Xav

I have been working on a wiki for my History project on World War I weapons. It is based on the Tikiwiki CMS. Installation was a breeze, thanks Fantastico DeLuxe (part of cPanel).

http://mrxav.co.uk/weapons

At first it had a disgusting theme that had nothing to do with Wikipedia in appearance. A little searching found Tikipedia, a free template that vaguely resembled the legendary encyclopaedia. I uploaded it over FTP, then realised that it still needed a bit of tweaking ...

Introduction

C'est moi, Xav. Let's take a break from .NET for a little while,
and try out some web design instead. When you're making a site,
especially a personal site, you often need to display multiple
pictures. However, we need to choose the best way to make them, to
ensure both compatibility and appearance meet the standards.In
the old days of the web, slideshows were boring. They were simply a
bunch of images on a page. Does the job, ...

IntroHej, guys! We set up our HTML page for a web slideshow in my other blog, which can be found here, and now we are going to use it! In Part I we linked up the TripTracker slideshow library with our page, so the browser is ready to create the slideshow. We just need the code to do so.To start writing the slideshow code, we need to begin a JavaScript script, using this tag:[CODE=js]< script type="text/javascript">[/CODE]This tells the browser that the following code is JavaScript ...

Code samples are in Visual Basic.NET, but directly apply to C# as well. Replace "Me" with "this" if you are using C#.

Hi again. Let me tell you all about .NET - no, OK, I've already bored you. Now we'll look at something so cool - the System.Drawing namespace, and particularly, GDI+.The code within Windows that handles drawing things is known as the Graphical Device Interface, or GDI for short. This draws everything, such as text, shapes and lines. Windows generates ...

Updated 03-08-2009 at 06:35 AM by Xav

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