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JFlah · 26-04-2012 7:26pm

siblers wrote: »

I didn't notice I was having this problem till my fecking Web Design class was over. In my style sheets I have this bit of code:

When I go to the html page that is linked to the stylesheet, it doesn't appear, I've tried it with background-image as well and in the html page i've tried using <body style="..."> and nothing happens either. If ye have any ideas what the problem is?

might need to see a little more of your code to be sure

AntiRip · 26-04-2012 7:32pm

I noticed he said he had <style type="text/css"> in his stylesheet. You dont put this code into your stylesheet .

siblers · 26-04-2012 7:43pm

Never knew that, hasn't made any difference though.

@Jflah can't really include more code as I have a load of stuff in my style sheet, everything else is working perfectly off the style sheet except for that.

JFlah · 26-04-2012 7:45pm

siblers wrote: »

Never knew that, hasn't made any difference though.

@Jflah can't really include more code as I have a load of stuff in my style sheet, everything else is working perfectly off the style sheet except for that.

It's def only something very small so , mess around with order you have the <rel> and <style> tags organised and double check that you don,t have another background color specified that you may have forgotten about

JFlah · 26-04-2012 7:47pm

AntiRip wrote: »

I noticed he said he had <style type="text/css"> in his stylesheet. You dont put this code into your stylesheet .

no not in the linked one VERY well spotted I,d never have seen it

siblers · 26-04-2012 7:49pm

I have <style type="text/css"> in my CSS page but I don't have it in the pages its linked to.

sheesh · 26-04-2012 7:53pm

siblers wrote: »

Never knew that, hasn't made any difference though.

@Jflah can't really include more code as I have a load of stuff in my style sheet, everything else is working perfectly off the style sheet except for that.

try looking at the css rules before the rule that is giving you a problem and see if there is an error there.
also try putting the css through this css validator and see if it throwing any errors.

good luck

siblers · 26-04-2012 7:59pm

Cheers for the help guys.

JFlah · 27-04-2012 11:16am

Java CA3 in the bag went well , I think some people were a little surprised was quite a bit in our event handling , but got it all working

AntiRip · 30-04-2012 9:39am

OOP1 results out. Overall very good results. Nearly over now

AntiRip · 30-04-2012 9:43am

Just wondering, for the people that failed the CAs overall do they have to repeat the year again as you can't repeat CAs?

JFlah · 30-04-2012 9:47am

AntiRip wrote: »

Just wondering, for the people that failed the CAs overall do they have to repeat the year again as you can't repeat CAs?

Regarding OOP1 I don,t think so I am pretty sure that you,re overall mark is what is relevant.Semester 1 a few folks I know failed project based stuff and were given another project to resubmit so I assume that's the way it works across the board

Encrypted Pigeon · 30-04-2012 10:20am

JFlah wrote: »

Regarding OOP1 I don,t think so I am pretty sure that you,re overall mark is what is relevant.Semester 1 a few folks I know failed project based stuff and were given another project to resubmit so I assume that's the way it works across the board

That is how it works I believe, I remember last year for Digital Imaging we were told that if you had to repeat that it was one day exam. Your given a brief something on the day and you had to come up with something. Don't think I would enjoy that too much.
I think with most subjects that dont have a FE, that you have a chance to repeat it during the summer, tbh I think that is something you would want to avoid at all costs as you wont have the same level of support from the lecturers as you would during the term.

Opinicus · 30-04-2012 10:25am

Project submitted. For better or worse. I don't know, it went majorly arseways on me. If I scrape a pass for it I'll be happy.:(

siblers · 30-04-2012 11:26am

AntiRip wrote: »

Just wondering, for the people that failed the CAs overall do they have to repeat the year again as you can't repeat CAs?

I got 79% but I have no idea how, was expecting to get somewhere between 50 and 60.

JFlah · 30-04-2012 11:26am

Opinicus wrote: »

Project submitted. For better or worse. I don't know, it went majorly arseways on me. If I scrape a pass for it I'll be happy.:(

I,m sure it's much better than you think yourself:) very best of luck with it.

JFlah · 30-04-2012 11:29am

Sintel wrote: »

That is how it works I believe, I remember last year for Digital Imaging we were told that if you had to repeat that it was one day exam. Your given a brief something on the day and you had to come up with something. Don't think I would enjoy that too much.
I think with most subjects that dont have a FE, that you have a chance to repeat it during the summer, tbh I think that is something you would want to avoid at all costs as you wont have the same level of support from the lecturers as you would during the term.

Yeah ,having a poor level of support would be terrible in some cases!!!

JFlah · 30-04-2012 11:32am

siblers wrote: »

I got 79% but I have no idea how, was expecting to get somewhere between 50 and 60.

Well done , in ok shape overall so ?

siblers · 30-04-2012 12:07pm

JFlah wrote: »

Well done , in ok shape overall so ?

Sound!38.5% out of 50 going into the final exam, surprised by Java this semester, figured it was gonna be the one i'd struggle with most but its been grand overall.

There isn't much excuse really to be failing the likes of Digital Imaging or Vis Comm, even if you aren't good with photoshop etc, there were loads and loads of marks to be picked up from research books alone, people struggling with java etc I can empathise with them alright.

JFlah · 30-04-2012 2:25pm

siblers wrote: »

Sound!38.5% out of 50 going into the final exam, surprised by Java this semester, figured it was gonna be the one i'd struggle with most but its been grand overall.

There isn't much excuse really to be failing the likes of Digital Imaging or Vis Comm, even if you aren't good with photoshop etc, there were loads and loads of marks to be picked up from research books alone, people struggling with java etc I can empathise with them alright.

Agree 100% with you... have 47.25% for Java happy days

Web Design proving so frustrating that I,m not achieving much despite loads of time spent on it!

siblers · 30-04-2012 2:52pm

JFlah wrote: »

Agree 100% with you... have 47.25% for Java happy days Web Design proving so frustrating that I,m not achieving much despite loads of time spent on it!

Web Design is awfully slow alright, although I've more or less done the products page which was a right pain but at least i've all my divs etc done which makes the other pages a bit easier.

Have you used any stock photo websites to get images? There was one great site I had used but Im just after realising that the t&c when you download an image off there state you have to reference the website. Tryin to find a different site now but most of them are pretty awful.

JFlah · 30-04-2012 2:55pm

siblers wrote: »

Web Design is awfully slow alright, although I've more or less done the products page which was a right pain but at least i've all my divs etc done which makes the other pages a bit easier.

Have you used any stock photo websites to get images? There was one great site I had used but Im just after realising that the t&c when you download an image off there state you have to reference the website. Tryin to find a different site now but most of them are pretty awful.

No I tried to stick with images we were given and 2 more images from the exisiting site simply to avoid the referencing and copyright issues but it looks fairly ****E tbh!! still am only aiming for an ok mark really.
Once you have the divs etc sorted I think most of the hard work is done.... I hope anyway!!!
One thing about it is I definitely understand aspects of designing a site much more clearly now, if only i was good enough to make it pay

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AntiRip · 30-04-2012 6:24pm

JFlah wrote: »

One thing about it is I definitely understand aspects of designing a site much more clearly now, if only i was good enough to make it pay )

I'm not so sure. I saw a site that was made for a cousin of mine by a professional crowd and I was shocked. It was all done on WordPress which is simple to do and he was charged e800 for the privilege. I was asked to go into WordPress to change a few things for him. I would have definitely done it for half the price!

Although if you had to do it from scratch, all in code you would definitely earn your money. Don't think it would pay actually judging from the amount of time it's taking me to do four pages

siblers · 30-04-2012 8:00pm

AntiRip wrote: »

I'm not so sure. I saw a site that was made for a cousin of mine by a professional crowd and I was shocked. It was all done on WordPress which is simple to do and he was charged e800 for the privilege. I was asked to go into WordPress to change a few things for him. I would have definitely done it for half the price! Although if you had to do it from scratch, all in code you would definitely earn your money. Don't think it would pay actually judging from the amount of time it's taking me to do four pages

Yeah, when looking around online to get some ideas, the quality of design has been pretty poor. I've learn an awful lot about CSS doing this site and had we been allowed build our own site, I'd have probably come up with something a bit more creative. This project is awfully uninspiring.

JFlah · 30-04-2012 8:07pm

siblers wrote: »

Yeah, when looking around online to get some ideas, the quality of design has been pretty poor. I've learn an awful lot about CSS doing this site and had we been allowed build our own site, I'd have probably come up with something a bit more creative. This project is awfully uninspiring.

Yeah definitely the subject matter is not helping the cause YAWN.... on a more serious note is Web Design realistically not doomed when tools like WordPress are becoming more and more commonplace and are so easy to use, surely except for large organisations companies etc will construct their own web presence on WordPress?

siblers · 30-04-2012 9:24pm

JFlah wrote: »

Yeah definitely the subject matter is not helping the cause YAWN.... on a more serious note is Web Design realistically not doomed when tools like WordPress are becoming more and more commonplace and are so easy to use, surely except for large organisations companies etc will construct their own web presence on WordPress?

Yeah, hard to imagine there being much demand for someone who is only proficient in CSS, Javascripting and Flash are probably the 2 most in demand and I imagine a lot harder than CSS.

JFlah · 01-05-2012 9:33am

siblers wrote: »

Yeah, hard to imagine there being much demand for someone who is only proficient in CSS, Javascripting and Flash are probably the 2 most in demand and I imagine a lot harder than CSS.

Apparently Javascript is 'OK' I,m thinking of trying to learn PHP over the summer , can,t hurt I'm thinking!

Encrypted Pigeon · 01-05-2012 10:01am

If you get a chance, look at SQL as well, trust me, you will be doing yourself a favour.

http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp

JFlah · 01-05-2012 11:12am

Sintel wrote: »

If you get a chance, look at SQL as well, trust me, you will be doing yourself a favour.

http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the advice I,ll try and give it a bit of time over the hols

siblers · 03-05-2012 10:29pm

Oh god this web design is out of control. Been working on it today from 10am to 10pm, god help the crowd who only decided to start it this week.

JFlah · 03-05-2012 10:43pm

siblers wrote: »

Oh god this web design is out of control. Been working on it today from 10am to 10pm, god help the crowd who only decided to start it this week.

Definitely .. if you have'nt a lot/most of the work done already I'd imagine you,re f***ed to be honest . Finally beginning to think mine is not too bad, spent so long at it I hope I get a decent mark, every single thing validates so I'm very happy about that ... still will be at it till the bitter end!

Good luck with it everyone!

siblers · 03-05-2012 10:59pm

JFlah wrote: »

Definitely .. if you have'nt a lot/most of the work done already I'd imagine you,re f***ed to be honest . Finally beginning to think mine is not too bad, spent so long at it I hope I get a decent mark, every single thing validates so I'm very happy about that ... still will be at it till the bitter end!

Good luck with it everyone!

Same here, just need to sort the menu buttons and finalise a few font colours and that's pretty much it. Be interesting to see what the best website looks like.

JFlah · 03-05-2012 11:03pm

siblers wrote: »

Same here, just need to sort the menu buttons and finalise a few font colours and that's pretty much it. Be interesting to see what the best website looks like.

saw some fantastic ones today , I reckon though simple and functional is what they want , will be interesting to see though

siblers · 05-05-2012 4:20pm

When I put this into one of my pages

<div class="menu-buttons1"><h1 class="menu-buttons-text"><a href="home.html" class="nav"</a> Home</h1></div>

It turns any content I have inside a H1 tag into a link, how do I avoid this? Completley confused by this

AntiRip · 05-05-2012 4:53pm

What I did to solve this was something like this:

If I had sky content and saorview content but wanted different attributes for h1 I'd put this into my stylesheet:-

.skydiv h1{
font-size:1em;
}

.saorviewdiv h1 {
font-size:2em;
}

Now when you have

<div class="skydiv">
<h1>Heading</h1>
</div>
and

<div class="skydiv">
<h1>Heading</h1>
</div>

Each H1 now has a different attribute. Let me know if you need anymore help.

AntiRip · 05-05-2012 4:57pm

Also in case you don't have it done, I'd strongly advise putting your nav icons/text/buttons into an unordered list <ul><li>. In the stylesheet you can then display them as block and give them attributes like height,weight and background colour. You may have this done already but just in case.

siblers · 05-05-2012 5:22pm

Deadly, thanks for that.

AntiRip · 05-05-2012 5:28pm

siblers wrote: »

Deadly, thanks for that.

No bother. You must be finished it now? It's a massive project but I suppose there is 70% going for it. I handed mine up last week. I just wanted the projects out of the way this weekend and next week as the exams are way to close.

siblers · 05-05-2012 6:15pm

AntiRip wrote: »

No bother. You must be finished it now? It's a massive project but I suppose there is 70% going for it. I handed mine up last week. I just wanted the projects out of the way this weekend and next week as the exams are way to close.

Pretty much, just need to sort the internal links and change around the <h> tags that's pertty much it.

Out of curiosity did you use all the images supplied? Initially I used them all but found it made the website look worse and ditched a share of them.

AntiRip · 05-05-2012 6:27pm

siblers wrote: »

Pretty much, just need to sort the internal links and change around the <h> tags that's pertty much it.

Out of curiosity did you use all the images supplied? Initially I used them all but found it made the website look worse and ditched a share of them.

No didn't use all the images, way too many especially the grundig etc one. U'd only be throwing them altogether just for sake of it. Just have 4 nice looking pages with same theme, easy navigation and good code you'll be fine I say. At the end of the day, it's a test on how well you can code and apply it.

JFlah · 05-05-2012 7:55pm

AntiRip wrote: »

No didn't use all the images, way too many especially the grundig etc one. U'd only be throwing them altogether just for sake of it. Just have 4 nice looking pages with same theme, easy navigation and good code you'll be fine I say. At the end of the day, it's a test on how well you can code and apply it.

No definitely using just some of the images is much better , any decent site i,ve seen for small businesses I've found that the less is more approach works really well. Try to have plenty white space it is very effective and professional looking. Generally it seems people have put huge effort into this , hopefully results will reflect it, the bulk of the marks are for CSS styling and coding so no matter what the page looks like if the code is good the mark should be.

siblers · 09-05-2012 12:41pm

Felt strange last night coming home and not havin to sit in front of the laptop for 3/4 hours working on webdesign. Didn't know what to do with myself. Trying to study for operating systems is awfully boring, some of the questions are pretty tough as well, especially memory management.

AntiRip · 09-05-2012 6:22pm

siblers wrote: »

Felt strange last night coming home and not havin to sit in front of the laptop for 3/4 hours working on webdesign. Didn't know what to do with myself. Trying to study for operating systems is awfully boring, some of the questions are pretty tough as well, especially memory management.

I hope Memory Management is a separate Q3 again this year and Process Management is on it's own. Too much theory in the Process Management with different states of processes, I/0 interrupts, etc.

Memory Management is not a bad question, it will more than likely be about Paging (like 2009,2010,2011). CPU Scheduling is nice also with Gantt charts. Linux is also basically the same each year also.

Trying to get used of writing out Java, takes abit of getting used to. Also the short hand although quicker makes it a little harder as you have p s v m S(a[]) and JOPsMD(null,etc).

Best of luck anyways

siblers · 09-05-2012 7:41pm

AntiRip wrote: »

I hope Memory Management is a separate Q3 again this year and Process Management is on it's own. Too much theory in the Process Management with different states of processes, I/0 interrupts, etc.

Memory Management is not a bad question, it will more than likely be about Paging (like 2009,2010,2011). CPU Scheduling is nice also with Gantt charts. Linux is also basically the same each year also.

Trying to get used of writing out Java, takes abit of getting used to. Also the short hand although quicker makes it a little harder as you have p s v m S(a[]) and JOPsMD(null,etc).

Best of luck anyways

Yeah CPU scheduling is fairly handy and the linux question is grand too. If Process Management is a question in itself the exam will be grand, struggling to answer the questions based on it even with the notes.

Not done anything with Java but have plenty of time before thursday week.

Encrypted Pigeon · 14-05-2012 9:58pm

And another semester bites the dust \o/

Hope the exams are going well for ye all.

JFlah · 15-05-2012 5:57pm

Sintel wrote: »

And another semester bites the dust \o/

Hope the exams are going well for ye all.

Roll on OOP1

siblers · 16-05-2012 1:57pm

Sintel wrote: »

And another semester bites the dust \o/

Hope the exams are going well for ye all.

Nice! Operating Systems exam paper was very handy compared to other years, so was please with that. Found it impossible trying to retain any information when studying for it.

Any idea when the results are out?

Encrypted Pigeon · 16-05-2012 1:59pm

Had big problems trying to learn the OS stuff too

would not stick. Results will be online on the 8th of June.

AntiRip · 16-05-2012 3:06pm

siblers wrote: »

Nice! Operating Systems exam paper was very handy compared to other years, so was please with that. Found it impossible trying to retain any information when studying for it.

Any idea when the results are out?

I'm hoping Q2 on OOP1 isn't a killer like last year!. Will do Q1 then Q3(GUIs) and attempt Q2 for the last hour hopefully. Q2 can be damn tricky on paper with the looping. We'll be in the thick of it this time tomorrow anyway :pac:

siblers · 16-05-2012 3:23pm

AntiRip wrote: »

I'm hoping Q2 on OOP1 isn't a killer like last year!. Will do Q1 then Q3(GUIs) and attempt Q2 for the last hour hopefully. Q2 can be damn tricky on paper with the looping. We'll be in the thick of it this time tomorrow anyway :pac:

Im the same really, just trying to remember all the bits for the GUI. Not overly gone on question 2 really, rather go in knowing the structure of the GUI and not having to worry about the minefield that is question 2.

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