Wednesday, 25 February 2009

URL Forwarding on namecheap.com

In URL Forwarding, there are 2 rows for different setup.

in rows @ I put "cctmdev2.londonmet.ac.uk/vhp0003"
in rows www, I input my domain name as"longdressvn.com"


However, when I save, there is error message appears



This time, I try again :

longdressvn.com with @ row,
cctmdev2.londonmet.ac.uk with www


and result comes up with university hosting in my domain name as longdressvn.com




However, it is not a direction to my university hosting account, if I want to preview my web on the web browser, i have to add more text on the address bar such as vhp0003. My result will come as below.



so to fix this, I go back to "namecheap.com" and setup again.

@ row with longdressvn.com
www row with cctmdev2.londonmet.ac.uk/vhp0003/coursework1



When I save it , it give me message error saying like:



I need to find solution to set up a direction from domain to my university hosting account, I can find solution on ecommerce forum.

Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Setup email Forwarding

I chose E-mail Forward Setup on E-mail Management section.

I set sale@longdressvn.com forwarded to my personal email.

Creating Vertical Menu

I used Coding View in Dreamweaver to do my Vertical Menu

firstly, I create a list of pages I need such as home, contact, about us, product by "ul" and "li" tag.



a result of the code will be presented in the web broswer.



then I create a external CSS file which has coding lines for menu background


.menu
{
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
border-top: 5px solid #D10000; /*Highlight red color theme*/
background: transparent;
voice-family: "\"}\"";

voice-family: inherit;

}




There is nothing changed at all, then I added more codes to define "ul" tag.

.menu ul
{
margin:0;
margin-left: 40px; /*margin between first menu item and left browser edge*/
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
}

there is also nothing changed again. Next, I defined "li" tag.
.menu li
{
display: inline;
margin: 0 2px 0 0;
padding: 0;
text-transform:uppercase;

}


when I defined "li" tag, all navigation was put in vertical order as a picture shown below:



then I made navigation changed look like buttons by CSS anchor/ link states.
.menu a
{
float: left;
display: block;
font: bold 12px Arial;
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
margin: 0 1px 0 0; /*Margin between each menu item*/
padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px; /*Padding within each menu item*/
background-color: lightblue; /*Default menu color*/
border-bottom: 8px solid white;
}



but there is no effect when I point my mouse point on the buttons.

If I want my navigation buttons that will be change when user move their mouse on, I will need to work with CSS hover of anchor.

.menu a:hover
{
background-color: #D10000; /*Highlight red color theme*/
padding-top: 10px; /*Set padding-top value to default's padding-top + padding-bottom */
padding-bottom: 0; /*Set padding-bottom value to 0 */
border-bottom-color: #D10000; /*Highlight red color theme*/
color: white;
}



However, If I am reading information on the page that I dont know where I am, I will need make a change on my navigation so that it can tell me which page I am reading with "current" class. it was set in html navigation code.



within CSS file, I code more lines.

.verticalMenu .current a{ /** currently selected menu item **/
background-color: #D10000; /*Highlight red color theme*/
padding-top: 10px; /*Set padding-top value to default's padding-top + padding-bottom */
padding-bottom: 0; /*Set padding-bottom value to 0 */
border-bottom-color: #D10000; /*Highlight red color theme*/
color: white;
}

finally, I can know which page I am reading.