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What Program Do You Use To Design Your Web?

I has use a lot all of macromedia suit like Dreamweaver ultradev4 , 4 , mx , mx2004. Is there another good program to design website than macromedia dreamweaver? I just want to try other software may be I will get a new idea and effect for my site. PS. don't try 2 answer microsoft frontpage hehehe

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Dreamweaver Or Front Page Or Other?

Dreamweaver is founded by Macromedia and Front page is founded by Microsoft. Both are used for creating websites. Personally, I am using Dreamweaver MX, it is very user friendly and have great support towards other Macromedia softwares like Flash and Fireworks. How about you, what kind of software do you use to build your web?

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What Program Do You Use To Design Your Web?

I personaly choose frontpage because its easy to use but.....I use dreamweaver for PHP.

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Phpbb Or Invision Power Board ?

hi, i am just about to start a forum, that is about warcraft3 maps development and discussion and bugs report, appox 500+ members. but i am not sure the difference between phpbb and invison power board, any information about that would be extre me useful here.

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Php Or Html?

Well being a HTML its easy for me but what do people use the most? Is it HTML or PHP. It depends really on which you learnt first. So im gonna have a poll.Post HTML for Html and PHP for php and we will see which is more popular.

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The Freelancers' Union

Building a [b][color="#ff0000"]Freelancers' Union [/color] [/b] Okay a great idea that I think will benefit us freelancers. There are a bunch of talented freelance coders & designers out there but there are very few who can do it all. If you are experienced in the field of web development most clients expect you to know everything (and they usually don't know how much that really is.) I for one am an experienced web designer who knows nearly nothing about programming and am al

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What graphics program do you have?

I am just wondering what graphics program everyone here has... I have Photoshop CS, and it is a very nice program, especially its filters and layer styles . I can easily create nice looking graphics with it, and it doesn't take much hard work. It is an amazing tool.

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How Do I Learn Web Design?

Hi all. In my quest to become a website creator I have a big obstacle.. when it comes to design, eg making things look good i might as well be blind. Im useless! I can code to a decent standard in HTML PHP CSS MYSQL and JS but i am useless at making a nice design. So wha im after is advice on how to learn this, what i fear is a response of "you can *learn* how to design, you either can or you cant.". Its really important that im able to design a nice looking website because not m

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fav webdesigning tool

What webdesigning tool do you use? i use Frontpage and Dreamweaver

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Post Your Signatures Here!

Hey everyone I am pretty amature with photoshop but I think thi is ok for my first signature. Check it out below: Post your sigantures here so everyone can comment on them and give tips etc...

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What Is A Good Free Forum Software?

I dont like phpbb, but anything that is a bit like IPB wood be nice, can anyone just tell me a good free forum software?

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Notepad++

Notepad is best files and tool you are going to have ...you can make files whit php extansion anything

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What's a good eye friednly design? o_O

I personal prefer the more darker colors. I love the dark, I like doing many things with lights off, like taking a shower at night.

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Which Kind Of Website You Will Choose Php Or Asp?

which kind of websites will you choose if you want to make yours? PHP or ASP? which do you prefer, working in PHP or in ASP? even there are many differences between them, but they are still a programming language. then why most of websites are in PHP rather than ASP, or at least that what i noticed. maybe you are not. maybe because PHP scripts are much popular than ASP, or PHP language is much easier than ASP, or maybe most of PHP scripts are free but ASP not. then,what do you choose and why?

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Free Html Editor?

Hi, I'm looking for a free HTML editor. Not one of those new-fangled WYSIWYG ones... the only conditions are.... * Its free * It has syntax highlighting * It has a preview mode (like on dreamweaver or whatever). * It doesn't have any spy/adware! I figured that theres probably a great program out there somewhere, I just havent found it yet. I used to use one that I liked but since the Great Hard Drive Crash of 2004 it has disappeared from my PC, and I can't find anywhere to down

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How Many Of You Run Your Own Message Boards?

I'm just curious. I started with Proboards, used Invisionfree (but stuck with proboards), used a source code called Radiance 0.1.1, but it got hacked, so I went back to Proboards, used a source code called WhiteFyre, abandoned it, went back to proboards, and now, I'm fixing up radiance 0.1.4, and it seems permanent. You?

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Big 3: Vbulletin Vs. Invision Power Board Vs. Phpbb

The 3 main competitors in the forum software battle. VBULLETIN: commercially sold, probably the most well known and popular forum system. INVISION POWER BOARD: used to be free, now commercially sold, very popular forum system. PHPBB: free and very popular forum system. What is your pick and why? personally, I used to be an Invision Power Board fan but have switched to phpbb. I really like it's range of skins and most of all it's free!

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Frontpage And Dreamweaver

Hey, for a few years now I have been using Microsoft Frontpage, and lately the latest one 2003. Whenver I go to download a cool website template, it always say "This website template was made with Macromedia Dreamweaver". I have tried Dreamweaver from a free trial from www.adobe.com, and did not really find a difference. Could you please explain to me what the difference is? And is Dreamweaver really better than Frontpage?

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Your Cms Of Choice?

So, following the recent PHP vs. ASP topic (where there has also been some talk on Ruby on Rails and Python) I've decided to also make another one, where you declare your favourite Content Management System. Now, since I've posted a few already in the previously mentioned topic, I'll list them here again as mahesh2k suggested: 1. [url="http://www.wordpress.org"]Wordpress[/url] is probably my favourite CMS, easy-to-install, easy-to-use and has a large community behind it.

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Firefox Extensions Dream Package #1: Web Design Extensions

Well since Fire fox got updated and I have got the universal package browser for web design I thought why not share it to those who do not know about these tools so here we go. I will explain each tool and what it is used for and then give you the simple instructions on where to get it and where to find it. First download Firefox [url="http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-2.0&os=win&lang=en-US"]http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.h...&lang=en-US[/url]

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Template Under Construction

Hi trappers! I've made a template for my website (which I'm planning to launch before Christmas if possible). So what do you think about it? Is it too blue? Is it nice? it's not done yet, I'll have to decide font color and some other adjustments to be done. In the meantime, any suggestions? What I could've done better? and yes I like blue color. Which font color fits the best, the one in the right column or the one used in the left column? Does the navigation bar look sm

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Man Why Is Everything Hard To Get A Website Design

okay ppl why is that they give u front pagew that u make a webdisgn adnthe u have to bye better stuff just to get it right plz tell me why

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Excellent Free Website Templates

Site also includes 60 free logo templates, 63 free banner templates, 84 free newsletter templates, website arrows, abstract images, and much more. Fantastic resource... [url="http://www.templatesbox.com/templates.htm"]http://www.templatesbox.com/templates.htm[/url]

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What Is The Best Web Site Developement Program

I see 3 big company making web site developement programs. Macromeida has Dreamweaver MX, Adobe offers Golive CS, and Microsoft provides Frontpage. I'm just a newbie and have no idea which one I should learn. Any suggestion? Many thanks.

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What Is Your Favorite Portal Or Cms?

What is your favorite Portal or CMS? I personally like Joomla [url="http://www.joomla.org"]http://www.joomla.org[/url] What about the rest of you guys and gals? Dan

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How To Make A Website

Alright so there are many topics out there of how to make a website that everyone will love and want to go to, but I can't seem to find any about how to make a website that people will hate and try to run away from, so here are some pointers for those who are trying to make the worst website: [b]Step one:[/b] COLORS Be sure to use a vivid and bright background color, and a non-noticeable text color. Nothing wakes people wake up more than a florescent yellow background with white text. Mak

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Whats Important To You When Designing Your Web?

I was just wondering what everyone else thinks is important when they design their website? Personally i like simple, easy to read websites with minimal actual graphics. Most of the websites i make are very graphics light and are usually very dial-up friendly. Just plain but attractive (or at least i try to make it that way )

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Phpbb 3.0 Beta 2 - Free Forum Software

In the fantastico section of the Trap17 cpanel you might have noticed that there is an opportunity of have a Forum installed on your Hosting account. One of the available Forums is phpBB, and last time I checked, the version on the fantastico was something like 2.17. The newest production version is phpbb 2.21 and it includes all the latest fixes and bug squashes. The 'new' phpbb is version 3.0 Beta 2. This means it is not yet suitable for an actual production environment, but it is so

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Why Doesn't Anyone Like Frames Anymore?

I remember when almost every website around used frames to organize their websites. Now you very rarely see a website with frames. Why? Is it because with the increase in average internet speed frames are no longer really necessary or beneficial? Are they considered ugly and obtrusive? I find frames rather useful on my slow connection and considered using them on my website, but it seems like it would be out of place and scare away users in today's frame-less world wide web.

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Web Design Tools

what web design tools do you use to design and code your site.....and why? i use Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 for design....it's the best HTML editor....for sure.. PHP Expert editor i use this tool to code my site....it's a great tool..for PHP programing and ofcourse PHP 4 & MySQL 4 PHP.......thank god for this MySQL.....very,very....useful thing.....you know yourself why and btw.... do you know a good clipart site....you know...with icons,bullets for web sites Re

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Best Browser To Desighn Your Site To

well since i started web desighning i've always used internet explore (why?) well when i first tried FF2, i wasn't a "web-designer" then so i didn't care much about css and htlm stuff, i din't like it and one of the reason was beacause a couple of the sites i visited wasnt firefox compatible. but anyways recently i was desighning a site for this community. so like two weeks ago i downloaded FF3 for testing purposes. in IE the site looked great but what i found was that

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Which Forum Software Should I Use?

OK, here is my predicament, I know I've posted this before, but... This time I have tried both forums... I am trying to decide between IPB and phpBB. Here is what I want for my forum from each software... I like the ease of use, and simplistic design of phpBB. I like the many feature of IPB, such as changing rankm colors, and the rank masking system for forum permissions. I also want three of the mods I currently have on my forums, the Army System, IBPro Arcade, and D2-Shoutbox, I know p

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WEB DESIGN COPYRIGHTS

ok i would believe this would be the biggest topic of all time where does the copyrights for any scripting excluding software start and were does it end. its amazing how people can say their html is copyrighted when a few million designers use the same thing, pictures understandale but not html, cgi, javascript, php, asp and all those other scripting related things. yeah starting webdesign i took some ideas or plane out copyed the whole page just to get a understanding of it but still.. oh i

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Free Message Board Needs Php

I found a free message board for my site, where I can have my Google ads there, instead of Proboards ads, but it requires PHP, which I know nothing about. I don't believe my host, Doteasy.com, supports PHP on its free sites. Does Trap17? If so, could I host my message boards, here, and link from my Doteasy site? The software I'm looking at is YABB. Here's the link: [url="http://www.yabbforum.com/requirements.php"]Yet Another Bulletin Board[/url] It also mentions CHMOD and Perl--I d

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What Is So Great About Firefox?

What is so great about Firefox? The last I knew 98% of people were using Internet Explorer, so as a web designer, I really only had to worry about Internet Explorer displaying my website correctly. I've read that Firefox now makes up about 20% of the browser market. These two browsers display web pages completely different and it's a bit frustrating to say the least! Why are people suddenly using Firefox and not Internet Explorer? Did you switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox and

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Designed By You Or Site Builder?

I do both.

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Pros And Cons Of Building An Html-only Website?

I have an idea for a website which I want to code entirely on my own. But the problem is that I have neither the skill nor the time required to learn languages like php and java which are required to improve the visual appeal of a website, and also make it dynamic and robust. In fact I don't think in my present situation I can't learn any language thoroughly except for HTML, which is of course, the most basic scripting language. I don't want my website to be "visually-appealin

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What Is The Best Affiliate Program Or The Best Way To Advertise?

hi everyone, i uploaded my website in trap 17 a while ago and now i want you to share me your opinions of the best way to advertise in my website? which is the best affiliate program? i want a program that doesn't make my website hardly load, i don't want google adsence, i thought of amazon ads, so what do you think??

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What Do You Think Of This Design?

Im trying to learn design, if thats possible, and here is one that i made today, its taken maybe 5 hours to do and is based on an imaginary paintballing company. Ive only designed the home page but all other pages will follow the same template of text location, but they may not have the div on the right, instead maybe 3 images of the paintball area (if i were to do this site for real of course) Let me know what you think, its fairly bland i admit but i feel good about having a very set theme, a

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Best Cms And Forum Combination

I want to install a content management system along with a forum. Also I want to show google adsense ads in the site and forum. Please suggest me a combination which is "the best" and at the same time free. Can I try Joomla along with phpBB3

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Vbulletin

I can't find free vBulletin forum and stuff for it... Everyone telling me that vBulletin is the best forum... Is that truth? If not tell what forum should I use... I need forum without security holes and "file= file=" holes... I was using PHPBB2 and IPB but I don't like em... don't really know why So please answer question and give me links for forum and stuff for it...

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Make Your Own Search Engine As Good As Google

i found this open source script that allows you to make a search engine similare to google but with your own logo and your own ads to make money. i uses google api and google indexing. go check it out at phpgoogle.com

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Help With Database

I know I might sound a bit novice, but I'd like to know how to make a register and login database. I'm making a serious website for the very first time and I can't find on internet how to make one (don't even know how it is named). I would really appreciate me if someone could link me to a tutorial or give me the explanation, also the program to use (I think Microsoft Access is good?)

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What Is The Best Free Html Editor?

im looking for any kind that is free really.... i use windows but if you have one for a different platfor, go ahead and add it for reference for other users. If you have one for normal text editor and wysiwyg, add them both. i have been using notepad as my normal html editor but im looking for something different... at least so i can see the different colors of the codes. Right now i am downloading moxilla's seamonkey suite but im not sure how good it is... i will post a review if i ever

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My Website

Hey guys, check out my website at [url="http://sndgaming.trap17.com"]SnD Gaming[/url] I made the flash thing all by myself.

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What Do You Use To Build A Web Site

what do you use ??? html , PHP, Photo shop, css, dream wever or what because i am a big time web person and i am trying to find out whats best to use. right now i use PHoto Shop. I well us micersoft out look at times lol don't ask how i do it but i do lo and they suck but i make some really aewsoem sites in the end. so tell me what you use so i can give it a try thanks guys Have a good day Bird Man

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Dreamweaver, Front Page

Hey guys I use dreamweaver to code my sites, I heard even though the "hardcore" people dont use it, its at least better than front page. And what I was wondering is are there any website building/helping tools or programs besides those two? I havent heard of any but I figured there might be a few more. The other question I had was ive been hearing alot about CSS and layers. I know what CSS is and have been trying to incorperate that into my site when/wherever possible However what

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Target Links To A Div Layer

Hey i need help I was wondering if there is a code that allows you to target ur link to a div layer.. lets say eg.. i got [code]<a href="www.example.com">Example</a>[/code] i want that page to show in the div layer below on the same page. Is there a way i can do that? . im tryin to avoid using frames. thanks

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Need Help In Web Design Of Site

Take a look at my site [url="http://darran.trap17.com/about/"]http://darran.trap17.com/about/[/url] View it in Mozilla Firefox, it is fine. But view it in IE 7, you will notice the footer is making the site look disgusting. How can I solve this problem? Appparently, the footer starts after the post entry is ended, while in firefox, the footer starts after the end of the sidebar which is what I am trying to do. However I am not too sure how to do it in IE7. Can anyone advise me?

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Best Stuff for Free

Hi, everyone. i am sorta new to making web sites and stuff but i want to learn how i have some basic knowledge and have played abound a little in notepad but i would like to know what programs you guys think are good and what kind of things you use i do have one slight problen and that is that i cant spend any money on it right now so if you make a suggestion of somthing i could use to help me further my understanding of createing a web site i would appreciate if you try to stay away from progr

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Dreamweaver

I recently downloaded Macromedia's Dreamweaver 8, and I can say that it is the greatest webdesigner that the world has ever seen! The only problem is that it costs too much money in my tastes, but otherwise it is perfect! Does anyone know of a webdesigning studio that does not cost any money and that can be downloaded off the internet? I tried using Notepad++ (search Google, I cannot recall the site) and it is a coder, but not a webdesign. It doesn't actually show you what the si

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How To Create Smallest Website

I wonder if any one create smallest website on earth? any webmaster can share this things .. .if they can make how could it be?

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Giving A Flash Button A Link

oke well i made my button and i addet the actionscript to give the button an url,see the screenshot below [url="http://img204.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lolflashsuskcscz3.jpg"][img]http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/5886/lolflashsuskcscz3.th.jpg[/img][/url] now for some reason it gives me errors,and i don't know what i did wrong to be honest,so can some one help me out with this p.s i do use flash cs3 so i dunno maybe its another way to put an url on ur button with this version cause with

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Beautiful Styling In Web Design

I was thinking of starting a new interesting topic here on KnowledgeSutra. And, since my beloved area of interest is web development and design - that's what first came to mind. We (well, web designers and designers in general) might have trouble going to "that special place" and getting inspiration sometimes. Let's face it - even the best have these periods of unproductivity, it's nothing to be ashamed of. So, I wanted to present this topic as a sort of help in these t

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How To Post Pictures On A Website That Cannot Be Copied

the title pretty much explains my question. this isn't a tutorial on how to do it. i actually want to know HOW to do it. i have some interesting pictures. i know if i post them on my site, they are going to be copied so i want a way to post them without any way that someone can copy them. how does one do this? i want a secure way of protecting the pictures so please don't tell me to disable the right click button as any fool can bypass that.

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What Do You Think Of This Design?

Hi all, the title says it all really, im looking for some feedback on my first decent design of a website, its in image form below [img]http://www.shadows.trap17.com/t17/website_template1.png[/img] I like most of it, im not entirely sure about the greys though, i think they could be lighter but i think it looks reasonable. The idea is to have that layout centred with white edges for users with wider screens. What do you think? Constructive criticism is welcome EDIT: Apologies for the double

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How Can I Make My Site Load And Work Faster?

i just wanted to know some extra tricks and tips i can use to make my site work great, being fast, and work well on all browsers. i think this will also help a lot more people and not just me. so lets start a list of things we can do to make our site work better, faster. start your commenting.

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How Nice Is Css Design ?

Hi guys.. I have a website : www.bakoelweb.com But, some friends comment that that site should be created with CSS layout What's the advantage of CSS design ? is it really tableless layout ?

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What Is The Best Way To Avoid Spams In Your Website?

recently, i have a lot of spams in my blog. first i didn't care a lot but after that it getting so annoying. therefore a friend suggest me to use akismet plugin that will help me to avoiding spam. and it did, it works great. but after a while i noticed that it acting weird. the spams counter in my blog shows a different number of spams than it actually is. for example, the spam counter in my blog shows "45" spams where in wordpress dashboard it is only "23". and i could

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Do You Need A Content Management System?

[img]http://img165.exs.cx/img165/6639/michael58op.jpg[/img] ODOMIKE [b]If HTML isn't your thing and you're planning a website with lots of content, you might want to consider using a "Content Management System," also known as CMS. With CMS, content is stored in a database away from the site's templates, which makes it impossible to destroy the design structure of the site when editing.[/b] CMS systems allow anyone to edit his or her website, regardless of technical skill

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Great Script Site

I've loved this site since I first found it a couple years ago. It has 12 php related scripts, but also links to many other resourceful sites and tutorials, as well as a forum board much like this one that is pretty straightforward and easy to get help if you have any questions. [url="http://www.codegrrl.com"]codegrrl.com[/url]<---check it out!

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Good Blogging Program

Have already searched through the cgi and addon scripts present in the hosting package, but they're not customizable enough for me. I need something that I can modify in php to conform to the layout design of my site. I remember greymatter, but does anyone know of any other user interfaced bloggers that I can get without having to pay a bundle for???

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Flash Photo Album

I'm building a website for my home school group for my final project in a web design class I'm taking. I would like to add a flash scrapbook/photo album, but I'm not quite sure where to start. Does anyone know how to do this? I tried googling for a tutorial of some sort, but I didn't have any luck. Thanks!

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Get Free Domains

[quote]For those of you that haven't heard - GET FREE TOP LEVEL DOMAINS FOR A LIMITED TIME - So run! [url="http://freebe.be"]Run here now![/url] Yeah - they are giving away free .be domains - with total DNS control - the works! Even you trap17 admins should get some they are all unlimited - and would help with your hosting! [/quote] Want a brill idea?... Well the other day i got www.get-the-vi.be [note=rejected]Please put all copied materials in quotes, thank

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Firefox V/s Internet Explorer For Web Design

hi friends. I have noticed one thing that when we surf web with columns on it we see that internet explorer shows the site in a nice way. But when we surf the same site with firefox, it destroys the whole structure of site. and shows the columns very clearly and boldly. Can any body tell me what's wrong with firefox?

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Where Is There A Good Site To Learn Web Html?

im a noob when it comes to web html to design web sites, can some one tell me where to find a good website that has good tutorials on how to use web html?

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Php Or Asp?

i need help what to master first. first of all can some of you help me decide what to master first but here are the things that ia have now i know html css. i am used to microsoft programs not really pertaining to web design programs but microsogt programs in general i have already books about asp price is not a matter but if its too steep then it matters also a lot of questions: from a noob website maker like me what is the easiest to master/study asp of php? what is the majority using,

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Help Creating A Profile Website

Ok this is my idea: I am making a website about anime. Its function is add anime, review anime, search anime, anime information. Users can make a profile. People can make a profile which they can edit to theire likes with html to give it a fancy look.(this is what my problem is about) What i would like to know is how can i accomplish this. I already have the database for the anime titles etc ready, the only thing that needs to be done is the profile section. If you have any tutorial, tip or g

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Review The New Template I Made

Hi guys and gals(not sure if there are any here anymore). So, currently my site looks like [url="http://tutoriary.com/"]this[/url]. I've, however, made a new template for my site: [attachment=1997:Screenshot.png] This was designed and coded by me(yes, I've coded it). I used GIMP for the graphics and the almighty Crimson Editor for coding. (+ made it on Linux, so it's all open source if you don't mind my gfx driver being closed source ) I would like to hear your opinions about thi

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Phpmyadmin Password Does Not Work

I have been designing my site on my desktop using XAMPP. Everything was ok until I thought I needed a pasword for my database which did not have a password. From the day I applied the password I have been unable to access my phpMyAdmin I type [url="http://localhost/phpmyadmin/"]http://localhost/phpmyadmin/[/url] and all I get is: [quote] [b]Error[/b] [b]MySQL said:[/b] #1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)[/quote] "Who said use no pas

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Do You Think The Footer In A Website Is Important?

hi all, i have this idea about FOOTERS in websites, and decided to share it with you, to see who agree with me and who is not. my idea is, the footer is one of the important parts of any website. it contains the copyrights, the designer name or the owner name, more info about your website and about you, and add to all these it could portray the designer himself. how? as a designer,  i always try to make the sites i  make to be suitable for both: me and the reader, i always put that in mind wh

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30 Gb Mail Account For Free On Internet

In Order To Get 30Gb Mail Account Simply Click The Links Given Below And Register On The That Website For 30GB Mail Account.. Click Here: [url="http://www.congloi.5gigs.com/30gigs/"]http://www.congloi.5gigs.com/30gigs/[/url] Mirror Or Same Thing With Different Link: [url="http://www.30gigs.com/accept/140083/ebdde3b84534a3e30941de344441d08c"]http://www.30gigs.com/accept/140083/ebdde3...941de344441d08c[/url] Well If U Like My This Inventory Please Rate It Also Do Tell Me Your Thoughts About Th

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More Css3

Hello, If you look at my news page on http://www.vlaanderen-flanders.org.uk/news.htm you will se that it is divided in 2 columns. The left one where the menu resides, and then the right one where I put all the articles ina separate box. As things are now, I have achieved this with two tables, but I would like to achieve the same layout using CSS3 rather than tables. Can someone show me how that is to be done, and also, if I am using CSS3, will all browsers see the page correctly? Or is there

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What Are The Steps To Making A Website?

what are some steps to making a website? im doing a project and i need like 5-7, but id ont know waht to put.

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The Dont's Of Web Designing

Getting a great looking website is really a difficult task. We need to take care to make the site more acceaaible and get more visitors pouring in. Here are a few dont's that you need to keep in in while designing a site. [u][b]1. Clutter[/b][/u] - Too much text and too many links is information overload. Simplicity is the most efficient way of getting a point across. If you must have a dozen of links in your site, classify them in sections for easy navigation. [u][b]2. Different font siz

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Please Rate My Website

I have built a newly designed website here with Trap17 - [url="http://www.zofanatic.com"]http://www.zofanatic.com[/url] . Can you please rate it or give me some suggestions on the design and layout (including the forum, which runs on SMF). Thanks

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Creating A Good Website, How?!

Creating a good website, How?! I looked at many forums, searching on now to create a good website, by good I meant good website interface. For example, Trap17 have this amazing flash header, and nice design… I searched and searched, I found that many people started with a photoshop picture, then they make it come true by requesting a website coder (A.K.A. Programmer) to code the whole website for it. If, I said if, I were good a art, I can design a good nice picture off photoshop, and I k

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How To Make An Item Scroll With You On The Page.

ok im not sure where or how to really ask this... but you can find an example at [url="http://www.demonoid.com"]http://www.demonoid.com[/url] the ad that is on the right side scrolls with you basically to the bottom of the page. I know they use an iframe but can you show me how that works or what makes it do that? i tried to copy the source and css but it did not work.. any advice?

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Free Web Templates

At my small site, I have a selection of free and premium templates along with graphics and all sorts of other stuff for sites and even you own computer. I hope that you visit it, [url="http://sponkindustries.tk/"]Sponk Industries[/url] thank you, Cragllo.

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Popular Catchy Sitenames

I need some popular catchy site names (such as Yahoo! and Google) that are not used. Can someone please give me some ideas? Any help would be appreciated. You can give any site name that you want. I cannot exactly tell you what the site will be about because it needs to remain confidential until release date. Any name would probably be appropriate, please do not give a name that is too close to one specific topic though.

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Web Design For New Bie

Hi, i had started a new topic, coz i would like to learn - how to start a new web site and manage it, how ever i am good at desktop programming

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Dreamweaver On Linux

[center][size=6][url="http://www.trap17.com/index.php/dreamweaver-linux_t29314.html"]dreamweaver on linux[/url][/size] [/center] I have a little problem, i recently started tu run linux on my computer but i can't find any prgram similar to dreamweaver to maintain my site any ideas? [img]http://www.trap17.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif[/img]

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Design Ideas?

Where do you guys get your design ideas from? I always thought of myself as imaginative, but it seems my creativity comes to a blockage once I try to incorporate such thoughts into working designs. I'm always one at heart for gradiants and simple designs that theme "elegance" and "sleek" the best way to describe what I'm about is the layout of Apple.com's new Mac Pro webpage. Gradient black background, grey divider and strokes, and a feel to it that juxtaposes

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Designing Again :)

Hello everyone, Now, I am finally able to show the glimpses of my new design to you guys. Please note that this is not finished yet, some of the things that are still left to do includes, 1. Buy a new domain name......lol.... thats the reason you will not be able to see my new site name at the footer in copyright Also, I am using my existing domain name to show it, its temporarily. 2. Design a new banner, and put it in its actual place... 3. Content area is still not finished, at the moment

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Making Something Stand Out

I have been thinking about a solution for the following: When I announce something on my website, an event that is some time away, how can I make it re-appear, without having to constantly repeat the post? To make things a bit clearer: my (static) page is laid out with a table on the left, whe the menu resides, and then on the right, I have the main body, where separate articles appear, one above the other, every time with a separate table for a new article, made up by date (see attached scree

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my sig

What do you think about my sig.

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Custom Error Pages.

Hey guys u know hosting is kool but you know what would make a website really boring, well ill tell you what uncustomised error pages. well dont you just hate it when you type a url and instead of a kool page you just see some plain text telling you error 404 or sometimes it doesnt even say ne thing since the error messeges are not put in place. well i got a kool custom error page. check it out and tell me what you think, and well if you like it go ahead and pm me ill give you the details on ho

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Fonts

I have a little problem: I want to use special fonts on my site but I don't know so well how to get them.. Should I download the font(s) (if so: where?), should I get it anywhere else (-> program, person etc..), or should I create it myself (?!). I could use some tips ! ooh and wich ones do you consider as nice? btw: free is the main word

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Web Design Software

I currently Considering to buy a web design software but im realy confused on wich one to get my main choices are frontpage and dreamweaver can you please tell me wich one is better or if there is a better one then tose two thanks

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New Blogger Wants Answers To Blogging Questions...

Hey people... well, after some previous questions that I have catapulted to my fellow Trap17 comrades who are with me into website building, I have now stack a whole new set of questions for you to answer. As you might (or might not) know, I have created a website, I mean blog, called [url="http://newstack.blogspot.com/"]newstack.blogspot.com[/url], and you can click the [url="http://newstack.blogspot.com/"]link[/url] to go there and have a look. This is a blog about interesting news that I fin

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Good Blog Scripts?

i've been wanting to bring back my online journal but so many new blog scripts have been released since I was an active website owner. does any one know of any good blog scripts better than wordpress? I used wordpress in the past but to get a gallery in it required an addon. i was just wondering if there's a blog script with inbuilt image galleries. any other recomendations for other good blogging scripts would be appreciated aswell. ;] thanks in advance.

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Want A Internet Radio Station For Free

Hey, I know a website that lets you broadcast free radio station.. I've been using it for 2 years and its awesome.. iT's www.flatcast.com but when you type url into the browser you have to put www hope you enjoy it...

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Ahhh! Problems With Joomla On Paying Client's Site - Help!

Can someone, knowledgeable on Joomla! pleeeease help me asap! I uploaded Joomla and went through the install. Three red flags showed up, two of which I ignored because they come up on just about every site I do and don't affect the end product in any way but one of which was Safe Mode: ON. Even so I don't think that this is causing the problem. I continued with the installation and all seemed successful until I tried to view the site which was missing all images (not even a red

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How I Design Websites Using Free Software

Ok so i'm starting a 3 Monthly challenge your welcome to give me ideas, however, this one in particular keep your eye on this as i will be putting Video tutorials, links and all sorts for the new web designer (with a very little budget) Think you've got a challenge for me (be realistic) leave a comment here on this board as I've mucked my board up Look Forward to hearing from you

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Rate This Design

Ok, the story goes that im trying to improve my design skills to match my development/programming skills, along with that im looking at possibly going on a course, as generally my design work is terrible! But this, this is different.... i really like this and im seriously considering using it as my own website to advertise my skills and business. What do you guys think? Needless to say the design in copyright me from now until infinity, and may not be used in any way (unless you contact me

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Structuring A Php Website With Css Layout

Hey guys, Ive been pondering around with different ways of doing this but it seems i must be missing something, there must be an easier way. here is what I want to do: I got an mydesign.css file this contains the following custom divs: -header ( huge banner at the top, logo kinda way) -menu ( small height with the items next to each other: home - pictures - more - more - even more ) -content ( pretty obvious ) now here is how I do it now: Index.php [codebox]<html> <body>

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my new sig! w00t

[img]http://img6.exs.cx/img6/911/tech.jpg[/img] comments and suggestions plz!

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My First Image

Okay i want an opinon on how my first images i have made look. I used fireworksMX to create them. [url="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/DragonKing01/zero1.png"]First Image[/url] [url="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/DragonKing01/zero2.png"]2nd image[/url]

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A Forum For...um, My Website?

So...you get a website operational, and then you soon discover that it's really not all the difficult to add a forum to your site. On top of this, you can get quite a few good ones for free. And the best part is, they generally permit you to make changes to the code as you please (with few stipulations)! The only problem is figuring out which one you are going to use...Electron, SMF, phpBB, Kunena, or IPS (what Trap17 and AstaHost uses, but it's not free), just to name a few of the

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Stop Your Html Codes From Being Stolen

Hello people! Obviously a lot of people use these little scripts to stop you from right clicking on websites/HTML pages etc. I know many many people use near enough the same kind of coding as the one I just made. I decided not to put this in the Tutorials section because I know alot of other codes do exactly the same thing as this one I am going to be sharing with you! This code may be re-distributed if you wish. I have no copyright on it, but please put some kind of "Thanks for th

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