Tyssen

Away from the cold? Nice and warm here in Australia, going to be 33C/91F tomorrow. Absolutley perfect! Sometimes I just like gloat about how good the weather is here.

You're in Melbourne - try telling that to Michaela Krajicek.

First problem - no doctype which means IE is in quirks mode and thus renders using the incorrect box model. With a doctype, IE is in standards mode which means it uses the same box model as other standards compliant browsers like Firefox and Opera.

It is sort of common sense once you think about it but if you you valid XHTML to code your document it is fine.

 

It doesn't have to be XHTML. Firefox handles HTML doctypes just as well. And it doesn't even have to be valid. But if you build your site testing in Internet Explorer, you can expect there to be problems when you view it in other browsers (not just Firefox).

You can simplify it further by doing this:

 

body
{ 
background: url('named_image.gif/jpg/png') no-repeat center top fixed; 
}

Keep in mind that for IE, only the body can accept 'fixed' properties. Also, if you wanted to a background image centred horizontally and vertically, it would be background-position: center center. Or it could be background-position: 50% 50%. Or if you knew the exact size of the container it was going into background-position: XXpx XXpx.

Below is most of the code.

Most of the code isn't good enough. A look at the page itself would be better but more of the code would help.
What happens if you remove the width:100%?

We were in engligh class today and the topic was common grammer mistakes

 

Next week, common spelling mistakes.

The problem is IE doens't recognised position:fixed for any element other than the body.
Stu Nicholl's has a few examples of similar types of fixed layouts: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/layouts/bodyfix.html

I spend a lot of time on other forums and I'm really here for the hosting so I don't read this forum for the enjoyment of it (which isn't to say that I don't sometimes take something useful away from it).So I tend to skim a lot of other people's posts but I do try and take in at a glance what others have said so I'm not just repeating stuff. That's usually for technical type of threads relating to web design or whatever. If it's threads about personal opinions etc, then I quite often just go straight to the end cos it doesn't matter what's come before - your opinion is still your opinion.

It's out of line to bring race into it, but you brought it on yourself by airing a negative opinion of someone else. "If you ain't got something nice to say..."

Something wrong with your install - I've got scrollbars.

Border-collapse is supported by IE5+, N7+ and Opera so we're talking about at least 99% of users. And direction is right to left cos it's in a non-Roman script.It looks like it could be a bug in FF 1.0.7, but it's probably not worth worrying about cos it's been fixed for FF 1.5 (I checked in both).

Change it to this:

<div id="header"><div id="headerimg"><h1><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>">Your title here</a></h1></div></div>

You don't need the PHP to pull the title out of the database if you're gonna hard code it into your file.

I did a design for the Zen Garden a while back. It wasn't chosen to be featured as an 'official' entry and the link to my CSS file & images has become broken from their site now, so I've hosted it on mine instead:
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

It looks nice and neat at the moment cos your images are all the same size, but you may want to give your <li>s a height & width when you start adding images of different shapes.

I have no idea who they are asking but I don't think it is proffessionals.

 

You don't have to be a professional (anything) to use a website.

I wouldn't be surprised if it had at least one of those cheap CHEAP animations that are horribly cut out that people thought were cool back then XD.

Keeping in mind that the Internet was first created for scientific purposes, I seriously doubt the first website would've had any cheap animations.

The name is going to be whatever you call your Post or Page when you create it. So you edit it in the Wordpress browser interface, rather than editing it in the PHP files. I wouldn't play around with the URL of your Posts or Pages otherwise they won't work properly on your site.There's a section under Options/Permalinks where you can edit the format of your site's URLs.

If they have that, i think they so should have a linux specific search engine so that those of us minorities who use Linux

 

Same response - did you try it out? https://www.google.com/linux

Did you test it out? It's a Microsoft-specific search-engine: https://www.google.com/microsoft

I grew up with my mum and let her know who was boss when I was very young (12 or so) and after that I had no issues with her.

So you started earning the family keep, organising finances, paying bills, doing the grocery shopping and preparing food when you were 12 did you?

So this thread's not really about your Dad at all, but your Mum instead? Thread title makes it sound like he's got a drinking problem.

Okay, thanks for the answer Tyssen, however, by way of PM from Buffalohelp, I have information which suggests I stop with this Html Include stuff because Xisto.com does not support them. Now that I know this, I will continue with php includes only.
(apperently, Html includes is a MS ASP construct and Xisto is Linux, so that's why they aren't supported here.)

I actually wrote a post that said something like that the first time, but something happened and it didn't get posted, so the 2nd time around I just went for the quick approach.

For SSI, it's the same as an absolute URL:

<!-- #include virtual="/testinclude/header.html"-->

It's hard not to assume anything about others.

That's right. And therein lies the reason for racism, bigotry, religious intolerance and homophobia.

Because of the other stupid things they do. First hand experience is the most accurate. You just knoooow that they're pretending. Trust me 

Why should I trust you. I don't know you. And you should never assume anything about other people.