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  • Wordpress Alternative

    nosecreek, why not just use wordpress.org? You could create a free blog and if you must have the content on your own server, use the rss feed to bring in your content and display it as if it were original to that site. Then you could have images and…
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  • Coming to terms with Forms

    Humm, are you specificially asking about contact forms in Wordpress or about forms in general? For forms in general, knowing php is going to serve you well. Once you've built a few forms, you'll have a toolkit of code that will let you b…
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  • FCK Editor for WP trouble

    Humm, why do you like FCK have over TinyMCE? (I've used both and prefer TinyMCE, but I'm just curious) The only thing I can guess (if the plugin is working correctly) is that you might want to clear your browser cache. That's always …
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  • Video Review Uploading

    That's a pretty good idea. You must make it easy on the coaches and those that want to upload the videos. I'd suggest using something like Vimeo. Your users would upload their video, Vimeo would transcode it for the coaches, the coaches wa…
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  • Spacing/Floating Different on Firefox than Safari

    Can you post some css/html code? Do you have any margins or padding around your images?
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  • Help with PHP and Javascript time countdown

    Do you have jQuery running? If so, you can use the jquery_countdown plugin. There are a lot of jquery countdown plugins, but I really like this once since it gives you multiple formats and even allows you to use images.
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  • Wordpress Alternative

    Well, there is Drupal, it's only about 3.5megs and it has blogging functionality built in. However, it's not very friendly.
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  • If/Else statement, different analytics code depending on URL

    Humm, with that tree, PHP_SELF will still work, but you'll have to rearrange the if/elses or else customer would be caught right off the bat. $mypath = $_SERVER[\"PHP_SELF\"]; if (substr_count($mypath, \"documents\") >…
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  • If/Else statement, different analytics code depending on URL

    There are a lot of different ways of doing this. PHP_SELF would be pretty safe for this: $mypath = $_SERVER[\"PHP_SELF\"]; if (substr_count($mypath, \"customer\") > 0) { // Catch customer } elseif (substr_count($mypath, \&…
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  • jquery: opacity of columns? need help.

    That's kind of cool. You could probably make the opacity sticky by not using a mouseout but just mouseover (but hover works better). $(document).ready(function(){ $(\"ul.latest\").css({opacity: 0.3}); $(\"ul.latest\").…
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  • Authoritative SEO plugins?

    Yeah, the SEO Pack seemed pretty inclusive. But HeadSpace overlaps and seemed to be more powerful (for meta info) and SEO Title Tag also overlaps. I don't really like having more modules than I need so I think I'm going to go with SEO Pack…
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  • Wordpress menu classnames

    I'm new to the whole hacking wordpress so if this isn't the Wordpress Approved Method, I'd like to know the answer as well. But it seems to me you can basically just add stuff like this: //Get the stuff from wp_list_pages $myvar …
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  • Keywords question

    Humm, as far as I know, keywords really don't have much of an impact anymore. They can hurt you more than help you. It seems that the best practice is to first have good content, then have a meta description (around 255 characters, which goog…
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  • CSS Specificity question; multiple h2 tags

    Yeah, Views can be a kick in the teeth to template! CSS is the easiest way to go.
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  • CSS Specificity question; multiple h2 tags

    "Robskiwarrior" said:and wow if that's drupal the code it outputs is awful! lol Actually, it's Views output. Views is basically a database tool which is very flexible and allows you to get content out of your database and displa…
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  • CSS Specificity question; multiple h2 tags

    Since your using drupal, go into your theme folder and open block.tpl.php. There you can add your own superawesome class. You'll probably see something like:
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  • [Solved] Problems with ULs inside an AnythingSlider

    What it seems to be is the your UL doesn't have a specified width. You could specify the width: .product_box ul.product_btns { margin:0; width:450px; } Or your could remove the margin. The the width of the button + margin is pushing your bu…
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  • .

    Oh, my bad, xg_ads is a class not an id. Can you add css? If so, then just add: .xg_ads { display:none; }
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  • [Solved] Problems with ULs inside an AnythingSlider

    Looks like you've just got an extra margin between the buttons. Change the margin on your ul element: ul.product_info_btns li, .product_box ul.product_btns li { display:inline; float:left; font-size:1.8em; line-height:35px; list-style-image:…
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  • .

    Is this your site or is the ad from your site host? If the ad is from your site host, they might not like you getting rid of their ads. But the issue is to get the id of the ad, document.getElementById('xg_ads').style.display='n…
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  • CMS for user registration and profiles

    Zander, if you hang out for a while, I'll message you when I get my user profile tutorial (and website) up.
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  • What cms for this multi language site layout?

    No love for Drupal? Just kidding, I totally understand. If you stick to some of the more popular modules, those will get updated and you won't be left with orphan modules, but my advice to anyone starting a commercial project would be to wait a…
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  • What cms for this multi language site layout?

    Personally, I'd use Drupal. Excellent multilanguage support, very powerful, flexible, scalable, and with caching the performance is only limited by your host. It also has permissions for everything so if you want to have members you can define …
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  • CMS for user registration and profiles

    Drupal would be perfect for this. It's very powerful and flexible, but it's not very user friendly unless you're a programmer. Drupal can do pretty much everything but you have to put the parts together. Download the core at drupal.o…
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  • Determining if a site is built on Wordpress

    I use the Backend Firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10493 It's experimental but useful.
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  • Problem with sidebar disappearing in IE6

    Might be an issue with the float:left on your sidebar. You could remove that and see if it helps (it would be easier if there were a firebug for ie6). Or, since you're using absolute positioning, you could specify a top value ("top:100px…
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  • IE testing of local WP install

    The easiest way would be to use: http://browsershots.org/
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  • [Solved] Think I'm going crazy

    It's probably a float issue. You're floating your content left in order to accommodate your sidebar, you probably just need to clear that float for your footer. Just add "clear:both;" to your #footer css.
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  • Anything slider help, change functionality to hover

    Howdy, Basically change the click to a hover: $(\"#slide-jump\").hover(function(){ $('.anythingSlider').anythingSlider(6); });
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  • CSS Dropdown menu problems

    Howdy, The problem is that your submenu li is inheriting the float:left from the top menu li. To fix this you can create a new class for your submenu and "clear" the float: About Resources Sermons Articles Then in your css f…
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