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Pesky Spam emails!

We all get those pesky spam emails promising us millions of dollar, from a Bank Manager, a Lawyer, a Doctor, a Wife etc etc. The spammer asks for your assistance to help transfer secretly deposited funds from out of their country for which you will receive a bucket load of money.

Believe it or not, people are sucked in by these dangerous criminals every day. These scamming spammers have been guilty of fraud, theft, assault, kidnapping for ransom, rape and even murder! These criminals are known as 419ers, or Nigerian Advance Fee Fraudsters as the crime originated in the 1940's in Nigeria.

Worldwide, 419ers milk upwards of $5 billion dollars annually from their unsuspecting, albeit greedy, victims (in the 419ers derogatory terms, a “Mugu”). The latest scam to hit my spam-trap, disgustingly uses the Tsunami victims in an effort to milk money.

Mugu.Info is my small way of fighting back. I aim to provide a repository of useful information, such as law enforcement contacts, a lexicology, links, as well as my anti-scams to educate and entertain the wider community.

Please visit Mugu.Info and let me know what you think.

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MuguMaster’s picture

MuguMaster commented

When the center content is small, the left and right sidebars hang below and the background image is displayed beneath them, making it difficult to read.

Does one of the Drupal theme CSS wizards have any pointers on which declaration will extend the main content area and give it a standard size on all pages irrespective of size? I have added to a few of the different classes:

height: 100% and also
height: 500px

but nothing works. It still shrinks when the page is small ...

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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MuguMaster

Mugu.Info, leading Nigerian 419 Advance Fee, Lottery and other internet Fraudsters up the garden path!

Steven’s picture

Steven commented

Clear and float are your friends.

Declare a separate block-level element as your footer and set it to clear: both;. I suggest you google for layouts such as "piefecta" to understand them better.

MuguMaster’s picture

MuguMaster commented

Clear and float are your friends.

Declare a separate block-level element as your footer and set it to clear: both;. I suggest you google for layouts such as "piefecta" to understand them better.

Thanks for the advice. I do indeed have a

Steven’s picture

Steven commented

What I use these days is a layout like this. Hover over a column to make it stretch, and notice how the layout doesn't break (hover won't work in IE).

This solution is best because each column, including the main content, is wrapped in its own float. That way, you can use clears inside them without affecting the rest of the page. And as you can see, the columns can be sorted any way you want, so you can have your main content load first.

first in source
center
center
center
second in source
left
left
left
third in source
right
right
right
clear both
clear both
<div style="border: 1px solid #222; width: 90%; padding: 2px;">
 <div style="border: 1px solid #222; float: left; padding: 2px; width: 65%; ">
  <div style="border: 1px solid #22f; float: right; width: 48%; padding: 2px; ">
first in source<br />
center<br />
center<br />
center<br />
  </div>
  <div style="border: 1px solid #f22; float: left; width: 48%; padding: 2px;">
second in source<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
  </div>
 </div>
 <div style="border: 1px solid #2f2; float: right; width: 32%; padding: 2px;">
third in source<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
 </div>
 <div style="clear: both; border: 1px solid #29f;">clear both</div>
</div>
<div style="clear: both; border: 1px solid #29f;">clear both</div>
MuguMaster’s picture

MuguMaster commented

I do indeed have a , the stylesheet declaration specifies clear:both for that div

Drupal.org does not let me edit that post ... and the filtering took out the <div id="footer">
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MuguMaster

Mugu.Info, leading Nigerian 419 Advance Fee, Lottery and other internet Fraudsters up the garden path!

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chrisada commented

I'm pretty sure $5 billion is off the mark, but nice design. :)

My comment would be the text (all of them) are hard to read. (font size and line height a bit small) And there is no focussing point for the eye. I'm not sure where to start reading when I got there. (primary links, secondary links, mission, left-right sidebars, all these are quite prominent)

MuguMaster’s picture

MuguMaster commented

I'm pretty sure $5 billion is off the mark,

Yes, I decided to err on the side of caution. I have seen elsewhere claims of $40 billion per annum ... its something that cant be calculated empirically really ...

but nice design

Thanks!

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MuguMaster

Mugu.Info, leading Nigerian 419 Advance Fee, Lottery and other internet Fraudsters up the garden path!