I've done more than my share of batch programming using punch cards and paper tape on machines from the Amdahl 470 to the original PDP-8 (pre-integrated circuits). I remember how advanced a 10 character per second Teletype terminal seemed. And I sure as heck don't miss those days! Give me my Python interpreter any day!:-)
tlambert hit the nail on the head. Go learn the fundamentals, either through coursework or through self-taught methods. Once you understand the fundamentals, you will find it much easier to grasp frameworks and "modern" technology.
Ban social networks? Nah. The underlying problem is communication. We should ban all communication when "we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality."
Hmmmmm... can you make a whole country sit quietly in the corner for a time-out?:P
there are dozens of legitimate reasons that someone could be saddled with this kind of web host.
Choice of hosting company tells me a lot about how the site owner views his own site. If he is unwilling to spend a few bucks on a quality host then he obviously places very little value on his web site. And if the site owner values his site so poorly, why are you worried about backups?
Not that I am in support of charging $0.99 for a song... but my personal opinion is that an episode of Deperate Housewives has no value whatsoever so your comparison is specious.
I have to disagree with most of you. I use Dreamweaver extensively and it is one of two applications that keeps me (very unhappily) tied to Windoze. Dreamweaver, with its templates, is only 1/2 of the killer app. The other half is Fireworks, which is integrated so tightly with Dreamweaver that it almost feels like one tool (if you have enough RAM).
Oh yes... and then there is Contribute which is The Right Tool for most of my clients. Read on....
It works like this.
I use Fireworks to draw the navigation bar and header for a page. Fireworks automagically creates all of the rollover images for the buttons and the HTML to slice 'n' dice and then reconstruct the thing. Dreamweaver sucks up the necessary JavaScript to make it all run. (Yes, it's ugly and bloated code but it has no typos, works "first time, every time," and my clients target visitors with broadband connections.)
I drop the header and nav bar into a template and then create the rest of the site based on the template. Easy as pie. The code generated for the rest of the site is quite clean. I'm pleased with the efficiency here.
Later, if I need to add a button to the nav bar, I do the following.
Open the Template
Click anywhere on the nav bar (on any of the pieces of the sliced up image) and click Edit
Fireworks automagically opens. I drag an additional button onto the nav bar and change the text. Fireworks automagically makes the corresponding change on the up image, the over image, the down image, and the active image.
I click Done. Fireworks automagically creates new images as necessary and new HTML to reconstruct them, closes and Dreamweaver automagically sucks everything back in.
Back in Dreamweaver, I save the template. Dreamweaver automatically updates all pages in the site.
Now for Contribute... I give this to my clients so that they can edit their own web sites. Contribute "locks" the template stuff so that they cannot edit the nav bar, a/k/a cannot break the nav bar.
I'd love to leave Windoze but need something as powerful as Dreamweaver + Templates + Fireworks.
What a cool idea and, even "if" the dollar estimate is too low, who cares? $260M is chump change for our gov't.
Right now, the only way to access the stuff in LoC is to go there in person. Anyone can do it but you have to travel to WashDC and pass through security and so forth to get into the LoC public reading room. Then you have to ask the librarian to pretty-please bring you the book that you want.
Now imagine that you can access any item in the LoC by simply entering the building and using a public kiosk with a browser. LoC's software would only permit use within the copyright so that is OK. But you don't have to mess with as much security because LoC isn't handing over the physical book.
Now imagine that, from any web browser, you can access any book in the LoC for which the copyright has expired. I like that idea!
My opinion... skip the buy on the next couple of cruise missiles and digitize LoC's books instead.
Oh yeah, before I forget, LoC already has tons of seriously neat stuff online. My favorite is this collection of tons photos from Russia. These were taken between about 1907 and 1915! I don't know about you, but I never dreamed that I would see color photos that are almost 100 years old.
Slashdot Mirror
... garbage in, garbage out.
If you check, you will be dismayed how many people in your own hometown lack basic food and shelter. Help them.
I've done more than my share of batch programming using punch cards and paper tape on machines from the Amdahl 470 to the original PDP-8 (pre-integrated circuits). I remember how advanced a 10 character per second Teletype terminal seemed. And I sure as heck don't miss those days! Give me my Python interpreter any day! :-)
-- Art Z.
tlambert hit the nail on the head. Go learn the fundamentals, either through coursework or through self-taught methods. Once you understand the fundamentals, you will find it much easier to grasp frameworks and "modern" technology.
Ban social networks? Nah. The underlying problem is communication. We should ban all communication when "we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality." Hmmmmm... can you make a whole country sit quietly in the corner for a time-out? :P
there are dozens of legitimate reasons that someone could be saddled with this kind of web host.
Choice of hosting company tells me a lot about how the site owner views his own site. If he is unwilling to spend a few bucks on a quality host then he obviously places very little value on his web site. And if the site owner values his site so poorly, why are you worried about backups?
Not that I am in support of charging $0.99 for a song... but my personal opinion is that an episode of Deperate Housewives has no value whatsoever so your comparison is specious.
Now if I could get BBC's Coupling...
Oh yes... and then there is Contribute which is The Right Tool for most of my clients. Read on....
It works like this.
I use Fireworks to draw the navigation bar and header for a page. Fireworks automagically creates all of the rollover images for the buttons and the HTML to slice 'n' dice and then reconstruct the thing. Dreamweaver sucks up the necessary JavaScript to make it all run. (Yes, it's ugly and bloated code but it has no typos, works "first time, every time," and my clients target visitors with broadband connections.)
I drop the header and nav bar into a template and then create the rest of the site based on the template. Easy as pie. The code generated for the rest of the site is quite clean. I'm pleased with the efficiency here.
Later, if I need to add a button to the nav bar, I do the following.
Now for Contribute... I give this to my clients so that they can edit their own web sites. Contribute "locks" the template stuff so that they cannot edit the nav bar, a/k/a cannot break the nav bar.
I'd love to leave Windoze but need something as powerful as Dreamweaver + Templates + Fireworks.
Cheers,
-- Art Z.
Hen's Teeth Network
Yes, Project Gutenberg is very cool. But LoC has different stuff so I'd like to see it on-line also. IMJ, more choice == goodness.
Cheers,
-- Art Z.
What a cool idea and, even "if" the dollar estimate is too low, who cares? $260M is chump change for our gov't.
Right now, the only way to access the stuff in LoC is to go there in person. Anyone can do it but you have to travel to WashDC and pass through security and so forth to get into the LoC public reading room. Then you have to ask the librarian to pretty-please bring you the book that you want.
Now imagine that you can access any item in the LoC by simply entering the building and using a public kiosk with a browser. LoC's software would only permit use within the copyright so that is OK. But you don't have to mess with as much security because LoC isn't handing over the physical book.
Now imagine that, from any web browser, you can access any book in the LoC for which the copyright has expired. I like that idea!
My opinion... skip the buy on the next couple of cruise missiles and digitize LoC's books instead.
Oh yeah, before I forget, LoC already has tons of seriously neat stuff online. My favorite is this collection of tons photos from Russia. These were taken between about 1907 and 1915! I don't know about you, but I never dreamed that I would see color photos that are almost 100 years old.
Cheers,
-- Art Z.