[Helpers] Hello

Fri Apr 15 19:39:19 PDT 2005

Mystress said:
>    Flash, wooo.... there is much flash I would love! Once upon a day
> I started doing an anim about aspects of consciousness... never
> finished because it was too big for an anim and I'm not flash
> capable.

Flash animation was my favorite! I start working on Flash version 2.
I just start playing with softwear and by reading help file that comes
with it I created my own animation. By the time I start to going
school to learn more about computer web designing, I ws actually
teaching not only classmate but also my teacher how to use it.

It's been a while I last used flash fully, so I might forgot some
stuff,,,,,, but I am thinking about creating flash anime for my site
too, so maybe we can work on something that we both can use...

>>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.
>
>   Yeah, I can cut and paste a cgi or javascript but I don't really
> know how they work.

To me the computer language is just the English with math dialect.
It's not too hard to understand them as long as you know enough
englishand math....and some rules.

But, we don't need any difficult language for this site anyway.

>>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.
>
>   Yes please!

1. For the PhpMy chat program.
- Send me the file: config/config.lib.php3
This file has the setting on time to delete users and  chat logs.

- Give me the number to change to. ex. 30 minutes for user 24 hours
for chat log.

2. If you need me to do Backup of the data base, then give me the
link for phpMyAdmin or just give me the link for the Cpanel with
other necessary info.

I'm not on hurry, so whenever you have time is fine.

> I use photoshop5 for graphics, but I find paintshop pro has better
> compression, so I run them all through there to get web ready. I
> also use the image slicer and image mapping features of PSP.

I'm using Photoshop 6. Have yo try Photoshop Imageready that somes
with the photoshop software? You can use those two software
simultaniously.

Compare to Photoshop5 some of the tools are located differently in
Photoshop 6, but check to see if you have the button that allow you to
jump to Imageready, which probably located on the very bottom of
your tool menu.

If not, press Ctrl + Shift + M to open it. OR when you save the images
Save the original file as PSD format. This will be the file you will
be working on when ever you need to make changes. Open the original
and do the "Save for web" by choosing from the menu under file, or
press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S. This will open the save for web windows
there you can choose the image format and qualities.

>>Any software that you'll be using will add some extra tags here and
>>there compare with do it all by hand,
>
>  Arachnophilia won't.

When I said extra tag it means something like this.....

Example 1
<p> <font color="#CC0000"><b>This is RED text</b></font>
        <font color="#3300FF"><b>This is Blue text</b></font>
        <font color="#000000"><b>This is Black text</b></font> </p>

Example 2
<p><b><font color="#CC0000">This is RED text</font>
        <font color="#3300FF">This is Blue text</font>
        <font color="#000000">This is Black text</font></b></p>

These example 1 and 2 shows up on a page exactly the same.
Example1 is the type of the code that most software writes.
Example 1 has more tag than Example 2.

For the bigginer web desinger.....
Especially, when you are making changes to the page, you probably
want to check that you are not leaving any fragment of the tag.

Here is some tip for the tag....

is the break tag that break the line, so there is no closing tag.

is paragraph tag that it's NOT necessarily to be closed,
but for the bigginer web designer I recommend that you close it to
just get havit to it.

<a href=""></a> this is the link tag. You can write like this....
<a href=http://www.yourdomain.com/>My HP</a>
<a href="fst.html">go to FST</a>
<a href="../fst.html">go to FST</a>

This is for the email link.
<a href=mailto:sachiko at mydomainname.com>email me!</a>

>  It doesn't have one because I dunno which one to use! My webdesign
> is completely self taught.
------------------------- snap snap --------------------------------
>   Each year since I have learned some small skill, like basic cgi,
> or stylesheets, or fancier tables, forms, server side includes. I
> did try to discover my charset once and it just confused me, because
> it seems I am using several versions of html.

You know....It actually doen' matter much because FST site is in
English...

I have my site setup in English and Japanese, so I do set the charset
in certain Japanese encode. I need to match the encoding of the page
and data base. Other wise it looks like this ###%(#*$)(*$%*$)(*%).

But viewer can change their encode setting from the View menu
on top of the browser. It just that if you set the charset on the page
the when people come to your page from other charset page, it'll
automatically change the encoding setting.

But anyway this is the setting that I use for my English page.
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-0">

>   For the most part it doesn't matter, except... unix filenames are
> case sensitive, windows are not. My old biz partner used a windows
> server for the vids, mixed case for the filenames and I have been
> gradually converting them to all lower case... which is standard for
> unix.

That's right! I forgot about that. I'm so user to it and I name 
everhting
in lowercase with no space.

>  yup. Generally speaking, gif is for text images and jpg is for
> photos or art.

If you have Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Fireworks or some
kind of imaging software, it probably has the feature to let you see
the preview of the compression of the image, so that you can choose
the one you like.

Sachiko