mpoer

Back in my college days, I was studying computer programming for my Comp Sci degree.  One of the course was Compter Literacy.  At first, the name reminded me of a course in grade school called Computer Literacy, where you get your first basic skills on a computer.  Then I thought, "no way the college level is teaching that low end basic".  I was wrong.  The first day we learned the terms "mouse", "keyboard", "monitor" and so on.  We learned how to open MS Word, Excel, Notepad, and Paint.  We even got to type our names with the "keyboard", for display on the "monitor", and add numbers in Excel.Boy was I excited.  My very next class was COBOL programming.I asked my programming professor how taking such an insanely low skill level course right before I started a programming course was considered logical.  He arranged it so that I was given the final exam in Comp Lit the next day.  I got an A and full credit for the course, and an extra hour of sleep every morning for the rest of that semester.IDIOTIC!

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There is only one Admin with access to do that...and he is very busy. The moderators do not have access to do this.Good idea but we are limited to what we can do. If you have a IPB setup and running you should give it a go...it would be a good idea.

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That definately sounds exactly like the Internet/Computer classes at my High School.  Don't worry the teachers definately get better and more up-to-date as you get into higher education.

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actually, i tried setting both the widths to 100px, but it didn't show the image

Sounds allright. It should be possible to customise it to my design though, that's a bit important. I'm thinking I'd have a page I could write myself, with Blog Title/short description/link to the full blog entries. The blog entry I'm guessing would work with php query? Something like index.php?entryID=_____ ?

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this many web developers and we're making people type in the info like they're data entry slaves... couldn't we just mod IPB profile feature to include this info?

But nice plug though... :)I think I have mySQL.http://home.no.net/jonvel/info.phpIs that right?How I knew your name was matt you ask? I'm omniscient.

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Thanx, and yeah, I'll see if I can't fix that when I get my computer up and running again. For now I have to work on my mom's laptop when working on my site.I got a new host now, with php. So, matt, how about that blog system you were talking about? I'm not sure if I have mySQL, but security isn't that important. Could it be done with xml instead?http://home.no.net/jonvel/Man I love php include...

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a little bit like this:

#header { padding-bottom: 10px; text-align:center; font-size: 1em; background-color:#00ced1; color:#191970;}#header .left { background-image:url('tux-head.png'); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:bottom left; float:left;}#header .middle {  text-align:center;  margin-left:105px;  margin-right:105px;}#header .right { background-image:url('tux-head.png'); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:bottom right; float:right;}  <div id="header">    <div class="left"></div>    <div class="middle">      <h1><a href="http://thinktank.ichyware.net:81/%7Ematthew/wordpress/">the weblog of mpoer</a></h1>      <div class="description">Family, Web Development, Debian GNU/Linux, and the Atlanta Thrashers</div>    </div>    <div class="right"></div>  </div>

doesn't seem to be working. neither image shows at all. can you see what I'm doing wrong?

not a bad idea! I'll mess around and see if I can do that.

I use a perl script/software called AWStats. It is really useful if you have perl available

currently the header is thus:

/* relevant css */#header {  padding-bottom: 10px;  text-align:center;  font-size: 1em;  background-color:#00ced1;  color:#191970;  background-image:url('tux-head.png');   background-repeat:no-repeat;  background-position:bottom right;}----<div id="header">    <h1><a href="http://thinktank.ichyware.net:81/%7Ematthew/wordpress/">the weblog of mpoer</a></h1>    <div class="description">Family, Web Development, Debian GNU/Linux, and the Atlanta Thrashers</div>  </div>

and that renders it as shown here: http://thinktank.ichyware.net:81/~matthew/wordpress/What I would like is to have tux's head on both the bottom left and the bottom right parts of the head section, or perhaps tux's head on one side and another similarly-sized image on the other side. Any suggestions? I think this is beyond CSS' capabilities.

I understand that.  I started off always coding everything myself (to learn mostly).  I still go back and edit a lot of the code even when using programs like Dreamweaver.

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I think I first found it when I would google something like "css background" because I couldn't remember all the CSS, or something similar in html/xhtml. I realized the W3Schools was almost always the top search result, so I finally checked out the whole site. I've used it as a referance since then, and a few weeks (months maybe?) ago I decided to join the forum and see if I can give something back

Yep, I read about this a few weeks ago. I really thought M$ was up to something weird with this, because it seems so very uncharacteristic of them to not push IE somewhere... but nothing seemed to come of it. I guess it's just done

Skemcin- You are the one who designed iribbit.net right?  It is a truly attractive, professional piece of work.  I viewed your portfolio--WOW! Those websites you made are incredible. You couldn't have designed them yourself, right?  The graphics and content are laid out so well.

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just some feedback: I started using some em sizes for fonts in my last web site and it turned out very well. It was easy to manage and very scalable, so I'm happy with it. I still find myself using px and percentages for images and div.widths, though.

This is a web development forum, I don't think this topic is appropriate here.Besides, bypassing a school filter can/will get you into a lot of trouble, at my school at least. 9 days 'alt school' for the first offense, if it is mild. It is not hard to get kicked right out. I suggest you do your Internet surfing at home and use the school comptuers for what they are, as lame and slow as they are, running Windows in all the arrogent administraror's unjustified glory, with spyware and all. Don't worry yourself with it.

I really do all of the above equally... so I don't have a main reason (sorry for being such a knot-head ). I do it for fun/hobby, but also as business, I made a theme for my WordPress Blog, and yeah I do just about everything

You have a middle-click mouse? Wow, haven't seen one of those in a while... Hmm.In Opera I know you can use Shift + Click to open in a new tab (really a new window though, but a new window in Opera is essentially a new tab). That will also work in IE, but will really open a new window. Not so cool in IE.But then the problem isn't whether or not it's fast to open it in a new window, but if you want the user to have to open it in a new window sort of.

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It'll be nice to have a way to use targets again... I haven't used it in a long time, since i've used XHTMl 1.0 Strict. Although, more advanced users know to just middle click (FF & Opera users at least) for a new tab

This is definitly a lengthy work around, just take a look at ithttp://www.designdetector.com/2005/09/css-gradients-demo.php

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i was just wandering about this, actually. i guess i'll just use the graphical way out. any clue if this could be in a future version of CSS, though?

well I've learned something new again. but on what search engine does "http//jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/" result in Microsoft?certainly not google, my deault search enginehttp://www.google.com/search?q=%22http%2F%...validator%2F%22

Sorry,if this is bad or impossible idea