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html means "hyper text markup language"which means that without it, you wouldn't be able to layout your website, it would just be plain text.but by using tags, you can tell how the text should be.for example <b>bold</b> will make the word bold be printed bold...<i>cursive</i> same thing, but cursive<img src="image.jpg"> will display an image.for more info, just search google for 'online html tutorial'marijn

i wonder how html and hard work can fit together in one sentence. html is just plain easy. i could understand protecting your javascript... maybe.i can understand protecting php, asp.net... but then again, that's serverside so nobody can see it anyway.

don't think he means ftp, but just visits his own site like http://localhost it could be because of a heavy script or an endless while loop. if not, i don't know. do you use php or something like that?

did you try the install? can you find it?

how a database works:well, it's a collection of tables.for example, for this forum, there is a table users.this table has fields like: nr, name, date joined, msn, ...and then there is a table posts. and this posts has fields like:date, user (which refers to the nr in the users table, so you can find out everything of the user who posted it), text,...that's how a database works.cool thing is that you can do searches in a database.for example, you can search for all the posts that have usernr 110. select text from posts where userid=110that's a bit like the 'find all posts by this user' function you got on this forum

why you want to free ram:imagine, your ram is full and you're starting a new proces.1. copy files from ram to swap file to make space2. make place in ram by deleting unnecessary files or files that are saved in swap.3. start program.in photoshop, any operation will cause swapping and stuff... really, having some spare ram is good.

hm, i really don't like itunes for some reason. for cataloging music, i use musicmatch. it's much more powerfull for tagging music. you could use mm first and then copy the files to itunes.mm is a bit heavy, but it has more options. for a fast player, use winamp 2. and mv2... well i tried it and now i'm using bsplayer again.

when you get a window that says something like: error of program x, closing in 60 seconds, you can stop the pc from shutting down. like that, you can relax to find a solution to the problem:1. press windows key +R and type cmd or just open a command prompt the way you usually do it2. type this : shutdown /athis will cancel the shutdown and you'll have all the time to search the internet for a solution for your problem.marijn

hm, i got hosting, but for some reason, i can't find my cpanel or log in anywhere. i tried the http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (where i replaced myusername off course ) but that didn't work to well. where do i log in? or was i supposed to confirm my account or something? i'm out of idea's. anyone?

well, it's safe. as the username is stored in a php variable, it will not be visible to all users.but if you're on a school network, they can intercept the traffic and your password can be read, not encrypted or anything. but maybe that's a little paranoia. if you want your password to be unreadable in the traffic, i can give you a script that does so. it encrypts your password before it is sent and then it is compared with the stored (also encrypted) version of your pw. it cannot be decrypted!

ok, that was stupid of me. i was writing them myself when i found the site mastercomputers mentioned. i copy-pasted it and forgot to mention my source. really sorry about that. back to the topic now. post the things you find most irritating about websites. most of them will probably be mentioned in the list at the mentioned site, but you might want to tell why-to much animation. i want to read the site relaxed. if i'm reading an interesting text, animations will kill my attention. also, people will be less focused on what you have to say. i'd say: use max. 1 animation, and use it only to draw the attention for an important message.-a picture as background. you know, a colourfull, crowdy picture of a field of flowers or something like that. it's hard to read with such a background.-a green background and a blue font: make sure there is a lot of contrast between text and background. white with black text or something like that. -use light backgrounds, it makes the user more relaxed.-don't use music on your site, or give the user the option to turn it off. most of the people already have some music playing when they are surfing the net.-crazy looking fonts are cool... but sometimes hard to read. use them for titles and logos, not for long texts.-adjust your pictures for the web. use only gif, jpg or png. resize them so they fit in a window. they have to load fast. keep their size under 70kb. a tutorial can be found in the graphics section (for photoshop). if the page loads too slow, users get nervous and often just leave.-thumbnails should be seperate images. don't just use height="100" width="100" properties in the img tags. make a tiny image with your photo program or by scripting language (php does the job easily)-about hyperlinks: adjust their style, blue underlined often doesn't fit nice in your site. but make sure users can still easily detect them. don't make them the same as the rest of the text! links to other pages of your site should open in the same window. links to other people's sites should open in a new window.now add yours!

check http://php.net/manual/en/migration5.oop.php you'll find all the info you need

in general i'm not too fond about mediaplayer.i use bsplayer for videoswinamp (2.9 ) for playing songs.both are very light, bsplayer works with subtitles and has many great features!and both are free!

if you want it, ask me. i have 4 invitations left. it's great!only minor is that you don't have pop access yet, but they'll change that + there are some programs that will let you use your email client anyway!!!more info in the "howto" section!!!

if you get the pop-ups while browsing the net: get firefox or the google toolbar, or some other pop-up blockerif you get them even when you're not online, turn of messenger. not msn messenger or windows messenger, but the messenger inside windows. you can do this as follows:-go to configuration panel-go to administration tools-go to services-find the service called 'messenger'-rightclick -> properties-set the service to : disabled or manual and then stop it!now you'll never have the messages againhow to send a message yourself?well, if you have an ip address, go to command prompt and type"net send w.x.y.z blablabla"where blablabla is the text and w.x.y.z is the ip.that's how they spam you, only they do it automated and send them to all the ip's!

ok, to use a horizontal scrollbar: use this body tag for the file that is displayed in your frame. so if you display xxx.html in your iframe, open that file and put this as body tag: <body style="background-color:transparent; overflow:auto;">that will make sure that you have automatic wordwrap, the vertical scrollbar will apear when it's needed. ofcourse, when there is a very long word in the text, that's to wide to be displayed in the frame, you'll get a horizontal scrollbar as well. to disable the horizontal scrollbar, add this to the <head> section of your html document <script language="JavaScript">document.body.style.overflowX ='hidden';</script> this will prevent hor. scrollbars, but keep in mint that, when using a too long word, they won't be able to read the rest of the word anymore! you can do the same for the vertical scrollbars: overflowY='hidden' but if you want to hide both, you can skip the javascript and just set overflow="hidden" in your body tag other options for the overflow property in the body tag: visible: will not show scrollbars, but the text will be diplayed outside your page! scroll: will always show a scrollbar

i meant the installer on http://php.net/ :)you have a windows installer there. should work fine.but i think that, if you let it configure you iis automaticly, you won't be able to use php4 anymore. it will automaticly configure all .php files to work with php5php4 & php3 files would probably still use php4, though you can choose to have them handled by the php5 engine during the installation.i'm not sure why you would want to keep php4. almost everything still works with php5 engine. give it a try!

hm, i don't understand very well.you cannot translate asp into html.asp is programming, html is just to make your layout.your host needs to support asp. if not, this code will not work.besides that, i suck at asp, so i won't be able to help you much.

the answer is: yes. if you use the installer of php5, it'll even autoconfigure your IISyou can use both if you use different extentions, just like daniel said.

put it in a div, like this: that's my code. the 'bummer!! my ... ' text is displayed when the browser does not support iframes. the allowtransparency will make sure the background can be seen through your iframe. but you have to set something in the page inside the iframe too (in this case: welcome.html). this is the body tag of the welcome.html file : <body style="background-color:transparent; overflow:auto;" LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0> and this is my code for positioning the iframe. <div style="position: absolute; width: 296;height: 284; left: 400; top: 116"<iframe name="chat" src="welcome.html" width="296" height="284" align="right" frameborder=no ALLOWTRANSPARENCY=yes>bummer!! my computerdetection system with neural emitting transponders tells me that your computer was constructed in the year 1492BC. what you should do? update your internet explorer/netscape. bye bye</iframe></div> and toxic: i'll try it. but can you use html inside them??? code? tnx!

there are some programs, you can find them on http://www.tucows.com/ or http://download.cnet.com/windows/. use advanced search and search for freeware that has "clean ram" in the description. i made my own program: it runs a very heavy sorting method and by doing so, it forces windows to clean it's ram memory to free space for the program. after 15 seconds, the program is finished and i have about 260mb of the 384 free again it's great and doesn't sit in my taskbar all the time. i just run it when my pc gets slow about freeing spacein your start menu -> accesoires -> system tools folder, you'll find a program called 'cleanup manager'. use it! besides that: if you have nero, try browsing your folders with it. it shows a lot of files that are hidden in windows. for example: every drive has a 'recycler' folder. open it and clean everything in it. you won't be able to erase one of the folders because that's currently in use for your recycler bin, but the other ones are safe to remove.if you run servers, you can look for *.log on your drives. those are logbooks you probably won't ever read. some of them get really big. when i installed oracle, i suddenly had a log of 3GB!!!!! they are safe to remove.

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i think it's important to use standards, so you are sure your page works on every browserbut then again, i don't always close my tags call me lazy

hehe, you're right. but pictures are cool when they make it look nice.pictures suck when you use 1246 pictures on one page.next to this, it's an unwritten rule that you shouldn't use too much animations to your site. they tend to irritate people.don't use pop up windows too. hey, maybe we should write down all of the unwritten rules in a new topic good idea if i may say so

hm, i think he needs animation, so jpeg is not the good format. besides, jpg is only better when you use a lot of colours. for pictures that don't have a lot of colours in them, gif is better. for animation, jpg is not an option if you have photoshop, you can use imageready (included when you install ps) if you don't, it's probably easier to download a program like the one mentioned by dcy, or search for one on http://download.cnet.com/windows/ or http://www.tucows.com/