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  2. Posted · Report reply

    Here's my latest code...I simplified it to just the divs and color coded each div to see exactly what each is doing. The RightShadow div is the one I need to fix. I want to make it 100% of RightbarDiv. I want RightbarDiv to fill the space between the BkgDiv div and the right side of the window. But RightbarDiv is contained by ContentDiv and so 100% covers the whole thing. How do I make RightbarDiv "see" and stop at BkgDiv?

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ xmlns="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><title>Imagaeon Branding</title><style type="text/css"><!--body {	margin-left: 0px;	margin-top: 0px;	margin-right: 0px;	margin-bottom: 0px;}div {display:inline-block}#SiteHolder {	position:absolute;	width:100%;	height:100%;	z-index:1;}#BannerDiv {	position:relative;	width:100%;	height:92px;	z-index:1;	left: 0;	top: 0;}#ContentDiv {	position:relative;	width:100%;	height:808px;	z-index:1;	left: 0px;	top: 0px;}#BkgDiv {	position:relative;	width:767px;	height:808px;	z-index:2;	float:left;}#RightbarDiv {	position:relative;	z-index:2;	float:right;}#RightShadow {	position:relative;	height:25px;	z-index:3;	width: 100px;}#FooterDiv {	position:relative;	width:100%;	z-index:1;	visibility: inherit;	height: 30px;}--></style></head><body><div id="SiteHolder" style="background-color:#99FF00">  <div id="BannerDiv" style="background-color:#FF0000">  </div>	  <div id="ContentDiv" style="background-color:#666666">   	<div id="BkgDiv" style="background-color:#33FF00">	</div>		<div id="RightbarDiv" style="background-color:#CC9900">			<div id="RightShadow" style="background-color:#FF00FF">			</div>	</div>  </div>	<div id="FooterDiv" style="background-color:#999999">  </div></div></body></html>

  3. Posted · Edited by RJM (see edit history) · Report reply

    Here's what I have:

    }#SiteHolder {	position:absolute;	width:100%;	height:100%;	z-index:1;}#BannerDiv {	position:relative;	width:100%;	height:92px;	z-index:1;	left: 0;	top: 0;}#ContentDiv {	position:relative;	width:100%;	height:808px;	z-index:1;	left: 0px;	top: 0px;}#BkgDiv {	position:relative;	width:767px;	height:808px;	z-index:2;}#RightbarDiv {	position:relative;	float:right;	z-index:2;	background-image: url(images/sky-bkg.gif);}#RightShadow {	position:relative;	height:25px;	z-index:3;	background-image: url(images/shadow.gif);}#FooterDiv {	position:relative;	width:100%;	z-index:1;	background-image: url(images/tile.gif);	top: 900px;	visibility: inherit;}--></style></head><body><div id="SiteHolder">	<div id="BannerDiv" style="background-color:#000000">		<img src="images/Logo_main.gif" width="380" height="92" align="left" />	</div>		<div id="ContentDiv" style="background-image:url(images/tile.gif)">		<div id="BkgDiv">			<img src="images/bkg.gif" width="767" height="808" align="left" />		</div>		<div id="RightbarDiv">			<div id="RightShadow">			</div>		</div>	</div>	<div id="FooterDiv">	</div></div>

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    I'm laying out my site and I'm trying to come up with a layout like the one in this sketch I did:

    Posted Image

    Should I use Div, Frames, or Tables? Can I do this using only CSS and HTML? Or do I need to write a script?

     

    Also the box on the right will have an x-repeat image across the top 25px tall and the rest a full tile background. Do I need to split it with a 25px tall cell?

     

    First responder with working solution gets my manginity.

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    This is what makes Xisto the way that it is.

    I know.

    I see way more activity in other sites with way less topics. I'm used to posting on one topic, looking at another, returning 5 minutes later and reading three or four responses.

    I know for a fact that there must be plenty of users out there that take one look and never return. I'm 50/50 on staying. I'll test it for the free hosting, but will probably pay another hosting place eventually.

  7. Posted · Edited by Saint_Michael (see edit history) · Report reply

    Here is the convo I had with this guy last night on IM.

    Ryan You want to find a pic of the pattern you want, copy it into PS and select a rectangle (M key) and make a box from one point on a shape in the pattern to the same point on the next repeated shape. Ryan If it's a good pattern this will already be repeatable.
    Ryan Then you go to Edit > Define Pattern
    Ryan This saves it amrit go on..superb thx...
    Ryan no prob
    Ryan If it doesn't look right, a great way to do a pattern is to crop the image (V key) to the pattern and try offset filter: Filter > Other > Offset. offset the image and you will see where the seam is. (Edit: Offset in X and Y about 1/2 the image width and height)
    Ryan If you clean up the seam, it will be PERFECT.
    Ryan Then Select All (Ctrl + A) and Edit > Define Pattern
    Ryan Next thing you want to do is go into the pic you want to add the pattern to
    Ryan Make a new layer
    Ryan Select All
    Ryan Edit > Fill
    Ryan Select Pattern
    Ryan Then pick the pattern you just made
    Ryan Click OK.
    Ryan You should see the pattern fill the screen
    Ryan I would set the layer at 40% transparency
    Ryan Then clear your screen of toolbars, zoom out so you have a good view of the ENTIRE pic
    Ryan Go Ctrl+T. This will let you transform the pattern
    Ryan Experiment with getting it to look like it's the right size and perspective for the wall.
    Ryan You can hold down Ctrl to distort each corner
    Ryan If it looks good double click in the image and it will set it
    Ryan Before you go any further I would make a copy of the layer and hide it for backup
    Ryan and save
    Ryan Then use the eraser to erase the pattern where it doesn't belong
    Ryan I'm doing something similar real quick as I'm telling you so give me a minute
    Ryan Buy a tablet if you want to get serious with PS
    Ryan Now I don't know what your pattern looks like, but depending on the colors, contrast, etc... Overlay, Soft Light, or Normal transparencies would look best. Probably Overlay
    Ryan Adjust the Opacity until it looks natural...
    Ryan Once it looks good...
    Ryan It looks like this.


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    OK I've read this over twice just to be sure I didn't miss anything. I would like to stress you make clear the topic title and include the economy in USA to be more specific. Don't forget this is an international forum and being more specific helps SEO and such.

    Our economy has it's fingers all over the world. Our debts are financed by foreign countries. So really there is no "Economy in the USA".

    I looked at some of the videos and it portrays the Fed being private like it was some big secret. It's not. There's a lot of truth to those videos, but it IS distorted. Our banking system has way too much influence by Congress and the White House. That didn't really happen until the Great Depression made FDR and Hoover think the government controlling the banking system is a good idea. And THAT is what we have today. TECHNICALLY it's a private corporation, but the Fed Chair is appointed by the president and the rest are private bankers. That sounds like, "OMG, PRIVATE? So they are trying to make a quick buck off the public???" But who are you going to have run the most important bank in the world? Someone who never ran a bank?? Of course not.

    The first thing I saw in the video that makes me question it's veracity was the statement: "Wealth can never be destroyed. Only transferred." That is absolutely not true. Depreciation is a perfect example. You buy a car for $40k and the next day it is worth $35k. Where did that money go? Thin air. No body gained $5,000. Same goes for real estate right now. The value is what someone is willing to pay. Not what it is "worth".

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    One thing that you might have overexaggerated is the notion that government projects and jobs ONLY generate revenue which will be later paid back with taxes. But whether you have a government job, work at the local McD's, or are the CEO of a small business, you do spend money, right?

    That propagates money already generated. Revenue is generated by making a product. Take a natural resource, add labor and sell it for a profit. Service-based businesses allow manufacturers to do so more efficiently. The government jobs take a large cut of the profits, and add bureaucracy. Saying having jobs and spending money is what makes the economy work is what the basis of socialism is about and it doesn't work.

    Oh so now we find out the truth of who is to blame. :D But yea everyone had there hand in all this mess. But as we all know and have learned in school. This has happend before and will most likely happen again and again. The economy is a funny game. Wins vs losses, everything has to be just right for it to all work out. Like a teeder totter it has to have 2 to make it work. Spending and Selling being the two. People don't sell, then you can't but and so forth. atleast this is how it was told to me many years ago by my brother.

    The difference this time is that it's not part of the natural fluctuations. It's a credit crisis. You want to sell? Fine. Try to sell. But no one can buy. You want to buy? Fine. Try to get a loan. It's not going to happen. Same goes for if you want a business loan. Tough luck, buddy.

  10. Posted · Edited by RJM (see edit history) · Report reply

    If I have to scroll way the f to the bottom of a mile long page to find the forum I'm looking for, there's something amiss. I would rather take a quick glance, click, maybe click another sub category after that, then be reading...Yes, GUI is the graphical user interface. Did I confuse you?I don't get the impression that it's that busy. The other forums I go to get a lot more busy and have far fewer categories. A LOT of the categories can be combined with others of the same general interest. It only appeals to the type of user that doesn't mind reading through long lines of text.You guys are thinking more like programmers than designers. No decent web designer would make it's user scroll that far to get to what he or she wants. It's frustrating as hell. I've resorted to just using the "View New Posts" link 99% of the time.

  11. Posted · Edited by RJM (see edit history) · Report reply

    I've watched, I've listened, and I've read. I know what caused the credit market failure because I was NECK DEEP in it's build-up and it's collapse. Yes, you can blame me for a part of it. I'll explain later.

     

    Now we are at a stage where we are taking drastic measures to secure our future. Are we taking the right steps?

     

    Yes. And No.

     

    Yes: We are investing money that will create huge government-funded construction projects putting people to work as they are being built and employing future work to keep them up and running. This makes jobs. Yay Jobs! Let's all have a job orgy!

     

    No: We are investing in projects that won't create a single dime for the economy. Why? Because building government buildings and creating government jobs does not create wealth. It takes tax money to keep them up and running. So we just secured nearly a TRILLION DOLLARS in future taxes, PLUS TRILLIONS MORE that it will take to run them in the future. Now we are looking at a possible additional stimulus bill that will cost us nearly as much. A trillion dollars equals $2700 for every citizen. Another trillion puts that at $5,400 per person. That's per person, not per TAX PAYER. So if you have a family of 4, you're looking at $21,600! This is on top of the 40% the government takes form you now.

     

    Worse yet: The stimulus bill doesn't address what went wrong: Congress FORCED the banks to give loans that were doomed to fail.

     

    -Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (Carter) (Required banks to report the race and gender of applicants on home loans, added a plethora of regulations, made loan applications look like War and Peace, with footnotes.)

    -Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (Carter) (Required banks to lend to disqualified borrowers if they were a minority race or had bad credit:

    "to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with safe and sound operations"

    )

    -Depository Institutions Deregulation Act 1980 (Carter) (Reduced the amount banks had to keep in the Reserve)

    -Alternative Mortgage Transaction Parity Act of 1982 (Reagan) (Allowed banks more flexibility in lending... meh, had an effect.)

    -Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994 (Clinton) (Made it so advocacy groups could influence lending practices.)

    -1995 revision to the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (Clinton) (Heavily revised the act, making it so banks could take money from securities showing a false AAA rating (which regulators ignored in the name of "affordable housing", and forced more bad loans, without any stipulation that they still be able to operate at a profit.

     

    According to Obama, the sole act that created the meltdown was the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which allowed banks to do insurance. WTF??? This makes banks MORE stable by diversifying!!! What are you talking about Mr. Obama??? It resulted in mergers between insurance companies, and banks. But I'm real interested in hearing Obama's theory on how those mergers caused these banks to go down.

     

    Bush and the republican congress warned of a possible financial meltdown as a result of lending policy as early as 2003, but were voted down. Congress, namely the Democrats were in denial:

    These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,

    said Rep. Barney Frank, then ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee.

    The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.

    The war-time economy may have actually postponed the meltdown several years. Still today, about the only hiring industry is the defense industry. Oh, but wait... Obama's cutting defense spending as well!

     

    So if I was the president, this is what the solution would be:

     

    Stimulus Package would be primarily a reserve account for banks to draw from gradually over 3 years free of interest, for the purpose of purchasing bad equity from other banks that are in the can. This makes the stronger banks healthier and relieves the unhealthy banks of bad equity.

     

    That's about it. The rest would be fluff. Once you do this, the credit market would move on it's own and jobs would return as a result of private investment again. Private investment the engine that actually CREATES WEALTH!!!

     

    And for those of you that point to his tax cuts as proof that it won't cost you anything, take a look at the costs of services when companies are forced to pay for you. Guess what? They just went up. Everything does. But your income did not. Know what that's called? INFLATION!

     

    So F*** YOU OBAMA, NOT ONE OF THOSE EARMARKS WILL GET ANY OF MY PROJECTS OFF THE GROUND, AND WILL ONLY COST ME MORE!

     

    So what did I do to destroy the economy? I designed the homes that are sitting empty now. I saw who was getting the loans, and knew I was designing homes for people that should not be qualified to live in them. Average homes went from 1,600 sq. ft. to 2,500 sq. ft.! But I designed them anyway. Sorry.

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    Trap17 is full of people creating GUIs and I can't believe this isn't more of a contention.There are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY to many topics. More is NOT better. It's a huge turn-off and I'm not sure it's worth the MyCents to hang around and give myself a headache trying to figure out what topics my interests fit in. If I was lord Trap, this is what I'd see under my main forum page:-Xisto Faqs, info, and requests.-General Discussion-Tech-Science-Political-Humor-Life-Everything and NothingUnder each of those categories, I'd have a general sub, then maybe 5-10 more subs. More 5s than 10s.Trap needs some sort of organization bad. It's like walking into a teenager's room and looking for a clean sock. I'm THIS| |CLOSE to just buying a new bag of clean fresh knee-highs and giving up.

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    Very clean and user friendly. I'd tone down the blue though. Not as much, or make the background a darker hue. If people are going to spend a lot of time on your site, it needs to be easy on the eyes. Make the parts you want to pop the bright blue but keep the background gradient fade to a deeper blue. Otherwise your eyes need to shift to something else after awhile.The logo needs to stand out a lot more. It needs a color. Not blue.

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    Not man, I think your idea is worse, no offense intended. He already got up with it for 3 years do you think that saying that will make them go behind? That's only putting yourself at the same level than theirs, and even if it isn't (really depends in what's your comeback, so I can't be 100% about that. Example is saying that autism is not for jokes, that can actually make him feel somehow bad-not much though), they might have even more reasons to bother him, and maybe get violent.
    Something is to make them feel bad about what they're saying, other is to ignore them, and the last, and even worst that he can do, is provoke them even more. That's no good.


    I'm saying to use humor. Not be confrontational.

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    Best thing is to be intimately familiar with as many programs as possible. And I mean INTIMATE. Like wine, dine, 69, doggystyle intimate. The more you know, the more proficient you are overall.You may find that one is more capable of doing some things then others. Just as you might use Illustrator to create a logo, then import it into Photoshop to add a texture, you might use Corel to create a background and import it into Photoshop to manipulate.

  23. Posted · Edited by RJM (see edit history) · Report reply

    You might want to discuss this issue with a Guidance Counsellor at the school. or maybe the School Nurse. They may be able to direct you towards a solution.

    Screw that idea. That's a great way to make more enemies and make a bad situation worse. It's a problem between you and him. Sounds to me like he's got social issues and is trying to get a reaction from you. If you're a chick he may even like you.

    You need to make a sweet comeback that shuts him up. Best way: Fight fire with water. If you're a guy, tell him Autistics have big dicks so you can understand the confusion.

    If you're a chick, tell him he's hoping you're autistic because the only chick he'll ever lay is one with a mental problem.

    You only have to do it once. After that he'll change. Promise.

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    If you want a very popular forum you have to make the forum a section of a website that's popular and offers something to users. Like games, videos, music, etc. It needs a theme. A forum as an island just doesn't work all that well.There are exceptions, but even then I would argue it would be far more successful if it was part of a bigger picture.

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