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    Nested Unordered Lists

    in HTML/XHTML

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    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 :)

    Homesite 5.5

    in HTML/XHTML

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    Thanks, but I like the features with Homesite, auto complete etc. I tried Dreamweaver but it's bloated.I would describe expertise as intermediate and I design websites as a hobby. hence my using HS.Thank's for responding.

    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/

    Introduce Yourself

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    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.

    Making a forum template

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    Hello! lol i meant Template :) First off i'd like to say Hello to all! And to say what a great webpage this is!So to my question,i have a webpage made with the joomla! open source and a very nice template for it,i have also a forum using SMF Forum,i would like to use my page template and integrate it into my forum.What will i need to know/learn in order to achieve this?i have limited knowledge of CSSand HTML.  :( Can anyone give me a tip where to begin?My Webpageon the forum i just messed with the CSS a little but i want to make one that very closely resembles my site template!!Thanx,Mike

    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. :)

    Basic programming

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    Is it possible to insert a word document into a web page or do I have to turn it into a PDF file?

    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.

    ColdFusion in the Real World

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    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/

    picture running through a table

    in HTML/XHTML

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    first off i have a background that is covered up by a table that has no borders. the table has a white background  and i am wondering if there is a way to make the background run through the table (i dont have the tags for the table it was already there)

    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.

    Family Trees

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    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.

    how to create a text file in database

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    hello, i'm a new member in learning builting a website...i will like to ask how i can write a sql command that can store the text file and also save the text file in database....by, the way i also want to ask how do i save the text that i type in a textarea to the database?thanks a lot......

    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.

    questions continue

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    I have more complicated graphics software, so they make transparent images. I'm not sure if paint can do this. Here is what I know:1. Paint can't make transparent images.2. When you're saving the picture, replace the existing file extension with .pngHappy holidays!~Chocolate570

    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.

    Ruby on Rails

    in Suggestions

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    lol - I've actually already come to grips with the fact that Cold Fusion tutorials will not be introduced here.  It would require the CF engine to be installed on the server that this is hosted on.  So, until that happens, I'm SOL.  I imagine that would be the same reason RoR will not be offered here as well - its not installed on the server.  But, I hope to add some CF Tutorials that mirror the ones found here - I'll let you know when/if that happens.:)Here is something you might like! :)(check out the code snippet explorer - top navigation)

    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.

    append an .csv or xls file into DB

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    I have a Problem to append record taken from an table which was taken from online and its in .csv format. what have do is, the records to be appended in my local DB (the both tables has same fields)

    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.

    QUERY over 3 Tables

    in SQL

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    SOLVED:The "DISTINCT" keyword within the COUNT´s really did the trick!The statement...is now working!Thanks for the hints!Regards,Chris

    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. :)

    Ruby on Rails

    in Suggestions

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    IMO, there ought to be a Cold Fusion tutorial way before Ruby gets one!:)

    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.

    QUERY over 3 Tables

    in SQL

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    Thanks for your suggestion!In the Oracle-DB we use (it´s 8.1.7 I guess) the "JOIN" keyword is not available. The JOIN could be created with the "(+)" which in my case makes it a LEFT JOIN. So I think the lines containing "JOIN" are equivalent to the lines with "(+)" and so they are redundant.Hopefully there are any Oracle-Gurus around here?

    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.

    Site interactivity

    in General

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    Are ASP and PHP difficult to grasp? Which one of the two would you recommend personally?Thanks again.-R

    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

    QUERY over 3 Tables

    in SQL

    Posted

    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;

    Ruby on Rails

    in Suggestions

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    I am not a C++ programmer, and for good reason. I began learning C and conclude...although it may be a great and powerful language, it is very hard to understand, to me anyways.So saying that and concidering te comment that it looks a lot like C++, how can RoR claim that it is easier to write and understand, C++ is tough!And if it is just a beefed up C++, we can write our own code libraries and our on deposit() functions!

    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.
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