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Yeah, because there are too many ways this can go wrong for you. She could think you're trying to take advantage of the situation and get mad with you or get mad with you cos she told you already how she felt and doesn't like the fact you're bringing it up again. On the other side, she might say 'yes' but it may only be cos she's still upset about her last boyfriend and is only doing it on the rebound which means that sooner or later it'll probably come to a messy end and then you might end up not liking each other anymore.

There's a few problems as I see it:1. Your header is way too big. Viewing at 1024 x 780, I see nearly no content on the screen before I have to scroll. The graphic also doesn't extend to the right edge of the page (it only goes as far as the 'Reviews' button) and the cut-out of the anime boy is fairly low resolution compared with the rest of it.2. At 1024 x 780, I get a horizontal scrollbar which means that for people on 800 x 600, your site's gonna be a real pain to use with all that scrolling back & forth. Horizontal scrollbars in general are something else designers try to avoid at all costs.3. You've got a couple of <br> tags which are preventing your page from validating at the moment.

Not if you get your CSS right. It's possible to make your page look nearly exactly the same (font-size variations prevent absolute similarity) by careful CSS coding. It does take a while to get your head around all the tricks & hacks that you sometimes need to use to get things to look right in IE, but it's like anything else: once you know how to solve a particular problem, you're fine.

That's because in FF total width = content width + padding + margin whereas in IE, it's content width - padding - margin, which means you actually end up with a content width smaller than the width you've specified because IE puts the padding & margin on the inside rather than the outside like the specifications say you should. More detailed explanation is given here.

You've left out the <script type="text/javascript"> & </script> tags.

You should probably have started your own thread for this cos it's a bit off topic but maybe you could try attaching the menu class to the <td> e.g.: <td bgcolor="#BBC9D7" class="menu" align="center" height="100%">then change your CSS to this: td.menu a:link {display:block;width:100%;height="100%";backgrouond:#BBC9D7}td.menu a:visited {display:block;width:100%;height="100%";background:#BBC9D7}td.menu a:hover {display:block;width:100%;height="100%";background:#D1DCEB}td.menu a:active {display:block;width:100%;height="100%";background:#BBC9D7} I wouldn't hold your breathe on that one.

Yes it's a security measure to make sure people can only d/l from the site (usually after having paid) and not via FTP or whatever. If you were paying for MP3s, this would stop you passing the direct link to the file on to your friends so that they could then d/l it (although you could still just send them the file yourself).

I think you need to provide a little bit more of an idea about what you want to do so people can gauge whether they have the skills/time/inclination to help out.

That's because IE doesn't confirm to the W3C standards properly whereas Firefox & Opera do so when things are looking different in FF, they're actually looking the way they're s'posed to. Check out Position is Everything for a list of bugs present in IE that web designers have had to come up with hacks for.

Somebody will come along eventually who will outdo him, they always do in sports. If you think in terms of world records, some last longer than others and the longer they last, the more impossible to overcome they seem, but they all fall to someone new eventually. The problem with the MJ question is that it's more about a subjective opinion on how good he was than any cold hard statistics so you will always get people who will argue in his favour no matter how good the new guys are.

According to this browser speed test article, Opera is the fastest browser on Windows.

And speaking of 'in depth', not sure on Swish, but I know that Flash does have the ability to interact with databases so if you really want to take it to the next level, Flash is probably the one to do it.

Just like a Porsche? About the only thing they have in common is their country of origin. I take it you're referring to the same car as Fuchelle? Or is there a Beetle that BMW have made that I don't know about?

Me neither, so the one I like most at the moment is the Saab 93: Or maybe an Audi S4:

Look at it this way, if your Mum bought you a knitted sweater with a reindeer on it for Xmas (thinking Bridget Jones here), would you be so worried about telling her that you hate it?

If it's a portfolio, I think it should have the name of the person in there at least somewhere. You shouldn't have to go to the About Me page to find out whose portfolio you're looking at. It should at least be in the title tag. What's all this then? <a href="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; target="content" onmouseover="changeImages('nav_Home', 'images/nav_Home-over.gif'); return true;" onmouseout="changeImages('nav_Home', 'images/nav_Home.gif'); return true;" onmousedown="changeImages('nav_Home', 'images/nav_Home-over.gif'); return true;" onmouseup="changeImages('nav_Home', 'images/nav_Home-over.gif'); return true;"> Looks like 2 more lines of code than is really necessary to me. For me, personally, they're too small especially with that thin font and dark colour. It's not that they're unreadable, but as a designer, when I look at your page, one of the first things I thought was: "nav buttons are too small". You have to search the page to find them and that's without any content on there. You should be making your site's navigation an easy matter for your users.

To mods...only making this post cos I can't edit my post above. I was making 2 points a) and b ), but it turned b ) into a smiley.

I'm sorry, but I think that's a dumb idea. It doesn't take that much work to get it to work for both browsers. By giving users two different options you a) have to do twice as much work whenever you're updating and raising a flag that you've got problems with your coding that you couldn't find a solution for. Well actually, I do. I don't do sites that aren't completely valid XHTML/CSS.

The one I was referring to is an online music store with thousands of audio samples, so that's probably why they didn't like it.

Thanks for that. Had another look at your site and it seems like now the problem in FF is the opposite of what it was before (different bit not showing the background). Why don't you try removing the second <td>? Instead, just have: <tr> <td width="100%" class="windowtitle">Announcement</td> </tr> I don't really see why you'd need to have it there. If it's so the content in the row below doesn't butt up against the right edge of the table, you could get around that problem by giving that <td> a class and adding some padding-right to it.

Yeah that scene where they come to get him wasn't right - all of them, including Palpatine, seemed to be fighting at half speed compared to some of the other duels earlier in the movie. I mean, this guy is s'posed to be the most expert exponent of the Force in the universe and he's fighting like an old man. Aside from that, I still thought this movie was the best of the new three. Battle scenes were excellent and the level of detail was simply amazing - there were so many different locations and all of them were packed with so much detail that I think you'd have to see the movie more than once to appreciate all the stuff that was going on.

Not too much there to comment on at the moment, but like whyme says, your header seems a bit pointless - it doesn't say anything so you have no idea what the site's called. Also I think your nav buttons are too small & hard to read. And I don't think you really need to set the onmousedown and onmouseup values for those links cos they're the same as onmouseover and onmouseout.

You can use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] to detect what page the user is on before arriving at the form then use an if else statement to print out a different value for each case e.g. <input type="text" value="<? php if ($something = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) {print "first message";else print "second message";}?>">

Well if the IE development team have done their job properly and stuck to the W3C standards, then we won't have to code for two different browsers, cos IE should function exactly like FF already does. Oh, and good on IE too for coming with all those ideas by themselves.

She composed herself enough eventually to give me a hand.