Posts by jounik

I agree with Omol. But it depends a bit on what you would like to do with the knowledge. With Javascript you can do a lot of things, just for a "basic" website. But if you want to work with databases that I would suggest PHP. You can do a lot with both, so I guess it's important to learn them, but prior experience goes for PHP and Javascript. In which you have the most experience determines (I think) which language you should learn first...

A good website for learning all kind of languages and terms is: http://www.w3schools.com/

Hope this helps!

I just read the next paragraph on dmoz.org:
"If your site has been accepted into the Open Directory, it may take anywhere from 2 weeks to several months for your site to be listed on partner sites which use the Open Directory data, such as AOL Search, Google, Netscape Search, Yahoo Search, and hundreds of other sites. We make updates of the data available weekly, but each partner has their own update schedule."

So if google uses it, it shouldn't be a problem ;)

Ok thnx J I will give it a try, and see what happens from there. I was hoping you would say that dmoz is a good neighborhood

Hi Ravi,

What I always find a good website to look up stuff like this is:

http://www.w3schools.com/

Maybe a good website for future questions in this area :D

Hi Amy,

I've been thinking about getting some certifications as well, so I had some thoughts about it I would like to share.

The main advantage of having certifications that you can show is that the employer can "really" see what you are capable of. I ,for example, am self-thought and that's a bit of a problem since I can't "show" on paper what I am actually capable of. So that's the added value an employer can get from seeing a certification in a certain area.

A disadvantage could be that you already have some knowledge in a certain area and you want a certification and follow classes but the classes just seem to easy, because you are already (maybe) pretty good in that area.

What you could also try, is getting a starting job at a small webdevelopers company (if you already have some experience) and then make an arrangement with your boss that you can get certain certifications on his expences, which would be good for the company...

Just proposing some things out of the blue here :P Hope it helps getting together what you would like to do.

Isn't using sites as dmoz against the google terms of services? Because they state that you may not use websites just to put links of your site on it without added value...

On googles webmaster guide:

- Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"
- Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.

So would it still be correct to use a website as dmoz? I'm asking this since I might want to use it myself as well.

Thanks for the help!

Why do you need to keep it absolute? Maybe solving the problem making it relative is easier to fix than this one...

Here you can view a good article with exact code on how to make a drop box menu using javascript:

http://javascript-array.com/scripts/simple_drop_down_menu/

good luck!