Webmaster Forum / General / Web Design / June 2005

I mentioned something about this issue in another group.
In gathering info on it, I went back to the three messages linked in
this old post from a.w.w:
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Is there a book or magazine article that describes use of the web amd
technologyfor local political campaigns?  
I find I'm helping a couple political efforts as a walk-in volunteer
and find that the candidates and senior campaign advisors can't get

I see Dookickeys has ceased trading, thanks for letting us with links
(and free adverts)  know, Sam!!!!!
More worrying, what's happended to Duende? From Eric's homepage I see
the link isn't working anymore (you may wish to check your links

Can anyone tell me how I can block Opera users from viewing my website?
Thanks
Marcus.

Greetings One and All
When a network provider has problems the effects can be far more wide  
reaching that you or I could imagine.
Consider this extract from a tracert .....

I've just designed my first site: http://www.oaklands.towerhamlets.sch.uk
I was quite pleased with it, I have to say, until I looked at it in Netscape
and Mozilla - my text layers are all over the place!
Is there any way to sort this problem out without having to do a complete

But it made me laugh
http://www.funnyname.com/

How would I addd the pseudo class Hover to the following css snippet;
a.linkone {
background-image: url(web-content/images/images/menuup-1_01.gif);
}

Is there a way to customize the appearance of the cpanel webmail
screen to something else ?
TIA..

Opera ASA is getting pretty close -- nearly caught up with Safari on
correctly rendering the Acid2 test:
Acid2 Test:
http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/

Greetings One and All.
File-sharing suffers major defeat:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4627679.stm
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It has been changing the font size on webpages. I fixed it once but now it
changed again and for some odd reason I can't fix it back.  Going to search
google but any thoughts would be appreciated. It is IE/Avant of course. :p
Heidi

So far, from the looks of it, ACE-HOST ( http://www.ace-host.net ) seems to
be the best hosting provider for my needs (*). Has anyone had good or bad
experiences with them?
(*) One thing I don't understand though, is whether I can point multiple

Google is insane and f.cking hitlers. They are criminals of humanity. Case closed. The rest is
dumb f.cks who disagree. Yes. Up yours idiots.

I have just written a Perl CGI to respond to 404 errors on a site
I'm maintaining. This is a big improvement upon the standard error
response from Apache because I can deliver a page the looks like
part of the site with navigation links appropriate to that section.