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Last Sunday we had a power surge due to a lightning that hit our house. Luckily everything is physically intact. The problem is that some of our technological equipments have been fried. Two of our TV's broke and my new tower that I built myself is not working anymore.To make long story short, When I turn on my computer, the monitor is not showing any picture. I tried another monitor and it says there is no signal. I opened up my tower to see what was happening under the hood... and what I observed was that the LED light on the motherboard is still lighting up. When I press the power button on the front panel It turns on. Fans are working fine. Here are my specs:Asus Motherboard Socket 939 w/ AMD Athlon X2 2.0ghzVideo card is NVIDIA GeForce 71000 256mb connected to a D-Sub monitor (VGA). Today I'm going to borrow a video card from BestBuy to see if that's the problem. But if that doesn't work, what do you think is wrong?

I'm using CakePHP which seems to be pretty good. It acts like Ruby on Rails. The thing I don't like about PHP in general is how it handles HTML formatting. The tags are out of place when PHP parses the views. I have to use a lot of echo "\n"; to clean it up a bit. Right now I'm new to it so I can't say that it is efficient as of now. However, with the ORM implemented into this framework I don't have to worry much about SQL writing and using the (mysql) functions at all, which is a lighter load for me. I haven't checked out the others that are on your list but I'm moving to Ruby on Rails as soon as I finish this project that I'm working on right now.

Right now I prefer Windows because I play games a lot. But I reeeaally like Linux (Ubuntu) because it's safe and secure. Although it does take a while to learn linux, the ubuntu community is there to help you out. Just a note to the topic poster, expect some command line tutorials to install some programs. It took me about a week or so to get a gist of how Linux Os performs.

Wow I never heard of typosquatting. I've seen it before but never actually knew it had a term. I want to make money off the internet too. My idea right now is to make a Web 2.0 website and serve it to the public for free and just add some ads for cash.

Hm... interesting website. I'll go try to go there when I come back to the philippines. Web wise, your site is mediocre. It's got good content, you just need to improve on the layout side. Try not to use iframes or frames, it makes it slower to load. And also ake the layout flexible between different resolutions (more specifically for 1024x768 and 1280x1024 (and also widescreen resolutions). I see a lot of white background which does not blend well. Interesting club though. I never thought we had a yacht club.

Since I'm a Christian, I believe in God and the afterlife. I also believe in ghosts too because that too was in the bible. To those who know little about this belief, it's entirely about doing good things to get to heaven. The base of our belief is that you realize who Jesus really is and that he's not just a prophet but God in the flesh. So even if you've done so many bad things but you came to know Him (personally), then you won't go to hell because all of your sins have been 'cleansed' and you go to heaven. Unfortunately, those who do a lot of good things but not have Christ in them wouldn't go to heaven. Those who are atheists wouldn't care about all this. All we really have to do is just wait and see to find out.

I use the same method as reconraiders' I use photoshop to create some graphical interfaces and hand code HTML and CSS. the reason why slices aren't that great with CSS is that it positions everything absolute in css. using "position:absolute" on every element would result in nonflexible layouts, meaning if you have content llarger than the size of the element it would just ruin the whole layout.From experiences with working with the big businesses, I have learned that they are beginning to be aware of clean XHTML and CSS mark-up so they started hiring only those who can hand-code HTML and CSS and have clean mark-up (meaning no presentational mark-up in HTML source code.)Companies will eventually start to hire HTML and CSS hand-coders over those who have bad mark-up codes.to those who are using WYSIWYG editors, I recommend you have a really good knowledge on XHTML and CSS languages. Do not rely heavily on the software's mark-up methods. From working with WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver and Frontpage, I learned that it is better to hand-code the HTML by yourself than to rely on the software's coding methods because it is really messy. Even if css is turned on in Dreamweaver, the naming conventions suck!After years of defending Dreamweaver, I finally moved to source code editors mainly Aptana IDE. I use the Aptana plugin for Eclipse because he Eclipse IDE has the PHP plugin and that's what I needed. Here is a list of softwares recommended for web designers:1. Aptana IDE (or plugin for Eclipse)2. Photoshop3. Web BrowserThat's about all I use and I get professional-like results. I got clean mark-ups and understandable codes. But there is also one more thing to keep in mind: Understand that other web designers/developers will be looking at your code to work on it so make sure they can read it. Don't be selfish and leave your codes messy, i've seen it too many times.And don't rush the work.

nothing racial to the owner of this thread but I'm guessing Middle-Eastern or Indian just because they are so damn rich! No offense to the race, it's more of a compliment. My nationality is kinda poor

I tried using the XHTML and CSS with photoshop but they didn't work out. It's cuz I was trying to make table layouts in CSS. So it's better to learn CSS and then move back to photoshop layouts knowing how CSS works.

Nooo! Don't do this method. I used to do the same thing until I found out about CSS layouts. Avoid Table Layouts at all times. I bet your HTML code is so messy because of the photoshop layout and everything. There's also graphical mark-up everywhere. I could help you with this problem but it's better to just move to CSS layouts.The reason for that is you separate content from styles making your HTML code cleaner and readable to other developers. You may be skeptic right now saying things like "It won't be as attractive as Photoshop layouts" or something like that but once you get to know CSS and how it's SUPPOSED to be used then you'll love it. To those who haven't delved into the world of CSS, I suggest learning about it. I was given a really helpful and useful book called "CSS Mastery". It's concerned with all CSS and cross-browser and whatnot. If you're interested in getting this one, read a tutorial from W3Schools first so you get the basics of CSS.If you still don't want to learn about CSS then be that way. Who's going to have the hard time modifying those pages later--not me. And for those who are interested in moving on to the future of web design (yea it sounds corny but it's true) then go ahead. You'll be developing faster and it will be easier to modify them later.

there's a method that lets you do what you want in PHP. There's no need to use or access the .htaccess file. If you know a lil bit of PHP, then tha'ts good. Basically what you hava to do first is to convert the html to php (simple change the file extension from .html to .php). What you do next is to insert this add this script to the top of the "hidden" page: <? $password = $_SESSION['password'];$secretPassword = "yoursecretpassword";if ($password != $secretPassword) { header("Location: http://yoursite.com/passworddidnotmatch.html");}?> --- Now in the page where the user enters a password, assign the $_SESSION password to the value of the input field. If anyone would like to continue this undetailed tutorial then please do so.

Nice simple PHP script for a shoutbox. As it was made for simplicity, this tutorial did great! Just a note to developers who want to take the extra step, you could think of adding Javascript (AJAX specifically) instead of using iFrame. As well as jQuery for some simple animations. With this done, you get the same shoutbox as the one currently hosted at this site the shoutbox above you). This is a good foundation to build on.

I don't crack my neck too loud but I do. I crack my back but that's just to stretch it. I do crack my ankles though and they're mad loud. Ankles don't hurt. I try not to crack my ankles but all the time it cracks without me noticing or even trying to do it. It's become habitual.

I recommend using Paypal so that you don't have to worry about handling Mastercards, Visa and other credit cards separately and making it more expensive to maintain. Paypal does it all for a cheaper price. Check out their commerce account and it's pretty good. Most eCommerce sites use it nowadays. You could install XPanel to each of your client's hosted folder. It gives them a lot of control over their website settings and preferences. Install Fantastico if the control panel doesn't have it. It's good so that the people would be able to download any CMS.

Hey, I found this cool site that I think uses jQuery (or possible to do with jQuery): http://www.hotel-oxford.ro/ The thing is that I want to scroll vertically like that website. The good news is that I have it working on Mozilla and Firefox. The bad news is that Internet Explorer 6 and 7 don't work. The problem with IE is that although it scrolls up and down, the images are not hidden (or masked). Since it has to be relatively positioned, the images is shown outside of the parent div element. Is there anyone who can help me with this?

Another note (mainly targeted to advanced web designers) is the proper way to use AJAX. Do not use AJAX to display content that you want the spider to crawl to. Let's say you want to display an "about me" section, don't load it using AJAX because Search engines can't crawl through Javascript-generated content like flash contents. It's better to use ASP or PHP to do this.If you want it to be editable, then just primarily display content in PHP then after modifications display it with AJAX.

I suggest you don't make the whole site in flash because search engines won't be able to search for any content in your flash site. Spiders won't be able to retrieve any words that are in your flash site. Good SEO practices require you to have a site consist of mostly HTML.However, this does not mean you can't have any flash, of course you can. But flash should be used as minimal as possible because it lengthens load time. I know it would look a lot better if it had a lot of animation but from a visitor's point of view, he will not wait 4 minutes or so to load a page just to see small info about a person and his portfolio.What I'm trying to say is that don't let the graphics overpower the content because the content is what the basically visitor is looking for. Keep the graphics and content at par with each other cuz too much content is also bad.

For several months I've been avoiding this newly released Javascript library called JQuery. I took a look at it and found it to be confusing (not having read the tutorials). Companies have been asking web developers to implement this idea so I thought it'd be hard to learn. But just today, after loosing my own javascript library, I turned to JQuery for help with developing AJAX apps more easily. And to my astonishment, I found it quite doable and easy to do. It turns out that the $.ajax() function just takes a parameter of values. It's clear and cut. Tell the javascript you want an ajax function and give it some attributes such as url (where to send the data), data (the data), success(function to run) and more things that is easy to understand.I recommend trying it out for those javascript developers.

Hm... it seems we got a lot of quiet people here. I'm one of those quiet people, but I choose to live without reading or writing. I would like to be able to talk to people using my mouth and be able to converse. Although without writing or reading I wouldn't be able to do this now, but I feel it's more important to have the basic senses. I don't know why but it's just my opinion.

It's true. I own an AMD Athlon X2 2.0ghz and it's as fast or faster than the Pentium D 2.4ghz. Someone here wrote that AMD has better performance than Intel... I don't get what you mean. Isn't performance speed? Aren't they the same thing? Speed is part of the performance, so what else can you compare besides speed and durability and temperature? I'm kinda new to computer parts so I'm curious.

I partially agree to your idea. But what about those who are only good at web design and can't get a job in any other fields. They gotta make money too, they do have a life. But for those who are able to share please do. Web designers should share their works--but not all. There are some that should be sold because it's all hard work. They took a lot of time to make those templates. It's not easy to make great professional templates.

People say Notepad is "the best" or something like that. But maybe these people are not that great at making professional websites. I don't mean to say it's not possible, of course it is! But nevertheless it's much better to use an IDE to increase productivity. A good IDE is something that should have syntax coloring, automated references and auto completion. I could use notepad but won't it be easier to differentiate between tags and actual text? Notepad is monotone and gets kinda hard to read when you have a lot of coding in a page, especially when the codes are messy. If you like to hand-code HTML then use Aptana. It's a good IDE for hand-coders. It's got a nice reference for HTML, CSS and Javascript. It also has a project explorer. Another one is Eclipse IDE, if you also use PHP.

WordPress is probably the best blog script right now. It's a CMS dedicated to blogging. It's easy to install and you can get setup in less than an hour. You should give it a try.

Aptana IDE, Photoshop, Flash (not much) and that's about it. I like to hand-code my HTML and CSS. WYSIWYG editors suck I realized because their mark-up are so messy.

In my opinion, Dreamweaver is good for a newbie. Frontpage should be avoided because it's even worse than Dreamweaver. I recommend using an editor like Eclipse IDE or Aptana IDE. The reason for this is that hand-coding XHTML is much easier than using a WYSIWYG editor because there is less concern for W3C validation and cross-browser problems.Dreamweaver uses XHTML and CSS the improper way. The reason is that a good practice nowadays is that there should be no mark-up that modifies how the element is shown. CSS should do that job. there's a saying now that goes: "Separate content from styles". Meaning HTML should just contain pure content and CSS should modify how the HTML appears. To be able to know that you've done this properly, if you unlink the css file from the HTML and you just get text and images in a white background, then you've done it.