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| Subject | Date Asked |
| special characters in html | 7/20/2010 |
| Q: Marty Landman I have a html file with text in German, Spanish and French. Unfortunately when it ... A: Jay, This is a common problem that comes up when preparing web pages. There are special character ... | |
| squeeze page help | 7/9/2010 |
| Q: I am in the process of building a website and have come to the conclusion that I will need a ... A: Jarrod, I think you need a lot of confidence in your message to try and force someone to give you ... | |
| Web Design | 6/15/2010 |
| Q: Tell me about The LAMP Technology? A: Jada, Please read the wikipedia article about LAMP - which stands for Linux, Apache, Mysql and ... | |
| Web Portal | 3/13/2010 |
| Q: My company's currently works with a number of different systems to store customer information ... A: Kevin, I'm inexperienced with SAP so can't comment on that. The problem you have is a common one ... | |
| WebDesign | 3/3/2010 |
| Q: Greetings for the Day Sir...how I hide the exetension of webpage like page.aspx = page page1.html ... A: Abhimanyu, You can usually configure the server to render the index.html or index.aspx etc... when ... | |
| suggesting a program | 3/6/2009 |
| Q: I am kind of on almost intermediate with computers using Frontpage 2002. 1 What easy yet good web ... A: Gabe, I write my HTML by hand. For professional designers afaik the most popular program in ... | |
| Backlinks | 2/21/2009 |
| Q: My website www.scubadivinggozo.com is currently ranking number 13 for the word diving Malta.I am in ... A: David, Backlinking should be done in a sensible way. This is important for search engine ... | |
| Working with my freelance webdesigner. | 2/13/2009 |
| Q: My name is Sofian Khan, Iam trying to make a tradeportal similar to Alibaba.com, for this purpose i ... A: Sofian, If you hired a mechanic to tune up your car you could always call a few others and see what ... | |
| Installing cgi scripts | 2/9/2009 |
| Q: I am creating a website to promote paid ads as well as free classifieds. I have read several ... A: Ed, Here are a few basics: 1) there is probably a path in the script you'll need to alter per your ... | |
| web | 1/29/2009 |
| Q: How do make and put videos of yoga movements on my website? What kind of video recorder/video camera ... A: Al, If you have a digital video camera, even a cheap one, and a tripod then you probably have the ... | |
| Display a weekly message | 7/1/2008 |
| Q: I'm an amateur trying to maintain a community website for our small English village. I want to make ... A: Chris, look at the PHP date function - http://us3.php.net/date. You can retrieve the week of the ... | |
| Display a weekly message | 6/30/2008 |
| Q: I'm an amateur trying to maintain a community website for our small English village. I want to make ... A: Nice site, and nice town. To do this you'll need a little bit of programming. Can you find out what ... | |
| Forums and Google AdSense | 3/17/2008 |
| Q: I have a question about forums. I have one running at: http://www.caribbeanmedicine.com/forum/ If ... A: Asad, Not specifically, but I think as long as you're able to locate the forum template file you ... | |
| web | 2/22/2008 |
| Q: how can i put asmal adertisement on afree web sit A: Shady, First you must be sure that doing so is not in violation of your provider's terms of ... | |
| Form Scripts | 2/12/2008 |
| Q: I am new to web design and know little about databases. I want to add a form to a website that will ... A: Rick, My open source app. FormATable may work for you, you can download and use the demo on my ... | |
| My Inadequacies !! :) - WebWise only | 1/31/2008 |
| Q: Please help a struggling beginner!! I am setting up a site (which is hosted by streamline) and want ... A: Ken, Are you pasting in the right code? Have you disabled adblock if looking in Firefox? Not sure ... | |
| Early CSS? | 8/4/2007 |
| Q: What was the earliest version of CSS [Cascading Style Sheets]? What type of CSS was used in 1990? ... A: This is not my expertise as you anticipated. However this link may provide just what you seek ... | |
| file uploads | 7/14/2007 |
| Q: I want to put an upload section on my web site so visitors can upload their files to me, how ever i ... A: Unfortunately there are a variety of ways to do this. If you have Drupal hosting available to you ... | |
| dropdown menu | 7/12/2007 |
| Q: I am using front page 2003 I am creating a dropdown menu. I can point to a file to open like a pdf. ... A: I don't use Frontpage but yes that should be totally possible. Can you show me the URL of your site ... | |
| web desinging | 7/5/2007 |
| Q: I wanted to learn web designing to help out a friend at her computer firm, but don't know where to ... A: Welcome Meera, there is much to learn and do! I suggest for starters you get a free web hosting ... | |
| videos and layout | 6/26/2007 |
| Q: My site is www.eventchoice.com.au I am thinking of updating it in 3 ways and was hoping to gain your ... A: John, Most website visitors are still on dial-up, at least on a world wide basis. Assuming your ... | |
| ???maybe forms | 6/24/2007 |
| Q: I am trying to start a webpage which has user reviewed places, I dont want to have to get emails and ... A: I offer two free products which may be suitable. In either case you can alter the display templates ... | |
| multimedia | 6/23/2007 |
| Q: . i am designing an album (with pictures, and some text) and plan to distribute it in cd. i m ... A: I have not personally been involved in a CD presentation project, but would imagine you have much ... | |
| Creating a Searchable Database on website | 3/18/2007 |
| Q: :) I run a non profit educational foundation with website http://www.theDBFoundation. On the site I ... A: This looks like exactly the kind of need for which I wrote FormATable - ... | |
| small banner query | 3/9/2007 |
| Q: I am currently designing a website on my own and need somw help. I'm using Dreamweaver MX 2004 (i ... A: Rosa, The Swedish site is using frames to accomplish this. Look at the tutorial here ... | |
| browsers | 2/22/2007 |
| Q: Recently I switched to Firefox browser. To my surprise, a little box at the top of web page with ... A: Gabe, First I'm not a Frontpage user so my advice may not be that helpful. Here is the code for ... | |
| Scripts | 2/21/2007 |
| Q: I want to put a "call me back" option on my website,(so that my visitors can leave their number and ... A: Doreen, I suggest that you try my formmail script which can be downloaded and installed by hand or ... | |
| Databases with design elements | 10/17/2006 |
| Q: My partner and I run a design & communications company for small businesses in Scotland. Over the ... A: Me again Derby. Saw your feedback and am sorry my answer was of no help. Looking it over am afraid ... | |
| Image over background | 8/7/2006 |
| Q: I want to insert an image over a background. The image has some whitespace in it. I want to insert ... A: Sagar, Sorry for the confusion just before. Do you mean that you want to set both a background ... | |
| Inserts | 8/2/2006 |
| Q: Is there a way I could insert HTML into a field referencing a file elsewhere online as that I can ... A: James, You can try it, inserting a link to a URL. The issue is whether that link will be following, ... | |
| desktop calendar wallpaper | 7/28/2006 |
| Q: I hope that you can help me. I am trying to make my own desktop calendar wallpaper like the ones on ... A: Michael, As far as I know you'll need some kind of graphics program to prepare the image you want. ... | |
| whos in feature | 7/15/2006 |
| Q: this feature is used in every site today, if i put my yahoo id and password it displays my address ... A: I suggest you look on sourceforge.net for the software you want. If it is available expect it to ... | |
| Website Security | 4/8/2006 |
| Q: There is a reasonable possibility that someone might want to break into the site for the purpose of ... A: Lisa, From your answer I'm assuming that you do not store information on your site which is ... | |
| Website Security | 4/7/2006 |
| Q: I have a website that includes text, photos, links, downloadable pdf files, and a video. Are there ... A: Lisa, What are you exact concerns? Are you running any scripts? Have you had a bad experience, or ... | |
| PHP Image Resizing | 3/29/2006 |
| Q: My programmer has just finished my shopping cart software. To make handling images easier I will be ... A: Brian, My inclination is that you are better off uploading individual images. Is your developer ... | |
| Html for a hit counter | 3/20/2006 |
| Q: I wonder if you can help me - I am very very beginner in Html - with the html code for inserting a ... A: Lailai, A hit counter must be done on the server. The reason is that in order for the website to ... | |
| positioning | 3/9/2006 |
| Q: I am having a problem. I changed careers, I decided to become a web designer, I am obsessed with it ... A: West, This is impossible for me to comment on unless you provide a UEL for me to see the page. ... | |
| question | 3/8/2006 |
| Q: My current site has nothing to do with what I am working on. I know how to do a basic table layout, ... A: West learning CSS from scratch is involved and I am not an expert at that. What I use CSS for is ... | |
| SIMPLE Website building | 3/5/2006 |
| Q: I went to both your website and Drupal. Each don't seem to be user friendly. I have a degree from ... A: The best I can do is offer what I'm familiar with. The little I've done with Drupal certainly had a ... | |
| SIMPLE Website building | 3/5/2006 |
| Q: I'm looking for a SIMPLE, VERY USER FRIENDLY yet professional looking website building device. ... A: George, I offer a content mgmt system called Simpl; designed for just this purpose. It allows for a ... | |
| major questions | 2/18/2006 |
| Q: I have a lot of questions, I am trying to build a small business for now, I want to be able to do ... A: West, I suggest you prove your expertise online, using your website to promote and demonstrate ... | |
| resolution | 2/17/2006 |
| Q: I have a web site that I see a full screen of it in 800x600. However, when it is a higher ... A: I edit HTML by hand using a text editor instead of an HTML editor. That's because mostly I code HTML ... | |
| resolution | 2/17/2006 |
| Q: I have a web site that I see a full screen of it in 800x600. However, when it is a higher ... A: Gabe, There are two different approaches you can take. The most common way is to use what is ... | |
| Web page duplication | 1/30/2006 |
| Q: I am a member of a program of on a particular website. I notice that the other members are using ... A: Ellice, If you can write back with the URL and a little detail about your question in terms of ... | |
| downloading large pictures | 1/27/2006 |
| Q: I'm building a web sight with pictures of all my art works. Since my web sight has so many pictures ... A: Deb, Could you please send me the URL for your site? I'd like to look at the issues and then write ... | |
| Web Designing | 1/26/2006 |
| Q: I recently graduated from ITT Tech w/ a degree in multimedia. I haven't been able to get a decent ... A: Justin, The way I and afaik most of my colleagues began is by finding people you can do free of ... | |
| I'm not sure if you are the... | 1/2/2006 |
| Q: I'm not sure if you are the person to ask but o well. I'm wanting to start a website of my own and i ... A: Taylor, Suggest you start with a small free site. Just use Google to find a free hosting provider. ... | |
| ftp | 12/22/2005 |
| Q: I have made a personal website(no ads) a year ago. Now I want to update it with an ftp server.I used ... A: Doris, I've been using Filezilla http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ for a few years now and have ... | |
| hi, for web design php is... | 11/27/2005 |
| Q: for web design php is better than css or asp? A: Could you please provide more information about the kind of website, features you plan on having and ... | |
| hi, for web design,which... | 11/25/2005 |
| Q: for web design,which tools are better? (iis with asp.net or apache with php or...)? A: I prefer Perl. You do realize these are server scripting languages and with IIS and Apache the ... | |
| Search engines | 11/23/2005 |
| Q: I'm designing my website - www.eye2eye.org I'm almost finished, but one thing is not clear to me. ... A: Mark, This is discussed in a thread on my webmaster's bulletin board where the original poster has ... | |
| site design | 11/23/2005 |
| Q: I am interested in learning the trade of website design. I am very computer literate from a user ... A: Brian, First I wouldn't go and buy anything just yet. You can get a trial of Dreamweaver from ... | |
| Creating Passwords | 11/22/2005 |
| Q: We are doing a Website for a Gasoline Retailers association . We use Front page. The client wants ... A: Lori, Yes you probably do need a programmer. And a database. It depends on the details of what is ... | |
| website message area | 11/10/2005 |
| Q: I have a VERY basic site, it is just one page, and I would somehow like to setup a function wherebye ... A: John, Yes you need a program to do this. It's called a guestbook and works just like you said. ... | |
| help | 10/2/2005 |
| Q: am just a newbie in web design, want to design a small website with back end database, thinking of ... A: Lawrence, You should get a hosting plan which comes with Mysql and PHP already on the server ready ... | |
| User Names and passwords | 9/26/2005 |
| Q: I'm not sure if you're the right person to ask, but I want to create a login on my website. I would ... A: Sharena, If you wanted to easily put an id/pw on specific pages of your site this could be easily ... | |
| why write site developer writes "ads by goole" | 8/15/2005 |
| Q: sir, i see many site developer who writes on their sites "ads by google" . why they write "ads by ... A: Taufeeq, Suggest you read up on this at http://www.google.com/adsense and write back if you have ... | |
| How do I make back up files for my web pages? | 6/20/2005 |
| Q: Do you have any idea, is Filliza safe? Have you used it? Also,after I transfer the saved pages into ... A: Tina, What do you mean by safe? The way FTP works is it copies files from the server to your ... | |
| How do I make back up files for my web pages? | 6/19/2005 |
| Q: I created 50 pages in a free geocities site.Then I upgraded to a paid program called Geocities Pro ... A: Tina, You should definitely make a copy of all your pages on your home or business computer, and if ... | |
| Icons on address bar | 6/16/2005 |
| Q: Yes, it's called favicon.ico and what directory should it be on? I have it embedded within the code ... A: Fiona, You should put the file favicon.ico on the document root. So for example if your site is ... | |
| Icons on address bar | 6/16/2005 |
| Q: I am trying to get an icon for my website to work on the URL address bar and I'm having trouble ... A: Fiona, Please double check that the icon file is named favicon.ico and that it's on the proper ... | |
| Updating website content | 6/12/2005 |
| Q: Me and a group of friends want to start our own website. Unfortunately, i am the only one who knows ... A: Nick, There are some common alternatives including collaborative "Wiki" sites - see wikipedia.org ... | |
| Build a Web Forum | 6/2/2005 |
| Q: I am currently in the process of building a webpage for my small business. i have done all the pages ... A: Tim, Unfortunately I haven't personally installed a forum for years. When I did it was Ultimate ... | |
| Can you help? | 4/2/2005 |
| Q: How much would it cost to get your help in createing it. Thank you A: Mihai, I really depends on the details. May I suggest that you write me privately using the contact ... | |
| Webpage Translation | 4/1/2005 |
| Q: I am looking to design a website and I live in an area where I feel having a website in Spanish as ... A: Joe, Whenever I've seen this done there are flags or other such links on the home page, directing ... | |
| banner | 2/28/2005 |
| Q: heyy i want to create a banner for my site.. i want to use a weird font in the banner, and make the ... A: Arun, If you make the banner as a gif, and put it on a background color which is the same as the ... | |
| font | 2/27/2005 |
| Q: heyy, i just designed a very basic site... i used a different font, called cenobyte thats actually ... A: Arun, I've heard of this but never tried so did a little web search. from ... | |
| Information/scrollbar window on webpage | 2/18/2005 |
| Q: I'm working on this webpage, where my friend want to have some sort of a scrollbar window where he ... A: Stig, I would look at either a frame area - which I personally don't like but would solve the ... | |
| Simple Web Page Design | 2/14/2005 |
| Q: I work in a small office that has three locations and I'm looking to setup a web page. I know some ... A: Landon, Wow, you're very ambitious for a beginner and that's great. I suggest you start with free ... | |
| Quick Question | 2/1/2005 |
| Q: I have been using a Canon camera for a couple of years uploading pictures to ebay. My father ... A: Skyler, I have a Kodak EasyShare CX4230 and don't use their software at all. The way we do it is ... | |
| banner ad | 1/2/2005 |
| Q: I have a website www.CaribbeanMedicine.com I am trying to make a banner ad for it. I currently ... A: I know you can do this with Flash, which I think is what you're asking about, right? There's a ... | |
| web design | 11/21/2004 |
| Q: I would like to ask you which software I should use to design a website. I want to make a nice ... A: Nancy, I mostly doing web programming in Perl or PHP or whatever language is being used for the ... | |
| Stop Downloads | 10/31/2004 |
| Q: I would like to have audio tutorials on my site but do not want visitors to download the tutorials. ... A: Todd, This is not something I'm experienced with. That said, I believe if you present mp3 or ... | |
| meta tags | 10/27/2004 |
| Q: Marty, I need some help with setting up meta tags. I understand that the tag <meta name="keywords" ... A: Rick, I'm from the old school and still use meta-tags. The keywords one though I use marginally. It ... | |
| Newbie Web Page | 10/27/2004 |
| Q: I live in Jacksonville where the Super Bowl will be and I think I have a good idea to earn some ... A: Lisa, A common technique to have the page have a consistent look proportional to the visitor's ... | |
| Must web server has CGI software... | 10/6/2004 |
| Q: Must web server has CGI software ? or mustn't,which software must has it? A: Usually a web server will support either CGI or ASP. If the server is on a Unix type of operating ... | |
| what is 'CGI'?what is 'Perl'? and... | 10/5/2004 |
| Q: what is 'CGI'?what is 'Perl'? and do they have special software? and they can be installed on which ... A: CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. It is an open source interface for running computer ... | |
| Data Base Creation and Maintenance | 8/24/2004 |
| Q: Marty: This should be an easy one for you. I know Dreamweaver MX fairly well, and finished some ... A: Nick, I don't know the answer. Certainly if you upload an mdb file with a table created locally to ... | |
| web development | 8/23/2004 |
| Q: What would you say is the most important thing or skill(php, html, asp, etc.) in web development. I ... A: Ryan, Search engine optimization is certainly a very important skill and one way to try and make ... | |
| Web Designer | 8/22/2004 |
| Q: I previously emailed you telling you that I was looking for a web designer, I lost that email. Here ... A: Zach, There are a couple of links to my website below. Why not look it over and write me through ... | |
| Web Designer | 8/12/2004 |
| Q: I am a soon to be webmaster and looking for a parter in business. I need a web designer. This web ... A: Zach, That's very flattering, thank you. If you'd like to look over my website ... | |
| Hi, I would like to develop... | 8/2/2004 |
| Q: I would like to develop a web accessible billing system ,suitable for use in a consulting ... A: Ratidzo, This is a big system you're interested in. I suggest you either contact someone (like me) ... | |
| E-commerce development using Dreamweaver | 7/13/2004 |
| Q: Marty: I have several sites, for which some may be ready to consider E-commerce extensions to the ... A: Nick, Honestly my design experience is in writing plain HTML and the only out of the box shopping ... | |
| Website Enhancement | 7/3/2004 |
| Q: I just learn about web designing.... please do tell me how to enhance my website... just be straight ... A: Joel, First, I think your site looks very nice and though it loads a bit on the slow side the ... | |
| Building an Auction site | 6/28/2004 |
| Q: Marty Landman, Thank you for your guidance.Sorry,my webpage is www.geocities.com/frodomohan .I'll ... A: I like that it is clear and legible. It gives a visitor a quick understanding of the purpose of the ... | |
| Web design | 6/17/2004 |
| Q: We are looking at making up a website for a retail store and are after an opinion or your thoughts ... A: Gwen, I agree there are tradeoffs involved in any decision of this sort. Ultimately experience and ... | |
| Help | 5/31/2004 |
| Q: I have a great knowledge of html, and i suppose you have a great knowledge too. And i was wondering ... A: Tom, Start with what you love best, whether it be sports, computers, 18th Century Romance novels. ... | |
| Link to paragraph on same page | 5/11/2004 |
| Q: I just want to create a link so that when I click the name of the person it will bring me to the ... A: The format of your link looks correct - I'm wondering what the anchor tag to create the link ... | |
| FORM information | 5/4/2004 |
| Q: Marty, You can see the FORM in this web site: http://www.geocities.com/muplus71/ I am looking ... A: Michael, The way to do this is to add javascript code that tells the person filling out the form ... | |
| Database | 4/29/2004 |
| Q: Greetings from a fellow All Expert (Walt Disney World). I have a quick question. I am developing a ... A: Have a look at my FormATable DB, the link is below. You can configure it to use flat files (the demo ... | |
| Database | 4/29/2004 |
| Q: Greetings from a fellow All Expert (Walt Disney World). I have a quick question. I am developing a ... A: Ron, Been a few years since we've taken our kids to Disney World, but hopefully we will again ... | |
| FORM information | 4/28/2004 |
| Q: In a form, I insert three single line TEXT FIELD and the form is to open another page when user ... A: Michael, This sounds your form HTML is not coded well. Could you please write back with the URL for ... | |
| Form | 4/23/2004 |
| Q: I created a website with 4 pages by using Microsoft Publisher. In two pages, I used ... A: Logan, I've seen this before. To my knowledge you can't get a formmailer set up in this way - a ... | |
| Hi, I want to include a... | 4/19/2004 |
| Q: I want to include a form mail on my website, I have found some cgi/pl scripts on the internet, used ... A: Jack, I recommend the formmailer offered from my website at ... | |
| web development | 4/15/2004 |
| Q: i would like to know which is the type of sites that are needed in the market and do u know a site ... A: Some challenging questions. The market has been pretty tough with the economy being what it is ... | |
| Music on webpage | 4/7/2004 |
| Q: I'm trying to make a webpage- how do you get music on a webpage? I have "imesh" similar to kazaa, ... A: Kim, First, you should be aware that unless the music you offer is not covered by copyright law ... | |
| Preventing Web Page Copying | 4/1/2004 |
| Q: I have some computer certifications myself, and a friend recently offered me a web page that I can ... A: Bud, This seems to be the most common question that comes up in the realm of web design. The short ... | |
| form | 3/31/2004 |
| Q: , i want to ask you, how can i send a form information to my email.example, if a customer visit my ... A: Mohammed, If your hosting plan includes running Perl and CGI then you could set up a CGI formmail ... | |
| Converting TIFF to GIF | 3/22/2004 |
| Q: I need to convert TIFF image to GIF image. Is there any DLLs available? I searched in the net. ... A: Keerthi, I only do this kind of thing using photoshop or ignite (a graphics optimizer). A google ... | |
| About html | 3/18/2004 |
| Q: what is the difference between DHTML and HTML? Give me some examples in that field Thanking You A: Hariharan, HTML stands for hyper-text markup language. DHTML is dynamic HTML. To find more detailed ... | |
| files | 3/12/2004 |
| Q: I have a webpage where I have 150 thumbnails and 150 large images (100 kb). I have all the files ... A: Tom, Is it possible the page loads slowly because of the size of the file itself? That's where I ... | |
| words to HTML | 3/2/2004 |
| Q: IS there any script, vb program or anything that can convert MS word doc to html?? Please help ... A: Luk, Haven't done this myself but a search on google looks like it might help you ... | |
| PERL send mail script | 2/27/2004 |
| Q: I recently switched from a Windows Server to a Unix Server so now all my ASP Scripts don't work. I ... A: Brian, I provide just such a script for free usage from my site at ... | |
| pictures | 2/25/2004 |
| Q: I have added pictures to my website i designed on front page - however i think all the pictures are ... A: Vik, It's hard to say what room you have to improve download speed without seeing your site - no ... | |
| Message Board Software | 2/24/2004 |
| Q: Marty: This is a general question. Are you familiar with "off-the-shelf" Message Board software. Can ... A: Nick, I can't recommend any myself since I don't use any. Did once install Ultimate BBS but that ... | |
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Marty Landman
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Expertise
Perl programming using CGI, databases, HTML templating, and website automation.
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Web
developer since 1998, owner of
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