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    Sunday, July 12th, 2009
    7:31 pm
    [slavezombie]
    maploco
     I sincerely hope my question is not off topic here. I think there should be an easier way to find support for maploco.com troubleshooting. My question leans more toward a need for a hacking solution rather than a what-am-I-doing-wrong assist. Maybe not.

    My objective is to my maploco display on my profile page, but I read somewhere on the maploco site that account holders who attempt to link their map to several URLs will be disrupted. First of all, I don't think I'm breaking any rules if what I'm trying to do is to display the visitation hits received in the entries portion of my blog onto my profile page. To me, this is the same URL.

    I have the necessary code for maploco on my profile page. The problem is, my map rarely updates, even when I know I've received more than zero visits. I also have the <img src… display code, plus the <a href… code as a hyperlink to my maploco map, on my main entries page, although I've hidden the map image behind a layer there, and the link to maploco displays as part of the menu/sidebar section of my blog.

    Does anybody have an easier way to achieve what I'm trying to do? There's gotta be an easier way. This technique worked for me in the past, but I began to notice sporadic off days when I wasn't sure if I simply wasn't receiving any hits at all, or whether my map was being blocked by the good people at maploco.

    Is there a way to trick the maploco server into interpreting my slavezombie.livejournal.com page as the same URL as slavezombie.livejournal.com/profile? I don't think I'm breaking any rules by this. Today is a good day in the maploco department. I cross posted this entry to several tech support communities, one of which was [info]component_help and when I checked my email to see the response from them that they would delete my off topic post, I noticed that my maploco was working again; however, I can't be certain if the reason it's function is because I included a dedicated entry to the maploco code as part of the most recent twenty entries made, or whether removing the "hidden" attribute from my css style sheet had some effect.

    ( maploco code behind the cut )
    2:37 pm
    [skatesnowsurf]
    DIV PROBLEM!
     live test page: http://www.haremjewel.com/ulli.html

    In firefox & safari my codes work perfectly!

    but in IE, my div's are not lined up where they need to be.

    ( 2 small pictures under cut.. )


    note: if you go to the live page, and click around on the nav links, all the pages are fine in all browsers, only problem is: in safari my nav links don't not work (besides home page) because my div's are overlapped.
    THE ONE TEST PAGE GIVEN ABOVE, is me trying to change my overlapping divs to divs next to eachother.

    WHAT I NEED HELP WITH: I now just need my main div to be in the center of all browsers. help!




    Friday, July 10th, 2009
    4:30 pm
    [crystalsc]
    NetSuite - customization
     Hello! I'm trying to customize a standard Netsuite template. Does anyone have any experience with Netsuite and able to give tips/advice or point me in the direction of some great tutorials. My searches have found nothing.

    At the moment, I'm trying to had an image (which will later be a button) in the side navigation bar. This should be fairly simple but obviously today is not my day because I can't get it right.

    I want the "live chat" button to be under the cart & search bar which is called the "NLCOLUMNCONTENTS". I have the chat button and the twitter button listed behind the column contents in the code, yet they keep appearing above.

    Photobucket (you may have to refresh the image to see the proper one)

    <!-- start left nav - Basic : Round Edges -->
    <TD valign="top" width="21"><TABLE width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <TR>
          <TD valign="top"><TABLE width="100%" border="0" align="center" valign="top" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><NLCOLUMNCONTENTS><br/><img src="https://system.netsuite.com/core/media/media.nl?id=145&c=978039&h=90c084c0b4fabb3feae8"  height="80" width="150" border="0" alt="">
    <br/><img src="https://system.netsuite.com/core/media/media.nl?id=151&c=978039&h=d0a2cf56f2f324ecaa52"  height="60" width="60" border="0" alt=""></TABLE></TD>
        <TD width="4" valign="top" nowrap><IMG src="/images/store/templates/common/spacer.gif" width="4" height="4" border="0" alt=""></TD>
    </TR></TABLE></TD>
    <!-- end left nav - Basic : Round Edges -->
    2:20 pm
    [ashleyw]
    Mobile Safari Question
     Currently I am designing a mobile website for my school. This design is primarily made for the iPhone and Mobile Safari.

    I'm running into an issue where the page wants to zoom in instead of extending the page and having my icon elements move up. This is sort of hard to explain, so I've provided some visuals under the cut. The effect that I'm going for is like that of MIT's mobile site. I have images of that as well.

    ( Four images after the cut. )

    The last screenshot is the effect I am going for. I'm new to designing specifically for Mobile Safari and the iPhone/iPod Touch, and I'm not familiar with the rotating stuff and how that's handled in page. I'm also fairly new to JavaScript. The answer might be painfully obvious, but I've got nothing. Suggestions anyone?

    Also, I apologize if this has been already addressed previously in this community.

    ETA: I am not setting any specific widths for the main body of the page in the css.
    11:48 am
    [sydneyrodriguez]
    Jumping on the freelance bandwagon...maybe
     I was recently laid off from my previous job and have been looking for a new one, after updating my resume on the usual sites, I was contacted by a freelance company, Hit Web Design, about a chance at doing freelance work. As I haven't done a lot of freelance web design/development, I had a few questions for those here that doing freelancing exclusively (or nearly so).

    1. How's the freelancing "business" doing? Have you had a lot of clients recently, or have you been having trouble finding work? I previously worked for a consulting company and between their clients and the prospective employers I've dealt with, I've seen a lot of "we're looking for someone! .... Oh, we've changed our minds and we're doing going to hire anyone/do the project right now."

    2. Does anyone have any experience with Hit Web Design, or anything similar? I saw in a previous post that places like that pay very little, and I certainly agree that their pay seems a little on the low side, but low pay is better than no pay right now, and if I decide to go full time freelancing, I can always go a different route. As it stands right now, though, I'm primarily concerned with supplementing my husband's income so that we can pay the bills and put food on the table. The amount of pay, therefore, isn't my concern so much as the opportunities, the work, expectations, etc. (don't get me wrong, the amount of pay is of some concern, but as I said before, some money is better than no money right now).
    Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
    7:24 pm
    [shahrizai]
    a couple of questions
     Hey, I just wanted to do a mini-poll, comparing some of your work environments to the one I work in. I have a gut feeling we're doing things a little bassackwards where I work and I'm feeling a bit crappy about my work environment right now, I guess I just want to see if I have hope that places aren't all like mine.

    I'm looking more towards people who work at another business as opposed to self-employed people or freelancers, just because of the team dynamic.

    I know these are very vague questions, I'm open to listen to you guys write some novels to explain ;)

    1. How many people are in your department/development team?
    2. Do you have a manager/project lead?
    3. Do you use bug tracking software?
    4. How long, loosely, does it take for you to make a site?

    Thanks y'all :)
    8:16 pm
    [shikkaba]
    Error 80004004? (x-posted)
     Does anyone know anything about this error?:

    "could not complete the operation due to error 80004004"

    It shows up on my blog every time someone tries to access it in IE. Not sure if it's just IE6, or just IE in general.

    http://web-optima.blogspot.com

    I would just take off the offending code, whatever it is, but I have no idea when this error started as I'd tested it in IE only when I was working on the layout itself, and didn't know it was necessary afterwards. Obviously it is. Lesson learned.
    If someone would be so kind as to help me out, I'd be eternally grateful.

    Thank you!!!

    Current Mood: aggravated
    2:03 pm
    [elveneyes]
    Going Freelance?
     Considering no web firms/businesses around my area are hiring, I am thinking of starting in freelance strictly online. I have some questions though, seeing as I've never actually charged someone for my design services before or even remotely dabbled in traditional freelance work. So, if any of you have experience in freelance work, I'd love it if someone could answer my questions!

    1. What kind of domain name do I get for my portfolio/business page?
    I want to get a domain for my "business page", but I don't know what is the most attractive in terms of professionalism. I have a "business" name in mind, but should I just use my name instead? My name is kind of hard to remember/spell easily, so I would rather have something that was quick to type in and get correct. Are certain domain endings more attractive?

    2. How do I advertise myself?
    I've looked around a lot online, and there are many "find a freelancer" websites. Are there any forums, websites, etc places I should post and advertise myself and resume? Any suggestions would help.

    3. How do I price my time and effort?
    This is the $1 million question I suppose. How do YOU price your services? Can anyone give me examples of websites/packages and what you charged? I don't have extreme coding skills. I know CSS and XHTML very well, and do a lot of graphic design in Photoshop, Illustrator...but that's it. I can't do PHP/Javascript/etc. Is CSS/XHTML enough for a freelance web designer to go on? Any books I should study/pick up?

    4. Anything else I should know?
    Any useful info, experiences, advice, suggestions, etc are very much appreciated and welcomed.

    Thanks in advance everyone!
    10:30 am
    [skirtigo]
    little Photoshop save-for-web question..
     I'm trying to get my photoshop image to stay the same color when I do save for web! For some reason it's making the blue more cyan-ey than I want. The file is rgb/8 and I can't figure out why it's brightening it up so much. I tried messing with all the controls - progressive, optimized, embed color profile, sRGB, nothing - EXCEPT when I do Preview: Windows (No Color Management)! Then it looks perfect. But when I do Mac (No Color Management) it gets washed out again. "Use Document Profile" also makes it look how I want it to look.
    Can someone explain what these preview settings mean?

    I should mention I'm working on an iMac with an (admittedly) beautiful color display, probably brighter than lots of non-designer screens, so it could show up darker (how I want it) on SOME screens but I'm concerned save-for-web is messing with the colors too much.

    Thank you!
    11:08 am
    [crazy_female]
    internet explorer sux.
     help!

    a website i'm working on www.dollhousehair.com.

    when loaded on firefox, everything loads up right and whatnot.
    but when i load it on internet explorer, for the oddest reason the top banner will not load.
    i can't explain what's wrong, or why it's doing this.

    i really appreciate it, thanks! :)

    Current Mood: bitchy
    Sunday, July 5th, 2009
    7:45 pm
    [aninvasion]
    Help?
     Okay, so I want to learn how to make a flash website but I know nothing.

    Where do I start? What books can I buy?

    I will eventually have Adobe Flash CS3 on my computer... so... any advice?
    Saturday, July 4th, 2009
    10:14 pm
    [elveneyes]
    AdSense vs ?
     If this topic has been raised previously, I greatly apologize. I can't remember for the life of me seeing this here, so hopefully I'm not repeating myself or anyone else.

    I have been using Google AdSense for several years. I've only gotten about 5 checks in the time I've been using it: something I won't complain about. What I will complain about, though, is the fact that Google can't match most of my content to relevant ads.

    I've got a lot of websites about Asian "stuff" (Japanese and Chinese music/people/movies mostly), and when I try to put Google AdSense on them, they come up with the weirdest and most unrelated ads possible. It's extremely ineffective. Thus, I am looking for alternatives for AdSense that might be a bit better for a wider variety of sites.

    I'm totally oblivious to any other services besides AdSense and Yahoo! Publishing. Does anyone use any other kind of ads on their websites to bring in money? If so, what? How much do you earn? Is it worth it?

    Thanks!
    10:24 am
    [plasticrapping]
    Hey everyone, I have an IE7 issue question (hopefully quick...)

    http://www.pdxhealingmassage.com/


    So I blazed through this webpage pretty quick for friends massage therapy company. I built it using drupal 6, although the issue is theme related (CSS) so I doubt that contributes to the equation.


    Anyways, I took a few liberties on this project and decided to try DIV transparencys and the like in this desgin. For future reference, It's not the best idea because IE7 handles it horribly and it bogs the whole page WAY down when scrolling. Nothing sucks like a choppy looking webpage.


    anyways, the main issue I am noticing: There are a good 250px of white space to the right showing up only in IE7. Where it's coming from I do not know. I have the body, then page container and grass container. None of these have a padding-left or right which would increase the page width. From there all content cotnainers are a fixed width with a margin left and right of auto.


    Anyways, no idea what the culprit could be. If anyone could spot it, that would be much appreciated.





    Also, I don't use LJ much anymore, although I occasionally stop by. If any of you ever have any drupal questions, or would like help on a drupal project, drupal is my main area of focus.


    Thanks,
    Jesse Nicola
    Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
    2:40 pm
    [rhovanion]
    Erm... I hope this is ok to ask here...

    Would anyone be willing to have a quick look over my shopping cart and test it out (without actually buying anything)?

    I did post this in my own journal but apparently all my friends have disappeared off the face of the Earth!

    Also if you have any criticisms about anything at all.. Id like to hear them..

    I'll give out the address once you've (yes YOU) commented

    Thanks!
    Monday, June 29th, 2009
    2:43 am
    [shikkaba]
    JQuery plug ins are evil (x-posted)
     Bloody hell, this is taking too long.

    Found a JQuery plug in that would do exactly what I wanted for showing my web designs.
    Thought that since the first plug in was a breeze to install, the second one would be just as easy.

    NO.

    Right now it's the correct size and everything, BUT the transition isn't working, AND for some bizarre reason the text WILL NOT CHANGE SIZE even though I've added li p, and li and #carousel li, etc. etc. etc. infinate combonations (some of which are up now, but still do nothing to anything AFTER the code loads). I can live without the smooth scrolling transition (although kudos if you know how to fix it), but the text size?? That's just wrong. I'd like smaller because everything else is going to be changed later as well. GAH. Angry.

    http://lisacerilli.nfshost.com/test2/index2.php

    if anyone can kindly help me out with this, I'll love you forever and then some.
    I really want this thing done. I really do. It's taking far too long and I feel rather incompetant because of that (although to be fair, most of the skills employed on this site have been learned in the past year, and not everyone gets everything right away...).

    THANK YOU
    Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
    10:46 am
    [teleject]
    Online CSS Summit on July 18th
     Hi, all,

    Wanted to let you know that myself and seven other speakers are going to be speaking at the CSS Summit.

    CSS Summit is an all-day, virtual* conference that looks at various aspect of Cascading Style Sheets including:

    - Web Form Elements
    - Object oriented CSS
    - Troubleshooting IE6
    - Flexible Layouts
    - Web Typography
    - CSS3
    and more!

    * The conference is all online so you don't have to travel anywhere or get a hotel room.

    The current price of the CSS Summit ticket is $139. (However, that ticket price goes up on July 3rd to $179.00)

    But if you grab your ticket now, you save $25 off the early bird price by using my discount code, CSSCHRISS.

    If you have any questions about the CSS Summit, please don't hesitate to ask.
    Saturday, June 20th, 2009
    2:06 pm
    [addie_graphics]
    Help with menu
     Hi! I'm looking for someone willing to help me make a vertical menu for a site. I know basically how to do it, but I want to be a bit more creative and put the buttons in a criss-cross. Can anyone help or direct me to a good tut? I use Dreamweaver CS3.
    Friday, June 19th, 2009
    12:53 pm
    [seashellchelsea]
    help with divs! :(
     im making an ecommerce site for a small internet business and i've run into a couple of issues. i dont know PHP, which obviously would be the most ideal for ecommerce and right now, the owner cant pay a real ~*professional to make her a PHP site. so we're going to stick with normal html and a paypal shopping cart. also, i've only previously made sites in tables. so this is my first div site. in general, everything's going well and i've been able to work out any issues i've come to face, except for a couple. Because the site is so large, i am using dreamweaver libraries for elements of the page that stay the same.

    ( here's where the problem arises... )

    Current Mood: frustrated
    Current Music: soko
    Thursday, June 18th, 2009
    3:49 pm
    [alicepearl]
    Web Hosting
     What are some good reliable companies that offer web hosting that would be suitable for a business?
    2:39 pm
    [elmost]
    Cool Nav
     Does anybody know how the main blue nav in the middle was implemented? Please see:  www.virginia.edu. The one that shows "prospective students, current students ...) 
    Thanks
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