[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

took a look at this in ie/xp and didn’t see any extreme bar extends – did you get it resolved?

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

if i were to give you my “it sounds flippant but it’s not meant to be”, i’d say if you want to build controls like that then view the source on that page and track down how they’re doing it – you have a fully functional example right there with acesss to the source, so that’s about the best tip i can give you on how to do that sort of thing…

seriously – i know it sounds like “figure it out yourself” but it’s really the best thing i can suggest…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

open source vs. paid is pretty much personal preference. many open source projects these days are extremely well documented and actually have staff that are more responsive than a paid product – it just depends if you get one that is like that. best way to check is to read through the docs and see if they have a forum with active and recent posts – a lot of activity shows that a product is well maintained and supported – also skim them for general tone of posts to get a feel for how well the product works. if you do that (and in this case, bulletin board software is a very common open source project) then you’ll be better off not paying for what you don’t need to…

a very common open source bb project is phpbb – give that one a shot. or if you see one online, it’ll likely have a “powered by” or something similar with a product name – if you like it there, visit their site and see more about it…

good luck!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

well – as depressing as it is that this bug is still around, i’m glad that the fix for it still works, too… 🙂

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i’d agree with the other 2 posts here for the most part, but i think one can use a combination of scaled rates and being up front with potential clients and end up learning on the job without causing any headaches for the people they’re working for…

so with that model in mind, just be sure to get a full understanding of what a client wants for their given project when you begin – this alone will take practice, because they don’t know what they want until you ask. but you’ll learn what to ask, and be honest with them and say “look, i’m just starting out, and i’d love to do your project…but because i’m learning as we go on some things, i’d like to offer you a cut rate of $[X]/hr” – they’ll like that and as long as you don’t do things you can’t do or at least tell them that you can do what they want but that you’ll have to research it first on your own time then you’ll be ok.

be up front and honest and ready to learn a lot of things the hard way…but i don’t know of any training or school program that teaches you how to run your own web design business, so if you want to do it, you have to learn somehow, and what better way to learn then by trying?

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

this looks like an old bug i saw years ago in ie that i never found any proof of or documentation for, but yet i could re-create it consistently. i don’t know if it’s your case here or not, because as bret noted, it works for me in ie and firefox as well. but regardless, i’ll share…

i found that i had to put a hover css style _after_ the visited and default styles or else it wouldn’t work (like after top to bottom) – makes absolutely no sense, but like i said – i could recreate it in ie all the time about 3 years ago…so this:

a.home { … }
a.home:hover { … }
a.home:visited { … }

would not show the hover in ie, but this would:

a.home { … }
a.home:visited { … }
a.home:hover { … }

your issue reminded me of that, so i figured i’d share – but again, it does seem to be doing what you want for me here as it stands…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

all i was wondering about container was if you meant like a php or shtml include or something flash based – html and css don’t use a “container” concept, so that was the reason for clarification…

if you’re talking containers in a flash sense then they have no real function here. anything you want to do you can do in plain html and css…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

[Paul Fechtmeister] “so it isn’t always happening with Mozilla”

one quick point that i wanted to make – it’s not so much “happening in mozilla” as it is that you started to do your design in ie, and are now seeing it in firefox, etc. – trust me that if you started the other way around, you’d have it working in firefox and you’d be here wondering how to get it so that it isn’t happening in ie…there is a lot of cross-compatibility in between browsers these days, but there are some quirks. but to pick on mozilla isn’t fair…both browsers have wacky little issues like this.

that said…

if you drop the “float: right;” from your nav css class attributes, this should go away. not sure why you want to float that table cell right, but that is causing your issue in that mozilla is parsing that a little too literally…

can you expand on what you mean by a container?

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

it should just be a “connect to server” menu option (apple-k or go to the “go” menu in the finder) – if you have the network server address then you should be good to go…

are you having problems connecting or just curious as to whether or not it can be done?

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

and forgot to mention – you can do hot corners of your desktop to trigger the f9-f11 functions – very handy as well and even easier than a context menu if you make one of ’em f9 (show all apps)…