Hey guys,

I have just had a friend of mine call me saying he has bought himself a domain name and has gotten hosting and has started sending emails from his new domain name and he has asked me to design an "under construction" page. I know hhow unprofessional these things look and hasve pointed out the pro's of such a page.

He made a valid point though that people are going to see his new domain name and probably check to see if he has anything up on his site yet....so the question I pose to you is this.....

What is the alternative to placing an under construction page up on the domain and if he demands one what do you think would constitute a good one??

I know this is a very rehashed question and topic but I just thought i would see what the current trend is out there regarding this at the moment.

Hope you are all well,

dave

Anybody ever install a live chat for a client? I see there are services out there but I was wondering if I can do it myself, although it looks pretty daunting. Can anybody recommend a service?

I’ve just started up a web design business, and I am looking for some good ways to expand my business. As I am new to this business I also want to have some guidance from you people. Are there any ways of getting into the technicalities of setting up an internet based business?

Not sure if there is a specific thread for this already. I didnt see one but as you know font-sizes defer from browser to browser and operating system to operating system. I was wondering is there anyway to guarantee the font will be the same size? Personally Ive used px and pt for the longest time and when I started working for this company they told me to use percents which I do agree is a lot easier but I find that it changes in browser and operating system.

Now I know you can use .em or something like that and that supposedly sets the font at lets say 80% and will look the same throughout any browser or operating system? Just want some help on this and getting up-to-speed on my browser compatibility and etc. . .

Thanks!

hi i am trying to make it so my visitors can send files to my email directly from my website i am just now getting familiar with microsoft expression web so im not sure how to work everything there yet i publish the site and check to see if it works and it wont send and it brings me to a page with the following text:
Form Validation Error

Please correct the information you provided by following these steps, then submit the information again:

• A FrontPage File Upload component is incorrectly configured. Please set the MIME encoding type for the form to be multipart/form-data.

Return to the form.

can anybody help me..i know my web host supports frontpage/sharepoint extensions so im not sure what im doing wrong and i cant seem to find what that error is talking about

please help

John

Hey everyone, I'm trying to make a transparent tab system (it sounds like a bad idea but I'll show you when its done, itll be amazing), but I'm having some trouble. I'll try to explain:

With this code:

Code How do I post code blocks?

<div style="height: 100px; width: 100%; background-color: #0000FF">
   <div style="height: 100px; width: 100px; background-color: #FF0000; float: left;"></div>
</div>

I get a long rectangle with a square on top of its left side like this:
[[---]---------]
and it looks like there's 100px of blue, and the rest of the width is red.

However, if I give the blue div some opacity: 0.5, it doesn't give me the transparent blue im looking for, instead it blends with the red. It makes sense, because the blue is on top of the red. What I really need is for the blue to take up the left 100px, and the red to take up whatever's left.
So I want this:
[---][---------]
so that when I give the blue div opacity: 0.5, the red won't show up behind it.

My case gets a bit more complex than that: I won't know the width of the blue div; it's automatically generated.

I tried floats, I tried tables, I tried everything. Does anyone know what I can do?

hello all

ive just started a web design course and our first project is to design a hotel site and so far so good. ive got to the last page of my site which is the online booking form and im a bit stumped. Now before i approach my teacher i would prefer to try and find out how to do it on my own, ive scoured google trying to find a tutorial but all i find is people trying to sell me products that build forms for me.

anyway if any of you guys know a good link or if the code is simple enough, i would really appreciate any help.

thanks

I have a problem and i need it fixed by the end of the day for work.
We have a website that is built using templates in dreamweaver. everything is fine in other browsers but in IE our drop down tabs show up in wierd places. any body know anything about this?
I greatly apprieciate it.

Hi,

I use the following script for a contact form. I would like to know how to redirect users back to the contact page (/contact.php) once they have hit the submit button rather than happening upon an empty page with the words "Message sent".

Any help would greatly appreciated, please bare in mind I don't speak PHP.

Trico

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<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$to = "mail@domain.co.uk";
$subject = "Contact Form";
$name_field = $_POST['name'];
$email_field = $_POST['email'];
$phone_field = $_POST['phone'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
 
$body = "From: $name_field\n E-Mail: $email_field\n Phone: $phone_field\n\n\n Message:\n $message";
 
echo "Data has been submitted to $to!";
mail($to, $subject, $body);

} else {

echo "Message sent.";

}
?>

Hi, i've had this site for a while, but only recently have i started editting it again. I like the whole neon green, forest green, black high contrast combo, but i know there could be more thats done with it. Does anyone have any suggestions for any other variants i could add, or modify my current theme with? My site is in my signature. I try to make my site browser-friendly and i think that kills half of it because im limited to the browser colors, and not ambient colors. If anyone knows a way to include specific rgb color values that are browser-friendly, i'd love to hear about it. Thanks.