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One point is always use the user id, not the name. This allows multiple unique users with the same name. So you could have 5 John Smith's, but if you always refer to the id of the user rather than the name in your queries, it keeps them seperate. You probably knew that already.

Along the lines of a seperate table with columns "comments" and "UserId" or whatever you want to call them which can store as many comments as you like, with the user's id that posted them alongside them. The UsersId column would then match up with the ID column in your users table.
 
And whatever other columns you want in the comments table, like date posted, etc.
 
Then you could write some sql queries which linked the two tables together by use of the "ID" column in both tables.

Buy cheap, buy twice.

Learn XHTML 1.0 Strict from a good resource like HTML Dog. That'll give you a good grounding for HTML5, which is best learned by comparing it with an existing standard and seeing what's new (Edit: because nobody is teaching or writing about it from the ground up - everyone's all like "this is what's different").
 
Write your HTML5 in XHTML syntax - everything lowercase, quote all attributes, close elements properly even when it's optional etc. Easier to read for humans and machines, and teaches you good markup habits.

Why? Its precisly what they were designed to for. If you had to bang a nail in a wall. you'd use a hammer. You wouldn't not use the hammer because they have been around for years. Right tool for the right job.

Oh and one other thing :
 
Marching jazz band?
 

 
Nice

Maybe the OP is an animist?

This is the single biggest fallacy I hear in the industry. A bad client will cost you more time than you can bill them, especially if you've given a fixed quote for the job.
 
Time is a finite resource for you. If a bad client has cost you so many extra hours on a project that when you divide the project fee by the number of hours you've put into it (doing the work, speaking to them on the phone, answering emails), you'd have made more money in those hours flipping burgers, it's best that you don't take the job at all. There are plenty of good clients out there, and finding one of those would be a better use of your time.

99% Perspiration, 1% inspiration - remember?
 
When devoid of inspiration which is probably quite often, just get to chugging stuff around, trying different things, combinations etc. - sometimes you even find something by accident that'll work, in fact quite often.
 
In other words, the inspiration is generated by the perspiration.
 
Anyway, inspiration's overrated in my opinion. I think the thing is if you hang around too long for "inspiration" you never get anything done. Sometimes you just have to make it look professional without much inspiration at all.
Think about say a tattoo artist doing custom work. They chug it out, everyone's happy with it but a lot of it is very similar or based on something they've done in the past. What you pay for is the quality and professional polish of the product.
 
How many people on here can say that every design they do is some kind of groundbreaking "inspired" design - I'm guessing the majority of the work is well turned out reworks of other stuff, usually done in the past by that designer.
 
You've got certain "standard" techniques. Run through those and see what happens. Sometimes it's just a grind.
 
Failing that, learn some new techniques just for the sake of it and apply them. See what happens.

I'm on the side that thinks social marketing is a crock of ****. Social marketing may have been useful 3 years ago. But now it is overrun with social marketers posting content that nobody cares about (usually BS articles they paid some freelancer to write on their website).
 
The market is just saturated. People post just to "post" and get seen more. This means the quality just goes further and further down.
 
Everybody realizes the game here, the social marketers don't give 2 ****s about the other people no matter how much they act like they do. It is a waste of time. Make a quality product and people come to you.

Hello.
 
I got as far as "Hello World" written in tables.
 
But I would like a site that is a cross between youtube, ebay, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and most importantly - Bob the Builder.
 
I have a budget of £3.92
 
Can you help?

Well "Design" usually covers form and functionality in any area of life.
 
To me, Web Design involves anything that may be required for these - from the visual appearance to the heirarchy to the Typography, nav structure, accessibility.
 
It may not involve actual coding, to me coding is more "construction" rather than "design".
 
A Web Designer could for example be someone who makes the graphics and decides on the structure and interface of the site, but then hands over to a front end developer for html coding and jquery etc. - however, most web designers in reality tend to do a bit of front end development or "construction" as well.
 
I think the mistake that's often made is thinking that web design stops at producing attractive graphics in photoshop. But you have to have an understanding of everything else that goes with it - typography, call to action, visual heirarchy, navigation, usability etc. Hence you are "designing" within these demands, and most of the time in order to understand the functionality, restraints, and requirements it is almost essential to have at least a passing knowledge of front end develpment.
Otherwise everyone ends up with very pretty, but completely unworkable photoshop designs.
 
Example: I can just draw a shoe that's very cool looking, or I can "design" a shoe that is not only good looking but comfy, durable, within the price budget, etc. etc.

Are you serious?
 
You seriously think 21's too old?
 
Too young if anything.

Try getting in directly in phpmyadmin and running a mock sql statement identical to the one in your code, manually inserting the username and password, and see what results it chucks up.

I'd go in a step higher with PDO and sort yourself out (write) some classes for registration, login, authentication, security, etc. etc. - the main one you're talking about being registration.
 
This will not only be better, more secure, and more current, but will provide you with a good exercise in switching over to PDO.
 
If you search this forum, there are some that have been written which you can study. Slight learning curve, but it'll click.

Ouch!!

8 bit animated gifs FTW.

also another way to get a more exact error would be an or die after ur query like this
 

mysql_query('query') or die(mysql_error());

Sounds at a rough guess that the query was bad for some reason.
 
Code needed, and get it to echo the actual query that it's sending as well - that might give you some clues.

You can look up the mx record with getmxrr() - that'll confirm the domain. To confirm the address itself: handshake, identify and send "rcpt to: ajnjana@kanan.naa" to the MX server's Telnet port. Response 250 indicates valid address, 550 and it doesn't exist. All hinges on how important your email address data is. Probably wise to exclude the major free webmail providers though, as it's a spam signal.

tbqfh yours is not like any i've read before
 
The gripe is with people who big themselves up in a way that lacks any degree of subtlety.
 
"Hello! I'm David. I create lovingly crafted, pixel perfect web designs using HTML5 and CSS3. I'm passionate about websites, and I love working with people like you to help you grow your business online. I also enjoy photography, I play the Saxophone and I like to lick my toes because I'M JUST THAT COOL OK?!"
 
Basically anything with "pixel perfect", "lovingly crafted", "passionate", "creative", "beautiful", "love", "photography"....you get the idea.
 
I just can't stand this annoying strand of vomit-inducing arrogance that seems to, sadly, thrive in this industry. Too many people think they are some kind of web-god because they can write a bit of HTML and make a ThemeForest template. It's a nasty vein of arrogance which I think is something creative industries have always suffered from.
 
I think people really need to start getting it into their heads that whilst your online portfolio does need to sell you, it's not a wall for you to splatter your ego all over. For me, the absolute bottom line is you can write a headline of text as pompous as you like, but what will always show you up is your actual work.
 
The number of times I've read headlines of people who think they are amazing yet their portfolio is shocking is unreal.
 
I'm inclined to forgive those who are actually amazing of being a little on the arrogant side, if you're genuinely very very good and the highest level I expect that. But on the whole, a bit more modesty would be really nice.

You need a backup solution perhaps - bottom nav? Back to top button?
 
I concur - very nice design. It's the kind of design that indicates that it's gone through the proper processes. Nice to see.
 
When viewing "normally" on a browser (firefox ATM) the left hand menu seems to shift down slightly when i'm at the top of the page and then shifts up a bit when I scroll down - is that intentional?

Only one I've used is this, which doesn't seem to fully satisfy the requirement.
 
Drop me a line if you want a custom plugin, I have time to spare atm.

I too have a i5 2500k, best chip you can buy for the price in my opinion and is awesome at overclocking I have mine over 4.2ghz.

In case anyone with the same question is reading this (to save them starting a duplicate thread), at the time of writing the best bang for the buck would be a Core i5 2500K.