[AccessD] My new web site

John W. Colby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Oct 1 07:13:06 CDT 2005


>Try placing the following option in your opening body tag I.e: <body
bgcolor="#a0a0a0"> or <body bgcolor="blue">

What I need is a reference on what values are used for what colors.  DNN
does not have a color selector control 8-(.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 3:05 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] My new web site


Hi John:

Do you sleep? :-)

> ATM it is a rather bright white. I would prefer a cool very pale gray, 
> or even a very light royal blue.

Try placing the following option in your opening body tag
I.e: <body bgcolor="#a0a0a0"> or <body bgcolor="blue">

> I also need to figure out how to put up links to my two books on the 
> main page.

Try adding the tag set in where you what to have a link to the book like,
I.e.: <a href="
http://www.databaseadvisors.com/Graphics/Myfamily/FACJohnColby.jpg"
target="blank">John Colby"</a> (watch for wrap...) Just place any url
between the quotes

Just is just quick off the top... it is midnight here, feel like a pumpkin
and will be crashing soon. |-P

HTH
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 10:51 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] My new web site

>I did not know you were so adept at building flash or is that just one 
>of
DNN's feature/options

I haven't a clue about building flash.  One of the options with DNN is to
apply a "skin".  The skin you see is one that is free from a very popular
site over in aussie land.  I may someday go buy one - there are a TON of
people selling skins for DNN.

>Where is the link to the DBA site?

The link to DBA is there.  Favorite Links, second link down.

>and where is the .Net versions of your downloads?

Some day.  ;-)  Notice I didn't say someday SOON.  <vbg>

>(Could I be so bold as to suggest a smaller font size and maybe even a 
>text
font of a dark grey instead of black... fashion is such a fickle thing.)

The font sizes need tweaking.  The text editor that is used to place text on
pages allow selecting fonts and sizes.  I just did a quick and dirty, to get
something up.  I will no doubt go back in someday and tweak that further.

What I really need to figure out is how to set the background color for the
text.  ATM it is a rather bright white. I would prefer a cool very pale
gray, or even a very light royal blue.  It is just too bright right now.
There is a style sheet that is available, but of course I don't know
anything about that or how to tweak it.  Plus the skins can override the
stylesheet.

I also need to figure out how to put up links to my two books on the main
page.  The DNN default install has one for DNN but I could not for the life
of me figure out how to even edit the image in that module/page.  Sigh.

So much to know, so little time.

BTW, you didn't register.  If you register and sign in you get extra
content!  I also need to figure out how to tell visitors that fact.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause:
http://folding.stanford.edu/

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 1:27 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] My new web site


Wow, I am totally impressed John... I did not know you were so adept at
building flash or is that just one of DNN's feature/options (?); excellent
regardless. The site is very easy to navigate and it is very clean. 

(Could I be so bold as to suggest a smaller font size and maybe even a text
font of a dark grey instead of black... fashion is such a fickle thing.)

All fooling aside the new site is great.
 
Jim

PS: Where is the link to the DBA site? ... and where is the .Net versions of
your downloads? :-)   


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:57 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] My new web site

Anyone interested please visit.  I am using DotNetNuke to build my new web
site.  It is still a work in progress, as is my knowledge of DNN.  What you
see on my site has been done in just about a week.  

For a side by side comparison:

My new site: www.colbyconsulting.com
My old site: www.jwcolby.com

I am finding DNN to be a pretty cool web site framework.  It REQUIRES SQL
Server and so you must purchase a hosting package that includes SQL Server,
but it gives the developer (knowledgeable in Visual Studio) the ability to
write custom modules to work with data from SQL Server using plug-in modules
that you write.  DNN is written using VB in VS 2003, and I own VS 2001 so I
am at a standstill ATM, however I am about to order the academic version (my
wife is a teacher) of VS 2003 which will allow me to start developing
snap-in modules for DNN that can dish up data.  Stand by for that.

Any comments welcome.  I am not a web site developer so do not expect a
world class web page, but I think that given my limitations it looks pretty
good.

Register and Log in to see additional features.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause:
http://folding.stanford.edu/


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