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General HTML/Web Design Programming Q`s/Questions Answered by Expert John Martin
| Subject | Date Asked |
| Website editing | 10/27/2011 |
| Q: When I search my website, the following appears: Untitled document Autotext.ir Kindly tell me the ... A: The blue text is the Title as it appears inside the <head></head> tags of your web page code. ... | |
| software for customer evaluations | 10/7/2011 |
| Q: John. I'm also an expert on AllExperts. Would you happen to know of any software that I could use ... A: WordPress has plenty of free plugins that will allow you to do any of these tasks and more. You can ... | |
| wmm and mpeg | 9/7/2011 |
| Q: How do I know if my mpeg video file is a mpeg 1 or mpeg 2? I asked this same question on Bing and ... A: Download the following free program and it will tell you if the file is an mpeg1 or 2. It will also ... | |
| cc_javascript | 7/10/2011 |
| Q: Please go to www.clubcastropignano.com website. The menu selections view (when available) on the ... A: This site is using A Layer for the navigation menu. In side your code, find this line... <div ... | |
| Guestbooks/Message boards | 6/27/2011 |
| Q: I have another one for you. What do I need to create my own guestbooks, message boards etc. Right ... A: First of all, don't get me wrong. It's not so much that you are really doing anything wrong. It's ... | |
| Guestbooks/Message boards | 6/27/2011 |
| Q: I have another one for you. What do I need to create my own guestbooks, message boards etc. Right ... A: As per your first question, I'm afraid I have to send that one to the question pool to see if any ... | |
| Professional advice | 5/28/2011 |
| Q: Hey. How have you been? Haven't talked to you in a while (except for these questions.) Anyway, ... A: Well this is a very long and involved issue that I'd love to help you out with. your situation is ... | |
| Owning web names-domain names | 5/25/2011 |
| Q: Mr. Martin, I will be brief, thank you for your time. I want to make a web page but own it too. I ... A: My advice is to use a service such as bravenet to purchase your domain name. If using godaddy, then ... | |
| Freelance contract | 5/24/2011 |
| Q: Hey there. You know me. ;) I've just gotten an opportunity to do freelance. Someone has asked me ... A: I normally do not charge anyone up-front for a project with the exception of deposits if the project ... | |
| Question about CSS | 5/22/2011 |
| Q: Hey. you know me :P Okay so sometime when I am browsing the internet, occasionally CSS does not ... A: It appears that it's a small problem on your end. The CTRL+F5 forces your browser to refresh the ... | |
| CSS layout problems on a page | 2/26/2011 |
| Q: .. It's been a while since I took a Dreamweaver class, and I'm realizing I don't understand certain ... A: I'm really not sure exactly what the problem is that you are experiencing because it appears to be ... | |
| streaming video | 2/19/2011 |
| Q: I recently ask you a question about the path to an XML driven file I bought from Activden. I got it ... A: I'd really have to know more about the particular Activden player that you purchased to answer this ... | |
| wrong path to xml | 2/2/2011 |
| Q: I don’t know if this is a Dreamweaver or xml question? I have four files which I bought from a ... A: I use activden a lot myself. Chances are, what you have is an SWF or FLA editable file (xml powered ... | |
| threads and animations in jquery | 1/27/2011 |
| Q: John Martin I'd like to create an effect similar to this website (please wait 5 seconds to see the ... A: What you are looking for is called an image slider. Here a few free Image Slider scripts that you ... | |
| HTML | 1/19/2011 |
| Q: I am creating a website which has a latest news section. I am creating it using webeasy 8 (due to a ... A: For the following explanation, refer to this illustration: ... | |
| Web Designing | 1/6/2011 |
| Q: Bro, Is is possible to create a tab within a site ? SO that my visitors can view other pages in ... A: Rather than me explaining how to do this, I'll direct you to a simple tutorial that will describe ... | |
| download links | 1/4/2011 |
| Q: I have a website of old-time radio shows. Users can listen or download the shows for free. I have ... A: Generally a mac computer will have difficulty downloading any file that has spaces associated with ... | |
| Pro web designing | 11/9/2010 |
| Q: I was thinking about setting up an e-book store. Something on the lines of this website : ... A: First of all, the part where your php page is not appearing correctly sounds more like a hosting ... | |
| Pro web designing | 11/8/2010 |
| Q: I was thinking about setting up an e-book store. Something on the lines of this website : ... A: What you are looking for is called a "Free Opensource eCommerce Content Management System"... More ... | |
| creating a page element that repeats on multiple pages | 10/30/2010 |
| Q: I'm looking to see if there is a way with css (working in dreamweaver) to create a page section that ... A: There are many ways to accomplish this but the simplest and most common method is to use the ... | |
| html, PHP & contact Form | 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: What you heard was actually correct. When it comes to PHP, there is a lot of content within the ... | |
| Cyberduck | 9/16/2010 |
| Q: I was wondering if you could recommend a good website for me to figure how to use Cyberduck (an ftp ... A: 1. Yes, just simpler 2. Yes, FireFTP is just for FIrefox. However there are many others you can ... | |
| Cyberduck | 9/16/2010 |
| Q: I was wondering if you could recommend a good website for me to figure how to use Cyberduck (an ftp ... A: Sure: http://www.elated.com/articles/using-cyberduck/ However, if you prefer to use something ... | |
| Starting a Website | 9/15/2010 |
| Q: First I would like to thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. It is very much ... A: Well Drupal is alright for setting up a general content site but I very much doubt that you'll be ... | |
| Web design | 8/27/2010 |
| Q: First thanks for giving your time answering question, I really appreciate that. I am graphic ... A: Well, I have to say one thing up front. You are starting off on the right foot. Most people like ... | |
| Web design | 8/25/2010 |
| Q: First thanks for giving your time answering question, I really appreciate that. I am graphic ... A: I'm sorry for such a slow response; due to the time-stamp on my email, you must have asked the ... | |
| Flash Background | 8/16/2010 |
| Q: Im trying to get my background to change every 5 seconds to a different wallpaper. I have a blogger ... A: The width of the content area on your site is 915 pixels (the full width depends on the user's ... | |
| website | 8/15/2010 |
| Q: I have an interest in health/well being, meditation, manifesting, relaxation techniques, etc. I want ... A: The one thing that seems to have deluded people's understanding of the Internet over time is the ... | |
| web | 8/14/2010 |
| Q: what is the best way to put audio files or video/audio files on my web site? I have a video on ... A: Well a lot of people will tell you that this is impossible but there is a small trick that you could ... | |
| web | 8/13/2010 |
| Q: what is the best way to put audio files or video/audio files on my web site? I have a video on ... A: It is always best to use an alternative source (other than your own host) for displaying multimedia ... | |
| Iphone code for Web Design. | 7/20/2010 |
| Q: I hope this is a question you might be able to help me with. I searched online but couldn't find any ... A: Absolutely, this is certainly possible because it is something I use quite extensively myself due to ... | |
| blog spot | 7/14/2010 |
| Q: I have a blog. http://mountainlite.blogspot.com/ In years past, I was able to enter a word in the ... A: Yes, ironically this has been an issue ever since the latest Bilderberg meeting that Google's CEO ... | |
| Blogger question2 | 5/29/2010 |
| Q: I've been developing personal blog on blogger but I'm not sure if it worth's to continue. My ... A: 1. Yes, within the settings of blogger there is an option to move, import or export your blog ... | |
| web server url forward/redirect | 4/28/2010 |
| Q: Not sure if this is the right group to ask this question, but figure I would at least start here! I ... A: Yes, I know your frustration. I've had similar issues with that myself in the past. Instead of ... | |
| Image position | 4/18/2010 |
| Q: .. On this website... http://tinyurl.com/y5c8f4z ...The slideshow image 'headerImg2.jpg' is ... A: these images are controlled by both external javascript and an external css. The three overlapping ... | |
| Image Rotation | 4/17/2010 |
| Q: I am a newbie learning web-design. On this (random) website... http://tiffanyinteriors.co.uk ...the ... A: The particular site that you pointed out is not using just a standard JavaScript image slideshow. ... | |
| Server password | 3/28/2010 |
| Q: After paying for a web build, my friend has noticed spelling errors on his webpages, which would be ... A: It would be the same thing. When you open the ftp address in your folder it is the same as opening ... | |
| Server password | 3/28/2010 |
| Q: After paying for a web build, my friend has noticed spelling errors on his webpages, which would be ... A: This varies from server to server as to how to access your files. The simplest method for people to ... | |
| Web Design | 3/23/2010 |
| Q: I have recently moved to the UK and my partner and I are going to start a website design small ... A: When using opensource software, it is not really necessary to know a whole lot of HTML or other ... | |
| search box | 3/8/2010 |
| Q: i would like to know how i can integrate one search box to another.Example : one page has one search ... A: There are different options as to how to create a search box to search specific websites from one ... | |
| how do I build a web page? | 2/26/2010 |
| Q: Greetings John, I have a question which I’m sure has been asked more than once to you, so please ... A: To start with, the perfect place to host your site is http://www.000webhost.com because they offer ... | |
| Autoplay coding problem | 2/13/2010 |
| Q: Can you please look at this embed code and tell me what I need to add to get it to AUTOLOAD when I ... A: Once you download the video and save it to your computer, you can then upload it to youtube. Then ... | |
| Autoplay coding problem | 2/13/2010 |
| Q: Can you please look at this embed code and tell me what I need to add to get it to AUTOLOAD when I ... A: This video is being distributed through Core Video Player which is primarily designed for use in ... | |
| follow up on - embed video in database | 1/8/2010 |
| Q: Hey you were saying that you cannot give me the exact code to call from a database but could you ... A: Ok let me explain this in a bit more detail. Before anything: you will need to know how to program ... | |
| xhtml or the newly released html 5 | 1/8/2010 |
| Q: Which hypertext programming language (XHTML 1.0 or HTML 5) do you think is better, both in ... A: XHTML is a markup language that is best suitable when creating web pages that are more W3C compliant ... | |
| embed video in database | 1/7/2010 |
| Q: Hey, I recently got into web designing and decided to make a website to stream videos and I just ... A: Yes... I'm sorry, I didn't know you were referring to youtube. You would do it the way you pointed ... | |
| embed video in database | 1/7/2010 |
| Q: Hey, I recently got into web designing and decided to make a website to stream videos and I just ... A: I’m really not sure what level of programming you are on at this point so I won’t be sure if I am ... | |
| ebook compiler | 1/1/2010 |
| Q: I need a ebook compliler, so I can create my own ebook, but it should be simple and easy to use. I ... A: There are several ways you can go about doing this but ease of use and cost vary. There is the ... | |
| disallow google searchbot, allow adsense robot | 12/13/2009 |
| Q: I want to use some duplicate content on my site which is so much related to my website them or I can ... A: As far as google and other MAJOR search engines are concerned, you are well off simply using the ... | |
| disallow google searchbot, allow adsense robot | 12/12/2009 |
| Q: I want to use some duplicate content on my site which is so much related to my website them or I can ... A: Instead of using the usual robots index and follow tags in your header, simply use the robots.txt ... | |
| I need help in CSS Navigation Bar. | 11/25/2009 |
| Q: I have done one CSS Navigation Bar. Almost everything is done. But when I mouse over the bar, the ... A: Your solution to this is simple (although I can completely understand the difficulty in locating the ... | |
| CSS usage | 11/21/2009 |
| Q: I have a few more, John. Indeed, I have finally found a Web guru! I built my site painstakingly ... A: My number one advice to you would be to get to know CSS as well as possible. There are 3 primary ... | |
| associate's degree | 11/17/2009 |
| Q: do you think I will be able to find a job with an associate's degree? I have to quit college early ... A: well "right now" is kinda of a stretch. However, if you "right now" as in starting right now to get ... | |
| associate's degree | 11/16/2009 |
| Q: do you think I will be able to find a job with an associate's degree? I have to quit college early ... A: As strange as this might sound, I would actually recommend obtaining an associates degree only, ... | |
| Images on websites | 11/12/2009 |
| Q: I would like to know what is the reason for slicing small images. In example if you take a look at ... A: The reason this particular template's top navigation buttons have sliced images is in order to allow ... | |
| Charset & CSS incompatibility? | 11/8/2009 |
| Q: I run several different websites, and am having a problem with some of them in Firefox - the CSS ... A: There is a major conflict between internal styles of several pages in Firefox when using frames and ... | |
| How can I embed a program or software into my website? | 11/4/2009 |
| Q: I've recently found a software, program, that suits my site. I want to embed it to my website so ... A: Unfortunately simple programming languages will not allow such a thing due to the possibility of ... | |
| web | 11/4/2009 |
| Q: I have a website that gets about 3 visitors a day. Google has indexed only two pages even though I ... A: First of all, contrary to popular beleif, Google really does not rely on Meta keywords at all. This ... | |
| Web Host | 10/24/2009 |
| Q: I am currently with 1&1 hosting but I am very unhappy with their services. Can you recommend a good ... A: You know, I really feel kinda strange recommending my own hosting when one asks this question but I ... | |
| submission | 10/11/2009 |
| Q: My site is not listed yet. http://www.ineedhits.com/submission/g-boost.aspx has a service in which ... A: First of all, yes, it's ok to format your h1 tags this way. Secondly, You seem to be a bit off ... | |
| submission | 10/11/2009 |
| Q: My site is not listed yet. http://www.ineedhits.com/submission/g-boost.aspx has a service in which ... A: No and No; However both of which are very good questions and I am glad you came to me first. ... | |
| Creating a website with only one feature. | 10/8/2009 |
| Q: Respected Sir, I want to ask that what is the procedure for creating a website which ... A: This is really not as difficult as most people perceive. All a text message really is is a limited ... | |
| interactive website | 9/22/2009 |
| Q: How are you? Thanks for taking questions. I would like to write a photo webiste where a user could ... A: There are tons of ways that yo can go about this. I would consider learning PHP and MySQL database ... | |
| dead links | 9/19/2009 |
| Q: I checked my site for dead links using some free online checkers and they generally found about 20 ... A: This is something you should take seriously when search engine optimizing your website. If Google ... | |
| web | 9/9/2009 |
| Q: About a month ago you told me to get the free social bookmarking toolbar and promote my site by ... A: When optimizing your website for Search Engine ranking, each individual page of your site must be ... | |
| coding library | 9/6/2009 |
| Q: I am a web design/dev student at college. I recently did my mid-curriculum review. I am very good ... A: A code library is really only a partial definition of what he wants you to do. What your teacher is ... | |
| search bots | 8/30/2009 |
| Q: I moved my website to another host. My site was focused on a particular mental disorder. It was ... A: regardless of whether a page is on tier two or tier 5,000 doesn't necessarily effect the rank. Each ... | |
| html | 8/23/2009 |
| Q: How can text links be black and not the usual blue color? A: This was kind of vague but I'm sure you must be talking about leaving your links black instead of ... | |
| Create floating menus | 8/21/2009 |
| Q: I want to create menus that appear when you point at a word. I am looking for something similar to ... A: Here is a simple script that you can use on your site to create these type of menus. ... | |
| web | 8/15/2009 |
| Q: I recently changed my web host on my site which was well populated in search engines. 1.They had a ... A: Generally a site doesn't have to be well formed or look great to get alot of visitors because most ... | |
| web | 8/14/2009 |
| Q: I recently changed my web host on my site which was well populated in search engines. 1.They had a ... A: 01. There are plenty of free tools online that can be used to effectively analyse your website for ... | |
| html links | 8/11/2009 |
| Q: What is the construction of a link that is invoked without a trigger from the user? That is, it ... A: This is what the meta tag does. However, I will explain in more detail. Inside of the index.html ... | |
| html links | 8/11/2009 |
| Q: What is the construction of a link that is invoked without a trigger from the user? That is, it ... A: This is not necessarily a link; First, Wikipedia uses a 301 (moved permanently) redirect method in ... | |
| S/W and H/W recommendation for web development | 8/10/2009 |
| Q: I'm seeking to purchase a good laptop for my wife, as she desires to consult on webpage usability ... A: First of all, although I am not really against mac or anything personally, I highly advise against ... | |
| web | 8/10/2009 |
| Q: I use to have a web site using a host that was full service and they took care of sending my site to ... A: Yes: http://www.000webhost.com/free-php-hosting is a good host that allows free space with php and ... | |
| web | 8/9/2009 |
| Q: I use to have a web site using a host that was full service and they took care of sending my site to ... A: Getting your website listed in Searches is the easy part. As a matter of fact, if you will be using ... | |
| help help! | 8/6/2009 |
| Q: ! It's me again!! Um, um, how do I explain my question... OK, have you heard of csszengarden? I am ... A: The only easy way of doing this would require dreamweaver or similar web design software. By using ... | |
| help help! | 8/6/2009 |
| Q: ! It's me again!! Um, um, how do I explain my question... OK, have you heard of csszengarden? I am ... A: First of all, most developers like to place their CSS codes within a template when first creating ... | |
| web site ranking | 8/2/2009 |
| Q: You helped me out before and you a great job. I had to rebuild my website about 2 months ago. Now, ... A: To begin with, your meta tag keywords and description is blank. The meta tags of each individual ... | |
| Quick Question | 8/1/2009 |
| Q: I'm trying to learn web design. When somebody designs a site for another person, can they just save ... A: Certainly, my advice would be to do just that. However it is also pertinent to learn a bit of ... | |
| Quick Question | 7/31/2009 |
| Q: I'm trying to learn web design. When somebody designs a site for another person, can they just save ... A: This pretty much depends on what the customer wants. For the most part, a standard web design would ... | |
| hi!! me again | 7/26/2009 |
| Q: ! I need some help..with design!! I am not very good at designing; my expertise is coding. For one ... A: The best way to get inspired is to simply cruse the net. A great site for creating some web2.0 ... | |
| more questions.. | 7/21/2009 |
| Q: . I am sorry to bother you again. Is WordPress and Joomla something I should be learning? I see a ... A: Yes... this is basically what the CMS is that I was talking about. It allows website owners to log ... | |
| more questions.. | 7/21/2009 |
| Q: . I am sorry to bother you again. Is WordPress and Joomla something I should be learning? I see a ... A: Although it would be a great idea to get to know Joomla (aka: Mambo) and other Content Management ... | |
| Freelancing | 7/21/2009 |
| Q: My name is Kayla and I am a Web Design college student. My expertise specifically is XHTML and CSS. ... A: Yes, they are just trying to hard. Don't resort to sounding desperate like that. To bid, simply ... | |
| Freelancing | 7/21/2009 |
| Q: My name is Kayla and I am a Web Design college student. My expertise specifically is XHTML and CSS. ... A: I use getafreelancer (commonly referred to simply 'GAF') myself on a regular basis... so much so ... | |
| Website Creation Inquiry | 7/17/2009 |
| Q: my name is Frank Huang and I have been offered a chance to intern as the online marketing adviser of ... A: I would love to help you with. The only problem with passing this information over to you here is ... | |
| Unselectable text and Web Spiders | 6/18/2009 |
| Q: I've added a JavaScript script into a few of my webpages to prevent users from being able to select ... A: No, the spiders will not be effected at all by such a script. The way spiders work is they index ... | |
| Re: How to embed webcam into a webpage? | 6/17/2009 |
| Q: I've been doing some online research recently/lately on something I use to have hooked up with Yahoo ... A: ok i see, you don't want to have to be logged into a site. Well, unfortunately there is really no ... | |
| Re: How to embed webcam into a webpage? | 6/17/2009 |
| Q: I've been doing some online research recently/lately on something I use to have hooked up with Yahoo ... A: The best known method of inserting a live web cam stream through your website without having to ... | |
| About online video aggregation technology | 6/13/2009 |
| Q: If I were to make a site like www.bestofyoutube.com or www.viralvideochart.com where I aggregate ... A: Unfortunately there are several coding languages you should be fluent in in order to necessitate a ... | |
| website software help | 5/25/2009 |
| Q: com i checked it out and what i want to know is, with what kind of software can you make websites ... A: These sites are most likely using Adobe Flash but there some alternatives. One good one is Swish ... | |
| Learning CSS...Need Assistance... | 5/15/2009 |
| Q: The URL currently working with is ... A: Simply add the width attribute to the css line for topmenu. Your #topmenu css commands should like ... | |
| pop-up windows? | 5/11/2009 |
| Q: I am using a Mac and the SeaMonkey web design program. I am trying to keep my home page open and ... A: This is similar to creating any other pop up. Using the tool that I pointed to at ... | |
| web | 5/7/2009 |
| Q: I want to put google adsense text ads on my site but whenever I do it pushes the text below it. I ... A: Adsense generally does not have a method to align their ads, so what I do is simply place the ads ... | |
| webpage | 5/3/2009 |
| Q: I deleted a few pages on my website from my web host. Those pages had already been spidered and ... A: There are a couple of common ways to handle this problem. It really depends on what type of hosting ... | |
| securing html in email | 4/27/2009 |
| Q: I distribute an html newsletter. I would like to allow my customers to be able to copy the html ... A: Technically anyone can simply take HTML and alter it even that means copying it in to their own HTML ... | |
| web design | 4/26/2009 |
| Q: What does it mean when a website page(s) has multiple errors according to validator.w3.org but it ... A: In the most simplest terms I can put it, even yahoo.com has 34 errors and 8 warnings on that site ... | |
| web | 4/22/2009 |
| Q: I created a web site. The navigation bars on the left are individual jpg inserted into table cells. ... A: This is a typical problem when dealing with firefox Versus IE. In your particular case there is an ... | |
| javascript | 4/8/2009 |
| Q: Are there any negatives or downsides of using javascripts to repeat the same things on many pages. I ... A: The only real downside is that some browsers can not see it but only if those users specifically set ... | |
| web | 4/6/2009 |
| Q: I just built a website using kompozer and I quickly realized that instead of copy and pasting the ... A: There are plenty of places on the net that offer hosting with those extensions. Here is a popular ... | |
| web | 4/6/2009 |
| Q: I just built a website using kompozer and I quickly realized that instead of copy and pasting the ... A: Actually, I can think of three ways that this could be done using PHP. Not to worry though... This ... | |
| HTML/CSS | 3/28/2009 |
| Q: I'm struggling with HTML/CSS. Specifically I'm trying to have my external CSS specify a background ... A: Specifying a background image or color is done slightly different than you average style attributes. ... | |
| web | 3/24/2009 |
| Q: For the sake of robots or spiders, is there any advantage of having one website that focuses on a ... A: In many cases some search engines do not even go beyond 2 tier. It is always a good idea to post a ... | |
| web | 3/23/2009 |
| Q: For the sake of robots or spiders, is there any advantage of having one website that focuses on a ... A: It's rarely known that Google and most other search engines generally only list the two most ... | |
| Photoshop to Falsh Movie Clip buton | 3/21/2009 |
| Q: Martin, I know most designers would advice me to create a button in flash using the ... A: The best flash SWF I've ever made was done so without ever touching a flash design program. Here's ... | |
| Do I Need a Create an Iframe or a Cell to this? | 3/17/2009 |
| Q: Wonder if you can help. I'm trying to put a webpage together and I know very little about web ... A: For this you would use an iframe... although you can always wrap an iframe in a cell but that's ... | |
| web | 3/8/2009 |
| Q: Do meta tags need /> or > at the end? I have seen it done both ways A: It doesn't matter either way. There was a time in the past when single tags (such as meta tags and ... | |
| Web design/developing.. | 2/24/2009 |
| Q: I am a sophomore at the art institute of atlanta. my major is web design. you may or may not be ... A: Being talented art-wise is the one aspect that most people overlook that actually gives you the real ... | |
| design | 2/21/2009 |
| Q: I'm designing a web site and plan to have google ads in the future. Do I have to make space for ... A: Making space is always a good idea if you are planning on adding the adsense in the very near future ... | |
| web | 2/19/2009 |
| Q: I'm creating a web site about medical issues - that normally are treated with drug therapy - treated ... A: There are a lot of free image editing software to download but none of the free ones do any good ... | |
| web | 2/19/2009 |
| Q: I'm creating a web site about medical issues - that normally are treated with drug therapy - treated ... A: There is a free service online called Copyscape that you can use to check copyrighted information ... | |
| web | 2/14/2009 |
| Q: I want to create a simple but professional information website which will have many pages. I don't ... A: Komposer is fine but when it comes to creating web forms, it will help you create them but will not ... | |
| web | 2/13/2009 |
| Q: I want to create a simple but professional information website which will have many pages. I don't ... A: There are many ways to go about your project. I am assuming you are looking for the least expensive ... | |
| CSS issue - correction | 2/11/2009 |
| Q: Sorry. The domain is losangelesrhinoplasty.org A: First of all, the menu on each of these pages is drawn in as a <div>. In order to control the ... | |
| Web Search Field | 2/10/2009 |
| Q: John I work for a small charitable organization that often recieves book donations. With about 500 ... A: Well, you can not necessarily search an excel sheet itself. In order to create a search page on a ... | |
| Lost | 1/12/2009 |
| Q: I recently hired someone to make a website for me but I am not real happy with it and, being ... A: I can definitely help you out here. First of all, there are tons (and I mean TONS) of books, ... | |
| HTML wysiwyg editors | 12/23/2008 |
| Q: I am looking for a free html editor. I teach a college writing course and used to have students ... A: Well, what you want is the NVU html editor. You can download this at the following location... ... | |
| Script writing | 12/18/2008 |
| Q: We have registered a new domain name to use in advertizing as an alias to our main web site. It is ... A: Technically there is no cost involved with hosting another web just to do what you are wanting. ... | |
| Script writing | 12/18/2008 |
| Q: We have registered a new domain name to use in advertizing as an alias to our main web site. It is ... A: Ok, I misunderstood. You mean that you simply need to redirect the alias domain name that you ... | |
| Script writing | 12/18/2008 |
| Q: We have registered a new domain name to use in advertizing as an alias to our main web site. It is ... A: Simply add the following code to your html in between the <HEAD></HEAD> tags. <meta ... | |
| mouseover images in a table | 12/16/2008 |
| Q: I am trying to find a way to show a larger picture when you mouseover a tabled thumbnail image. I ... A: In the head of your document, add the following script. (on the page with the images.) You can see ... | |
| Autoresponder code | 12/11/2008 |
| Q: I would like to insert my own autoresponder code that generated by my autoresponder company into a ... A: When you say it didn't work, do you mean that the code does not generate an auto-response to the ... | |
| User Upload | 12/7/2008 |
| Q: I hope you are able to help me. I am kinda new to web design and use Microsoft FrontPage. I belive ... A: I'm really not sure Joomla is the way to go with that unless of course there happens to be a Joomla ... | |
| sound files played from a single source | 11/14/2008 |
| Q: I'm a beginner at building websites and need some assistance with setting up an mp3 page. The ... A: It should be reading a playlist url. you create this by simply creating a page with the file ... | |
| sound files played from a single source | 11/13/2008 |
| Q: I'm a beginner at building websites and need some assistance with setting up an mp3 page. The ... A: I would like to make this alot easier on you so I am simply sending you to a page that will discuss ... | |
| sound files played from a single source | 11/13/2008 |
| Q: I'm a beginner at building websites and need some assistance with setting up an mp3 page. The ... A: I may need some more information regarding exactly what it is you are looking for. Are you ... | |
| HTML Program | 11/4/2008 |
| Q: I am looking for a good HTML program for designing my own webpages. I have made webpages before, but ... A: Yes, exactly. That program has visual aspects that make programming as easy as the touch of a ... | |
| HTML Program | 11/3/2008 |
| Q: I am looking for a good HTML program for designing my own webpages. I have made webpages before, but ... A: I should first mention that the code implemented by individual HTML editors are not exactly defined ... | |
| reload only part of webpage | 10/31/2008 |
| Q: i basically want to reload only a part of my webpage based on wat link the user clicks. think of it ... A: Well my response to this will be short because there are several methods to do what you are asking ... | |
| Dropping a Hosting Service, Taking a Site Down | 10/29/2008 |
| Q: Dropping a Hosting Service-Taking a Site Down Hi I hope you can help me, if you can't maybe you ... A: By emailing me at 'yallways at gmail dot com' I may be able to help you further. Unfortunately this ... | |
| Preventing Quicktime downloads followup | 10/28/2008 |
| Q: I read your reply about using iframes to prevent QT downloads with great interest. I understand the ... A: You basically do this in the same method mentioned in that other article, However you will target ... | |
| Web Servers | 10/8/2008 |
| Q: I am currently learning HTML in hopes of starting a web design business (likely part time at first ... A: cPanel hosting is a hosting control panel that gives you full access to every aspect of your website ... | |
| Web Servers | 10/3/2008 |
| Q: I am currently learning HTML in hopes of starting a web design business (likely part time at first ... A: Well what you want to do is take advantage of the real thing right from the get-go. cPanel hosting ... | |
| Fit a website in multiple screen resolutions | 9/4/2008 |
| Q: How to fit a webpage in different screen resolutions like 800x600 and 1024x768. like the one ... A: There are a couple of main ways to do this depending on how much time you have to do it or your ... | |
| dreamweaver8 design question | 8/22/2008 |
| Q: I am on a Mac using Dreamweaver8. I have a client who wants a page that will pop up a picture ... A: Here is a script that does just that. It also allows you to place images and HTML inside of the ... | |
| FCKeditor | 8/11/2008 |
| Q: I was not able to understand the FCKeditor that I've downloaded and use Zip Install. But John, I ... A: Unfortunately, I haven't much experience with FCKeditor because it is more advanced than really ... | |
| QuickTime - Green Videos | 7/28/2008 |
| Q: First John, please allow me to thank you very much for your service. I have an older Kodak CX6230 ... A: The answer to your problem is VLC Media Player. It is free and will play virtually any video file ... | |
| Follow up to 6/6/08 previous question | 7/17/2008 |
| Q: You helped me out once before with our website so I hoped you could do it again. On 6/6/08, you ... A: yes. You would do this in basically the same way as you would any other link, however to make sure ... | |
| HTML Information type elements | 7/2/2008 |
| Q: I am a beginner in HTML. I cannot understand the use of the information type elements like the ... A: Here is a very simple reference site that you can use to look up virtually any basic html element. ... | |
| Question | 7/1/2008 |
| Q: how are you going? My name is Christina and I live in Australia. I want to have a shot at ... A: No problem. As far as the paid ebooks are concerned, I should tell you from my experience, selling ... | |
| Question | 6/30/2008 |
| Q: how are you going? My name is Christina and I live in Australia. I want to have a shot at ... A: I normally do not make it a practice to put Google down because I use them alot but I must say that ... | |
| google site search | 6/19/2008 |
| Q: many thanks for your help with this. I have a website http://www.centrebouddhisteparis.org and it ... A: Well there are several things you can do to help the site appear more in search engines. The most ... | |
| frames used in HTML: how to avoid | 6/18/2008 |
| Q: In many publications you find that the use of frames is negative factor for websites. (in respect to ... A: Ok technically there are alternative to frames like certain scripts offer. You can see some ... | |
| Add text to home page | 6/6/2008 |
| Q: Can you please take a look at www.nutechsolutions.com and let me know how I would go about adding ... A: Due to the fact that this red background is drawn into the page using css there is really only one ... | |
| RSS Feed Updating Process | 5/31/2008 |
| Q: [From an AllExpert in another field.] I have recently added an RSS feed to my web site. I have ... A: Generally when using an outside source to host your rss feeds, you have two issues to compete with ... | |
| site wont show | 5/28/2008 |
| Q: and thankyou first of for taking time to read my message. I would like to ask about how, I am ... A: Unfortunately there can be one of several reasons for this problem but I would be unable to tell you ... | |
| dreamweaver | 5/28/2008 |
| Q: how can i insert flash animation in dreamweaver. i make a animation on dreamweaver but it is not ... A: When editing in Dreamweaver, find the [Media] tab at the top of the editor. Click that tab to find ... | |
| Images do not display on web page preview | 5/7/2008 |
| Q: This is what the code looks like: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Bumpers</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <p> <img ... A: Be sure that the image is uploaded to the correct path or that the path in the code is directed to ... | |
| web program and server issue | 5/2/2008 |
| Q: None of the web programs I have and used successfully in the past are working. I like to use ... A: Sounds like a registry error to me. My only suggestion at this time (until we discover that you ... | |
| File Extentions | 3/30/2008 |
| Q: Greetings, I'm a professional web designer and work for a small company doing standard website ... A: The particular website link that you showed me is in fact using an extention but is merely masking ... | |
| HTML | 3/11/2008 |
| Q: I have a scenario where i have to choose the folder by using HTML. <input TYPE="file" ... A: Although this question is kind of vague, I think I might understand what you are saying. If I am ... | |
| Website | 3/10/2008 |
| Q: I currently have a completed website and paid for a host; and now how do I get it on the search ... A: First things first. Whatever you do, do NOT pay money to anyone claiming to place your website on ... | |
| Preventing Quicktime downloads | 3/9/2008 |
| Q: Can you give me any advice on HTML code or other means to prevent download of embedded QT movie ... A: Sorry for the long delay in answering this question but I wanted to check on something first hand to ... | |
| Preventing Quicktime downloads | 3/9/2008 |
| Q: Can you give me any advice on HTML code or other means to prevent download of embedded QT movie ... A: I'm sorry to say this but as long as you use common video players to embed movies into your site ... | |
| Free site to practice skills | 3/7/2008 |
| Q: Not sure if this question is right for you, but I'm using books and tutorials to learn PHP. I'm a ... A: The reason you cannot view the php files on your computer or laptop or site that is not enable for ... | |
| ASP .NET applications for mobile devices | 3/3/2008 |
| Q: I am learning ASP .NET with MS Visual Studio 2003 and have never done anything for cell phones ... A: Generally it is possible these days to do just about anything over a cell phone that you can do over ... | |
| Contact us form | 2/21/2008 |
| Q: I wish to place a java code on my blog (http://digital-dexterity.blogspot.com/) which would let ... A: First of all, when adding scripts to blogger, you should note that can only be done in the Beta ... | |
| Youth Baseball team Website | 2/19/2008 |
| Q: John, thank you for taking my question. I am an "expert" in two sections on here, electrical ... A: The owner of backstage6.com does sites for free for non-profit organizations and educational sites. ... | |
| banner ads | 2/18/2008 |
| Q: I have several e-products and I'm trying to use the covers from them to make "banner ads". They ... A: This commonly happens when trying to resize images in html from larger images that are stored in ... | |
| Remove bullets from lists | 2/10/2008 |
| Q: I have a blog at digital-dexterity.blogspot.com. When viewed in IE, the bullets in lists on both ... A: In the internal style of the page (not the external style sheet), locate the style contentlist.ul, ... | |
| Dreamweaver won't update | 2/6/2008 |
| Q: I recently took over a website and update it using Dreamweaver. I did not set up the code for the ... A: First of all, I can help you with this but your question is a little too generalized at the moment. ... | |
General HTML/Web Design Programming Q`s
John Martin
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Expertise
I am able to answer any web design related questions including but not limited to html, dhtml, xml, wml, css, php, flash, swf and WAP. I have computers and electronics experience dating before the Military where I served as a tactical telecommunication com center operator in Military Intelligence during Desert Storm (and Desert Shield). I have a total of 22 consecutive years of computer experience (since age 14) and also teach computer classes locally. I also know little known secrets to making money online and SEO.
Experience
22 years of consecutive computer related jobs, hobbies and Military operations.
Education/Credentials
Personal experience, US Military Intelligence experience, Schooling and Signal Corp. Training as well.
Awards and Honors
Army accommodation medal and a two week advancement in A.I.T. training due to already existent computer knowledge at the time.
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