astralaaron

Hi there all,A few questions not sure how hard or easy they are for you guys. Or if you will understand it but I'll do my best.I have a site, and forums. However right now we are on invisionfree.com and Frankly I feel like we could use new forums. I would also like to encorperate a Members section of the site, so that when you log in after registering you then gain access to all content (Wallpapers, downloads Ect).I would like to have both of the 2 connected so that your one account is used for both the site and the forums. Any suggestions would be greatly apprechiated. As well keep in mind that I know nothing of CMS or what it even stands for. So if that is what this requires any links to a site which will teach me how to use CMS would also be great.Thanks Alot!!!

Google InfoUse a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.If you have ONLY a site full of fancy non-text stuff, then yes, it's true. But if (and you really ought to do this) you make your site available to users with and without the ability to view all the fancy stuff, then it shouldn't affect the site ranking much.If you make an interactive Flash page, then you should make a non-flash equivalent, too. If you want Google to rank you according to your site content, rather than the design of it.

Alt is what you'll see when you hover over the image. It stands for alternate text. Also, if the image doesn't load, it will show the ALT text in the area where the pitcure would go (At least in IE, not sure about FF). So if you hovered over that image, it would show a little box with the text "asdf pic" in it. Try hovering over the fast reply/add reply/new topic buttons on this forum. The text that comes up is the alt text.

from viewing other people's source on their pages, I have been noticing an alt code inside of img src tagsexample = < img src="adsf.jpg" alt="asdf pic">

does anyone know if there is any free webhosting around that allows php and databases to be installed?

Is it true that having flash on your websites confuses the google search engine and ranks you lower because of it?this guy I know hates flash because he says google does not know what to think of flash and because of that ranks you lower..I don't know if i believe this guy or not? any of you know about this?

Does anyone know the way to convert .swf files into jpeg/bmp files or have a link to the online converter/free program ? Thanks.

I think he means the difference between mSQL and MySQLI would like to know the diff also :-)

Anyone know where to find some good phpMyAdmin video tutorials ??free or for money - please let me know, thanksAstralAaron

floating divs are used in mainly coloumn layouts, where you have a left and a right coloumn, which are either in a fluid design and stretch the whole page width no matter what size browser. Or, (the way on my site - see siggie), they float to the left and the right inside an outer div, which is auto margined, so it all stays in the centre of the page.The other type of divs are to do with positioning, and you can choose between:absolute, relative, inherit and static. Although the first 2 are the most commonly used (that i'm aware of).Absoulte positioning is positioned from the top left corner of the browser. Relative is relative to whatever the div is inside, again top left corner.Hope that helps!

Can someone explain to me the difference between a div, and a floating div?and maybe post up a website that I can see the css code to make a floating div.thanks-AstralAaron

There are no "layer" tags in html. "layers" are a Dreamweaver thing. You affect overlays in (x)html using the z-index of a div, but it only works if the div's are "positioned". Floated div's or those not specifically positioned will not honour the z-index. Just a warning.http://www.felgall.com/cshow09.htm

In-line:

<a href="Url_here" title="title_here" style=" text-decoration: none; " }

Embedded in your style section:

<style type="text/css" >a:link { text-decoration: none; }</style><body><a href="Url_here" title="title_here" }

Same as Embedded in the css file, but drop the style tags.But normal behaviour in a Browser is to have Links underlined, so remove the underline at your own risk. clients like to know where to click.

how do I choose which div's layer on top of one another?thanks for any replies-AstralAaron

How can I make hyperlinks with out the underline?thanks to any replies-AstralAaron

You might want to add some information about the entire 'process' you went through to get this CMS to this stage. Sort of like a Blog about the process. That would make some good reading and turn the project into a 'tutorial' for others who might wish to duplicate the path you have been on.You might then be able to hand it in as a project for your school classes at some point? Just an idea I had.

I do not believe in better or worse, there just IS.good job with both.

Very good

Yes, the server does not need to be connected to any network for it to run PHP. I have a server at home that I use for development that is only accessible on the local network, or if you are developing on the same computer where you have the server installed, then you would access the server on that computer using either http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1/. The only downside with that is that people typically don't install mail servers on development machines, so the send mail functions wouldn't work until you moved the PHP to an online server.

as long as your ISP doesn't block port 80 you should be set to go, you will have to look into a dynamic ip service though unless you pay your ISP for a static ip address.

I have ran PHP/MySQL/Apache on a PIII 600 Mhz/256Mb RAM WinXP system with no problems.download it here http://httpd.apache.org/

Just wondering what you need to run an apache server? can you use a normal PC? or is it a special computer you need?I hear alot of people talking about using an apache server including a book I have about php and mySQL also where do you get the software / is it freeware ?looking forward to some info! thanks.

Hey astralaaron! Actually I have Flash MX only, and cant get 8 thats why I am sticking with it.

K... sorry... whatever.Well, I told you to learn CSS because you only mentioned knowing HTML and it's just not wise to move onto any S3L without knowing CSS first. CSS knowledge (in general) is never assumed in theese forums, as there are still people who extensively insist on using presentational attributes instead.

I prefer PHP over the other server-side languages because there is a larger community for it, there is a lot of help online and the official PHP site has better reference and documentation then I've seen with anything for ASP. One of the hallmarks of working with Microsoft technologies is that the reference and documentation is either so hard to find that it's essentially useless, or it's not there at all. PHP is much stronger with that. It's also free and open source and much more compatible then ASP is. The vast majority of open source web applications these days are written in PHP, so if you learn PHP then you can understand the code for the open source systems and modify it if necessary. MySQL is definately not terrible, it is one of the better database systems in general, and probably the best free database. You can spend several thousand dollars to get a licensed installation of SQL Server 2000 and still not be able to do everything you can do with MySQL. Access, on the other hand, is pretty useless for everything except instruction. Access is a decent tool to focus on databases and not worry about the interface too much, because Access has the form builder that helps you design the interface, but I would never use Access in any professional capacity, it's just not up to task. It's unstable and slow, but yeah, it's easy to learn. As far as "SQL" in general goes, it's an acronym for Structured Query Language and it's the language you use to communicate with the database. Nearly every relational database system uses SQL for data definition and data management, so if you learn SQL then you can use it with MySQL, SQL Server, Access, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc. The different database systems support different subsets of SQL commands, but they all support some form of SQL.