wwp@yahoogroups.com:
I need your help!
Landis 2004-Jun-25 17:13:00
I had originally intended to set-up a web based form using PHP/MySQL
in order to get the text and other information from you (the
participants) in the best way possible. Unfortunately I'm only
halfway through my copy of "PHP & MySQL for Dummies" (really!) so I'm
not up to that task.
The most time consuming thing for me last time was taking all of the
text files that were submitted and adding them to my database so the
site could be generated. Part of it was my fault for not being clear
on what was needed in what format. So I need your help to make this
as smooth as possible. Hopefully next time I'll have a form set up
that will let you preview your page, approve it, and send it on to me
in the proper form for inclusion in my database.
Here's the deal. When you send in the required text it MUST BE A
PLAIN TEXT FILE. Do not send an MS Word .DOC file. Every computer
has a plain text editor (TextEdit in plain text or BBEdit on a Mac,
NotePad on Windows, vi or pico or something like that in Unix/Linux).
Every bit of text in the file MUST BE PLAIN low-ASCII. That means no
diacriticals, or m- or n-dashes, or degree symbols. These will not
render properly in HTML. I realize that many site names have
diacriticals and even many of our names have special non-low ASCII
characters. These should be represented in HTML format. (e.g. a
degree symbol is °, an ampersand is &, etc). Use a WYSIWYG
HTML editor to determine the proper character encoding (like GoLive
or Dreamweaver).
When including links please make sure that link opens in a NEW
BROWSER WINDOW. This is done in your link tag by including a
target="_blank".
A quick question comes to mind: how many people intend to include
sound in their page? Would you like the possibility of including a
separate sound file?
Thank you for your help in making this run smoothly.
FTP information to come very soon.
-Landis