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I'm not a fan of the non-sharp graphics or the ticker, but they're just personal things I guess.A couple of suggestions: rather than have a link to a page that isn't there (ie zip codes), just remove the link until the page is ready or create an under construction page instead. Also, on your home page you might consider using anchor tags so that people can get easily to information further down the page. And you need to check your Iditarod page in Firefox (Mozilla) cos it doesn't look too good.

Not a bad looking site - nice clean layout. Just one small thing - you're missing some images from your body preload javascript function call (photos, phil).

<td><div align="center"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="17" height="1" alt=""></div></td>

You don't need <div> tags inside your <td> for alignment - simply add align="center" to the <td> itself.

The header looks good, but I'm not liking the way the content is split up into 2 columns down below. There's not enough differentiation between the two.

adding sound to a button is somtimes very GOOD. but, it can be destracting. like a little beep or somthing is good. It's kinda diffucult though. Way easier to do in Flash.

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I think the only way to attach sounds to mouse clicks is by using Flash. You could create your whole navigation system as a Flash movie and place it on your page where you need it.

I'm not sure exactly what you're after but it sounds like you're after a rich text editor. Kevin Roth has developed a very good cross-browser version which I use on my company's site.

I did read about using some 'CSS @import hack' to trick different browsers

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If you use

<style type="text/css" media="screen">@import "yourfile.css";</style>

it'll hide the CSS from older browsers like N4 which means they'll get all your content unstyled. If you're creating your site with tables this can look quite unsightly, but if you've created your site using valid XHTML mark-up, it will be better (although everything will be unstyled, no background images etc.)

(For an example of what I'm talking about, check out this page. That page has lost the link to its CSS. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on any of the links under Designs, you'll see what it should look like.)

Like Mizako says, you should be able to code everything into the one stylesheet to get all modern browsers to display your page properly and I use the same sort of process he/she does when designing: start with Firefox then get it right in the others.

I personally wouldn't bother trying to get your pages to work in N4 or earlier - I think less than 1% of the browser market still use those.

Trying setting margin: 0 as well. If that doesn't work, check out Position Is Everything's list of Explorer bugs.

The first website I did for myself I did music & film reviews as well as doing a kind of travel diary (cos I was living overseas and travelling quite a bit at that time). You could also do reviews of books you've read or concerts you've been to. Just write stuff about whatever you're interested in and hopefully other people will be interested in it too.

For an alternative to a DHTML dropdown menu, check out Suckerfish Dropdowns - CSS dropdown menu which uses only 12 lines of javascript and works in just about every browser. I use this method on my company's site.

This, I do not believe, should have any affect on your PageRank in Google or ranking in any other search engines because they index the URL of your page - not what's showing in your address bar.

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My understanding is that, yes, it will hurt you on Google because it (and other search engines) don't like frames. This page explains Google's attitude towards frames.

don't know much the meta spider but with regaurds of putting it on every page its over doing it unless your website is specific about something in general especially if you running a online store and all that good stuff.

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Specific about something in general is a contradiction in terms.

But if you have an online store, it is a good idea to have a different meta description for each product because general terms won't cover everything and meta keywords are largely overlooked. The meta description is still quite important. On your home page it should describe the site in general, but on other pages it should give more specific info about the content on those pages.

Does anyone know where to get some really snazzy skins?

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DeviantArt has a section of Firefox skins as well or you can check out the Mozilla Themes page.

I'm using Saferfox Xpanded 2.4.3.

You need to keep in mind that some hosts that force ads on you will suspend your account if you use frame-busting/redirection scripts.

Now at sHTML, i think it starts with <% include("file.htm"); %> i don't know if it's like that, but I think IT IS LIKE that.

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In SHTML and ASP it looks like:

 

<!-- #include virtual="/pathtoyourfile.htm" -->

or

<!-- #include path="pathtoyourfile.htm" -->

The first is absolute path, the second is a relative path.

style="background-repeat: no-repeat; background-image: URL('bk.jpg'); background-color: black;"

A neater way to do this (shorthand CSS) would be:

<STYLE type=text/css><!--body {font-family: "Verdana", "Arial", "Helvetica", "sans-serif";font-size: 9pt;background: #000 url(bk.jpg) top left no-repeat; }--></STYLE>

You could apply it to the body tag as I've done, or you could create a class or ID tag and apply it to the main table.

As far as I know, Html, javascript, vbscript are client-side scripting languages. u cannot access a database on server using these. To use a database u need some server-side scripting language like php,cgi-perl, jsp or servlets.

Not quite true - VBScript is what is used to create scripts for ASP pages which are executed on the server. You still need SQL to be able to interact with the database, but if you have a Windows host and already know VBScript, there's no need to learn PHP etc, just start coding in ASP.

I always find W3School's VBScript Functions page very handy when developing scripts for ASP.

The reason why we validate our web pages is because we want them to be accessible through any browser, on any computer, by any means. Sure, Google has roughly 80 Validation errors, and Microsoft doesnt even care. But what really matters in the validation process is that you can show others that your web site is made of clean coding. Sure, just because your page is valid doesnt mean it will look any better, but validating them provides a world-wide standard for your website. Also, search engines like valid sites too.

Not just that - the push is on (being led by the US at the moment I think) to make more & more sites 'accessible' to all users, that means people with disabilities too. If you do it right, redesigning your site for XHTML means that it will be accessible to older browsers, screen viewers, WAP devices etc. So not only will you not be marginalising anyone, you'll also be opening up your site to the widest possible market.