PHP Form generator

http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/scripts/contact_form/

Hiatus notes - word replacer

Just another source of useful tools in web development/SEO/content generation..

well, ethically this wouldn't be a just way of creating content.

But someone made it for some use, so maybe it'd be useful.

http://www.wordreplacer.com/

go and check it out.

Also.. I should make a mashup site, just to learn AJAX and mashing up.. sites.
Creating self-perpetuating(relatively in my part) content on the web that is
useful for me and visitors.. it would be an interesting project and a milestone to be reached,
I guess in my course of being a serious web developer.
That and making linux from scratch..

Someone made a similar app as mine

My program makes rounded cornered content css styles,
his makes just the generic content sheet I think.

http://forwardlogic.net/dev/css.php

also is a real-time Font viewer:

http://www.fonttester.com/

[Segway Project] YAS: Yet Another Segway

This is another segway from my main goal of designing
a shoe shop for my dad's website (read past posts for more info)

I have this project in my mind.

but..

I am going to start by thinking about the overall purpose
of the website, write them down, and, much like
formulating an essay back in high school, I will try to
gather the main concepts that I will have to focus on to
make this site a successful site.

This magazine I read offered me a view of how much
design can affect human behavior. I mean, sure what I am saying
is an inhuman thing to say - telling that design has huge
monetary values as compared to aesthetic values, but I think it's
true. Design isn't something people with a lot of money want
to do, nor is it only done by metrosexual people -
it drives the general population this way or other.

A website can tell do alot :
its functions are limitless, and it's also non-linear.
Non steady-state, and only a transform on paradigm can Web
be seen statistically.

Best thing you can do is start well, document everything.
..............................?

I believe I diverted from why I'm writing this once again! Even from the point of this post!
haha ^^;

This post is about this:

A New attept at Web design:
Profiling Statement

This is a new attempt. A way in designing where, maybe people already do this, you first try to focus the group of general public that the site will focus on, by describing the group in any way possible - basically, creating a scrapbook of the general focus of the audience.

Sure you can put photos and stuff, even videotape the market population, etc, if you have time.
I am someone that is pretty much limited to where I can go, but I do have a couple of similar shops to the one I will make the website mall for, so I would have to go there and observe the people's behavior. It will be interesting - a new learning experience.

So, after the research is done, either by thought recollection or by actual foot research, you just try to describe the focus group with much detail as possible. That becomes the profiling statement. This is a springboard of ideas, inspirations, and is also a filter which would eliminate ideas that would seem interesting, and even challenging, but aren't pertinent to the statement.

The overall result would be a more streamlined process of development, all from brainstorming to the last maintenance patch jobs.

Isn't it an interesting concept?

I mean probably people in the advertising field or design firms already do it, for sure, but it's something that hit me today.

I was going to post what I have written so far about my segway project but my client - former roommate of mine - wanted to keep the site a secret so I won't.

I'll post them all in one concise post just like I did for my dad's website(see past post and you'll see what it is).

Thank you, come again.

Open Source Web Developer's Little Tool

I am a computer science major, but I never had the motivation to actually
program applications, because I am pretty lazy when it comes to initiating, creating, and refining ideas.

Maybe that was one of the reason why I feared Windows app development -
the whole process is a daunting thing to overcome.

However, Winbinder changed all of that!

WinBinder is a new open source extension for PHP, the script programming language. It allows PHP programmers to easily build native Windows applications. Click here for more information.

In short, it allows users to use PHP to develop windows apps, and you would know
how forgiving PHP is when it comes to syntax. Plus, the wrapper functions are much
easier than the actual Windows API!

Main reason why I found this on my Google search was, and this is how this links into the blog,
that I was learning how to make rounded corners by CSS. I came across this idea that
I could make a program that, when given sliced images of the rounded corner design made in GIMP,

would produce the html and stylesheet.

Sure, that wouldn't by itself make an award-winning site, but it would clear away
alot of busywork trying to get it to show correctly even in Firefox, as they do need tuning.

Using the program, preliminary preparation is done, and you only need to worry more about
the design problems, rather than menial tuning work.

Today I finished the program, and got it to actually create css and html files, and I am loving
WinBinder's simpleness in approaching Windows development. They also have a .exe maker,
since the file you make is actually .phpw (it's like .php), and it uses the php interpreter.
Oh yeah. Did I mention NO COMPILATION TIME?

Anyways.. I'll figure out how to make this into a .exe file and make it available on the blog,
if someone wants it. Email me if you're interested?

http://www.neuroticweb.com/recursos/css-rounded-box/index.php?color=ae4353&fondo=646464
there is also the above app which actually makes!! rounded corners, but it's without images.
Therefore, simple rounded edges can be made, but would be too simple.

Another Segway

Image	Product	Price
	MUSTEK Mfr Part# DV-5200	$64.91

..I know, I know. I should start on the shopping mall design part of my dad's site.

But I'm also doing other projects as well:

1. School -
man oh man.. I got midterms tomorrow, I got to make a de-interlacing module in my chip design class, yup, life is hectic.

2. www.yopos.com had a challenge where Chris Jennings gave away his unmaintanable sites. I applied, won www.indieclothingblog.com , so I set up a blueprint of how I'll shape it up. Alas, no reply from him yet.
So this is still in the down part of To-do list.

3. Designing EH, KJH sites.. They are acronyms but I won't tell what they stand for. Anyways, I need to build them a community site, so I was thinking hardcore CSS2.0, since I need the experience.

4. Start a 1-person broadcasting show.
Yeah. Democracy player, Afreeca.tv, YouTube, Vid-casting.. This is the age of 1-person media.
I decided I have to, I HAVE TO start this show in my mind, to follow the footsteps of pioneers like Kevin Rose or Leo Laporte. With my fluency in Korean and in English, and plus still being a college student, I just know I'm ripe to make a good show. I must do this before I graduate.

Image	Product	Price
	MUSTEK Mfr Part# DV-5200	$64.91

Which is why I just bought this nice camcorder that takes in SD card. This is like the ghetto version of Sony or Canon's HDD camcorder that cost almost 10 times this.

I WILL make a fun, entertaining, smarty show. Any ideas would be nice.

Oh yeah I've checked other cheap camcorders like these - toys, in the eyes of serious A/V guys hehe - but Mustek seems to be the nicest.

I'll let you readers on what will happen later on.

PS - on a side note, I am noticing writing is a skill that is becoming more and more important nowadays, what with the blog gaining more weight in acceptance. I must learn how to write well.. it's really interesting that the academic discipline I once thought as boring and dull is becoming in my life the skillset that is necessary to succeed in the society of blogs.

Monopoly BestBuy dollars are Here!!

After hearing about how you could mail the Game Piece Request center
with enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope to get the $1 to $5 game piece,

I set on a goal to send 100 envelopes.
That cost me:
200 stamps
160 envelopes (I already had 40)
to a total of ~$85.

Yesterday, I collected all the envelopes that came back to me and
neatly piled/organized them and took a picture:


Left green piles are the game pieces - I have 200 game pieces! haha.. I wonder if they are worth any money.

Right, in neat columns, represent $20 each column of BestBuy dollars, to a total of $107.

Next day I went in to BestBuy and bought a nice wireless phone, since we needed on in our house.

Thing is when I presented my $99 worth of BestBuy dollars, the cashier started scanning them in,
one by one. I felt bad but at the same time remembered it's my right to stand and be served, as a customer, so I stayed and never said sorry (plus it's BestBuy.. place of great customer horror stories!).

So, after 10~15 minutes of awkward silence in my part and another cashier coming to help out the counting, he counted them all, scanned them all in, and I got my $99.99 for only $1.07 !! (tax for $.99)

I'm kinda sorry for him cuz he was on his way to his break.. hahaha

But yeah if there's anyone who was skeptical about the whole thing, there you have it! It works!
The game is nearing its end date so I dunno if you guys still have time to try it.. But I think they do it every year.