Perhaps a way to get the younger generations using HotDog would be to offer you all a second copy at a drastically reduced price (to give to the kids or grandchildren)?
This week I want you all to focus on a choice. Stay with the text version of the Sizzler (which I know a lot of you will) or move to the new cobranded HTML version that we are doing in conjunction with Lockergnome. If you want to swap go to:
http://www.sausage.com/sizzler/subscriptions.html
All you need to do is unsubscribe from the text issue and subscribe to the HTML version.
After this weeks issue the HTML version will be in synch with the text version.
Remember it is your choice. If you like the way things are now do nothing!
Keep on sizzling!
Nathan Allan
Sausage Sizzler Editor
editor@sausage.com
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We have covered most of the really basic stuff when it comes to creating a Web page. So we are almost ready to step up to the next level. However before we do step up let me cover one last very basic item, how to comment your code.
Now for a basic page you may not want or need to put in explanations of what you are doing with particular parts of your code, however as your pages get more complicated and intricate you will find it a lot easier if you do.
So this is how you comment your code:
<!-- Comment goes here -->
It is quite simple isn't it? You can even use it around your HTML code to comment out portions that you do not want visible on your Web site.
Commenting is really beneficial when you build a Web site then leave it for a few days, weeks or months and then you try to start working with it again. The comments will help refresh your memory on the code.
Tip by Nathan Allan
| Dynamic Tip - PHP - Database Interaction |
Up to now we've covered various ways to interact with a
site visitor, but we haven't discussed any way to save all
the information they're sending us. There are many options
for data storage, here we're going to cover MySQL
(http://www.mysql.org/). I'm going to assume you already
have MySQL setup,
and have at least a very basic understanding of SQL.
We're going to use one table in this example, the SQL to
create it is below.
CREATE TABLE contacts (
contactid INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
firstname VARCHAR(40),
lastname VARCHAR(40),
phone VARCHAR(14),
PRIMARY KEY (contactid)
);
Now we need to populate the table with a few records. You
can choose to write an entry form in PHP yourself, but I'm
going to provide a few SQL INSERT statements below.
INSERT INTO contacts (firstname, lastname, phone) VALUES
('Rich','Cavanaugh', '954.555.5555');
INSERT INTO contacts (firstname, lastname, phone) VALUES
('Bram','Scolnick', '954.555.5555');
INSERT INTO contacts (firstname, lastname, phone) VALUES
('Nathan', 'Allan','954.555.5555');
First, we need a very basic script to display the contacts
in the table. This first page will display a list
consisting of the first and last name with a link to see
the full record, which in this case is just the phone
number. I'll call the two scripts list.php and details.php.
list.php:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>PHP: MySQL</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD>
</TD>
<TD>
Name
</TD>
</TR>
<?php
// Looping through each of the rows returned a printing
the first and last
name along with
// a link to view the rest of the record
while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC) ) {
?>
<TR>
<TD>
<A href="details.php?id=<?php echo $row['contactid'];
?>">Details</A>
</TD>
<TD>
<?php echo $row['lastname'] . ', ' . $row['firstname'];
?>
</TD>
</TR>
<?php
}
?>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
details.php:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
Transitional//EN">
<HEAD>
PHP: MySQL
</HEAD>
<?php
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD>
Name
</TD>
<TD>
<?php echo $row['lastname'] . ', ' . $row['firstname'];
?>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>
Phone
</TD>
<TD>
<?php echo $row['phone']; ?>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
That's it. In only a few lines of basic php code you're
interacting with an SQL server. Entering data from a form
is just as basic as well, just be sure to use addslashes()
on any data before adding it to the INSERT statement. If
you have any questions or comments, please post them to the
Sizzler Forum.
Tip by Rich Cavanaugh
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| Book Review - Web Hosting |
Web Hosting: A Complete Strategy for Delivering High-quality Web Hosting Services
By Carl Burnham
Internet/Web - 415 pages
Beginning with the current state of the Web hosting market and eventually progressing through a very thorough list of considerations that need to be made when establishing a Web hosting business, this book does an exceptional job of spelling out the kinds of details you need to take into account, whether you plan on hosting Web sites for profit, or you merely plan on hosting your own site. For those readers interested in offering for profit hosting services, a nice chunk of the book is dedicated to marketing strategies and customer service related considerations. Writer, Carl Burnham, does a great job of stimulating your thought process, to ensure that you've accounted for the types of services you intend to offer, what software you're willing to support, hardware infrastructure concerns, as well as network monitoring and optimization, to make certain that you are offering your customer the most bang for their buck. The final part of the book looks at expanding further into partnering with companies beginning to offer new services and application service providers, so that you are thinking through ways to optimize your resources to generate the most revenue possible. While much of this appears to be geared toward opening up your own hosting service, I consider this a great resource for people looking at doing their own hosting, because even if you are your only customer, the majority of the considerations presented in this volume still apply.
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Review by Jake
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| Sizzler Forum Spotlight - Community Service |
This week's spotlight focuses on something essential to our survival as a group - Community. I can see that the new forums are a hit as they're filling up fast and getting much use. To keep things well balanced, I'd like to direct your attention to the social area of the forums. "The Pub" as it's called, is full of many topics with a range of topics including baby pictures, site critiques and birthday announcements.
Building community is important. It gives us all a reason to come back and other reasons to recommend the forums. Have a look at all the great topics being discussed. See you there!
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Review by Bram Leland Scolnick
| Gear Grinder - Is the Internet Dead? |
Is the Internet dead? Alternatively, do you think like other cycles in life, the Internet will succeed and fail in stages? The industrial revolution didn't just take off. I don't think when the first PC was built some 20 years ago that consumers were dying to have the latest 20MHz CPU with 2MB of RAM (+/-). Over the past few years Internet 1.0, as I like to call it, has taken a lot of heat. Much of the blame falls on dot-coms that promise tons but delivered less than an ounce. It's also been given much praise for speeding up many functions in the business world.
In it's most basic form, the Internet is the backbone for a variety of modern conveniences such as communication and e-commerce. As a communications tool the Internet is likely to only get better. Nevertheless, what about how the Internet is going to pay for itself? What real value or benefit does it hold for generating revenue? After all, that's what makes the world go round, isn't it?
Is the Internet headed for the infamous IPO or "the next round of funding"? Even in the toughest of times, PayPal has been throwing around IPO. Other companies seem be betting their entire future on the .Net. As the world grows more and more dependant upon this mass communication and commerce tool, people and companies are working to find better and bigger ways to make the Internet work for them as a tool.
What's your feeling? Is the Internet dead or will Internet 2.0 yield better successes?
http://www.sizzlerforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=108
Discuss your experiences with Bram Leland Scolnick
| Designed For Browsing - Graphics Software |
Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady, PaintShopPro, PhotoImpact, Fireworks - Photo editors and Illustration tools - both have features and product assets of the others, but which do you use? And why? Do you edit photos in a photo editor and add some vector effects in the photo editor? Or do you save the modified image and import it into your vector / bitamp illustration tool?
I don't know about you, but I often find myself frustrated because many of my programs overlap in functions. Do you ever feel obligated to use your image editor for only image editing since your vector tool was made for creating vector objects? On the other hand, do use the vector properties of your image editor to just finish the job?
Two of my favorite programs are Paint Shop Pro and Fireworks. I own Photoshop and enjoy using it, but Paint Shop Pro is so much "lighter," opens faster, and offers almost all the same essentials. It has some decent web features but for any kind of web graphic, I use Fireworks. It offers great flexibility and incredible control over anything you can dream up.
Over the next few weeks, I'll be looking at these programs and more in greater detail. If you have any questions or comments, please send them my way.
Happy Designing!
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