web-development

customizing size of an iframe within a webpage

i am displaying a remote webpage on my site like this: <iframe src="http://www.smopething.com/index.cfm" frameborder="0" width="800" scrolling="no" height="1100"> </iframe> is it possible for me to customize the size of it? something like <iframe src="etc", height=something,width=something> ??? ...

How can I extend the background of an element beyond its container?

I have a div that contains an h3 tag, and i want the h3's background to extend beyond the containing div tag to the edge of the page. Is there a way to do this in CSS? I considered absolutely positioning the h3, but I don't know the size from the edge of the screen to the edge of the div (where I want it to be) since the div is centered....

opening a webpage within a webpage

i am trying to display a webpage within a webpage as you can see over here http://www.yoursdproperty.com/index.php?option=com_jumi&amp;fileid=8&amp;Itemid=34 the top and left part is my site, and the stuff that is the main content in the middle is a different site. i may not be doing it correctly since it is not displaying it at size t...

Editing Dreamweaver .html file separately causes crash

I helped a friend edit a .html file and added a row to a table. As in <tr>. After a few minutes, the entire website went down. Added the rows to links.html and bio.html. Any help would be seriously appreciated. (menu vanishing, formatting ruined) I am experienced with web design, the changes were tested as copies on and off the server ...

trouble finding CSS tag

i would like to increase the size of the content width on this page: http://www.yoursdproperty.com/index.php?option=com_jumi&amp;fileid=8&amp;Itemid=34 i would like to stretch it out so that all the content fits i am not sure what to change in the CSS file: http://yoursdproperty.com/templates/pjo_joomlaforall/css/template_css.css pl...

What are some flexible, free CMS's for written in PHP for large websites?

I'm looking for a content management system (CMS) written in PHP for a large and diverse website. Here's what I'm looking for: Design flexibility -- The look and feel needs to be completely customizable. Specific pages may need to have design elements Modular design -- I want to be able to add features myself if they're needed. Product...

css buttons: forcing them to size themselves automatically

i have these buttons on the top of the page: HOME, BUYING PROPERTY, SELLING PROPERTY, COMMUNITY INFO ETC.. i would like it so that when i add more buttons, they automatically size themselves and i dont have to resize each individual one. also i would like them to take up the entire top bar here is the code #cssmenu_moo_menu { -moz-...

List of IE6 Upgrade / Denial Pages

As we transition away from IE6, I'm trying to find examples of other sites that stopped supporting IE6 and encourage their users to upgrade. ...

Accordion and jQueryCycle prevent href's from working

Checkout this site that I'm working on. The idea is as follows: -That the slide show is supposed to rotate - this works -When hovering over the menu on the right the appropriate slide appears - this works -Also when hovering the nav should expand to show a brief description - this works -When clicking on Airboat, Aircraft, UAV, or...

RoR app running on mongrel development but not production

Hello all, This is my first stab at Ruby on Rails. Just deployed a very simple app to Heroku. The thing is that my app runs flawlessly on mongrel development; When I run it with "mongrel_rails start -e production" however, I get the error "We're sorry, but something went wrong." For the life of me, I couldn't debug this. Heroku logs i...

Dynamic CSS is not working in IE6 and IE7

I have created a page with 4 widgets each having a table with in it. User can click on the header of the widget to select it. On doing so, the widget will get a class "widgetSelected" and the selected column of table in it, will have a light blue color. If someother widget is selected, the "widgetSelected" class will get removed from thi...

Best Online Video Tutorial Source to Learn Web Development similar to Lynda.com

Please suggest premium or free online video sources that address web development. I'm looking for the satisfy the following areas in particular. Web architecture and planning Web Usability and Design Specific programming languages/frameworks namely (PHP, RoR, javascript, CSS) Database Design AJAX, jQuery Any other areas needed to be a...

What is best css unit to make the the webpage look good even after zooming?

My page looks good without zooming. but when i zooming in firefox and in IE, it looks ugly because some of the contents wraps down in to next line. I think that the problem is in unit i am using. I am using pixels for setting the width. What units I should use to prevent ugly look of pages while zooming?? Plz help ...

Sites with hideable announcements/tips

Does anyone know of any site that uses javascript to generate a tip/message/announcement block that has a 'Hide this' option? Preferably like Stack Overflow where other containers get shifted up when the tip/announcement is hidden. I'm just trying to compile a list of sites using that feature. Thanks ...

Multilanguage sites: Left-to-right and right-to-left

I see some good suggestions in SO for creating multilanguage websites in JavaScript including this article on JavaScript internationalization. However, I am finding it more difficult to determine best practices for developing multilanguage websites where one of the languages is read left-to-right and another is read right-to-left. Do y...

Apache Wicket vs Apache Click

What is the difference between Apache Wicket and Apache Click? Is Apache Click maintained? The latest release seems to be from Nov 2008 Thanks Achilleas ...

patterns/patterns for designer-webdeveloper communication

as the title implies i am searching for a good pattern / schema collection that makes designer <-> webdeveloper communication less ambiguous when it comes to javascript effects and dynamic content loading. google just provided me with the shorthand markup by ryan singer, but this seems to be restricted to page/ui flows. can you recomme...

Using JavaScript to invalidate the browser's cache

I'm doing a project in Django and using djangos-css (http://github.com/dziegler/django-css) and Sass (http://sass-lang.com/). The Sass files are served in development using django-css. I want to write a JavaScript routine that will every one second retrieve the CSS assets. The purpose of this is so that the designer can edit the Sass ...

Caching Typekit CSS

I'm using TypeKit to provide fonts for a site I'm developing. When the page is loading it loads slow (more than a second). Turns out that this is because it's downloading the fonts on every requests. It's beyond me that a service such as this doesn't have etags configured to get clients to cache the fonts...but I digress. Until TypeK...

interesting characters in URL in joomla

i have a URL that looks like this ......index.php?option=com_jumi&fileid=8&Itemid=34 i know that i can view the source of the file just by view source from the browser, but since i have FTP permission for the site, i would like to be able to edit the file. but i dont know which file to edit! how do i find out which file is this link...