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Websites are always a work in progress ... that's just one reason the web design business is a good one to be in! Stefan

Hi, As some of you may know, I am a big advocate of web designers using Wordpress (or any other blog or CMS) as the basis for just about any web design project - it just saves a lot of time and provides all kinds of functionality: - built in search. - allows users to easily add pages and edit pages. - search engine friendly out of the box. - makes it really easy to update the entire site. Etc ... I was just wondering how many of you were using Wordpress (or any CMS) or planning on using it in the near future? Thanks, Stefan

Welcome to both of you! And just for the record, if you think we have a "Vast World Of Information" now ... wait to you see what's coming. Stefan

Sounds to me that you outputted the button images at a resolution higher than 72 pixels the inch. Remember that screen graphics should never be outputted at high pixel depth. ... Does that make sense? Stefan

Wow, that game seems really involved. I play a strategy game called MOO 1 ... made in 1993 (!) because it is turn based. I had to use DOSBox (a dos emulator) to run it because it is so old, that it won't even run on XP! Stef

Can you send us a screen shot? ... Though to be honest, we design for: - IE6 + - Firefox - Safari Stef

I'm glad you like it. There are also a few subtle changes to the functionality of the forum that should make it easier to work with: - the text editor window can be re-sized. - the recent posts at the top of the page. - the easier to see icons etc ... I find it is even affecting me!

That works too! It is important as a web designer/programmer to think outside the box (I hate using that expression!) where if say you are a PHP person, you may find using say ... Access, can solve the problem more easily for you. That kind of thinking found me using 8-9 languages over years as an active web developer - and I got the job done better and faster as a result.

Is this some sort of strategy game? Stef

It has been quieter but still say 30 posts a day ... last time I checked. But, I can guarantee that this place will soon be jumping again - we have a lot of upgrades/changes in the works. Stefan

Glad you solved it. Stefan

Why not just join the KillerSites University or pick up one of the tutorials on killerphp.com? It is MUCH cheaper and from what a lot of people have told me ... the videos are easy to learn with. All the testimonials we post are real and are only a small sample of the emails I've gotten: http://www.killertestimonials.com/ I've always been reluctant to push my own videos, but if you just take your time, you'll learn a lot more than you'd think. Stefan

No problem. I am actually working on a set of SEO video tutorials - if that is of any interest ...? They will be posted in the university

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Things should still be current. That said, the important thing about the video is to understand the process and structure that Paypal provides. ... Field changes should be a relatively easy thing to update. Stefan

Glad you like. But I can't take credit, Ben did all the heavy lifting ... I just said go. Anyway, the 2nd of many changes to bring killersites back to where it belongs. Stefan

Dreamweaver's support of PHP comes in two forms: Code editor - not bad. Point & Click PHP code generation called 'Server Behaviors' - not too good The code editor, with regards to using PHP, is OK. It color codes, has basic code completion and it has code snippets loaded into buttons (code block creation, session etc ...). The Server Behavior tools are designed to allow non-programmers to create basic PHP functionality: reading and writing to databases, set session, password protect pages with PHP etc... The problem is, that the code it generates is fragile ... easily broken and in the end, it really is just better to use it for rapid prototyping of simple PHP applications. ... I was a beta tester of Dreamweaver CS4 and I can tell you that even the Adobe developers are aware of the problem; I believe the idea was to do a complete rewrite of of the Server Behaviors for Dreamweaver CS5. In fact, I was writing a book for a major publisher last year on Dreamweaver CS4 and PHP (a lot on Server Behaviors), and I dropped it (after completing 4-5 chapters) because I could not stand to write about a technology I did not believe in. Beyond that, I think Dreamweaver and Expression Web are good products. Stefan

Technically, it is KillerSites Forums 3.0! But who's counting! Stefan

All we are using is greens and grays...? A lot of the colors actually stayed the same' date=' so I'm not sure what you're looking at.[/quote'] Oh, it changed again. Now it's grey and black. ...no wait...now it red and blue.......argh!...now it green and yellow... I think he's trying to pull our legs! Stefan

Hi, You should check out this thread on formatting emails sent with PHP.

Minor additions regarding the forum icons: - "active topic" icon is a paper/pencil. - A regular or old topic/post is a blank sheet of paper. - Sticky posts use a tack/pin icon. - Locked posts have a lock icon.

Hi, I would transform the XML data (offline) into an SQL dump or a simple comma delimited file. You want to strip out that extra XML because it's heavy. Once you have your more lighweight version of the data, then create a standard SQL table with it. In both PHP and ASP.net, there are several functions/classes that will do this for you. I'm not sure which one will do it for you but in PHP, you may want to look at: - Expat - simpleXML - XMLReader .... And there are others. Stefan

Alexa rankings are not at all accurate. For instance, I have a site that gets 1/2 the traffic of another site, and Alexa has it the other way around. Alexa ranks were based on the Alexa tool bar ... how many people still have that? To be fair, they have updated their data to some extent with other sources of information used in figuring out ranks ... but nonetheless, it probably still isn't a very good measure of a website's traffic. Stefan

Sounds to me like a setting the hosting service put into place. :/ Let us know the answer. PS: you don't need to obfuscate your URL ... you guys (moderators) earned that right. Stefan

Go with the first one as there is no point in having a tag wrapped around the image. The less markup (HTML) you can have in your pages the better.