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    How can I create a Randomized Playlist from an existing m3u

    I imagine you're using flash to play the files. I would recommend this: + Load each song into it's own movie (1,2,3,4,5). + Create a master movie that pulls in a song one at a time. + In the master movie in frame 1 set a cookie on the user's computer remembering which song was played last. It...
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    News Posting Script

    Using a text file or a database would both require you go to a secure page and apply an update. What I'm talking about is the thousands of database connections required each day if your visitors hit it. Using a text file or a xml file would eliminate this need for a connection, thus making the...
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    Opening a swf at a specific frame

    You have to load the entire movie into an object and give it a name so you can reference it. Once it's loaded into the parent movie you can control it by referencing that name. So in the example the loaded movie (mc_name) is told to go to and stop at "framename".
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    News Posting Script

    Why would you use a database when it's just a blurb on the homepage? (Note the last comment I made). If you want to maintain server efficiency you wouldn't do this. Having each hit to the page openning a connection to the database, reading from it, closing it, and posting the results is far...
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    Opening a swf at a specific frame

    Give the loaded movie a name and then use this: on(press){ _root.mc_name.gotoAndStop("frameName") }
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    Help ASAP!!! Recruitment Site

    How did you get this job? Did they ask if you have done this before? A site like this, if done correctly and not hacked together by scripting, should take a couple of months (if done by someone who's been programming for years). Sorry but you're not going to learn enough to do this just by...
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    firefox & netscape users: what did I do wrong?

    Add border="1" to your table to review the layout. Looks like you need to review your colspan tags.
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    new design

    I agree with poobah. There's more punch to it and it doesn't look as washed out.
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    News Posting Script

    What languages can you use? The easiest way is to dynamically write to a text file and have the home page read from it. People will suggest using a database but if it's only one file then you don't need to do that.
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    Perl vs PHP vs ASP vs ASP.NET

    It's simple. If you're going to bang out tiny sites one by one you can use php. If you're planning to start something big, go to .net or java.
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    Centering an external SWF in a SWF

    Load the movie into a movie object instead of root. You can then position that movie object where you want it.
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    creating a text email from a web page

    You can use this method, and instead of writing to a xml document you can store the text into a variable. once complete you can e-mail the variable. http://www.devpapers.com/article/324
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    The most versatile layout (beginner)

    All you need http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/
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    user ability to upload images

    Contact me MSN me at thriveca at hotmail.com
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    user ability to upload images

    create a new file called upload.asp and paste what I put in the comment above into it. place that file in the public_html folder. then go to your site /upload.asp to use it
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    user ability to upload images

    This isn't the cleanest solution, but it works. Copy the below and paste it in a file called upload.asp in the root of your web server. ============================================================ <% if request("upload") = "now" then Server.ScriptTimeout=1000 ForWriting = 2...
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    user ability to upload images

    Do you know what technology your web site can serve up? Asp, Php, Cold Fusion, Java, anything? You'll need to know this to know what script to use. The script you're looking for is fairly common.
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    Perl vs PHP vs ASP vs ASP.NET

    I agree with zkiller. I use asp,.net,cfm,php,jsp. To quote Deniro in Ronin "It's a toolbox". Don't use .net if you're building a 10 page site when scripting languages are more than enough. Consider what you need to use to effectively do the job. If you're going to have to eventually...
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    HTML Forms Help

    http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp
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    Session ID, Search Strings are bad?

    Actually I was having lunch with some engineers from Google and asked them about this. It's true that strings do hurt your SEO due to the fact that bots/spiders drop everything after the second variable. Some older spiders drop all strings altogether. You can get by this by using the url...
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