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Tomcat and MySQL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat

Tomcat is a web server that suports a web host run on client machine and also it the most famouse web server currently suported by many web hosting services.

My project includes storing products picture into a database as well and Tomcat with MySQL works faster compare to Microsoft access database when its comes to larger data access like storing and querying image files. MySQL is free to use and whereas Microsoft Access is not

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How To Include HTML in Many Documents Using JavaScript

http://webdesign.about.com/od/javascript/ht/htjsincludehtm.htm

Useful link if you want to learn more about how to include HTML in many documents by using JavaScript.

MySQL site is helpful for me to gain more knowledge on it.

http://www.mysql.com/

MySQL GUi tool information

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html

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Paypal Buttons

https://www.rocketgranny.com/codeclips/pp_button_images.php

The link shows all the Paypal Buttons that we can choose to use in our site.

Button List

The current official PayPal List is/was here: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, (May 2008) Here's another good link: Online Logo Center

Capsule Style Payment Buttons

<img src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_giftCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal"> Square Style

<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but6.gif" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> Acceptance Mark - show clients that you accept PayPal

https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn2_for_hub.gif Solution Graphics - to show clients that you accept PayPal & other payment options

https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/bnr/vertical_solution_PP.gif

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I have chosen NetBeans, why?

There are many java based web development tools available including eclips, intellij and netbeans. After some review I have chosen to use netbeans as my development IDE. Netbeans is very easy to use, configure and debug projects. It is also comes with plugin to integrate tomcat server which allows to deploy the project every time debug and run the project. Compare to eclips many suggests that netbeans have more built in functionalities to help developer develop fast and efficiently. Netbeans also supports debug Javascript and CSS.

References: Eclipse Web Tools Platform(WTP) vs Netbeans - IDE for Java Web Development,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/788453/eclipse-web-tools-platformwtp-vs-netbeans-ide-for-java-web-development accessed on: 24/03/2010

http://netbeans.org/switch/why.html

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Paypal- HTML Form Basics for Website Payments Standard

https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_html_formbasics

Information about website payment stardard about paypal.

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60 High Quality Free Web Templates and Layouts Read more: 60 High Quality Free Web Templates and Layouts | Graphics http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-high-quality-free-web-templates-and-layouts/#ixzz0j3iO5jX3

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-high-quality-free-web-templates-and-layouts/

Website Design Tips - Photo Quality

http://www.blizzardinternet.com/design/design-elements/high-quality-images/

Picture quality/size are very important for website desinger.

Here is the information:

Website Design Tips - Photo Quality

You know the old saying: “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” On the Internet, that first impression is absorbed, evaluated, and acted upon within a very short time frame. And what are the first elements of your website that your visitors’ eyes are most likely to seek out? It’s your photographs.

Website photo quality is an important – and often overlooked – component of your online marketing efforts. What’s the purpose in driving qualified traffic to your website if visitors are going to grimace and turn away when they see clouded, unfocused, or unflattering pictures of your property?

Use A Professional

The images on your website should be taken by a professional photographer. You can contact someone locally, or we can arrange for a photographer to visit your property. The photographs on your website should have a consistent theme and promote the very best aspects of your property and locality – particularly with the rising popularity of photo sharing sites such as Flickr, Picasa and others.

Sell an Experience

Your photographs can not only help bring visitors to your site – it can help keep them there as well. We excel in manipulating photos with state of the art photo and slide scanners. We color correct, crop and compress all of them to give you the most effective presentation possible. Don’t make the mistake of underestimating their importance. Show up your competition by utilizing the very best images possible.

A TIP: We strongly advise against putting pictures of yourself, family, or pets on your homepage. Please remember, your website is not about you, it’s about selling your property. That being said, professional photos of people enjoying their stay at your property are great for helping the potential client imagine themselves there.

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So I've now updated all the scheduling and added shows and DJ profiles, hope you like :)

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Server Down

Likewise my server went down, you can see the site on http://www.scratchradio.co.uk though?

I am getting the original site sorted now ~ :)

It's come to my attention that the server where my site is hosted is currently down, and since reading the support forums it seems this is a common problem with the hosting company I'm using.

Scott; I've sent a support ticket, so it should be fixed soon, but please let me know if it's down when it comes to marking, if the server doesn't get fixed I'll have to try and get it uploaded somewhere else.

Thanks!

#alex

#scratch #radio #test #site #beta

#html5 #youtube #support

Post your sites for review!

Hello all. Something really useful I thought I would do is post my site for review at Sitepoint forums. Then I can get useful reviews from other people.

I suggest you do something similar with your project if you want to know what other people think about it.

A link to the site: http://www.sitepoint.com

A link to the forum section: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=90

And a link to my site review: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=655713

Enjoy!

#Andres Vaquero

Additional Resources

View my final project here;

http://alextesting.co.cc/index.php

I used http://www.freebeehosting.com/ to acquire my webspace, along with the free domain name from http://www.co.cc/

Some resources which were of great use to me throughout this project. Would highly recommend to anyone learning the basics of PHP & MySQL.

Phpacademy

http://www.youtube.com/user/phpacademy

http://phpacademy.info/forum/

Thenewboston

Basic introductions to the functions of PHP.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=67D94BE42620925B&search_query=thenewboston+php

Suggestions for further development

As I have previously discussed, there are areas of this project which I was unable to complete fully with my current skills and knowledge of PHP and MySQL. Finding a way to make these areas operate as desired would be the first issue to address when developing this project further. It is possible that the way I was trying to execute these functions were simply incorrect or unsuitable for these purposes, and so I would need to widen my knowledge and look into other ways of doing this.

Once the issue of uploading images with the correct information has been resolved, there are other functions which would I feel would be highly desirable to ensure full usability for site admins. Features such as editing an album, to delete photos, rename it, upload multiple photos at once, are all simple functions which I would have approached given more time. In order to develop this even further, a Javascript uploader is something which would ensure ease of use more so.

I would have liked to have developed the ‘events’ page further, as this is something which was often commented on by test users. Having had more time to focus on this I would have produced a calendar with links to upcoming events. With developed skills and knowledge, this feature would be edited and update via a user friendly interface in the ‘admin’ section.

Due to time constraits on this project, and the extensive amount of knowledge which I needed to learn in order to produce the PHP, database driven sections of the site, I was unable to devote as much time as I would have liked to the design of the site. I have included Flash aspects to make the page more dynamic and add a little interest, rather than a simple static page, and so another way in which this project could be developed further would be to create some more interesting design features.

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Project Development & Testing Issues

When developing this project I used the method of Iterative software development. Using this method meant that I build the project step by step, testing as I went along, meaning that any problems or issues were able to be addressed while still in development, before moving onto the next aspect of production. This method also enabled me to return to previously completed sections if there was a way in which I felt I could develop it further.

I found this method to work particularly well for me, as I was still learning aspects of PHP as I went along, finding out alternative ways of producing different results and so I was able to go back and adjust various features to work more efficiently, or to develop areas more to provide greater user satisfaction.

Results of testing, and issues with project

I have included a sample of questionnaires filled in by my sample audience, as previously discussed on the blog.

The general feedback from the site was good, and many of the issues raised were ones I was already aware of. Some points such as the site needing more colour and images I took into consideration, and so added a few more images such as event advertisements and images from the company’s existing site. The images currently included are merely a demonstration of the kind of images which will be added in the future, such as photos from previous events etc.

Another point which was raised, was that some members found site navigation quite basic, relying only on the navigation bar, and so I have added more links to the sign up and contact page throughout other pages in the site.

Main issues which were raised when testing the site, both by users and from my own continuous testing of the site, was problems with the ‘Photos’ page. This was due to a fault in the upload page of the admin section, resulting in any uploaded photos entering the database without a specified album id, meaning the photo does not display in its desired photo album. This is an issue which I attempted to resolve on various occasions, which resulted in consuming a lot of my designated production time, and the overall build of the project being set back. I tried various ways of fixing this, through trial and error, using different pieces of code, searching online for alternative ways of acquiring the desired variable and eventually resulting in asking on the phpacademy help forums. While I received a few responses to my thread, none of the options were able to fix the problem, and so unfortunately it remains unresolved. I have noted the point at which the code does not retrieve the correct value in my ‘upload.php’ file.

For the purposes of this project and to demonstrate that although the photo has not been uploaded to the correct album but has been uploaded to the database, I have included a section on the admin home page which displays all photos on the database.

Further issues and suggests which were raised during my testing have been addressed in the ‘Suggestions for future development’ section of this report.

#alex #development #testing #issues

Demonstrating skill and experience

Building this project has pushed me to creating something I had no previous knowledge of, and so I have had to learn how to use and install various software such as WAMP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin, along with how to write PHP coding. Although I still have a lot to learn in these areas, I feel that I now have a good basic knowledge of how PHP and databases work, along with how to write a basic PHP script and set up a MySQL database. I decided to take on a project of this nature because I wanted to broaden my knowledge of various web development practices, since these are areas which are increasingly in high demand in the web and new media industry.

With this in mind, I feel that this project has put me in a good position to develop the skills I have learnt in the future. Whilst I am aware that my current skills are far from what would be desired by an employer, with this project I am now able to display an understanding of PHP and my ability to learn new skills in a short space of time. Throughout the project I also got used to hand coding the majority of the site which I also feel will be of huge benefit to me in the future. This meant that although still working mainly in Dreamweaver, I relied much less on inserting code through Dreamweaver’s ready made codes, and got more in the habit or writing it myself. Again this is something I will be able to demonstrate to potential employers. This is also the first new media project which I have hosted online, and so this too was an area which I was unfamiliar with, presenting yet more learning curves.

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