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Great initiative Cactus. I have always wanted to do this but now it seems you will beat me to it

Do report back to the house on how it goes. I think such a meeting will help us know each other better which in the end should help with networking and how we interact with each other online.

It all depends on your raison d'etre.

For me, it is residual income not income to help pay my bills so I am happy with the $12 a month that I get on average. In the event that I want to use it to pay bills, I will simply change my business model such that I am able to make what I need to make to put food on the table.

cactus:
out of curiousity, what are/were your reasons?

Personally, considering they want someone who knows everything under the sun, I wouldn't have applied either

poster: have you done what I said you should do? Do you actually need our help?

kolitos:
any way you can change the header image on www.shareideasng.com? Those are perhaps the dirtiest finger nails I have ever seen in my life used on a website 

scottman:
Please refrain from posting off topic. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

all:
Please post any answers to his request at: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-330447.0.html

Thanks,

You calling us an eating utensil?

Anyways, I am sure google can come up with something for you. Writing the full code on here will be rather laborious, and hard to follow.

It might be as simple as adding the script to the necessary page(s) and making sure you are connected to the internet when you click "submit"

Let us know how it goes. good luck!

Hmm, what is that Bible portion I am looking for? Oh yeah, I remember, Matthew 7:5 (http://bible.cc/matthew/7-5.htm)

gentysho: it finally shows that you are sexist.  Eventually, these things have a way of coming out of us 

I personally hate it when people make unsubstantiated assumptions and conclusions. Also, I say it is hypocritical for you not to say what you mean/mean what you say, so my "lesson of the day" regardless of how you choose to interpret it stands.

Permit me, if you will, to quote from a book written by Barrie North, one of the developers of Joomla! (chapter 2, page 30):

Joomla is released under a GNU/GPL license.  One of the most common questions regarding this license is, "Can I remove the footer link that says Powered by Joomla."  It's actuall perfectly OK to do this; you just have to keep the copyright statement in the source code.  However, I would recommend that you keep the link.

Why? because Joomla is an open source project and is not sold, its development receives no funding.  The bottom line is that hundreds of programmers around the world are developing this software that you are using right now.  If you had to pay for that coding, it would cost over $2m (www.ohloh.net/projects/20), but you get it for free.  In return, keep the link; it will help the project gain in popularity and grow.  Don't hide the fact that you are using Joomla - be proud of it!  Don't be concerned about any kind of SEO dilution with an extra link off your page.  Links to authoritative sites actually help your SEO!

Joomla is a powerful piece of software.  If you are using it for your website, take the time to make a donation, no matter how small.  You can make a donation online a www.joomla.org/content/view/689/79/.

So there you have it folks - including it on your site isn't required legally but from a moral perspective (at least as I see it), it should be

cactus, don't u mean 999?

On a more serious note, as we discussed, I think it probably makes more sense for you to set up a blog, complete with at least photos and you update the blog at least every other day. Give people like me who want to return as you have, hope

good luck, as always!

lesson of the day:
** never ** draw conclusions for which you have no proof. Always ask (nicely) first. You'd be surprised how far being nice can go

Probably the most simple, pithy answer that will ever be given regarding this topic:

You are the sole determinant of your own fate. The prospects are as great/useless as you make them. The sky is the limit

Yes you can build a site with DW. Hosting shouldn't be a problem. All you will need is the FTP info for your web host account and uploading is no different than uploading via a regular FTP client.

I hope this helps.

Disclaimer: I probably use DW 10% of the time and only do so when I am boxed into a corner. I personally prefer homesite so in case you have more detailed questions, I may not be able to answer it/them

cactus:

dhtml's response pretty much summarizes what I am going to type out:  Generally speaking and from personal experience, if you are expecting someone in Nigeria to spend their "credits" to call you, someone who is coming from abroad, you may want to pick up a number, stand in a line that wraps around the building, and have your favorite novel handy as it will be a while. Last I was there, I thought I was doing a good thing by mass-texting my number to all my friends and family. I did this just to let them know I was in town and not for them to call. Believe or not, upon several visits, many said words to the effect that, "so you are arriving into town and are actually expecting me to be the one to call you eh? okay now, you for wait tire". I weak! 

Again, I speak from personal experience and in general, so no hanging me in effigy please 

webdezzi:

The "d" wasn't programmatically removed. The HTML was wrong (note the lack of a second </span> at the end). By adding the 2nd closing </span>, the "d" "disappeared" and the page is showing up correctly.

Thanks, and thanks for your input on when you may have no choice but to add html formatting to db table columns.

Check for matching "(", "", "{", "}" and ";" or lack thereof.

Let us know how it goes

kolitos:
For the 3rd time, you fail to understand. I am beginning to think this is a trend and am considering not engaging in any thread for which you are a direct respondent. Obviously, I am not going crazy cos at least one person understands me and answered the question perfectly. Speaking of which:

webmonk:
Thank God you are still alive. I was beginning to get worried. Thanks for your input. You echoed my thoughts verbatim

kolitos:
On second thoughts, I will attempt to make you understand:

Here is the code that was in the errors column:
<span><span><strong>you have reached this page in error</strong></span> - note the missing </span> tag

My point:
Why not just have the "you have reached this page in error" text in the appropriate column and let me determine, via html and css, how to best display this message (for example, to me the front end "skills" of the db guy, based on the html I just put up there, SUCK

Does this help, my dear friend?

View from outer space:

1) Home page: hadeeth section: why is the text bold and small?

2) Home page: nasfat at a glance: take care of the padding around the nasfat image. Also, in FF, the text to the right is cut off

3) Photo Gallery: All I see is links. No photos. Maybe this is your intent but it doesn't make sense to me. At the very least, add some thumbnails.

There are a few more. For these and/or help fixing them, my company offers website auditing as one of its services.

Good luck!

and hence the insults

Since as they say, respect is reciprocal, it therefore follows (to me, at least based on my out of this world thinking) that its opposite is also reciprocal

nice insults kolitos. keep it up

rockafela, again, I am only guessing. maybe a screenshot would help. I am not saying give me the post, but the link to the actual topic? Are you the original author or did you contribute to a topic?

thanks.

chances are that ur posts arebeing marked as spam. Post the links to the posts you have made for follow-up purposes.

sorry for any inconveniences

I think you should be more concerned about the reliability of the hosts that provide moreso than the perception - if you perform a nairaland search for ".ng domain", you will find mostly horror stories ranging from how hard it is to get the domain to times when the domain was down.

This is just my take. Others may be on the other side of the pendulum though

So recently, I had a go at it with the db guy at work over this. In the end, nothing changed short-term but I made my point and things will change long-term. I have decided to share this with you for discussion:

At work, we are deploying some new code next week and as always, the testers are going full blast. On one of the pages, we display an error message based on certain conditions. Let's say the text says, "hello world". In FF, the text shows up correctly but in IE, it shows up as "hello worldd (note the extra "d". The defect was assigned to me.

First thing I did was look at the file. All it had was <%=error %> (We use JSP at work). So I determine that it is java-based. I get with the software guy but it isn't in there. We then go to the db guy. This is where I saw wonders. It had html tags, surrounding the actual error text. I then pasted the code in my text editor and validated it, only to find out that it was missing a closing SPAN tag. I tell the db guy to insert the SPAN tag to which he responds (most likely cos he doesn't want to "suffer" to insert it in his script), "add it after the error print statement. I got pissed. I was like, "since you are the one adding html formatting in the db, what's to say that tomorrow you won't screw up again, making my SPAN tag useless.? Besides, during my code review, most likely, the question will be asked, "why do you have <%=error%></span>? Why do you even have html and css in your db script? That is my domain".

As I said, he didn't want to do anything short-term but long-term, it was decided that yes, it doesn't make sense for the db guy to be doing my job, so to speak.

So the question (in case I am missing something), "other than for when you are developing a cms app, does it make sense to add html and css formatting into a table column? If no, why? If yes, why and give examples"

Let's discuss.

This is good - making yourself available to everyone and anyone

Good luck once again.

yawa point taken, but as I said its the saying that is it, like I said if you go on google, you will see it yourself as it is used that's all.

huh?

Either it is too late where you are or the fact that I haven't eaten since morning is wearing on my brain. Regardless, On that note, I am requesting we both call it a day (or night, depending on your location). Have a god night

kolitos:
what about those with "k-thumb"? 

On a serious note, when it comes to proverbs, idioms, etc. you can't take every word literally.  If you say otherwise, then I will say that you are smoking a controlled substance for taking the following literally:

1) Get off your high horse
2) He who laughs last laughs best
3) When in rome, act like romans
4) Today is a red letter day

I could go on but this isn't an english board