HostMonster.com

It is fairly obvious there are a great many web hosts to choose from out there. Some better than others. Some with more or less options than the other, but most don't offer unlimited domains for $6.95 a month! Some might, but they typically sacrifice another feature that may be important to you. Before this month ends, I want to recommend HostMonster.com for your hosting needs. Give them a run and you'll see the difference!

Firebug can make Gmail slow

Here is a tip from the Gmail help site about editing your Firebug settings to work better with their Gmail application and other Ajax intensive sites:


Firebug can make Gmail slow

For the best Gmail performance, we suggest disabling Firebug for www.google.com.

Windows or Linux Users

To disable Firebug:

1. Click the green or red icon in the bottom right corner of the browser window to open Firebug.
2. Click the bug icon in the top left corner of Firebug and select 'Disable Firebug for mail.google.com.'

If you'd like to keep Firebug running, you may improve Gmail performance by following these steps:

1. Click the green or red icon in the bottom right corner of the browser window to open Firebug.
2. Click the Console tab.
3. Select Options.
4. Uncheck Show XMLHttpRequests.
5. Click the Net tab.
6. Select Options.
7. Check Disable Network Monitoring.

Mac Users

To disable Firebug:

1. Click the green or red icon in the bottom right corner of the browser window to open Firebug.
2. Click the bug icon in the top left corner of Firebug and select 'Disable Firebug for mail.google.com.'

If disabling Firebug for Gmail doesn't improve performance results, you may have to entirely disable Firebug.

Using sedo.com to advertise domains for sale

I signed up with Sedo.com's free domain parking service the other day. Of course, the hope is that they will advertise my parked sites enough to spark some buying interest. There are so many site out there these days, I'm not sure they will ever move off the "shelf".

Here is what I'm selling:

• bioreversion.com


• botetourtrealestate.net


• dnaforge.com


• freedatasupport.com


• myroanokenews.com


• roanokecomputersolutions.com

Creating an Ajax capable database using mySQL (Part 1)

I'm not going to spend a lot of time explaining how this works up front, however, if any of you reading this would like more information, please let me know. The first set of code belongs to your main page. I'm using .php extensions, so, everything except for the javascript code ends that way. You'll find some of the code is not relevant to the database itself, such as the W3C xhtml and CSS validations. Here is the index.php code:

<div id="container">
<div id="form1">
<form id="myForm" action="">
<fieldset>
<legend>Movie Database</legend>
<p>
<label>Title:</label>
<input tabindex="1" type="text" name="title" id="title" accesskey="T"/>
</p>
<p>
<label>Genre:</label>
<select tabindex="2" name="genre">
<option value="Unassigned">Unassigned</option>
<option value="Action">Action</option>
<option value="Comedy">Comedy</option>
<option value="Dark Comedy">Dark Comedy</option>
<option value="Docu/Edu">Docu/Edu</option>
<option value="Drama">Drama</option>
<option value="Family">Family</option>
<option value="Fantasy">Fantasy</option>
<option value="Horror">Horror</option>
<option value="Romance">Romance</option>
<option value="Sci-fi">Sci-fi</option>
<option value="Suspense">Suspense</option>
<option value="Thriller">Thriller</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<label>Release Date:</label>
<input tabindex="3" type="text" name="release" />
[yyyy]</p>
<p>
<label>Run Time:</label>
<input tabindex="4" type="text" name="run" />
[minutes]</p>
<p>
<label>Rating:</label>
<select tabindex="5" name="rating">
<option value="Unassigned">--</option>
<option value="NR">NR</option>
<option value="G">G</option>
<option value="PG">PG</option>
<option value="PG-13">PG-13</option>
<option value="R">R</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<label>Format:</label>
<select tabindex="6" name="format">
<option value="DVD">DVD</option>
<option value="HD DVD">HD DVD</option>
<option value="VHS">VHS</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<label>Notes:</label>
<input tabindex="7" type="text" name="notes" />
</p>
<p class="submit">
<input tabindex="8" type="button" value="Submit" onclick="postForm('myForm');" accesskey="S" />
</p>
<p class="clearform">
<input tabindex="9" type="reset" value="Reset" id="reset" accesskey="R"/>
</p>
</fieldset>
</form>
<form action="inv_query.php" method="get">
<p class="query">
<input tabindex="10" name="Query" type="submit" id="Query" value="Movie Inventory" />
</p>
</form>
</div>
<div id="search_form">
<form action="">
<fieldset id="fieldset2">
<legend>Database Query</legend>
<p><label>Title search:</label>
<input tabindex="11" type="text" id="title_search" onkeyup="showTitle(this.value)"/>
</p>
</fieldset>
</form>
<br />
<div id="txtHint"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="w3c1">
<ul><li> <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img
src="images/2valid-xhtml10-blue.gif"
alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional" border="0"/></a></li>
<li>
<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/">
<img style="border:0"
src="images/2valid-css2-blue.gif"
alt="Valid CSS!" />
</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
document.forms['myForm'].elements['title'].focus();
</script>