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| Editorial January 13th, 2003 |
G'Day Sizzlers!
It has been interesting to see so many of you would like to be
able to get our software on a CD. It has been something we have
thought of doing for a long time, but logistically in the past we
have never been set up to handle such an undertaking. With the
demand shown for the Holiday Special, which included HotDog on a
CD shipped to you, I am definitely going to work out the
logistical problems and try and get all of our offerings on CD
sometime soon.
Something that started during the holidays and is being extended
until the end of March, is the competition to see who can build
the most spectacular Web site. You must use a HotDog editor to
build it, however it will be the design that will probably catch
our eye the most. Just send your entries to the Sizzler Editor.
Prizes are as follows:
- 1st Place - Platinum Dog Pack
- 2nd Place - Gold Dog Pack
- 3rd Place - Silver Dog Pack
Already we have a number of good entries, and few users asked for
an extension on the deadline, so I expect there will be some well
thought out sites entered.
Finally we are returning back to the content oriented Sizzler.
Like most companies we needed to make a buck over the holiday
season and did not have a lot of resources on hand to keep up all
the sections in the newsletter, so the Sizzler newsletter ended
up being a bit too a sales oriented. That ends with this issue.
Yes we will still have an advertisement or sponsor in each
edition but it will be outweighed by the useful tips, opinions
and reviews.
We have two new writers, Orion Johnson who is taking over the
Designed for Browsing section, and Kevin Hannan will be providing
us all with
HotDog and
general tips and tricks. Bram will be back
with the Gear Grinders section as soon as I release him from
solitary confinement.
As always remember we love your feedback and with it hope to
improve the Sizzler constantly. So feel free to send your
comments to me!
Keep on sizzling!
Nathan Allan
Sausage Sizzler Editor
editor@sausage.com
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Holiday Special - Extended due to popular demand! |
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For the first time ever, Sausage Software, in conjunction with
Crazy Ivan Productions (the authors of Boomer), are offering
HotDog Professional 6.6 on a CD. Here are the specifics of the
deals:
Deal One: Graphics Toolkit 2 - US$49.95
(over $150 in value)
- Delivered on CD
- Boomer 4.0
- Flash Image Builder 3.2
- Gif2Swf 2.5
- ImageLab 1.01
- HotDog Professional 6.6 (30 Day Trial version on the CD)
- CD includes multimedia tutorials for Boomer
- Coupon for 25% OFF any Sausage Hosting Package. Coupon good for first payment with Sausage Hosting whether it be for the annual fee or first month's monthly payment.
- All programs are downloadable and are shipped to you on CD for no extra cost.
Deal Two: HotDog Professional 6 and Graphics Toolkit 2 - US$99.95
(over $250 in value)
- Delivered on CD
- Boomer 4.0
- Flash Image Builder 3.2
- Gif2Swf 2.5
- ImageLab 1.01
- HotDog Professional 6.6 (registration details provided with purchase)
- CD includes multimedia tutorials for Boomer
- Coupon for 25% OFF any Sausage Hosting Package. Coupon good for first payment with Sausage Hosting whether it be for the annual fee or first month's monthly payment.
- All programs are downloadable and are shipped to you on CD for no extra cost.
For more details read the whole page at:
http://www.sausage.com/holidaydeal.php
To purchase go to:
https://secure.sausage.com/secretstore/holidayspecial.html
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Real Help from Real People
Every program has a help file but did you know HotDog helps web
designers by providing a seamless integration to Sizzler Forums
the webmasters community created by Sausage.
With over 1,000 members and 6,000 posts growing daily in:
- HTML
- CSS
- Scripts
- Server Side Languages
- XML, XHTML, XSTL
- PHP, MySQL
- Web Design
- Hosting & Domains
You're sure to find answers to your questions and inspiration to
complete your project!
For HotDog users Sizzler Forum's are just two easy steps away;
simply select:
Mouse - Keyboard
Help - (ALT-h)
HotDog Forums -(ALT-d)
(If you're not connected to the Internet at the time, a
connection will be made automatically.)
You don't need to be a HotDog user or a member to read the
Sizzler Forums. However to take full advantage of this resource
it will only take you a few seconds to sign up!
- Go to: http://www.sizzlerforums.com/
- Read the information and click on the REGISTER button
- Fill out the form
- You will receive an email that you simply reply to
- Hey presto! You're a fully fledged Sizzler Forums member!
Another Quick Tip: You can even select to receive notification
when someone responds to your post - and for your added
convenience the email contains a link to take you directly there.
Take a look now!
http://www.sizzlerforums.com/
HotDog Tip by Kevin Hannan
Mandarin Design
http://www.mandarindesign.com/
If you're an aspiring web designer like myself, or even a well
established designer in your prime, I just found a site that you
better add to your favorites. Mandarin Design, a non-profit
design group from California, has created a source of unlimited
information for us and even wrapped it in an attractive package.
The site features articles about other web sites, how to's, and
tons of interesting facts that you might not know yet. Take a
look in their gallery and feel free to use any of their
photographs or banners in your own work. This company is all
about open source and wants to share everything with the design
community. It's amazing!!
My favorite part of the site is their blog. It's basically a
huge grab bag of free tips and tricks. You can find tutorials,
cheats, techniques, utilities, and links to a ton of other useful
sites. Just copy and paste any code that you find useful, and
come back the next day because they'll probably add something
even cooler. Check it out Sizzlers. You won't regret it!
http://www.mandarindesign.com/
Site spidered by Orion Johnson
Auto Populating a HTML slide show
Sizzler Newbie "nclark" has a need for an easy way to make a
gallery on her web site from all of her images:
"I have multiple directories of pictures that I would like to
put in a thumbnail layout and then when one is clicked it brings
up a new window with arrows (I have seen it lots before) these
arrows will allow you to view the next and previous picture in the
directory. I know these people on these sites don't hard code that
entire thing it would be 20-30 unique HTML pages per directory.
Does anybody have any idea how this is done?"
See the solutions already suggested or post your own:
http://www.sizzlerforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1208
Sizzler Spotlight by Nathan Allan
(HTML) Removing Tags from Images
Sometimes you can see a little underscore-type mark next to an
image on a web page and, no matter what, you know you didn't put
it there! What happened? Here's how to create it:
<a href="www.sausage.com"> <img src="picture.gif"> </a>
The HTML code above creates a hyperlink (to Sausage Software's
website) so that when the picture file is clicked a browser
window will open and display the relevant web site. This code
will generate what is known as a ‘tick', which can be seen near
the picture.
The tick is the correct display for our code because we inserted
a space between the closing chevron of the <img src> tag and the
opening chevron of the close anchor tag </a>.
To get rid of the tick all we have to do is delete the spaces
between our HTML tags:
<a href="www.sausage.com"><img src="picture.gif"></a>
and the display we intended will be created!
Take a look at our Sizzler Forum's if you have any further image
or web-related queries. With over 1,000 members you're sure to
find what you're looking for! See for yourself at the
Sizzler Forums and while you're there why not have a go
creating your own multimedia extravaganza with Boomer as part of
our competition to win one of three fantastic prizes!
http://www.sizzlerforums.com/
Tip by Kevin Hannan
To read the Sizzler Forums you do not need to be a member.
However to take full advantage of this resource it will only take
you a few seconds to sign up!
- Go to: http://www.sizzlerforums.com/
- Read the information and click on the REGISTER button
- Fill out the form
- You will receive an email that you simply reply to
- Hey presto! Your a fully fledged Sizzler Forums member!
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