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In webpage layouting I still use and prefer tables until CSS is fully supported. Mentioning CSS, if you are using the CSS 2 version then you are in trouble becuase it is not widely supported. So stick with CSS 1. Whats wrong with tables by the way? I hand code every page i create but still I'm in favor of tables coz after creating the table rows and columns only u need to do is fill it up with whatever you want .. and you could design tables too that use CSS. Its fun but I dont know with you guys

Thanks guys. I just bought a book about PHP and I bought a cd too full of online books about webdeveloping and some other programming stuffs. Actualy I am starting my design already and I have decided to use PHP after 3 days of reading the whole book PHP is not security risk unlike CGI-PERL which could wreck havoc on the server machine. And besides PHP has a wonderful support on MySQL. I hate creating my own database too much work, accessing files, retrieving and parsing data.Anyway, thanks guys. By the way I prefer the session method in PHP in creating a members area since it can work even if cookies are off in the client browser. Afteri finnished my site, I need you guys to evaluate my work

how about this solution, Use DriveCrypt to create a virtual drive which where u hide ur files, then enable the security options that will not allow user to delete files with drivecrypt extensions (.dcr). You cuold always download drivecrypt with cracked or serials. Drivecrypt uses the AES, the latest and most secure encryption algorithm known to the world. Of course not included those used by NSA, CIA and FBI. You could even hide your virtual drive to a .wav file :Dwhat do u think?

Yeah i love it. It is fun and chalenging in a way that you need to develop your character to be strong so that when there is a Guild War you can match any opponent. It also has the party system like everyother first person multiplayer game. The best thing about the game is the 2d graphics where items and armor realy appears and in 3d if you use it or wear it. Anyway just try it. But the game server are more localized. Meaning some server are for specific region or country only. So you should look for the server that suites your place.

Does anyone in this forum heard or even better play Khan On-line game? Its like Guild Wars I guess, I havent played Guild warrs. But I'm sure it is more like it, its full 3d too, you can zoom in and out your character and you can rotate the view 360 degres and up and down. Anyway im just wondering. Khan.com.ph

This kind of thinking is just an example to what I just mentioned, that in mans search for the ultimate truth he created a heavenly body/being that will answer all his questions. This kind of man is the one that easily tired of searching for the truth in a objective way, so he finds the answers in a subjective way of thinking. Would you believe me that religion serves a purpose, the purpose is that religion will serve the few who has control of it. Take for examply the Vatican. If they were realy for the goodness why do they keep themselves rich, not just rich but super rich. Why is there a struggle for the cardinals to gain power in papacy. Why do the Espanish invade other countries in the name of religion. Spanish would say that we are here bringing a cross to share to you that one God exist but if you won't welcome us we will turn this cross upside down and it will become a sword. We all think this way, specialy christian becuase we were raised to be this way. Its been part of our society. And if you tried to opposed it then you become an outcast. If we were in the time of the inquisition I would have been hang or burn for being accused of the devil. How could I be a devil when I dont even believe in angels, gods and the devil. The fact of the matter is that religion has controled our way of thinking and our way of life. If you would say that I am wrong. Then think again. Think how all your decision are affected about your religion. And think who will benifit it? If you still cant get the picture and very interested in this argument try to study the evolution of religion if I may say. Try to learn why there were Zeus, Mars and other gods long before The One God was concieved. And try to understand the beginning of the belief of One GOd. You will be surprised that the idea came from a pharoh in egypt were he ordered all the other gods destroy becuase he believed that there is only one god, the sun god. Unfortunately his religion didnt surived after he died. But part of it sinks into the heart and mind of the jews which were one of his subjects during his rule. So what do you think happned then? About the bible. Remeber who compiled the bible. A group of people with one purpose. What that purpose might be Im sure it only benifits them. After all christians are thougth to be passive. Don't fight the kings becuase they are anointed by GOD. Its a simple way of saying, dont fight and struggle for your rights becuase God dont want you to do that. Believe me, this kind of thing still exist today. But it is more complex that those who are subjective wont notice it. I only ask to all those who read this, be objective not subjective.

Ask yourself why you are scared not to believe in God? First religion is the expression of man in his belief to something that is supernatural while science is represents the facts. If you study how religion came to be as it is now then you would understand that it is nothing but merely an expression of mans longing for answers. In the beginning man believe that sun is a god, since man can't explain it he made the sun a god. But when scientist or some astrologist came to view and explained what sun is so dies the belief. Get my point? Someday the heaven and hell will soon perish in mans heart and mind for science will show the facts about everything else there is in mans world. Religion will perish like the pagans did. I sense your fear in not believing in God. I understand it, coz I was once a devoted christian, going to mass everyday I learned something that took my fear away. Do you want to know what it is?

hi.. i played alpha centuari long ago, but when Civilization III was released I never played the game. Its a great game though but you should try Civilization III. Its more better and with the expansion of Civ III you can play with 35 more countries, negotiating and initiating war with them. I suggest you try it.

If you realy are into programming I strongly suggest you learn first C then C++. THe choice is not simply about popularity but power and efficiency. Although you can not use the compiled C/C++ on other machine but its not about portability I gues we are talking here its about programing. If you master C and C++ then you can learn almost every programming language including interpreted languages like Perl very easy. Almost all modern programming language borrows their syntax, structures in C and those object oriented programming languages borrows their ideas too from C++. Great games are coded in C/C++ and i believe that Windows too was partly coded in C/C++. Take for example Perl, it is an interpreted language mostly use by unix servers, it borrows some ideas in C/C++. Even javascript and java.Anyway, thats just my opinion which of course becuase I use C/C++ and learning its history too leads me to this suggestions. Good luck.

honestly dont know anything about PHP although my friends said its good but i havent find a time yet to learn the language or should I say script. The only reason I use CGI becuase its the only think I know on how to process forms.Should I then learn PHP?

Hi peeps....This is more likely a discussion not a tutorial. Its my idea of creating a members area in a website using the CGI - Perl and cookies. I am sharing this so that people out there who have more knowledge about this technique will be able to share their idead about this and they might be able to correct errors or maybe offer an alternative design or approach in solving the problem.Anyway... so here it is..the whole idea is to have some pages in the website that only members of the site can access it. To implement this I am planning to use cookies and CGI - perl.Every pages that is for members only will query or look into the cookies available for the page. The cookie will tell the broswer whether to display the member page or redirect to another url.But of course before this happens there must be a page with a form where user will type there member name and password. Then whatever the user typed is sent to a cgi program that test whether the password and user name is valid. If it is valid then it will send a cookie (like for example access=member) to the browser, if it is not then it would tell the user that he/she may have typed the wrong password or user name or something like that.So here is my question to those who are expert on this thing.. does this kind of design works for me?Although the site will contain members area page only but there is no very important data into it. It is a site for online gaming where members are the guild members. So I realy dont need serious security. I believe hackers out there can hack the site. But I think they have a little or no interest at all to the site for its content are not valuable to them.Implenting this is not hard for me since i have suffecient knowledge in Perl and CGI and also in Javascript.I hope to those experts out there will share some of their ideas about this approach and they might be able to give an alternative way in creating a members area pages in a website.Thank You.

hi... i have something, i hope u will like it.. if u have in your site like a guestbook that have the <textarea> tag or any <input> tags.... like for example the comment text box where your guest rights comments to about your site... then you could add pictures on that text box and even change its fonts, background color so here how it works with css... say for example you have this comment box.. <textarea></textarea> to add picture on it and change the font color to let say red, add this style: <textarea style="background-image:url(mypic.jpg);color:#ff0000"></textarea> its that simple to add any other effects, just add this following styles that you will find interesting: font-family:verdana ----- where verdana is the font fo course background-color:#000000 -- where #000000 is the color font-size:11px --- where 11px is the size in pixels.. border-color:#000000 actualy there are lost you can do, just refer to the CSS standards or any reference book you have or maybe online books or you could go to w3c.org i hope u like it.. by the way to see those things in action visit this site http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

there is no software which is not crackable.... it only takes dedicated team or a person for the job to hack and crack a software... after all its just 0 and 1 so dont worry about the updates.. like casanova said.. he found a way out through the internet... ...

moonwitch... since u mentioned having the same effect using CSS2... can you post codes about it.. im interested even though it is not widely supported but sooner or later new version of browser will appaer on market supporting the CSS2.. im starting to use CSS so its a good to learn such technique... tanx in advance

hey guys... im here to share some tricks i picked up along the way in creating or designing web pages... this trick is making an expanding tree menu like the one you can find in the Windows Explorer.. very cool eh! the trick is done by using javascript and some of its objects.. so here we go Lets say for example you want to create this tree menu Fruits Apple Small Medium Large Grapes With seeds Seedless Banana Green Yellow and you want to make this menu collapse or expand when click the first we do is encode this small code snipet which is in javascript. Put this in the head portion of your page.. its in between <HEAD>...</HEAD> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript1.3"> <!-- function closeall() { var divs=document.getElementsByTagName('div') for(var i=0; i<divs.length; i++) divs.style.display='none'; } function clicked(element) { var div=document.getElementById(element) if(div.style.display=='none') div.style.display='block'; else div.style.display='none'; return; } // --> </script> in the above code i need only to point out two functions.. the closeall() function.. collaps all menu tree in the page during the first time the page is loaded to the browser. Meaning the initial state in which all our tree menu including its sub-tree will be collapsed. The second function, clicked(element), is responsible for collapsing a tree menu which is expanded already or expanding the tree menu if it is already collapsed. In clicked(element), the element here refers to the id of the <div> tag which we will being seeing soon. So we are finnished with the javascripts. Lets proceed to the creating of the menus. <a href="#" onclick="clicked('fruits')"> Fruit</a> <div id="fruits"> <ul type="disc"> <li><a href="#" onclick="clicked('apple')">Apple</a></li> <div id="apple"> <ul type="square"> <li>small</li> <li>medium</li> <li>large</li> </ul> </div> <li><a href="#" onclick="clicked('grapes')">Grapes</a></li> <div id="grapes"> <ul type="square"> <li>With seeds</li> <li>Seedless</li> </ul> </div> <li><a href="#" onclick="clicked('banana')">Banana</a></li> <div id="banana"> <ul type="square"> <li>Green</li> <li>Yellow</li> </ul> </div> </ul> </div> lets take a closer look on our tree menu... the <div id="fruit"> .. </div> encloses all the 3 sub-menu which are Apple, Grapes and Banana. Meaning if we call the function clicked('fruit') (supplying the id of the <div> to collaps or expand to the function parameter) when clicking the link Fruit through the event handler property onclick="clicked('fruit')" the 3 sub-menu will collaps if it is expanded already or will expand if it is already collaps. We then apply the same technique to each of the sub menu of Apple using again <div> but with diferent id <div id="apple"> .. </div> and making apple a link <a href="#" onclick="clicked('apple')">Apple</a> with this code. So we just made the sub-menu of apple collpasable. Next we apply the same thing with Grapes and banana so we have a functional collpasable tree menu.. I hope i made my self very clear or maybe i just mess things up. Im not good in explaining things in english, im from asia, thats why. Anyway to see the technique in work... visit this page http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ if ever u have any questions about this..... just ask... enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

generaly the design is good....... one suggestion though... i think it would be more better looking if the color of the category is different from the sub-category...

First of all......... if we are to consider religion in this debate then it will lead us nowhere. Religion is not a science, it is an expression of faith to something that has no concrete evidence of existence. God, is mans creation in his desperate moments in his life. When he could not give answers to some of the questions that needs to be answered he created God. Going back to alien life forms.. it is not just possible but it is the fact. Our existence is not by a devine power but the simply the perfect timing of events that lead to the creation of life. First the great explosion, then all matter there is formed stars, planets and other non living things. Then elements or matters group together, with their perfect partnership they themselves develop or formed into proteins and so life begins. THen this would suggest that it is not just possible but it is realy happening in the vast space of the universe that such a devlopment of matter is happening. With the right distance from a star, meaning too close too hot and too far too cold, millions of life form out there are developing...when it comes to intelligence.. if we would think that we are the only inteligent being, this is just the product of mans insecurity and stupidity... we become inteligent not becuase we ought to be but becuase of evolution... our knowledge is not a gift from a devine being but the product of millions of years of evolution and experience. Then we came to think of it, that our solar system or even our galaxy is not the oldest there is. So if it is not, then those older galaxy or planet that nurtures life as expected will have life that is far more inteligent than us becuase the history of their evolution is billlions old than ours...Generaly, my point is, religion should not be asking this question knor it should try to explain or argue with it for it is not a science.hehehehehheheheh

hi...first, overall the site is good... but anyway here is some of my ideas...i think it would be much better looking if you line up the website navigation menu verticaly than horizantaly.. the point is it keeps the balance off becuase there are 2 the same menu item missing in the 2nd row... it is more neat to line it up verticaly specialy you use big rollover effects...lastly.. about the font.... i dont know if you are using some type of font.. but what i could see in my monitor is just the time new roman font.. which is not a good looking font.. for me.. anyway, if you were using other type of font then i think you should not. The reason is that not all computer that will browse the site use the font you used.. thats the reason that most website uses arial, courier and other fonts that is common in all platform, may it be in unix or xp operating system...ohhh... i just visited the news and archive section.. i think you need to repair that too.. well... thats all.....

like they said, Partition Magic is the answer. Its very reliable and safe. If you dont want to buy it then surf the net you could always find cracks or serial generator for Partition Magic.... just dont tell them it was me suggesting that heheheeh.............. but here in Philippines, piracy of software is so common that you could buy almost every software with cracks and serial numbers.. anyway.... use Partition Magic........................

is it a digital videocam or just a camera? Well anyway, if it is just a camera with a feature that could capture videos expect it to be in low quality for generaly they are design in taking stiill pictures. If you want to have a high quality videos you need to have a videocam not a camera. Videocam produces very high quality videos, even more better than the one in DVD movies becuase it is not compresed and has the frame size of 720x400 i guess, its close to that. But you need to have IEEE or firewore port becuase USB can not handle a fast transfer rate like that of the uncompresed digital frames from videocams.. so i hope it clear things up not mess it up for u ..

i have a background in CGI programming or scripting becuase some say its scripting. I also have knowledge in using the .htaccess and .htpasswd to protect directory or file in the website. Now, here is where i need your help, if I will make a form in a html page that accept user password instead of relying on the browser to provide it for me everytime the user access the protected directory, how does I make it work using CGI Perl? I'm more particular on CGI Perl becuase I dont have any knowledge in PHP or ASP. Thats it!

since im in philippines im using a pc.. mac here in my country is hard to come by specially the specs and it cost more than that of the pc.............. and beside they have little difference, i think mac users are the one who are heavy working on graphix.... coz its the one used mostly by graphix artists.. but for games there is little installer for mac.. and for programming mac is not wildy supported...

C++ is an object programming.......if you dont have an idea about that then u have a problem in creating games in C++ becuase its not as simple as HTML coding but it is a very powerful tool... if you have experience in obect programming then all you need to learn are the syntax of C++..good luck....

when nero cant find the cd writer it means it is not connected or recognize by ur computer or perhaps u should re install nero see if it works.. if not it means its about the hardware.. meaning the computer did not detect the writer as a writer but just an ordinary cd drive

hey....most of the wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) editor for web designing introduces some lines of code that are not realy neccessary. ANd i dont think frontpage uses the new tech which is the style sheets if they do i think coding it your self still gives more power to the programmer or coder. ANd i dont think you can use front page in developing CGI base website like message board and guestbook or perhaps a chatroom. Over all frontpage are mainly for very simple website or page but when it comes to complicated and very good page its better to code it yourself specially using style sheets. You should learn style sheets.. man its good.... anyway gud luck