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Big Resources Ezine
In this issue: PARTNERS AND SPONSORS
NETWORK ANNOUNCEMENTS
WEEKLY FEATURE
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1. Developing for the web? Need the latest HTML, XML,
ASP, and JavaScript code, content, and insights ASAP?
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2. Server Move Status Our network migration to it's new server has been completed. Although we ran into a few bumps, including slow data transfer from our old server, inaccessible domain registry databases for DNS updating, long waits for DNS modifications to propagate throughout the internet, and a complete wipe out of four hard drives, followed by a server crash and shutdown, Big Resources has finally been embedded on it's new speedy rackspace server. Those of you that read last week's issue already know my feelings for rackspace's reputation for reliability, and after a solid week of hosting, I've become even more impressed with their 24 hour tech support, 24 hour sales support, and willingness to go above beyond what's required by their service contract. One example of my experience with rackspace's excellent support, was when my tech team attempted to bring some very large .tar files (unix's zip format) from the old server, to the new server. Our data connection through telnet had been timing out for several hours, because of our poor connection to the old server. I called up rackspace's 24 hour phone support, and although they were in no way obligated, a rackspace service rep agreed to bring over the data, thus cutting a solid day off the disastrous data transfer. We hope that our increased server speed, and page load time has increased the enjoyment, and efficiency of your visits. We will be making continuous efficiency improvements throughout the network over the next few months. If you would like to make suggestions to improve any of our network sites, feel free to email me personally at: jason@bigresources.com, or leave a message on our
feedback forum:
If you're interested in dedicated
hosting with rackspace yourself, simply visit the link below:
3. A1Javascripts Updates
Our A1Javascripts webmaster, Ian McDonald, has been busy this week adding over 20 new scripts to http://www.a1javascripts.com. Included in the mix you'll find new DHTML scripts, page effects, and site navigation scripts. As always all of a1javascripts' javascripts are 100% free to download, and no membership is ever required. Take a click on through to
enhance your site.
4. FreeWebTemplates Updates
Our FreeWebTemplates webmaster, Adoni Ronquillo, has been equally busy this week, with the addition of 7 user style templates. The popular freewebtemplates receives many submissions by talented artists all over the web, and selects only the best submissions for it's templates archives. Additionally, you'll find many of Doni's own template creations in categories such as: business, gaming, and table styles. Visit Doni's FreeWebTemplates:
5. Spidered by Moreover.com The popular web content syndicate
provider, moreover.com, has spidered 2 more Big Resources sites this week.
The content from http://www.a1javascripts.com, and http://www.perlaccess.com
will now be featured headlines throughout thousands of websites around
the world, which use the moreover tech headlines on their sites. http://www.123webmaster.com
was our first site to be syndicated through the moreover.com webfeeds several
months ago. We expect syndication of several more of our sites by the end
of this year. If you are interested in displaying live, targeted, moreover
headlines on your own site, simply use the 123webmaster webfeed wizard
provided in the link below, and follow the three easy steps:
6. Looking for Submissions We're looking for original article, and product review submissions to be featured in both our ezines, and on http://www.123webmaster.com. If you feel that you are a talented web writer, and are knowledgable with website promotion, webmaster tools, or webmaster tips, then please send your article submissions to jason@bigresources.com. All approved articles will be published with full credit to their writers, and will be read by thousands of webmasters. Submit today, and get published. Jason M. DesRoches
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7. CSS to specify alternate
document to print out
Printing a page online usually means printing more than what you actually want. Webpages are quite fancy nowadays, with ad banners on top, navigational links on the left, and so on. That's fine when you're viewing the page online, but when you're printing the page, you only want to print out the "actual content", and nothing else from the page! Many sites nowadays understand this, and provide an alternate "print" version of the document that surfers can go to and print out. Well, there's actually a much more elegant and seamless way of accomplishing the same thing, and that is by using the <link> tag. IE 4+ (and hopefully NS 6 when it officially releases) supports a version of the <link> tag that allows you to specify to the printer which file it should print when the user selects print. In other words, the job of locating the alternate print version of the document to print out is left to the printer, instead of the surfer. Take a look at the below example, and it will all be clear. Let's say you're interested in only printing out the content in gray below from this page. As the webmaster, I could have helped you out by creating another HTML document with only the below content, and telling you to go there and print that document instead. However, I'm not going to do that. Instead, I've prepared a Word document called printversion.doc, and by adding the following: <link rel=alternate media=print href="printversion.doc"> to the <head> section of this page, informed the printer to directly proceed to printversion.doc and print it when you select "print" on this page. In other words, the printer will print out printversion.doc instead when you choose "print" on this page. To see this in action, try printing this page now (you'll need IE 4 or above)! The following article discusses what DHTML is, and also the differences in implementation of DHTML between Netscape Communicator and MS Internet Explorer 4. What is DHTML?
What's the difference between
DHTML in Communicator, and in Internet Explorer 4.0?
In Communicator:
Dynamic HTML is realized through the browser itself (as opposed to any one tag), with the entire browser able to be dynamic. All elements in a document can be dynamically accessed and altered on demand, even after the document has loaded. Demonstrations of DHTML in
both browsers can be found here.
You can also review this
article online at:
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