Forum

The forum is installed and working so Nate and Richard can register and then I will make you administrators.  If we want we can use it to discuss the website development further.

Strategy for Zhanar and Energy Fellowship

Hey,

I am suggesting to Zhanar that she take a template from the PHP Bulletin Board site and start from scratch to create the Forum on the Energy Fellowship website. She may get started and after some familiarity then consult with Alec on debugging it.

We have the ability to create sub-domains, so the forum should perhaps reside in
http://forum.energyfellowship.org
which will give it a separate file system area.

One strategy is to have a separate database for the Forum, its users and content. The users of the site's main content section would be a more limited number, but it would be good to have the Forum be open as I think we were intending.

Hopefully Alec will also get some great inspiration from the Bioneers Conference - and maybe think about a target date to meet with a larger group to get excitement about content. articles, and links.

Post your thoughts, please.

Richard.

Alec has the Energy Fellowship Database working!

News
Database Working - October 18, 2007, 9:01 amThe database is working fully now. The projects menu just displays the five most recent projects entered into the projects table that I made.
Test - October 15, 2007, 8:59 amTest of the database.

http://www.energyfellowship.org

styles

hi
what do you think about these styles for the forum:
http://www.stsoftware.biz/phpbb3/index.php?style=etech_green


http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/styles.php?style_id=82&lang=en


http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/styles.php?style_id=148


http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/styles.php?style_id=197

Energy Fellowship Site

We own it and it is starting to run:
http://www.energyfellowship.org

Hopefully you checked your emails to note that HOSTEK has made PHP5 available for the site. Evidently they have PHP4 by default and add the better PHP5 when asked.

There is some info on the HOSTEK FAQ page regarding PHP as well as MYSQL database setup:
http://hostek.com/faq/kb

The MYSQL editor that Alec was using looks pretty darn good as well.

Also, here is a site on the PHP5 language for some background:
info: http://www.php.net/
tutorial: http://www.php.net/tut.php
manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php [an easy read - ouch!!]

If you find any texts on it that you wish the school to purchase, please let me know.

Richard.

what do you think about this?

http://www.reinspire.net/blog/2006/03/25/ie_transparent_pngs/

Showing png files in IE6

Here is the workaround that I found on the net...
Norway is a nice country, so I'm sure this is legitimate.

http://bjorkoy.com/past/2007/4/8/the_easiest_way_to_png/

which references the author of the workaround.

http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/

This is all pretty exciting if it works.