[H-GEN] Job Allocation and billing system

[Harry Phillips]

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Michael Anthon wrote:
>> I 
>> only learnt PHP+MySQL in the last 3 weeks to produce my 
>> brother-in-laws web site -> http://www.amhp.com.au
> 
> 
> It sucks (not the site, what I'm about to say) but you may want to read 
> up on the Australian privacy legislation.  I believe that as it stands 
> your contact page may not be acceptable.  You probably need to add some 
> sort of privacy statement.

Good point, know any good ones that I can cut and paste :)

The details won't be used for any marketing etc, it's just an 
oppurtunity for them to send some feedback. They don't have to fill out 
their name, ever, and they only have to enter an e-mail address if they 
want a reply. The only required fields are Subject and Message, that's 
less details than if they sent an e-mail.

> 
> On a more critical note, it's bad form (IMHO) to force a font style that 
> is not one of the really standard fonts.  The font you have selected for 
> the page body looks pretty crappy in my preferred browser (Opera 7.11). 

Ok, I setup that CSS by cutting and pasting from a tutorial, the font 
family has now been removed from the CSS file. Hows it look now?

The other problem that I created by just cutting and pasting was the 
HTML 4.0 complience. I was not aware of the difference between ID and 
CLASS. Lots of searching Google, many tutorials read and many many cries 
of "I don't f%$#%^g understand, I am doing what the tutorial is saying 
to do but it still isn't compliant, why not" I almost gave up. I then 
found a tutorial that explained the difference between ID and CLASS.

For those that don't know, ID (starts with a '#') is a style that you 
can apply to one object on the page, CLASS (starts with a '.') is a 
style that can be applied multiple times to different objects.

The above knowledge represents about 2 hours of self taught education :) 
In practice using ID or CLASS makes little difference both IE and 
Mozilla display the page the same way, it does however matter for HTML 
4.0 Transitional complience.

Apart from the font slip up anything else?

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Regards,
Harry Phillips
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