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*bump Any non-lite geoip tracker plugins or softwares that can be used in conjunction with analytics? I'd even be happy with an application that allows me to copy and paste the IP into it. I'm looking for accuracy i.e. city

Good foresight. Cheers Haku.

Ah, now I see what you mean. I didn't realize I had to add a blog entry first to see the error effect. Try using screenshots when looking for assistance online. Firstly, you're styling the page with style.css: <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" /> The problem seems to be occurring with or within the sidebar div: <!-- start sidebar --> <div id="sidebar"> bla bla bla </div> <!-- end sidebar --> The css is asking the sidebar div to float right: #sidebar { float: right; width: 240px; background: url(imagestest/content/img04.gif) no-repeat; padding-top: 9px; } At first I was thinking that the issue was to do with vertical alignment but now it seems that it's a float issue. In my experience IE6 is a bitch when it comes to floats and is replete with many a float related glitch. I'm going to hazard a guess and suggest that the problem is to do with conflicting floats. #sidebar is floating right of #content according to your style sheet: #content { float: left; width: 610px; /*530*/ background: url(imagestest/content/img03.gif) no-repeat; } BUT you already have six other elements relying on floats in your layout: #content_TI { float: left; width: 650px; /*530*/ background: url(imagestest/content/img03.gif) no-repeat; } #sidebar_TI { float: right; width: 200px; /*background: url(imagestest/content/img04.gif) no-repeat; */ padding-top: 94px; } #header h1 { float: left; /*padding: 34px 0 0 0;*/ padding: 20px 0 0 0; /*color: #98C204;*/ color: #82A204; } #header p { float: right; /*padding: 42px 0 0 0; */ padding: 37px 0 0 0; font-size: 1.8em; color: #DCA114; /*orange*/ } #menu ul { margin: 0; padding: 7px 0 0 0; list-style: none; float: left; } #content_b { float: left; width: 850px; /*530*/ background: url(imagestest/content/img03b.gif) no-repeat; } You're going to need to familiarize yourself with how to use "clear" in your style sheet. This property controls how the subsequent elements of floated elements should behave. Click the following link to begin your study: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=css+clear It's going to take a fair amount of trial and to figure out what float is causing the problem. My advise is to temporarily delete the floats from the css of the six divs but leave the floats intact for the content and sidebar div. This will tell you straight away whether or not the issue is the result of conflicting divs. Let me know how it goes. I'll check back before the weekend.

Understood and greatly appreciated. I'm off to finally tackle AS3 then. Cheers!

So, first run flash detection outside of flash, if flash player then play flash and then check for load time inside AS3? Aw, I haven't adjusted to AS3 yet. I'm still trying to dodge it because I don't understand how actionscript is inserted on the timeline. No excuse though. Would your solution be on par with a php approach in terms of load time. I need to cater for poor rural connections.

Flash detection scripts seem to be available online like this one: http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/ Does anyone know of a script that will actually make the required swap though?

No code to post, lads, yet. Just looking for a yay or nay at this stage: Can a php script be written to make a judgement call on whether or not to display a flash animation or *jpeg based on a threshold like a visitors connection speed? i.e. I only want to play flash for visitors who have a sufficient internet connection

Either you've fixed it or I don't see it. I'm viewing through Chrome and IE6. Any chance you could be a little more specific? What element of your page has the discrepancy? e.g. body, navigation, left/right column, footer etc.

Excellent! Thanks for the reassurance lads.

What is the IDEAL PIXEL WIDTH for website nowadays? It used to be 800px. Is this now considered too narrow? Would 1000px be conventionally considered too wide?

C'mon pumpkin. If you make a post then at least have the courtesy to check back within 48hrs to respond or close it off.

YES: YOU CAN MAKE THE BLOG LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THE REST OF YOUR WEB LAYOUT! You need to build your own Wordpress theme from scratch. The good news is that it's fun and there exists a STEP-BY-STEP tutorial to assist you in doing this. The tutorial is designed for folk without any PHP experience so don't worry. It's simple. Here's the link: http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/ The only place I anticipate you getting stuck is at the beginning when he talks about actually installing Wordpress. I'll be glad to walk you through any difficulties you run into. I'll check back for the next couple of days. Later gater.

Great. Thanks for the run-through. Sounds like I'll be having fun over the next few weeks.

Yep. I'm familiar with forms, mysql queries, databases in general and outputting the info into a web page. I've built a few CRM's and CMS's too. I'm very interested in your suggestion. Do you have any links on where I could learn more on bridging applications? I'm basically thinking of integrating SMF and Wordpress with my own custom CMS. Can you recommend any tutorials or resources?

This may or may not be of use but I had an issue where wordpress couldn't find the correct image directory. Here's what I done: I ensured that I had an '/images' folder in my main directory as well as the templates directory. Each folder should have a copy of the images you're experiencing trouble with. By process of elimination (alternating between deletion of folders) I was able to deduce how wordpress was behaving. The following might prove useful for shortening you're paths: <?php echo bloginfo('template_directory') ?>

Here's exactly what you're looking for: http://www.prosepoint.org/

I thought the experts would have been able to help you out on this one. (I asked the same question yesterday but posted it in the PHP coding help section so it was ignored) Here's what you're looking for: http://www.prosepoint.org/ Check out a demo here: http://demo.prosepoint.org/ If you you want to focus an a lesser amount of news try wordpress: http://www.wordpress.org/ All of these solutions are free and are ridiculously easy to install, use and customize. Online help is decent too.

Hi All, I want to build a site where username and password for logging in are the same across all applications. i.e. if you log into one then you're logged into all of them or at least it's in some way relational e.g. logging into the home page should automatically log you into SMF forum (I've noticed that this site doesn't do this) I'm probably explaining this real bad but I want to avoid my members having to log in to the site and then having to re-log in to any subsequent PHP applications like SMF forum, wordpress or an image gallery. Any insight into this would be appreciated.

http://www.prosepoint.org/

Hi Guys, I'm familiar with building wordpress layouts from scratch using good ol' php but I can't figure out what I'd use for on an online newspaper/magazine. Can anyone tell what's being used here or if they're simply built from scratch? http://www.gazette.com/ http://www.corkindependent.com/ http://www.breakingnews.ie/ I could easily build a CMS to work with a similar layout but they look so similar I was hoping that there's an open source solution. Can anyone tell anything from the source code even? Thanks in advance!

Hi All, Ever since I've installed Google Analytics my flash content won't load. I deleted the account and javascript code snippet for tracking but the content still won't load. Is there any way using PHP to block Analytics from affecting my site?

Hi from Ireland! I recently signed up to Google Analytics and it began to block my flash content. I removed the tracker code (javascript) and deleted my account though my flash content is still blocked. Can someone help? I'll buy you a pint.

I've downloaded and installed Piwik. It's location detection based on IP addresses is fairly inaccurate even after installing the recommended plugins. Can someone please suggest a free solution with accurate location detection? I'm really stuck on this.

Hi All, I want to populate RSS feeds on my home page. The feeds are generated from a Wordpress Blog and an SMF forum. The home page, blog and forum are all part of the one site. I'm not alien to RSS. I've successfully implemented them in the past using a free feed generator (nightmare for styling) or following tricky tutorials from scratch. [*]Does anyone have any advise in terms of how I should approach this? [*]Is there anything exceptional about Wordpress or SMF when it comes to RSS? [*]Can anyone recommend resources or tutorials that I should review? I'm leaving the thread open for a day or two. (the new smilies are so cute)

Thanks lads. The correct terminology is half the battle when schooling ourselves online! The specific site I'm working does not support PHP due to the chosen hosting account type. For anyone else interested in this: Ajax INCLUDE: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/ajaxincludes.htm Iframe INCLUDE: http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/frames/_IFRAME.html Thanks again php goderator and reccomended php god.