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Kcarson

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  1. I am glad you were able to figure it out on your own. And even more glad that you presented the solution to us all and in a easy to understand manner, so hopefully more people will benefit.By the way, welcome to the boards
  2. See this thread:http://w3schools.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=760That should give you lots of different options. Although, if Homesite works for you right now, then I don't see any particular reason to get rid of it.For those that are interested, here is a link to the Homesite page:http://www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/
  3. Actually CSS would be of benefit to mobile users because it will keep the size of the file they have to download small, since the site won't contain all the formatting and styling tags.
  4. I guess it's about time I introduced myself, since I have been around on here for over 2 months :)Full name:Kelly CarsonAlternative name(s): N/ABirth date(dd/mm/yyyy): February 22, 1982Gender:MaleZodiacal sign: PiscesCountry of residance: USACity of residence: Dallas, TXSmoking/Drinking/Drugs: No/No/NoFavourite Music: I like most all kinds of music although I find myself mostly listening to Christian and talk radio latelyFavourite Movies: Star Wars (except Episode I & II), Matrix (all of them)Interest: Basketball, raquetball, and every other sport out there. I also like learning as much as possible on the computerPets: 1 DogAdditional comments: Degree is in Computer Engineering, and I am currently employed as a Project Manager. I am learning website design/development purely for fun (creating a few small websites for church and so forth) and also so that I can have a better understanding during some conversations at work.
  5. Yeah, I would say to compare the css files and make a few changes at a time to the forum css file until you get what you are looking for. First suggestion would be the colors, and fonts, and then work your way from there.Hope that helps.By the way, nice looking site.
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    Basic programming

    If the document is on the server hosting your site, you should be able to just point directly to it. For instance, yourwebsite.com/wordDoc.docWhere, the address will vary based on its location on the server.Now when people go here, they will have to click the browser's back button to return to the site that led them there as is this will not be an actual web page but rather the document itself, much like when you open a PDF on a website.Hope that helps.
  7. Heyyyyyyyyyyyyy....that is not fair.
  8. Ok...after wasting 15 minutes...I can't do it....I could only get to 317, but I did pass 310 4 times But I just couldn't get to 325....I kept giving the penguin too much lift and then he would crash in around the 200 mark....oh well...but its a fun game.
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    Sql 2005

    In addition to ASPNetGuy's link, you might want to check out this one, it details the differences between the different SQL 2005 versions:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists...005editions.aspHere is another column listing the best practices for SQL 2005:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists...stpractices.asp
  10. Skemcin, thought you and everybody else might find this interesting. The NSA (National Security Agency) uses ColdFusion for their current site To quote "The NSA uses software from San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe called ColdFusion to deliver its public Web pages."The actual article is actually about how the NSA used persistent cookies instead of session cookies, but the reference to ColdFusion was in there :)Here is the full article URL: http://www.roanoke.com/business/wb/wb/xp-46460Oh, and here is the NSA site, jsut to see what another example of what ColdFusion is capable of:http://www.nsa.gov/
  11. Can you give us a link to your site? It sounds like you are wanting the background of the table to be clear, but I am not sure if I am understanding you correctly or not. If that is the case though, I believe there is a way you can set the bgcolor to transparent.Finally, what do you mean "I don't have the tags for the table it was already there"? If you open up the source code for the site you should be able to see all the tags for the table.
  12. I think this might be one of those times you should create an image in Photoshop or whateer your preference is, with all the pictures and lines drawn onto one image and then use ImageMapping to allow users to link to other sites when clicking on a particular picture.Do a search on Google for Image Mapping HTML and you should get plenty of hits that will help you learn how to do this and ensure that it is the best for your situation.
  13. For starters, I don't think I would try saving a text file to a database, but rather the name of the text file, for instance text1.txt, then using a server-side language you could define what folder the files are in, look in teh database for the name and you are all set.As for how to save the text you type in a text area in the database, once again you will need a server-side scripting language (check out things such as ASP, PHP, ASP.net, ColdFusion (Skemcin.....I have already placed your plug ), etc).I hope that helps. If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask.
  14. There is free software that can do a lot of the same complicated things that Photoshop does. It is called GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) you can get it here....http://www.gimp.org/I believe most true graphic specialist/photographers, etc still use Photoshop, but GIMP can do just about everything the regular user would ever need to do, including make transparent images.
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    Ruby on Rails

    Yeah, definitely let me know when you get the CF Tutorials put together. After looking at the site, I can see why you like it so much, it is pretty straight forward and easy to read. I will probably still resort to ASP/PHP only because I prefer to view things in a programming language kind of way, rather than in HTML-ish tags, and also because a lot more jobs are available for those knowing ASP/PHP than for ColdFusion (at least in my job searches) but CF would be very interesting to play around with on the side I think.
  16. So you have a single record in a .csv file that you need to add to a table in a local DB and the table and csv file have the same columns (and same order?).Are you trying to create a process in a program so that this can be done multiple times or do you just want to do it once?Well, if only once, then you can do a regular insert statement and just copy the contents of the .csv file into the Values clause of the statement...something like this:INSERT INTO table (column names separated by commas)VALUES (contents of .csv file) If you are trying to create a program to do this multiple times, then you might want to move the contents of the .csv file into a string variable and include the string variable in your statement....although you will have to ask someone else how to do that....all I write are ad-hoc queries in SQL. I have not branched out to workign with SQL through other languages such as VB, ASP, PHP, etc.And if you are wanting to add more than one record at a time, then you will need to do it programmatically probably and just grab one row at a time into a string variable.Well, hope this helps you at least get started.
  17. Glad to help, and even more glad that you were able to figure it out yourself and enlighten us as to how you did it.
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    Ruby on Rails

    lol....you will not rest until a ColdFusion tutorial appears on the w3schools site will you? Well, I actually look forward to the day they include it only because after hearing you mention it so often, I keep getting more and more interested....well maybe soon enough they will add it.
  19. Hmm...didn't know that very interesting. I was wondering what the (+) was for. In that case, it looks like you may have just typoed the column names for your joins (see bold below):SELECT f.FORUM_ID, COUNT(t.forum_FK) AS topics, COUNT(p.post_id) AS postsFROM forum f, topic t, post pWHERE t.forum_FK (+) = f.forum_idAND p.topic_FK (+) = t.topic_idGROUP BY f.FORUM_ID;Hopefully, if aspnetguy's solution doesn't work, then maybe this will.
  20. Considering he has the name ASPNetGuy....what do you think? From other discussions on this board and reading some about both, they are not to difficult to grasp the basic ideas, now to get more complex, it might take some work, but then again all things in life do. Here is an article from about 2 years ago comparing ASP, PHP and gives a brief comment on JSP and Coldfusion (other server side langauges). http://www.pointafter.com/Archives/nl0203.htmTheir conclusion is to choose the one you feel most comfortable with or the one that you feel you have the best support for (meaning out of the people you contact for help, what do they use....then you have an instant source of help when you run into problems). As for me, I have just been reading the basics of both, but have not taken the plunge into either.ASP.Net is another option and the one preferred by ASPNetGuy I am sure, but he would be the best person to explain the reasons for using .Net
  21. See if this helps:http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=7600
  22. You need to join your tables based on the field you are joining on, try this out: SELECT f.FORUM_ID, COUNT(t.forum_id) AS topics, COUNT(p.post_id) AS postsFROM forum fJOIN topic t ON f.FORUM_ID = t.FORUM_FKJOIN post p ON t.TOPIC_FK = p.TOPIC_FKWHERE t.forum_id (+) = f.forum_id AND p.topic_id (+) = t.topic_id GROUP BY f.FORUM_ID;
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    Ruby on Rails

    Ruby on Rails is based on Ruby itself which is an up and coming scripting language much like Python. It is OS independent which makes it attractive to some developers, and is used quite a bit in Linux. It by no means is a language that will take over the market especially in web development, but it is a language which is becoming ever popular and growing. Ruby essentially tried to take the best features out of multiple languages including Python, Java, Ada, Eiffel, Smalltalk, and Perl among others.Here is more info for those interestedRuby's website: About Rubyhttp://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020101.htmlWikipedia: Rubyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_programming_languageAnd no w3schools should not create a tutorial for this language on its site, it is not intended to be a web development scripting language. It can be used as one I am sure, but that was not its purpose, so it should be left off of here.
  24. Do not try to view PHP in NVU, open it up in your browser and edit the file using a text editor. Also have you installed PHP on your machine.....if not then you might want to check out:http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/44/...?tw=programming
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