You are here:
- Home
- Internet/Online
- Personal Web Pages
- General HTML/Web Design Programming Q`s
General HTML/Web Design Programming Q`s/Questions Answered by Expert Marty Landman
| Subject | Date Asked |
| Question about text "hidden" by CSS | 3/22/2011 |
| Q: I have a bit of an odd question ... Specifically, it has to do with the web layout of this site: ... A: Alessandro, If you use Firefox then suggest installing the firebug addon. Then you can go to the ... | |
| my website | 3/17/2011 |
| Q: My website is DavidRubinstein.net. Could you suggest ways that I could improve its "findability?" I ... A: David, Putting description and keyword meta tags on your site is a good start. It's also important ... | |
| php file upload | 3/7/2011 |
| Q: i am 15years old from south africa.i registered with www.000webhost.com.i Have a php file with my ... A: You'll put the PHP source code on your computer, install filezilla and then connect to your server ... | |
| php file upload | 3/6/2011 |
| Q: i am 15years old from south africa.i registered with www.000webhost.com.i Have a php file with my ... A: They mention the 2 different ways you can do this on your website at ... | |
| Problem with html coding | 2/18/2011 |
| Q: i wanted to paste copyscape banner on my blog imronil.blogspot.com but when i pasted the html code ... A: Ronil, Are you using FTP or a web based tool to upload your edits? Here's what I see doing a view ... | |
| HTML, PHP & Website Contact Forms | 9/22/2010 |
| Q: Forgive my ignorance on the subject. I am preparing a website and as part of that site I wanted to ... A: Bruce, All the contact forms I've done have used server side scripts. That means that a program, ... | |
| What is the best way to archive this website? | 7/2/2010 |
| Q: I'm a media studies student in the UK. Therefore, I visited the Media page of the Guardian newspaper ... A: Victor, First I'd be remiss if I didn't mention http://archive.org/ which has a section called the ... | |
| web design and programming | 3/12/2009 |
| Q: I am interested in building web sites and I wanted to know if you can tell me what kind of ... A: Pamela, In order to do this you'll need some programming on the site server. You can start ... | |
| query design | 3/5/2009 |
| Q: I will Get Right to it. I am using classic asp pages to develop my site. I am trying to query the ... A: You'll probably now need to develop a method for keeping the session active - that means the session ... | |
| query design | 3/4/2009 |
| Q: I will Get Right to it. I am using classic asp pages to develop my site. I am trying to query the ... A: Mo, I would think to have a table for each session and then create the row for a new session, ... | |
| html | 2/13/2009 |
| Q: I want to create a "plane jane" information website which will have many pages. I want more ... A: Frank, If you have skills why not apply them? Especially if you don't mind putting in the time and ... | |
| xml | 1/26/2009 |
| Q: I have a quick question regarding validation in xml. I have created a page in html which is valid ... A: Susan, I took the first one, changed the DTD to XHTML and started fixing problems using weblint ... | |
| Free Template for Photos? | 7/6/2008 |
| Q: Can you recommend a simple free website template for a photo gallery? Something with, say, 25 ... A: Usuff, Have you tried http://flickr.com/, or did you have something else in mind? -- Marty ... | |
| Submitting a form by email | 4/28/2008 |
| Q: I have an established website, and have a "mailing list" form all set up for people to enter their ... A: Heather, See if my auto-installer works for you, or download and install / configure yourself. ... | |
| Question about an image on my site | 4/22/2008 |
| Q: I have a question. I am fairly savvy, but I cannot get a particular image to appear on my club's ... A: Cheryl, When I looked at the page's source code saw <img src="/ttt.jpg" width="560" height="225"> ... | |
| web programming woes | 3/13/2008 |
| Q: I want to learn all about Web Designing and web programming from home. Someone suggested i first ... A: Meera, Since you are already studying computer science I think you can use your university library ... | |
| Share data on a web page? | 3/10/2008 |
| Q: I call prospects and qualify them on the phone then pass them along to my client, a debt settlement ... A: Michael, The only free service I can think of that would work for this would be creating a Yahoo ... | |
| qualifications | 2/15/2008 |
| Q: I am thinking of doing a 5000 dollar diploma of computing in web development, but I am wondering if ... A: Micko, It's up to you how you get your education. Your diploma would be one possible qualification, ... | |
| hide viewsource | 2/7/2008 |
| Q: Is there a way to make your coding invisible for people who "viewsource" ? ANSWER: No ---------- ... A: Because the source code has to be downloaded to your computer, so the browser can see it and then ... | |
| forms | 2/5/2008 |
| Q: i'm a novice so please bear with me. we have a comments form on our website and when the form is ... A: Leslie, I'm afraid that if this is the best technical support you have available then it is not a ... | |
| forms | 2/1/2008 |
| Q: i'm a novice so please bear with me. we have a comments form on our website and when the form is ... A: Leslie, Yes what you want does make sense. I would do this by writing a program which - through SSI ... | |
| Help! | 1/29/2008 |
| Q: For a project, I am to design a website for a catering business, however, the website needs to have ... A: Davina, In order to have interactivity of this sort you will likely need to use one or several ... | |
| word document in publisher | 1/28/2008 |
| Q: I create my webpages in MS Publisher. Do you have any knowledge about this program. My question is ... A: Eivind, You should be able to just put the Word document on your website. When a visitor clicks on ... | |
| Website development | 1/27/2008 |
| Q: Marty Landman I want to develop a site to my organization. But problem is how can I will ... A: Razzak, My suggestion is to use SSI - server side includes. They must be permitted on your server ... | |
| HTML reading and displying a file | 7/31/2007 |
| Q: txt file or some other file and display what the txt has in it on the web page and does it have to ... A: If you call your webpage mypage.txt instead of mypage.html then the text will be displayed on your ... | |
| Easiest way to do a site | 7/28/2007 |
| Q: website. (wysiwyg) What is the easiest, cheapest, most user friendly way to do it? I thnk I ... A: Easy and cheap and user friendly may be hard to find all together. I think your best bet might be ... | |
| help with my html code | 7/27/2007 |
| Q: My code is not sending our form to our email address listed and it also is not linking back... ... A: Please don't post code to your question unless it's a few lines only. If you can though, please send ... | |
| cgi script | 7/16/2007 |
| Q: my web making program is web express i am trying to make a form to send to e mail but i cant get it ... A: I'd be happy to have a look at the script. Best way to let me see it is to rename it e.g. if it's ... | |
| I need your help! | 7/11/2007 |
| Q: I’m a specialist dermatologist from Dubai, UAE. I want to create a dermatology web site; I don’t ... A: Dr. Fayza, I think to model your site it will be good to begin by looking around the web for other ... | |
| Creating a webdesign | 2/24/2007 |
| Q: Yes, i'm helping a friend who is a webdesigner and i'm an IT but he is creating a web design and ... A: Starr, Could you please send me the URL and also be just a little more specific about the problem ... | |
| Website logo itle banners | 2/22/2007 |
| Q: I know this may sound a little simple, but I don't suppose you know of any website on the net where ... A: Frank, Logos and banners are not my specialty but the few times I've done them I just scout around ... | |
| RSS feeds in IE7 | 2/19/2007 |
| Q: I have a personal web page and have recently introduced RSS feeds to it. I have the code for feed ... A: Nathen, I googled for the keywords ie7 rss feed detection and came up with a bunch of relevant ... | |
| Sorry and clarification. | 10/28/2006 |
| Q: Sorry I was not clear enough in the last question I asked you. I saw the below script well down the ... A: Like I said, nothing involving having an email address is foolproof. Also since the solution relies ... | |
| Blocking spam robots. | 10/25/2006 |
| Q: I do have some forms on my website. However, I prefer people first communicate with me by clicking ... A: Here's what that first link says: ========================================================= Is ... | |
| Blocking spam robots. | 10/24/2006 |
| Q: Do you know any effective ways to block email address extractors putting my email address on email ... A: Richard, The issue is that spambots are often used by illegitimate if not nefarious folks so ... | |
| HTML | 10/16/2006 |
| Q: I have 5 checkbox and an Edit option button. If neither of them is selected and if we click edit ... A: Vinod, So you want something like this? my $option; # auto inits to '0' for('opt1', ... | |
| HTML | 10/15/2006 |
| Q: Consider i have a table inside that i have <tr> <td id="Menu2" class="width20Percent hcenter" > ... A: Vinod, Please use an HTML validator to clean up your code before reaching any conclusions about ... | |
| website template? | 10/7/2006 |
| Q: I basically have one question for you. I have a modestly successful website and I want to make a ... A: Mike, I've got just the solution for you - it's a web based content management system which is ... | |
| Intelligent Website | 10/3/2006 |
| Q: I want to star a new business and already have about 90% of the information ready. The business is a ... A: Joel, I'd be happy to discuss this privately with you - if you'd like that please use the contact ... | |
| Web Hosting | 9/21/2006 |
| Q: I was looking for some good advice on what to look for with an ISP. I want to put up a simple web ... A: Landon, You should look at a variety of plans. Here's mine ... | |
| Flash from Powerpoint | 9/9/2006 |
| Q: I'm trying to get; www.Interviewthedevil.com to run like www.Interviewwiththedevil.com Can you ... A: Al, The first site seems to be done using static HTML pages while the second is done using Flash. ... | |
| Multiple login | 9/7/2006 |
| Q: i used to work on this educational website where i used to proxy for students who had no time to ... A: Mallika, I am not sure that what you are asking is something can help with. Suggest you contact the ... | |
| Html | 7/19/2006 |
| Q: Marty, Just wondering if you could tell me if it is possible to have a link jump to one of a number ... A: Wayne, This can't be done through plain HTML. I think you have two choices for how to approach ... | |
| severe css issues | 7/15/2006 |
| Q: www.betterchoiceloans.com/upfront.htm all the links in the body of that page are linked to the same ... A: I looked at the Loan Tracker page on FF 1.0.5.0.4 and also IE 6.0.2900 on my Win XP workstation. ... | |
| severe css issues | 7/14/2006 |
| Q: I don't want to post all my css code here, it will annoy you, I have a series of pages I am doing ... A: West, Which pages are giving you trouble? Can you be specific? The CSS on the link you gave ... | |
| Signle Spacing in HTML | 7/4/2006 |
| Q: I have been trying to find out how to create text with single spacing within a HTML email. Before ... A: Mick, Have you tried using the paragraph <p>...</p> tag? Is the problem that you want an image ... | |
| Looking for Refer-a-Friend script | 7/4/2006 |
| Q: I am working for a small company that needs a "refer a friend" script on their site. I'm taking care ... A: Lynn, I don't personally know because this is not something I have installed in the past. The best ... | |
| Website security | 6/27/2006 |
| Q: I'm trying to find a way of banning certain IP addresses from accessing my personal/business website ... A: Lawrence, Try this, run this bit of Perl code on a server web application. for(sort keys %ENV) { ... | |
| CGI Script / Form Mail | 6/16/2006 |
| Q: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml : downloads a 0byte file (likewise for ... A: Pierre, I don't understand why downloading isn't working for you. Which browser, version, and OS are ... | |
| CGI Script / Form Mail | 6/16/2006 |
| Q: Downloading from your site attempts to fetch the following: upload.cgi%3Fformal.zip So far I've had ... A: I don't understand why you're having a problem d/l'ing my formmail. Works for me using either ... | |
| CGI Script / Form Mail | 6/16/2006 |
| Q: When I use a script as follows it works fine: <form method="post" ... A: You can try the download link on http://face2interface.com/Products/Formal.shtml and do the ... | |
| CGI Script / Form Mail | 6/15/2006 |
| Q: I have received the following from one of the experts: Your question was I have a problem getting ... A: Pierre, First, your form is currently posting to http://www.samoahotel.co.za/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl ... | |
| Ecommerce Site | 3/26/2006 |
| Q: I am trying to start an ecommerce business, but I have no Idea on how to go about creating my site. ... A: Stephen, You can try my free formmail script http://face2interface.com/formINSTal If that doesn't ... | |
| Redirects | 3/13/2006 |
| Q: I live in Canada and have a Canadian business. My web site is hosted in the USA. I think Google ... A: Harvey, I would consider spending a little bit of money on google.ca's advertising - ... | |
| Online Form | 3/11/2006 |
| Q: I have a replicated website at www.pro-cards.biz What I need is a entry form created. So when ... A: Rich, I just wrote my first Ajax driven form - it's a variation of my free formmail and you can see ... | |
| simple contact form and newsletter for a website | 2/12/2006 |
| Q: I have built a pretty simple online webshop. But I need to integrate some essential addons: 1. ... A: Sergei, For the formmail you could try mine - the link as at the bottom from where you can try to ... | |
| HMTL Email Template | 2/2/2006 |
| Q: I'm looking for someone to create an HTML template to email. Can you help or suggest anyone who can ... A: I'd be happy to discuss this job with you if you'd be good enough to contact me through my website ... | |
| Use of Formmail scripts | 1/10/2006 |
| Q: I hope I'm asking the right person - I have enough knowledge to be dangerous! Here's my problem: I ... A: Kathleen, I am very familiar with form processing in fact I offer my own formmail from my site and ... | |
| problems with the gci-din folder | 11/28/2005 |
| Q: here is tone of thew links i need to find a solution to the error or send the people to another ... A: Ok I see when adding to the cart also that the script is broken. Please see my previous reply - ... | |
| submitting form results to my web server. | 11/24/2005 |
| Q: Submitting Form Results to my web server http://www.davidappalachiancrafts.com/wholesaleorder.html ... A: Adele, First please try my formmail web installer, link is below. If that doesn't work then contact ... | |
| Fluid Templates and Banner Headers | 11/24/2005 |
| Q: I'm designing my first Website based on a Fluid template and I'm having design difficulties with ... A: Andrew, You may know more CSS than I do. I achieve liquid design using tables with the width set to ... | |
| button style | 11/23/2005 |
| Q: http://www.geocities.com/alan.cosgrove@btinternet.com/choutlinepage4.html I have 4 buttons on the ... A: Alan, You can use the CSS link properties to try and get these effects to some extent. There's a ... | |
| images rollover | 11/21/2005 |
| Q: I'm using <img src="scot.jpg" width="357" height="297" border="2px" color#123456 align="right" ... A: Alan, At a glance don't see the problem. Would it be possible to visit the webpage where this code ... | |
| Submit Button | 11/20/2005 |
| Q: I want to design a web site similar in functionality to this one: leahy.senate.gov/contact.html I ... A: Phil, What you seek is called a formmail. There are many on the web - I myself provide a free one ... | |
| firefox v IE6 | 10/23/2005 |
| Q: the extract below launches the jpg image ok in IE6 but the alt only shows in it's palce in firefox ... A: Alan, I notice you are using an absolute path on your hard drive. I get the same thing, IE will ... | |
| Email validator | 10/19/2005 |
| Q: I am an online student of less than 3 months. So my knowledge for the most part is limited. My ... A: Jay, If you are trying to use a server script to process the form the HTML will not work. Suggest ... | |
| View Text Size | 10/17/2005 |
| Q: I am trying to eliminate the ability to increase or decrease the text size on my website using ... A: Brian, I am using Firefox 1.0.4 on Win XP and can increase the font size on buy.com by using the ... | |
| Online form/database | 10/17/2005 |
| Q: I know enough HTML to build a website and I use Frontpage to do it. I also use cut and paste ... A: Tan, Check out my FormATable product. face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml There's an ... | |
| CSS | 10/9/2005 |
| Q: I have a table that is going to be on over three hundred pages on my website. I would like to ... A: Brian, There is a little bit to learn here - not too bad if you dive in and play around with it a ... | |
| help me | 10/2/2005 |
| Q: I have been fighting with this for 2 days, I am trying to learn html I already know it but it was ... A: West, Save your document with a filetype of .html and then you'll be able to view it on your ... | |
| HTML | 9/26/2005 |
| Q: This is my coding in the index.html page <html> <body bgcolor=�blue�> <title>welcome</title> ... A: Vinod, There were a number of problems - probably the one which really caused the problem was not ... | |
| HTML | 9/25/2005 |
| Q: I have three HTML page Index.html,First.html and Second.html. In the Index.html page i have two ... A: Vinod, This sounds like a straightforward problem. Please let me know the url of the website to ... | |
| Automatic Refresh | 9/18/2005 |
| Q: Is it possible to make it so that my website automatically refreshes itself everytime anyone ... A: Roger, If you mean that your server should be contacted for updates to pages that may be cached by ... | |
| Data Driven Web Page | 9/12/2005 |
| Q: I'm using FrontPage 2003 and Access 2003. Also, I'm creating web pages that'll live on local network ... A: Josh, Using a database to populate web pages is a popular and common method. Use google to find ... | |
| Page From Double Frame Repeated | 9/9/2005 |
| Q: I have made a page with double frames(two pages on one). But When I change to another pages, one of ... A: Arin, I tried several links and get to totally different places not seeing this issue. Can you ... | |
| File Manager | 9/8/2005 |
| Q: hope you can be of some help, when i log into my control panel, i can open up the File Manager, but ... A: Paul, If a web page works on some browsers but not others than I suggest looking next at the ... | |
| html code | 8/19/2005 |
| Q: I am the owner of www.dubrovnik-apartments.com I want to add some links on the left side of my ... A: Kreso, I would make the entire page one table, then have two columns where the first column ... | |
| HTML and Macromedia Flash | 8/14/2005 |
| Q: Iam creating a CD for my friend. I have my front page called as Index.html. As soon as put my cd i ... A: Vinod, You'll need to create an autorun.inf file on the cd's root directory. Just found this free ... | |
| html | 7/19/2005 |
| Q: I HAVE JUST STARTED TO LEARN WEBDESIGN.CAN YOU PROVIDE ME THE SITES WHERE I CAN LEARN ABOUT CSS. A: Roshan, Suggest you start with the articles you'll find at http://www.w3schools.com/css/ and then ... | |
| Generating a PDF from a form | 7/8/2005 |
| Q: Actually I do have enough time these days to get into something like this. Is there a good web ... A: Tim, There are lots of sites to get started learning PHP and Perl. My own http://thecgibin.com ... | |
| Generating a PDF from a form | 7/8/2005 |
| Q: I know very little about programming and only the basics of HTML. I'd like to create a ... A: Tim, I have to believe this can be done, although I haven't personally worked with the Adobe ... | |
| Search engine rank and list problem | 7/7/2005 |
| Q: I can not seem to get my site listed for the life of me. I have tried many met-tags and submissions. ... A: Jared, A few suggestions: 1) restrict the meta tag data to actual content; for example if the home ... | |
| Suggestions for Database | 7/4/2005 |
| Q: I am going to start creating a website that I want to incorporate with a database, however I am not ... A: Richard, There are a wide variety of possibilities out there. Also you should be aware that there's ... | |
| Create an Excel File | 7/2/2005 |
| Q: Sir i m using the following code: <% Set xml = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP") ... A: Ankit, Start by looking at this tutorial: http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_excel_write.html Suggest ... | |
| web design | 6/24/2005 |
| Q: i am new to web designing.i just want to add a photo gallary to my web page.also i want to add a ... A: Anitha, I suggest that you first learn Photoshop or similar image processing program. If you use ... | |
| Web site fonts are different | 6/16/2005 |
| Q: My name is Assaf and I have a problem with fonts. I have finished building a website and it works ... A: Assaf, There is no way to guarantee which fonts a person has installed on their personal computer. ... | |
| Page Break | 6/15/2005 |
| Q: The thing about it is that the datas are displayed in a loop, therefore requiring the client format ... A: Sam, I don't know of any way for you to statically create multiple pages. The only option you have ... | |
| Page Break | 6/15/2005 |
| Q: I am trying to prevent unwanted and ugly page break in my webpage. I've just extracted informations ... A: Sam, In my opinion you will have to actually publish separate pages. So if the data you're putting ... | |
| images in browsers and outlook express | 6/10/2005 |
| Q: Marty, when i view jpeg figures in microsoft internet explorer 6.0 and outlook express - the ... A: Vince, I would normally suggest you try reinstalling Eudora. AFAIK you don't have that option with ... | |
| Building a site | 6/7/2005 |
| Q: I was wondering if you might help me. I want to build a web page or web site, (don't know what the ... A: Hector, The easiest way to start is probably using an HTML editor like Microsoft Frontpage. For ... | |
| images in browsers and outlook express | 6/4/2005 |
| Q: Marty, when i view jpeg figures in microsoft internet explorer 6.0 and outlook express - the ... A: Vince, This sounds very strange to me. Is it all jpegs from anywhere on the web? I have had a ... | |
| How to control width | 6/2/2005 |
| Q: June 2, 2005 Greetings, I have a whole lot of questions that all have to do with the same topic: ... A: Johnny, First you'll have forgive me admitting that reading your entire question, as well thought ... | |
| Global table insert | 5/31/2005 |
| Q: I have a table made with HTML with two side by side cells including a little text in each one that ... A: Arvid, I'm afraid the link you gave didn't work for me. That said, the only way to do this which ... | |
| Linking to a .pdf document | 5/12/2005 |
| Q: I used to be able to do this, but I seem to have lost the nack!! I have created a .pdf document and ... A: Steve, The calendar page has one pdf link <a href="Assets/Binder1.pdf"></a> The news page has one ... | |
| Linking to a .pdf document | 5/12/2005 |
| Q: I used to be able to do this, but I seem to have lost the nack!! I have created a .pdf document and ... A: Steve, Could you please write back with the URL so I can look myself? Thanks. Marty Landman, ... | |
| cgi scripts | 5/10/2005 |
| Q: I'm planning an entertainment website that asks for information from visitors, credit card ... A: Take a look at my product FormATable on my site at ... | |
| Home page setup | 5/4/2005 |
| Q: Marty, I have uploaded my main page, how can I get it to access straight away when someone goes on ... A: Richard, Normally if you name a file on a directory index.html then someone clicking to the ... | |
| Dreamweaver issue | 5/3/2005 |
| Q: My name is Assaf and I have a problem with a website that I have built. I finished builfing an ... A: Assaf, Is it possible that you are experiencing a browser compatiblity problem? This would be where ... | |
| data base | 5/1/2005 |
| Q: on the http://dsl.sbc.yahoo.com/ there is a calendar with whats going on today, tommorow and the ... A: Ernest, Adding any such feature to your website will involve locating, configuring, and installing ... | |
| HTML SPAN | 4/27/2005 |
| Q: I am writing a program that determines what color a particular piece of text in an HTML file will be ... A: Charlie, If CSS is being used and has errors of this type, then provided you're sure there wasn't ... | |
| Dynamic websites | 4/25/2005 |
| Q: I am making a project website but do not want to use a template. At present I use 2 includes to put ... A: Gary, Having one page for the site, then putting content in before sending to the browser is what ... | |
| Search engine positioning. | 4/7/2005 |
| Q: Sorry not to reply sooner. I now have three almost identical pages at ... A: Richard, As you say the pages are pretty much the same. I wouldn't do it this way; instead I'd ... | |
| uploading images and viewing them | 4/4/2005 |
| Q: Waht i want is the following. I want my visitors of my website to give them the possibility to ... A: Ennio, This would be pretty easy to do with a program which does the upload for you, if you simply ... | |
| Templates unlocking | 3/26/2005 |
| Q: I have few Templates of HTML, I don't know in which software it is created. but these are HTML ... A: Imram, There are many HTML editors available, the best is probably Dreamweaver. You can also use ... | |
| Calling in a subroutine into perl? | 3/23/2005 |
| Q: I purchased a software package writtin in Perl with some html. I have a couple of routines that I ... A: Kathleen, The easiest way to bring external code into your program is to use the 'require' ... | |
| Hello I have a request... | 3/20/2005 |
| Q: I have a request for information. Im typing up resumes. I want to use Email to send them. But i ... A: Kaveh, I suggest you install Open Office and use that to convert your Word docs into HTML which can ... | |
| launching web pages | 3/8/2005 |
| Q: pls i have multiple questions, hoping you will help me. 1. can i upload my webpages on a cybercafe? ... A: Ik, I don't understand what the question is. Can you please give me an example of what you mean, or ... | |
| Hi Marty, I'm build websites... | 3/2/2005 |
| Q: I'm build websites in Dreamweaver/Macintosh platform. I always get stumped when it comes to forms. I ... A: Craig, If you're willing to try out an alternative I suggest my own free formmail. You can do the ... | |
| getting a form working | 3/1/2005 |
| Q: Helo marty - I'm a graphic designer wih an online marketing form. I have made the form ... A: Chloe, You can use my formmail, the link at bottom is to the web auto-installer and if you request ... | |
| Querying a databse | 2/25/2005 |
| Q: What is the best way to generate search results on a web page, when the search is done by choosing ... A: Jane, I suggest keeping your solution as simple as possible. In case you do have to create dynamic ... | |
| Website registration | 2/21/2005 |
| Q: Before i start id like to admit that i dont actually know what language this requires. If its not ... A: Nick, The easiest way to do this is to use the .htaccess feature of the Apache web server. This ... | |
| building web sites | 2/15/2005 |
| Q: 2-15-05 Hi! My name is Kyle. I'm a fifth grade student at Shadow Hills Elementry, and I also ... A: There are many different ways to build websites. My own specialty is using CGI and building dynamic ... | |
| guestbook | 2/12/2005 |
| Q: I need to create a guestbook that will allow me to accept\reject entries before they're posted. Is ... A: Gator, Look around at http://sourceforge.net/ which is probably the best source of free software ... | |
| help plz..!!! | 2/7/2005 |
| Q: I have a question to ask: I have designed a web page by HTML kit and I have a problem .. When I ... A: Dashti, This is what is called a compatibility issue. My advice is to try one of two things: 1. ... | |
| About web sites | 1/30/2005 |
| Q: How Do I Make A WebSite , That Where People Have To Sign Up To Enter The WebSite And Then Log In ... A: Kenneth, There are many ways. One example which you can see demonstrated on my website is at ... | |
| Do-It-Yourself CMS | 1/30/2005 |
| Q: I am biased towards PHP, though I recognise Perl as an incredibly useful all-purpose tool, but I ... A: Adonikam, As you say there are many solutions out there. I've got a CMS running my own website with ... | |
| Web display on MacIntosh versus PC | 1/18/2005 |
| Q: You have the url of the web site (not all pages are complete). This is what the person is seeing. ... A: Bette, I'm on Windows XP and Firefox 1 and it looks fine. Thanks for posting the screenshot, now I ... | |
| Quick Question | 1/12/2005 |
| Q: I am in the process of developing a business website, i had a logo designed for me, and i own the ... A: Skyler, I might be able to help. My products include a for-fee version of my free formmail which ... | |
| Help with HTML script | 12/30/2004 |
| Q: Landman- I am a disabled artist who markets artwork on the web. My domain is www.bitethebrush.com. ... A: I offer a free formmail which is self installing from a form page on my website. The link is below. ... | |
| automatically completing forms | 12/25/2004 |
| Q: So what I'm trying to do is link to this site ... A: Dan, First, regarding your formmail. Try my auto-installed formmail and ask for a review. I'll look ... | |
| banners/buttons | 12/23/2004 |
| Q: i have a site at http://www.princesscomics.com and i would like to create banners that would link to ... A: Marcus, If you're asking me if I can do this for you as a private job, the answer is yes, this is ... | |
| Mail list subscriptions | 12/1/2004 |
| Q: Can you recommend how I install a mailing list function on my site please. I need to have the mail ... A: Ben, I suggest you something like my free formmail (link at bottom) to ask folks signing up for ... | |
| Changing the layout of a button in CSS | 11/27/2004 |
| Q: I hope you are doing well. I need to know that how we can change the layout of a button(input type) ... A: Usman, You can use the id attribute or have the style be inline for each styled element. If you ... | |
| html editor | 11/14/2004 |
| Q: Please tell me bestest html editor for me when my pc have speed 400mgh Thanks i have use at the ... A: Since I write HTML using a text editor am not the best person to ask. What I always hear from others ... | |
| I need help! | 11/8/2004 |
| Q: Hey there, My name is Ronda and I'm working on a children's project for the churches in my area, I ... A: Randa, I'm sure you realize that writing custom scripts is - to use your example like working on ... | |
| Site Header Thingy | 10/20/2004 |
| Q: ok I am working on the redesign of my current website to try and make it look a bit more ... A: Dave, First, I'm unfamiliar with DW and there may well be a way to do what you want using one of ... | |
| Web editing | 9/28/2004 |
| Q: When I am on the internet and in my web site I click on File then "edit in MS word" which allows me ... A: Ron, There may be another way to approach it. After you've made your edits save the file someplace ... | |
| Guest book programming | 9/24/2004 |
| Q: I created a webpage on a free ISP service here, and included a guest book. i could chose between ... A: Rolf, It's not clear to me whether you are adding a free guestbook script to your site, or if it is ... | |
| Image Open | 9/19/2004 |
| Q: I am utilizing HTML for a project for my fire department that will be used on laptop computers in ... A: Ron, I wonder if Explorer is doing this because you've specified putting the image in a pop-up ... | |
| Autostart an exe | 9/10/2004 |
| Q: My question is this: I used a flash program made an intro and saved it as a .exe file. How can I ... A: Mark, First, save your flash movie as an .swf file. Then use some code like this on your home page: ... | |
| Autostart an exe | 9/10/2004 |
| Q: My question is this: I used a flash program made an intro and saved it as a .exe file. How can I ... A: Mark, I've got a flash movie that runs on the pages of my site, in a small area. The principal ... | |
| HOW DO I CREATE A USER ID... | 9/9/2004 |
| Q: HOW DO I CREATE A USER ID OR PASSWORD FOR MY WEBSITE? ANOTHER WORD IF i HAVE JOB APPLICATION WHICH I ... A: Rose, The simplest id/pw set up is using htaccess password protection which is available for Unix ... | |
| CGI FORM HANDLEING | 8/24/2004 |
| Q: what I want to do is place form data in a text file in my server (apache 2). please explain ... A: Paul, If you find where the data is collected in any formmail script you can direct it to an output ... | |
| Problems with my server | 8/23/2004 |
| Q: Greetings Marty, I am having trouble getting my FrontPage Web pages uploaded to my server site(who ... A: John, I don't use MS FP and am unfamiliar with your hosting co. However, I think if they don't ... | |
| FTP | 8/17/2004 |
| Q: I have FTP access to a web site. (1) Into which directory do I upload my HTML programs? (2) How do ... A: Charlie, - you'll have to figure out which directory is for the website public pages, these go ... | |
| website | 8/15/2004 |
| Q: How do webmasters earn money when we visit their website? A: From advertising - just look at any commercial site like Yahoo and you'll see ads running on the ... | |
| FTP | 8/14/2004 |
| Q: I know how to program in PHP using Apache web server on my PC, but have never put anything on the ... A: Charlie, You can download FileZilla, which is a freeware FTP program(client) and connect to his ftp ... | |
| Search engine positioning. | 8/12/2004 |
| Q: How much difference is needed between similar web pages to ensure their rating is not downgraded in ... A: Richard, That's an interesting one, not sure from experience with this situation. Here's my gut ... | |
| what to use | 7/27/2004 |
| Q: I have a website: Caribbean Medical Schools - Online Guide www.CaribbeanMedicine.com I would like ... A: Asad, Here are a few suggestions from looking at your home page: - make the page smaller, with ... | |
| automatic e-mails | 7/24/2004 |
| Q: In my website i have a link that sends an e-mail to the webmaster. how do i male tha link put a ... A: Jim, Here's an example of how to do this in a mailto link: <a ... | |
| Web Page | 7/23/2004 |
| Q: I have created my own personal web page,through the space provided by my isp My url is ... A: Hasan, 1:what is web hosting ,domain registration domain hosting, domain forwarding etc ? Web ... | |
| HTML | 7/21/2004 |
| Q: I'm starting to design the first personal website using HTML language thus,I eas wondering if you ... A: Nasser, You can find all the HTML you could ever want on the web! Go to any webpage with your ... | |
| user website manipulation | 7/20/2004 |
| Q: I have a pretty specific web design need, and I'm not sure if PHP/mySQL or CGI would be the way to ... A: Jon, This sounds similar to the 'twiki' content management concept. Check it out on ... | |
| IE Macro that saves a website data periodically | 7/20/2004 |
| Q: I need to build a macro that saves a certain website with online data, each predefined time, into a ... A: Yoav, You can arrange to run your utility at regular times by setting it up as a cron job (on Unix ... | |
| about webdesigning wht things are required | 6/28/2004 |
| Q: i m from mumbai, india i wanted to know how creat web site , can u people help me to lern this? A: Mahesh, Why not start with something simple? You can get free hosting at Geocities and then figure ... | |
| animation in | 6/25/2004 |
| Q: A: Donn, The easiest way to create an animation on your website is by getting a graphics program and ... | |
| How can I get a JavaScript menu to dropdown on top of combo that i placed on form | 6/19/2004 |
| Q: I am making mouseover pop menu in dreamweaver using javascript. but problem is that. Always the html ... A: Shahid, I wonder if there are Z-levels being set up by Dreamweaver and the combobox is in front for ... | |
| Connect to databases | 6/19/2004 |
| Q: How can I connect a database to web page. I want to make a Grade system for school. Please explain ... A: Farbod, There are many ways to do this. In Perl the DBI package is used, in PHP and ASP there are ... | |
| HTML Links | 6/16/2004 |
| Q: I know the html code for changing links when the mouse hovers over them, but the only way I know how ... A: Katie, You can change text color, probably change the style such as regular to bold or italic, and ... | |
| Web Site design | 6/10/2004 |
| Q: I am just starting to try and fix up my Web Site using one of the free Design Programs. I do ... A: Ken, Links are easy <a href="http://mysite.com/info.html">click here for more info</a> Accepting ... | |
| CGI script for form mail | 6/9/2004 |
| Q: howdy marty, i'm new to CGI scripts and would like some info on how to process form mail, what my ... A: Jeremy, You've got two main options with formmail. Either install the program on your own server, ... | |
| WAP | 5/16/2004 |
| Q: my name is ali and i study IT in univercity. i want to know something about WAP in web world. please ... A: Ali, WAP stands for "Wireless Application Protocol". It is a way to create web pages for small ... | |
| netscape vs. IE | 5/10/2004 |
| Q: Why do Netscape and IE display the same nested tables differently (Netscape shrinks it and displaces ... A: Sebastian, Cross browser compatibility is a specialty unto itself and one I'm afraid is out of my ... | |
| Web page printing | 5/7/2004 |
| Q: Is it at all possible to protect you website from being printed? I have an online study guide for ... A: Dwayne, Not only can't you prevent someone from printing your site, they could also make copies and ... | |
| Internet Explorer 6 encoding options not installed | 4/28/2004 |
| Q: I'm not sure what you are asking. This doesn't relate to any specific web page or site -- this is ... A: Sheree, I'm running IE 6 on XP and when I go to view > encoding there are several different options ... | |
| Internet Explorer 6 encoding options not installed | 4/28/2004 |
| Q: On a Windows 2000 machine, in Internet Explorer version 6, if you go to View, Encoding, "None" is ... A: Sheree, Before I try to guess at what this is about and possibly lead you astray, would you be so ... | |
| border//table | 4/21/2004 |
| Q: //www.woohu.com on the left hand side.. thank you stefii A: Stefii, There are a variety of ways to do this. The simplest is to set border="1" on a table ... | |
| Searching | 4/17/2004 |
| Q: I am in the midst of finishing a website and was wondering how I can add a search box option for my ... A: Alex, This is easily done if you are willing to use Google's free service. Provided your website is ... | |
| HTML | 4/14/2004 |
| Q: Followup To Question - How do I make the output from a web page display as soon as the programming ... A: Charlie, I know how to prevent buffering in Perl but not in PHP, sorry. Marty Landman Face 2 ... | |
| HTML | 4/13/2004 |
| Q: How do I make the output from a web page display as soon as the programming language outputs the ... A: Charlie, Sorry that I've misinterpreted your question. If you'd like me to take a closer look would ... | |
| HTML | 4/12/2004 |
| Q: How do I make the output from a web page display as soon as the programming language outputs the ... A: Charlie, If the script is written in Perl then you can accomplish this by turning autoflush on. ... | |
| HTML Template | 4/10/2004 |
| Q: How could I center my HTML table on the x & y axis? Thanks Keith Answer - Keith, You can use the ... A: Keith, The splash page is centered vertically and horizontally for me on Netscape 7.1/Win XP. Hmm, ... | |
| Image map | 4/10/2004 |
| Q: We have a family tree website. One of our trees is very large, we have broken it down into 8 ... A: Charles & Valerie, When I go to the full page with the image map, then select one of the links - I ... | |
| HTML Template | 4/10/2004 |
| Q: How could I center my HTML table on the x & y axis? Thanks Keith A: Keith, You can use the width and height attributes, e.g. <table width="100%" height="100%" and ... | |
| Resizing Browser Window | 4/7/2004 |
| Q: I am using DreamWeaver for my web design. I want to keep my graphics and text in a fixed position, ... A: Shaun, I code HTML by hand only so I'll just do the best I can and you'll need to try and translate ... | |
| html for downloading | 4/1/2004 |
| Q: I have a folder full of files on my webhost. I also have a web page I am writing(on the same ... A: Mike, Create a zip file out of the directory and its contents, then allow the visitor to download ... | |
| scrolling title of a html page | 3/29/2004 |
| Q: Is there any way to scroll the title of the html page in the toolbar of windows. bye A: Zaigham, I don't know of any way to scroll the html title, which appears on the top of the browser ... | |
| please answer ASAP | 3/28/2004 |
| Q: how do i put an e-mail link on my website without actually revealing my e-mail address at all A: Alex, You can't. At least not that I know of. What you can do if you don't want your email address ... | |
| changing the font in the Dropdown list | 3/24/2004 |
| Q: I hope you doing good. I just have a small question. I have a webpage that uses a dropdown list I ... A: Latife, Honestly I'm not sure if this can be done. If the font tag isn't doing the trick for you I ... | |
| downloading web pages automatically | 3/19/2004 |
| Q: Do you know any software that will allow me to download many web pages (hundreds) automatically and ... A: Sam, I'm not sure what you mean by this. Have you considered just zipping the pages and ftp'ing the ... | |
| tweaking webpage | 3/19/2004 |
| Q: also is there somewhere that gives u the different html codes to change the colour of ,for example a ... A: Flossist, I use photoshop to change how light or dark an image appears. The 'adjust levels' which ... | |
| Special Search | 3/13/2004 |
| Q: I'd love to create a VERY small website that exists for no other reason that to allow AMG All Music ... A: Luke, I know that you could do this in Perl using the LWP::UserAgent package because that will ... | |
| Creating Vertical Lines Using Relative Positioning.... | 2/29/2004 |
| Q: The URL is: http://hwashington.ccc.edu/ns3/index.htm I am following a model similar to the ... A: Dennis, I'm not sure I follow the problem exactly, which may be me since my HTML only goes so far. ... | |
| Creating Vertical Lines Using Relative Positioning.... | 2/29/2004 |
| Q: Got the following code from a tutorial related to the subject topic. Developing a website but can ... A: Dennis, Can you please reply with the URL and where on the page the problem specifically is? ... | |
| SHTML | 2/26/2004 |
| Q: What is SHTML and what do you need to program/run it? A: Joe, SHTML is a file extension which is often used for HTML pages that also contain SSI - server ... | |
| WS_FTPLE | 2/22/2004 |
| Q: I use WS_FTPLE to manage my site. As I am working on my site I upload my changes on my pages. Out ... A: Rich, I used to use WS_FTP and assume what you use is a related problem. To be honest this isn't a ... | |
| web database question | 2/13/2004 |
| Q: In a web database system, how can i populate the combo box or drop down list in a webpage through or ... A: Kev, Since the data you need to populate the drop down list is in a database on the server ... | |
| Runtime error in feedback form | 2/11/2004 |
| Q: Hope you can help. My site users are complaining of a runtime error when trying to fill out a simple ... A: Paul, I just filled out the form and got a normal looking completion screen in response, i.e. got ... | |
General HTML/Web Design Programming Q`s
Marty Landman
Top Expert on this page
Expertise
Perl programming using CGI, databases, HTML templating, and website automation.
Experience
Web
developer since 1998, owner of
Face 2
Interface.
©2012 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company. All rights reserved.