| Subject | Date Asked |
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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, ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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. ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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. ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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. ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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, ...
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| 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... ...
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| 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. ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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. ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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. ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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, ...
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| 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. ...
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