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  1. alloydog

    Dropdown menus not working in Safari (iOS)

    Thanks gents! I guess I was a bit sloppy there - I remember, now, reading ages ago that it was good practice to define all the link states seperately: link, visited, hover and active. The menus now work on my phone (HTC /Android). I'll give ask my friend to "Apple test" the site on his collection.
  2. alloydog

    Dropdown menus not working in Safari (iOS)

    What I meant by "basic" CSS, was that I'm not doing anything wild and wacky, which might not be supported by a lot of browsers - for example, the text shadowing for the title /is/ CSS3, but it doesn't matter if a browser does not yet support it, as the rest of the styling is CSS1. The CSS for...
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    Dropdown menus not working in Safari (iOS)

    A while back, I was playing with an old iPod (iOS4.2.1), when I visited one of my websites, I found the dropdown menus were not working. I then asked a friend, who has god-knows-howmany Apple devices, and he said the menus did not work on any of them. I use basic CSS and check it with the...
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    What was your way of learning code?

    I started way back in 97-ish. I used Yahoo Geocities with the online editor. It had a few quirks which I didn't like, so I started using Netscape Composer. Still, it didn't seem to do exactly what I wanted, so, I out of curiosity, I right-clicked on the HTML file and saw it was easy to read. I...
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    screen resolution

    Wouldn't it be better to have a smaller "preview" size, such as in YouTube, and give the viewer the option of enlarging the video to suit them?
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    What technique to use?

    The table & scrolling div seem to work OK, but are pretty basic. When you get to one of the History pages, the content of the Timeline (done before FB...) is, naturally, at the most left, that is starts from Aug 1943: see page http://www.satans-kittens.net/45to50.php for example. What...
  7. alloydog

    What technique to use?

    In the end, creating the image was more work than it was worth... I just made a table with HTML & PHP. But, when using the scroll-bar, the contents of the div move pretty quickly - even hurts my eyes! I now need to try and slow it down. Ideally though, I'd like it so that you just click on...
  8. alloydog

    What technique to use?

    Been looking into this more. From what I gather, all techniques: HTML; jQuery; PHP, will need loads of coordinates and loads of typing. But the differences are: HTML - runs on client browser, may not work on all browsers? (though virtually no-ones uses IE6 or worse any more...) and, as...
  9. alloydog

    What technique to use?

    What!? It's not? :eek: Does that mean I have to lose the perm and muscle-shirt...?
  10. alloydog

    What technique to use?

    Learning something new - doing the HTML image map is easy, as I have done that before. But most of my skills are limited to HTML and CSS. I don't have the facilities to work with Flash, so I wondered what else there was to do what I wanted. I find I learn things better when I have a real...
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    What technique to use?

    This is more of an "I wonder..." type of question, as opposed to "I need help with.." For one of my military history websites, I would like to have a "time-line" image with click-able links to the relevant pages. I was thinking of using HTML image map to mark the points where the links...
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    I need someone to look through my mark-up...

    Thanks, but that is how it is meant to be - only the Astrix is in bold.
  13. alloydog

    Website Design with DIV tag

    W3Schools: CSS: http://www.w3schools.com/css/ Div: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_DIV.asp
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    I need someone to look through my mark-up...

    On my website, I seem to have a layout problem with Firefox. The same styling works on other pages, and works in IE. The problem is that the text does no wrap around the floating boxes to the left of the page. The affected page is here: http://satans-kittens.webs.com/history/korea.html...
  15. alloydog

    Images for a website

    You should at least have the contact details of the people who submit the photos saved somewhere. Then, should a copyright issue be raised, you can contact the person who submitted the photo and ask them where they got it from. The first thing you do if someone complains, is reply, explaining...
  16. alloydog

    Making Websites Browser Compatible?!

    One way I found to allow for IE's 'characteristics' is to include attributes that are normally taken for granted as '0', such as padding and margin and position as relative. For example: .div1 {width:200px;margin 0 auto;padding:0;position:relative;float:left;} is needed for IE where for...
  17. alloydog

    Which one is best TITLE or ALT

    alt is required if you want to be compliant to W3C standards and for aceesiblity. alt is only used for images. Internet Explorer will also resolve the alt attribute as a title when you place the cursor over the image. Firefox will not, however, so it advisable to use the title as well. You...
  18. alloydog

    Adding an image border around a <div>

    In most cases I have seen, the images are placed in divs around the main one, much as in the same fashion of using a table. Alternately, if you have a fixed sized div, you use a single (albeit large) image with the border on, as the background. Find some sites you like the look of and look at...
  19. alloydog

    CSS Layouts...

    CSS all the way!
  20. alloydog

    Links

    Javascript: <table class="QandAEntry" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr valign="top" style="padding:0px 0px 7px 0px;" id="title11"> <td align="left" class="dropCapQ" nowrap="true"> <a href="javascript:toggleQuestion('title11', 'question11', 'answer11')">Q.</a> </td>...
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