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I'm back! I hope you're all doing well. =)
It's time I finished my website! So if it's okay I'd like to post some questions in this thread and as always would greatly appreciate any help/input. ^^
To keep Hmmm happy and to not waste valuable knowledge, I'd like to repost any information that would be useful to other webmasters on Freeola.
none :(
1) Using TITLE for links
We've all used ALT before for images but I've never used TITLE before for links. Should I be using them? I heard it helps search engines but you shouldn't really use it on every link. I notice Freeola doesn't use them.
2) Linking your own pages
I read on Digg the other day that search engines were going to get tough on duplicate content. It talked about how you do links on your sites and that search engines would see these URLs (see below) as different sites when obviously they are the same page.
I noticed I've been doing this on my site. So how should I be doing my links? Also for my navigation I just use the even more simple URL.. "
3) Switching to em
I decided to switch to em after all. Something about IE not letting pixel sizes resize which I suppose is a bit unfair to the user who'd like some control. I brought this up before but it seemed complicated.
At the moment I have
Another thing, the website said browser default text size is 12px (or was it 14? I forget) but for my FireFox it seems to be 16 (and normal size to me). So I'm a little worried using em and having less control might make my text look smaller on other peoples machines.
And finally if I use em, do I have to stop using px when I set margin and padding values? I notice some people use em to do this.
4) Keeping your CSS clean
I've been cleaning my CSS file lately and it looks less cluttered and easily manageable. My site is made up of several different areas and each one has many different css elements.
Obviously I don't want to put all of them into one CSS file so what would you suggest? I suppose I could have a different CSS file for each area of my site (content-area1.css, content-area2.css), or I could have a CSS file that imports the global setting CSS file and either of the area CSS files. How would I make one? Is it as simple as..
Actually, ignore the first option, it would involve me having to edit all CSS files just to change one global setting.
It's time I finished my website! So if it's okay I'd like to post some questions in this thread and as always would greatly appreciate any help/input. ^^
To keep Hmmm happy and to not waste valuable knowledge, I'd like to repost any information that would be useful to other webmasters on Freeola.
I can't guarantee anything, but any help deemed extremely useful might win you a GAD. ;)Completed Questionsnone :(
New Questions1) Using TITLE for links
We've all used ALT before for images but I've never used TITLE before for links. Should I be using them? I heard it helps search engines but you shouldn't really use it on every link. I notice Freeola doesn't use them.
2) Linking your own pages
I read on Digg the other day that search engines were going to get tough on duplicate content. It talked about how you do links on your sites and that search engines would see these URLs (see below) as different sites when obviously they are the same page.
http://www.freeola.com/chat/index.html
http://www.freeola.com/chat/
http://freeola.com/chat/I noticed I've been doing this on my site. So how should I be doing my links? Also for my navigation I just use the even more simple URL.. "
/chat/", "/forum/" etc, should I change them and use the full URL instead?3) Switching to em
I decided to switch to em after all. Something about IE not letting pixel sizes resize which I suppose is a bit unfair to the user who'd like some control. I brought this up before but it seemed complicated.
At the moment I have
font-size: 62.5%; for the body tag. Which is about 10px? So 1em is 10px and 1.2em is 12px. As 10px is too small I have to change the size in the other tags (h1, h2, p etc). So am I doing it right? Also I don't understand this bit about the heading tags wanting to be 12px. So 2em is 24px.Another thing, the website said browser default text size is 12px (or was it 14? I forget) but for my FireFox it seems to be 16 (and normal size to me). So I'm a little worried using em and having less control might make my text look smaller on other peoples machines.
And finally if I use em, do I have to stop using px when I set margin and padding values? I notice some people use em to do this.
4) Keeping your CSS clean
I've been cleaning my CSS file lately and it looks less cluttered and easily manageable. My site is made up of several different areas and each one has many different css elements.
Obviously I don't want to put all of them into one CSS file so what would you suggest? I suppose I could have a different CSS file for each area of my site (content-area1.css, content-area2.css), or I could have a CSS file that imports the global setting CSS file and either of the area CSS files. How would I make one? Is it as simple as..
@import url('global-settings.css');
@import url('area1.css');Actually, ignore the first option, it would involve me having to edit all CSS files just to change one global setting.
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So Machie,
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You still have "Completed Questions: None"...
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Cheers cjh. =)
Oops that file looks really daunting, maybe I'll leave it as tables and just try and make it look nice. =S
Oops that file looks really daunting, maybe I'll leave it as tables and just try and make it look nice. =S
I'd say after the
<!DOCTYPE ... >, and within the <body> element.
cjh wrote:
> Looks like polls.php is the file you'll need to alter.
Ah thank you very much cjh ^^ I'll have a tinker at it now and see if it works.
Oh one more question, do I add
> Looks like polls.php is the file you'll need to alter.
Ah thank you very much cjh ^^ I'll have a tinker at it now and see if it works.
Oh one more question, do I add
<?php $_REQUEST['poll'] = [B]2[/B];
> include("polls.php"); ?> right at the top before this...<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/ xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Looks like polls.php is the file you'll need to alter.
Yep that's the one cjh. So far it looks very promising. It just needs a big makeover.
Hurray it's working on my page =D but now I need to change the way it looks. If one of you has the script downloaded, could you possibly tell me which file I need to edit? I want to get change the default layout.
edit: I can change the images and the css, I just want to stop it from using tables.
edit: I can change the images and the css, I just want to stop it from using tables.
Looks like:
To include the newest poll:
To include a specific poll:
... where
To include the newest poll:
<?php include("polls.php"); ?>To include a specific poll:
<?php $_REQUEST['poll'] = [B]2[/B]; include("polls.php"); ?>... where
[B]2[/B] is the poll ID.
Oops I missed that :D I just saw User Guide and went with that. Thanks cjh and Garin, I'll give it a try.
Machie wrote:
> The
> only problem is I've no idea how I implement it to one of my
> pages.
Follow the instructions in the Readme.txt :P
> The
> only problem is I've no idea how I implement it to one of my
> pages.
Follow the instructions in the Readme.txt :P
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