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Thanks for that. I'm a changed man- I've been looking into alot of new stuff actually and I'm rekindeling my love of HTML. I'll definatley venture into Div tags.

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Okay, this is the very basic design of my site, I've taken all the content out. Also- if it is my fault when it comes to coding, cut me slack; I haven't been using HTML for about a year.

So here's the problem:

When I put this code up, it works perfectly in IE 7 (Weirdly). I've set the page to have no margins, so all the tables touch the page borders. However; in firefox a white space is left underneath the table that stretches the page.
Check out the site here: MA PAGE
Please help me find the problem as I would prefer users to use Firefox.

who said that the bible said scientist are evil. because if you are refering to what i said it is wrong. i was quoting a christian i know.

Technically they did. By saying that as a Christian as if scientists were placed by the devil; they themselves are adding to the bible, a set of rules and beliefs for Christians to follow.

I think if you believe strongly in one thing you have to disbelieve strongly all that contradicts it. All gods can't be the same though because they all have different, contradicting attributes according to their religions. How can you say the Allah of Islam, who is impersonal and created us as a monumental experiment, playings; is the same as the God of the Bible who loved us so much He sent His only Son to die for our sins, and doesn't want anybody to perish but for all to turn to Him and find eternal life?
I personally can not understand how people can claim all religions are the same. We can agree to disagree. We can agree to show mutual respect to one another regardless of religion. We can agree to hear each other out and even care more about the other person than ourselves, which is what the Bible commands and calls love. But that doesn't mean we need to say this nonsense about all religions being equally right or true.

Truth doesn't contradict. For me to say one Truth is right is to say all other proclaimed truths that contradict it are false. That's just common sense. Sorry if that offends you

One thing I will say though, is just because a person claims to be Christian and says something or acts a certain way, does not mean they are accurately representing what Christianity is. If I quote the Bible's text word for word, that's Christianity. If I say of the Bible "that means" then I'm simply giving my interpretation, and my interpretation may or may not be right. Look to the Bible to see what Christianity is and what the definition of a Christian is. You will find that the Bible writers recognize that since even Christians are simply people who still mess up, that God is in the process of perfecting, a process which will not be complete in this life for any of us.

You should use your logic and reasoning to decide for yourself whether what I say lines up with the Bible and is an accurate representation of Christianity. Read it for yourself, and don't just accept my word that it's right or that of others that it's wrong

That's an incredibly valid point.
The things people have listed as idiotic things said by Christian's is usually always the opposite of wat the bible wants one to believe. No where in the bible does it say Scientists are evil- yet at the time of the bible's creation, there were people contradicting religion that could've been written about, but weren't. Christianity is there to promote level headedness, and just because preachers you find on the Open Access channel are streaming out, does not mean all Christian's believe. For instance, I think creationism is nonsense, and the Pope is unrealistic- I'm still Christian.. I also find it hypocritical that people who're sayin Christianity preaches hate, are speakingly so cruelly towards Christians.

I'd have to give you 7/10. I mean, it's a good name, but it's not that original- however there is a church named after you just down the road from me; good job. I'd give you a 6, but I give all names without numbers an extra point.

Who will support him. He is one of the most stupid person on this earth.

Yes. No one more the stupid than him was being.
I for one support the majority of Bush's descisions. Whilst I agree with the invasion of Iraq- I don't think he should've entered without an exit strategy. I also find Bush too lenient on immigration and other subjects. However I will say he is one of my favourite presidents, and compared to other leaders he has changed America for the better. I probably shouldn't comment, I live in England...

What on earth have you been smoking kid?

Salvia

First of all, it's a pain in the *bottom* to make a unique signature, and even harder to find one off the internet that fits you well. I think it's silly that you have to have images to remember such things!
Besides, alot of times sigs can start to look alot alike.

And like truefusion said, what if they were to change it?

It's not that hard to make a unique signature. Even if it's just your name and a picture of 2pac (As many are) it's still unique. On TrueFusion's point, I find that people change their avatars more regularly than their signatures, I know lot's of people- like Block9 for instance, who only have signatures; avatars aren't that important, as long as something makes that user recognizable. If they do change, it doesn't take more than a few seconds for your mind to reallocate their new avatar to their name.

But the lack of avatars and sigs usually (and I mean, 'usually') imply that the person is not a frequent user of the forum. Usually members with more presence have avatars and sigs, while members who just registered or who lurk don't bother to do so.

Exactly my point. Earlier on when I was mentioning seeing topics with nothing but usernames, the people were all just scavenging for credits and had only 8 posts or so.

wow!
i never relised that your schools were so bad.

at my school, there are the occasional small fights, and about 2 ppl per grade who smoke... but thats it.

no massive gang fights of drug dealing.

although... i do go 2 a private school, so it is much better managed and funded, and the students have grown up with a better lifestyle (no offence to the public school ppl)

but i guess the public schools around my area are sought of like urs... not near as bad though.

Me too, but I still get stuff like that happening. I do live in England, so I don't know what the difference may be though. My private school is of high quality, probably top in England- but it's in a crappy area. Literally, drunk Poles (Polish people, no offence) are everywhere. Gangs walk outside our school, and graffiti is sprayed on a regular basis.

I've no longer have any
I used to have

Commodore 64
Atari
GamesStation
Playstation
Playstation 2
Xbox 360

I miss them all

Now, I don't want to be mean but- MEGABUMP. THis topics nearly a year and one month old. Oh well...

I have a:
PS1
PS2
PC
PC > NES emulator.
Gameboy SP

That's about it. I doubt I'm going to be getting any of the the next generation consoles because I can't afford them- well I can, but I'm saving up for college and such. My main source of gaming is the PC, so my PS2 is gathering dust until I have friends over.

maybe there's a way to have a limit on the size in kb a sig or avatar contains for users...

That would certainly remove the problem of large amounts of bandwidth being taken up.

For the qbasic community, theres an entire community that thinks signatures and avatars are a complete waste. They say that they don't really have any point and that text is just as good, if not better - it doesn't take as much to load, it's simple, et cetera.

I'm all for that. In my spare time I post in BBSs, so absolutely no images at all. But when some users in a topic have avatars and others don't; I find all my attention is drawn to the person with the avatar.

Well, what do you do when they change their avatar and sig(s) and it appears as if they're a new user? When and if that happens, does that bother you much, if any?

Doesn't bother me, it's unlikely a user is going change their avatar more than three or four times a week- and that' only extreme cases. Once I see a username, I look at their avatar and allocate it to their name and posts.

Have you ever changed your avatar and/or sigs before? And what happens when you find two users with the same avatar but no sig? How do you handle that?

I will admit, problems to arise when people share the same avatar. For instance, in my last forum (Not mine) there were about a thousand members. One of the mods sent a message to me and friends saying it would be funny for us to change avatars to the admins. So we did. And for a whole week we had the same avatar as the root admin. Let me say; this caused havok.
This topic has given me alot to think about. Thanks for the feedback. The problems caused by forced avatars seem to outway the pros. Well- I suppose it's best to make thinks purely text based instead to make the username really mean something.

For me, web 2.0 means Php. I know it's been around for a while, but people are learning how to build more and more with it. As new forum software is coming out that automatically counts as 2.0, people have begun playing around with the coding and making it personal. Without Php, I doubt very much that forums; the biggest piece of Web 2.0 engineering- would have advanced to such a point that companies now use them to talk with their clients, and almost every single distinguishable site has one.

I'm always annoyed on forums, by people who don't have avatars or images in their signature to identify themselves. Topics with rows after rows of people talking with nothing but their name's to identify themselves gets abit tiresome.Maybe it's because I've become lazy, but the only real forum members I can remember are ones with distinguishing avatars/sigs. The rest are just a blur of random names- even if they have over 500 posts. That's why I think it should be necessary for HOSTED members to have avatars/sigs. Just an idea.

My favourite to use would have to IPB. But my favourite to run as a webmaster is Vbulletin. Whilst I feel IPB is fair for it's price- Vbulletin seems to lack in the skins department making most installations of the board look the same unless heavily modded by hand (E.g, Somethingawful Forums, Facewound Forums). I do agree that forum software has become a big business for those successful few; but their are still too many free options to make it a rip off. If you can't afford VB, just go for Phpbb. Simple.

A free trial of Flash 8 can be found on Macromedia.com by going to their download section. That's 30 to try out Flash, of curse it'll take longer than that to build the site- but I'm sure it'll give you enough time to grow comfortable with the programme, and an idea of whether or not to buy it.

I was just wondering what the first job you did after University was? I have lot's of people on one side saying I should get a job that pays the best with the smallest amount of work; however oters are saying I should get a job that ties into my hobbies and aspirations such as workign at an internet cafe. Of course I don't particularly have an aspiration for my future job- I definately want something in the business sector (Banking, Media), but I want to learn more about other people's jobs and their thoughts on them to give myself an idea of what's on offer. Thanks.

I'd have to say Blur. One of the greatest English bands of all time. Not too keen on some of their latest music (Pretty deep and sinister) but the early and mid-life are the best songs I know. Second favourite band would have to be Led Zeppelin; Stairway to heaven is probably my third favourite song.

I used Php because it works flawlessly with MySQL (Type of Database). I'm going to assume Html is more popular as that's really what one would start with, but more professional sites are nearly all Php.

Being from Scotland we've got to keep our eye on the SNP now and should they manage to make Scotland independent then Brown would lose his constituency. That'd be interesting.

yes, I'm from England but I support Scotland leaving the UK. It'll be abit of a change to the maps, but on the whole if Scotland wasn't connected we would have the majority of votes as Conservative.

oh and nice avatar. Mon the Graham Coxon \o/

Graham's my favourite member! Back to business... lol.

Hmm most embarrassing moment in CS... well I wasn't doing bad at the time I had a score of 10-4 or something. I was the last guy left alive as well as another. The other one was afk, which was gonna be an easy kill. I ran up to the guy who was AFK and started shooting. I obviously was aiming for the head just to make it quick and easy, but I missed FOUR TIMES. I just had to aim, shoot and kill. But I missed the afk's head 4 times, which then he finally came back, I killed him but oh the crap I got from my teammates was not fun lol

Lol, I've hard the same type of thing. On surf maps, when I'm unlucky enough to get spawned with M16/AK47 I end up just spraying randomly whilst in the air. People are always calling me a lucker.. lol.
Worst was once when I forgot I was a CT. I was playing on one of those maps with a jail, and there must hav ebeen about 40 players (Big server). Anyway. I was sitting in the jail camping with a sniper until a terrorist suddenly came in. I had the target on his head, but as I said- I forgot I was CT so I just let him come in. The only weapon he had was knife, and he seemed pretty nooby, so he started running head on into me when I could've shot him. You can probably guess what happen, stabbed in the head and dissed by my whole team. Having 20 people shouting at you, and another 20 laughing isn't a great feeling... Oh well, just a game.

It's looks okay, but I think this forum is only meant for review posting. I'd say http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ has the best reviews myself, but that's just opinion..

Guys please, I'm hurt.

Freewebs was basically my webmastership birthplace. I'd tried a few places which were even worse; bravenet, myspace (I know, not website at all). I finally stumbled upon the site when my friend gave me his site address (Along the lines of Asian_Gangsa, seriously) I thought it was fantastic, even with it's limited content. After starting my own site I slowly grew. First I used the public themes for a site where I uploaded flash animations from my friends and I, before moving onto coded my own HTML. At first it was simple because I used the freewebs generator, but in the end it was by hand. The site's still there if you can bare the horrible layout. Be aware I made it at the age of 11:

 

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

I know Freewebs isn't good for genuine webmasters looking for Php, but I think it gives a decent amount of space (100mb) and has enough freedom to allow people space to grow. I would rate 7/10 purely out of nostalgia, but I agree with the domain thing.

Thanks for the welcome. yeah, I really meant it when I said "lose" anagram. You've got to admit Aleks is a pretty cool name, I was thinking about making it Elakz... The "Z" makes it cool as is the norm. Thanks again for the welcome.

I know there's been alot of speculation about this topic. I know you probably found a source you thought was reliable, but I have found many articles on the internet disagreeing with each other.Lifestartstat.com has an article about the very same woman claiming that only last year she celebrated her 125th birthday.However another site (Whch I'm afraid I've lost the source of) claims that she is 132.Whilst I would love if a woman living to 149 was true, it seems highly unlikely. I mean, she actually looks pretty good considering her age, I've found other photos on the internet where she's smiling and looking only about 80. Oh well, sure she's broken some sort of record for age.

There are people who are "big boned" but so much of it is down to will power. You have to want it enough to get up in the morning and go for a run and to radically change your diet so that you are eating healthily.

Yes, I myself am not overweight on the BMI scale- I want to make it clear, I weigh 8 stone and am 13 years old. I'm sure alot of it's down to drinking soda and other things, but as Stevethedog said- it's all down to will power. It's good that people want to lose weight, but I'm tired of some saying it's too hard and it's practically impossible. What? People say this because the vast majority of people who lose weight just put it back on a few months later because they couldn't be bothered to stick to the regulations. It is possible to retain some eating habits, a soda a day isn't good- but in the long run it isn't that bad. Real calorie intake comes from food with high protein and fat.

I'm too young to drink, so my opinion won't really matter as I'm basing it one taste as opposed to effect. I'd have to say Pimms.Nothing is more delicious than a glass of Pimm's and ice. Possibly with fruit on special occasions.