CyrusX

I think that FrontPage is more suitable for kiddy kiddies. Microsoft Corp. never ever will learn to respect its costumers. The same things is valid with Windows! Like they all want to code for illiterate people!I prefer DreamWeaver. Great software. It is designed both easy to use and flexible with a lot of help resources installed. Comparing FrontPage with DW is like to compare MS Movie Maker with Liquid Purple!

Thank you for your kind guidelines. Yes, the code with tables looks indeed messy! But as I described in my earlier posts - hiding somewhere in this major trap! - I use Qupis and to install a CMS by hand is a total torture there so I had no chance to test another possibility at all. Besides I am a newbie in web design and I appreciate everybody who teaches something to me!! With that out of the way, finally I could fix the tables using margins and cell paddings, even I could define opacity in my menues in both FF and IE, by manipulating the CSS main files. Thank you all for taking care of my question. Regards, Cyrus

Hi! We have a website for our chess club - V-FEC of FICS - and recently we have decided to add a cookbook to our website! As the webmaster, I am glad to share the latest recipes with you. The following recipe was written by shivaroxxx (Scott) of FICS for our club: Apricot Pineapple Jam Start with 3 cups puree fresh apricot, add 1/2 cup lemon juice, 12 20oz can crushed pineapple and a package of gelatin. Put on the stove on very close to high. Once it is boiling hard add 8 cups sugar and continue to stir. Once a full rolling boil is going again, continue to boil hard for 4 minutes. Let cool slightly and then skim off the foam. At this point, rack into pint jars using the hot jar canning method for 10 minutes under boiling water to insure a good seal on the jar. Cheers!

Hi,I recently added PmWiki to my website. It is a great software, both light-weight and useful with a lot of extensions. But a thorn is still in my side which is the attachments problem.When I upload photos in a page the attachment just shows up like a text link which points to the uploaded image without any image display.So I got stuck where I decided to make some profile pages for my club members.Anybody here knows what to do?I have a little experience with PmWiki but I suggest it to you if you do not want to be over killed by a system like what Wikipedia uses!Your help is appreciated.regards,Cyrus

Hi again!Recently I noticed that IE and FireFox display table layouts in different ways. It is a headache for web designer to add some compatibility for the issue. Currently I have some problems using tables in my website. For example FireFox adds 3-4 pixels to my table width where IE display is clean.I use some CSS mixed with HTML normal tables and want to customize my PmWiki theme to integrate it with the rest of my website.I appreciate any help.Thank you.

Hi,I'm running a website for our chess club. Recently we decided to add a feature for members to simply enter their tourney results there but I do not exactly know how to do it.The first problem is how to create form for people to enter their game results. I just have an idea that working with drop down menus is faster, esaier and more precise than typing the information.The second problem is how to make these results search-able?Let me tell you the final problem which is the worst of all that is I do not know how to build a member area. Because Qupis does not support Fantastico and manual installation of any CMS software is a waste of time I got paralyzed totally.The only feature which is running is a version of WordPress which allows a limited member area to post their blog items nothing more.Is there any simple, light-weight solution for me to have a member area in my site? (I don't like forums there just a simple "Members Area").I have to add that I tried manual installation of some PHP tutorials but they were not what I was looking for. I appreciate any help.Cyrus

Hi,Let me put it this way that the language you choose does not matter at all.Bahaii ( a Persian writer) once wrote 500 years ago:One who does not say a word and applies his will is a real man.One who first speaks about it and then applies his will is a semi-man.Well! Let's prove to those we love, that we love them not by words but by the deeds we do. By our look. By the way we greet them. By the way we kiss them. By the way we share our joy and depression with them. After that I can simply say to my fiance "dooset daram"

Hi, I do not know how long you did wait and did not see your site indexed in Google. But if you have waited 3 to 4 weeks and still nothing happened then you may check this little note out. Do you have any external links to your website - except here I mean ? You can go to your dashboard in Google Webmaster Tools and check if Google has detected any external links to your site and then follow the cause. Websites with more external links are supposed to be indexed faster.

Hi,I think this Cuil.com with that amount of fanfare around is not - at least for now - such a prize. I tried our chess club name in addition to the keywords chess, club, etc and the results were not that good.1- I first tried the club name itself. Unlike Google Cuil did not suggest a spelling correction - because the name is some kind of abbrv. - and showed unrelated results. 2- When I tried the club name + chess the results got funny. Everything was about "chess" and nowhere you could find they keyword "[clubname]"! If you try Google with the same keywords it will not show you a link to a Muddy Waters album ) Totally unrelated!The Cuil engineers say that because of the black background Cuil will nurse your monitor's pixels for free. OK! What is the use of good pixels when you cannot find a relationship between Muddy and a chess club named X after all?I think Cuil is a furs which will turn to tragedy soon.

Hi,I tried to install Google Chrome web browser on my Windows XP computer and faced the following error each time:"Access to this application is restricted."Well! I do not exactly know where this comes from but I guess that it is one of Google's racist issues.As I tried from my home country Iran, some Google services like Google Code are not available due to bans that the company has put on particular advanced services.Because the installer first comes from the sub-domain code.google.com I think that the same cause also applies here.The question is if it is the case why they accept Iranian companies' ads on their website and make money?Why they allow their advertisement services to be used by Iranian companies?Why Fire Fox, Safari, and IE 8 do not have any restrictions for Iranians and Chrome does?I hate to be paranoid but sometimes I feel that people at Google want to try our patience.

Hi,I'm wrestling with the same issue for some time. We want to import our XLS files if possible to a MYSQL database and make them search-able. By the way I had another question that someone here may know the answer and that is how to invert this XLS file into TXT format to import it to MYSQL anyway?Thank you for your help.

Hi,It was too technical for my little head but I tried to figure a way to create good passwords and remember them easily...Consider a verse of a song that you love, that you chant easily...Who can hold a fire in his hand and think to the frost Caucasus?OK!Now look at this: W!c@H#a$F%i^h&H*a(T)t!T@f#CPretty complex huh? You can memorize it by a simple pattern and there are many nice verses that you know that you can use.Just a little experience! Good luck with your password,CyrusX

Hi, Firstly you have to go to https://wordpress.org/ and download the latest stable version of wordpress available and then unzip the folder on your local disk and then upload the files to the server by some FTP client. (if you have Fantastico or other installer on your server just click on the wordpress and it will install the blog system for you.) In both cases you have to decide whether you want to install your blog at the root of your website or not. It means that do you want wordpress to be the main content provider of your website or not? If yes, then when anybody enters your site URL into his browser the first page he will see will be your wordpress blog front-page. After you uploaded the files and read the readme.txt file inside the zip folder then follow the instructions. If you used Fantastico or other installer then simply go to your administrator dashboard and begin writing new posts. If you do not use a Content Management System (CMS) like Joomla! the only problem with any blogging software out there is that the look and feel of the blog will be different from the main theme of the website anf you are not familiar with PHP and HTML then you have learn some or leave it on its own. If you are using a CMS then many extensions are available for you to integrate your blog with the rest of your site. An example would be MojoBlog, a blog component that integrates with your general theme and will be naturally a part of your website. I hope this little note will help you a bit. Regards, CyrusX

Hi,I think the first thing that you should be familiar with is the algorithm. What is an algorithm? How to write one? And more important: How to write a good one? There are many good books out there to help you develop your skills in writing good algorithms. Secondly, if you want to program in C++ and create some games with it I think that's the wrong way to begin.To write a simple 1982 game with C++ text code you have to write hundreds of lines of code and finally you have something that was of course an attractive game two decades ago!So, I suggest you to focus on algorithms instead of coding by now. You can study how to code in C or C++ smoothly beside that and you even can use some gaming software -many of them available in free trial mode - to visualize a copy of what you imagine for your games.This way you will be familiar with the grammar of C++, its philosophy, different platforms, gaming software and at the top you will become familiar with the core of every attractive game - and program - that is: algorithm.If I get you correctly that you want to create games then you must develop your creativity too by writing short action stories or at least some story lines. Be your own scriptwriter dear friend.At the end I have to mention that you must be familiar with essential basics of computer graphics too.And do not forget that most of the time programming in languages like C++, needs a team. You can split the code into smaller entities and then share them with your interested friends and proceed.Good luck!CyrusX

Hi shadowx, That's true my friend. Here on my browser it subtracts 19 minutes from my clock! And it is not only the shout box clock but the site clock at the right corner of footer is also showing the wrong time.