Curtis Thompson
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ooh – do you mean the client area thing that i wrote and made available here? if so, then it’s pretty easy to redirect – in login.php, you can change this:
// buh-bye
redirectUser($goto_url, “$URL_ROOT/index.$PHP_FILE_EXTENSION”);to something like this:
// buh-bye
$goto_url = ($username == “admin”) ? “$URL_ADMIN_ROOT/index.$PHP_FILE_EXTENSION?action=adduser” : $goto_url;
redirectUser($goto_url, “$URL_ROOT/index.$PHP_FILE_EXTENSION”);where the “admin” in quotes would be the username of your admin (which probably is admin, but it could be changed – always better to not use the common “admin” as a login for an admin anyway as it just gives a leg up to people trying to crack admin accounts)
if that’s not what you’re referring to then lemme know! 🙂
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sorry – not seeing a link here? did you have a sample? if i were to guess, it’s likely just a typo or something in your active x embed for quicktime…
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ya – apple key + tilde (~) key will do that…
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yes and no. yes that there will be space, and no – web graphics won’t autoscale, and if they’re bitmap, they can’t really do that anyway (can’t blow up pixels so well)…
there’s 2 main options when you make a site – when you make it fit to a 900 or so resolution, there will indeed always be visitors that have a much higher resolution. so at that point, you can either:
1. center or somehow artistically fill up dead space
2. write your html to expand to the resolution of the visitormac world is an example of #1:
it’s centered in a column and they just have grey space on either side – it fits in all current accepted resolutions, but some viewers at higher resolutions will have some dead space – but visually it looks fine…
the site i designed for my company is an example of #2:
https://www.cataphora.com/platform/overview.php
if you resize your browser window while looking at that, the upper flag table keeps going to the right and the copy fills up the space – no graphics stretching but rather very long backgrounds that go out very far to the right. i’m pushing it with this design because for the most part, you don’t want people to read long horizontal lines of copy on screen as it is hard to do (that’s why newspapers have narrower columns). but for typical visitors to our site (something to factor in as well), they will likely be on a max res of 1024×768, so it fits well for them…
designing for resolution is trickier than most realize when they dive in – but with hope the above examples give you some ideas for your own site…
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i’d make the internet your book, to be honest – search the archives here for references and just dive in with tutorials that you can find online – there are a ton of books (some are probably pretty good but a lot really aren’t), and at $50 USD a pop, i always try to encourage people to just look around the net…if you see a site you like, try to emulate it or play with the source or find a tutorial for an effect in it – google is very useful in that type of situation…
but as for a specific book if you learn better that way – sorry…i don’t have a good recomendation at this point as i haven’t evaluated the web design books out there in a long time… :-/
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ya – your source code shows that it looks like you’ve designed your site for a fixed width of 1280 and if the user doesn’t have that, the text breaks up. the primary culprit looks to be the long strings of non-breaking spaces ( ) in your layout – if my browser is wide enough those dont wrap, but if not, then they wrap and break code…
the current _max_ resolution that is accepted is 1024 wide, but it is even safer to max out at 900 or so, as while 1024×768 is a very common monitor resolution these days, that means that the user would have to max out their browser window to see your site, which a lot of people won’t do. 800-900 is by far the safest max width you want your site to be, unless your layout grows to the width of the screen. but fixing your design to 1280 is sort of a web no-no… :-/
hope that helps!
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by default, os x puts admins in the admin group and others get their own group based on their name, i believe…if you only have 2 users, best to just set the permissions to full control for admin and group and either no access or read only for others – then try logging in as that other user and see if you can see the drive contents…
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if you look at the root folders on the drive and right-click (or ctrl-click) on them and do get info, there is the ownership and permissions area – expand down the details area for that and set the permissions as you’ve described here. i assume that the freelance user isn’t in your group, but if they are, set up group and others to either read only or no access and then give yourself full control…
that should do the trick…
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i always mention things like pay pal – easy to use and relatively cheap to set up and configure…and they handle all cc woes for you, which is a big deal if you are a small shop without a ton of insurance to handle the case where your third party isp has a disgruntled employee who cleans out your cc database on his way out the door…
but if you want to do it yourself, something liks oscommerce (https://www.oscommerce.com/solutions/oscommerce) might work for you…
if my brief rambles raise more questions, please do let me know! 🙂
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