Re: white space in table and program to input data

Hi, Lori & Dwayne,

I'm going to kill two birds with one stone.

Dwayne, I highly recommend PHP & MySQL, along with some study of the
security aspects before you get too far into those. I would much rather be
doing Flash, but I don't see it being terribly useful. CSS, JavaScript, and
simple things like server-side includes (SSI) are also pretty important. So
I'd agree with Scott.

Lori, sometimes, if the data is complex or the client is going to have a
hard time not destroying the page, the easier long-range solution may be to
program a data-entry page that has form which the user fills in for each
entry. You can insure that the data is complete and then let the script
format it all correctly when the page is generated automatically on the
server side. Of course, odd data can corrupt your formatting, but there are
ways to control most of the issues.

I have a routine that does some of this client side with JavaScript. It
works well, but you have to be very careful in entering data, because it's
all in comma separated lists, and other formats that are hard for
nincompoops to keep straight.

Lori, keep us informed of the outcome on that sad sack host/domain name
situation.

Best wishes, Art

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