Website Help required

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:28 pm

Im just putting together a new website and stuff so what i have here is not finnished but i was wondering if someone could help me.

If you press on my 3D works page the scroll bar moves my background image to the left and messes my page design up - boo!

Perhaps I shouldnt use frames it just seems a simple way to have a menu system I can add to and not have to update multiple content pages.

any suggestions much appreciated.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:00 pm

How about making multiple pages for areas with more than, say, 8 thumbs, and limiting each page to 8 thumbs?

That way, you wouldn't exceed your height limit, therefore no vertical scroll, therefore no screwing with the layout. But only on and above a minimum resolution.

Alternatively, you could use some nifty loadtime code (javascript in the header, etc) to determine the browser window's dimensions and fix the widths accordingly. But that takes a fair bit of effort, I'd imagine.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:14 pm

I think ill limit the number of thumbnails on each page, which would seem the easiest way to do - probably better that way as ppl might not like to scroll.

Ok my next question is how do i set up my form - where do I post data too excatly?

Post by **Denyer** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:03 am

Well, it's easy enough with PHP if you've got that on the hosting account...

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

Something like this:

<form action="processinputandsend.php" method="post" name="formname" onsubmit="return scripttodopreliminarychecksbutdonttrustinput()" id="formname">

Make sure you filter input for mulitple addresses (otherwise you'll get turned into a spam-delivery machine in short order) and htmlentities everything else.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:53 am

You can fix the background with css so that it never scrolls - would that solve the problem?

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:35 pm

Ok i was able to set up a form through a template available to me as an option with my website.

http://www.impstar.co.uk/tinc - Can ppl give it a test it should send me e-mails.

Now this is cool, hopefully I can just intergrate this into my website and change the colours? can anyone tell me is this just a case of copy and pasting the code into one of mypages, I have tried it and it doesnt work anymore... im so useles at this now.

As for the page background image, Im havin a fiddle...

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:22 pm

I'm getting a 404 error

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:42 pm

yeah sorry - this is very confusing, when I link to the source via the admin panel of hosts website it works, if I copy the addy tho it doesnt work even tho the addy's are the same....