[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

it’s really hard to debug that because you have so much redundant css going on – for example, your class item for each link is not necessary, as a class should be a style applied to a set of elements as opposed to an individual thing.

you also have all the widths and alignments for your li, but you have that duped in the individual link classes. therefore, something in there is making ie unhappy, but it’s really hard to pick it apart with all the layers.

(and this comes from somebody who’s done css for years)

first step i would recommend would be to strip it back a bit – remove the css class attribute for each nav link and the related css and see what happens then.

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i believe that should work – so will putting a this.blur() javascript snippet either on each link that you want this to not happen on or globally via jquery, mootools, etc…

can you paste your site url so that we can take a look? maybe there’s another reason why the css thing isn’t working…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you can do quite a lot of fancy things and keep it very compatible – but also think about your audience. are they likely to be using ie6? if not, you can maybe spend less time focusing on it.

(example – if you’re making a gaming fan site, you can probably assume that the visitors are younger and a bit more hip to the world and will not be using ie6 as much – but check your logs once your site goes live to see what people are indeed using and design accordingly)

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

if possible, the entire thing in action is always easier to provide info for than just the snippets…

(like in this case – why a link is not clickable in ie8 vs ff might be something else that you can fix that doesn’t involve a separate style sheet)

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

once your template makes it to the web, there is no longer the concept of a template – you would then have 3 options:

– use a scripting language such as php to redirect the user to a different version

– use javascript to do the same

– update your layout to support ie6 by default

the last option is really the way to go here. there are a ton of ie6/7 users out there, and it’s a pain to maintain 2 copies of your site.

if you really had to do a separate version, something like php is a lot better than javascript, as people can disable the latter and you cannot control that…

certainly it’s fine to have different style sheets (and sometimes required thanks to the ie6 css implementation), but you always want to keep everybody on one set of pages if at all possible.

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

much easier to diagnose with an example of your site – can you post it, please?

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you can always just view the source of that page to see how that embed is done; however in this case if i’m following you correctly, you cannot do what you want in the way that you want, i’m afraid…

to confirm – you are looking to have a pdf form display on page and then have the user fill it out on the screen and then have that data sent back to you? if so, that’s not possible. you’d have to have them download it, fill it out, re-save it as a pdf (usually via printing as you typically can’t save entered data in a pdf file) and then re-upload it back to you…

or am i not following you correctly?

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you still have the div that contains the movie absolutely positioned on the page via the apDiv1 css declaration. you need to take that div, remove the css id apDiv1 (or delete all positioning related info in the css declaration) and put it in a table cell in the page…

as for music – check the manual for podsnack (which is what you seem to be using?), but also probably just try a param in the object block that is something like:

or

those are total guesses, but likely candidates…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

which page are you referring to? i’ll need to see it to offer any fixes…

also – on the music:

[RIchard Arkinstall] “I have also only had the music player on the main page so its not too annoying”

it’s completely subjective. it’s annoying if i have other music on already or my speakers start blasting music when i hit a page. trust me when i say it’s a strong usability no-no.

(you’re more than welcome to leave it, of course, but you have to acknowledge that you will eventually turn off at least a percentage of your visitors)

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

it’s a very common thing. you can do it using a variety of 3rd party javascript libraries (it’s not ajax, btw – just javascript)…the two bigger ones are:

– jquery
– mootools

but there are lots of others, or you can even write your own…to implement them takes some knowledge of javascript and html, however.

for the first example you provided, they are using prototype. here’s a tutorial on how to use that exact effect:

https://woork.blogspot.com/2008/03/simple-images-slider-to-create-flickr.html

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