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Just another thought if you wanted to do it…inside your wxlocal remove the link for the green imaged radar on your left side bar, which shows the 112 by 120 pixel image at bottom of your left side bar, by removing this line of code inside the wxlocal:

and then,…in place of the wunderground main radar, to the left side of the forecast…replace the default wunderground radar image with the other radar image, by changing this:

Regional Radar

to this:

Regional Radar

then when completed, it will look like this:

http://www.gateway2capecod.com/desoto.html

I just think that radar would like better, but you decide…Chris

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Darn it I did something now. The left menu is grey. Can you send me the copy of my main page you have?

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I am really not sure about what that Validator site does or means, you page is displaying correctly for you and me and probabbly everyone else, so I would just ignore it. just for the heck of it I tried that validator thing on my own URL/Homepage and it said I have 210 error’s. I am not sure what this all means but I am sure that anyone that needs to view my page can see everything as it should be.

can you explain to me exactly why or what this validator thing is meant to do? r if it is important not to have any errors on my pages? I really have no idea what it all means, as this is the first time I have ever heard of doing this type of test for my pages.

let me know…thanks, Chris

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Oh Well being on how good you are with webpages I thought you known I sure don’t. I will leave it then.

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did you change any settings inside the weather-screen.css? …and that made your leftsidebar greyed? or did a setting change within the wxlocal itself cause this?

I have your page working fine here, so to view the source code, just go to this page and then right click and choose “view source”…it will show you the code:

http://www.gateway2capecod.com/desoto.html

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I tried (tried is the key word) to fix the errors that other site was showing. I just was in the wxlocal file. I will look into the code

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ok I think I got my color back. As for that radar picture it looked to broken up like it was to big for the area so I put it back to the other one. Once again thank you for your help.

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Glad you got that back…looks good as is and lets leave it alone for the rest of today.

I always make backup copies of all my wxlocals and place them in another new folder, somewhere on my computer, like My documents Folder. I backup all my files regularly also for anything related to my website, just incase I need to go back, it makes life easier than having to start with a new wxlocal file.

another good reason to always back up all your original files wxlocals, and all other files that get placed on your webserver, is incase someday your hard drive decides to crash, then if it did and you need to reinstall a new hard drive, then reinstall windows, at least when it comes time to getting your weather website back up and running as it was before the dreadful failure, you can have the backed up copies and make it get going again much quicker.you can even make backup of all the setting’s, or at least most of your setting’s within WD Program, so once that is ever reinstalled, makes life easier for this also.

hopefully our hard drives wont die, but someday it may.

I also have more than 1 computer, so aside from backing up my important files to either CD or a 1 gig USB travel drive…I also make copies on my other PC’S as another easier source.

The USB 1gig, 2Gig, 3gig up to as much as 4 gig storage Drives are real easy to drag and drop or copy and paste saved files to. they can be purchased any any bestbuy/staples/walmart stores or online like on Ebay. depending on the size 1gig - 4gig…determines what the actual price for one is. an example for just a 1 gig can be seen here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Memorex-USB-2-0-High-Speed-1-GB-Travel-Drive_W0QQitemZ260151886475QQihZ016QQcategoryZ99247QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

these are also good for backing up other files on your PC, like Pictures, Music Other Important files, I like them because it is much easier than burning CD’s

Just some more knowledge I thought I would share, incase you were not aware of this…

OK Fox, glad to have helped and have a good rest of the weekend…Chris

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Yup that is what I rembered I made a backup last night hehe. thanks for the help.

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Just one thing you may have overlooked…on your home page to remove the “with ajax” in top title header
change this again in your wxlocal:

<div id="header">
  <h1 class="headerTitle">
    <a href="" title="Browse to homepage">De Soto Valley Weather</a> with AJAX
  </h1>

to this:

<div id="header">
  <h1 class="headerTitle">
    <a href="index.php" title="Browse to homepage">De Soto Valley Weather</a></h1>
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Wonderfull, Thanks
OH will that weather warning script still work on my site being that the it is now php?

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Yes …the Noaa Warning’s will still come across top of screen, as long as you entered your correct Zone inside the advancedforecast2.php script, like in the example below of mine, which is the MAZ021, and inside WD Control Panels/NOAA Warnings setup, you have the Zone Set there and Enabled. usually it will update every 5 minutes past the hour, by default.

// also set your NOAA warning zone here to use for automatic backup in case
// the point printable forecast is not available.

$NOAAZone = ‘MAZ021’; // change this line to your NOAA warning zone.

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Yup, It still works. Thanks.

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Excellent…Mission Accomplished.

I also noticed on your wxgraphic banner, in your forum sig, that it says “flood warning” on the top of your banner…by default do the wxgraphic banners, like your’s and mine is also the same type banner, although with a custom background…display the warnings automatically, if I have any, or did you customize your’s to do this>?

chris

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I had someone help me to do it. If you want I can give it a try for you?

Here is the message were I was trying to get it 2 work Trying to get weather warnings in the weather sticker

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hello fox…Thanks for that link

one last thing I noticed on your home page is that the words 'CURRENT CONDITIONS" are not correctly placed/centered. to fix this…edit your wxlocal again and replace this:

Click for extended

Current Conditions

   Dry\Partly cloudy/Dry

with this:

Click for extended

Current Conditions

   Dry\Partly cloudy/Dry

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Well I changed it but it is still at the same place. What did I miss? Well anyway I got to go to work. I will check this when I get back home.

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try this…

download the attachment in this message and save it to your desktop.

now open your original wxlocal inside the wd/webfiles folder, click on top tab that says edit…select all…then delete key…to erase your entire contents inside your wxlocal file. (MAKE SURE You make a backup copy of it first)

now open the included text attachment I included in this message, and open it, then select edit…select all…then copy

next reopen the empty original wxlocal and then click on edit…and then paste…to paste everything from my included file into your original wxlocal

now lets see if it works after the next interval upload of all your webpages.

wxlocal.txt (15.5 KB)

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Nope that darn thing don’t want to move. Have any more ideas?

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hello fox ,

I just checked your webpage/home page…it appears to be in the centered location now, and working…as of 1:55pm EST…it probabbly just needed for the next update of all your pages to work. your pages are updated every 5 minutes?

Chris