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Originally posted by theminx:
It has American English, too; it just doesn't show up on that screenshot.

Maybe that's because you're in Canada? Maybe it's very location-specific? Interesting. British Mac users, what do you see? Is there no "British" English in Britain, but instead American and Australian English?

I went back and reworked the page a lot. Most people say it's a lot better now. There are still some irritating things that I can't fix in the preformatted template software web.com uses. I don't know how to get my contact information up underneath my picture in the left hand column. For some reason, only five links appear at the top of the page in IE, but in Firefox a lot more appear clumped together and cut off. I would like to get the practice areas as subpages underneath "Areas of Practice" but I don't see how to do that with this template.

Anyone know how to fix those problems? I'll be supplementing the text for the individual practice pages shortly so that they don't seem so skimpy.

Working with HTML is extremely frustrating, especially when you have no idea what you're doing! I had a "Contact Us" page, but it was extremely ugly with the brown background and strange how it switched the top navigation fields to a left sidebar. I copied the code and deleted the page. Then I went back and copied another page with the nice photos and white background and am trying to insert the contact forms, but it keeps looking screwy. Right now I just have it as "blank":

http://lukejacksonlaw.com/Contact_Us.html

Any HTML gurus know which section of the following code I need to plug into that "blank" field to get the right contact forms? I'd greatly appreciate it. I'd even be willing to pay something through paypal.

Here's the code:

http://lukejackson.mysite.com/1_column_page.html

Come on. Just tell us why you did all this. It's easy and will save you much future ridicule. I'll even do the design myself with martin. Tell us!!! Tell us, "You did it for the LULZ!"

Urrgh - that's some oogly code! Code generated by WYSIWYG editors tends to be.

I suspect the problem you're having is that most fillable forms these days are not entirely contained within the HTML, but call a server-side script of some kind. Others here might be more patient, and are definitely better qualified, to search through the entrails on that page and find what and where. But the form won't work without the script, and you'd need to have an incidence of it on your server, with all the permissions set right and all the links pointing to the right places and so on.

So, bottom line, unless you're willing to go a lot deeper, you're running into the edges of 'roll yer own' site development.

Might be worth seeking a neighbourhood highschooler who will work for pizza - just don't let his/her parents know about the pr0n...

Thanks for the feedback. I think that there are server-side scripts buried in there, but they must be OK since I can get a preformatted "Contact Us" page that uses the same scripts.

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Any HTML gurus know which section of the following code I need to plug into that "blank" field to get the right contact forms? I'd greatly appreciate it. I'd even be willing to pay something through paypal.

Yes, but no.

Really? You know which code to paste in but you wouldn't help me out? Even if I made a good faith paypal deposit with the remainder payable upon proper functioning of the site?

LMAO!

I own a small but important draw bridge in Chicago that is essential to daily commerce up and down the river. I'll send you a "bargain" sales contract and upon prompt Paypal payment you will become the sole owner. I'm sure you'll find all the fine print in order as you yourself are a lawyer...

Haha. Well, I'm sorry to present a problem too difficult for youse guys. I guess I thought you were more tech-savvy than you turned out to be. Thanks anyway.

Oh it's not that, you just wouldn't like my salary...

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Originally posted by Wanderer:
Oh it's not that, you just wouldn't like my salary...

Heh. Nor mine.

See the problem is that you probably pissed off every professional webdeveloper on here in your first post.

It's my experience that maintaining websites is for teh pro's, apart from being extremely frustrating, time consuming and ultimately boring and tedious for the amateur. Pay a pro to do the necessary work, then when you happy with the look and feel, just let it tick along IMO.

I shutdown my site after 2yrs as i just couldn't be arsed to update it. My time is better spent living life at the beach, on the mountain or out socialising with family and friends. Life's too short for non 9-5 input!

I'm sorry if I pissed off professional web developers. It's just that $2400 is obviously out of my price range at this stage of the game.

What I'm basically looking for is cutting and pasting a block of code from one page to another to get contact forms. This should be really easy for someone proficient with HTML, I think, unless there's something I'm missing. Well under an hour of work. Maybe more like five minutes of work. And I'll offer to pay $100 once I plug the code in and check that it works.

$100 via paypal for five minutes of work? Not so bad, is it? Beats my rate.

Fair do's.... if i could, i would (most likely for free) but i was always only ever a Dreamweaver dabbler and little else. Hope you get a taker.

OK, OK, you guys convinced me. I'm paying for a professional site going up in about a month.