beyondbluetoo

Java script link

Java Script Link

posted by beyondbluetoo @ 11:49 AM 3 comments

Photoblogs

Good site for photobloggers

posted by beyondbluetoo @ 3:40 PM 5 comments

Uploading Images

It is now really easy to upload images to your blog from the creat post function which now allows you to select photos from your computer using the browse function. Great!

posted by beyondbluetoo @ 3:28 PM 1 comments

Xhtml and css templates

Having a bit of a look over the designwebsites blog I came across this interesting article on xhtml and css templates and figure it would be a good place for me to start next semester. If I can use these as starting points for new websites, (and understand the various options), then I should have at least a working knowledge of CSS and XHTML. I figure if you use the same templates, (and perhaps add to them) they would speed up the process of create a site rather than reinventing the wheel each time. As the author says he found himself going back to old work to work out what and how he had done things before, (know that concept), but found it way easier to start from scatch with his own templates.

posted by beyondbluetoo @ 3:03 PM 0 comments

kinda almost

Well, kinda almost got my accomadation website finished but after the talk by Russ Weakley I'll be interested to engage in a bit of deconstuction theropy and re jig my files so every thing, kinda almost, goes into my style sheets. Need to do a bit of work with parents and decendants and one day I'd like to finish my love affair with tables. Generally the quickest way is the best way for me so perhaps Michael can convince me that the css alternative is easier for laying out table type info? Managed to connect to my data base but could not run the query so be keen to see what is happening there on Monday.

posted by beyondbluetoo @ 12:51 PM 2 comments

php queries

Well, think I have got at least a bit of a handle on the database. The main concept being to run a query to either put infomation into , INSERT INTO, or to get information out of, SELECT, from the db. Yes, sounds confusing that a query is actually associated with placing information as a query is generally something you do to get information but when has computers or coding ever have to make sense. Checked out the delicious site in class and will definately get back to that one as a good place for research. I think the term is 'social bookmarking' which allows you bookmarkings ranked in terms of popularity within that, hum geeky, community. Nevertheless, some users are very active and have done all the hard work of finding great sites in line with their interest which inturn can give you a real shortcut into some quality links without trawling the net.

posted by beyondbluetoo @ 11:22 AM 0 comments

Well, managed to get most things done from last week. Investigated the online payment options and found it is simply too expensive to use a online credit card facility but have decided in the interim to do what most other accommodation providers use. Clients will book and send me their credit card details through a secure encrypted https connection and I will then process the transaction using the telephone. I am aiming for an automatic response to be generated using MySQL when clients make a booking. In regards to the image gallery I have not yet been able to decide whether to do this with flash or java script as b0th seem to have their pros and cons. I have started putting together a flash gallery but will also start coding one with java script and make the decision based on which I find more comfortable in using/creating and which satisfies my objectives best.

posted by beyondbluetoo @ 10:25 AM 1 comments

smarty temple broken

Finally found my way through the various smarty username and password mazes to find the php myadmin section. Hopefully be able to make some progress with this on Monday

posted by beyondbluetoo @ 8:38 PM 1 comments

Php my arrrrrrh

Managed to get on to my site admin dashboard with the username and password I use for FTP but need to supply another username and password to enter the php Myadmin area. ARRRRRHH. Emailed smarty so hope they get back to me soon. Tom

posted by beyondbluetoo @ 7:36 PM 0 comments

Php MyAdmin

No time to rest as it is straight into MySql. Just starting to learn about five step database waltz. Step 1. Connect to database server using function mysql_connect. Step 2. Select database using function mysql_select_db. Step 3. Run Sql query using the INSERT INTO command, (that is assuming you want to insert info. Or, perhaps, Step 4. Process results if you want to access the information in the db using the mysql_fetch_array function. Finally, close the connection to the db using the mysql_close function. Michael also talked about the processing of information. Basically from the browser a form is sent to the server where it begins processing it. If it picks up and PHP it sends it off to the PHP processor which will either process the php and return the information as HTML to the server or first send/ request information to/from the db before returning the information as HTML to the server which then sends that on to the client side browser. Only trouble with asking the db for information is that it could send far too much in one sitting and bog the server so we need to put in some 'while' conditions. More about that next week.

posted by beyondbluetoo @ 12:04 PM 0 comments