Favorite naija site? Hmmm, none at d moment. On d other hand, considering my most hang outs, I will say nairaland nd d mobile site i run http://mobile.ngbot.com

Did i miss any part? Where did d template talks hopped in?
@yawa
Are u saying slicing nd dicing is developement nd not design?

As stressed by Yawa, php is not capturing your form fields. In other words the POST array values ($_POST[firstname]','$_POST[lastname]','$_POST[age], ) are returning empty fields. This can either be that the keys you used in the POST fields are different from the ones on the form. i.e probably your form input names are not firstname, lastname, age etc as you specified (which of course I doubt).

The other reason (which I bet is ypur prob) is the one explained by xanadu. The POST values should be concatenated with the $sql string and not enclosed with it as he showed. To make things easier for you, you may want to declare new variables for the POST values like this

$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];
$lastname = $_POST['lastname'];
$age = $_POST['age'];

$sql="INSERT INTO Persons (FirstName, LastName, Age) VALUES ('$firstname', '$lastname', '$age')";

But wait! What if you have over a hundred POST values? Here is a snippet to auto declare everyone of them, using the value keys

foreach($_POST as $k => $v){
$$k = $v;
}

That will declare each POST values with its key. i.e $_POST['firstname'] becomes $firstname etc.
Hope that helps

Sure web and graphics designs are different but they still converge in a way - the design. That a web designer is not into graphics design doesnt mean he shouldnt have the little knowledge of colors, layouts etc. Another issue with most naija web designers is the too much reliability on WYSIWYG apps - no, im not starting another critism about WYSIWYG apps here. Its just that he so called designers want the apps to design the site from scratch to finish.

I am personally a developer but that doesnt mean I can't do a simple color and layout work. IMHO, if you are into web designs, having an average graphics design ability/orientation is necessary. Developers are pardonable to this effect. They can always give out the design part while they take care of the backend.

Tnx 4 d word. Didnt notice Google checkout is down with naija. Will check it out soonest.

Sitepoint (http://sitepoint.com) is giving a way a new PDF book they call: The Art and Science of CSS. Im actually downloading it myself at the moment but I can bet it is gonna be a very good one. To get one for urself, simply follow them on twitter via: http://twitter.com/sitepointdotcom . Another option is to enter your email address in the url: http://twitaway.aws.sitepoint.com/
By the way, u can as well catch me as well on twitter via: http://twitter.com/kehers
And lastly, dont forget to post a review here wen uv downloaded and read the book. Will actually do myself.

Talking banning, I think Seun should lapse the rules to an extent - at least he should be graceful to the very active members.

Do i hear a seminar? Dat will b interestg!

@namzo
He he he, u de look for yawa abi?

As we know, all ds browsers are built by different manufacturers nd consequently av different rendering engines - webkit, trident and co. Even ones using the same engines may av different implementatns of it. An example of ds is d interpretation of d CSS background ppty: bottom (http://blog.ngbot.com/articles/79/)
I which i could test d ul snippet but IE6 is far gone on my system. What happened in d 2 browsers? Which of d browsers' interpretatn are w planning to follow? What is d effect of ds on it: list-style:none?

Simple!

I use lunarpages and I must confess they really rock.

To b down and sincere I gat no WYSIWYG on ma PC. Not dat im trying to form anything here but the thing is I just dont use them. In truth if Im into desgns alone, I may be tempted to av atleast one around but really, I dont do much of designs especially public works (I de do ones wit good pay sha ). I simply enjoy hacking into one web specs and another, trying out some crazy ideas on PHP, Js and co or playing around J2ME - and to these a WYSIWYG can offer way too little.
If u are into designs and do much of public works, no reasons to dish ur WYSIWYG apps. As have been said by many, ur client will only be concerned wit d end result of d job. But then, it is very important to have a grounded idea of the codes - no matter if u r using notepad or a WYSIWYG.

Sku dey really fall my hand oooo. Can only hope d xmas break can bring out something. Thanks for d cares too

Do u mean to say a forum? Just wondering

Have u tried leaving out the banner ad and see if it still overlaps or not? Such things usually happen wen d content of the table (in width) is more than the set width of the table esp with images. If the adsense image's width is more than that of the td, it may actually do that - which of course is what im guessing is happening.

Its not like im tryg to advocate notepad nd u dishing ur WYSIWYG apps. But personally, notepad is d way to go - probably coz im an xtreme coder. Evn wt (x)Html, just y should I use a WYSIWYG app wen I can easily set my layouts nd divs nd style dem in Css in notepad - wt FF there to do d prevw.
If WYSIWYG is ur way, av fun. But den b wel grounded in (x)html as it wil save u some headaches. And if u are just venturing into web designg, go d notepad way first. Wen u are a pro, den u can switch to WYSIWYG.
By d way, by notepad, i mean text editors like notepad itself, editplus, notepad++ and co.

Guess it is a global thing and so Interswtich/eTranzact are out. Paypal still sounds the better alternative. The other I have heard so much about is 2CO (2checkout) but Iv not used their service before. Their merchant account costs around $49 for setup and Nigeria is included in the list of supported countries. Whats more, they also accept paypal (and other credit card payments).
By the way, is there no way to go about this online payment thing without going thru a third party site? Authorize.net actually provides a merchant account that allows webmasters to process payments directly from their sites using their APIs. It is however a complex thing. You need a routing number from ur bank among other things.
Any other ideas in the house? Please post.

1. WYSIWG - but in code mode. Would av even taking notepad except for its lack of syntax coloring and indentation. If u'd say WYSIWYG and another editor like editPlus, then I'd choose editPlus. WYSIWYG apps add junk codes to work. By the way Im assuming wat u mean by WYSIWYG are d Dreamweaver, frontpage and co
2. EditPlus
3. Syntax coloring (for over 10 languages), indentation, line and column numbering, Go to Line, Regular expression Find and Replace, and a whole bunch of others.

What type of association?

I see, Was judging by the ones Iv come across - strips comments, removes all whitespaces and lines - and puts everything in a line.

@xlusiv
Just a note about CSS compressing - backup the original file as u will need it when u need to edit ur CSS. The same rule applies to JS.

@olush0la
And how do u express ur colspan and rowspan ? Really, I'd rather use a table that do that. Besides, IE lt 8 (IE before version 8*), which happens to be the most used browser out there (atleast at the moment)  doesnt support it.

Just noticed d blog link isnt correct - NL seems to b blocking . D url is allnotes dot dot com/2006/09/standards-and-versions-where-we.html

Ran into this a while ago: www.giveupandusetables.com Really funny

Hmmm, this made me remember my over 2 years blog post on my experience with strict and transitional mode: http://allnotes..com/2006/09/standards-and-versions-where-we.html.
The strict mode is truly hard. Between me and u, I rarely validate personal sites . But then, you never can tell when it will be needed - public jobs for example. The XHTML MP (Mobile profile - for mobile phones) for example runs in strict mode - and if you are unlucky, it MAY not work if it doesnt validate.
Really, once the 5 basic rules are followed, you are on the safe side
- Tags Must Be Closed Properly
- Tags and Attributes Must Be in Lowercase
- Value of Attributes Must Be Enclosed within Quotation Marks
- No Attribute Minimization is Allowed
- Tags Must Be Nested Properly
The only other big part you may have problems with is forms - forms are really a bottleneck.

Dis works

background:#EEE

instead of this

background-color: #EEE

@yawa
No mind me. Run mostly on phone so I'm used to shortening words. Tns - things

@yawa
I do love to see/knw how tns go in the strict mode. Just want to knw if dat wil pass d strict mode test

@chi~
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@mustay
Wats d gist? Does d fieldset/table collabo works - I mean validates?

@Yawa
Had problems with breaks when validating a mobile site So, I float d label left, set input display to block in Css

@Mustay
Have u ever designed forms in table and validated ur XHTML? Do try it (http://validome.org, http://validator.w3.org/) and see you get.
For proper form design, you may need to go the fieldset and label way - with CSS to give it the good look. Here is a link to a prototype to give you a quick start: http://woork..com/2008/06/clean-and-pure-css-form-design.html

Classes may not allow me in full time but I'd love to see au ds goes. Maybe I can take on d 'big brother' part :-D - code debugging/testing, standards/browsers complianc review, microformat integratn nd d other little parts.
Ok, time to grab ur email.