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We are happy to inform you about the latest updates on DMXzone.

In this edition we have a free e-book to our top majestic members! Other precious members are not forgotten, you can win a copy of the Dreamweaver MX 2004 For Visual Learners book!

Keep yourself up to date about the latest web development news and subscribe to our new RSS feed service that displays the latest news. More about RSS can be found in our special index about RSS articles!

And last but not least our programmers have worked hard to supply you with two updates for Pure ASP Upload 2.19, ASP and PHP Gallery!

Free e-book for our favorite Majestic Members!

We've decided to frequently give away prices to our Majestic Members for their support and to stimulate them to help you even better!

Want to be Majestic Member? Participate on DMXzone by answering questions on the forum, write articles or help out DMXzone users in any other way.

The following Majestic Members will receive a free e-book due to their formidable contributions on DMXzone;

» Tim Green
» Iain Sandison
» Simon Martin
» René Bandsma
» Dave Thomas
» Lee Diggins
» Chris Charlton

Win one of our five Dreamweaver MX 2004 Books!

Dreamweaver MX 2004 For Visual Learners is a book that uses a very visual technique to show how to use the popular program. It uses illustrations to help beginners learn how to accomplish common tasks in Dreamweaver MX 2004.

All you need to do to enter the competition is to download the extract (press read more and then download sample pdf on your right), which is all about interactivity in Dreamweaver MX and answer the following question:

• To which html page is the text "Get more information about Western Travel mailed to you." linked to?

To be in the first DMXzone book draw of 2005, send your answer to this e-mail address before Wednesday 1st February 2005. Good Luck!

New RSS feed for DMXzone

The new RSS feed displays the latest news of DMXzone! You can read an RSS feed in your favorite RSS reader for instance Awasu 2.1.rc1.

Read more about RSS over here !

Premium content about RSS

» PHP and XML #4: RSS Feeds In this tutorial, we're going to look at processing RSS feeds, so we can take feeds from other web sites, and add them to our own.  

» Grabbing an RSS Feed with PHP A great way to add content to your site is use syndicated content from blogs, news sites etc with RSS which is Rich Site Summary (some would say Really Simple Syndication, or RDF Site Summary), and is a format used by a variety of sites for content syndication.

» Idea to Implementation Research: requirement gathering, competitor research and know your audience with personas, wire framing and prototypes and much, much more...

Mini updates on extensions

Pure ASP Upload 2.19
» Bug in file types fixed
» Bug with SSL sites fixed

ASP 1.0.2 and PHP 1.0.1 Gallery
» Delete error in thumbnail view solved

 

Web Development News

» W3C presents Key Web Services Standards The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published three new standards to help vendors such as Microsoft, IBM and BEA Systems improve Web services performance for customers.

» Google Set to Open AdWords Access. Google appears ready to provide greater access to its search-based advertising technology to advertisers and search-engine marketers.

» Thunderbird takes on phishing sites Taking advantage of the layout of the most common phishing e-mails (displaying one URL in the body of the message while actually pointing to another in the source), builds of Thunderbird with the safeguards built-in will display an alert and prompt the user to confirm whether she wants to actually visit the link.

» Microsoft Drops Appeal in EU Microsoft Corp. dropped its appeal of a European antitrust ruling and said Monday that it has begun offering a version of its Windows operating system without software for playing audio and video.

» Money important thrive for virus writers Viruses, trojans and other malicious programs sent on to the net to catch you out are undergoing a subtle change.

» Lead developer of Firefox starts working for Google Ben goodger has announced that his paycheck will come from Google instead of the Mozilla foundation.

» Windows 64 to arrive in April? According to the sources of the inquirer Microsoft is planning to introduce its 64 bit operating system for Intel and AMD processors (iAMD64) on the 29th of April.

» Bill Gates plots a Windows future In the first part of a two-part interview, Stephen Cole of the BBC's technology show Click Online talks to Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates about the "digital lifestyle".

DMXzone Articles and Tutorials

New for this week, we've got:

	Building a website with Restrictive Access: Part II
	In the first part of this tutorial we created a site, which had several user levels and covered the set-up of the site, creating an Access database and providing access to our site. In this second part of the tutorial we will be expanding upon our previously built site, enabling our visitors to recall their access details, and tracking each time a user logs In and Out. We will also enable our visitors to update their own details, and provide an Administration section to control the site accounts. Again we will be using the standard Dreamweaver behaviors, and altering them where required.
	Building a Flash MP3 Player part 1
	In this tutorial, we'll use Flash MX 2004 to build an MP3 Player. The player will show a list of MP3s and allow you to play, stop and rewind the songs. We'll also add a volume controller. Most MP3 players require you to load the mp3 files into Flash but in this tutorial, we'll store the songs in folders and use an XML file to tell Flash where everything is located.
	Free! Mini Book-review
	Dreamweaver MX 2004 For Visual Learners is a book that uses a very visual technique to show how to use the popular program. It uses illustrations to help beginners learn how to accomplish common tasks in Dreamweaver MX 2004. The book covers basic topics such as Dreamweaver Basics, Layout and Navigation, Utilities, Interactivity, and Advanced Layout.

Last weeks articles were:

Chris Charlton	Sas Jacobs	Matt Machell
Free! Building a website with Restrictive Access: Part 1	Creating a Flash Date Picker for HTML pages	Customizing Dreamweaver Menus

Camillah's Corner

Camillah is back with a handy tip!

After installing an extension update you have to be sure you uploaded the script files to your server. This can be accomplished by making some little changes to the page you use the extension in and then save the page(add a space for instance). The existing script files should be overwritten with the new ones then.

Meet the movers and the shakers

Who is this mysterious person, is it plane, is it Simbad or is it a Russian dancer or a Greek Sirtaki dancer? Do you know who's the famous person on the photo? Mail your answer to this e-mail address.

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