Hi,

I just released a few CPANEL video tutorials that are targeted at people who are new to this popular web hosting management software.

What is CPANEL?

CPANEL is a web based program (runs in a web browser) that hosting companies provide to clients so that clients can easily edit things about their web hosting account:

• Add and remove email addresses.
• Set up MySQL databases.
• Create secured directories using something called htaccess.
• Set up FTP accounts.

… And a lot more.

You can find the collection of videos here:

CPANEL videos

So far, this is what I have up:

- Setting up email with CPANEL
- Using File Manager in CPANEL
- Uploading web pages with CPANEL
- Setting up MySQL with CPANEL

If you have any suggestions regarding any other topics, let me know.

Stefan

www.killersites.com

Hi,

I just wanted to announce that I am now giving away a series of video lectures on Ajax – about 3 hrs worth.

The Videos:

Ajax Videos

These videos are not designed to be a tutorial, but rather, they are a lecture. None the less, these videos can help give you at least a basic understanding of what Ajax is all about.

Anyway, they are free, so what do you have to loose!

If you guys want a proper killersites style (simple, practical and to the point) video tutorial, please let me know.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com

Hi,

I’ve just released parts 5 and 6 of my video series of configuring Wordpress.

Again, more basic stuff designed to help get people up and running as quickly as possible.

The new videos:

- Configuring Wordpress Part 5
- Configuring Wordpress Part 6
- Configuring Wordpress Part 7
- Configuring Wordpress Part 8

Thanks for reading.

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com

A common question I get from people, is whether it makes sense to go to college to learn web design?

I’ve talked about the web design profession in other articles. Yet, as you will see in the following email I recently got, I haven’t dealt with all the issues regarding web design and education:

Hi Stefan,

Anyway, I am interested in web design. I am in the middle of trying to figure out whether I should go to my local community colleges for courses in HTML, photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc … or an actual art school for graphic art/ web design. Of course cost is a factor.

I am a mother of two, and my work schedule needs to be flexible. I am very creative and have a great eye for design.

My question is, which course of action you recommend? How much education is necessary? Is a degree necessary, if so, what type? associate, bachelors, certificate?

What are the salary potentials in web design working for yourself and for outside companies (I have research outside company positions advertising 40k – 50k, is that realistic?)

I’m not young, (a youthful 44) and I really need to do something in the form of a career for myself, other than taking care of everyone else.

Thank you so much for your time-

Sandy

(more…)

A while back a wrote a JavaScript script that automatically styled an HTML table. In a nutshell, the script automatically changes the background color of every 2nd row in an HTML table.

Anyway, someone recently sent me an updated version of the script. You will probably want to read the original article before looking at these changes.

From the email:

I did some simplification on the code for zebrastripes. I don’t bother with the last array bit because TR elements have the bgColor attribute.

trs[i].bgColor = ( i & 1 ) ? stripe_colour_even : stripe_colour_odd;

Greetings,

tarjei

The complete function:

function stripe_table(id_name) {

var my_table = document.getElementById(id_name);

/* For debugging */
if ( !my_table ) {
alert(”The ID ” + id_name + ” is not found.”);
return;
}

/* Table may have more than one tbody element */
var tbodies = my_table.getElementsByTagName(”tbody”);

for (var cnt = 0; cnt < tbodies.length; cnt++) {
var trs = tbodies[ cnt ].getElementsByTagName("tr");

/* Walk table row for row */
for (var i = 0; i < trs.length; i++) {
if (! hasClass(trs[i]) && ! trs[i].style.backgroundColor) {
trs[i].bgColor = ( i & 1 ) ? stripe_colour_even : stripe_colour_odd;
}
}
}
}
}

CIAO.

Stefan Mischook