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About 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 Face 2 Interface.

   

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Questions Answered By Expert  Marty Landman 
In Category  Web Design

SubjectDate Asked

Display a weekly message7/1/2008
  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 message6/30/2008
  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 AdSense3/17/2008
  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 ...
web2/22/2008
  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 Scripts2/12/2008
  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 only1/31/2008
  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 uploads7/14/2007
  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 menu7/12/2007
  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 desinging7/5/2007
  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 layout6/26/2007
  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 forms6/24/2007
  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 ...
multimedia6/23/2007
  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 website3/18/2007
  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 query3/9/2007
  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 ...
browsers2/22/2007
  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 ...
Scripts2/21/2007
  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 elements10/17/2006
  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 background8/7/2006
  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 ...
Inserts8/2/2006
  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 wallpaper7/28/2006
  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 feature7/15/2006
  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 Security4/8/2006
  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 Security4/7/2006
  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 Resizing3/29/2006
  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 counter3/20/2006
  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 ...
positioning3/9/2006
  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. ...
question3/8/2006
  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 building3/5/2006
  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 building3/5/2006
  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 questions2/18/2006
  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 ...
resolution2/17/2006
  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 ...
resolution2/17/2006
  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 duplication1/30/2006
  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 pictures1/27/2006
  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 Designing1/26/2006
  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. ...
ftp12/22/2005
  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 engines11/23/2005
  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 design11/23/2005
  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 Passwords11/22/2005
  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 area11/10/2005
  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. ...
help10/2/2005
  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 passwords9/26/2005
  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 bar6/16/2005
  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 bar6/16/2005
  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 content6/12/2005
  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 Forum6/2/2005
  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 Translation4/1/2005
  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 ...
banner2/28/2005
  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 ...
font2/27/2005
  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 webpage2/18/2005
  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 Design2/14/2005
  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 Question2/1/2005
  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 ad1/2/2005
  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 design11/21/2004
  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 Downloads10/31/2004
  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 tags10/27/2004
  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 Page10/27/2004
  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 Maintenance8/24/2004
  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 development8/23/2004
  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 Designer8/22/2004
  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 Designer8/12/2004
  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 Dreamweaver7/13/2004
  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 Enhancement7/3/2004
  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 site6/28/2004
  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 design6/17/2004
  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 ...
Help5/31/2004
  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 page5/11/2004
  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 information5/4/2004
  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 ...
Database4/29/2004
  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 ...
Database4/29/2004
  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 information4/28/2004
  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 ...
Form4/23/2004
  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 development4/15/2004
  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 webpage4/7/2004
  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 Copying4/1/2004
  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 ...
form3/31/2004
  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 GIF3/22/2004
  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 html3/18/2004
  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 ...
files3/12/2004
  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 HTML3/2/2004
  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 script2/27/2004
  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 ...
pictures2/25/2004
  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 Software2/24/2004
  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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