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Thanks Duncan. That helps a bit.

Hi there, I have a couple questions about how to link a database to a website. For example, if I wanted to create a site with a public area and also a page for members where they have to log in to access the content. I think that I need to have the web server and DB on the same network (probably on the same machine for simplicity) right?. I know that I need to link the webpage to the DB by using a script. What I don't know is where that script goes? Assume I have a login form that contains a field for username & password. How do I link those fields so that they validate against the database? Ok, I know that's more than a couple of questions, but I'm hoping to at least get an insight into how to do the above. I'm not averse to reading around the subject if someone can recommend a good book on how to do this. TIA.

Thanks for the replies. But yes I was referring to the scanline effect. I just wasn't sure what to call it. @bumfluff: that was the method I was looking for. Cheers

How does one create a horizontally striated effect on images as seen on the following site? please click here On the the main page section (in the lower right hand corner), you will find a navigation link that says "page 1 of 4" - Please cycle through that until you come to the one with the collage of small images that has the effect that I'd like to create. I'm guessing that it is done is Photoshop or something similar but have no idea on how to replicate the effect applied to the images. Does anyone have any experience in creating this or any suggestions on how it could be done?

Thanks Sono, that's very helpful. I'll try that.

Hi all. I have a couple of questions regarding styling text using CSS. I was recently using a wysiwyg tool to create a site, but after reading many forum posts and seeing a lot of good websites, I took the plunge and decided to learn CSS. However, I am having some difficulty re-creating some of the styling I was able to produce with the wysiwyg tool. Is it possible to have different coloured letters within the same word using CSS? For example, I wanted to have the last letter in a word to be a different colour to the other letters. The idea is to set the hover text to the same as this last letter. My second question involves the level of validation for XHTML I should use. In an ideal world, I would like to use 'Strict', but have found this to be somewhat difficult to work with. Perhaps that is down to my own inexperience. But what is considered to be an acceptable standard amongst professional web developers? What do most people use when working on websites for clients?