Nobody loves me

In fact, I think Nobody is stalking me!!!
haha!!!

I obviously have the whole php email thing working fine from my site now. I've sent myself a heap of test emails, and they all say they are from 'nobody'. Small things amuse small minds...

So I got the whole css thing sorted out - thanks to Sarah (the aptly named) Champion and Linda from my Monday night class, who pointed out that php doesn't read css like html does... I'm torn between feeling like an idiot and feeling annoyed that this wasn't made clearer somewhere...like where were all he other ignoramuses on the web query sites asking the same questions? Actually, re the css problem, there were a couple of posts. This is the cure I used that sorted it all out:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/php/3243313.htm

Nifty trick...

And somehow the javascript is now working on my navigation buttons again. Its a bit slow (slower than the uni server) but it works!

Now, there are still a couple of things to do before this thing is actually properly ready for business. Firstly, i have to get the real content. I have to have a 'meeting' with my 'client' on Friday as she wants to chat about what she should write. Frankly, I don't care! I am like, put whatever the hell you want on this thing, once its done i never want to see it again! I'm obviously joking. Really. This being said I don't have the time to stop for freaking coffee meetings about things that won't actually affect my assignment marks at the moment. I am part thinking the whole real client thing was a bad idea. This being said, its good to have something to motivate me with its creation etc. Whatever.

Anyway, there are 2 things I need to sort out technically

1. the IE issue. But not before tomorrow

2. the form works, but it takes you to a confirmation page that is just a line of text saying 'email sent successful' or something. you need to back button to get back to the page you were on and then the email field is still filled in. I tried using javascript to verify the email address is a valid email address, and to clear the form but neither worked. i was going to play around with that tonight, but while i was looking for the css cure I stumbled upon this:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2004/04/22/php_css_forms.html?page=2

its a way to use php to verify the email and clear the field! Seeing as I'm using php anyway, I may as well give it a go...