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How did you upload the files which currently are online on your website?

Wait, wait... "root folder" is a very relative term... let's avoid it for now...First, you have "a folder" that your web server program is in (usbwebserver.exe I assume?). That folder is completely irrelevant. Forget about it (for now at least).Then, you have "another folder" with files in it. The file "index.html" from this folder is what you see in your browser when you type "localhost" without anything else... All files you want to be visible to users need to be in THAT folder or subfolders of it.

"localhost" is not a folder, but if it helps you to think of it as one: The root folder of your web server is your localhost folder.All files you want to be visible by users go into that folder or subfolders of it.

Indeed you did not. And I'm saying this is exactly what the problem is. When I say "family", I mean literally "family" (as in "people that have common parents and/or share the same last name in documents"), not "family" in the sense of "people who trust each other" (which coincidently is the mafia definition of "family"). Every new business of every kind, online or otherwise, is a gamble - you put money in, take a certain risk, and may get money. It only becomes non gamble after the initial investment is payed off.In the case of web site making, you're asking people to sacrifice payed hours for non payed hours (equivalent of "put money in") that may or may not pay off at a higher value than their payed hours... that's gamble, pure and simple. I'm sorry, but there's no better word to describe it. The closest other word is "investment", and we all know this is just an economist's way of saying "gamble". Try to do an initial site first. Sure, it may not be with the highest corporate standards, but the point is that if you already have a business line, it's a lot easier to convince people to join in to improve it.

I think all of your examples (with the exception of 5) are missing a vital part - The team members earned money for doing their work independently of the product's final value. If you say "I'll pay you X to build Y", you're sending a very different message from your current one, which is "Build Y, and if Y works, you can earn X or maybe more". I'm sure you'll find members interested in the former, but the latter... no thanks.As for 5 - the team members for the site are a family (=> no payment or gamble; whatever the collective "you" does, it stays), and us moderators appeared on the scene long after the reputation (and profit channels for the owners) were established, so it's not like we contributed to the success.

http://w3schools.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=43472

It's (almost) impossible to make your site validate by yourself if you don't know what you're doing. When there is someone else (as in "a person") to tell you where the error is, and how to fix it, that's not a sign that you know what you're doing. At best, it's a sign you can follow step-by-step instructions.Instead of calling us prejudiced, prove our judgments* wrong! It's not like you aren't given the opportunity to do so. Quite the opposite - the ability to show your understanding is still here:Answer the earlier (3rd) question in this topic, and while we're at it... the post Ingolme linked to shows me giving you an example of an error that's not caused at the place the error message points you to. What is the real cause of the error (and what's the minimal change needed to make the reduced example validate)?Get comfortable answering questions, as we've had it with going in circles. And if you don't like that, there are other forums, where (if you go on like this) people will eventually ask you to do the same (or stop replying to you altogether... which treatment would you prefer?), and you'll again move on to a 3rd, and 4th forum, and so on, until you face it. Oh, and you can count on the fact that any questions I'll be putting out from now on will not be answerable with a copy&paste, thus ensuring that we can't even make the accusation of "copy&paste-ing without understanding".Last, but certainly not least: Get your priorities straight. Top priority for you right now should be ensuring yourself a stress free place where you won't be in haste, unlike your current one. Everything else can wait.* Not prejudices... The "pre" would imply that we haven't had any experience with you before making the call. Please make this distinction.

You may want to settle your hostel issues first.There's no way you can understand what you're doing in just a few days... even if you practice. I don't know of ANY person to have learned basic design/development in matters of days. This is not a matter of me judging your rate of learning: It's a general tendency for "newbies" to have a slow start of a month or more, and then learn "advanced" things faster and faster. This may sound counter intuitive at first (I mean "Aren't advanced things harder => take more time?"), but the more you know your stuff, the more this makes sense."But I've been here for a long time now... Doesn't that mean I could pull it off in a few days if I REALLY put my mind to it?" you may ask. No. The above tendency applies only to people who don't skip to the advanced stuff before they can prove to themselves that they understand the basics.So please, do us all a favor, and once you aren't in a hurry, take the time to understand things without moving further if you don't get them. Try to do things without assistance from us FIRST. Do it badly if you have to, but do it yourself, and make it (look like it is) working. This is not the first time I have told you that, but now I'm also adding that if you want us to help you with any advanced stuff, you'll have to prove you've gotten the basics somehow - either with the code you ask questions about (where you have a "typical" problem rather than a "getting started" or "missing a basic understanding of the subject" problem; This is how most forum members demonstrate their readiness - implicitly), or with a questionnaire as above (i.e. explicitly).Also, you'll have to get comfortable answering questions in general. It's part of the business (you do know the term "job interview", right?), and it's part of the nature of forums that you don't just ask questions, but answer as well.

1. Why?2. If you insist... specify that charset everywhere. Encode your files as "ANSI", use it as a header, meta, db collation, etc.The point is to specify the same thing everywhere, not to mix things. Also, if you use htmlspecialchars(), html_entity_decode() or another similar function, you should specify the charset parameter there to the charset of the input.

Pity? Who wants pity? I was talking about respect, not pity. Not so much respect for the people (we don't deserve that), but respect for their wasted time and energy. After all, your wasted time has also been a waste for everyone who ever tried to help you if you didn't come out with anything out of it.This is precisely what the goal of the questionnaire was - to ensure we haven't been wasting our time so far and/or prevent further time waste.Sure, not all replies were "stupid". But what counts is the knowledge you accumulated of all replies, and that appears to be next to none. Maybe it isn't... but it looks that way, and you keep being reluctant on demonstrating otherwise. Will you drop it with your pride issues already? I'm guessing a "goodbye" is what's next.

[sarcasm]Thank you for valuing the time of everyone who tried to help you.[/sarcasm]

OK. I was wrong. Thank you for the correction.(See? It's not that hard to accept being wrong. You should try this sometimes!) In all countries I know the education system of, one is required to go over all subjects up until, and including, high school. The final exams (if there are any) are by choice, but still - you go over all subjects, even if you won't take an exam of them - whether that's math, physics, chemistry, biology, etc.I ###### at chemistry, but even I have heard terms like "electrolysis" and "atom", although, despite having access to Wikipedia, I still have no idea how these work. Similarly, although I'm not really good at math (I can't recall any theorem by heart; I had to use Wikipedia to find the Pythagorean one), I can still recall the existense of terms like "The number PI", "The Pythagorean Theorem" and "Square root".I naively assumed you're like that. Don't pretend you're leaving because of this... we all know it's because of this.

Use UTF-8... everywhere... encoding, charset... if there's a way to alter it, alter it.This includes file encoding, HTTP header, meta element... if you have database, the connection charset, the db charset, and the table collation.Once you have, and explicitly indicate, UTF-8, all characters should be outputted correctly.

:lol:my lungs... the pain... gotta stop laughing:lol:

Read the topic again... it was the other way around: Others accused you, and I believed them, because I can read your answers for myself. It was just an analogy... everyone has studied this in high school math classes, and I naively assumed that you've finished high school => even if you weren't good at math, even if you don't know the theorem, you've at least heard of it. Apparently, I was wrong. See - it's these kinds of things we need to learn in order to help you. Now we know not to use high school math in analogies. Look, I'm counting it as a correct answer anyway. Whether it's copy&pasted or not... it's correct, and I won't force you to re-answer it. So where's the problem? The accusation itself? If I'm wrong and you understand the thing that was in your post, it doesn't matter what I think now. You do realize you're trying to avoid the replies that don't belong in this topic with other replies that don't belong in this topic, right?If you insist, I'll split the question/answer thing in its own topic, but that wouldn't really make a difference. Eduard, is this what you want? Because let me be brutally honest with you: This is exactly what we're about to do if you don't cooperate, and we hate doing that, because this is the very opposite thing of the nature of this forum.

There are no "new" conditions. The conditions were always- you try to answer 3 questions.- we say if they're wrong or right, and give you some corrections and hints if not.- you retry, taking our corrections and hints into account.And this cycle continues until all 3 questions are answered correctly.The first two questions are "OK", if we count a copy&paste answer as OK... which I do, despite the fact that was not the point (if you don't want to learn those these in an understandable language, that's your problem).But you never answered the 3rd question. You made a copy&paste asking if this is what I was asking: No. This is not what I was asking. And you're not going to find any place to copy&paste the answer from. The answer is implied by the thing you copy&pasted, combined with the question itself.Think of it like this: It's like I gave you a math problem that says something like 'Using the Pythagorean theorem, find "c" if "a" is "3" and "b" is 4.', and what you did is like to give me "a^2+b^2=c^2"... yes... that is the Pythagorean theorem, but you haven't actually solved the problem. You've simply found the means to solve it. I thought we established that it's my judgment that counts here, no? So where's the problem? And because it's hard, you're saying we should move onto the even harder stuff?!? Again, this is NOT like in (traditional) school, where things move onto the advanced stuff before the beginner stuff is decent.

But can you also login from localhost?Assuming "yes"... Try to fully disable the Windows Firewall (and/or any other AV/Firewall program you may have), just in case. Yeah, don't use that until you get the thing working without it.

Fine.For others who want to help you out with this: Go ahead.I certainly will not. Not before I see you use your brain for once, by making a simple logical connection (even if a flawed one), which in turn will require you to remove your fear of being shown wrong.You may want to watch this, and this.

In IE, have you tried the "click on the address bar & click Enter" trick I mentioned? Does it not work even then? Can I have a link to the web page please?

You answered two of the three initial ones... and it was clear the first two were copy&pasted. But I ignore this part, leaving you with just the 3rd question, and a new 4th question to help you answer the 3rd one.Public or no public computer, you are not going to finish your website before you understand what you're doing. Hasn't last year taught you at least that?

How about I do go ahead with my questions! In my own language (Bulgarian!?) - You don't understand me!Yeah... do you see the problem with this logic? The same problem you have from your point of view is the same problem I have from my point of view: We need a common language to understand each other. English serves as the base. If you want to use Dutch as your base, find yourself a Dutch speaking mentor.But the "technical terms" are also part of the common language (whether English, Dutch, Bulgarian or something else). No one is expecting you to know all terms, or be able to define them in the same way (verbatim) that we see them in references, manuals and tutorials (if you haven't noticed, we deliberately avoid repeating the references verbatim; in fact, many of us, myself included, can't). But we do expect you to have a basic idea of the basic terms and stuff, even if your notion is incomplete or flawed. That's what these questions are for - so that you can show us your flawed idea of these terms. This is supposed to answer which question, how? Elaborate further please (hint: I think you're answering a very different question than any question I asked; Remember, the answers to the last two questions are not written anywhere, but logically follow directly from what is written => they are not copy&paste-able)?

No. There simply is no way you can completely prevent a refresh. If users want to disrupt your results by refreshing, they can always do that from some place in the browser. Even in IE - a user can always just hit "Enter" while they're at the address bar, and cause a refresh that way. JavaScript doesn't have access to any events outside the page itself, so it can't stop that.The ONLY way you can keep your timer correct is by making your server issue the initial time when the page is first opened, and keep serving that start time until the test is over. That way, refresh or no refresh, the timer will be from a common point in time.

Yet you completely missed the point of the exercise, didn't you?The idea was to explain these things in your own terms, not just copy&paste answers. To use what you would call "understandable language". To allow us to use terms that you can actually understand into our future explanations.The reason I'm able to put things into "understandable language" is because I've looked past what the reference says, and into what it means. Once you understand the meaning, the words are irrelevant, as long as they match the meaning. The "technical terms" become just "guidelines" to step on when "expanding your horizon" (figuratively speaking). But when the meaning is as simple as the meaning of fundamental terms like "element" and "attribute", there are very few ways one can twist the words, yet we can't go on without those.If you actually understood the stuff you're copy&pasting, you wouldn't need our assistance. If you really understood the terms "element" and "attribute", phrases like "Place an 'action' attribute on your 'form' element" or "The 'select' element can only contain 'option' elements, and you have something that's not even an element there" should be crystal clear.Did you really expected me to say "Now that you've proven you can copy&paste, we can move on"?I didn't even need to check Wikipedia or anything else to know your answers are copy&paste-d. You always complain about us using "technical terms", yet the stuff you pasted is full of more of those than any one of us has ever used in a single post.Plus, the 3rd question (its second part in particular) was deliberately placed as an indicator for that. Its answer is not written anywhere, because it is implied by the thee points you copy&pasted.So,- Do you decide [the "id"], or can it only be something that HTML asks of you?If answering this seems difficult, here's another question to contrast it:- What can the value of the "method" attribute on the "form" element be? Do you decide it, or can it only be something that HTML asks of you?If you can answer either question, the answer to the other one should become apparent. Also feel free to try and answer the previous questions in your own terms.

Try to do the site... just don't publish it unless you're happy enough with it. You probably won't get it "perfect", but if you can at least get it to the point where you're thinking "I can probably return after a few years and redo this properly", you can publish that.If you insist on only publishing good stuff, the best thing to do is to make a site for yourself, and do it as perfectly as you want it... but this is somewhat harder, as you'll probably be your biggest critic, and would never actually do it (and I speak that part from first hand experience... that's the main reason I don't have a site).

Whatever... do the proving already!