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I once made the mistake of saving images in the database when starting off. All was fine and dandy until one day we changed servers and I could no longer get images to show properly. Something with the charsets I guess messed it up. Anyways, I've found that loading from the filesystem instead of pulling from the database will be quicker once you start getting more and more rows into your database. The scalability just isn't there for throwing large blobs of data intoyour DB.

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I'd definitely suggest breaking that out into multiple tutorials [*]What is CSS and why should I use it? (1-4) [*]The basics of CSS (5- [*]A real world example (9-end)

Yeah, I think it also was at the top - we'll get it back up there too

It should be at the bottom left corner of the topic. We're working on making it stand out a bit more too. However, if you still can't see it, can you tell us which boards you can't see it on?

I just wrote an article that goes into a bit more depth on creating emails. You can find it over here

I frequently create marketing emails, so I can give a few more tips: Keep the design simple, trust me, it'll make your life easier later down the road Use tables (ugh, I know) and inline CSS Don't bother with things like p, h1, h2, etc tags in the table. It'll just complicate your life more and adds no value to the code Don't bother with paddings / margins. You should use spacer images instead (again, ugh) For hotmail & images you'll notice there are probably some spacing issues (extra padding above and below the image). You can easily fix it by doing the following on all images: Before... <td><img src="http://mysite.com/images/logo.jpg" width="100" height="50" alt=""></td> After... <td style="line-height:0;"><img src="http://mysite.com/images/logo.jpg" width="100" height="50" alt="" style="display:block;"></td> Be sure to place height/width attributes on images Do not place height/width attributes on td/tr/tables.. Use inline css height/width. http://premailer.dialect.ca/ is an AMAZING tool. Use it! I can't believe I'm actually referring someone here, but: http://litmus.com is a good tool to use to preview across different email clients. It's a bit pricey if you're a solo developer ($50/month), and to be honest the service isn't terribly reliable - it provides the proper screenshots, but the access to the different email clients is very unstable IMO. If you have any specific questions, or need more tips for certain clients let me know!

It really depends on what your site is (looks like a search engine) and how much traffic you already have going to it. IMO though, you should stick with one of them (probably geedo) and have gedoo redirect to geedo.

I suggest a few add-ons that will really help with development: http://getfirebug.com/ http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ (has a disable cache option, which I almost always have turned on) Both are awesome and can really help when working on websites.

If it is password protected, then it should be fine to leave it... but it's ultimately up to you on how you want to get emails

cssfreakie is indeed correct Agree with the top nav, seems off whenever things move like that. In Chrome 11 the FB like widget is off place on the homepage (see screenshot) [attachment deleted by admin]

+1 If you feel comfortable with PHP (even slightly) I'd suggest using a contact form instead of the mailto: link at the bottom for contacting the webmaster. If you add spam prevention (e.g. captcha/question&answer) it'll really help cut down on spam, because right now your email address is out there in the open.

http://www.phpclasses.org/ is probably the most known...

Go to your local bookstore or library and read/skim it there. Everyone is going to have a different take on a book and the only way to know if you'll like it is to actually read it.

I'm running the tm2t with upgraded graphics (separate chip), without an overheating problems. Even when charging the battery, and running intensive applications (e.g. adobe cs5 suite apps) it's fine as long as the vent isn't blocked. I've seen that happen quite often in older laptops, and ended up just getting the screen replaced.

Since you ripped up cssfreakie pretty bad for just trying to help, I'll step in here. First of all, I'd be happy to show you my work that is 100% W3C compliant (even 509 accessible for a major player in the health care industry), however I'm legally not allowed to do so. I signed a NDA, in which I completely respect where cssfreakie is coming from on not telling you sites based off of privacy issues. Hell, even the Validator is compliant When your page is validated & compliant, trust me, it makes designing & coding it a lot easier because you don't have nearly as many cross-browser issues. Sure, most pre-made softwares might not validate (like this site), but that doesn't mean your page shouldn't. After all, it is to make your life easier and to provide a better experience for your user. Let's start with the design and work from there. You want me to be honest, here you go. The design is a mix of 1990's and the web 2.0 feel... which is ironic for the given "company". I'd suggest losing the background and find something a little more elegant. Same thing with your buttons... why not practice some CSS and style your buttons nicely instead of using crude images? For example the "lost password" button doesn't really say what it is. For all I know it could be "what is a password?" article. I guess we'll see what the new header comes to be, but a "website under construction" image always reminds me of the good times at Geocities Try using an external CSS file instead of inline styling, it'll probably help with reducing the amount of times you have to copy/paste or rewrite parts. You could even use a CSS framework if you so desired. But, as cssfreakie said... you need to get away from tables. It might be frustrating at first but in the long run it's better you've learned it. Remember - tables are for tabular data, not for design. Now moving onto functionality... do you have a test login account for us to use? Most people won't want to register an account and would prefer to test with a test account. Also, when you visit pages logged out that you should be logged in... like this one or that one, you'll get a simple text "Please login or register before posting a new topic>", but there is no design! Where did it go?! The thread view isn't terrible, although I'd like to see the Author's first post the same layout as the rest (the name/title in the box)... but it can still be a different color. Also why is the forum a different color scheme than the main site? I do like the idea of having a changelog on a website... although I think in this case it isn't too necessary. A to-do list like that should be placed in a project tracking system, or some sort of issue/to-do list manager.

Screenshot or it didn't happen!

Is that your sword are you just excited to see me?

The JSLINQ looks interesting... I might have to try that sometime.

Now.

Only 98%? Pfftt..

WOO Thank you PHP Freaks for adding an auto-solve button! It has solved many of my problems that I came across today!

HP isn't bad. I have one of their tablets, so far a year or so in and not a single problem. Dell's have always broken for me and everyone I knew. :/

Yeah, do NOT get a Dell. End of story.

TinyMCE is a JS WYSIWYG text editor. I've heard it's pretty secure from XSS attacks (of course without good server side it doesnt matter), and never had any problems with it myself. Do you have a lot of hits to 404 pages like that?