Here is a tutorial that helps you to develop a simple Flash preloader using Flash MX 2004 and ActionScripting in easy step-by-step practice.
Here is the complete source file used in the sample, feel free to download and play around file from below link
preloader.zip (3.28)
The first thing that you must realize when looking for a free hosting provider is that nothing is truly “free”. There will be some sacrifices…
First of all, if you see free hosting that promises to be without ads or banners, then it’s not truly free.
For example, DotEasy.com, promises “Cost-free, Banner-free” hosting, but in reality what they are really saying is that IF you register a domain from them for $25/year (GoDaddy.com $8.95/year) or if you would like to transfer a domain for a $35 fee THEN and only then will they give you 100 MB of free hosting, that’s why they can offer $5 dollars for each referral to DotEasy.com’s “free” hosting. Great deal, right?
Tips on choosing a free hosting provider…
1) Always choose the provider that puts ads on your site over the one that claims not to. The companies that place ads on your site tend to be more stable and you always no your partnership with them, “I make site” + “They put ads” = Win-Win. But when you choose a host that claims not to put ads on your site you are giving him all kinds of freedoms to exploit you to make a quick dollar, like selling your e-mail address or shrinking your space to force you to upgrade to a paid package.
2) Always choose a free hosting provider that offers sub domains in the format of “http//yoursite.theirsite.com” instead of “http//www.theirsite.com/yousite”. Not only is this more professional but it also helps with getting returning visitors and Search Engine Optimization, which every site strides for.
3) Make sure that they can provide you with upgrades (both for sub domains and domains), because when the day comes that your sub domain site gets a million hits and starts making sufficient amounts of money you will not want to be changing your sites URL and loosing all of your returning visitors and search engine rankings.
The main point is that free hosting is a partnership between the provider and the “customer”. Everybody wants to get something in return, whether it is advertising space or selling other services, so the basic rule of thumb would be to find a win-win situation but to make sure there is a way to get out unharmed if the partnership becomes unbalanced one way or the other.
Emil Davtyan currently works for Gig4Free.com, a performace based free hosting provider which offers 1GB Storage and 20GB bandwidth for free.
There are rules in catalog designs that should be followed. These rules are the foundation of what and what not to be done as you go about these prints. Like some rules, they can also be bended or broken depending upon the need and the process that it is being done. It is important therefore to know first why these rules are being done to be able to have a firm stand on why they should be broken. The main objective of rules is to give guidelines because these were effective ones for those who have been there already. Better to see if they will first before dumping them as ineffective.
Order forms are a must in catalogs. Before the internet became famous, mailing was the only option that people have for submitting their orders. The basic form used is the easy to fill type and with an attached envelope. This gives people a little convenience in the hassles of mailing order forms. With the development of other means of communication like fax machines and the internet, this mailing method is being reconsidered by the companies and businesses. There may still be others that do not have the convenience of modern technologies to work for them so it is better to think first before eliminating these order forms. Not using order forms can mean less expenses as the extra sheets and most especially the envelopes are the ones that make them that expensive. It is best to consider first the possibility that the readers may still have the need for these forms before totally eliminating them from the catalogs.
Consistent layouts work best. If you want to create a stable and effective image, then consistency is the key to that. This ways people would recognize the company instantly from the logos or designs that it uses. But if every layout and design remains the same, there is always the inclination for the readers to become bored with the same things that they see all the time. Adding creative and updating designs into these catalogs but not actually removing the essence that it consistently represents can do keep the peoples’ interest intact. Putting unexpected surprises once in a while also can lighten and keep the attention more.
These are just some rules in catalogs designs that are tried and tested but needed some twisting when the need calls for it. The focal point is to think what will work for the best first before trying anything.
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In this article, you will learn how to design and develop a simple online chat room with PHP and MySQL. This tutorial explains every steps of the development, including both database design and PHP programming. Basic computer skills and knowledge of HTML and PHP are required. Ok, let’s begin now.
Step 1: Design Database Table. Create table “chat” in MySQL database to store basic chat information: chtime (chat time), nick (user nickname) and words (chat message, less than 150 characters)
mysql> CREATE TABLE chat
-> chtime DATATIME,
-> nick CHAR (10) NOT NULL,
-> words CHAR (150);
Step 2: Design Structure. This simple online chat room includes the following four sections: user login, message display, message input and a main frame integrating the display and input sections. Thus, it needs the following four files to work:
login.php
main.php
display.php
speak.php
Step 3: Write the code
1. login.php (just a HTML form)
<html> <head> </head> <body> Please input your nickname and enter
<br /> <br /> <form action="main.php" method="post" target="_self"> <br /> <input type="text" name="nick" cols="20"> <br /> <input type="submit" value="login"> </form> <p> </body> </html>
2. main.php
setcookie(“nick”,$nick) //use cookie to store user nickname
?>
<html> <frameset rows="80%,*"> <frame src="display.php" name="chatdisplay"> <frame src="speak.php" name="speak"> </frameset> </html>
3. display.php
This file is used to get message records from database and display the results. To keep the size of database, old messages are deleted and only the newest 15 messages are displayed.
<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=display.php"> </head> <body>
//connect to mysql server, server name: main, database username: root
$link_ID=mysql_connect(“main”,”root”);
mysql_select_db(“abc”); //abc is the database name
$str=”select * from chat ORDER BY chtime;” ;
$result=mysql_query($str, $link_ID);
$rows=mysql_num_rows($result);
//get the latest 15 messages
@mysql_data_seek($resut,$rows-15);
//if the number of messages<15, get all of the messages
if ($rows<15) $l=$rows; else $l=15; for ($i=1;$i<=$l; $i++) {
list($chtime, $nick, $words)=mysql_fetch_row($result);
echo $chtime; echo ” “; echo $nick; echo”:” ; echo $words;
echo “
<BR> “;}
//delete the old messages(only keep the newest 20 only)@mysql_data_seek($result,$rows-20);
list($limtime)=mysql_fetch_row($result);
$str=”DELETE FROM chat WHERE chtime<'$limtime' ;" ;
$result=mysql_query($str,$link_ID);
mysql_close($link_ID);
?>
</body> </html>
4. speak.php
<html> <head> </head> <body>
If ($words)
{ $link_ID=mysql_connect(“main”,”root”);
mysql_select_db(“abc”); // abc is the database name
$time=date(y).date(m).date(d).date(h).date(i).(date(s); //get current time
$str=”INSERT INTO chat(chtime,nick,words) values
(‘$time’,'$nick’,'$words’);” ;mysql_query($str,$link_ID); //save message record into database
mysql_close($link_ID);
)?>
//the following is the message input form
<br /> <form action="speak.php" method="post" target=" _self"> <br /> <input type="text" name="words" cols="20"> <br /> <input type="submit" value="Speak"> </form> <p> </body> </html>
Now, you have finished the design and coding of a simple online chat system. Put all the files into your website root and see how it works, 
Rory Canyons is the founder of ScriptMenu.com. Fore more articles, scripts or tips for PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, PERL, XML, Java, JavaScript, Flash, CFML, Python and other web programming resources, visit http://www.scriptmenu.com
For this first article on website localization (localization is making your website appropriate for a target locale, translation is a part of this process), I thought it would be useful to provide a general overview of the technology landscape as it exists in the minds of non-localization industry businesspeople I’ve spoken to since getting out from behind my computer.
Not every company that markets overseas needs their website localized, but most of them do, and would discover vastly improved relations with their buyers.
I hope that after you’ve finished reading this, if you’ve ever dismissed the idea of having your website localized, you will think about it again in a new light. If you know someone in your organization who would benefit from this article, I encourage you to pass it on. Here are a few statements that I have encountered during this period that seem to be the general consensus.
Website localization is too expensive.
First, website localization isn’t the same thing as translating your entire website. Let’s say you have a dozen pages (contact info, company background, basic product info, etc.) of light text, as well as 30,000 pages of technical product specs, and only a fraction of those specs are for products marketed in Taiwan. You wouldn’t, therefore, need to have the entire website translated into Traditional Chinese. When considering the cost of localization, common sense scalability of content to be localized for a particular audience is always paramount.
Second, if you have invested in a sales representative or distribution partnership in a country, leveraging that investment by localizing key portions of your website for that country is relatively small as an incremental additional expense. If you have the budget to maintain a professional website that has its English content regularly updated, the additional budgetary considerations (remembering scalability) are marginal.
Finally, what would you have said about a competitor in 1999 that had yet to create an English website because it was “too expensive”? After laughing hysterically at them for allowing so many prospects to slip past them and come to your business via search engines, you would have said “don’t bother putting up a website, the Yellow Pages will do.” A similar thing is happening right now with your competition in the global marketplace. The competition is thrilled if you haven’t bothered to localize your website, because if they have localized theirs, and they are getting all of the non-English search engine hits your website isn’t.
Website localization is just for the big guys.
This simply isn’t true for a number of reasons. Some of the big guys are not practicing localization yet (at least not to the degree that they could be)! Also, as I discussed above, localization can be scalablenot only to the needs of your target audience, but to be scalable in cost relative to the size of your company. If you are in an organization that is in the early stages of going global, take a look at some of your competitors, and see where they are at in terms of having their websites localized. You will probably be surprised by the number of companies similar in size to yours offering similar products and services that have their websites localized to some degree into major Asian and European languages.
Website localization is not in our budget at this time.
It was noted that one Fortune 500 company recently found it was spending more in its budget for toilet paper than on website localization. This seems to me to be an odd, yet not uncommon, state of priorities for many companies. For most companies, website localization doesn’t even make it into the budget as a line item, because the final cost is so inexpensive relative to many other budgetary considerations. Ask us for a free consultation and quote, and see if having key pages translated isn’t in line with the cost of, say, that full-color ad (with undetermined ROI) in a trade publication. This powerful tool drives traffic to your site outside the U.S. by telling prospective customers that you are definitely interested in their business.
Our site is already translatedyou just couldn’t find it.
I am not an amateur when it comes to trying to find a company’s website in another language. Sometimes, I have to drill deep into the site to find the localized versions accompanying overseas sales office contacts. Other times, I discover a few localized sites for Germany, Japan and China buried amongst a giant list of countries, most of which return simply the same English version of the site. I check for IP detect/redirect functions, by searching Google for the company name strictly within the domains of several countries. I try typing in the company’s name with other domain suffixes.
I have to say that 99% of the time, when someone tells me that his/her company’s website is already translated, but I couldn’t find it, it turns out that there were a handful of PDFs and product pages buried deep in the website translated from English into other languages. Now, if the “localized” version of your website is hidden from both search engines and the most intrepid of web users, how is your average customer going to find it? Many users who find your site by brand recognition will have to read through page after page of English to find the few pages that are in their language(s). A scaled down, localized version of the navigational system and some of the main pages, as well as the relevant PDFs and product specs, would go a long way to improving your company’s presence in a given country.
Our regional offices take care of itthey handle distribution of our product/services, have their own website, or translate our content for us.
A lot of localization vendors like to offer the “bite the wax tadpole” story as an example of why companies shouldn’t try to perform localization on their own. One version of the story goes like this. When Coke first introduced its product into China, it chose phonetic representations of Coca-cola in Chinese that accurately reflected the sound of the brand, but not the meaning. Apparently, Coke didn’t select the Chinese characters, but the Chinese storeowners who were selling the product did. The result was that very few Chinese people were interested in drinking an American soft drink whose letters, though phonetically accurate, meant “bite the wax tadpole.” This makes for a much more interesting and stronger case for not allowing your regional offices and distribution reps to handle the presentation of your corporate brand when localizing your website.
Obviously, the “bite the wax tadpole” anecdote is rather simplistic, and took place long before the Internet existed. However, imagine something more complex like a marketing-jargon-rich website being translated literally by native speakers who aren’t familiar with the original cultural context which bore the content. You certainly need native speakers to translate and review your website when localizing it into other languages. Translators are charged with building a bridge between your company’s origins and your new audience with one end firmly anchored to your company’s cultural identity, and the other effectively inviting the target audience to become customers.
Our global contacts speak English.
As mentioned above, this is sort of like saying in 1999 that your existing customers all knew you, and the rest could all find you in the Yellow Pages, so why bother with having a website?
It is certainly true that much of the business world outside of the U.S. is rapidly becoming bilingual, with English as its second language; however, the fact that 80 percent of Internet users shop and buy in their native languages should be enough to rethink this statement. Even if you aren’t selling your product or service directly to consumers online, think of what this implies in terms of the comfort levels potential clients have when they are seeking out new partnerships and opportunities from the U.S.
What about your existing overseas clients? Are they getting the level of satisfaction they deserve from the information and tools you currently provide in English on your website? How about the cost of a customer service phone call, where the question could have been answered in the customer’s native language inside a brief, one-page FAQ?
Your website should be helping you build sales rather than having non-native English customers buy from you in spite of your website.
We use machine translation, we don’t need a human translation.
There is a lot of research and money going into machine translation development these days, but with a few exceptions using very controlled authoring and extensive human-vetted glossaries, it isn’t ready for prime time in business websites.
I didn’t know your company does localization.
Whether they’ve heard of McElroy Translation or not, vast scores of people are surprised to learn that a languages services provider knows a thing or two about text expansion, encoding issues, date/time formats, cultural appropriateness of text and graphics, overseas SEO, functionality Q/A, etc. The fact is, we don’t just take all of your English words and throw them back at you in other languages so you can attempt to jam them onto your existing website. We understand that a localization project is a tight, team effort that requires dedicated people and can often cause a lot of dedicated headaches. The business of coordinating a vast array of talents and backgrounds in order to help you provide the most effective corporate message overseasthat is my company’s business, and the translation of words is only a part of it.
Evan has played an integral role in the development and maintenance of McElroy Translation’s website, and has an extensive background in multimedia design, localization fundamentals and web programming. He’s held the roles of Web Localization Specialist and Technical Sales Support for six years at McElroy Translation.
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The most known sort of hair loss is a continuous hair thinning state labelled androgenic alopecia more frequently acknowledged as male pattern hair loss that comes about in grown-up male human beings & other species.
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