I want: 1. The email notifications to not just stop all of a sudden (al.com) 2. The emails NOT send the same crappy ass jobs every day. Send them once. If I didn't apply the first time the email came, I'm not going to do it on the 357th time.(dice.com) 3. Allow me to filter out the jumbo companies that post to every major city in the world.(hotjobs.yahoo/IBM)
Hmmm, this layout looks somewhat familiar. Reminds me of some site, but I can't quite place it. Maybe it was another type of search engine. The layout seems almost EXACTLY the same.
OMG, I think they stole google's style sheet!
HEh, j/k, who really cares, it's a nice site, I'll have to play with it for a while. Need to figure out how to make my search for "IT Manager" not respond with restaraunt manager as the first result.
What they don't tell you is that the zoom level is fixed at 10000000000000x, so it'll actually be an ass particle.
They may even get a few asses to collied together and take a pic of whatever that is. It'll be like 1 trillian bits of assyness, but asses move so slow compared to how this thing is designed, that each picture will be identical.
Another tool to enable us to write programs in a language that wasn't designed for the environment we're writing for... Isn't this like putting wings on a car? It wasn't really designed to do that, but someone has a car, and they want to fly. So the hack something together and you end up with a car that neither drives, nor flies well.
Oh well, I shouldn't complain because all I know is PHP and I may end up abusing it someday.
I read the doc you mentioned and that 4000 port limit thing seems like it may be killer, depending on the type of connection you have. I know a lot of hosting companies sell both Linux AND windows servers. Have you considered keeping a windows server for the ASP and getting a linux box to run SQL? You'd also have the advantage of seperate servers/seperate functions.
The problem here is any mom-pop in the bellsouth area is using a line that is in some way provided by BS. I've already fired off an email to the Rep at my CLEC to see what their position is on this matter. (ITC Deltacom)
Well, I would, but I don't think I can. The way I understand things, this isn't like gmail was. You have to submit your info to google and wait for THEM to invite you. I may be wrong, but I just logged in and searched the entire analytics site and can't find anywhere to invite someone. I'll keep after it and if I can figure anthing out I'll send you an invite.
I got mine the first time around. It looks pretty sweet but I haven't gotten to deep into it. It gives some pretty nice metrics on browser type, country, resolution, well everything urchin did I suppose.
And everything comes across in executive friendly flash charts...
Think of your self as a magazine with contributing authors. Suppose I had an author that no one liked. That everyone complained about every time I post his story. The general opinion of my magazine will decline. I'm in the magazine industry to make money, not to be fair to the contributors. If the contributors is doing things to make people not like them for whatever reason, then I'm not going to lessen myself by allowing them to contribute.
I don't like the idea of removing credit. They did the work, if no one else posts the story, you can't strip the credit from their work. You have expressed this already, so I don't expect you'd ever do this.
This coming from a guy who's site is "an all text experience"
You asked a question about screen resolutions and said what you were planning on doing with the info gained. You weren't asking "What screen resolution should I design for?"
You're the designer, I imagine you have a customer. Between you and the customer, decide what's best for you. If you're making a site for the benefit of the customer do what's best for yall. If it's for the visitor's benefit, do what's best for them.
Just ignore the idealists that say do this, do that, make it fit on my freakin' wrist watch PDA. If you don't care if you shut out the 8% of the viewers who are at a low rez, then by all means make it fixed wieth at 800 or 1024... YOU are the designer, not the fabulous text only designers on/.
And BTW, the site is visited by Mortgage brokers. This is a VERY average demographic. These are non-technical people. They range in age from 20ish to 70's. They are spread geographically. Their financial status also varies greatly (some are good, others aren't)
So, looks like if you built for 1024 you'd safe for 85% of the market, not bad.
Now this is no excuse to make a site that's unuseable at 800*600. You can use percentages almost everywhere and have your design scale for all resolutions.
GRAMMAR. It's pretty standardized right now. Most non-technical people can handle it. It's even been around for a while. Once you can master GRAMMAR, you can move on to HTML.
And for a more serious answer, here's the tracks I would suggest, the further you go, the more complicated site you can create.
LAMP Method: HTML CSS Javascript PHP/MySQL then you can start thinking about things like AJAX, XML etc.
Microsoft Method: HTML CSS Javascript.NET/SQL Server then you can start thinking about things like AJAX, XML etc.
I think your 'guy' may defeat the spirit of the question. He's looking at doing the whiteboxing himself, not using a good reseller. You're whitebox guy is doing for you the same thing that dell, hp or ibm would do, only probably better because the little guy is 'hungrier.'
If you didn't have your guy would you answer the same way; if you were building all yourself?
With the low price of low end servers you aren't going to save a lot of money going with the low end box.
Consider this, you buy, or build a white box. You'll end up with very short warranties provided by different companies, very much a pain in the arse. You may save $200. Now think of how much a 50k/year sysadmin makes per hour (roughly $25 if I did calc right)
So, $200/25 = 8 hours...
Now you've got $200 which is equivelent to 8 hours. Are you going to spend more times on a whitebox than a dell? I would say so. ESPECIALLY if you're building yourself. Consider extra time spent finding parts. Extra time putting it together. Then when things fail you have to round up the warranties for individual parts. Probably your warranties won't be as good as what dell provides. And then repair time. I know as a sysadmin we tend to repair ourselves anyway, but consider it may be something you WOULD let an on-site tech repair because you're busy...
In a home situation, I'd say build your own. When you're off the clock, your time is free. but at work, when time IS money, buy the named stuff.
BTW, my numbers are BS. Play with your own, I think you'll draw the same conclusions.
To go through the stargate to distant planets and fight go'auld and those new baddies. Orie or something. And wraith, but that's another branch of the Airforce or something;)
When I work on a new version of a file, I open the most recent, then save as a new name (if I want to save the old)
Also, sometimes I want to make a test change, but not keep it. Sometimes I want to revert back to the original, but some programs have very limited undo (excel, older photoshops)
Sometimes when I'm just writing something very temporary, like a fax cover page, I NEVER want to save it.
Is posting this to/. just so they can get their name in lights?;)
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I want:
1. The email notifications to not just stop all of a sudden (al.com)
2. The emails NOT send the same crappy ass jobs every day. Send them once. If I didn't apply the first time the email came, I'm not going to do it on the 357th time.(dice.com)
3. Allow me to filter out the jumbo companies that post to every major city in the world.(hotjobs.yahoo/IBM)
Hmmm, this layout looks somewhat familiar. Reminds me of some site, but I can't quite place it. Maybe it was another type of search engine. The layout seems almost EXACTLY the same.
OMG, I think they stole google's style sheet!
HEh, j/k, who really cares, it's a nice site, I'll have to play with it for a while. Need to figure out how to make my search for "IT Manager" not respond with restaraunt manager as the first result.
So this means I'll be able to take my PS3 and slide it into my IBM Blade chassis when I need more CPU. When I'm done, I pull it out and play.
What they don't tell you is that the zoom level is fixed at 10000000000000x, so it'll actually be an ass particle.
They may even get a few asses to collied together and take a pic of whatever that is. It'll be like 1 trillian bits of assyness, but asses move so slow compared to how this thing is designed, that each picture will be identical.
oh well.
The poster must be a brit.
What's a motorway?
dual carriageway?
This guy needs to learn American.
Maybe the fish can translate this for me, I can see the new version now, brit to american, american to brit...
I figured I'd call myself a hipocrit before someone else did it.
Another tool to enable us to write programs in a language that wasn't designed for the environment we're writing for... Isn't this like putting wings on a car? It wasn't really designed to do that, but someone has a car, and they want to fly. So the hack something together and you end up with a car that neither drives, nor flies well.
Oh well, I shouldn't complain because all I know is PHP and I may end up abusing it someday.
Like Dubal said, you can't polute the sun.
:p
Stupid international.
Make everything heavier, so it will float back to earth quickly.
Or, make it lighter and 'launch' it at the sun, the great incenerator in the sky.
Yeah, I know, so don't bother telling me...
I read the doc you mentioned and that 4000 port limit thing seems like it may be killer, depending on the type of connection you have. I know a lot of hosting companies sell both Linux AND windows servers. Have you considered keeping a windows server for the ASP and getting a linux box to run SQL? You'd also have the advantage of seperate servers/seperate functions.
The problem here is any mom-pop in the bellsouth area is using a line that is in some way provided by BS. I've already fired off an email to the Rep at my CLEC to see what their position is on this matter. (ITC Deltacom)
Well, I would, but I don't think I can. The way I understand things, this isn't like gmail was. You have to submit your info to google and wait for THEM to invite you. I may be wrong, but I just logged in and searched the entire analytics site and can't find anywhere to invite someone. I'll keep after it and if I can figure anthing out I'll send you an invite.
For the time being, I think you need to go here:
http://www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html
I got mine the first time around. It looks pretty sweet but I haven't gotten to deep into it. It gives some pretty nice metrics on browser type, country, resolution, well everything urchin did I suppose.
And everything comes across in executive friendly flash charts...
Think of your self as a magazine with contributing authors. Suppose I had an author that no one liked. That everyone complained about every time I post his story. The general opinion of my magazine will decline. I'm in the magazine industry to make money, not to be fair to the contributors. If the contributors is doing things to make people not like them for whatever reason, then I'm not going to lessen myself by allowing them to contribute.
I don't like the idea of removing credit. They did the work, if no one else posts the story, you can't strip the credit from their work. You have expressed this already, so I don't expect you'd ever do this.
Wow, flying naked at last! Always wanted an excuse for that.
This coming from a guy who's site is "an all text experience"
/.
You asked a question about screen resolutions and said what you were planning on doing with the info gained. You weren't asking "What screen resolution should I design for?"
You're the designer, I imagine you have a customer. Between you and the customer, decide what's best for you. If you're making a site for the benefit of the customer do what's best for yall. If it's for the visitor's benefit, do what's best for them.
Just ignore the idealists that say do this, do that, make it fit on my freakin' wrist watch PDA. If you don't care if you shut out the 8% of the viewers who are at a low rez, then by all means make it fixed wieth at 800 or 1024... YOU are the designer, not the fabulous text only designers on
PPS, do as I say, don't do as I do. The vadiumgroup.com is fixed width. Doh!
And BTW, the site is visited by Mortgage brokers. This is a VERY average demographic. These are non-technical people. They range in age from 20ish to 70's. They are spread geographically. Their financial status also varies greatly (some are good, others aren't)
Looking at google analytics for vadiumgroup.com I can see the following
58% 1024*768
17% 1280*1024
14% 800*600
1% below 800*600
10% above 1280*1024.
So, looks like if you built for 1024 you'd safe for 85% of the market, not bad.
Now this is no excuse to make a site that's unuseable at 800*600. You can use percentages almost everywhere and have your design scale for all resolutions.
After re-reading the post, I'm now of the assumption that English is your second language. If that is the case, please excuse my rudeness.
GRAMMAR. It's pretty standardized right now. Most non-technical people can handle it. It's even been around for a while. Once you can master GRAMMAR, you can move on to HTML.
.NET/SQL Server
And for a more serious answer, here's the tracks I would suggest, the further you go, the more complicated site you can create.
LAMP Method:
HTML
CSS
Javascript
PHP/MySQL
then you can start thinking about things like AJAX, XML etc.
Microsoft Method:
HTML
CSS
Javascript
then you can start thinking about things like AJAX, XML etc.
I think your 'guy' may defeat the spirit of the question. He's looking at doing the whiteboxing himself, not using a good reseller. You're whitebox guy is doing for you the same thing that dell, hp or ibm would do, only probably better because the little guy is 'hungrier.'
If you didn't have your guy would you answer the same way; if you were building all yourself?
With the low price of low end servers you aren't going to save a lot of money going with the low end box.
Consider this, you buy, or build a white box. You'll end up with very short warranties provided by different companies, very much a pain in the arse. You may save $200. Now think of how much a 50k/year sysadmin makes per hour (roughly $25 if I did calc right)
So, $200/25 = 8 hours...
Now you've got $200 which is equivelent to 8 hours. Are you going to spend more times on a whitebox than a dell? I would say so. ESPECIALLY if you're building yourself. Consider extra time spent finding parts. Extra time putting it together. Then when things fail you have to round up the warranties for individual parts. Probably your warranties won't be as good as what dell provides. And then repair time. I know as a sysadmin we tend to repair ourselves anyway, but consider it may be something you WOULD let an on-site tech repair because you're busy...
In a home situation, I'd say build your own. When you're off the clock, your time is free. but at work, when time IS money, buy the named stuff.
BTW, my numbers are BS. Play with your own, I think you'll draw the same conclusions.
To go through the stargate to distant planets and fight go'auld and those new baddies. Orie or something. And wraith, but that's another branch of the Airforce or something ;)
When I work on a new version of a file, I open the most recent, then save as a new name (if I want to save the old)
/. just so they can get their name in lights? ;)
Also, sometimes I want to make a test change, but not keep it.
Sometimes I want to revert back to the original, but some programs have very limited undo (excel, older photoshops)
Sometimes when I'm just writing something very temporary, like a fax cover page, I NEVER want to save it.
Is posting this to