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From my experience as a learner and as an educator I don't believe that improving language skills could be achieved by merely following a good course or using a good book or just using it. It's a package that takes a bit of everything. You will need to: Use language for real life cummincation, the same as we're doing here using English to talk to each other. Have a constructive feedback on your language production. I mean someone, ideally a native speaker, who can spot your errors and guide you to the correct use. Have a good reference for grammar, vocabulary and idioms to give you only the stuff you need Good language course try to do that one way or another. Language courses will be essential for a zero beginner to start right, but from an intermediate level onwards you could adapt the approach I suggested. In my case I would only take language course if I'm trying to learn something very specialized in a short time.

Talking about JAVA for example, I would look for online resources for self-study first. That would only work if you're that type of learners who can direct and decipline their own learning route.Once I'm at a good level I would start looking for online diploma.I wouldn't start with the cerrtificate courses right from the beginning.

That's a very interesting topic.I believe that blended learning will give you the best of the two worlds.The blended learning is a combination of online and face-to-face study. From a stand point of a teacher I find myself a bit limited with the online tools no matter how advanced or creative those tools are. There's always technical issues either from my end or from the students' end that will hinder the progress.Also in face-to-face situation the teacher is limited with the class time and the span of concentration of all individuals in a given group.A well structured course that makes use of the face-to-face interactions effictively and utilizes the online capabilities to integrate self-study activities and delayed feedback would be ideal in my opinion.In such a course, a local tutor could do the f2f part and a distance online tutor do the other part. Of course that needs careful planning and good collaboration to work. That would be ideal.

Thank you both for the explanation. I tried this and it worked: $sql = "SELECT a.*, s.*, u.* "; $sql .= "FROM tbl_assignment a "; $sql .= " RIGHT JOIN tbl_assignment_submissions s ON a.id = s.assignment "; $sql .= " RIGHT JOIN tbl_user u ON s.userid = u.id "; $sql .= " RIGHT JOIN tbl_course_display cd ON s.userid = cd.userid "; $sql .= "WHERE ( s.data2 != '' "; $sql .= "OR s.numfiles != '0') "; $sql .= "AND a.name like '%Assignment%' "; $sql .= "ORDER BY firstname, name ASC";But when I use FULL JOIN it gives sql syntax error.Any reason for this?

But does that mean flash is loosing the battle against HTML 5?I agree with you about the capabilities of scripted animation but since it's a designer's arena, desigmers in my opinion are less patient when it comes to coding evrything they do.A programmar would tolerate using notepad for writing his code, a designer needs to see something

Thank you for the reply. I agree with you about what google is using. It couldn't be just Levenshtein. I'm really interested in any algorithm that enables me to evaluate students' responces witout rejecting them just based on typo's. Do you think Regular Expression is a good solution for that?

I'm glad you asked. I'd like to share this animation with you. You can find it at /legacy There's a lot to discuss in that animation as it's composed from several movie clips and uses different techniques. Some I created myself and some I used other samples but altered the code and design. I'll be posting code samples and fla's soon

Try NAMO website editor. It comes with templates and uses visual editors very effectively. You can drag and drop pages according to your website structure. You also can use it to upload your website when done.

try https://tokbox.com/ as a start. It's a server that gives your flash application the ability to connect peer-to-peer or in a sort of room connection. The rest of the functions will depend on your programming of the flash application. I used it to make my own webcam application. Ok it doesn't work 100% but that is because of my code.

Have you tried to change the nesting #menu ul li a:hover{ into something the IE could understand? I'm just suggesting experimenting not giving a full proof solution.For me I find IE kind of a waste of space and makes designers pull their hair all the time.

You could name your default page as index or default according to the server settings. I'm not sure what are the defaults in the case of asp.There must be a default page name for the server. Doing that your user will not have to type the name of the pageI do that with my php pages but I'm not sure about asp.I hope that helps

Flash will always open in a new browser window and will never open a movieclip window for you.If you want to work without browsers the you neeed to develop your flash using Flash AIR player which is similar to desktop application.But again that won't work on the web.

If you already using CS4 then why not make use ActionScript 3?ActionScript 2 is not supported anymore by Adobe and you will not find much help out there for it.Another solution is not to use ActionScript at all and use motion path instead.

I think the problem is in this line:temp = paleta1_mc.x;the value of temp variable will be always equal to paleta1_mc.xMaybe if you use ENTER_FRAME event to increase that variable that will make the picture move.But you'll need to remove that event once the mose is up to stop the movement.

I'm not sure.. will you consider SWF an image format? I think it's a compiled animation and has a dynamic nature.If that is the case then I would certainly try to upload my avatar as an SWF file. I don't think the forum will accept that format for an image.Actually I tried it but it didn't accept it.

I prefer notepad plus for coding. The visual editors confuse me and I find them counter productive.After designing a couple of websites you will have some good CSS templates to customize and you don't have to start from scratch every time.If I'm in a hurry and have to use a visual editor I prefer NVU as it's less confusing and fast..

I think the footer is important but its content is the kind of "read me if you're interested" rather than "Read this before you start" that's why it's at the very buttom of the page in my opinion.You might as well place equal emphasis on the footer and make it as a part of the corporate image of the client.Some people use sticky footer. What do you think of it?

Well, the PHP solution that web_designer has suggested is good. If you prefer javascript you might use on of the jQuery plugins that are available for free. I recommend: slidesJS which gives you some cool effects. You can use the example included in the source code to make your own gallery.

I tested your test.html and it works. It simply runs my outlook with an empty new message but with your email in the field "To" It doesn't show subject. to do that just use: <a href="mailto: youremailaddress@emailservice.com?subject=yoursubject">E-mail Me</a>

I had the same problem and discovered that the setting responsible for that in the embedded object in the HTML code was:wmode=[opaque | transparent | window] (one of these options)You need to experiment with these settings to get the desired display result.

Hello Guest_Karen Salmen_*I'm afraid your question is not clear enough for people to answer.If you elaborate a bit on what program you're using and the object that you're working on (movieclip, textfield etc) maybe we could help.But from the error message that you mentioned I gather that you're trying to add action on an object that doesn't support that feature. In flash you can add actions to buttons or movieclips. Graphics and textfields don't accept actions.

velma, I liked your approach to web design. I never thought about that. Usually when designing for myself I go for the colors and layout that I like most. It seems that I need to consider age groups and and other categorizations in my audience. Thank you for that.

Hi Aslam,All people here including me are willing to help. I know how it's like when you're new to a forum and the system is kind of new to you.feel free to explore the forum and familiarize yourself with the new community. When ready don't hesitate to post your questions no matter how simple or complicated they are. The people here are very supportive and friendly.Have fun and MyCENTS

Hi k_nitin_r, Nice to hear from you Thank you for the advice of starting my own topic. That was when I was only a Newbie, now I'm a Newbie level 1:) I'll definitely take your advice. That other service I mentioned was a very long time ago, something like space-rocket If I remember well. As for my plans for my website I'm glad you asked. I want to have a complete system for online learning; an LMS and and a virtual class with whiteboard, voice and video. For the LMS I'm considering Moodle 2.4 and that's why I'm looking for a web host with PHP 5.3.2. Does this web host offer that version of PHP? Maybe I should post that in a new topic to to open collaboration and exchange ideas about that. Regards

I was impressed by the way Google suggests alternatives for my search key words and always wondered how do they do that. Now I have a general idea how they do it. Recently I came across that function in PHP code that checks the similarity of 2 strings based on what's calld Levenshtein Distance algorithm. Well, the Levenshtein Distance algorithm will check the sequence of characters in your original string and compares it against a given string to calculate the gap in character sequence and tell you how close or different the two strings are. One might ask, why on earth should I care about that. Well, if you're evaluating a user input in a form or getting an answer to a given question and you would like to count for misspelling without rejecting the input totally you would definitely use that algorithm. For more information about that see the Wikipedia Also see it in the PHP manual