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The 1st of August 2006 was a momentous day. The day that WebRadiance launched. In one year we've grown a small but friendly and knowledgeable community on practically every web design and web development topic imaginable and we're still growing, faster and faster as time goes on. WebRadiance started and will continue to be free, without ads and open in every way possible. I'm very proud of what we've achieved so far, but this is just the beginning.

So I'd like to say a big thank you to each and every one of you, whether you've been here since the start or are a complete newcomer. The website is nothing without our members and I think we've got the best bunch and the best atmosphere right here. Here's to another year!

Hey guys, thought I would post some of the free designs I have made at Paramiliar Design Studios here as well.

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Basic Blue

The Basic Blue layout is a CSS only layout meaning it is faster than most sites. The images have been optimised for faster downloading and total an amazing 19kb.
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The rest are the same layout but just colour varients so I wont bother posting the descriptions....

Basic Red

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Basic Green

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Basic Purple

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Basic Orange

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Basic Cyan

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I am hoping to create some more soon but cant garantee it

Check it out, not free, but it looks pretty good: http://www.e-texteditor.com/

Has anyone had any experiences with switching scripts to php5 ?
I operate a web host, and we currently have php4 on our servers by default, and allow php5 to be enabled. But we are discussing the pro's and con's of making php5 the normal.
Does anyone know the kind of impact it would have to fmake php5 default, are there scripts that don't work with php5? or is it entirely backwards compatible.

Cheers,
Leigh

So if you've got an interest in asp.net and a bit of time I encourage you to check it out. If you're coming from a scripting language like classic ASP or PHP you'll find it a bit different at first, Java people should feel more familiar.

Before you get going, if you want to see what developing in asp.net looks like you can watch this video of a ajax enabled, sql server backed to-do list being built in asp.net (the whole app is built in 20 minutes include designing the database). http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f...AX-ToDoList.wmv

You can write asp.net using Notepad, but I highly recommend using Visual Studio. It's honestly the best code editor I've ever used and I use it for PHP, regular XHTML, CSS, etc.

So first off, you'll want to get a copy of the free Visual Studio 2005 Express. This will take care of all your coding, includes SQL Server 2005, and the MSDN help and documentation library. VS 2005 also runs an on-demand webserver for testing your work so you don't need to install or setup a local server. Yep, they're all FREE, they're not trials, and most people won't come up against the limits of the Express edition for a long time.

Download the .net framework 2.0 from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

Then head over to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/...ds/default.aspx
Download SQL Server 2005 Express, then the Visual Web Developer 2005 Express

Install in this order: framework, sql server, vwd

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Ok, you've got all your tools - now on to trying it out. Your first decision is going to be what language you want to program asp.net in. You've got a lot of choices including C++, C#, VB.net, IronPython, IronRuby, J# and others. My recommendation is to go with C# or VB.net since almost all the examples, articles, and books are in those two. Personally I like C# better than VB.net, and unless (and even if) you've got a background in Visual Basic it's the one I'd recommend.

There's tons of books, blogs, and articles on learning and using asp.net. I'd recommend going over to www.asp.net and checking out some of the beginner's videos: http://asp.net/learn/videos/default.aspx?tabid=63#beginners
or the "Migrating to asp.net" videos: http://asp.net/learn/videos/default.aspx?tabid=63#migrating

You can pull those up, open VWD and work along with them to build all sorts of stuff.

Finally, if you have any questions just post them and I'll be happy to help.