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It is OK to be worried about an industry that is changing constantly with new technology emerging everyday but don't forgot that you do not have to know everything to succeed in the industry. If you are highly skilled in one area that should be enough for you to get a job. Some jobs will require you to know more than one area if you are working on a project by your self but in most cases with a team based project tasks are allocated to the right people.I have worked in a team of so called programmers and to be honest none of them have any design skills at all. They will require a expert designer if they wish to have a working program that looks good. There are so many people who want to jump on the band wagon and work in the IT area be it management, desgin or programming side but if you are not good at what you do then you will probably not get as many jobs as talented people.Sure there are premade solutions for most common things like joomla, wordpress or what ever but there is always going to be a demand for customized sites that use these pre-made CMS or one that is written from scratch from the start. This is where people with the right skills come in so if you are good then you will need to not worry. For example the past few days I have been customizing a osCommerce website for a friend. He got the initial job but has no clue on how to code in PHP so he gets me to do it. I have never used osCommerce before so it was new to me but because I knew enough about PHP I was able to do all of the task he required. There are jobs out there for the right people you just have to go out and find it. It is not going to come to you if you aren't good at what you do then work on that. Once you have proven you can deliver solutions then I'm sure the jobs will just keep rolling in. Then you can charge as much as you like.

I dont think you will be able to do it without JavaScript as the link attributes need to be set and flaged as the active page somehow. JavaScript or on the server side end that renders the link with an additional properly such as class='activeLink' or whatever you will call it. This will have appropriate CSS styles applied to it to give that effect. I think that is what you are asking right? I don't think he is referring to the last visited as there can be many links hes visited and that would not indicate what page hes currently at.Regards

Hello everyone, I have this very annoying issue that I have still been unable to resolve. I have an applet with a login screen that queries a Derby database and logs in if the user has supplied the correct username and password. My problem is this is needs to be run as an applet through the browser. It seems to work find when I run the applet inside netbeans but when I try and run it through the browser the applet loads but does not seem to query the db. I dont know if there are any security setting that I may be missing but if there is anything I'm missing about java applets let me know thanks.I will keep at it but it doesn't seem like I'm getting anywhere. I am considering dropping derby and going with mysql.

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Its nice that this idea is getting a lot of attention. I've seen suggestions for groups based work to start in the past in these forums specifically game development but most all just end with a dead thread and no more interest. I think this idea of people working together in a team would be beneficial to all members as it would no doubt give experience or opportunity to fine tune skill they already have. As I am an unemployed full time student I'm struggling to handle assignments and look for a job at the moment but I would try to contribute as best as I can because I love the Web and Programming. I think everyone brings skills into this and a project does benefit from having people skilled in different areas. I respect people for skills they offer to a team no matter technical or otherwise. I've been working in a team based projects now for almost a year at university and I do have to admit there's a lot you learn its just remembering them all and doing it all that is the hard part. This is why I would like to work in a team environment. You have to deal with people and learn how to work together. You learn skills from this by doing not just reading.. I understand the goal of this is to eventually work on jobs where we get paid from clients. We all need to make money to survive right? How ever I have an idea that I would like to propose. Since we are going to be working in a team I think it would be great if our first project is to come up with a design and then build a website for our selves. This website will showcase our work, team, skills, and serve as a management system for running our team. There is potentially limitless ideas one can come up with but I think if we try and be as original as we can we will gain more attention. Set us apart from the competition you know. This can be a flash based site or not but what we choose to include will be determined by the team. I think if we put our heads together and come up with a unique idea for a website we can come up with something brilliant. As for my skills I would consider myself an all rounder, not an expert in any field as of yet and certainly not as strong as I would like to be in design or programming but what I want to get out of this is working in a team and being able to help manage it. I would like to also be able to share what I know so that others will not have to suffer my mistakes in the past. I would like to learn how others do things so that I can maybe learn new ways of doing things. Let me know what you all think about a team website for our first project. Oh yeah if we do desicde to go ahead we need a cool name too lol. Team Trap 17? TT17

I dont know if you mean to cover story boarding with the preliminary sketches point but if not then you should definitely consider this. Story boarding even though I personally have not used them lately are a good way to clarify with your clients the process from start to finish. Your list above does cover almost all the processes that would be involved in web design but you may or may not need to use them all. Some projects may require more planning while others may not need them all. It depends on how formal you want to be with your client. Some client's wont even know what the process is so you will most likely end up having to lead, plan all processes. If you are building server side scripting and its very complex i.e more then just a hit counter then more planning is required. This is were software development experience is handy and will likely impact on whether the project is a success or failure. What helps a lot here is analysis and planning. If you don't plan well and you work on something then realise you got it wrong then you have just wasted that time building something that the client did not want.I think another thing your missing if your doing both web design and web development is a project proposal. When the client approaches you about a new website they require you gather up all the details and present it back to them as your proposal. You include what you intend to deliver to them for the project. This includes all designs and functionality, expected due dates for deliverable, what you require from the client, i.e meetings. Any hosting if required. There is a whole of of things you can include I'm just unable to think clearly about them right now but if you look up project proposals and what they include you may or may not find things that will help you. Also be clear about change request from the client. let them know in advance the impact it will have on cost and schedule. Once the client has reviewed the proposal they have to make the choice to go on. You have documented everything so later on when the client says no this is not what i wanted you can go to your documents and say yes you did here.. lol. I think you get the idea. I think what I listed above is still incomplete and there may be more useful methods, documents for helping the process. You still have to use your own discretion and decide if producing those documents and that planning is worth it. In a small project you wouldn't spend so much time right? if a site took one day to make then there is no point spending two days planning and documenting. Now if a site took more then 3 weeks then obviously planning is required. Good Luck.

Not bad skin there. I would suggest you create a better looking banner that fills the entire header. It looks unprofessional when you waste space like that. The header banner is just too small.

That doesn't make sense. If you have kepted your receipts and all then there should be no reason why you cannot get your money back. Paying into the wrong account is a common mistake and they will deal with it. I'm sure all banks have procedures for handling this common mistake. Good luck with getting your money back and don't give up just yet. Money is money and you shouldn't waste it.

There is too many of them to start creating specific forums for them. Maybe just one forum to group them all may work but I can see it getting messy still. I don't think there is enough active CMS users to warrant a forum for them to be honest. It will probably end up being empty or full of redundant questions already asked from their respective websites.

Hello MetalRev, Not a bad introduction you have there. I think once you get hosting you will agree that it is a great hosting scheme if not the best out there. You just post quality post to earn credits. What is the population of Venezuela? You guys play a lot of soccer there right? Anyway keep posting and earning credits and you'll have enough for you hosting in no time. CheersSone

I've worked in a team before to develop a ASP.net website with its own CMS for a small community based website enabling them to manage events and keep track of members details. It was horrible because we all were at different levels in skill in respects to the language (asp.net) and not to mention HTML, and there was no clear roles for all members (4 of us in total). We were all in the software development major but none of us had any experience in developing GOOD websites, some of us had never even touched HTML but were experienced in java, c++, or VB. We did not even agree on what user stories were suppose to be in there and had totally different views on what entities should be on the ERD. Some of us did not even think about even having an ERD and went ahead to try and create tables and then having to alter them later because they forgot something. What was the point of doing all those database papers in the second year huh? The idea of collaborative work is great and I'm not trying to shoot your idea down but be warned it is much more difficult to manage a team when everyone is so far away that face to face meetings are not possible. You need people who can work together and know their role and are willing to listen to others ideas. If you have someone who thinks they know everything and believes they are the only one who is right then you will have trouble. I think for a small project it may be possible with a designer, developer combo but anything more complex or large and it will require much more effort. Everyone has to agree on the process of doing things from start to finish. In a larger project a project manager definitely needs to be competent enough and communicate effectively to all parties involved on the development team as well as the client. Because you are developing a website I think the most important role is a experienced Web Developer. The designer can design a really good website but in the end its the developer who has to build it. If the developer is not skilled and experienced enough you will end up with a really bad website with many bugs and missing functionality in the end.

The web is mostly rendered in HTML and CSS in the end. JavaScript is used to support them and add on more functionality. You are better off if you understand these three core elements for web. After that you may required server side scripting such as PHP, JSP, JSF, Asp, and any others. You may also need to learn databases along side these server side scripting. Understand the 3 core languages for web and how they all relate to each other. This will help you quickly determine what you need in order to complete a task. If you know where to look and what to look for you can do just about anything.

Oh yeah xbox does not have wireless network. I dont think it would work though because as far as I understand those 8 wires from the standard network cables are not designed to to power devices. They are purely wires for carrying signals and a wireless device would require power to draw and transmit.

wireless network cards already exist.. I don't know how your idea is any different to what already exists.

Oracle is very powerful and has many features. I have been using it for a few papers but we have barely touch on some of its features. The only downside to oracle is that it is very expensive and suited to medium or larger organizations. If you are building something small then MySql is probably more suited.

I would suggest netbeans for java because the IDE has been built for working with java, It can open other documents but the main focus of the IDE is to work with java. The website has many resources that can quickly get you up to speed to building different types of java applications. I am currently using eclipse IDE for php development but I have not tried building any java applications on it so I can not tell you how good it is for that. eclipse supports many languages compared to netbeans. I would suggest you try both and see which one is easier and more better.

Not bad. I think the horse's outline and the background seems a bit too solid. It looks like the horse has been crop and put there if you know what I mean. If you can somehow blend the horse into the background a bit more and make it look more natural the over picture would look much better in my opinion.

That menu with the gun fire hover sound effect is done in flash. The only way to remove it is to edit the flash file but I don't think you have the original fla. so there is not much you can do about it if you don't.

Do you have a link to a live version of the website so we can take a look? if no some source code may help.

In New Zealand for small to medium businesses I think MYOB http://cs01.myob.com/EXO/NZ/ is pretty popular. I have used it before for some of my earlier papers at university for some business related projects and it does seem to offer a vast list of features. We only just touched of some of them including things like automating certain common tasks. I do not know how good it is for larger businesses but I would imagine there would be more specialized systems out there that are more suited. as mentioned above the big names are Oracle and SAP

There is nothing weird about having more than one interest. The problem is it takes time and effort for one to be good at something unless you are lucky enough to be naturally talented in the thing you are doing. Only you can decide for your self what path you would like to pursue. This can be a long process of trying out things and then deciding on what you like best but over time you may even find that you like something else better so try and not limit your self to one particular area if you can.

GD is enabled. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ look under GD heading. I am also using automatic thumb nail generation for my site so its probably just some write permissions problem on your scripts or folder. what is the exact error you are getting?

objective C is basically C plus more functions built on top of it. You can use c functions as well and objective c functions. That is what a superset of c means.

It depends on what you intend to build I guess. I know objective C is used for programming on the OS X. You program OS X applications as well as iPhone applications on it. I have used objective c for a while but have no experience in C or C++ at all. They say Objective C is a superset of C meaning it has all the c functions plus its own.

I think there are only two options for this. 1. you write your own JavaScript function to gradually fade in the image by setting its opacity from 0-100 or you use and existing library such as jQuery and apply its .fadeIn method or other equivalent. If you need further help on which one you can request it but I cant say if I will be able to respond so maybe someone else may be able to help if I don't get around to it.