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He he, I can handle Tinubu, Fashola and Ribadu combined LMAO!

So which is worse? Lagos ACN website or PDP-USA website: http://www.pdpuschapter.org/1.html

I don't know how I find these things maaaaan

If you are not charging beaucoup d'argent for this project, don't do it. This is SSS-grade stuff we are talking here

Dual Core:

As long as you wake up on the grass side of the soil, it is all good. Just take a look at what happened in Japan. I bet you there was someone who was spending that last day of their vacation on the beach, looking forward to going to work the next day, when they got swept away into the sea.

It is well.

To directly answer your question, I don't think it matters what order you use. After all, the strings you use for database connection have not connection to what you are capturing in the forms (In your example above, what does "name" have to do with "username" or "password".

Having said that, I like to make my database connection towards the end as IMHO, it makes no sense to waste valuable server resources opening a connection when the data I am capturing hasn't been properly validated.

Who knows? Maybe my approach above staves off potential security attacks. I just have never thought of it that way

Sure, ask any question whatsoever. As long as you understand that I reserve the right to say, "no" in response to any question that you may have, it's all good

he he, donpuzo. Sometimes, you do get what you pay for

I have used hostmonster.com since 2005, that has unlimited bandwidth, host at least 40 websites, many with databases, and have never gotten "bandwidth exceeded" on any of those sites.

Granted, I am still wary of "unlimited" packages, hostmonster is yet to disappoint on this.

I have just read 2 articles from there just now sha though I will admit that they suffer from "server not available a lot".

In other news:
Dual, where have you been hiding? Having read from you in ages

No, I didn't do it:

http://www.acnlagosstate.org.ng/

As I said, any other colors but green.

For ideas:
http://www.colorcombos.com/ - enter 1 color and see the various combinations it gives you.

By the way, I am not against green. I just think that within the Nigerian web context, green has, and should be, played out. I mean, it's pretty much everywhere.

I would change the green and choose colors that actually blend well with each other.

Though I don't know the answer to your question, last month, I read an article which said that on the yahoo search engine, the most searched keyword was "google"

Go figure!

BTW, it's not a template.

As stated in response to greenmouse, I could care less. Using a template is one thing and being able to customize it well to fit what we want it for is another skillset unto itself.

By the way, isn't our (human) body based on a template?

greenmouse:
And what if it is a template?

poster:
Site looks GREAT. It is the cleanest site I have seen posted on NL for review in a long time. Even the code is clean. If I ran a company there, I would be secretly contacting you asking you to come work for me

A few pointers:
1) Your footer: With more links in the left column, it looks unbalanced. I assume this will be the case eventually but if not, add more news items to balance it out. Also, move the "staff email" link to the footer as that isn't something you want visitors to concern themselves with

2) The gray "blobs" on each page, as well as page headers: You should have made the text actual text, as opposed to images. This would have helped with reuse. As it is, if you add another page, you have to waste your time creating new images. Even worse is if you no longer touch the site and then I have to come in and figure out what fonts/color schemes you used.

3) Site map link not working but I guess it isn't ready yet

4) Privacy policy: I would group all the questions at the top and use intra links to go to the answers for each respective question

5) Content width of 844px is too small, which explains why your left column content is long. I would have made the page width 960px, reduced the right column by a few and given most of the width to the left column.

6) About us page: Page header reads, "introduction". It should be consistent with what's in the nav bar. You could then have small headers for "introduction" and "management".

7) Consider adding "back to top" links to the bottom of each content area.

8 ) To further shorten pages, consider wrapping the text in the left column around images on each page. You can use img.floatLeft for that.

Again, overall, I would still give it an A, even though it is missing the stuff above. Taking care of the above would move it to A++.

Good job!

he he, could be

I will hold off my (objective ) comments until a few others comment

http://www.goodluckjonathanfor2011.com/

Your thoughts?

hostmonster, hostgator

I've never seen this kind of error and so wouldn't know. Having said that, google turned up quite a few sites with similar issues. I found this one perhaps the most captivating: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=574362

Give google a try and let us know how it goes.

You could take advantage of the header(location: (filename)) function, I suppose

what is the "error"?

Though I haven't installed joomla on wamp, from experience installing on server, I have found that you need to first create the database, complete with username and password.

Furthermore, you need to add a user with complete privileges to that database, then provide that user info to the joomla set up. Did you do this?

Again, what is the "error"?

I would heed the advise in response #3 then

utimatedes: Sure, using _REQUEST without validation doesn't ensure a safe form but that being said, you have to secure from as many angles as possible. Remember, your app/page is only as secure as you make it.

As for why use REQUEST over POST, sorry but I have no empirical evidence. I said what I said after conversations with people who do hacking for a living. We have a couple of hacker-types on here and I wish they could come to my rescue

filezilla is equally fine. Go to download.com for others. Some are free while some have a trial period, assuming you don't want to buy.

I am gonna b rambling here, going to and fro, but hopefully at the end of my post, you get my point. 

Now, I have not used "location" much but:

1) Why are you using "echo" and not "header"?
2) Where are you placing your "location" code?  It should be above any returned html (including the html tag) otherwise, it won't work
3) In the beginning, you say the page isn't displaying correctly but at the end, you say it isn't displaying.  Which is it?
4) If #4 is the former, what is the output? You mind pasting a screenshot?

Also:
5) Use _REQUEST instead of _POST, for security reasons

6) I don't see that you are validating your form input via PHP. You need to validate on both the front and back ends, again, for security reasons

7) Your "else" statement in the mail function is wrong.  If it fails, it is not because of blank fields but because of a problem on the server.  Use a better error statement like "message failed to send".  You should have checked for blank fields way before you sent your email.

8 ) Rather than use "location", why not just use this code on the actual "thank you" page, by printing say, "thank you for contacting us" after your mail function executes successfully (if(mail() { print "thank" } else { print "message failed to send" })?

Let us know how it goes.

Good luck!

Get an FTP program, like ws_ftp, log in to your account and transfer the files you have to the right directories and all should be fine.

Sure. If you know what you are doing, you could FTP the files directly to the server.