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1) why bother advertising a site that is "coming soon"?
2) why spam (https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-288832.0.html#msg4093756)?

Not to discourage anyone but I think twitter is just a step above joblessness and "lack of what to do". To think there are some who are addicted. Oh well, I guess it is a generational thing.

omni, u r complaining. It will probably, based on what i see, be the easiest job you will have in your life. Though I don't charge 10K per job, I would gladly do it for what I see currently (a blue screen with yellow text, as at the time of this writing).

Of course, that excludes hosting and maintenance

after what tech pros has said, which is called database normalization, you will need to use the "WHERE" clause to filter and the COUNT(*) statement to get the count. So it would go something like this (of course, verify for errors):

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table_poster WHERE status = 'registered (or whatever you call it)'

Make sense?

Not to put sand in your food tech pros but you don't necessarily have to use ajax, though it would be ideal.

He could also call a function that refreshes the page each time a selection is made. I only mention this as ajax usually has a huge learning curve (I know it was for me) and so sometimes, starting with the basics makes sense. Alternatively, he could use a ready-made framework like scriptaculous, jquery or mootools that already has done the dirty work for him. Of course, having the page refresh 3 times, for each selection, especially on a slow connection isn't exactly what one would call ideal but sometimes, tis best to crawl (page refresh) b4 u walk (ajax).

Again, not putting sand in your garri. Just offering another alterntive.

flashing credit? lol, good one. I will yab my people with it the next time I call home

saintbajar, now you are talking.

Start off by heading to, if not already, www.w3schools.com and learn as many of the lessons that are on there, then experiment on your own. Please note that to be able to store your forms in a database, you will need a local server (like WAMP, assuming you will be coding in PHP) and/or a web host that supports the backend language of your choice.

good luck!

Assuming you are not a bot, first and foremost, welcome to the board.

Asking us not to be strict with you would be like asking a parent not to spank his child when the child errs.

If you say something that isn't factually correct, of course we will make you regret it. At the end of the day, you become a better coder.

Once again, assuming you aren't a bot, welcome.

dhtml:

That is assuming an exchange rate of 1 to 100.  I believe at current rates, it is even less.  That amount won't even pay my electricity bill for one month in this hot summer

Geez, why are you people trying to blow up the building the fix a tiny leak in the roof? Don't you know that when 2 elephants fight, it is the grass (people like me) who suffer?

Help the poster first. If you must get into a "do you know who i am?" fight fest, go to another board.

Okay in that case, use that info to contact them, even if it means going to their office and/or taking the police there, if necessary.

Good luck to you as you resolve your issue.

Link to your news article please

I have never charged per page. Why? Cos in the end, either during or after development, there is often a need to go beyond that number. What I do is tell them, as a sales ploy, is they get any number of pages they want for one flat low rate. The most number of pages I have ever created is 20 (thanks to the power of includes).

10K? I will assume the poster is being sarcastic but just in case: As much as I want to flog whoever charges this much, I think the foundation of it all is that our leaders are to blame. The economy and conditions there are so bad that just about anyone is willing to do just about anything to survive. I would seriously want to believe that deep down, the person charging 10K is feeling very bad but is only doing so cos, "na condition make crayfish bend". Of course, the adverse effect of this is that when one client catches wind of this price and refers the person to someone else, the 10K becomes the benchmark.

rodler, I guess I am not getting what he is saying but I don't think his issue is storing the data. His question goes back to the very foundations of a form: how to create, how to obtain data and how to pass data variables from page to page.

IMHO, once he has those down pat, he can then advance to storing in a database. He didn't even mention if he will be sending this info as a confirmation email to registrants.

I dunno how naija hosts work but typically, you get a "welcome" email with that info. Check your spam folder, just in case.

Sorry guys but I still won't release the url

This is one reason why I advocate that we code from scratch and not via WYSIWYG.

At the most basic of levels, your form will need an ACTION attribute and METHOD attribute. You will also need to use some back end language (like php). Your form fields will need to have a NAME attribute, which is what the back end language uses to obtain the values entered/selected. For kicks, you will also need to use javascript to validate your form on the front end. You should also use the back end language to validate form input, in case javascript is disabled.

Good luck!

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here: He said "designed" not "developed". To me, there is a difference.

If he wants it developed (front and back end), then it will take time and my fees go up. If he just wants it designed (just front end), my fees go down and time to complete is also reduced.

Relating it to one of those chemistry laws, my charges and rate of completion are directly proportional to wether he wants me to design, develop or design and develop the site

I think clarification is needed here.

saba:

Either that or they are too busy to bother about how their site looks. In other words, as long as they are making money, chances are that they won't care. If the site starts losing money however, they might probably look at ways to improve it.

nanijoe:
It would be nice if your site had more than 3 sections (All news, sports, entertainment). What if I just want business news or news on the states?

Think about it.

nitation:

What about a quick hack test?

You asked for it. I love it when people want it raw

Overall, very simple site and straight to the point. Reminds me of craigslist. Random clicking produced "0" results but I guess you need to do some populating. You should have used CSS as opposed to the tons of tables I saw in the source. Sure, the site is simple and so probably doesn't make a difference. However, especially if the site becomes a hit, every bit of bandwidth helps. CSS would reduce page download times considerably.

1) Contact form: My favorite if you know me well. It validates on the front end but the error messages aren't saying much - I filled out all fields with "d" and kept getting "all fields are required". Firstly, add asterisks by all fields and make the messages more descriptive. Don't just produce one error message for all (email not in right format, phone field is all numbers, etc)

2) http://www.engees.com/tradeSafe.php - right column - add more space above, "Enter Your Trade Safe Pin"

3) http://www.engees.com/safty.php - bullets not aligned

4) http://www.engees.com/openPost.php - probably best if your terms and conditions are available either as a checkbox beside the text, or some disabled field directly below it. I had to look for a minute before I saw the terms in the footer area.

5) http://www.engees.com/faq.php - as your site grows, I think this page will be better served if it lists the questions first and uses intra links to go to respective questions, with each answer followed by a "back to top" intra link.

6) http://www.engees.com/detail.php?id=25&st=Abia&sct= - I clicked "email owner" and a (cool looking) form popped up. I didn't fill any fields and clicked "send" but it wasn't obvious whether or not my (blank) message was sent. I think you need to fix this. Same applies to "mail friend". "Report scam" doesn't seem to be working either.

7 ) http://www.engees.com/tradeSafe.php - I entered a (fake) tradesafe pin and got an ugly looking page in return. I also saw this interesting message: Table 'engeesco_engees.tradesafe' doesn't exist - interesting. Fix it.

8 ) Home page: font family of "find a category" looks a little funny. I think all your fonts should be the same. Also add more space below the "advertize (sic) what you have or need". It is balanced compared to the other 2 columns.

I typically would do this for pay but the simplicity of your site drew me out. As you can see, my comments are not the typical type. I actually have done some form of testing. It would be interesting to see what nitation would come up with, from a hacking perspective.

I give it an 80% - correct the functional errors and I will come back and give it 101%, again for simplicity and going straight to the point.

Good job, good luck! (Don't take this as a reason not to do what I noted above though. You still have some work to do )

1) when I see, "by a friend", that tells me that you are biased. Nothing wrong with that but I don't think you are qualified to say what you have said.

2) part of the URL says, "newcms". This tells me, in addition to viewing the source, it was most likely not done from scratch.

All the same, I know this is a marketing ploy. It isn't the best Nigerian website by any stretch but I will give the guy credit for putting something out there.

yeah right - I think you just dug your own grave buddy

Wow! So dhtml = diltony?

3 (blank) mails, you mean

Well what can I say, kolitos - I always love to help people though some tend to misconstrue it to mean I am either being harsh or harassing. The funniest ones are those who follow up with, "so you are talking. can i c ur works?" That cracks me up, LOL.

inspiragh,

I tried to be nice but now you are begging for it, it seems.

I filled out your form. Good, you have taken away the outlook stuff but again, no validation. To make matters worse, with each submit, my screen gets smaller as your Advert frame increases by one with each submission. In other words, I start off with 1024px width but end up, after 3 submissions with 300px width.

As I said, I filled out your form 3 times. Post the results, as you have promised.

Thanks,

yep kolitos, the primary fault as I mentioned, rests solely on the clients. Trust naija too, it is a product of cronyism, most likely.

What if i say dat inspiragh isn't made for nigerias, Now i haven't said that but presently i have 2 jobs from an italian and a south african, they used outlook. Now yawa-ti-de, my form information comes to my email and that's all that matters, about validation.i used my index, i don't live in etta agbor i'm just a student in Unical , thanks to ya'll "pros"

You would make a good politician - answer my question, thou hasn't

I am sure your form info goes to your mailbox but it's not the right info. I was just joking about etta agbor street o, no vex biko. Just learn to be humble and have a sense of humor. Wether you have a job in Italy, SA or the white house is of no use/meaning me. I wish you well. All I ask is that you do a good job. Based on what I see on your site, I don't see how you are. Sorry.

kolitos, mba nu

Someone has got to start somewhere, sure, but not on a site that is representative of one's country as a whole. Imagine googling for Nigeria and that site comes up first and you go there. First impressions count. What would be running through your minds.

There are schools where you can go learn, or you could become an apprentice of sorts or you play with your skills on a local box.

I guess the better question is, who approved of the site's design/layout and what does this have to say about the approver(s)?