Austin Web Designer

Anyone know when starcraft phase 2 is coming out? Kind of boring having to sit here in the computer just coding and having nothing fun to relax.   I know the game is coming out in July, but I also heard and read that there is a phase two. If anyone knows whats up let me know. Appreciate it over and out…

The moral of this story watch out for quotation marks when transferring your css code from html to external style sheet. I checked my  recently made website template  for cross browser compatibility and everything was fine. So I made an external style sheet and then starting making the web pages that I needed. And felt like everything was fine, and that’s what i thought for a week, until today. Just out of curiosity I checked for browser compatibility however when I viewed the website on Internet Explorer 7 I was extremely surprised, at the mess the web site looked like. I was actually embarrassed, I’ve coded many websites and a mistake like this are hard to make. Not only was the website not properly displaying but also my blog.

Once I noticed something was wrong, I quickly set out to fix it. I edited the CSS file and nothing would change, on the website itself. I was getting frustrated thinking, that the css file was not properly connected to the html file. So I decided to check for errors, and and could find nothing, I made sure that the css and html files were properly connected.  .And knew that somehow internet explorer 8 and all the other browsers, ignored an error,  that IE 7 didn’t.

Since the html, file seemed error free and w3 validator told me so, I moved on to the CSS validator. And found that I had a closing quotation mark, that I left from transferring css from html to my CSS  style sheet. Once the closing quotation marks were taken out, the site displayed exactly as i wanted it to display. Having an external style sheet can and does save a lot of hours when modifying a website, but we need to be careful to check that there are no errors, when you transfer code from one source to another.

I just finished coding for a website, that I had to  make IE7 compatible, everything went smooth because I  knew the normal procedure. However, we had a section that had a list of objects listed in unordered lists. When I viewed it on IE7 I noticed that the bullets to the left did not show up.

I tried changing the margin, padding, and even width of the list, thinking that they were being eaten up by lack of space or negative margins and padding’s. But after going through the  margin,width and padding, the bullets or discs would still not show up. Then I decided to look it up on the search engines, as we know almost any question that we  may have is easily answered there.

So after browsing page after page, I came up with the solution. If you are making a  website ie7 compatible and working with lists and you need the bullets/discs to the left to show up you need to put this in the ul section “list-style: disc inside;” that should solve the problem of bullets not showing  up.

So I was working with a database driven website, I transferred correctly from the server to work on it on my computer, and I knew it was correct because I checked the mySQL files on both the server and local installation and they looked exactly  the same at first. The problem I had was that, when I installed the CMS system in my computer to work on it, the CMS would work as a fresh install. But the files that I transferred such as web pages and work were not being read. I  reinstalled it many times thinking It was a problem with local files, and even reinstalled my local server.

But the real problem was in the mySQL files, the local installation was reading the mySQL but not the tables I wanted it to read. It was reading table fields from the fresh  mySQL installation those table fields had no prefix, the ones I transferred had a prefix on them so they were  just being ignored. After a few days of frustration, I opened the mySQL file both files side by side went line by line and with a little luck and help I noticed the difference. I just erased the table fields from the fresh install and replaced it with the modified table fields I wanted to use, modified as in the prefix erased. Thats how I solved a database transfer  problem, I am sure there are better ways of doing it but for now I know of one thing to look out for when transferring databases.