Hi All,

I just want to give you a little bit technical highlights to see what is the
"real" power of the site.

---- REAL-TIME KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ----
* All users can directly post news, tutorials, upload extensions -
everything you like.
* After a user uploads its article, he can see it immediately on the site,
with status "to be approved". A content manager approves the article which
makes it available publicly on the site.
* All articles are directly tracked, times read, downloads ...
* The user gets to see immediately, in one view, what is new on the site,
top downloads, top readings etc.
* All postings made with Internet Explorer can be directly entered in
WYSIWYG HTML Editor!
* An email system keeps you up-to-date with the site by sending you emails whenever some content has changed or is added and you said you wanted to receive an email about it.

---- EASY EXTENSION POSTINGS ----
* All Extension developers can easily post their extensions and make
instantly make them available on UDzone.com
* All Extensions are arraigned in recursive categories, so they can be found
very easy.

---- EASY TUTORIAL POSTINGS ----
* Tutorials can be very easy to post. All you need is to write them in HTML
and pack them into a ZIP.
* During the upload they are automatically Unzipped on the site and
dynamically included in our portal layout!

---- EASY ARTICLE RATINGS -----
* You can very easy rate articles like news, tutorials, extensions - let us
know how valuable the information was to you!

---- HIGH PERFORMANCE SITE SEARCH -----
* We have worked hard for it but now you can use a very powerful Search
technique on our site!
* The Search works like all internet search engines - accepting Boolean
parameters like AND, OR, NEAR, AND NOT, +, - , ~
* The site database is fully searched, the static site content is full
searched, and all this is nicely ranked for you in just a flash!

So this is enough to get you going, if you have any questions please post them here.

UDzone.com Team

Great Site! How did you combine the forum database with the sites login features? I have a site that I have been building that has a forum and allows the members to personalize their visit to the site and had no success combining the database.

I have hot synchronized the two user tables. I use SQL triggers for that - so changes to the one table reflect the other one immideately and vica versa.
Later on we will swich just to one user table.

Further on we integrate the board cookies with our own and changed the login code that it also sets our own cookies and again visa versa ...

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Greetings,
George Petrov
UDzone.com

Guys, the site is looking better all the time but today I found it to be very slow. Especially for downloading extensions, it takes a minute or several minutes before you get the download prompt. Another thing that might help is if you move the amazon.com gifs to your own site. Then any hiccups on the Amazon front wouldn't affect your site.
Just a few thoughts! Great job, over all.
J.S.

J.S., thanks for your feedback on the speed of this site. We are having two 'problems' regarding to speed:

[1]
Our pages are approximately 30-40 kb without images and we realize that that slows down everything a lot (because we have put so much info in 1 page). We are trying to make this better, but that means a whole redesign. We first want to see how much people are gonna visit our site. When it's worth the effort we'll come up with an improved design (hell, what am I talking about... how should I do that? <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>.

[2]
Our server is George's private webserver located in his own house.... connected to the internet with a cable modem. I'm not sure, but it's possible that this slows down everything. But at the moment we are not making any money and are not willing to spend 100 of gulders each month for a own server (and we need an expensive one cause we use lots of new and customized techniques)..... so for now we desided to server high quality pages but not as fast as we want them to be.... we even weren't able to build this site when we had to pay for hosting it...

Waldo Smeets - www.UDzone.com Webmaster
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www.UDzone.com : A Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver
Ultradev and Fireworks site by developers
for developers.
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Waldo, I think it's likely because it is hosted on a private server via cable modem. However, that seems to be a wise decision because you guys can play around with all the high-end tricks and yet not spend too much money at this stage. Actually, the performance on most of the site is quite good considering it's connected via a cable modem. Once you open up some revenue generating streams and once the traffic becomes a lot higher I am sure it would be easy to focus on enhancing the network capabilities.
Anyway, this is just the beginning. We all have to start somewhere. And with the kind of dedication you guys have and the hard work that you put in the sky's the limit.
Just remember one thing. Don't get discouraged. Keep "massaging" and polishing your strategy as you go along, as I am sure you'll do and everything will turn out for the best.
Cheers, guys!
J.S.

Edited by - J.S. on 02/04/2001 02:23:42

Jag, I don't really thing that it is the cable modem that is slowing you down. I have tested my connection from lots of different locations is it performs really well - my cable is really fast. The only limit is the download of 512KB and upload of 32 KB p/s.

Currently this is not a problem at all. I've been monitoring the system and we are getting about 20-30 users at the same time, generating an avarage upload of 5KB ... and 4% CPU ...



Greetings,
George Petrov
UDzone.com

<font face='Trebuchet MS'>George, That problem happened only on one day; none since then. So I assume it was just a temporary connectivity problem.</font id='Trebuchet MS'>

Yes once we had a problem with the cable. Whole night it was off, because some smart guys were blowing off a flat building nearby and they forgot to switch off the cable over there. So half city was without cable ...
Besides this one we didn't had any other major problems.

Greetings,
George Petrov
UDzone.com

This site is great. I use it daily. You gurus are just good. The topic of this thread is the technical highlights of these pages. I was wondering if you could point me into the direction where I could make a site search engine in asp that would allow me to search the static pages and dynamic pages created from Access databases. Any and all help would be much appreciated.

Hi Waldo,
As a dedicated visitor to this site I find what you are doing is fantastic and it has helped my programming immensly.
Perhaps I can assist with the Hosting side of things in exchange for contra. Based in Australia www.dattatech.com is the company and we have a 10MB connection (+ backup connections) to the internet backbone, W2K adv. Server network, ASP, MSSQL, full backup and redundancy. As a Director of the company I would be glad to help. If you are interested please email
Cheers.
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J.S., thanks for your feedback on the speed of this site. We are having two 'problems' regarding to speed:

[1]
Our pages are approximately 30-40 kb without images and we realize that that slows down everything a lot (because we have put so much info in 1 page). We are trying to make this better, but that means a whole redesign. We first want to see how much people are gonna visit our site. When it's worth the effort we'll come up with an improved design (hell, what am I talking about... how should I do that? &lt;img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle&gt<img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>.

[2]
Our server is George's private webserver located in his own house.... connected to the internet with a cable modem. I'm not sure, but it's possible that this slows down everything. But at the moment we are not making any money and are not willing to spend 100 of gulders each month for a own server (and we need an expensive one cause we use lots of new and customized techniques)..... so for now we desided to server high quality pages but not as fast as we want them to be.... we even weren't able to build this site when we had to pay for hosting it...

Waldo Smeets - www.UDzone.com Webmaster
------------------------------------------
www.UDzone.com : A Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver
Ultradev and Fireworks site by developers
for developers.
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