crmamx
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I recommend you just play around with: $variables echo and include, once you know how to use those 3 you can easily adjust your code you have now.
Believe it or not I wrote my add/delete/change db programs before I got to messing with this css stuff in depth. So, I can handle that.
I'm getting there.
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KingPhillip: I have no idea how you are getting your content to display
Neither do I!
That is it took me a good week to figure it out with some help.
index.php loads 4 frames: header, menu, footer and content (header is subdivided). maincontent.php controls the main content frame. When I click a program from menu2.php (or anywhere else) it sends the program name to maincontent.php which then loads it.
cssF: How did I do? I will be
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That is a good point I learned the hard way. Depending on the source, some are upper and some lower.
But, sorry I put you all to the trouble. The problem turned out to be a bad jpg. It displays in my windows pic/fax viewer but not when I upload it. Ran into 2 of those about 3 months ago. ???
Thanks again. Now on to the next problem...
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Ok, I have done a little reading on Dynamic Tags.
But since my programs and data are pretty much static, is there any reason I can't put just the correct title and meta tags in each program, rather than all the php needed for a dynamic tag? And if so, then don't I also need the html and head tags? And if I do that it seems I have a html program yet it has a php extension.
Pretty confusing to me.
When the crawler crawls, does it look at the server side file or the output to the browser?
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Does it display the alternative text, "concorde"?
What does firebug say when you inspect it?
Are you sure this is the correct directory? i.e. - Does "Pictures_Other" reside in the directory of the file where you call this piece of code:
<img src="Pictures_Other/concorde.jpg" alt="concorde" border="0" width="250" height="188" />
On Firebug. Been trying for a week to learn how to use it. I think cssfreakie (with my encouragement) is writing a blog on Firebug for Novices, which is me. I know I want to inspect it, but I don't know how to isolate the code I want to inspect or what to look for afterwards.It is in the same file as all the other images which work. And left-header is in the same file as all the other programs. The img I copied from an image that works and the
<?php include('content/left-header.php'); ?></div>I copied from the Newsflash code that works in index.php
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Don't know if it is php or html but the image won't display.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" > <head> <meta name="google-site-verification" content="y_kspZkCZOQM-WGNB_lQ8BhJS8p7-B66hkHI_UhzKbs" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en" /> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/reset.css" /> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/960.css" /> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/custom.css" /> <title>Bay Area Remote Control Society</title> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper" class="container_12"> <div id="header" class="grid_12"> <div id="left-header" class="grid_5 alpha"><?php include('content/left-header.php'); ?></div> <div id="newsflash" class="grid_7 omega"><?php include('content/newsflash.php'); ?></div> </div> <div id="leftmenu" class="grid_3"><?php include('content/menu2.php'); ?></div> <div id="maincontent" class="grid_9"><?php include('content/maincontent.php'); ?></div> <div id ="footer" class="grid_12"><?php include('content/footer.php'); ?></div> </div><!-- end wrapper --> </body> </html>left-header.php
<?php ?> <img src="Pictures_Other/concorde.jpg" alt="concorde" border="0" width="250" height="188" />
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Thanks Maq
Actually I have a list of the suggestions that "ya'll" have made and they all are good. I am working on them. Just figured out the box stuff and floats and got the two addresses on the home page like I want them.
Just so happens I am trying to put an image in the header but can't get it to work tho it looks pretty simple. Be on the lookout for a new topic. Except, I don't know if the problem is php or html. They both look right to me.
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You are too kind, especially when you are responsible for xx% of it.
I figured out the boxes and the box model. And pretty well understand the floats and positioning now, except:
Check the post on Clear Float. I know that is the problem but can't figure out how to do it.
And I would love to see you do a blog on Firebug for novices as suggested in the email.
Cheers
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One thing you have drilled into my hard head is:
No inline css
And I am now working on getting rid of it one page at a time....tables too...
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Truce because I do not care for these discussions. And I apologize for my initial comment.
But if you will check Questions, Comments and Discussions you will find that I have been thankful more than once for the help I have been provided. And as a general rule my questions are not vague, tho a couple have needed additional info.
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I would transform your links into more human & seo friendly links, then generate dynamic meta tags.
For example, http://bayarearcsociety.com/index.php?page=weather would turn into http://bayarearcsociety.com/weather/
I will have to research dynamic tags.
As far as the "would turn into", if I understand you right, this would open the link in a new window which I don't want.
cv: It aggravates me when someone asks vague questions.My question was specific that others were able to answer it.
cv: But for sure in this case... I have seen some but not all of your posts, and AFAIK you never mentioned SEO stuff before so I can hardly fault the "experts" around here for not coding towards that.I believe I mentioned that I had not even heard of SEO until I ran across a post mentioning it after I had basically finished my coding.
And if you have read a lot of my posts you will find this is the ONLY instance where this is my style. And it is because I have read a lot of your posts and many of them are not helpful, simply biting.
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++ for books.
That said, you're correct in that our tutorial section is currently lacking. There are plans to remedy the problem.
Glad to hear it. And like I said, the list should come from you pros and be short for each topic.
This is just a hobby for me. I am trying to do this one site for our flying club.
I have run across bad and outdated info in several of the tutorials.
By the way, the link to w3schools fools I found by reading your posts. It is more of this info that I would like to see:
Use this list.
Don't use this list.
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pikachu:
Sorry for the smart comment but it just aggravated me.
I just made the site live and as you know it is the result of much help from mostly 3 people here.
Then I ran across something about Google Webmaster tools, starting reading it and found I might be sorely lacking in SEO. But if my design is pretty much the way "ya'll" do it, then there must be something I am missing.
index.php
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" > <head> <meta name="google-site-verification" content="y_kspZkCZOQM-WGNB_lQ8BhJS8p7-B66hkHI_UhzKbs" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en" /> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/reset.css" /> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/960.css" /> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/custom.css" /> <title>Bay Area Remote Control Society</title> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper" class="container_12"> <div id="header" class="grid_12"> <div id="left-header" class="grid_5 alpha"></div> <div id="newsflash" class="grid_7 omega"><?php include('content/newsflash.php'); ?></div> </div> <div id="leftmenu" class="grid_3"><?php include('content/menu2.php'); ?></div> <div id="maincontent" class="grid_9"><?php include('content/maincontent.php'); ?></div> <div id ="footer" class="grid_12"><?php include('content/footer.php'); ?></div> </div><!-- end wrapper --> </body> </html>This is the only program that declares a Doctype or has a meta tag.
The url is bayarearcsociety.com
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I am trying to go back and clean up my site.
This is a program to test css code.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> <title>css testing</title> <style type="text/css"> /* ==================== Color Combos ======================================= #012A80 - dark blue #81A9FE - medium blue #C0D4FE - light blue */ /* ==================== colored box for text ============================== */ .box1 { float:left; width: 250px; margin: 5px; background-color: #c0d4fe; } .floatstop { clear:both; } /* ==================== no circles ============================== */ ul.a { list-style-type: none; } </style> </head> <h1>title</h1> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <!-- ================= addresses ========================================= --> <div class="box1"> <!-- colored box --> <ul class="a"> <li><strong>FLYING FIELD ADDRESS</strong></li> <li>15498 Lillie Lane</li> <li>Summerdale, Al</li> </ul> </div> <div class="box1"> <ul class="a"> <li><strong>MAILING ADDRESS</strong></li> <li>P.O. Box 297</li> <li>Robertsdale, Al 36567</li> </ul> </div> </p> <!-- ================= 4 colored boxes ================================== --> <p><small>Slow Stick says to set the CG 95-105 mm from the leading edge. What is that in inches? You are looking at a 7.5 cc engine. How does that compare to a .46 cu in? </small></p> <p><small>Wrinkles in your new plane? Here is an article I wrote on the Mike Johnson Way that will guarantee no wrinkles.</small></p> <p><small>Choosing a powerplant for a nitro plane isn't all that complicated. You need a .35, 46 or a .55 cu in. For the electric model the terminology gets intimidating. Here are some Selection Guidelines to help you get started.</small></p> <p><small>Have you oiled up your engine and put it in storage for the winter? If so then you are missing out on some great flying conditions. </small> </p> </body> </html>I know I need to clear the float after the addresses and before the paragraphs but I don't know how to do it.
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Real helpful! Is this how you get your post count?
The design is the result of recommendations from the "pros" on phpF.
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Well put and helpful to me. So many teach how to write the code but don't explain it. If you catch my drift.
Thanks.
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Good, bad or indifferent, it is on the air. For right now, I am sick of fooling with it.
It is functioning the way I want it to but it does not function the way I want it. Make sense of that.
I could never figure out positioning of images and some text with css, so for now I am using tables. Will tackle that later. Of course you could offer some hints as how to do it.
Also, I could not get some of the classes in link custom.css to work on some of the pages. No idea why. So I had to use internal css.
I intend to incorporate the couple of comments posted so far. One said the footer is too big. What would you put in my footer?
So what would you do to improve it. All critique appreciated.
You can click on my little round ball thingy to view it.
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I have completely rewritten my site and as such have no html files. index.php is the only program that has a title and meta tags. Since I have lost those, how does that affect my SEO? The crawler no longer has a title, content or description to read.
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I am a novice at this game and I have sweated blood and tears to get what I have up and running. It is still lacking but it is a start.
What I needed when I started was:
1. a good editor
2. the best html, css, mySQL, cPanel, php, phpMyAdmin, Firebug and layout/design tutorials. I had never heard of any of them except css when I started.
3. a browser recommendation.
I google everything and I found 1 and 3 ( I was usintg IE7 ) because there are sites that rank and comment on them. But I don't know of a site(s) that ranks or comments on item 2.
Googling item 2 for html and css I was using w3schools because I liked it's presentation. A couple of months into my project and I find this on pfreaks:
http://w3fools.com/
And I have also found on phpf some really good links to items listed in #2. None of them show up in a google search. But the references did not come at the request for a good tutorial. For some reason, some of the guys/girls just don't like to answer that question.
The old pros on here: gizmola, pikachu, cssfreakie, maq ( and others, I just have not interacted with them ) are warehouses of good information. I know that they all have bookmarks on all of this.
This list is useless to me and I think to most novices:
http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials
as is the old list cv indexed: www dot crayonviolent dot com slash old_phpf_tuts
What I would like to see is the old pros get together, produce a list, vote on it, of not more than 3 links each to subjects listed in #2 for novices.
I'll probably get some flak on this one.
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How do you find all those good tutorials. I googled firebug several different ways but never saw the one you posted. Same has happened before on several other topics.
I have read a couple of posts where people ask for tutorial recommendations and a lot of the "help" doesn't want to do it. On the other hand I have seen w3schools recommended several times and yet:
I am going to start a new topic...
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Without decent hosting you might not be able to fetch this content, you could try curl. (http://php.net/curl).
What kind of hosting do you have? Do you have access to change the url_fopen setting?
Dead on the money. With the help of InMotion I was able to go into cPanel and add it set to on.
But in the meantime I found this was the code I needed to get the map to display:
<!-- iFrame code for AardvarkMap.net Start --> <iframe src="http://www.aardvarkmap.net/mapitrans/VIZSVU7K" width="582" height="435" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>
Thanks guys for your help.
Now if I could only figure out how to get my slideshows and videos to work! :'(
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Let's start over from scratch.
I have two programs:
slideshow_flyin1.swf
slideshow_flyin1.html (created by a slideshow creation program)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Flyin 1 Pictures</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#C2CECE"> <p> <p> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .style1 { color: #006633; font-weight: bold; } --> </style> <!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet --> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td align="center">Flyin 1 Pictures</td> </tr> <tr><td align="center"><br /></td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="640" height="480" id="tech" align="middle"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> <param name="movie" value="slideshow_flyin1.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <embed src="slideshow_flyin1.swf" quality="high" width="640" height="480" name="tech" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /> </object> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" ><br /> Created by <a href="http://www.flash-slideshow-maker.com/index.php?srcid=glc" target="_blank">Flash Slideshow Maker</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFCC99"><br /> <a href="http://www.flash-slideshow-maker.com/buynow.php?srcid=glc" target="_blank"><strong>Order the full version now to remove the software logo at the end of slideshow</strong></a> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>If I link to this file or double click it, everything works fine.
Now I am trying to get the video to work from this menu:
menu2.php (just a slice)
<!-- ===================== Dropdown item #3 =========================== --> <li> <a href="#">Videos</a> <ul> <li> <a href="index1.php?page=sailplanes">Sailplanes</a> <!-- Ex of how rest of menu works --> </li> <li> <a href="#">Amazing 3D</a> </li> <li> <a href="#">Glenn's B36</a> </li> <li> <!-- <a href="index1.php?page=slideshow_flyin1">Flyin</a> --> <!-- <a href="slideshow_flyin1.html">Flyin</a> --> <!-- <a href="<?php include('content/pages/slideshow_flyin1.html'); ?">Flyin</a> --> </li> </ul>How do I code menu2.php and/or modify slideshow_flyin1.html so the slideshow works?
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I suspect the tutorials may be old because my Firebug menu is the same as the screen shot pikachu posted. Now if I can figure out how to "inspect."
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I suspect something else is going on but I have no idea what.
I tried to setup my videos in the same fashion and got this error: The video is handled in a js program.
The contents of the page could not be displayed. This can be caused by the following reasons: * Microsoft Internet Explorer blocks the flash content on your page. Click the warning in the upper part of the browser and select the Allow Blocked Content... option to continue opening the page. * You need to install or upgrade your Flash Player. Please visit the Adobe site to download and install the latest version of the Flash Player necessary to be able to display the contents of this page
The video also still works with the old code. And I am not using IE but Firefox.
And yet even another link - anchor this time
in HTML Help
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I check your blog daily. I am now looking for the Firebug tutorial.