quick info, without slowing them down. Now moving onto the sidebar, the links are clearly displayed using borders and a stylish graphic to inform the user. Finally, on the bottom is a subtle yet noticeable footer where all the copyright and accessibility information is displayed. With these aspects added together, Monc gives us the power of using simplicity to create one of best the designs I have seen. As a sum up, heres what implements a good site layout. - clear navigation - spacious content area with highly readable text - clean sidebar navigation - good use of contrasting colors - suitable amount of graphics, no over doing - crisp layout You may have heard of XML, XML is the eXtensive Markup Language. XML is a relatively new markup language. In fact, XML is used to DEFINE mark up languages. And from XML comes XHTML, and new version of HTML derived from XML, this makes the coding more strict, and more readable by those who view or by the browsers that render your coding. You Im happy with my HTML. While thats what many may say, here are some good reasons to switch to XHTML. To quote Morden Pedersten: Why establish web standards? Why use the stupid w3.org HTML validator? Isnt it just a waste of time cleaning up my coding? The reason why we validate our web pages is because we want them to be accessible through any browser, on any computer, by any means. Sure, Google has roughly 80 Validation errors, and Microsoft doesnt even care. But what really matters in the validation process is that you can show others that your web site is made of clean coding. Sure, just because your page is valid doesnt mean it will look any better, but validating them provides a world-wide standard for your website. Also, search engines like valid sites too. Right now, Im getting awfully tired, so Ill finish off chapter three some time this week. hope you enjoyed reading this, -whyme edit:added matching graphic headers.
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Paul Martin Addresses The Nation Canadian Politics - Sponsorship Scandal
whyme replied to Wyllt's topic in General Discussion
Pity no one takes too much note of this, I thought it was too extreme for Paul to go on prime time television, a sponsorship scandal is a problem that the Liberals need to deal with, not Canadians. Martin is stalling for time, and hoping that the Gomery inquiry will slowly fade away. Anyways, we here in BC already have enough to worry about with our May 17th Provincial elections. (GO NDP!) -
Your sig looks nice, but the text definetely needs to merge with your background, right now, it's a big slab of white text, try using some brushed to merge it together, overall, nice job.
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I personally think that the 3.4 billion offer was too generous for Adobe. Last year, Macromedia reported a profit of 340 million dollars. Abode is giving out 3.4 billion to buy it. With that, the profit margins are much too low for 3.4 billion. I would have bought it for 1.4 billion
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Perhaps we need a clarification here, recently, Adobe aquired Macromedia for 3.4 Billion dollars. This merger was big news among most tech sites. Tom169, perhaps you should have clarified on the topic, and not let people just guess, I have already added a note to your post.
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Elements are missing 10% of what Photoshop can do, if you're not going for the high-end product and want to save some money, Elements is definetely the way to go.
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A unique design, like what others have said. Very direffernt from generic Flash sites, your site does trigger curiousity when one visits it. However, I highly recommend that you provide some sort of sign that indicates to the user where the menu is, it took me some time to find it.
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Something quite incredible I came across today, I found a series of screenshots of a Snake (Apparently a Boa Constrictor) essentailly swallowing a Kangaroo whole. Although there is no blood or gorey fleshy stuff in these series of screenshots, I still have the feeling that some people will freak out. So view at your own risk. Here's the inrecible link -> http://www.ebaumsworld.com/ -whyme
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Two New Sponsored Top-level Domains .JOBS .TRAVEL
whyme replied to lionel's topic in Websites and Web Designing
the .jobs domain is not meant for people to have a generic mypersonalsite.jobs the .jobs domain is specfically for companys to post their job listings and jobs website on a .jobs domain, a company like google would register https://www.google.com/about/careers/, and people would look up Google jobs there. -
Nice Job Karlo, you got it from the MyPHP Forum Code base right?
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Your banner looks nice, but I recommend that you scrap the white border around the Xisto logo and blend it with the rest of the image, that way, it'll ook more smooth-whyme
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Paypal.. Safe Or Not? well is it?
whyme replied to spawn_syxx9's topic in Websites and Web Designing
As with all online payment and money processors, there will be risks. PayPal in my opinion the safest payment processors out there, and of higher quiality that StormPay. I think that much of these "PayPal horrors can be avoided if the users looked more carefully into how they are sending and using their money with PayPal, I've used paypal for more than 4 years and have not encountered any problems. -
Drop me a PM when you want to have the side bar moved to the right, I'll do the nessacary coding for you.
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Hi and welcome to the Xisto community, we have a large range of topics to talk about, ranging from Computers to Web Design, and From Current Events to the latest technology.Have fun,-whymeP.S - I'm also Canadian, British Columbian,
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Can You Stop People Saveing Your Web Pages?
whyme replied to truman69's topic in Websites and Web Designing
I suggest that you go to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and inform the people there, they are a community that hunts down people who steal layouts from other people. They'll help you find a way to get rid of that person. And Oh, just for kicks, if he happens to be using up your images for his own site, simply replace the image that he's using with a picture say: "stop stealing!" . More specs on that -> http://vault.simplebits.com/notebook/2005/04/05/siphoning/ Hope you get that ripper soon, -whyme -
You can do this by displaying a sites RSS feed, then using PHP or Perl, display that feed on your site. Of course, not all sites have RSS feeds, so you'll have to double check. Check out this for more info -> http://www.creativyst.com/Prod/18/
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I belive that you will find calendarix to be very useful http://www.calendarix.com/ hope this helps, -whyme