Tyssen

I posted the image to what i was referring to

The image by itself doesn't mean anything if you can't see how it's working in an actual page.

if thats the case I shouldn't be having this problem then with this size of the image. But it comes out the full image when i max it out with the armount of characters that i need to do it.

I have no idea what that's s'posed to mean. Got a link to a page?

Like I said: you can't stretch background images - they only appear at their true dimensions.

You can't stretch a background image. You can repeat it though. You can stretch an image in the HTML though if you specify its width and height in the CSS and use ems as your unit, e.g.:

 

img#yourImage { width: 2em; height: 3em; }

Sorry, what's the actual question?

Wouldn't it be a better idea to start a campaign to improve Internet Explorer further?

Developers have been clamouring for years about changes that IE developers need to make to their product and as I pointed out earlier, there's probably a reason why their requests have fallen on deaf ears.

Conret, Mozilla is open source - it's not a business. And you've just contradicted yourself. You say cos IE is the original, most people will stick with it, but then you say:

Cmon how many of the people are into browsers so much to change to firefox and then chenge back to IE 7?

which means that all those who now have FF won't bother going back to IE7 when it comes out.
Mayank, MS has stopped support for IE Mac and now advises people to use Safari instead.

I've made a page using absolute positioning and php, using percentages for positions so that it should suit all screen resolutions.

Using absolute positioning for laying out large blocks of content (ie columns etc.) rarely makes for a design that stands up in all browsers, screen resolutions and text sizes.

If you want proof then try to click the hyperlink insert butten in reply mode. If it works for you then my computer is retarted.

Works for me. Your computer is retarded.

Since the last forum upgrade, when you click on 'last post by' it just takes you to the beginning of a thread. Just thought I'd mention it.

..Honestly, if people want to bring misery and difficulty upon themselves by using IE, then thats their choice. Who am I, or you, for that matter, to tell them what is better? They'll figure it out on their own, eventually. And if they don't, what does it matter to you?

I'm all for people having their own choice and not having others' preferences forced upon them and while I'm a fan of Firefox I'm also not the sort of person to actively support anti-IE campaigns.
But to answer your question, one of the reasons why it should matter is because IE's failure to fall into line with every other browser maker and adhere to W3C standards is actually hampering the advancement of the Internet. And some people believe that they're actually doing it on purpose.
Companies like Google are working on technologies that would see applications delivered over the Internet, with the eventual outcome being that you probably wouldn't need an operating system anymore which will obviously have a serious impact on Microsoft's core business.

ul1 {width:40px;}

What's ul1? It's not a valid tag. You're quite right about there being a lack of tutorials on how to combine image replacement rollovers with Suckerfish Dropdowns. I've been thinking or writing an article about it myself one day but haven't gotten around to it yet. Best I can do is point you towards an example I've done: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

The other browser, Opera has a lot of trouble rendering sites correctly, so I gave up on it quite quickly.

That'll be 'poorly designed' sites that more than likely were only checked in IE. If Opera has trouble displaying a site then it's just as likely that Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla, Safari, Konqueror, Camino etc will have the same trouble.

There is nothing wrong with using Internet Explorer!

Except that it doesn't support all the W3C standards and that includes IE7.

The author says he 'hopes' that this usage will future-proof designs for IE7, but unfortunately (as of the current beta version), it doesn't.

But I've just come across an article that does propose a hack that will only target IE7: http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/reference/xxx/

Why have you repeated news items?

Well i dont know why but i have noticed this too the site will not work with firefox. I think its the browser not the site because the site in internet explorer looks fine in my window.

It's hardly ever the browser and in this case it's certainly not, it's the designer's fault - no doctype, nested tables, made with MS Frontpage..... Internet Explorer doesn't follow the specs correctly so those people who design specifically for it can expect their pages to look messed up in more modern browsers.

but i think i am going to also test that out before i edit the post

Sure, check it out.

that can be done in html only..i dont see how that is php except that ure changing the index.php file thing..

You can't do PHP includes with HTML.
By the way Albus, your file doesn't have to have an .html extension, it can be whatever you want - .php, .asp, .txt, .inc. The page that calls the include, rather than the include separately is what gets parsed, so it doesn't matter what format the include is in.

IE7 will ignore the Holly Hack (* html ) but will recognise the child selector (like FF etc.) so it appears there will be no way of targetting IE7 specifically without the use of conditional comments and it also means that hacks intended for <= IE6 could break your layouts in IE7.The author says he 'hopes' that this usage will future-proof designs for IE7, but unfortunately (as of the current beta version), it doesn't.

that could be saved as menu.html and you would just have to change FILE EXTENTION to 'menu' and it should show up!

I think you want to clear that statement up cos at the moment it sounds like you're saying you should change the file extension to .menu.

Do this instead:

<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://yahoo.com/;

Sportytalk's example could be improved further by using a switch/case statement instead of all the if elses.

2) You have to search for highly traffic websites. which u can find it in google too.3) Yu should ask those high traffic website to post a Ad about your website.

Those high traffic sites aren't going to post an ad about your site for nothing - you're going to have to pay for it in one form or another.

Im not very good in web designing.thanks.

Yeah, well unfortunately, it's kind of prerequisite to get good traffic.

Tyssen, I would like to point out this particular part, if you can give him an idea why nested tables means and how to overcome them?

 

From here:

 

Cascading Style Sheets: Use style sheets to reduce bloated code and decrease download time. Style sheets eliminate extraneous HTML code, so the spider can get straight to your content.

 

Tables: Keep your table structure as simple as possible. Some spiders tend to get lost in a web of nested tables where the content is buried deep inside a complex table structure.