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Design – Website Security

I’m still in the concept stages of this website. I’d like to disable the ability to copy so it deters most users from illegal activity. Using oncontextmenu="return false;" only helps slightly, but you still can use shortcuts such as Ctrl + c to get by it. I will block browsers such as Opera [...]

Adapt sites for viewing on handheld devices

After resisting for quite a while I am finally coming to the point that I realize I need to optimize my work for viewing on handheld devices. I am not sure if the answer is to design as 2 seperate sites (if so I need to learn how to direct the viewing device to the [...]

Blogitter.com Startup Ideas Wanted.

I dont know whether I am posting in the right category or not. So moderators, please move this thread to any suitable category, if this is not the one already.
Ok, now come to the point, I have a domain name Blogitter.com, which sounds like blogging+twitter or something like that. This one I won in [...]

really easy margin problem…

Hi,
Sorry for the basic question, but Im a bit confused why my margins aren’t working on the #logo div.
here is the code:

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<link href="hisstylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<body>

<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
<div id="logo">
[...]

Please help: links/navigation

Many, many thanks in anticipation of any help.
I have built my first site. It is a site specifically to showcase my writing (I write fiction). The site has four pages, as follows:
Home
Biography
Writing
Contact details
On the ‘Writing’ page, I want to link to four different examples of my work. Please does anyone know the [...]

A bit of design help please!

Hi all,
Was wondering if someone could give me some advice on the best way of transferring this photoshop design to html. I’m not very good at this to be honest – this is only my second site

I was thinking a static design would be best, although I don’t really think I truely grasp the [...]

another markup, another problem

Hello everybody,
got a problem with another one of my markups. This one having to do with commentingout text using the "< – -" characters.
As I may have explained already, I’ve been working with Ian lloyd’s book "Build your own web site the right way using html & CSS". I’m on pages 38 – 39 the [...]

Convert existing website to new dreamweaver template

Hi,
I am beginning to work on an existing website built in Dreamweaver.
I have to create a new Template and to convert the existing site over to this new DW Template.
Is this simple to do? Or do I have to recreate existing webpages as new ones?
Thanks.

Website/Company name?

Hey guys me again,
Anyway here’s what I’m wondering. Ok so I wanted to do up a little portfolio website for myself just to try and further my skills. Now I’ll probably never end up using this website but just in case I do I wanna do it as correct as I can.
So I was [...]

inspiration for client testimonials

I’m looking for an interesting way of displaying client testimonials – each one just a sentence or two.
Just wondered if anyone has seen/come up with anything really special they’d like to share ?