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PHP Recordset Paging

Imagine that you have a recordset containing 100 records, for example. Usually you wouldn't want to display all 100 records at once, as it's far too much information for a web site visitor to take in at once, and it can also make your web pages slow to load. Instead, it's much more desirable to be able to show the user 10 records at a time for example, and let them move back and forth between pages. A perfect example of this is a search engine such as Google, although it can be used on any web site that uses dynamic data.

January 7, 2004 George Petrov

Using HTML for Presentation

In this second in the "Cornerstones of Dreamweaver Design" series, Molly shows you how to use Dreamweaver to make presentational HTML. If you really want to understand Dreamweaver MX and web site design, you have to learn how to do this, even if it’s not the recommended method anymore. Chances are you will find yourself in many instances having to use HTML for presentation rather than CSS, and in all fairness to our profession, that you know it now rather than later will provide you with an understanding of why we prefer CSS.

January 6, 2004 George Petrov

2003 best year for on-line shopping

Reuters reports that on-line sales in 2003 amounted to $18.5 billion, excluding travel, compared with $13.7 billion in 2002, a rise of 35 percent. We hope that DMXzone members' sites saw the lion's share of that $18.5 billion! Read More

January 6, 2004 George Petrov

PHP Shape drawing tool

In a number of tutorials towards the end of last year we took a look at working with images in PHP. The functionality and techniques that we looked at all worked with existing images that you had already taken with a digital camera, scanned in, or created yourself. We saw how to make thumbnails, save these thumbnails in different formats and how to play with the colours within these images. And this is all great if you have existing images to work with, but what happens if you want to draw simple shapes dynamically within your image?

January 5, 2004 George Petrov

Special Christmas Sale

From all of us here at DMXzone Happy Holidays! May 2004 be all you wish for, and more!
Just for you we have a special Christmas deal on our extensions. Click here now before time runs out!

December 23, 2003 George Petrov

Advanced Conditional Region 2.0 has been updated!

Advanced Conditional Region will allow you to show a selection of your page only when a specific condition is true. This way you can easily hide portions of your page that are not to be displayed.

Now compatible with Dreamweaver MX and Dreamweaver MX 2004!

Free to download here>>

December 23, 2003 George Petrov

Using the .NET Collection Classes Part 2

This tutorial is the final part of a 2 part series on .NET Collections, and focuses on a real world use for the ArrayList class. It will demonstrate how to use an ArrayList collection to display all the image files stored in a directory as well as display each image file’s associated file information. The display layout of the images and data is handled using a DataList control.

December 19, 2003 George Petrov

CSS Tips and Tricks for Dreamweaver MX 2004

This article is a round-up of a variety of CSS tips and tricks for users of Dreamweaver MX 2004. I’ve based these tips on questions that I have either received or have seen people asking on mailing lists and mails to me, and they cover a wide range of the CSS tools in Dreamweaver. I'm using MX 2004, but the tutorial is appropriate for both DMX "Classic" and DMX 2004.

December 18, 2003 George Petrov

Win XP Service Pack 2 beta starts testing today

Microsoft have released a beta of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP to selected testers. It includes significant security enhancements including

An improved version of Windows Firewall (formerly known as the Internet Connection Firewall). Windows Firewall will be turned on by default. Why wasn't it before?
Blocking of accidental downloads and installations. Internet Explorer will help protect users from accidentally downloading and installing programs from potentially malicious Web sites by automatically blocking download requests. Users who decide to install a program can click on the download link that will automatically appear below the browser toolbar.
Pop-up Manager. Internet Explorer will detect that a pop-up or pop-under window is unwanted if it doesn’t directly result from the user’s clicking on a link on a Web page.
Better file attachment handling in Outlook Express and Windows Messenger. This means that attachments can open and execute with the fewest permissions possible.
Increased customer control over downloads of external content in Outlook Express. Outlook Express will no longer download external content (such as graphics) in HTML mail by default.

December 18, 2003 George Petrov

Book review of "Web Design On A Shoestring" (free)

Carrie Bickner's book "Web Design On A Shoestring" is being much talked-about as a good blueprint for techniques, technologies and processes to get maximum-quality web sites on a minimal budget. DMXzone staffer Bruce Lawson reviews the book, and as a bonus, you can read chapter two of the book "The Pound Wise Project Plan".

December 17, 2003 George Petrov

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