Jacks Resort Officially Launched

Hi All

I am pleased to announce The Official Launch of “Jacks Resort” website:

http://jack-dmt.site88.net/jacksresort/index.html

Hidden Paradise of Fiji, your favourite place to be all year around!!

“Jacks Resort is a simple informative and easy to use, site for general public; bit appealing to people wishing to take advantage of the cheap holiday accommodation in a small western town of Fiji.”
The site provides information about resort, its location, some entertainment activities and a convenient means of booking an accommodation. For more details please visit Jacks Resort Online!

My sincere thanks to Alastair Weakley for all support and group members for giving feedbacks.

Wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

EditPlus: Good Text Editor

Guys

I have been using this text editor for my project thought to share with you. Its a nice piece of shareware and has some handy features like: code validator, spell checker, code organiser, colour codes and styles etc.

“EditPlus is a text editor, HTML editor and programmers editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.”

Website: http://www.editplus.com/

Gradient background using CSS

Hi

I found this technique very cool as it lifts the look and feel of the site. There are some amazing things you can do with CSS, just have to play right. The trick is having correct dimension of your image and its matter of applying repeat-x in CSS. Create image about 2 px wide and 1200 px in height and apply liner gradient effect. 1200 px will work perfectly for monitor size: 1024 px with out replicating on y-axis.

Apply the image in the body {} of you CSS

e.g.

body {
padding:0;
margin-right: 0;
background-image: url(images/body_bg.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: 0;
}

Adobe CS 4 Released!

Hi

Adobe has recently announced their latest Web Design Package; the promises are big and better. Fireworks have some stunning wireframe design features. Have a sneak preview of the launch and e-seminars:

Resource: http://www.adobeonlinefestival.com/

Web Form Validation using JavaScript

Hi Guys

While reaesrching about the web form validation, I came across this simple but nifty code which actually places the cursor in the required field, just add .focus(); syntax after mandatory field and will work.

function validateForm(formname)
{
if(document.forms. formname.requiredfield.value=="")
{
alert("Please enter……...");
document.forms. formname. requiredfield.focus();
return false;
}

Resource: http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_form_validation.asp

connecting php to a database

Hi

My project is "Online Resort"; one of the components is a dynamic form, which is used to collect booking data in to database. I would like to learn more about designing PHP form processor and connecting to MySQL database. My users will also get an email acknowledgement upon successful transaction.

Thanks
Jack

The solution: CSS and structural markup

"By using structural markup in our HTML documents and Cascading Style Sheets to lay out our pages, we can keep the actual content of our pages separated from the way they are presented.

This has several advantages over using tables...."

Have fun reading this, useful too: www.hotdesign.com/seybold