Web Development Questions That Don't Need Their Own Thread v2 - Developers

Hmm.. first time buying a VPS and I'm actually pretty unsure of ram, considering it's my first time and I'm just going to be hosting websites do you guys think I should just go with 256mb of ram. I can upgrade if I want to use it for other things. Probably just a LAMP installation or something along that lines, more of a learning experience to be honest.

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Can someone clear up some stuff for me? For my database class I have been given a task: Begin with the database you have designed. For each entity, state: (a) The superkeys; (b) The dependencies Now the superkeys I know are the keys which could be used to select a single element from the database (in my case it would be the primary key and any combination that includes the primary key) But what does it mean by the dependencies?

[QUOTE=Catdaemon;33521559]It's difficult to locate the content you're after, as it's all mashed vertically onto one page with no kind of navigation or visual cues.[/QUOTE] Thanks. I changed the color of the headers and added a TOC. I know it could be neater and prettier but it was kind of a quick-and-dirty since someone had asked me for a portfolio.

[QUOTE=Richy19;33524237]Can someone clear up some stuff for me? For my database class I have been given a task: Begin with the database you have designed. For each entity, state: (a) The superkeys; (b) The dependencies Now the superkeys I know are the keys which could be used to select a single element from the database (in my case it would be the primary key and any combination that includes the primary key) But what does it mean by the dependencies?[/QUOTE] Might be the ON UPDATE and ON DELETE for your foreign keys. Google said those are dependencies.

What's the easiest FTP server to setup, I've tried proftpd and cannot get the thing working.

[QUOTE=Adzter;33536695]What's the easiest FTP server to setup, I've tried proftpd and cannot get the thing working.[/QUOTE] vsftpd

Weird, I've never found proftpd hard to setup.

[QUOTE=Ortzinator;33537412]Weird, I've never found proftpd hard to setup.[/QUOTE] This is my first time setting up anything like this so It's probably a newbie mistake I've made EDIT: Fuck yeah, did it :D, just re-installed everything and seemed to work, although I think the problem was a lack of updating, I just ran apt-get update and then installed and it worked, surprisingly

The header layout I want: [LOGO] [links at the header] (note the lack of line break and things) The problem: The only way I've managed to accomplish this is with a one-row table. Is there another way to do it? I don't want people screaming at me because I used a table to get a layout.

[QUOTE=lavacano;33547110]The header layout I want: [LOGO] [links at the header] (note the lack of line break and things) The problem: The only way I've managed to accomplish this is with a one-row table. Is there another way to do it? I don't want people screaming at me because I used a table to get a layout.[/QUOTE] Css

css floats

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3695360/whyamisostupid.png[/img] Does anyone know how I can achieve this with CSS? Whatever I do it just doesn't work correctly.

I know you can do the fixed parts with Bottom One [code] bottom:0;left:0;position:fixed; [/code] Top [code] top:0;left:0;position:fixed; [/code] Also, is there a sort of blank theme for phpBB? Like how Wordpress has Starkers.

[QUOTE=Adzter;33556539]I know you can do the fixed parts with Bottom One [code] bottom:0;left:0;position:fixed; [/code] Top [code] top:0;left:0;position:fixed; [/code] [/QUOTE] This works only if the content width does not exceed the page. No, what you need is something that fills the space from the content towards the bottom, effectively pushing down the footer. This seems to do it: [url]http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/keeping-footers-at-the-bottom-of-the-page[/url]

[url]http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/[/url]

Question, how would I go about using a stylesheet from [url]www.csseasy.com[/url] ? I am making a portfolio for my class final, and don't want to make it in word. I'm fairly new to this stuff, so I would love some advice.

[QUOTE=LordCrypto;33560774]Question, how would I go about using a stylesheet from [url]www.csseasy.com[/url] ? I am making a portfolio for my class final, and don't want to make it in word. I'm fairly new to this stuff, so I would love some advice.[/QUOTE] Personally, if you don't know much i would use a pre-made free template and learn html and CSS like that (How i learned html & css :v:)

[QUOTE=zzlawlzz;33560805]Personally, if you don't know much i would use a pre-made free template and learn html and CSS like that (How i learned html & css :v:)[/QUOTE] Would you happen to have a link to a decent one?

the thing is, there aren't much decent free html templates out there. You will need to surf the web~

[QUOTE=TehWhale;33549530]css floats[/QUOTE] Or set them to inline-block and set a width and height

[QUOTE=zzlawlzz;33560856]the thing is, there aren't much decent free html templates out there. You will need to surf the web~[/QUOTE] I used [url]http://www.freecsstemplates.org/[/url] , they seemed decent enough

[QUOTE=AzzyMaster;33556329][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3695360/whyamisostupid.png[/img] Does anyone know how I can achieve this with CSS? Whatever I do it just doesn't work correctly.[/QUOTE] What I would do is make 3 divs. 1 for the head bar, one for the body and one for the footer. And you can set the height of each element like this: [code] height:100px [/code] obviously you would put something else in place of 100px. Then once you set each element to their size you can set their position: [code] #header{ position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px; } #footer{ position:absolute; top:98% left:0px; height:2%; } [/code] I'm not an expert but that might help.

[QUOTE=toaster468;33567901]What I would do is make 3 divs. 1 for the head bar, one for the body and one for the footer. And you can set the height of each element like this: [code] height:100px [/code] obviously you would put something else in place of 100px. Then once you set each element to their size you can set their position: [code] #header{ position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px; } #footer{ position:absolute; top:98% left:0px; height:2%; } [/code] I'm not an expert but that might help.[/QUOTE] [code] #footer{ position:fixed; bottom:0px; height:100px; left:50%; margin-left:-450px; /* 900/2 */ width:900px; } [/code]

[url]http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/[/url]

A client of mine is looking for a shopping cart with the ability to process payments. The only real requirement is that she must be allowed to add her own attributes as in different products have different attributes. Does anyone know of such a system that they would recommend?

[QUOTE=kingzl3y;33569293]A client of mine is looking for a shopping cart with the ability to process payments. The only real requirement is that she must be allowed to add her own attributes as in different products have different attributes. Does anyone know of such a system that they would recommend?[/QUOTE] -snip-

Is it possible to achieve something like this without using images or non-HTML/CSS things? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ukKVZ.png[/IMG] AKA hover over an element, and it causes changes in other elements that are not within that element? If so, how would I do it? I don't know how to do jQuery or Javascript or anything like that, so explaining that to me would be a waste of time.

[QUOTE=kingzl3y;33569293]A client of mine is looking for a shopping cart with the ability to process payments. The only real requirement is that she must be allowed to add her own attributes as in different products have different attributes. Does anyone know of such a system that they would recommend?[/QUOTE] osCommerce and OpenCart come to mind.

[QUOTE=ManningQB18;33573055]Is it possible to achieve something like this without using images or non-HTML/CSS things? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ukKVZ.png[/IMG] AKA hover over an element, and it causes changes in other elements that are not within that element? If so, how would I do it? I don't know how to do jQuery or Javascript or anything like that, so explaining that to me would be a waste of time.[/QUOTE] You want to change the color of the links that you're not hovering over when you hover over a link? Sounds pretty damn hard, if not impossible to me with only html and css.