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Can you find this code in the source please

Discussion in 'CSS' started by outwest77, Jun 30, 2012.

  1. #1
    Can anyone find the background image for this front page?

    A designer guy says the top left image "MyPcBackup.com

    is in the background image

    http://www.mypcbackup.com/

    I cant find it
    he says it is "hidden behind the code"

    He even found the url to the background image
    and it seems he is correct
    http://mpb.jdistatic.com/images/My-PC-Backup-Logo.png

    My question is where is this located? How did he find it?

    Suggestions?

    by the way I am trying to style an entry page similar to this one, that is why I am curious how it was done
     
    outwest77, Jun 30, 2012 IP
  2. deathshadow

    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    It's in this file:
    http://mpb.jdistatic.com/css/style|tabs|popups_popup|popups_create-account|forms|error|v=1324578164

    Though good luck finding it with the "Let's hide how inept we are at writing websites by stripping out the whitespace" lack of formatting.

    It's also being applied with the idiotic 'text-indent:-999' method that means the page has zero images off graceful degradation, defeating the entire point of using image replacement.

    Not that said page is particularly well written -- when was that made, 1999 to 2001-ish? Tranny doctype, jquery for nothing, zero scripting off fallbacks, nothing even remotely resembling modern site building techniques of the past decade... Which is why it's funny that it also has all the IE conditionals just to show what a useless re-re the developer of said page actually was. Nothing like 25k of markup for 2.7k of plain text -- basically two or three times what should be needed.

    Sorry if that's your site, if it is, do yourself a favor, throw it out and start over clean. Nothing even worth TRYING to save from that.
     
    deathshadow, Jun 30, 2012 IP
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  3. browntwn

    browntwn Illustrious Member

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    h1 a {
        background: url("/images/My-PC-Backup-Logo.png") no-repeat scroll center center transparent;
        display: block;
        height: 59px;
        text-indent: -9999px;
        width: 350px;
    }
    Code (markup):

    Is that what you wanted?
     
    browntwn, Jun 30, 2012 IP
  4. outwest77

    outwest77 Peon

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    LOL no its not my site, I cant code like that
    I just took the code modified it changed the layout headers text etc etc etc for a site I want

    it would take me a month to write that, but as they say its got all that IE version coding in there its a lot of unnecessary code I think

    I did locate the image file inside one of the style links, and have replaced it and restyled and colored the page

    the colors are very difficult to change also for some reason, the large blue square I cant seem to change that
     
    outwest77, Jul 1, 2012 IP
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    Use Firebug, a web-developer's best friend!
     
    sarkar1990, Jul 1, 2012 IP