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Sorry, mine is not in the public domain just yet, still just a project on my own computer. However if you ever want to see the code for somebody's site (mind you that does not include the Server Side Scripts), choose View in your broser and Source (Page Source in Firefox). This will show you some code. Do remember though that it will not include the SSI but the code generated by the SSI.

Visual Basic is not a complicated programming language, and it can be used for complicated things if needed. However, he is right in that it does not teach you the finer points of programming. If you are doing this to create programs for yourself and you don't care about truly learning programming, then this can be a good place to start. It just like its name implies is Basic, and can be done visually. I wouldn't say it is such an interesting programming language, but it does allow you to create cool programs the quickest out of almost any language, but to me that is where it ends, where as with other languages you continue to find mroe things you can do with them. I personally like C/C++. One suggestion though, if you decide to take on VB, try to learn VB.net. It has alot more capabilities than VB and will teach you things you can transfer over to other .net languages (C#, C++, ASP).

If you are referring to checking to make sure it at least could be an address, meaning it has the @ symbol and a .com/org/net, etc. at the end, then you could do that with Javascript first before they send it to you. Another popular method I have seen to validate e-mail addresses is to make the user enter the address twice and check that both entries are the same. Using these two methods with the e-mail send out mentioned above would help to greatly reduce your number of invalid addresses .

Great suggestion Prakash, but from what I can tell when I searched for it is that it is limited to SQL scripts such as T-SQL, PL/SQL, nad it looks like Oracle may allow it as well. But unfortunately, not MS SQL or MySQL.

Hmmm....maybe the solution would be either smarter more observant users, or at least a short help section...wait I am seeing that at the top now. I guess everybody can just forget I ever started this topic

Ahhh.....I knew there was a way to do it, I guess I just hadn't looked hard enough yet

I could do that, but I can't do it for everybody and actually if we really wanted to get picky, you do have the option of making the links colored by using the color tags. So you could link like that. But surely that could be done automatically since it is by far the preferred method I imagine of all those out there. And also, I am just tooooo lazy to do that for every one of the links I post.

Whatever color they want to make it is fine with me, as long as I can distinguish it from the rest of the text and still read it (meaning, no bright yellows).

This may already be allowed, but if so I haven't seen it. I would really like it if when somebody posted a reply to one of my messages that I would get an e-mail. Or maybe I would get one ofr new topics.Some methods I have seen, are the options to watch a thread (sends a e-mail to you regardless of whether the reply was to you or not). Digest e-mails where the e-mail contains all new posts for the day or so.I think this would make it much easier for people to be active because as of right now I have to go into each forum to see if anybody has responded to my various posts or to track different ones.

I have to second that one, maybe using the default blue that most links use.

I can't agree more. I knew basic HTML, but didn't know how to use a lot of it, or why I would like to learn CSS, Javascript, PHP, ASP, or SQL. But once I found a project to work on, I am finding new ways to learn it all. Now I recognize what I want to do, find the best tool to do it with (such as HTML, CSS, scripting language), and then I do a search to see how to accomplish the task. There are plenty of things that you will want to do to your site that some books just won't cover, or at least when they do, you won't remember them because it won't make much sense to you. Learning through a project will usually allow you to remember the material better as well.Good luck with everything, and getting a book is not a bad thing (great for reference actually) but practice makes perfect, not reading.

Check out the site thread below for a list of HTML editors, should help you get started at least:http://w3schools.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=525

Yeah, the WYSIWYG editors are cheating to some extent, but when you haven't touched HTML in a long time, it's a great way to see the HTML in action, and reacquainted with the syntax. Plus it is kind of one of those things, its sometimes easier to understand code when you can see how it is used. I personally think they are great for beginners if they actually take the time to understand what the editor is doing.

If you want to have a large web-based e-mail service, then yes you need a lot of start up capital, lots of planning, and then some. However, if you just want your own web-based e-mail for your own family, or your own company or something you can purchase that through most website hosting companies.

You can always try MySQL, they just added the ability to do views in version 5.0Here is their reference to it: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/create-view.html

For the image tiling, I assume you are talking about the background image and if so then you can't adjust the size of the image based on %'s. Your best bet would be to create a javascript that would detect the screen resolution (See Here) and then having a pre-created properly sized background image for the varying screen resolutions you want to work with.For the photo's I guess you mean, how do you create it so that when you click on the thumbnail you get the full size picture...if so, then you can actually just link to the picture itself so that when the user clicks on it, they link to the file of the picture. Now if you do that you don't get a back button or any of your other settings, it literally is just a picture, but they can still use the back arrow (browser button) to go back to your site, and this won't require much work to pull off.

If you post your questions on the forums here, people are generally pretty quick to get back to you. Also, the more detailed information you give regarding your question, the better the answers will be.

I am not sure I exactly understand your question, but I guess my first question for you is why don't you just create one table/database for the two to access, at least as far as this information is concerned?And I don't know if this works on MySQL or if it will even help answer your question but but you can access/join tables from different databases, in MS SQL you can do it by listing out the full address for the table. For example:select * from database1.dbo.table1where [insert where statements here]

If the e-mail is the primary key, then how are you recognizing the duplicates? (name, company, etc.). With that information, you could do some different things. But it depends on what the inputs are and how you recognize the duplicates.I think ultimately your best bet would be to come up with better ways to encourage users to update their old usernames/e-mails. I know personally that I don't ever really see that as an option when I need a new username, I create one, I don't edit my old one. So maybe including some information when they are registering an account might work well to inform them of this and prevent some from doing it.Finally, as far as cleaning out the duplicates, do you keep a time stamp of when records were added? if so, you could pull duplicates and delete the oldest one. But are you sure you won't be deleting any records that are actually used? Do you by any chance keep a time stamp of when they last logged in using that User ID? If you do, you might actually be able to just create a policy stating all accounts not used within the last xx days will be deleted...just a thought.Well, let us know some more information and lets see what we can come up with.

For starters:Name: NvuPrice: FreePlatform: Windows and Linux (at least that I know of)Site: www.nvu.comDescription: A WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get editor. It makes it very easy to create a very basic website without much knowledge of any HTML. However, it does create some ugly code at times and encourages inefficient HTML. Overall though I would say it is great for a beginner who is just wanting to get something started without worrying too much about the code at the time.

I thought this would be a good topic, especially for those new (including myself) and even those who have been doing this a while, so that all could see what good HTML editors are out there.I figure, if everybody listed off the following it would be very helpful:NamePricePlatform it is hosted on (e.g. Windows, Linux, Mac, all of above)DescriptionThis is based on a topic where I saw a fellow member using Wordpad to write HTML, I thought it would have been very useful to point them to a topic where they could find the one that fit them best.So have fun everybody, I am looking forward to seeing what all is out there.

Wow!! Didn't know this group was so international. That is very cool.

Do not use Wordpad for creating your html files. It appears to be adding a bunch of extra formatting tags. For now use Notepad. You may also want to look into getting an HTML Editor, there are many free versions out there, just depends on what you are looking for. But for now definitely use notepad instead of Wordpad.

How familiar are you with SQL? If you feel fairly confident with your skills you might venture into T-SQL and using T-SQL you can create a script that could do this.Also, are you at least inserting all of your BookTitles as mixed case now, or are you continueing to insert them all as upper-case?

a and b are just names for the tables. In SQL you can rename tables so that they are shorter and easier to use elsewhere in the query.So without the a and b the query would have been:SELECT count(table1.id) FROM table1 RIGHT JOIN table2ON table1.id = table2.eidWHERE table1.id = NULL;So to rename the tables, you just type the current name, a space, then the new name. Then you can use the new name(s) throughout the rest of the query. This is especially helpful when you are working with joins on tables in different databases.