I know what you mean. It's not just FrontPage, this idiosyncrasy happens in a lot of authoring tools, Dreamweaver and GoLive included. It'll be easier if you post the source somewhere so we can look at it.
Well, the first thing I noticed was that the image on the top wasn't loading (shinratopbannerv.2.gif). The second, your layout is being stretched out too far to the right. You make your table widths to 127%. Is there a reason? Change them to 100%. The rest are design issues. For example, others mind find black text over red hard to read. Also, where you have "Welcome To The Shin-Ra Commonwealth Web Page!" and " Copyright 2003 Shin-Ra Commonwealth" in the red bars, they seem out of place. If I were you, I'd just leave them as black text over the white background.
I'd like to answer this question with "it depends." It depends on the site you have. If you have a site about your button collection that's not too important then you can run it from home on a free server that just runs HTML pages. If you wanted people to have access to it 24 hours a day, then you'd have to leave your computer on all the time. The speed in which they access your site would be limited to the specs of your computer, their connection speed, your network type (probably cable or dsl, depending what you use) and how busy that network is. Additional facilities such as databases, e-mail accounts, statistic tools, secure connections, FTP, and others, would be your responsibility. It would be up to you to buy these facilities, install them and manage them. These facilities can be free or can go higher $100K. For example, MySQL server Pro, a database server costs $495. There is a free version that you can use but it obviously doesn't have the features the pro has. Oracle Enterprise Edition (another database server) costs $40,000. Most web hosts go with the cheaper but stable database which is why MySQL is the most popular.
If you go with a web host, you save money and time. You don't have to worry about maintaining servers, licensing software, connection speeds (they most likely have connection speeds that exceed home connections). It's also a connection that's on …
How do you select a web host? Do you just look at what they offer? Their price? Technical support? This web site contains several documents that will help you select the right host. Not only that, but it will teach you the terms used in web hosting. This is suggested reading for freelancers.
A neat thing about this web site is their search feature. You can search from hundreds of hosts according to price and features (bandwidth, diskspace, language support). Also, I like to read the reviews. Keep in mind though that reviews could be written by the same company or competitors.
Here's some information from their "Gotchas" section:
Here are some things to watch out for when selecting a web host. Some are tricks, some just business practices of the industry or minor problems. You can usually find them by carefully reading host's terms of use and acceptable use policies.
"Unlimited" space, transfer, etc. This is usually just an advertising gimmick. Almost all hosts that have "unlimited" plans, specify in their Acceptable Use Policies that no site can use an "excessive" amount of resources. If you use too much disk space, bandwidth, or CPU time, these "unlimited" hosts will ask you to upgrade or leave. We recommend against using "unlimited" hosts so you know exactly what you're getting.
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There's a lot of content out there < HTML 4 that uses the <b> tag. I doubt any time soon that it would not be supported. The good thing about XML is it doesn't matter what tag it uses, you can always apply some stylesheet and apply your own style (even if the browsers decide not to support the <b> tag in the future).
Personally, I prefer using shorter tags. I'd rather use the <b>, or <i> tag but I'm sticking to the longer tags (<strong> and <em>). They will be more mainstream in the long run.
You can use Adobe ImageReady which should come with the newest Photoshop. You might want to double check. That's what I usually use for animated Gifs. I suggest you do a search on download.com or google for "animated gif tool" or something of that sort.
Watch out when filtering curse words. If the text submitted handles text formating like <b> tags (or b wrapped in brackets like this and other forums do), I could easily do something <b>s</b>hit and it would spell out you know what with the "s" in bold. I think this is a bug in vBulletin. I know I tried it on a few forums and it worked.
Microsoft could easily create a PHP version for ASP.NET along with ColdFusion for ASP.NET (something I've always wanted). I'm sure the reason they don't is business related.
The syntax between VB.NET and C# is more similar compared to VB.NET and VB6. Most of the languages supported by .NET are OOP. The object oriented methodology has its uses, and I think doing everything, even the most miniscule task, in OOP is a waste. That's why I prefer doing some projects in PHP/ColdFusion than ASP.NET/J2SE.
Of course there are other reasons why I choose a certain language, but I don't want to get into another web language debate. =)
Actually, I'm Dan, so I'm "the man." ;) Here's a stupid sidenote: in my 10th grade computer science class, I was called "Dan the program man." God, did I want to smack this teacher....
Even though I've commented on this topic over a million times, I can't help it! I have to reply! :cool: have to say that my opinion still hasn't changed. I hate it as much, if not more than the first day of my freshmen year. Now only having one semester left for my bachelors and two minors, I can say that it has been a very torturing experience. I know that sounds a little bitter, but it's how I feel. The only reason why I stayed with it is because I know it's a degree that helps programmers. Currently, I'm a free lance web developer that deals with a lot of web languages, and I have to adapt to many application servers running different languages. After taking all my required computer science courses, and then some, only a small amount of the knowledge helps. A lot of the classes don't even apply, e.g. physics/chemistry/biology/calculus/philosophy.
Everything I learned to become a web developer I did myself. The word "HTML" was never uttered in any of my classes. No PHP, ASP, MySQL, SQL Server. Hell, only two of my classes had computers inside. In the rest, a computer wasn't even mentioned! All computer science classes that I expected to be practical or hands-on experience were in fact all theory. For example, my database class, consisted of just set theory. We learned normalizing using boolean logic and set theory symbols rather than the traditional E/R diagrams drawn in the real work place. …
Now a question... is there anyway to have people that go to my domain name automatically get to a different port than 80?
Some people have told me it's possible but I've never tried on ports other than 80. Just watch out for Cablevision. I've already gotten two phone calls from them on how I can't run any servers. Yes, that's right, ANY. No Web, FTP, Mail, File Sharing. Ridiculous, eh?
For the most part we have to set up as many things as we can think of.
Is that the only thing you'll be graded on? How many things you set up? What you can do is apply the Rube GoldBerg methodology. Rube, if you didn't know, had a knack for designing complicated diagrams for tasks that could've been done simpler.
For your project you could send a message from one computer, lets say the first computer, to the forth. Within each computer, you can install a whole bunch of servers (http, application, database, file, etc.) and pass the message between all of them. For example, one time I set up ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, Perl, C++, Python, JSP on the same machine. They were all connected to Apache's HTTPd server. When the user submitted an HTML form, it went to ColdFusion, processed the information, passed it to PHP, PHP processed it, passed it to ASP, then to Perl, then to a C++ program, etc., etc., finally landing to a database. You can make it more interesting though by having it go through firewalls, encrypting it, making an XML file out of it, going through proxies, different operating systems, servers, cron jobs, etc. The fun never ends!
The easiest and cleanest way is if you had Exchange Server. Someone told me Exchange Server includes a web based version of Outlook. Here are some dirty ways you can try: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.htm
I heard about this a while back from a few Wrox authors. It really is a shame. Wrox is probably my favorite publishing company among others (Sams and Que). If they are having financial problems, then I suggest they cut down on the number of authors they use for their books. One thing I've noticed about Wrox books is that they are a bit more expensive than other books (most ranging from $30 to $60). Also some of their books have over seven authors. More money is spent on paying all the authors rather than just paying one. I also believe that the general public that buys Wrox books are not beginners. A newbie will most likely pickup a small cheap book rather than a Wrox one, which is lengthier and more expensive.
The reason why I like Wrox is the content they cover. They usually cover a lot in a book. I also like the layout and the fact that they have multiple authors sometimes so you know you're getting different views (even though this might make it more costly for Wrox). Lastly, I like the community behind it. Wrox has(had) a forum that's very active.
This is probably why some of the bookstores I've gone to have their Wrox books on sale.
The String tokenizer doesn't have a method to remove tokens. If you have a string like "the fish was eaten by the cat" rather than going through the overhead of creating more objects, just use the native method "replace" or "replaceall" that comes with the String object. You can replace the "the" with an empty string and thus take it out.
Good article. I liked it. You might want to add a few links to other resources like META tag creators, online marketing tutorials, and maybe a few pictures describing how spidering works.
Physical attraction??? Yuck! That is so ... Neanderthal!!
So is the word "yuck." 8) If you don't believe me, read any basic psychology book. Several studies have been made. I agree with most of them. If you want there to be a physical relationship (kissing, hugging, etc...) there has to be at least some physical attraction... I think so anyways. Some people have a hard time admitting that because they have been taught to think that basing someone or something on looks is foolish/naive/simple-minded/etc/etc. The younger you are, the more looks matters.
This is a tough question I've thought about a long time. I have no answer, just views. Here they are from an old post on a different forum.
First of all, let me just say that the quote dates back since the time of the Bible. Throughout history, famous philosopers such as Francis Bacon and Michel Foucault wrote about power. If the quote or topic was made or researched by philosophers, I think we can all agree that the quote was originally written to be taken in a philosophical sense.
So the argument is "is all knowledge power?" I don't think that question itself can be answered by anyone, not without some careful analysis. Philosophy is all about analysis. To answer this question, first we have to think about what each word in the question means. What is "power"? What is "knowledge"? What is "all"? What is "is"? Taking that into account, the question becomes even more complex. Once we think about what each word means, we can move on and think about if all knowledge is really power.
Is it all power? If I know how to crack my knuckles, know how many t-shirts I have in my closet, know that when I wink, my other eye winks by force, am I more powerful than someone else? After all, (all) knowledge is power, right? Whether this type of knowledge is power can also be argued upon. This is why knowledge has to be defined. Does knowledge …
Who's dougy? :shock: Yeah, I was a little bit annoyed. One of the first rules in web site usability is to avoid putting "coming soon" links. Looks like you still got a good thing going though. Post back here when you got screenshots.
Nice web site. I specially liked the part when I was teased into thinking you had screenshots. I love when I click on a link and don't see what I intended to see. ;)
OUCH! :shock: I don't think they're THAT bad. The apps of the web can be better, but the other isn't THAT bad. It's no http://www.shiny.com or http://www.2advanced.com , but it's ok. I like your harsh honesty though... LOL... "I don't want so sound harsh..." 8)
If you've read some of my posts, you'll know that I do web development as a profession. Has computer science helped me in becoming a web developer? Probably not. In all honesty, I would probably know more about web development if I wasn't in computer science. How is this? Well, the time spent in taking math and science classes, I would spend reading up on topics that relate to my field of work. So why am I in computer science?
1. Certain classes train me to think a certain way. As much as I hate most of the classes, classes like data structures, operating systems, databases, from a theory perspective do have their benefits. While a lot of the stuff that I do for work is on the practical side, knowing what goes on behind the scenes has giving me an egde on creating software. I can code better, understand it better, as well as appreciate it more. All this from computer science. Classes like physics, calculus, and discrete math are obsolete for me - for my profession.
2. The most important. Looks good on a resume. People know that computer science requires a lot of work, compared to other majors. The dropout rate can be quite significant at times. Knowing that you kept up with it for all those years and didn't quit, shows character. The stereotype that computer science majors get can also be …
Nice word. I think the two longest words that I know are humuhumunukunukuapua and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. I can actually spell these words without looking and say them 10 times fast. :) But anyways...
The topics regarding your questions have been beaten to death already by me and a few others here. I've written a few posts that were long enough to be essays, so that should help you out. I don't know what else to say. Just keep in mind about these things:
1. You never stop learning. 2. The most important stuff you'll learn in life will not be from school. 3. You don't really know about anything until you've continuously tried it for a period of time. (e.g. I wanted to be a computer science major in high school, and it took me quite some time after first being in college to realize what it was about and see that I was dead wrong. It was nothing like I expected it to be.) 4. Research any topic carefully. Spend more than a week on it if you can, before making any important decisions. 5. Consult people that are wiser and are already successful. Ask them for advice. 6. When going for a job, you are hired because the company needs people to help it grow and benefit. They are not there to help you. Remember, a company is a business, and a business exists to make money. Never let them take advantage …
Yup. Most host providers that you go with have an administrative page that you go to for settings. The bandwidth stats are usually on the home page so you know how much you're getting. They also include more advanced stats that you can check out like how many people you're getting per month/day/week/year/etc., what browsers, etc. All this usually comes with whatever package you go for and it's easy to use.
Restarting the computer would be smaller than a NOP?
Yes it would be smaller by a few bytes. Because even if you have a NOP, you would still need code to exit the program, which would add a few bytes more. When you restart the computer, you don't need to exit because you don't need any user input right after it reboots.
I believe that it only works in older machines though. I only tried it on a Windows 95 machine, in DOS.
Just curious. Hehe, I was thinking about this the other day and now I'm wondering what all you fellow coders out there have done. So what's the HARDEST most complicated program you've written? It doesn't have to be efficient, heck, it can all be spaghetti code.
The hardest thing I've coded was a DOS text editor written all in assembly. Parts of it were in Turbo Pascal 7.0, but it was used to call assembly libraries.
The second was a program, also written in assembly language and pascal that converted a text file to an EXE file, encrypted it, and password protected it (it had a login interface). It had some weird features like playing a song (an actual WAV sample) through the PC speaker while controlling the LEDs in the CD-ROM drive, Floppy, and Scroll/Caps/Number Lock (It made them flash like Christmas lights).
The shortest program I've ever written compiled to two bytes. Yes, two bytes. If anyone can beat that, let me know because there is only 1 program in the world that can have a size like that. =) Anyone care to guess what it did?
