[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you can add width attributes to table cells – would that be what is missing?

if not, please post an example and we can take a look…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ya – you can use http rewrite rules, or you could use javascript, but the latter might not be as feasible because if they have js disabled on the pda, it won’t catch. http rewrite happens on your server based on their user agent, though, so that would be much more reliable…

that said, as you can see from this list:

https://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/mobile_ids.html

there are quite a few user agents out there in mobile land. here’s an example that finds iphone and itouch (as claimed by the author – by that i mean i’m not up on what the user agent is for these devices):

https://webdirect.no/mobile/apache-rewrite-rule-for-iphone-users/

basically you’ll have to expand on that (if your isp allows you to use .htaccess files or overwrite this type of control – a lot might not, so you’ll have to check with them)…what’s happening here is all in the rewrite condition and rule – so to take an example from another blog:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “Windows CE” [NC,OR] #Windows CE and Pocket PC
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “NetFront” [NC,OR] #PalmSource WebBrowser 2.0
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “Palm OS” [NC,OR] #Eudora Web Browser for Palm
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “Blazer” [NC,OR] #Handspring Blazer Browser
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “Elaine” [NC,OR] #RIM Devices
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “^WAP.*$” [NC,OR] #WAP Browsers
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “Plucker” [NC,OR] #Plucker Offline download client
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “AvantGo” [NC] #AvantGo Service
RewriteRule ^index\.php https://www.yourdomain.net/pda.php [L,R]

basically if the browser’s user agent matches one of these strings, then the rewrite rule kicks in…

it’s not the most basic of concepts and rewrite stuff can be quite touchy, so it could be tricky to implement, but that’s how you’d go about it…

hope that helps a bit!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

[Aujom Productions] ” I read something online about using VNC and Terminal, but it made zero sense to me”

alas it will have to make sense to you if you want to do this – try this article:

https://www.dssw.co.uk/blog/2007/05/14/a-vnc-server-is-included-in-mac-os-x-104/

and see if that helps any – it seems to remove a lot of the complexity, leaving only the vnc client to install…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

hmm – a few questions to get some context:

[Melissa Behrens] “When I type in a table and the words hit the other side of the table the line breaks”

do you mean when you type the table html in dreamweaver or the likes?

[Melissa Behrens] “but then my entire table shifts over and so when you flip from different pages you see that the page shifts over to the left”

w/o seeing a page/site that you are working on (_very_ helpful for context, btw), i’d have to guess that you have no width attribute for your table cell…if you don’t, try adding that – like:

<td width=”[X]”>

where [X] is how many pixels wide you want the cell to be – then the text will still wrap but the table should hold at that pixel size…

hope that helps and feel free to post back more info and links if need be…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you could maybe find one here:

https://www.widgetbox.com/search?q=poll

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ooh – this one is pretty much impossible to say w/o seeing code… :-/

note too that none of these are bad per se – if you are trying to be very strict and correct with your html then they are good to fix, but they won’t impact much else…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i’d try dropping the space between the “=” and the next quote for the first one – and wrt type – you need to add text/javascript if you want to be in full compliance…

https://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_script.asp

hope that helps!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you put meta tags in the head block – here’s a tutorial on that:

https://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167931

as for the title – i’d probably say you’re fine either way (with company name or not)…if you look at a few samples from google:

https://www.google.com/search?q=oracle
https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft

you’ll notice that oracle doesn’t have company name and microsoft does, but they still both have their sections listed, so the smarter engines can work around it…

hope that helps!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

there are a number of open source cms tools out there written in php – your best bet is to google cms and php and you’ll find most of ’em…

best of luck!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i don’t think you’d see any noticeable difference in download times even from there…

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