Web design questions (Was: A number of questions..)

Ok so!
What fonts are known to go well together when making banners or headers? I have been messing around with a lot of fonts and im really just looking for some new ones!
I know this question really depends on the banner itself but what is a recommended size of a font when making a header? lets say 860x250 ?
Are there any real kind of "must nots" when designing banners?
When Placing text onto A banner where is the usual place you would see it? I know it changes from site to site but from just looking around a lot of text seems to be in the left bottom corner, is this a norm of some sort?
Are there any known font combinations which would go together well when making a full webpage? As in fonts for the sidebar, content area, footer etc, any combinations?
Thank you very much!

You are asking design questions, but most web designers, including those who frequent this forum, have no design expertise.
Your questions are good, but incomplete. The right typeface and size depends on the impression you are trying to create. For instance, you wouldn't want to use the typeface "Comic" for a website selling financial services.
Many corporations have lengthy documents detailing their identity for graphic design and advertising. Such documents define which typefaces may be used where, and how. Assuming that you don't have such a document to work with for the creation of this web banner, think about the business, organization (or whatever) the website is for. Should it convey conservative dependability? Edginess? Family friendliness? The typefaces you choose should take such qualities into consideration.
There's no definite answer to any of the questions you have asked. But that's OK. You should research websites that create the kind of impression you want to make and study how they accomplish it.

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I have recently had to fire my web designer who was using iWeb. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get the site to open in iWeb on my new MacBook Pro. Is there a way?

I have recently had to fire my web designer who was using iWeb. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get the site to open in iWeb on my new MacBook Pro. Is there a way?

Firstly iWeb CAN'T IMPORT any kind of published html code as it has no import facility. You can however add html code, javascript and css by selecting the html snippet and placing it on your page the entering the code in here and clicking on Apply. You DO NOT create a shape as you say - you use the html snippet and place your code in there.
There are not really a lot of ways in which you can write code - if you want to enter small amounts of code, then you would use an ordinary text editor to do this such as Text Edit on a Mac or Text Wrangler. If you want to add code to iWeb like this, then you would either use the html snippet method in iWeb itself or you would have to publish the site to a local folder from iWeb and open the relevant html page with a text editor and add the additional code in this way and then publish. However, if he decided to add the code with a text editor, then you would have to upload the pages directly to the server using an ftp client - if you try to upload the site directly from iWeb, all the extra code will be overwritten.
As for checking whether the site was created using iWeb, all you need do is view the site in Safari and then click on View and then select View Source Code and it will tell you.
Even thoough extra code was added to the site and he might well have done this by publishing to a local folder and adding the code with a text editor, he should still have the domain file for the site too.
Ask again. I'm sure that for adding quick code, most would not want to use programmes such as Dreamweaver, but a simple text editor will suffice. As OT already said, if he claims that he does not have the domain.sites file, then try Flux 4 which is a web design programme and has full import facilities. At least this way, if he just gives you the published version of the site, you have some way of opening it.
You can download a free trial of Flux 4 and you can also purchase the full version from the Mac App Store if you decide you like it.

Hey guys, I have a question about Web Design

I have been trying to learn webdesign for a few months now, and so far, I am still learning HTML and some CSS. At the moment, my experience is still very thin, I am struggling with things, and I only know how to create simple, static pages. For example I still don't know how to produce "clean code". Or how one determines just how "clean" the code he has produced really is.
I was wondering if someone could answer a few questions I have:
I am still not sure how I will know when I am competent enough to work in Web Design... What are the best signs that an individual is good enough?
I was also wondering what programming language I need to know to do the following:
Create a WORKING Site Search. One like the search bar in the top corner of this page that will return search results from your website... Do I need to know how to program PHP? I've heard that you do need PHP to do this? The same goes for creating e-mail forms, and other forms like this. Do I need PHP for this?
Another thing is CMS systems like Wordpress and Joomla. What is the reason for using these as opposed to just designing a website's pages in Dreamweaver, and then uploading them via FTP to your web server?
And finally, can someone explain to me why CSS is groped like this when it is coded? Why has the Div ID "OuterWrapper" been styled multiple times?
For example: #outerWrapper #feature {
#outerWrapper #subcontentWrapper {
#outerWrapper #subcontentWrapper #rightColumn {
^ Couldnt the designer simply have styled "~OuterWrapper" once and left it at that?
Please see below:
#outerWrapper #feature {
    height: 225px;
    width: 880px;
    margin-left: 0px;
    margin-bottom: 5px;
    background-image: url(images/feature.jpg);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: center top;
#outerWrapper #subcontentWrapper {
    padding-right: 15px;
    padding-left: 15px;
    clear: both;
    padding-top: 20px;
    background-color: #FFF;
    padding-bottom: 40px;
    border-top-width: 4px;
    border-right-width: 4px;
    border-left-width: 4px;
    border-top-style: solid;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-left-style: solid;
    border-top-color: #F90;
    border-right-color: #F90;
    border-left-color: #F90;
    background-image: url(images/footer-fade.jpg);
    background-repeat: repeat-x;
    background-position: bottom;
    height: 100%;
#outerWrapper #subcontentWrapper #rightColumn {
    float: right;
    width: 220px;
    background-color: #DBE7FB;
    border: 1px solid #DCDFE4;
    margin-bottom: 15px;
Also, regarding Javascript: How exactly does one become proficient enough to learn scripting for the thousands of little widgets, and navigation bars, and other functions that Javascript can do out there?
I know a lot of these questions are strange and may be hard to answer, but I am really hoping some of you guys can provide some helpful advice/direction for me to improve with code. I studied as a Print Graphic Designer, and now it's really hurting me in this economy trying to find a job due to the fact that I lack full competency in Web Design... and the longer it takes me to get better at this, the slimmer my chances become at finding work!
I really need help on this, so I would be extremely grateful for detailed and informative answers. Perhaps some links to very good video tutorials on learning how to effectively design webpages - Common things like Javascripted navigation bars, image slideshows, how to design working site search forms and contact forms, and how to use Wordpress. I ask this because there are so many terrbile tutorial videos out there (I know from experience) and it is next to impossible for myself, a beginner, to tell the good ones from the bad.
Thankyou guys.

CMS's like WordPress, Joomla! & Drupal are popular open source (PHP & MySql) frameworks. They contain all the backend PHP code needed to create a dynamic web site that contains capability for advanced functions: site search, on-line editing, shopping carts, member log-in sites, blogs with comments, scripted contact forms, and so much more...
The allure of Open Source frameworks is that they save developers time and money. Instead of building everything from scratch (which can take months), an experienced developer can usually install WordPress on the client's server and be up & running in a few hours without customizations, or in a couple of weeks with customizations.   A firm understanding of PHP, how to set up a server-side database, backing up MySql, CSS theming, and HTML code are required skills to work with these frameworks. WordPress is probably the easiest to set-up; Drupal is for more experienced coders.
I am still not sure how I will know when I am competent enough to work in Web Design... What are the best signs that an individual is good enough?
You're ready when you can look at code and understand what it means/does. Being able to problem solve, identify mistakes and fix them on your own is a must have skill.
Code Tutorials - http://w3schools.com/
How to Develop with CSS?
http://phrogz.net/css/HowToDevelopWithCSS.html
CSS positioning in 10 Steps
http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/
Code Validation Tools
CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
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SiteGrinder (PS plug-in) web design question answered

Over at http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b4e1c9 we've been discussing SiteGrinder, the PS plug-in which converts Photoshop designs to working websites.
One of the posters had concerns about the SG coding. (I don't know if he's used the plug-in.) He pointed out that on their users' sample sites at http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder , if you enlarge the text with cmd-+, everything gets crowded and overlaps. I noted that this is a common problem with most/all sites, regardless of their origins. He responded:
>It's common -- far too common -- but not inevitable. It's bound to happen with SG, though, because they carve up the layout into fixed size chunks and then use absolute positioning, so there's no way for the containers to accommodate changes in font size except by crashing into each other, or growing scroll bars, which is only sometimes going to work. For the same reason -- starting with a single Photoshop image -- they can't identify headings or lists, so the pages aren't properly accessible to some assistive technology. If you don't care about accessibility, you should realize that this also means that they become hard or impossible for search engines to analyze, so people aren't going to find your site so easily.
I've only just downloaded the SiteGrinder demo, so I couldn't confirm or deny this, so I sent it along to the developer at MediaLab, who replied overnight on a weekend. He says:
>The criticisms are partly true. SiteGrinder uses something called "absolute" positioning as its default. This means that if the text size is increased and the text has been divided into several closely packed layers that after resizing the text may overlap.
>But, while this is the default SiteGrinder positioning behavior, it is not the only option. SiteGrinder supports relative positioning through use of a -grow layer. Content in a grow layer (and the footer below it) won't suffer this problem.
>Also, no website is fully resize resistant to any amount of text size increase. The normal expectation is that a site should accommodate two levels of font size changes in either direction. This can also be accomplished by simply keeping text layers away from each other so they don't crowd one another.
>SiteGrinder does a lot of unseen work for supporting accessibility. It always outputs the content in read order, puts title attributes on graphic buttons, doesn't clutter the HTML with IMG tag graphics ( CSS should be used for design graphics, and that's the SG default - semantically important image layers can be noted as such with the -img hint), properly sets the alt attribute when img tags are used and never puts empty alt="" attributes into the HTML (if you are doing that you should be using CSS for the graphic, not an IMG tag). Also, text -menu layers are nicely converted to UL-LI constructs for you - very important for search engines and accessibility.
>However, SiteGrinder does not yet support header tags, simply because there is no simple way to designate them from Photoshop. However, of all the changes one might want to do downstream, those are by far the easiest. It is our goal for SiteGrinder to one day support header tags in an elegant and seamless way, but I personally don't see their current absence as a big drawback. Why would someone who hand codes HTML be upset if a helper tool didn't put in header tags for them? Hope this helps, Chris
>P.S. SiteGrinder has advanced features for importing HTML, inserting HTML directly into a Photoshop layer, as well as adjusting the HEAD portion of a page. Our more savvy users have no trouble getting header tags into their SiteGrinder builds. And others just put them in downstream.
This is mostly Greek to me (and fortunately SG users don't need to understand most of it, as it happens behind the plug-in scenes) but I'd be interested to hear what other html-savvy folks think.

MediaLab's response is encouraging. It shows that they are aware of the issues and try to do something about it. It suggests though that you won't just be able to go with all the defaults, and you aren't going to understand the options unless you find out something about what's going on behind the scenes, which is really all I've been suggesting you should do. The choice of tools is up to you, if they're capable of doing the job. I will persist in believing that starting from a PSD image is not the right way to go, but I won't argue the point with anyone.
Best of luck starting out in Web design. Watch out for Internet Explorer 6.

URGENT: QoS Design on Data Center MPLS - MediaNet Question...

Hello,
I am posting this in hopes I can get some guidance from anyone who has done this in the field. We have a large enterprise customer with 21 sites all around the world, they have Verizon MPLS and are experiencing QoS related issues on their WAN regarding Video/Voice. We have proposed remediating their network acccording to the Enterprise QoS SRND 3.3 and the new MediaNet SRND to account for Video and TP QoS (
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/WAN_and_MAN/QoS_SRND_40/QoSCampus_40.html )
Here is the problem/question that was proposed in our presales meeting and I honestly don't know where to look for an answer... I am not asking for anyone to design a solution for me, just merely point me in the right direction:
The Data Center has a ~40MB MPLS Connection ( full mesh ) into the cloud ( Verizon )
Site A has a 8MB connection
Site B has a 4MB connection
I know on the Service policy and the interfaces at SiteA and SiteB I can assign "Bandwidth xxxx" and use ~95% of the bandwidth to do queuing and shaping/policing ect. I am not concerned with SiteA and SiteB, that I think I can handle...
Question was posed from the customer, "How can we ensure at the DataCenter level the 40MB MPLS is "chopped" up so that only 8MB of the total speed goes to SiteA ALONG with an attached QoS policy designed for that specific site, as well as ensure only 4MB goes to SiteB with an attached QoS policy.
So I am looking for a way to allocate bandwith per site on the DC 40MB connection going into the cloud ( so that SiteB cannot use more than 4MB ) and attach a MediaNet specific QoS Service policy to that site. The customer does not have seperate MPLS circuits for each site, they all come into the DC on 40MB shared ethernet connection ( no VC, or dedicated circuits to other sites ).
Any thoughts on if this is possible?
Thanks!
Alex

This is an example I have seen and I hope that is useful to you.
Site A
Subnet: 172.16.1.0/24
Site B
Subnet:172.16.2.0/24
HeadOffice:
ip access-list extended Site_A
permit ip any 172.16.1.0 0.0.0.255
ip access-list extended Site_B
permit ip any 172.16.2.0 0.0.0.255
class-map match-any Site_A
match access-group name Site_A
class-map match-any Site_B
match access-group name Site_B
policy-map To_Spokes
class Site_A
shape average 8000000
service-policy Sub_Policy(Optional)
class Site_B
shape average 4000000
service-policy Sub_Policy(Optional)
class class-default
shape average 28000000
service-policy Sub_Policy(Optional)
Interface G0/0
Description To MPLS cloud
bandwidth 40000000
service-policy output To_Spokes
interface G0/1
Description To HeadOffice
bandwidth 40000000
service-policy output To_Spokes
It would be greatly appreciated if someone can correct this or improve it as I am still learning.
Please see the netflow graph from one of our routers using a similar policy as above.

I downloaded the i07. My id had changed a year ago and I forgot my password and my answer to the security question was not accepted. Tech support say nothing that can be done. I can no longer access my iphone. Any suggestions

I downloaded the i07. My id had changed a year ago and I forgot my password and my answer to the security question was not accepted. Tech support say nothing that can be done. I can no longer access my iphone. Any suggestions

I believe part of the recovery process is you get an e-mail allowing you to reset questions. If that e-mail isn't correct either because your son set it up then you really have no option but to ask Apple again. They are getting strict abotu security and given the number of "My iTunes account got hacked" posts here I can guess why. They have no way of knowing you really are the owner of the account. It's like me going to a policeman and saying, "See that car over there? That is mine, can you open the door for me?" and the police opening it on that basis alone.
Frequently asked questions about Apple ID - http://support.apple.com/kb/HE37 --> Can I change the answers to the security questions for my Apple ID? --> Yes. You can change the answers to the security questions provided when you originally signed up for your Apple ID. Go to My Apple ID (http://appleid.apple.com/) and click Manage your account.
Forgotten security questions - https://discussions.apple.com/message/18402551 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/18625296
More involved forgotten question issues - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3961813
Kappy 09/2012 post about security questions - https://discussions.apple.com/message/19569468
John Galt's tips (09&11/2012) - https://discussions.apple.com/message/19809294 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/20229239
If none of the above work, contact iTunes Support at http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/ and follow the instructions to report the issue to the iTunes Store.

I want to cut and paste iCal entries on iPad. Have seen a number of questions raised but no definitive answer - is it possible or not? (I use Bento but that doesn't sync with ICal now so can use that solution)

I want to cut and paste iCal entries on iPad. Have seen a number of questions raised but no definitive answer - is it possible or not?
(I use Bento but that doesn't sync with ICal now so can use that solution)
Hope to hear helpful news soon....
C

No, the camera connection kit only supports the copying of photos and videos to the Photos app, it doesn't support copying content off the iPad. For your second camera instead of the SD reader part of the kit, does the iPad to camera cable not work with it for direct transfer to the iPad ?
For Lightroom and Nikon software again no - you can only install apps that are available in the iTunes app store on your computer and the App Store app on the iPad, 'normal' PC and Mac (OS X) software are not compatible with the iPad (iOS). There are some apps that perform fairly basic editing functions that are available in the store, but nothing as sophisticated as, for example, Lightroom.

How to get a question in the course placed anywhere in the course and does not appear in the quiz result or total number of questions. Pretest would work except it can't go anywhere in the course (at least for me it can't)

How to get a question in the course placed anywhere in the course and does not appear in the quiz result or total number of questions. Pretest would work except it can't go anywhere in the course (at least for me it can't)

Use a normal question, and do not add the score to the total score. That will give you a correct score at the end. But the total number of questions, that system variable will still take into account all questions. You'll need a user variable, and calculate its value by subtracting 1 from the system variable cpQuizInfoTotalQuestionsPerProject. Same for the progress indicator if you want to show it?
Customized Progress Indicator - Captivate blog
If you want to allow Review, you'll have to tweak as well. You didn't specify the version, and all those questions I now mentioned.
And my approach, since you talk about only one question: create a custom question, because you'll have total control then.

Incorrect number of questions being displayed

I have created a set of 12 question in Captivate 4 (Windows XP), and the "number of questions" indicated both on the final "summary" slide and also the slide counter (slide x of y) both say there are 13 questions yet there are only 12 questions.
There are only 12 questions...anyone have any ideas why this is and how to fix it?
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Staffordshire
England

Hi Noel
Does the link below help?
Click here to view the Frequently Encountered Issues page at Question Count
Cheers... Rick
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How can I transfer a site that was made in iWeb to a new web design service? Please tell me I don't have to build again from scratch!!

I have a site that I update for a large group of educators. It has years of info and pages and it was all created in iWeb. It's a great site and people rely on it! I found out that iWeb is going away and I need to find a way to keep updating this site asap. Help!!
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do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
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HT201342 My iTunes account is under my @yahoo email address and I became accustomed to my @Me email and now like the idea of the @iCloud email address that was made. My question is can I change my iTunes account to my @iCloud name without losing my purcha

My iTunes account is under my @yahoo email address and I became accustomed to my @Me email and now like the idea of the @iCloud email address that was made. My questions are....can I change my iTunes account to my @iCloud name without instead of my @yahoo name without losing my years snd years of purchases ? Can I also create an @Mac address ? ....or is my @yahoo and my @iCloud already recognized as the same by apple and my purchases would already be fine as well as restoring my devices ?

Your purchases are permanently tied to the Apple ID (account) used to purchase them. They can't be moved to another account and you can merge accounts. You can start making new purchases with your iCloud ID if you want, but you will end up with two sets of purchases under two different IDs, adding further complication to your life.
Also, your @icloud email address is an alias of your existing @me address; emails sent to either address will be routed to the same inbox. You can decide which one you want to use as your default (as discussed here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5441) but you can't separate them.

My question was not answered in a timely matter so I'll ask again...

My Guardians of the Galaxy Blu-Ray copy gave me a code to download the movie on iTunes for free. The download seemed successful, and when I played it, the title screen came up, but when I tried to play the movie or the bonus features, there was no audio or video. When I go to the Get Info screen, it says it's a Protected MPEG-4 and the file type is .m4v. My question is: how do I get the movie to work? Why would they give me a file that does not work in the first place?

My question was not answered in a timely matter so I'll ask again...:
too many questions,most of which are already answered in previous threads.
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How do i find the place on this Mozzilla web site where the answer to the question that i submitted will be found?

Someone please tell me how to locate the place on this web site where the answer to my question can be found?

Your other thread is https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1014066
The users questions and answers search has been a bit broken since July 31 or even earlier. As a results the Questions and Posts count may not increase.
It may or may not work but another way is to go to https://support.mozilla.org/questions/ and click on My contributions at top.
The best you can do at moment is to use the email and to bookmark the threads you posted or replied in.
There are a few threads in relation to this issues in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors

HT204053 I put the wrong answer can I go back and redo it? Does anyone know what the question was?

I was setting up my icloud on my iphone5 and at the start it ask 2 questions and I marked 1 wrong. I don't know what the question was but 1 was email address is there anyway to change this and does anyone even know what the other question is. Than You

Contact the makers of Duplicate Annihilator at their website.

Is there a limit of number of questions in this forum?

Because I posted some questions which were removed..

Is there a limit of number of questions in this forum? No, but forum etiquette strongly suggests you keep a thread on any individual topic continuous (that means together no matter how long that thread might become). So, you should NOT post separate individual questions for every tiny nuance you might have.
The inherent nature of a forum is that thread topics get spread far apart as time goes by. If your inquiry is splattered into individual new posts, they WILL get scattered and your topic will no longer make any sense.
Anyone you hope to respond to you will lose all focus on the topic and will just no longer try to give you answers.

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