Curtis Thompson
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hello…
use full urls to places where both locations have access to…that’d be the easiest way…
(like now i assume it’s something like SRC=”images/whatever.gif” – but when you move the page away from the images dir, it can’t find the image – but if you make it SRC=”https://foo.com/images/whatever.gif” then it can always find it)
sitruc
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hello…
if she’s got a non-os x mac, then it’s going to pretty much be out of the question…if it’s os x then she can create a small network and then use samba to connect the boxes…but that involves a hub of some sort. if she doesn’t have that, then she might be sorta out of luck…
(you can connect 2 macs with a crossover cable, and same with 2 pcs, but by default a mac and a pc don’t know how to talk to each other so well – that’s what samba did, but that’s software, and you’re not likely to get it to work across a simple crossover connection… :-/
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hello…
i’d guess it’s a path problem – in one place, the graphics are where the img src path tags say they are, but when you move it from that place, the paths are no longer accurate and the images are missing….
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[compositing_lover] “Is there any website which has the information about effective use of colors , color principles for web site, usability for a web site and so forth “
i guess it depends how you learn – there are numerous books on color theory and what colors trigger what emotions, etc., which might guide you but could likely also overwhelm you…the best way that i always found to get color and design ideas was to just look at other sites – you’ll see color combos all over and some will really light a fire under you…plus that way it’s free…there are a lot of books and ideas out there (try googling for website usability)…jakob nielson is considered one of the usability gurus out there:
you might not think so when you visit his site, but trust me…
[compositing_lover] “you can set your web page to 100% mode i dont know how ? “
i’m not a dreamweaver person, but generally, i’m guessing that the command would just make a table 100% wide – while technically you can scale graphics and if you were really determined, you could write a page that would scale stuff, it’s just the same basic rules of bitmap graphics – you can add pixels that aren’t there…so you can stretch an image, but you can’t blow it up forever (that’s why flash can because it’s vector art)…you can make your page 100% wide, but you can magically scale content within it…you have to either have some dead space that you fill with pretty patterns or you have to mix that dead space into your design somehow…
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hello…
i don’t think color schemes are tied to industries at all – more often they’re tied to the logo, general colors the person in charge likes, etc. – as for what schemes are acceptable or safe, i’d say visit places like https://cwd.dk or https://coolhomepages.com/ to get a feel for some color palettes others have used…
i’d say more than colors for an industry, one good thing to worry about would be not using the same colors and layouts that a competitor has already used…always try to stand out against them…
wrt to making a layout fit @ 100% for all resolutions – you cannot do this unless you do one of the following:
1. make it all vector and make it flash and have the flash movie run at 100% width
2. if you’re doing straight html, fill places along the width with tiled areas that can grow with the width of a browser running at higher resolutions
but you really can’t scale graphics to fit, so #2 is probably your best bet…
hope that helps!
sitruc
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hello…
[rob hindley] “I thought the js language was totally cross-platform.”
a short answer to this would be “oh my no”… :-/
microsoft has long had their own dom (document object model) and a host of very specific javascript functions, etc. that are exclusive to their browser…in addition, there are a few issues in safari that require very precise html and javascript to get things to work (both of these are too many in size to go through here)…
some things are finally much better, though – in all modern browsers, you can now use the handy document.getElementById function, which (although seemingly small) was a huge step that made for the possibility of much fewer if/else blocks for all the different browser flavors…in addition, along with that function came many other features that worked across all browsers…
do you have an example page that you can link to so that i could perhaps point out the culprits in your specific code?
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hello…
without seeing your page i can’t say as to why things didn’t change – it’s not necessarily a guarantee that your page will change – it’s not a different language but rather a different interpretation in some cases – in many others, it’s the same. if you don’t have a ton of style sheets or complex table layouts then you might not see a change.
if you’d like examples, i’d start on google – there are a ton of ’em to be found there:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22strict+html%22+examples
hope that helps!
sitruc
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hello…
unfortunately i think we’ve already used about the most simple terms i can offer – strict vs. loose is the way that html is processed by your browser’s dom (document object model) – strict allows you to get away with less sloppy code…technically html has a very strict set of formatting rules but often browsers are very loose with their interpretation of your html commands…strict tried to tighten that up a bit…
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hello…
from the horse’s mouth:
“This is HTML 4.01 Strict DTD, which excludes the presentation
attributes and elements that W3C expects to phase out as
support for style sheets matures. Authors should use the Strict
DTD when possible, but may use the Transitional DTD when support
for presentation attribute and elements is required.HTML 4 includes mechanisms for style sheets, scripting,
embedding objects, improved support for right to left and mixed
direction text, and enhancements to forms for improved
accessibility for people with disabilities.”https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd
the best way to see the impact of it is to add the doc type declaration to the first line of any of your existing html pages:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN”
“https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd“>
<html>you should see some changes in your layout that you probably won’t like if you haven’t been using strict in the past…
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