Webmaster Forum / General / Web Design / February 2006

I didn't get chased out of the NG for my last message asking about how to
find a web designer, and in fact got very helpful, friendly advice, so I'll
impose again.
I'm overseeing the total overhaul of a fairly large website for a business

Good day, and thank you in advance.
I'm the head of a small group of volunteers at an adult lifestyle
association. My little group of volunteers is five people, and among us, we
have to staff a meeting place on the weekends. It's getting very hard to

Does anyone have any info on
1. What proportion of users are likely to give up filling a form if they
feel the questions are too intrusive?
e.g. for no obvious reason there is a date of birth field which is

Page URL is [root]/common/template.php - having arrived from a php
redirect on the [root]index.php page.
The problem is that a request to obtain any php 'include' files using
[root]/folder/file, such as <?php include "/incs/menu2.inc"; ?>,

I've been googling for statistics on what percentage of visitors' that have
referer and browser language available. I can't find websites describing
that. I will be using
$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']

I've got a site on the way, where I need to add products to a sort of
simple shopping basket. The plan is to add a pair of values (UserID,
ProductID) to a MySQL database for every product the user adds to the
basket, and then get rid of them when the user checks out. Problem is ...

I'm looking for a part time employee to design layouts for web sites;
preferably a talented graphics or web design student looking for
additional income.
Must have experience with Dreamweaver 8 or MX 2004, and preferably

I've been out of the web design business for about 2 years.  This month I
signed up several clients...however, one client already had a two year
contract with a hosting service, the full cpanel set of options including
ssh access.

http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3586166
and try using Google with a text browser and screen reader.
It's not a sexy experience.
GD

Tonight I received four email copies of registrations to one of my sites.
They weren't normal...here's a sample. Note the guy's From address is
bogus, as is the address he's asking to add to our mail list. Huh?
To: info@aes-intl.com

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, §1194.21 (l) states: When pages
utilize scripting languages to display content, or to create interface
elements, the information provided by the script shall be identified with
functional text that can be read by assistive technology.

What people will do to get to the top of a search list.  Like packing
pages with nothing but keywords, often made so they fade into the
background - like look at this one, which has both visible and
invisible:

I am investigating the possibility of adding an e-commerce store-front to my
web site.  We sell antiques and other home furnishings.
I am looking for a suggestion on e-commerce software or web services that
can handle one of a kind items and more complex shipping than just UPS.  ...

How do I delist my site from dmoz.com?  I requested couple of times to
remove my site from this directory since some self-expert editors put
my site in wrong catagory with wrong discription.  I have no interest
to list my site in a catagory with "edited" discription that is

I'm looking for a new editor. I've been using Macromedia Homesite.  I
downloaded and tried NVU, but wasn't crazy about it.
Anyone have something they really like?