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BIG RESOURCES #9 VOL II ============================================================ Big Resources Ezine http://www.bigresources.com Issue 9 Volume II, Jan 04, 2001 ============================================================ In this issue: PARTNERS AND SPONSORS
NETWORK ANNOUNCEMENTS
WEEKLY FEATURE
READER FEEDBACK
DEVELOPER TALES
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1. Everyone.net:
To visit click:
2. Webmasters: Power Your Site With FREE Content!
For free content click:
3. Earthweb and internet.com
Check out earthweb and internet.com:
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4. Editors Note: Welcome Back
5. HTMLforums.com: New Forums Added
6. 123webmaster Goes Fundamental
7. Wanted: Forum Moderators and Guides
123webmaster is looking for guides to build and maintain it's directory of over 3000 links. Guides will be expected to add or modify at least 5 links per week in the category of their choosing. Moderator applicants for HTMLforums will be required to visit the forums and make a few posts daily for a week or so before reaching moderator status, after which daily posting will be required. If you are interested in joining our team, and donating some of your
time to help build the largest and friendliest web developers network on
the Internet, stop by and submit an application at:
8. Looking for Submissions
All approved articles will be published with full credit to their author (including a link, email address, and any other information that you would like included), and will be read by over 50,000 webmasters. Submit today, and get published! I'd like to thank our most recent contributor, Corbbmacc O'Connor of http://www.justforwebmasters.com, for this week's feature: How to Build a Database Driven Site Using SSI. Jason M. DesRoches
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9. How to Build a Database Driven Site Using SSI
If you have ever tried to build a database driven site with other programming languages like PHP and Cold Fusion, you know how difficult it can be. This is a very powerful, yet very simple way to build a database driven site. Before we begin, you need to make sure that your server supports Server
Side Includes. If not, then this method of making a database driven site
will not work. Before you go any further, e-mail the support staff of your
web hosting company and ask them.
First create a new HTML document. Create the page like you normally would using regular HTML tags. Where you want your content to be, insert the following tags. <!--#set var="which" value="$QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED" -->
Save the file as display.shtml and minimize it for now. Now create a new directory on your hard drive where all of your other web site files are. This is the folder where all of your content files will be stored. I usually name mine content. Now open up the file that you saved a little bit ago. Remember the text in red? That is the folder that you just created. Make sure that the two folder names match. Also make sure that you do not have http://whatever.com before it. It is crucial that this not be there. Otherwise, the entire database can get messed up. Minimize all of the files that are currently open. Open up Notepad (Windows) or SimpleText (Macintosh). This is how all of your database files will be created. In the file, type what you want to be displayed in place of all those commands that were in the display.shtml file. You can use HTML, JavaScript, and any other programming language in these files. The first file that you will create is an error file. This file will be displayed when the file that the user wants does not exist. Type the following: The file that you are looking for does not exist. Please report this broken link to us by e-mailing us. You can change this if you would like. Even if you don't change the
above file, make sure to change your e-mail address. Save this file in
your content directory and call it error.txt.
Now upload everything to your web site. Continue to create more files using Notepad or SimpleText. To access the database, type the following in the address bar of your web browser: http://www.yourdomain.com/display.html?filename.txt. The text in blue is the name of the file that you want displayed. You can create links to this database easily! Just create a link as usual, but make sure to include the entire URL including the question mark and the text after it. Good luck with your new database! View this article online at:
*Note: This article is best viewed online at the above URL, as it mentions colored text which would not be displayed correctly because the format is in raw text. ============================================================
10. Question of the week: As you may have noticed, I've been taking advantage of the new newsletter feature called "READER FEEDBACK" to cover a myriad of topics since it's been introduced. This week I'd like to cover a potent question submitted by one of our readers, Paki. Paki writes:
Paki's question is a very common problem. The Internet is aging, and thousands upon thousands of domain names are being registered daily. Many of these domain names that are bought may never even be used. So where can one go to find a gem? Well, there are a few solutions. Various services have opened up that list domain names which have recently expired. This provides a great opportunity for a second chance at a winner that someone hogged, but never used. There are also services now that will help you to generate domain names based on keywords that you enter. Some of them reorganize the keywords, some try making rhymes with them, and some search for synonyms. You can find many of these services for free listed among the domain
lookups at 123webmaster.com by visiting the following URL:
Additionally, a few pay services have emerged such as http://www.dnsindex.com that will mail you the most recently expired domain names every week for a small fee. Thanks for your question Paki. As always, I'm free for comments, questions, submissions, and gifts from all readers at: jason@bigresources.com -Jason
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11. A Stone, Alone: Part VI - Into the Cold
**This week we continue our saga with Part VI of our webmaster Stone's storyline "A Stone, Alone"** After returning to 123webmaster, Stone's oracle, from the Twin Gemini oracle in the center of the forest, Stone sets to work on building a path from his gate to the old wizard, as he had promised. Stone works diligently through the night clearing brush, digging and marking a trail to the gate of Gemini. By the time Stone finishes, visitors from his oracle have already found the path and have begun to travel it. Stone's bones ache, his eyes are dry and bloodshot, and his clothes are covered in sweat, dirt and thorny bushes from hours of hard labor, but the path that he has built seems to be a success. It is so successful in fact, that Stone is surprised to see just how many of the visitors to his oracle are traveling it. Satisfied with his work, Stone enters the Twin Gemini oracle in the center of the forest, which his path now reaches. Stone finds the wizard sitting on his throne at the center of his oracle. From outside the throne room, Stone can see that the room itself is dark and barren, except for the large golden throne which the old wizard sits upon. When Stone enters the wizard's throne room, he is surprised that the room is much colder then the rest of the oracle, in fact it is downright freezing. The hairs on the back of Stone's neck begin to stand up one by one. What dark magic could produce such a freeze that the sun beaming down upon the concrete oracle could not warm? Stone begins to wonder what sort of unnatural arrangement he has gotten himself into. Breaking the cold dark silence of the throne room, the wizard begins to speak, "Ssso Ssstone, I sssee that you have completed your path to me. I am very pleasssed with your quick work. You may now go back to your oracle and ressst Ssstone. I am sssure that your bonesss are weary." "But Wizard!" Stone replies. "What of your path to my oracle, what of our arrangement?" "I have great powersss Ssstone, I do not think that you yet underssstand what I am able to do!" Exclaims the wizard, as he raises his wand to Stone. Startled by the wizards words and actions, Stone takes a step back and speaks, "What do you plan on doing Wizard?" The old wizard makes a swift motion with his wand, and releases a dense cloud of cold and dark. The cloud of cold and dark, which is even colder and darker then the throne room itself, moves slowly and ominously past Stone's still body, and brushes lightly across his check. The cloud of cold and dark then continues on out of the throne room, and drifts towards the back of the oracle, towards the back exits of the structure. The cloud of cold and dark then settles on the ground at the front of the many back leading out of the back of Gemini. The instant the cloud touches the surface of the ground, the oracle begins to tremble. The concrete ground spreads apart, and a new exit from the oracle is opened which bears a skinny crooked path. This new path is closer to the entrance of the oracle then the hundreds of other paths leading out of the back, and begins to grow. It spreads for miles, reaching and reaching, until finally it reaches the entrance of 123webmaster; the oracle of Stone. *End Part VI*
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