[Helpers] Hello

[Sachiko M]

Hello everyone! This is Sachiko.

I just realize the Mystress put the post on the Tea room about web
help.

I've talked with Mystress about my web skills, but I'm going to list
it up again.

I was once working as web designer... I did a lot of Flash animation
at that time, but I can of course work on regular html site.

I host two web site on my own in PHP with MySql data base.

I don't write PHP, Java script, CGI (except html )from scratch, but
I can understand them to the point where I can alter them.

Since I have my own stuff to work right now, I'll pass on the less
technical stuff.... But I can help with the stuff that PHP chat
setting (which is very easy to do) and backend stuff that we talked
about before.

It seems like most of us do not have web design experience at all or
little, so I maybe able to help helpers help Mystress.


Here you go!

I have read helpers achieve and so some question that I talked with
Mystress before, so I'll tell you what I remember.

Sandra said:
>One of the main questions would be what operating system do you
>use to do your updates? and what program do you use to
>edit your webpages?

I don't know what operating system Mystress use (I'm assuming it's
windows) and I forgot which software she said she is using to
edit....lol

The point is,,,,, it doesn't really matter which operating system you
or any of us use. It could be windows or Mac or any thing as long as
the file format and extension is the same.

For example, if the file that you are going to alter is called
"fst.html" then you will be editing with notepad or any other
web design software that is available to you. I use Macromedia
Dreamweaver.

I don't recommend using Microsoft front page. That software adds
bunch of sh*t tags on the page and very very messy. It is almost
better to use simple note pad and type everything by hand....

Any software that you'll be using will add some extra tags here and
there compare with do it all by hand, but if it's clean enough then
software save some time. If it 's too messy, then it's almost faster
to just create a new file than cleaning up the mess.

Almost every tag has to open and close. ex. <p>test</p>


Next things that you need to match is the encoding. below is the
this helpers list achieve encoding.
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">

This tag define the charactor and language of the page. If it's set,
then when the page is loaded, it will be shown in the language of the
charactor set.  You do NOT want to change the "charset" of the file.

I just checked the FST page, but it doesn't have meta tag for
charset... Which I recommend to set one all through the web site.


Sandra said:
>I'm currently using a computer with windows
>running on it, and it looks to me that you mainly use either Unix or
>a Linux flavor (but I could be wrong).

I remember that Mystress told me her server is Linux, but I don't
know what she use at home.... Which shouldn't really matter as far
as updating the site.....

Sandra said:
>I frankly do not know if the operating system has to be the same
>for all parties to update webpages.

It doesn't have to be the same. It just there is little difference
between Windows and Mac when it comes down to imaging.

When you are working with GIF image, there are only 216 colors out
of 246 colors are the same color in Windows and Mac. So, if you use
those 40 different colors, either platform will try to match the color
with whatever it has, which creates dithering.

I don't think it is the big issue here in FST web site since image is 
not
the first priority.

Sachiko