I am with MediaTemple on their grid-service, they're very good.

However, having said that you should consider a dedicated host, or at very least a VPS if you're anywhere near serious about this. You'll have dedicated resources, better uptime, more control etc, even for a small scale site loading thousands of flash files per day is going to whore resources and you'll find yourself struggling on a shared hosting account.

At 10/25/09 07:59 AM, Jessii wrote:

At 10/25/09 07:51 AM, citricsquid wrote: come on, even I knew what a 401k was! you guys!

Ok so what's the non-profit version of a 401k? :P

A 0.00001k?

Nonono a 401k is a type of retirement fund or something? Not as in, he earns $401,000. Hahaa

At 10/19/09 05:31 AM, CronoMan wrote: Making classes and defining special elements in special area's for the H's is unnecessary. You could just as well use
<span class="fdsa">fdsa</span>

If you were referring to me (?), I was meaning that there is probably already a wrapper div, or similar, in which all the header tags he wants to effect are in. Thus

#whatever-element-headers-are-in h2 { foo: bar; }

I was saying there was no need to add any extra html markup.

Also, i'd advise against using a span, p, or similar tag for a header. Why? Because they're not meant for headers. H1-H6 tags are. Might as well have the extra SEO kudos.

At 10/19/09 04:43 PM, urbn wrote:

At 10/19/09 04:29 PM, Relish wrote: The single quotes around the URL are unecessary.

Not sure if they are prohibited or not in the W3 spec though.

You may use any of the following and they're all valid

url(bla.gif); //ie no quotes
url('bla.gif'); //ie single quotes
url("bla.gif"); //ie double quotes

I'd advise against calling a class the same name as an element, ie
.h2 { }
h2 { }
there's very little difference between them, it's going to be easier to error check and distinguish between them if they are different. Plus, there's probably no need to even add a class to them, just be clever with your selector in the CSS and do something like

#mainCol h2 { }

That would select all h2's in the #mainCol div, but none of the others. It's much cleaner.

At 10/17/09 01:39 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 10/17/09 12:49 PM, Jon-86 wrote: Finally got the Wave invitation! Not had much time to play with it but I will be having a go with the Robot API so see what I can automate :)

I got an invite a couple of days back, no friends to try it with though :(

I want an invite :(

At 10/16/09 08:21 PM, citricsquid wrote: I'm still failing life, pretended to be stupid and now my teachers do my work for me.

Nice. Good to see you have great ambition.

WILL YOU BE RICH AND GET ALL THE LADIES NOW SMULSE?

Already the case ;D

At 10/17/09 02:30 AM, kiwi-kiwi wrote: Second year computer science is a bit hard and I'm looking for almost every excuse to procrastinate.
Also wanted to get hired, almost got there and then saw my schedule and had to refuse a nice offer.

On the bright side, I found myself a team to make games with and hopefully a designer that is going to be as good as I think he is. We're gonna do something along the lines of sim city.

I'm sure it'll be worth it in the long run. And that's pretty cool, good luck with that.

I'm going to try get into Objective C(?) and try write an App for the iPhone.

So in the next week or so, I'll own half of an Events Management Company. Along with carrying on freelancing as a Lighting Designer/Technician.

Hows everyone else doing for themselves?

pmd

At 10/14/09 04:15 PM, smulse wrote: However, the code that photoshop produces is sloppy

Lol fail. Anyway, you get the point.

Plus, there's definately nothing new about this. It's been around years and years.

At 10/14/09 03:13 PM, up-a-notch wrote: no I mean deign the site in fireworks then cut it up and put it in dream weaver

No, no and no!
#1 this topic is not helpful at all and there's no question about programming or code bugs.
#2 You can't just make a website in dreamweaver. Dreamweaver costs money and you also need to have some knowledge about (X)HTML and CSS in order to design proper websites that are standards compliant. This is also helpful because if you encounter a bug or it's not displaying properly in all browsers, then you'll know how to fix it.
#3 Your statement about designing a site in dreamweaver, then cutting it up and importing it in dreamweaver doesn't make sense. I'm sure you mean design a layout in Fireworks, slicing it and importing it into dreamweaver. However, the code that photoshop produces is sloppy and it may still use tables, though I'm not sure. Tables aren't good to use for layouts.

I'd just ignore that part. If you're using a localhost, then you don't need to FTP files anywhere. Just open it in your brower?

<a href="something.html" target="framename"></a> ??

<a href="something.html" target="framename"></a> ??

At 10/12/09 08:05 PM, Calintz wrote: I read that... figured I would just purchase a domain name, and host a forum on that.

A domain name isn't hosting.

At 10/12/09 07:49 PM, DanielZ wrote: That's actually a pretty smart idea, but the implementation examples are rather ugly. Maybe if Apple took the idea and implemented it in their way, it would be a hit.

You're such an Apple fanboy it's unreal. Plus, there are laws against taking other peoples ideas and technology and using them yourself.

At 10/8/09 05:33 PM, djbdr248 wrote: I've done it w/ java b4 I just don't remember how.

I doubt that.

If you mean Javascript, then yes it's possible, but if you don't remember how then I doubt you did.

You could use JS to rewrite the contents of the page, or dynamically load another file in using AJAX.

At 10/9/09 04:35 AM, DeviantSpaceMan wrote: Everyone if you've created a website post it here so everyone may view them. I'm interested in making my own website and it might be inspirational to view others work and/or ideas.

This isn't a 'showcase your website' forum. If a reg posts a thread about a website they've just made, fair enough, but this thread is pointless.

Out of the small number of people that visit this forum, if they have a website, it's probably in a link in their sig - so just look in the Regs Lounge or something.

If you're struggling for inspiration, look at a CSS gallery, like one of the following:
http://csszengarden.com/
http://csstux.com/
http://cssbeauty.com/
There are hundreds more

At 10/7/09 09:47 PM, Jessii wrote: Eh Halloween's coming up and I don't have any costume ideas :/ Any suggestions?

Bin Laden. That's an almost surefire way to scare and offend your fellow yanks.

At 10/8/09 12:43 AM, urbn wrote: Happy birthday to me.

Happy birthday urbn

At 10/7/09 01:31 AM, FallingTears wrote: Which AJAX Framework is the best? Currently, I'm extremely impressed with EXT. In fact, I've recently transferred EXT to my personal website to be used in the production of my website. I really like many of the layouts that can be created using the library. However, one of my questions is ...

How much of the site should be designed with AJAX? How much should be designed with HTML, CSS, or PHP (or other scripting language)?

All of the site should be designed with HTML and CSS.

PHP is only outputting HTML, or text data.

As for JS, ideally a website should be usable without it, but can be used make a website more acessible or friendly - for example, not refreshing a page for something simple like a login, or forum submit. Or doing something arty like lightbox. But dynamically loading every page is inaccessible and pointless.

hahahahaha

At 9/30/09 03:25 AM, DannyIsOnFire wrote: woke up with a hooker with no memory if the night before

lmao

i love my job

numero dos

Been working on a show, here's a few shots.

At 9/13/09 05:23 PM, Jessii wrote:

At 9/13/09 05:09 PM, citricsquid wrote: i have a big penis

No, it just looks big under a microscope.

lolburn <3

At 9/13/09 04:55 PM, citricsquid wrote: smulse has a life

Nah, smulse has work.

There's a difference. Hahahahaha

And there was me thinking I had this week off.

Tomorrow I'm in London, Tuesday Leeds, Thursday through Sunday in Liverpool, Sunday night back over to Leeds. Crazy busy :/

At 9/12/09 03:27 PM, BlackHaku wrote: Okay I am kinda clueless. You just told me these two links but no details. You should at least breif it up. Like....Cookies helps for his and and does this and Session does this and does this.

I'm sorry, but if I point you in the right direction is it not then your responsibility to do a little bit of research on the subject? Plus, I linked you to articles which not only discuss usage but also give you the information you think i omitted from my post.

Yes, we're happy to help. But we're not here to spoon feed you..