Hazz995

Thanks, just read through part 1 and it's making me read more.

All too often do I see websites that are prone to a simple SQL injection that even an amateur can easily accomplish by the help of a quick Google search. What baffles me is the fact that some of these websites are commercial standard, meaning some high street company probably payed big money for a website which they expect to work and to be secure. Instead they get a website thrown together in Dreamweaver that might look good but it is not secure, and as far as we know the developer(s) could of made Dreamweaver do all the server side scripting too. I'm not exactly moaning at how Dreamweaver works; just a matter of habit that some people may use as a reason to be lazy and not secure things properly. I started learning PHP around a year ago and I have gotten fairly knowledgeable with it, and by this I mean I can create a website filled up of server side scripting to the brim, lets just say a forum. Now we have all forms of user input being secured before we use them in any way, like in databases and stuff. Eg - using mysql_real_escape_string. Personally I want to know as much as possible about security and how to stop those annoying SQL / XSS attacks. So what other methods can we use to secure things in our systems to prevent more than just the basic SQL injections, what do we have to think about while creating a website in terms of security? This got me thinking after a friend sent me a PHP script which acted as a shell giving the user the ability to initiate shell commands with httpd level privileges. Hopefully I'm not putting anyone off with my wall of text, though thanks if you read it all.

Thanks, it's exactly what I was looking for.

How do you make the gray text that sits on top of form fields? for example when you see a box saying "username" an once you click it the text vanishes. Just a little curious how it works.

Guess no harm in moving onto uni then Something to look forward to an thanks for all the info.

I'm currently thinking whats the point of getting qualifications if all it takes is a portfolio, my other friend is kinda of the opposite, he believes that qualifications is all it takes to be successful. I can imagine a employer looking at you for qualification but I can't imagine a client turning round and asking for Currently I'm in the position of deciding if I'm going to Uni or not, and which Uni to attend if I do so. I'll most likely be going anyway but if a portfolio says a lot more than qualifications, then I'll start loosing interest in the whole thing and start to do everything my own way. :/

Not sure if this is the right place but here I go nonetheless. Are qualifications required in the web design field? Say... Will some guy with all these nice qualifications get payed a lot more than some guy with less qualifications, yet the guy with the less qualifications has better skills/experience? Basically, Qualifications Vs. Skills / Experience. I would like to hear everything on this if possible, thanks.

I've noticed on websites that they don't have the .html/htm/php extensions on the end of the url: http://somewebsite.com/contact Instead of: http://somewebsite.com/contact.html I came to the conclusion that they were just using separate sub folders for each link but my outcome was: http://somewebsite.com/contact/ I get an extra forward slash at the end of the URL so I'm wondering if what I'm doing is right or not. Am I following the right lines by making sub folders for each page, or are there other ways?

Thanks for the help I decided to use the online translator so I can just copy and paste.

How would you go about making a box that displays a code box using HTML, for example displaying HTML without actually running the code. like the BB code version: <h1>text</h1> The code shows up and does not get executed, is it possible to do it alone in HTML?

Alright thanks for the help then

Never made a layout made mainly on CSS, I ended up going with tables after researching other site's source but I'll look into it. Sidebar sounds good but it depends on the amount of links I'll be including.

The blank squares are meant to be blank at the moment, I'm just trying to construct the table for the web page but I feel the "main content" cell is too empty. I was wondering if I could add anything else to the layout to make the content area slightly smaller in width but I have no idea what a else a simple business web page could have.

Currently designing the plan for a business website, its not currently tied to any business (I'm doing this for practice mainly). I decided to go with HTML for simplicity. I'll be using a table for the whole design, 4 rows (currently)and unknown columns. I have an area for a banner at the top, underneath that is the links row, under that is the main body section, lastly underneath that is the copyright section. Example: (fixed) Link: http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll190/Hazz995/design.jpg I think the main content section is kinda empty, the whole table width is planned to be 800px and centered in the middle of the page so I'm wondering how I'll format the Content part(row3)to prevent walls of text and what not. Is there anything else I could add or change that would benefit a small business web page? Thanks

Seems to worked alright by using absolute positing, I kinda of expected the images to get stuck right at the top of the page but it all worked out well, Thanks . I'll take note of posting site url / some code for future reference.

I'm having trouble using images with <img src>, is there any way of positioning an image without it disturbing the layout of the webpage? Example: Since I'm using tables to make my web layout, so when I put in an image somewhere the navigation area (on the left side) gets pushed down depending on the size of the image. Thanks.