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contact your web host and see what's up. In the future though, consider developing your sites in any IDE that doesn't create dependencies (in this case, frontpage extensions) so that you are not held to ransom.

My point: The time it would have taken you to track down this error is time you would have used to code/upload 5 "dependency-free" pages. Think about coding in dreamweaver or homesite, just a couple of examples.

Good luck. Let us know how it works out for you.

For "back to top", browser is irrelevant.

Go to: http://pofmponline.com/productions.html and go to bottom of page. Then click. It will not work. Then view source and search for "top" and count the number of occurrences. Assuming the flavor of igbo I smoked this morning is d original, you should see exactly one occurrence of "top" which means you don't have an "<a name="top">" anywhere on that page.

See, when I review, since from experience I know what fellow coders are capable of doing, I have learned to click pages at random, to note things that the untrained eye would never notice

Jango: Wetin "consign" bird with toothbrush, biko? So what if it is a template? It looks good for the message it is trying to convey and that should b d koko

poster:
IMHO, the site is as good as the food it is displaying on the home page - yummy!

Now, look into the following issues

1) http://www.lacuisineexotique.com/contact.htm - hover over any of the thumbnails to the right. Note that it causes a "jump" of the other elements. Now, go to http://www.lacuisineexotique.com/gallery.htm and hover over the thumbnails there and note that there is no "jumping" on that page (I use FF exclusively by the way)

2) I think you should reconsider the photos under "ebere asu". Even if they own the joint, they should be dressed like professional chefs and not like some university kids. Also, the photo of the 3 girls standing in front of a wall that looks like it has some algae on it, should go. If you must, focus on photos that show actual customers having a good time, in the restaurant.

3) For SEO, consider giving each page a unique title. Also, your keywords make no mention of the food that is served at the place. I am willing to bet you that more people will search for "chicken" than "catering company lagos"

4) CSS tip/trick: http://www.lacuisineexotique.com/images/maindisplay_inner_gallery.png - this image could be better implemented using text and CSS. Sure, it only weighs 4KB or so but it doesn't hurt to reduce your page weight further by 3KB. Besides, customers in areas where you pay for bandwidth will thank you for it

hmm, I don't know how else to put it o!

Do a "view source" on your code and you will see what I mean for #1 and #2. For #3, click any "back to top" links on any page and note that you aren't taken to the top of the page.

Yep, straight to the point, "externally". "Internally":

1) Stop using multiple "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" tags. Use CSS to apply margins/paddings
2) Learn to indent your code for readability and maintainability
3) Your "back to top" links aren't working

I would definitely do business with this website. Why? Because it has no URL

Very "interesting" question

I didn't ask for impact but thoughts. In other words, is it a good thing/way to go or not? If yes, would you do anything any differently?

Typically, when a woman who has been raped "comes out", she does so not because it will have any impact on herself but because of the impact it might have on other women who might be feeling too shy or guilty to come out as well.

Oh well, as my father would say, just like education is not for everyone, not all questions are meant be answered by everyone.

Maybe, maybe not. It wouldn't hurt to ask though. It's better to try and fail than not to try at all.

Good luck!

Back in the day, NITEL had such a listing, in a book and it made sense since they were dealing with land lines that were actually linked to a physical address. Today, with pretty much everyone owning a cell phone that is not registered to a physical address, I doubt you will find such, at least for cell phones.

what are you trying to accomplish?

Jim Iyke style. Your thoughts?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAXLurWICWg

1) Not necessarily. As I tell people (including a current commissioner of information of one of our states), I am not hired to be an order taker. I am hired for my expertise so, if I tell you why something doesn't make sense, and furthermore, back it up with facts and statistics, it is imperative that the advise is taken. Besides, I want to be able to show future clients my sites. My reputation is supreme.

3) Again, facts and stats state that majority of users use 1024, at least for now. YUI recommends 965px max and I would suggest, per #1 above, that you go with that. If you can't fit the current background into that width (and I see no reason why you couldn't), maybe you should reconsider another

4) Webmail link: You give it to them in a separate email and tell them to bookmark it. I have done this in the past, and no one complained. Again, I was faced with, "client says" syndrome but I backed up my arguments with facts and stats and they agreed.

Learn to "fight" for your rights, wherever and whenever possible. For the most part, you will earn your clients' respect, even if it means losing business. I speak from experience.

As per what I like about the site, a review isn't about what looks good but what can be improved. If you've noticed, I haven't been derogatory (though I could ) and have backed up my observations with solutions, where necessary.

Go back to when you parents would ask you to wash their car. If your parents were like mine, unless you did a bang up job up front, they would always run their fingers in some obscure place, a place you never though of washing, showed you the finger and walked away without saying a word. The difference b/w them and me, with respect to this review is that I am not only showing you the dirty finger and suggesting how to get all corners of the car in the future

Good luck!

1) Get rid of the flash/intro page
2) Contact form not working
3) Majority of web users use 1024x768 resolution, including me. On my screen, I get horizontal scroll - bad!
4) Get rid of the webmail link at bottom of page. That is and should remain, personal to the client
5) Indent your code
6) Without keywords and description, how do you expect this site to rank high in the search engines?

Very nice site!! I would like to hook up with you, to learn a thing or 2. Where did you get the idea?

The best part of the site, which I hope others on this board emulate? The part of the site that says,

SERVER NOT FOUND

1) My YIM is always on (yawatide)

2) I use Firefox and when I don't fill out a field, I get the error but it doesn't focus on the incomplete field(s). If it is working only in IE, then you need to make it work for all.

3) Back end validation refers to your server-side language of choice (PHP, JSP, ASP, etc). I would also make the form triple-safe (well, as safe as the spam bot is weak) by adding CAPTCHA. When it comes to security on the web, I don't believe in too much redundancy.

There are more than a few ways:

1) Do nothing special: For the most part, many devices will scale your sites to fit the device

2) Use percentages for dimensions and "EMs" for font sizes. This allows for scaling

3) CSS media queries to sniff the device and display the appropriate style sheet: Not fully supported in all browsers for now but, in the name of progressive enhancement, it is worth a shot

4) Use web standards: using code that is consistent across all browsers will for the most part ensure that your site will display consistently across the board

good luck!

2 out of 3: feedback form still tells me I have 3 errors but doesn't tell me (read: highlight for me) the bad fields.

Also, if you turn off javascript (trust me, some devices still do by default), you can submit as much bad data as possible. Always validate on the front and back ends.

Good luck!

Oya folks, this thread should be considered closed. Over to quiz time 2 please

No takers?

Yep very surprising - As someone who reads from left to right, what I found interesting was that I clicked, "contact" and spent at least 30 seconds trying to figure out where the information to contact you was. I finally found it to the right, not demarcated from the rest of the content on the page.

Other surprises:
1) Search functionality doesn't work
2) Feedback form tells me I have an error, without telling me what the error is
3) Every page has a "pause adverts" button which begs the question: If you put it there then it means something tells me you know the ads are a bit annoying and that maybe you should consider user-initiated ads next time.

Hey, at least you are honest about the "surprises"

Afam, if you compare this board, or even programming to the autos, sex or politics board, of course this and the programming board will be the worst. The same would apply to a board on law.

Why? IMHO, everyone has and their grand parents has an opinion about cars, politics etc but not everyone has an opinion about how to code. In other words, anyone could state why GEJ should win the next election and sound credible. On the other hand, if an "unlearned" person started talking about how to code, the person would immediately give them self away.

webmaster and programming board are more of professional boards, IMHO but the others (and to some extent, it depends on topic) are boards of opinion, and as they say, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

You have some code that needs to layout a page consistently in all browsers. For the most part, the webkit browsers (mozilla, safari, chrome, iphone, etc) are fine but it's the IE browsers that cause the most problem, when it comes to CSS.

Question:
In what ways can you implement your CSS such that it is cross-browser and of all the ways you state, which do you think is the best and why?

Hint:
One of the ways is by using CSS conditional statements (I won't state an example for now so as not to give much away).

Oya, let the answers pour forth

ogzille:
My bad! I didn't see it in full.  Your way is the highway and you have been declared the winner. yay! 

cactus:
First of all, welcome back.  The reason why that approach isn't the best is again, imagine if I were to ask you to insert another row after row 46, for instance.  Sure, you may be a master of using search-and-replace but why go through that?  The whole point of coding is to do it in an efficient manner.  In other words, code for now and the future at the same time.

All:
I enjoyed this thread immensely. It was full of thoughts and devoid of ad hominem attacks/women chyking (these 2 have been the bane of this board for a while).

Ogzille:
Once again, my apologies.  You got it right.  Now, to my next quiz 

As I have argued for years, web development in and of itself is programming. It is only in naija that, in order to feel important, we attach meaning to something that is undeserving.

Both boards should have been one from the get-go. After all, what is programming but the ability to reason (think logically) in a way that a computer can interpret and understand?

dhtml:
If no one answers correctly, I will give out the answer tomorrow

ogzille:
So far, you have given the best answer, though not quite complete.

1) Your javascript solution doesn't hold, but I take it you haven't read every single response from top to bottom

2) You are correct, to a point. This is where the thought process comes in again. When you say, "not supported by all browsers", what do you mean? It would be nice to be specific. Why? Because maybe the environment where the code is being deployed doesn't need all browsers to behave alike (progressive enhancement).

The next step would be (and this is another hint) that though not supported in all browsers, you not only state that there is a way to achieve this, which isn't a hack, using both javascript and css. Note that I am not saying you should use javascript to generate the table but that you can use javascript in combination with css to achieve the results in the question.

This so far, has been the best thread on this board so far this year. Keep it up guys. I am being motivated to come up with more

I think you just answered your own question

When I first joined, some 3 or so years ago, I was even a little wary of joining because of the talent of the then participants. Back then, this was a place where you could come to, to be motivated and to learn. Not so anymore.

What happened? IMHO, the top talent was turned off due to reasons best known to themselves.

The only way to bring this board back to its former glory is to give participants a reason to come back. Ads won't do that. In fact, site reviews won't do that either. I have tried to do it with a quiz but even you, OP, haven't attempted to answer. If you don't answer, how do you expect others to participate?

Sweet pawn, you are right again, but for one more thing:

As coders, we should not only account for today but the possibility of tomorrow.  What if tomorrow, I ask you to insert or delete 1 more row, say after row 45?  How do you account for this new row without breaking your current "c1" and "c2" nomenclature and maintaining the alternating row colors?  You see where I am going with this?

Again, I like your thinking style. Keep at it - You are getting warmer 

sweet-pawn: thanks for your post.

It had just what I needed - a thought process. In revealing your answer, I am forced to think that I wasn't quite clear in an aspect or 2. My question implies that the 100 rows are there, hardcoded and not be generated so this rules out your javascript solution.

Here is the scenario again: An HTML page already exists with 100 rows of data. We are going to assume that the "company" in charge couldn't afford the services of a competent programmer to implement this on the backend or via javascript. In other words, the person went in "design view" in dreamweaver and came up with this 100-row table. I hope it is clearer now.

I will drop another hint: Think HTML and CSS only.

Once again, thanks for your answer. I really appreciate how you approached the solution. Take solace in the fact that If I were a hiring manager, even though you have the answer wrong, I would still hire you because of how you think.

Now, back to the quiz at hand. I will keep it open till Monday when I will not only come up with "the" solution but address the answers posted so far.

Thanks

Let's drag this out a little longer since you want to be technical

Based on your research, what percentage of your potential customers are non-scanners? If it's anything over 10%, I think you need to consider them. Besides, even if it is less, have you don enough research to know if the scanners have the most or the least cash to spend? Remember, you want to reach as many people as possible.

Another good book:
"Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More" by Chris Anderson

Yes it can and I'll be waiting for that solution. Having said that, again, don't just state your answers, give it a thought and type your reasons behind the answer(s) you give. Who knows? In expressing your thoughts as you provide a solution, the hidden/actual best possible solution might appear.

I am actually surprised that others aren't hopping on. Oh well, learning isn't for everyone

No problem.

I am a scanner and a site turns me on or off in a few seconds. As a scanner, when I landed on the home page, I didn't see titles, I just saw a lot of text and I couldn't figure it out.

I will cut you some slack and assume you did your research and decided to target the non-scanners. Other than that, there is a good book on usability that I highly recommend you read, "Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability" by Steve Krug, 2ed. This book is so good that I recommend you borrow money to buy it, if you can't find a free one.

Good luck!

Simple? Yes. Efficient? No. Remember, I gave a hint per se when I said you had to think

Sure, there is more than 1 way to skin a cat but there are only 2 ways, at most, that are efficient.

As others are scratching their heads to come up with a good solution, put on your thinking hat again and refine your solution above.

As DHTML recently posted somewhere on here, it is VERY boring on this board. Hopefully this thread will help liven it up again.

Suppose you have an HTML page (no back end language whatsoever) and on it, a table with 100 rows want alternating rows to have the same color (for example, one row is white while the other is orange), how would you go about accomplishing this task?

Please note:
A slight hint - this quiz isn't about, "do you know who I am?" or "do you know how long I have been coding?" or "do you know what I do?". It is about how you think so, before you rush to answer, put on your thinking caps first.

Oya, I have started the stopwatch. Let the games begin!!