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I'm considering becoming a DBA (Database Administrator). Can anyone who knows what their talking about give me some advice on books or videos for learning SQL, MySQL and whatever else I might need to learn please? Thank you.

I wish to add a comments box to my site, it needs to be free, ad-free and in php so that comments are recognised by crawlers, does anybody know of any good scripts? Thank you.

The only thing that I don't like is the orange on grey logo links, the ones which say <<more information>> under them, I think they should fancier graphics, it'd be good to lose a bit of that orange too.

My first thoughts are the background and the grey text need to be darker, there is too little contrast, the yellow numbers don't contrast well either, some borders might help but I think its your colour scheme.

INTRODUCTION frachan is a free customisable template of files for creating an anonymous imageboard site DOWNLOAD LINK: http://queef.zzl.org/frachan.zip INSTRUCTIONS 1. Download and extract the frachan.zip. 2. Open up the following files for editing (if you don't have web development software you can use notepad); frachan/index.php - Your Homepage frachan/b/index.php - Your 'Random' Imageboard frachan/about.php - Your site information frachan/config.php - Your site configurations You don't need to edit the other files. 3. Each file contains simple instructions written in capital letter such as "ENTER YOUR SITE NAME HERE", replace these instructions with the relavent content. 4. The frachan template comes with one imageboard ('Random' aka '/b/') to add an imageboard make a copy of the 'b' folder and its contents, rename the folder, make the customisations as you did in step 3 and in your config.php file add your new imageboard like so, I've added an anime imageboard for this example; // LIST YOUR IMAGEBOARDS HERE public static $boards = array( '/a/'=>'Anime' '/b/'=>'Random', ); 5. Now you need to upload all the files to your host server and set file permissions using FTP software such as FileZilla. Set your imageboard directories eg. "b" to 755 recursively and all your other files to 644. 6. Now if your lucky your site is ready to go, check that everything is working such as logging into the admin panel*, uploading, replying and deleting posts etc. *theres no link to the admin panel you have to type it in the address bar eg. http://example.com/admin.php

I don't like the dull dark greens color scheme and the header image is a bit too big.

Design wise it looks great, is this site active?

Your portfolio images definitely should be bigger, not the thumbnails, the target image. I'd like to see more web design on there, they wouldn't even have to exist, just designs. I don't like the marble texture, I'd prefer white. Make use of meta tags and other SEO tricks. Needs more content, you could arguable squeeze your site into one page, not that you should. Just my opinion, hope its of some help.

Design wise I like it but there a few behind the scenes mark up errors, check out this sort site scan result of your site http://try.powermapper.com/Reports/606e0bc1-f05d-4c10-a7ff-5c873772b181/report/map.htm

You can't place canonical tags on urls that don't physically exist so still stuck on this one too.

I still favour sortsite I like the way it does all the work for and basically tells you what to do. My codes pretty seo efficient now I'm not sure where to go from here.

Working fine for me, anyone else having problems?

Alas AltChan is no more, introducing QueefChan! If you thought AltChan was a load of ****** you'll hate this even more. Butt seriously, I could really do with some constructive feedback.

I feel I've done everything within my capabilities to optimise my site, both the SEO and the design, it's a simple site but I think it does its job, my problem is that I don't have money to put into it and I'm only getting a handfull of visitors a day, if any ones get any advice I'd much appreciate it. Heres my code for the homepage, most of the pages of my site look like this. 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Do I even need this CGI file, is there anyway I can cut it out?