I feel like having this on vacation would be pretty useful if you could set it up right. While out and about, you could dump your photos into your Flickr account, without having to wait until you get back to the hotel room or deal with your laptop on the go.
Preface: I did go to some college, and absolutely rocked any Computer Science class I took.
Entirely self taught as well. I learned Html/CSS/Standards through w3schools.com. From there, I went to my local Borders, and started buying books. I bought a good number of books (too many to list here), some I read cover to cover, others I never opened.
I bought books from O'Reilly, Sam's Teach Yourself, Sitepoint, For Dummies, New Riders, and Macromedia Press.
Now I work in a Java-based environment doing Javascript development and I absolutely love it.
One of my well-connected co-workers managed to get his hands on a nice new SD card for his camera. What's different about this memory chip is that it can detect wireless networks, upload his photos to a photo-sharing site, and then free up his on-card space. All from the card itself, with little configuration.
He said he isn't sure when they'll be on the market, but I am pretty excited. What do you think?
What you've described is exactly what you want to do. You're definitely on the right track.
Please, stay away from image maps at all costs.
It's not my fault! It's broken!
.... nevermind, I'm obviously doing something wrong.
Rich, I dislike your posting speed, in a love-hate sort of way.
I understand what you did, and why you did it. And I did laugh, it was pretty funny.
I've been there before, and I think I know what my help you get unstuck.
The blogger templates are incredibly complex files to edit for a newbie. So what you'll wanna do is create your own element, and tinker with only that elements CSS to achieve the result you want.
This is what I suggest you do.
In the CSS, add this to #header
position:relative;
and add two new rules:
#mynav {
list-style-type:none;
display:absolute;
bottom:0;
left:0;
}
#mynav li {
background:#ffffff;
display:block;
float:left;
width:200px;
}
In the HTML (in Blogger, go to the Template tab), add this right after
Check out w3Schools, a great resource for starting off. I suggest you read through the CSS section, so you can learn which attributes to put to get the desired result.
Hope that gets you started.
It looks like you may have changed the code since you first posted your note, because it doesn't look "wrong" to me. Nonetheless, here are a few quick things that might make your form a little better:
also...
RightOn said:
"yeah you can still have them separated out by tables (WHY GOD WHY!!!)"
There are plenty of reasons to use a table for form layout. Everything doesn't have to be CSS if it is more practical and less code to use a table.
j-mathias said:
"It's never OK, it's immoral, in fact it's illegal. I can think of no exceptions."
If you've released your design under a Creative Commons license, your design can be hacked, color-swapped, or outright stolen with the right attribution. That's a pretty common exception.
A font I discovered by using the What The Font tool on one of Brian's designs somewhere.
Stuart also did a great Web 2.0 font review back in November. He really has an eye for that kind of thing.
There's a lot more to take into account when designing for mobile. Just like designing for no-screen internet browsers, you have to realize that a cell phone is an entirely different interface. Not only do you have to deal with small screens and slow download times, you need to make your website accessible to an interface device with no mouse, limited key entry, and little scripting capabilities. I wouldn't hold my breath for standardization either.
Even with a big step in the right direction, the web is still a long way from being a cross-platform resource. The best of luck to you, designers.
"I think one of the main factors slowing me down is the lack of a good testing mechanism. All browsers seem to do things completely differently."
This is one of the biggest hurdles in my opinion. It isn't easy or cost effective to test printers, the layman has to just make a best guess, or go text-only. Not only do browsers print pages differently, I've seen browsers (firefox and IE included) print out pages that look nothing like the print preview.
"I read somewhere (another 9rules site) that offering seperate "versions" of pages for print can cause google to index only those pages, potentially screwing up your incoming visitors."
Another roadblock to adding print functionality to the web. It's a shame it's so difficult, because I believe printing is one of the most important functions of a computer.
I was just on 9rules member Mashable!'s website, doing some research on a particular company. I wanted to print out the article and the attached comments, but I had to go through a bit of trouble to get there. For some reason, the first page that printed was only the background of the site. I also had to manually print the comments.
Mashable! may be a bad example, but shouldn't print be a natural progression from dispensing information on the web? If your blog or website is often used as a resource or a quick reference on your niche, you should consider making your design print friendly, or offering a bare-bones text-only version of your articles.
Please, let me print!
It's a lot more complex than "what resolution monitors ship with. Here's my silver bullet resource on the topic from Baekdal.com:
Here's a good wrap up of all the statistics:
"If you want to design for 95% of your visitors you need design for no more than 776x424px (fixed layout) - or between 720x400px to 1408x912px (fluid layouts)."
Back when I played World of Warcraft, I was part of a small, paid community to discuss and divulge the latest cheats, hacks, expoits, and strategies found in the game. I was willing to fork over the $6/month for several reasons.
The community definitely followed the 80/20 rule, of people using the information to the people providing the information. But because of the prize structure, contributors were pushed to provide much, provide often, and were highly rewarded for doing so.
I no longer play WoW, but if I were, I'm sure I would still be an active member of that community.
I've been wondering this for awhile too! Thanks for asking, idealer.
Josue said:
"javascript go: history -1"
I don't remember the last time I clicked one of these and it actually worked. I don't trust them anymore, so I never click them.
While working with users who are having issues, I usually find that when they see multiple back buttons they get confused. Every browser has a back button, and it works the same exact way. Keep it that way. You don't need to reinvent the wheel, just make sure the current wheel still rolls.
Users never seem to interact with my sites like I expect them. So if I create a back button that assumes they are viewing it in a linear fashion, or assumes that they were veiwing your site before they got to that page, that button will break.
Lazy People Skip To Here
Don't make your own Back button. But don't go breaking the browser's one either.
If you'd like a side-by-side comparison, go ahead and check it out.
There are 9 leaves of the 9 rules logo. There are 5 leaves of the Toyota logo. When horizontally flipped and scaled down a bit, the stem and three of the leaves line up exactly the same while a fourth leaf lines up along one side.
Comment headers don't show up properly in teh phawks browzer. It also doesn't validate, due to an anchor tag being closed without being opened.
I also don't like the fact that it doesn't sit neatly in one maximized window. I wouldn't mind scrolling through all those tiny boxes if I didn't have to scroll the whole window too.
Also, your link to the ozone color just brings me to the brown version again.
Besides that, it's neat. I find that a layout with several scrollable boxes on one page makes me more efficient (i'm a click-happy windows user, not a keyboard-only linux zealot) than a tabbed interface alone. This combination of the two seems better for me than either one on it's own.
It seems like an accessibility nightmare, but the usability, in my narrow view, seems like a huge increase over the boring 2 to 3 column layouts we see everywhere. Bravo for innovation.
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A car wrap? Are you just designing, or are you actually applying the wrap too? My father, who owns his own graphic design business, has done car wraps before and I'm pretty sure he charged a minimum of 5k USD for each job. The ones he did were all for Pepsi though (Pepsi Blue, Mountain Dew, etc..). This included the design and the application.
At one point he also wrapped some guy's white VW bug as a soccer ball, probably the coolest wrap he did.
He stopped doing them because he said they were too much of a pain to apply correctly.