My company retained a consulting firm to improve our search engine placement, but our web site is no longer showing up in Google searches that it definitely should. I believe the consulting firm screwed up royally by adding this line of HTML to our home page:
HTML Help:
I want to post a link - then after the link has been visited by the reader and the reader returns back to my site - a message appears in the post. Is this possible? Using Blogger.
posted by thomcatspike
on Jun 23, 2004 -
10 answers
I've got a Flash file banner, and an HTML equivalent, with the requirement that people without Flash don't get asked to install it and just get the HTML version... [more inside]
posted by holloway
on Jun 21, 2004 -
6 answers
Apropos of Matt checking out FCKEditor, and the typical Mac experience of non-functionality, are there any decent WYSIWYG web editors out there that work with Safari? I'm talking about true formatting a CEO can deal with, not a button that subs in the HTML tags for you. [more inside]
posted by mkultra
on Jun 21, 2004 -
10 answers
Can someone at Web Site B tell that I came to them from Web Site A? When I leave, can they tell that I went to Web Site C? (Assume I get to each of these sites by typing the URL's directly into my browser's address bar or by clicking on a bookmark. )
posted by Jaybo
on Jun 19, 2004 -
9 answers
Basic HTML question re. using tables for no frills layout: if I have a centred table with just one or two TR rows with say 3 TD cells in them, and keep sporadically adding stuff to the cells in the bottom row so that they become humungously long, will something eventually break? Anyway, are tables cool for layout? Or should I be thinking about learning something else? [more inside]
posted by carter
on Apr 30, 2004 -
36 answers
When submitting a resume in html format, how much formatting is appropriate? Would a bit of embedded CSS be overkill? [Slightly more inside] [more inside]
posted by Zonker
on Apr 29, 2004 -
9 answers
How do you post a link to the middle of pages? I have seen that here where people post to specific replies in a long thread.
thanks
posted by busboy789
on Apr 20, 2004 -
5 answers
I need javascript or html code for my website so that users can enter their email address in a box, hit send to send it to my inbox. It's so that they can receive notification of updates. I have searched high and low, but no luck.
posted by Quartermass
on Apr 7, 2004 -
5 answers
Because I only know pidgin HTML, I'm not sure if what I'm about to ask is Web Design 101 or Web Design 665, but: If I want to have a collapsible list, such that if someone clicked on "Words that start with B" in the following:
Words that start with A Words that start with B Words that start with C
the page would then reformat to show
Words that start with A Words that start with B
balustrade
brickbat
bumptious Words that start with C
without the whole page having to reload. Can someone please point me to a resource or study-able example?
posted by blueshammer
on Mar 30, 2004 -
7 answers
There is a site I came across with a file that causes your computer to go crazy when accessed. It is a JPG. Want to know how it works {More Inside} [more inside]
posted by ac
on Mar 16, 2004 -
15 answers
Apparent CSS or related markup problem. This page renders mostly correctly in IE6, but most of the content disappears under Moz. It's a hybrid CSS/table layout. I need your Browser-Fu! [more inside] [more inside]
posted by weston
on Mar 12, 2004 -
16 answers
What is an easy-to-install fairly secure Windows-based Webserver that I can use to show some static pages (so, no scripting needed) in an intranet. Non-IIS.
posted by vacapinta
on Mar 11, 2004 -
20 answers
I have to use Frontpage to run an intranet - so that others can edit the content. How can I best prevent my valid HTML templates from being mangled? Frontpage seems to add random snippets of code.
posted by laukf
on Mar 10, 2004 -
9 answers
Is there a good, free product out there that I can install on a friend's webpage so he can update HTML files through his browser and not have to know any HTML? (details inside) [more inside]
posted by chaz
on Mar 10, 2004 -
10 answers
An html/mac/ie/div question thats driving me mad...
Basically, I have a div with scrollbars on top of an image. In a mac (possibly only IE) when you try and grab the scrollbar and scroll down it instead grabs the background image and trys to drag it away. Any thoughts? Sorry - the nature of the site means I can't give you an example URL.
posted by twine42
on Mar 8, 2004 -
13 answers
I know I should be validating all the stuff I put on the Intarweb on various different browsers, so I alternately run Mozilla 1.4, IE 6 and Opera 7 to review my work. I tried to download IE 5.X from a 'legacy browsers' site, but it wouldn't install with 6 already installed. How do I make that work? (And, as long as I'm letting my web dumbness hang out, where are the bestest places to validate your HTML and CSS, and what else should I be testing/validating that I haven't mentioned?)
posted by wendell
on Mar 6, 2004 -
6 answers
Is there any central authority or archive for XML DTDs and Schemas? I am thinking of developing an *ML, and would like to know if similar work has already been done, if there are any naming conventions, etc.
posted by signal
on Mar 2, 2004 -
4 answers
HTML/CSS: Damn it Jim! I'm an architect of buildings, not of the web! I've been working on the web site for our chapter of the AIA in Europe. I've been trying to learn as much as I can about HTML and CSS -- looking, reading, trial and error. Our new site is coming along but I have one vexing problem. On the front pages of two directories, some browsers exhibit three odd characters at the upper left hand corner of the page: . Links are inside... [more inside]
posted by Dick Paris
on Feb 24, 2004 -
12 answers
CSS or maybe PHP question about limiting the display size of content. More inside, of course. [more inside]
posted by dobbs
on Feb 17, 2004 -
7 answers
Is there a free/cheap family-tree program (for the PC) that outputs in ascii text (with dashes, pipe-symbols, etc. as the connectors between people) or HTML format?
posted by grumblebee
on Feb 9, 2004 -
1 answer
Wanted: list of canonical, essential mailing lists/discussion groups for web development, a lá css-discuss. [more inside] [more inside]
posted by weston
on Feb 5, 2004 -
3 answers
Can anyone recommend a good HTML code beautifier? I have Dreamweaver MX, but as near as I can tell, it won't do this. I'm specifically looking for something to do good logical indenting, take care of whitespace, etc.
posted by oissubke
on Jan 22, 2004 -
11 answers
Library/information science question(s): My code-fearful friend succeeded in getting through library school without exposure to more than basic HTML. I now have him on a diet of Dreamweaver and XHTML, with a sprinkling of GoLive. He's wondering about next steps: for someone who wants to be well-equipped to work in an academic, medical, legal, or similar library or archive (with web development as part of his job, rather than the focus of it), what scripting language(s) and/or content-management systems are most important to learn? Is the library world fragmented in this regard, or is there a dominant technology? What would be a logical entry vector into this world for someone without a comp-sci bone in his body (in terms of languages/systems, and specific learning resources)?[no more inside]
posted by stonerose
on Jan 22, 2004 -
6 answers
Anyone know a quick and simple way to convert opml files into html? I've found two good XSLTstylesheets, but the W3C XSLT Service seems to be fudging the links.
posted by will
on Jan 21, 2004 -
6 answers
I'm about to design one or more sites I may need to maintain for some time to come. I've always used nested tables and HTML 3 tags to get the job done, but nowadays, CSS seems to be all the rage. I can appreciate some of the advantages it offers [more inside] but given all the questions I've heard about "How can I do XYZ in CSS?" and miscellaneous browser compatibility snafus, I'm wondering whether it's really worth the effort to learn CSS and change all my habits. Convince me? I'm not looking for tutorials or help getting started, I'm looking for arguments in favor of learning the standard, reasons why my life will be easier after doing so. Thanks in advance! [more inside]
posted by scarabic
on Jan 20, 2004 -
16 answers
What's the best code-centric, css-aware HTML editor, or failing that, what's your favorite, and why? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken
on Dec 18, 2003 -
40 answers
I need to put together a quick (1 day) training course in html for customer service\marketing types (i.e. people with absolutely NO html experience) How did you learn html? Can you recommend a site that you found helpful?
posted by lilboo
on Dec 9, 2003 -
20 answers
I'm in the process of starting my own weblog (it launched on Thursday). I can write pretty decent basic HTML by hand (in notepad), but CSS wrestled me to the ground and stepped on my head and a lot of tech jargon passes me right by (I'm a designer and a writer, not a programer, I guess). What advice does Metafilter have for me? [more inside]
posted by anastasiav
on Dec 8, 2003 -
34 answers
