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If you know how to use CSS properly you don't really need image maps.

Do you mean rollovers for the links? They are rollovers. Which browser are you using cos I don't get the white bit you're talking about in FF, IE6 or Opera.

Some more excellent CSS resources: A List Apart Position is Everything Listamatic Stu's Site Zeldman.com Simplebits HTML Dog And to be inspired by the possibilities of CSS: CSS Zen Garden

I hardly think a few seconds (probably more like microseconds) worth of time saved on load time is a good enough reason for the guy to ditch everything he's done and start again in PHP, particularly if he doesn't already know it.

Actually my IE does the same but like you, I use it so rarely that I've never even bothered to go to the options and change the 'home page' setting to something else. Might try it when I get home next and see if I get the same problem.

How many websites have you designed? I would think a 'con' when reviewing a site would be something that detracts from the user's experience. I can't see how whether the site is coded in JSP or PHP or ASP makes one bit of difference to the end user.

Worked for me.

I haven't done too much in depth with PHP yet but one thing I noticed pretty soon was how annoying it is if you missing out { or ; from your lines of code. It's easier to see when you've missed stuff out in ASP cos you're typing things like 'then' and 'end if' etc and the error messages tell you what's missing from the line that's wrong whereas PHP error messages tend to flow to the line where there is a closing ; or { which may not necessarily be the line that's wrong. I have no particular allegiance to either: had to learn ASP cos that's what our company's website is hosted on.

Any language which discourages sloppy coding is a good thing.

Like the topic description says ^ Site can be viewed at http://www.puregritclimbing.com/. It was my first exposure to PHP so there's nothing too fancy going on programming-wise.

Your header graphic & buttons are good but your text could do with some work. The stuff under latest posts is too dark against a dark background and is the text above your header s'posed to be black against black? If so, why? Don't you want people to be able to read it?

You need to explain your problem a bit better. How is it that they can choose 3 different values for A and only 1 for B? And which is the number they're s'posed to have entered in the text box? I don't understand what you're trying to do here. I'm not too familiar with PHP syntax yet cos I usually code in ASP, but I woulda thought if you're adding the value of the dropdown to the value of what they've typed and then printing it on the next page that it would be: value of the dropdown form variable + value of the text form variable. That sounds pretty obvious so I'm guessing maybe you're asking something else but I can't figure that out. Sorry for double posting but just been thinking about it a bit more and didn't notice the 4 rows in the table thing which means that there's 4 dropdowns and the values of all 4 get added together - is that right? If that's the case you could do it one of two ways: 1. Give each dropdown the same name and then the form value would become a comma-delimited string (eg 3,5,8). Then you could split the string into an array and then add the values. 2. Give each dropdown the same name but add 01, 02, 03 to the end of the names (eg form01, form02 etc.). Then you could use a loop where your counter equals the number at the end of the form name to add the values.

I started learning HTML when I started working for a website. I wasn't employed to do coding or development but I kinda picked it up as I went along. I had several more jobs with internet companies after that and that combined with messing around at home is how I picked it up along with other languages along the way.

Anyone ever play Warlords Battlecry III? Very similar to AoEII but with more interesting characters and magic abilities thrown in too.

Websites are made using HTML. CSS is used to style your HTML and position elements on the page.PHP, ASP, JSP, Perl etc. are scripting languages which you can use to interact with databases to present dynamic information on your pages. Regardless of which scripting language you use, the information that gets sent to the browser is HTML, so in other words, you use those scripting languages to dynamically write your HTML.Javascript can be used in conjunction with your HTML for a variety of purposes like determining browser type/settings etc., opening pop-up windows, rollover effects and so on.

You could open it up in a wave editing program like CoolEdit, Soundforge or Wavelab and use the filters etc and then save it out again.

You can't uncompress a MP3, it's irreverisble. You can create a normal audio CD from your MP3s though rather than making an MP3 CD or data CD. Creating an audio CD means you'll only get 80 minutes worth of music though whereas creating an MP3 or data CD will get you as much as 700MB can hold (will vary according to the bit-rate of your MP3s). With an audio CD, the quality of the audio will still be dependant on the bit-rate of the MP3 so that's why it's important to go for as high as you can get, like 320kbps.

Your site's not bad looking but I gotta say doing it all as images is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Why on Earth would you do text as an image? Text should be text. At least if you're gonna use images, you should use some CSS image-replacement technique. Your code has absolutely no text in it at all. How do you expect search engines to find your site? They won't - no text means no indexing cos it looks like you've got no content. You don't even have alt tags to describe your images. And like truefusion said, how are you gonna go about updating your site? You gonna constantly type stuff into Fireworks, create images, upload them & then edit your HTML? I can't help but shake my head at how roundabout and overly-labour-intensive a method that is.

How does it make pros look like idiots if pros aren't actually using it?

I post on another forum which has no moderators at all, over 7000 members, and it works fine.

Personally, I don't think you've got a leg to stand on. It seems to me that you made a mistake then you were the one who started getting arsey about it when your point of view wasn't agreed upon.Dug your own grave I reckon.

What are you actually asking? What help does he need?

I just found an extension for Firefox that lets you view a site's PageRank without having to install the Google Toolbar: here. If you want the toolbar for Mozilla-based browsers, you can get it here.

I use Google web & image search. My company uses Google Adwords and is soon to use Froogle. I actually don't like Gmail: it seems quite slow & I don't like the way it's presented. I'd much rather download my email to an email client.

I think most people will actually be non-practising or non-believers.