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First off all, Nicely done BoGFx. Simple, yet quite effective, just one thing that I would change maybe is the light line (the one that runs from top to bottom underneath link 2 & 3), or the font color, so it's a bit better on the eyes. Secondly, to ALL of you here, relax and calm down a bit! Keep yourself to the OP and if you want to reply use your mind and take your time to post. Anyone crossing the line can get a warming or have their posts deleted.   @KDawg08: if you think or even believe it looks remotely like you, then 75% of the internet websites look like your template that only exists like 2 years whereas others are 10 years old and look like that too... I mean yours looks like hattricks design, but you just switched login with the links... and those are already around for quite a bit longer, Oops! So stop saying it "is close to a knock off", it simply isn't. Open your eyes and use your mind.

Probably some nasty sponsoring going on there :P And yay thanks, mdshare!

That's what you said as your first sentence, and you nowhere (other posts included) specified "noobs". And even if they are, you shouldn't provided them with incorrect things. And it isn't useful to noobs either, they need to know where they can copy and paste it in, .. generally seen, they are nothing with this either. Noobs or not, no reason to blame it on them... If it were more experienced people, you would have done it differently? ... Weird! Also, I've yet to see a good tutorial that does not go into detail. I always assumed it was the point of a tutorial, to slowly explain and in detail how things work. And I also thought tutorials were written for people that don't understand the whole process in the first place, so they can try to understand and learn how to. PS: Step 1 is also incorrect, you need to find the correct place in the html page, a css file is a css file and no html can be placed there.

First of all, this isn't a tutorial, you just supplied to source code with some extra text, and honestly not an very usefull one either. below I have added a more suitable source code for a tutorial but ONLY the form , or later usage, but keep in mind that this is just an example as well as to what could be used What changed: - removed onsubmit="return saveme();" as this does not belong to a standard login form, also this asks more as this is actually a call to another function - used attribute="value" as html *should* be used (this is an opinion, it can be used differently without problems, but this way is more valuable I find) - you didn't close any tag - which sould be done - remove the values of the inputs, you could use those, but shouldn't be done either, certainly not in a "basic" tutorial "better source code" to start with <form action="authenticate.php" method="post" name="login"> Username: <input type="text" name="username" /> Password: <input type="password" name="password" /'> </form>   again, as you can see, on the 3 lines he posted, I changed a lot of things (it just looks like a copy and paste to me). Remember that this doesn't do anything then produce the html form on a webpage. no processing of any kind of data is done. Please think before posting, as honestly this isn't worth one. Make a proper tutorial but with a quick copy and paste, no one will have a use with such things.

I find it a bit weird you would let it ship to you, it takes so long. I would have just burnt it myself :p way faster and easier, and a cd doesn't cost much. If you use the latest version of ubuntu, you shouldn't have much compatibility issues anymore. Most of the rather new harder works fine on ubuntu without having to search for a load of fixes (ubuntu 9.10 works fine on my laptop). If you happen to run into troubles with hardware issues, there is more as enough documentation online to be able to fix the issue. Ubuntu is widely spread in many communities, thus it has many problems reported, and a lot of them have been fixed as well. And I can also tell you that I still have to have a crash with ubuntu, I also hope that it won't happen too soon :p. I did have a hardware compatibility issue with a nVidia GFX card. I had to use a "restrictred" driver, but it still worked fine. However, ubuntu isn't that fast, it's quite stable but ubuntu with gnome aren't that fast. using Xcfe as window manager might speed it up already, but I think win7 might be quicker on the interface... I don't have any data to compare though, it just feels that way.   Also, I can tell that this isn't really true. If you search well enough you can find 5 applications that do exact the same thing is it would do on windows, except for a few, but even those will have a close opponent. Getting used to it will probably the largest change.

Following up the development now, apart from it being easy to stay up to date with the svn, I must say, I'm impressed! I actually hope to be contributing to this at one point, not sure when though :( Totally different approach structure wise but not always as easy to follow what is what exactly. One of the things that confuses a bit me is the following: basedir/work <-- a file with installed modules basedir/modules/locations/work <-- the actual work in the gameplay I'm not sure whether this is done for a certain purpose, but maybe a rename could be done, to get rid of any possible confusion?

Linux! :P still vulnerable, but way less then the windows machines On windows machines I use: Common sense + Firefox + Bullguar/ Nod32 SS--> never had troubles yet after 3 years, nod32 really has my preference, soo customizable for your whole network and yet it has a very light resource usage.

Welcome back old fart, you better stay a bit longer now.

vmware player should still be free. Also if you read the text, they described a part that included running this virtually, even everything explained with virtualbox, a free virtual environment like vmware.

No this is just basic usage of html & css, it's just part of the whole forum package.

For the guestbook, you could use mcc's authentication system, but it's way to much for what you actually need. You are better of writing your own (if you're already that far), these things don't ask *that* much. However, as A_bretrand has already mentioned, you are probably better of searching for a simple guestbook script online. There are literally 1000s of those online. But then you enter again into the "issues" you might meet, in the other topic I explained (PHP Mod advice) . As for the navigation on this site, it's all part of burning board software, which you can configure then do your needs, and eventually edit a little bit here and there.

I'm sorry for only answering half to your question, as I will not provide any links to any website. I hope this answer has any value to you as I feel I'm somewhat answering beside the question, but I thought it was better as nothing. If you want more info on this matter, let me know I can dig in a lot deeper and wider. Almost every single website online, use html/css, except the few that only use flash. Any content presented towards a person, without html/css is just a white background with long boring text in it. You could open an empty text file, put in 1000s of words, and see what you have that's a website without html/css. Everything you see from colors, to positioning of elements, like text boxes, like urls, ... they all use html & css (these two are being processed by your browser to give it the nice looking effects). You just need it to make your website pretty. Languages like php, asp(x) ... only give you the possibility to use dynamic content, not how it looks. Look at this forum, it's all html css, until you want to make a post a click submit, that's where the php kicks in, a listing done of topics available --> php is the listing itself, how it looks is done via html/css. But the colors, the position of the icons, and all, it's all html and css. You can do a lot with html and css, but it's all static. website with no html/css => long boring text file with no markup website with html/css => see it as a well structure document

few people may have learned their php via MCC and mods, but to be honest, this surely is NOT the best way to learn a scripting language. While this is a possibility, there are a lot better ways out. If you decide to learn php from scripts, you get a whole bunch of code supplied, and no explanations or anything, you just have to figure out yourself what part does what exactly. Sure this is still possible, but as you can imagine yourself, not ideal. Also, you have to keep in mind that every written script is being written by a certain person that uses a certain coding style. Many things in programming languages, yet the way you want to do something are far from the same overall. Yes, even tutorials may give you troubles with coding style related issues, but since you're going step by step, you'll actually have no problems understand what has changed, and what is new. Not all (read: hardly any) tutorials you'll see will be complete, there is a lot to discover, that's why we have a manual for more details into depth. Also, do not be afraid to try out some code you've written! Trial and error, is an important lesson in your learning process! You learn more from diagnosing your mistakes and fixing these, then writing code that works from the first time, odd but it does. If you can not understand something, search the internet for solutions, if you're still getting nowhere, or are fairly sure nothing is helping, make a post on these forums, describing well what your problem is, and where it arises. People will help you (it just depends on your attitude and what you supply). Don't forget the importance of the editor you're using. All you actually need is syntax highlighting, some also prefer live, on the fly, syntax checking. All you actually need is a simple editor like notepad++ (not notepad itself as it doesn't have syntax highlighting).   What I would advise you is to use a couple of sites and follow some PHP tutorials, they explain step by step some of the basic functionality. Knowing syntax is one thing, understanding the concepts and how a language is being used is a second thing, using it yourself in an empty file is a completely different one! You can go quite quickly through these and actually understand quite well, what is happening. Don't be afraid to use google, it's a search engine that helps you find stuff on the web, don't google for code snippets but for tutorials. Also have one windows opened on php.net! Why? to quickly look up in the manual what the function does, together with an explanation of a tutorial writer. It actually gives you a very good detailed answer on those matters. 4 sites that can actually help a lot, and give you a quite good basis. http://www.tizag.com/phpT/ http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_intro.asp http://www.php.net http://www.google.com

seanybobs code works fine, he didn't forget a " { ", it's just another way of using if's.   @OP html/css/js files can be viewed locally without installing additional software, however if you want to execute php files (or files with php code and later on with a database interaction probably) you do need extra software installed. To achieve this, many people install wampserver, xampp or additional software. Once this is done you can execute php files, and run queries on your computer.

And where do you get it from that your solution would be an option? Since this is asked in the PHP category and not the "usual mcc" we can't just think it's about something like that, the possibility probably doesn't even exist. @sim: either a mailspool or some program like other have suggested

Posting the lines where this error happens always helps. You've already posted the error description, but honestly, the more information we have, the better it is. The first querry error was "connection lost to mysql server", the second querry error was "syntax error". As you can see, both are different errors already. Please post all information regarding to the first query you are trying to use, but ONLY that, we don't need the whole file for inspection.

Does it work now? It's possible, but I kinda doubt it though. If it works, good for you though! :D let me know if you need more information on this topic.

The image you provide is not 3d, this is just 2d that somewhat looks like 3d, this picture has no real depth. But you'll need someone with image creation or manipulation skills.

I'm glad to here that everything is going well, maybe a bit too well, but it's sad to see anyone leaving. The best of luck shedh, it was nice having you around. Feel free to pop in once in a while ;)

hehe no worries, and yes they kinda do, then again, not much of a difference between the names either xD

eh, watch it :p both openkomodo / komodo edit and intelliJ are cross platform ;)

not long actually, I never really searched for any answers on it, I just tried and it worked. I just did it like this (|*|) thumb - pixel - thumb nails towards the inside so you could really put quite specific pressure. was it smart? probably not, could damage your screen too.

I once had that problem with an older model, a 15" AOC lcd monitor. I have sucessfully been able to restore the monitor and get rid of a red dead pixel by just applying pressure, maybe not the best method, but it worked fine. If you have recently bought it, I would see if you warranty doesn't cover it, if it does, maybe you can just send it back. Allthough, I think you need more as one dead pixel before they would take it back, but I'm not sure. You can always try?

Added fluxbox to the possibilities, I have heared of it before, but unsure of what it capabilities are exactly :P

Well, we're curious to what desktop environment you like the most on your linux/unix system, so I have added a little poll. If your choice would not be in here, please post it and/or PM me and i'll add it. I'm also aware that there are many more desktop environments then I have included in the poll, but I'm pretty sure that I have listed 3 major DE's. Votes can be changed afterwards! What one do you prefer? Would you advise it to others, and why? Discuss!