I was let go before the holidays because "due to a business decision, the web devs had to go back and redo all the work that I did on the sites I did" for the company I was working for. Which, in no certain terms, is bullspit.

Whatever, I am over it. No reason to stew and stay angry about it, if they want to be that superficial about things.

I posted links in the Previews forum, those links are now gone, but from what I gathered, things were working, the only things in question were design, and typography (of which I had no control over).

So I'd like to get a gauge from the fine folks here at Swankland. Is my work sub-par? Or is my work passable? Or what do you think of my work http://six03.com/work/ (see also the past works).

I think it was just a matter of devs thinking they could do better and then going over my code. I don't know, like I said, it's not worth stewing about.

Just wanted honest opinions of my work and my skills (of which I stand behind 10,000%).

Thanks.

Pretty simple once you see it like that, huh?

Essentially, I'm making a list that will be generated by a MySQL table. It will be full of airport ICAO codes, which are 4 letters each. I want each 4-letter code to be output as a link that will automatically generate the URL based on what the anchor text is. I am happy with how to get the 4-letter codes to output as links on a page, but the URL manipulation is currently beyond me.

What I want to achieve is like this--the base URL will always be the same:

www.airnav.com/airport/

The link will look lie this:

KJFK

When the page is loaded, I want the following to happen:

<a id="ICAO" href="http://www.airnav.com/airport/KJFK/">KJFK</a>

Where you can see that the anchor text, KJFK, is appended to the base URL . The anchor text will be different on every link and therefore must be automatically generated from the anchor text to make this work.

The ID "ICAO" should allow me to use PHP, or even maybe JavaScript (but would prefer PHP) to manipulate the URL but the problem I run into is that the anchor text is after the link URL and I am just not familiar enough with PHP to figure out how to get this running correctly. I had it set so the URL was a variable like so:

<a id="ICAO" href="http://www.airnav.com/airport/<?php echo '$ICAO' ?>/">KJFK</a>

I then tried to harvest KJFK to be $ICAO through a function that was included at the start of the page, but as the anchor text comes after the URL, it didn't work, or at least that is my best guess at why it didn't work. Apologies for the newbieness of this question!

regards

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssatten

http://therissingtonpodcast.co.uk/

Both of these designers are well worth listening to and accomplished.

I'm on the market for a new laptop. I'm selling my other laptop as I had it to combine gaming and work. Now I am home in the USA, I have a desktop back for gaming and the laptop is overkill for web development. I have really wanted to switch to a Mac to use coda for web development for a long time, amongst other reasons (Jen bullying me...:D), but never had to cash to splash on one. Now I have a little extra cash and if I can just sell the Dell M1730 laptop, then I'll have enough to purchase a mid-range Macbook Pro.

The questions I have pertain to the fact I have barely used Mac and have never owned one, so I am unsure what my best purchase would be. I don't want to waste money right now. I will be using it for web development using a MAMP setup, Adobe Creative Suite CS4 and to surf the internet. I want to probably hook it up to an external monitor that is a 22" LG Flatron W2252TQ with 1680x1050 resolution.

So, will a Macbook 15" provide enough power for me to do these things concurrently (photoshop open alongside 3 browsers and coda, for example)?

I want to purchase the best CPU and GFX card available and will need to go for the base HDD and memory to do that. Can I get away with purchasing a base model HDD and memory and put in after-market items, or is mac hardware not upgradable by the enduser? Can I just put a regular 2.5" HDD in and regular memory from crucial.com?

Also, what option will I need (of the 4 or 5 they have) to put in my external monitor?

Phew, done, I think. Sorry for so many questions, but I'm really concerned about getting the right one for me as I don't have a lot of money right now but do want to go ahead and get what I need to get my job done. I just am non-tech to newbie when it comes to Apple....:D