[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ya – active is that moment when you have the button pressed on the mouse. what you need to do is update the style of the link to bold text when they do a click so that it turns to bold once it’s clicked…

make sense?

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you could consider using a div for that with 2 properties:

– visiblity: visible|none
– z-index: (anything greater than 20 or so)

then you can position it absolutely on the screen or relative to the current content (the latter can get tricky but is needed if you are going to have a page that scrolls) and then show/hide it based on user clicks…

that’s a bit vague but with hope it points you in the right direction – if not then lemme know!

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

might be a feature, but you can be sure they won’t be hyping it up on the keynote day…today it’s all about them and os x, so they won’t be selling you on being able to run a competitor’s os on their hardware…

just my $.02… 🙂

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you can do this with javascript – “quickly” is always sorta relative, but you can do preloaders to get a lot of them…

try googling up “javascript slideshow” to see some examples…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

hey that’s really nice! and i do like your centered home page trick – that’s very interesting! how’d you pull that off?

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

nice! i think #2 has the most pop to me, personally – 1 & 4 are my least favorite but i don’t know why as i’ve done a few sites like that and it never bothered me there. but here it doesn’t seem to quite work for some reason…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ahh – either ctrl-click or right-click and choose “download linked file” – that should do it…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

right-click on the top bar if you have a 2-button mouse (and if you don’t have a 2-button mouse, make step 2 getting one of those) or go to view -> customize address bar…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

color me confused. you don’t have the little attachment item up in the header info for the message with the save button next to it? or the attachments don’t show in the body of the message? that’s how you’d save them, and from the body you can click and drag and from the top you can twirl down the arrow and do the same or you can click the save button…

for signatures, go to your preferences. you can add them there.

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

we sort of touched on this in the other thread about the good books. what you’re asking for here is something that sort of exists but sort of doesn’t…to address the quicker points in your post:

[Scott_G] “1. What software is needed?
2. How is it used? What are ‘the’ good books/resources?
3. How do you code the web pages / forms to handle the input/output/dynamic page creation and data manipulation?
4. What database software is necessary, if any? Can this be done without all the extra software?”

1. to do basic form processing, you need any one of a wide variety of scripting languages – c, perl, php, asp, jsp, vb, etc. are all perfect options.
2. the o’reilly book from the other thread might be a good php place to start. in general, php is the best of the options to get started with as it has the most resources out there online to learn from
3. this is too big a question to answer in this format – but i see you had the other post with some code, so it looks like you’re picking it up nicely!
4. no db software is needed to process data from forms – it’s only needed if you want to save it somewhere beyond the submission and a simple text file model won’t cut it for your needs

in general, programming books will teach you the basics, and then at that point, you take over with the knowledge of the basics and write the more complex projects, so get those basics down and then you’ll have the fundimentals to do all the fancier projects…

hope that helps!

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