~Shinta

Isn't Java embedded though? I think Java is considered client-side... Isn't that why we need a plugin to view them? If it were server-side we wouldn't need a java plugin =P.

Is there away to make the favorite's bar collapse?

Jedit. It's an open source plain text editor. Dont see why you'd need anything else.

Mozilla is old now. Just use Firefox with your son.

Too bad some of them come and never post.

<div style="display: block;">stuff</div>

I'm using the XHTML DTD, but I haven't switched to the application/xml+xhtml MIME type.

There are paid services to do this kind of thing. Do a google search for it. But they are usually expensive... If all else fails, try vzz.com. They do it for free, but are really bad.

Visual Basic is a bad programming language. It is expensive and not even good. It is also not multi platform. I use Python and Ruby instead. Learning VB wll give 0 programming skill. If you want to learn drag and drop text boxes and forms, then get VS Studio. If you want to learn to program, look for perl or python. Simple as that.

PHPbb is he best one. It is well supoorted, looks nice and is becoming a standard.

.php is the best way. I think .phtml should be deprecated. People don't always know what .phtml means and will say .html instead, which would result in a broken link.

The problem is you would need to have an html only version of your page for browsers with no flash support and, blind users. I dont know how you'd make a flash page asssible.

Thank you so much! Now, if I use the include() object to include an html file on my server, will the file i include need to end in .php?

Hi. I've been having a problem converting my site to php. First off, my html files use the xml declaration on all teh pages. When I run it through the php parser it picks up the xml declaration (which ofcourse has has <? in it) and generates an error. I need a way to fix this. I tried to fix it with the ascii code for ?, but then the browser doesn't pick up the declaration tag at all. I want to remain valid xhtml 1.1 and use php. Also, I want to use ssi includes <!--#include--> in php document. It isn't really a big deal, but I want something so my site will still operate during the conversion (when I use the include() object instead.)

Code it yourself. But Dreamweaver is still useful for other things.

What exactly do you want? Do you want the characters themself rotated, or the text to go vertical instead of horizontal? There are ways we can do that.

I once thought of using a news ticker, but I was already using my rss feed + a css style sheet for an update page.

Validity is my number one problem with <marquee>, but my 2nd is that it just plain old looks bad. IMHO if you want things moving all over your page you should reconsider what you are doing.

Also a div is more precise because the sidebar/content/copyright maybe/banner/left sidebar are all divisions of the page. I'm not saying tables should be killed forever, they should just be used for what they were originally intended to do. BTW I use XHTML (1.1) not html.

Well I guess by w3c definition tables are used to arrange data... But they also say that they present a problem to non-visual media (like screen readers and braile I guess). The reason I switched a long time ago was because tables are complicated to edit so when you want to switch to a new layout it'll take a long time to edit every tag in the table code.

I use http://ineedhosting.net/ They are ok for hosting and they give good space. As for vps, I don't see why you need it. A dedicated server is a type of server that only functions as a server I think, but I don't work in networking alot.

Included in what? XHTML or HTML? HTML supports marquee I think, but tey won't for long, and xhtml definately doesn't support marquee.

I am not very good at Javascript. I can do basic stuff. I started learning a long time ago, and probubly will try to learn it again soon.

You are better of not using a news fader because it creates problems later on when you need to handle visually impaired users.

Why do you need Dream Weaver or FP if you know html?? I've never used an editor, I don't see why any one else should have to eaither. And knowing php isn't required to be a good webmaster. It just restricts you a bit more to what you can and can't do.