Thank you for your review of
Handy PHP. I always appreciate honest feedback.
As for not liking the layout, I have a question. Is it the position of information and items or is it the color and graphics to which you refer?
As far as the ads are concerned, it is really just a fact of life. The large Amazon ad is displayed for guests only. Registered members see a much smaller ad. The ads will hopefully generate enough income to pay for additional features which cost money and eventually, I hope the site will get big enough to require paid hosting.
I'm not sure how the ads screw up the layout, I've checked the positioning of everything with multiple screen sizes and resolutions and haven't had a problem. The template was specifically designed to be to be a full width variable size template which oddly enough is difficult to find for Joomla or Mambo. Most of the templates are 800 width templates that have empty space all around in screen resolutions higher than 800 X 600. I prefer to use as much of my space as possible. Since there weren't any variable width templates for me, I had to create one but that also required me to create the graphics and colors as well. So my point is that the colors and graphics may not be great but the template will work for any screen resolution 800 X 600 and up. If you are using a lower screen resolution, I think it might be time to trade that 486 in for a modern computer with a Pentium III or better! The site is best view at 1280 X 1024 which is what my screen resolution is but still looks very good at 1024 X 768. The site probably looks its worst at 800 X 600.
But I have to assume that people have either upgraded their monitor in the last 5 years or soon will.
As for the "Sample Data" / "Under Construction" warning, it has now been removed. Everything on the website is ready for public use but the user resource submission system is still being developed. Coming soon, I'll have a full external links and resource index set up where developers may list their PHP scripts and webmasters may list their PHP websites. Additionally, a forum will be set up for the website which will allow greater user interaction and provide a place to discuss the website's resources as well and give users a place to ask questions and offer answers. One other feature will hopefully get added in the next week or two is an FAQ. Actually, there will be at least 2 FAQ's; one for the website and one for PHP. The Website FAQ will deal with questions like "I didn't get my validation emal, what should I do?" and the PHP FAQ will deal with questions like "What is the difference between include() and require()?".
In addition to being a PHP resource exchange, the website will hopefull answer most questions before anyone can ask them again! I want to provide as much easy to find information as possible. So much of the information for PHP is very difficult to search through to find an answer to your question and if you don't already know PHP, the manual isn't very helpful. It is a good resource for people that have a pretty good idea of what they need to do but need to know the exact syntax required. The user contributed notes for the functions are very helpful sometimes but only after you find the right function!
I did manage to get some website promotion taken care of this week. I submitted one of my functions to a resource index and have gotten an increase in traffic as a result. I just submitted two more functions today so I hope that this will be a big boost to traffic. Oddly enough, I also got my wife to add my link to her signature at a coupon forum and have gotten a few hits from that as well. Didn't know that coupon clippers were into PHP!
Anyhow, please keep the feedback coming. Thanks!
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