ginginca

I get a timeout error trying to connect to that site.

I completely agree about learning to hand code. I don't want to "slam" dreamweaver, as it has its place, but coming from someone with over ten years of experience, I learned using a simple code editor by the name of Web Edit. (It's my full time job.) For about six or more years we have been using ACE HTML pro for at least 90% of our code editing. We absolutely love it. They have a free version but it just doesn't compare to the pro version (which is actually very cheap.) Based on my experience, dreamweaver likes to code sites a certain way, and we like to code things our way. So what often happens, is when the file is opened in DW, it will make changes to the code, or it won't appear correctly. But since it's WYSIWYG, making tables and cut & paste are a snap. As for Front Page ... stay clear away from it. It adds all kinds of unnecessessary code, making the pages very heavy. Where YOU begin depends on a number of things. What's your background, and what kind of site are you going to develop? What do you want the site to actually do. A definate MUST is photoshop. It's the only image editor that I would ever recommend to anyone. If you need a scaled-down version, photoshop elements is a great starting point. If your site is a forum (like this), or a directory, there's lots of open source PHP scripts to set up those kind of sites. With some practice it isn't hard. There are other content management scripts too that you could look at. But as I said, it all depends on what you want the site to do. My 2 cents. Gin

I have been having a lot of problems today connecting to the mail server and was wondering if there are any ongoing problems.Thanks,Gin

I am wondering if anyone has had the opportunity to compare these two products. I have taken a good look at Zend, and am completely impressed. But I have also been told that the product from Nusphere si simply "the best" when it comes to PHP editing.Any thoughts?

Yes, problem solved. Thanks! Gin

Yes, that works. Thanks for sharing that bit of wisdom.

Shows you just how much I use IE *grin* - I'm 90% of the time in FF. I'll try bookmarking.

In my IE 6, there is no icon. For the most part, I don't get favicons in IE. Makes me wonder if the issue is on our PCs. But clients tend to have the same thing happening too. Are there any settings in IE that affect this? Gin

Yes, files with other extensions (and no extensions) are hidden. Is this because of the FTP program? Or because of the server? Gin

I'll start with this and see if it asks for a password next time. Thanks. BTW ... OS is Xp with SP2 Thanks for your thoughts.

Thanks for the info. Gin

I'm having a problem.At my last login ... there was about 10 days worth of credits. (Which I believe was last week some time.)Today I visited and I was at -4 days worth of credits. My account was suspended.As of now, it was back up to +4 days worth of credits but it is still suspended.Gin

A while back we were having a problem networking our PC's. (Which turned out to be a configuration problem on our linksys router).We fought with the configuration for ages on both PC's (Not sure which one was giving the problem.) In the process of doing this, we added a 2nd user to my PC which now I can't seem to get rid of. Since adding this 2nd user, I have to login with a password every time I sit down at the PC.Can someone help me retrace my steps so I can eliminate this?Thanks,Gin

Forgetting about the animated icons for a moment ... how do I get favicons to work in other browsers? (IE). The method we use for Firefox is: <LINK REL="Shortcut Icon" Href="favicon.ico"> (1) It doesn't work in Explorer. (2) It doesn't come up on the bookmark list when you bookmark it. Does someone know how to address these two questions? Thanks, Gin

I've been using WSFTP95 since (obviously) 1995.I run into one issue ... but I'm not sure if it is a limitation of WSFTP or a limitation of the server.When I am connected, I can't list my .htaccess file, or any files that don't have an extension. If this is caused by using WSFTP, what would be better to use?Thanks,Gin

Thanks for sharing.I hadn't heard of this one ... and as a web developed we view everything in as many formats as possible.Thanks!Gin

I've always done it with a font. I call them "broken fonts".

Nice idea ... thanks for sharing.We generally put favicons on our sites that we develop. However they don't tend to work with IE. Given the large volume of people that use IE ... I would love to have something working in it.Does anyone know why?If you want an example, to see the code, visit http://www.vividelements.com/

Although there are two tables in my database, they are not linked.The data I am pulling for this query is all from the same table.The table is called table_products, and has the following fields:numcatsub_catdescotherWith the exception of num, all fields will be displayed in the query.Thank you for your help!Gin

The header looks very nice when it loads. (Personally I like a bit of movement as long as it is not overdone.)I agree with most of the other comments made. Nice job overall.One thought (for what it's worth) ... have you tried making your white borders (with the rounded corners) a little thinner? It might make the page a bit slicker.Gin

In my table called table_products, I would like to display the value of the field called desc, when: cat = Heating and sub_cat = fittings What I have right now will give me the result with ONE field. I am wondering how to incorporate a second "specific value" into my query. Can anyone help with this? <?php // Query the Database $specific_value = 'Heating'; $num_columns = 3;$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table_products WHERE cat = '" . mysql_real_escape_string($specific_value) . "'");$counter = 0;while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { // increment counter $counter++; // use modulus operator to determine whether this is the first column in row if ($counter % $num_columns == 1) { // is first column of row print '<tr>'; } echo '<td><font size ="2">'.$row['desc'].'</font></td>'; // use modulus operator to determine whether this is the last column in row if ($counter % $num_columns == 0) { // is last column of row print '</tr>'; }}// fill empty cells in last row if needed$empty_num = $num_columns - ($counter % $num_columns);if ($empty_num > 0){ for($i = 1; $i <= $empty_num; $i++) { echo '<td> </td>'; } echo '</tr>'; // close last row} ?>

Doing it this way would have made more sense to me. But thank you for helping me out. I'm new to PHP and have soooo much to learn! Gin

It works beautifully. Thank you! I had already added the header ... I was just confused about the data to sit underneath. Is this just taking them in the sequence that they are in the table? Or is there something else that is defining the number?

Yes there's talk on most of the forums that I regularly participate in about Steve.It's been on my mind though wondering if he thought of himself being in danger ... or invincible. But no one will ever know what a person truly thinks of themselves.