Lozbo

I find the secret of learning to program is a mathematical mind. That means that if you understand the basics of programming and are good programming at a given language, migrating to an other language is quite easy, as you already have the first (and bigger) step. Now im not saying that becouse im a good programmer, becouse im actually not, but i did studied in my career a little bit (like visual basic, delphi and visual fox, and earlier c++), though i never really got much effort into it.But what i learnt of it is that if you understand the basic logical structure of programming, you will never have any kind of trouble while learning an aditional language, all you have to do is practice a lot, and take programs already done by some one else, and try to understand its code, and how was it structured. I regret that i dont take advantage of what i belive that i have: a natural understanding for math and logical stuff, but once you are into it, developping your skill is much easier, specially if you are constantly working on it.Im actually also interested in java, i have downloaded a coupple of free tutorials, but they are in spanish hehe, i dont know if you could use them. If so, drop me a message.

Yes... About the php "include" function, and the way andrewsmithy states he builds pages, i think that it is a great way to optimize and save time, in case of a major update or something, becouse all you need to do is change one .php file that is included in a big quantity of other files which use that content.So instead of using a frameset, which will contain one page as a menu, you can have a menu.php and including it in all your other pages, so when a change is needed, menu.php will be the only file to be changed, and once uploaded, it will take place in all your documents.There was i time when i thought that this kind of including files was not so apropiate, i used to think that the include function was only designed for adding variable definitions or other functions written in php code within a document, but it what php does when it includes a file, is take that file and pastes it right as it is into your document, so if it does not contain any kind of php code, it will still work, for example if you put only html code, like a menu inside a table or any kind of tags, so even if this function was actually designed for that purpose (including files written with more php code), you can take advantage of it doing this kind of including for pasting whatever you want.

Hi, i had never seen such portal, its great... When did it first came to light or what did the other version looked like? Wow, you can do a lot of things, i dont know if you could in the older versions of the portal but now you can place your sections wherever you like (in the graphic interface), just by dragging off the title of the section and releasing it where it fits...

Hail. I think most people would agree that firefox is better than IE. Not only for it being a safer and faster browser, but fot the fact of being open source and the posibility to add tons of plugins or extensions to further increase its potencial.Some of my fav extensions are: foxytunes, which allows you to control lots of players, like winamp, windows media player and iTunes, for exampleshowip, which displays the current ip adress of the site you are viewingweb developer tools, which adds a panel which contains a lot of useful options for debugging a site or analize itsession saver, which restores all windows and tabs (customizable) next time you open your browser (for example, you are browsing three different windows or tabs and then you close all and log off your machine, and then come back and open it again and voila, there you have your pages)There are actually tons of extensions out there (just go to Tools>Extensions>Get more Extensions and firefox will take you to the downloads section), but its up to each one to take the ones he/she likes the most.Well, i like firefox better than IE, but what i wanted to say is that for now, most people do uses IE, so if we are web masters we must pay attention that in most cases, our public will be using that browser so we have to count them in.So hoping that firefox do spreads faster and faster till it becomes the most used browser, i think we will just have to sit back for a time, while people realizes the advantages of our beloved firefox.Thanks...-Lozbo

Hail... i'm newbie at this stuff. Nice to find some other metal heads in here, i like Blind Guardian, though lately i've been more into other metal sub-genres like Therion and Haggard (there a song named "Flesh of Gods" in which Hansi sings) and others of the like. Actually i have not found a lot of groups who play like them but, im trying to find some. Hail.- Lozbo