You can also read the article that describes how this is implemented.

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Jul 14 2001 ____________________________________________________________               C o v e r Y o u r A S P . c o m              Welcome to the latest newsletter!                  http://CoverYourASP.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Since the last newsletter the site has changed a little! The new look seems to be a success - you all stay on the site a little longer which is nice! Improvements to the search have obviously worked too - the emails from the site detailing the failed searches have been cut in half. So if you tried the search before and weren't impressed, try again. ;-) Oh, let's not forget that I have my cable modem installed now - and faster than ever thanks to being plumbed directly into the main line (no sharing with the neighbors!). <STOP_PRESS> I apologize if this email gets to you late, or you failed to get to the site in the last few days. Too many things to list have gone wrong in the last 48 hours - so the site and mail server has been offline a lot since Friday evening. "Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. Thank you" </STOP_PRESS> ____________________________________________________________                     T H E   D I A R Y                The events of the last week             http://CoverYourASP.com/ShowDiary.asp ____________________________________________________________ ______ 25 Jun ______ - To celebrate doing this for a year I had a little re-design this weekend (as if you didn't notice). I have yet to go through every page though, so I suspect you may see a few that need tweaking! Hope you like it...[1] Note: The download has not been updated with this code - I'll post here when that's done. [1] http://CoverYourASP.com/ ______ 26 Jun ______ - I made an obvious improvement to the search[1] yesterday - should have thought of it before! Now I first search the database for ALL the words you type, then I search again for ANY of the words. The former is likely to give a very short, accurate list, but the latter will usually find something when obscure phrases are searched for. [1] http://CoverYourASP.com/Search.asp - Can this be true? I'm as pro-MS as it's possible to be, but I don't like this smart-tags idea[1] as it's described here! [1] http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/columns/0,4164,2772297,00.html [note: this functionality was later removed by MS] ______ 27 Jun ______ - Continuing the improvement of the site appearance (and after being given a needed push by Minella Gjoka!) I've added something else that I always wanted - a "Printer-friendly page"[1] option that shows nothing but plain-jane content - find it on the left of the screen. I'm still amazed how easy it is to add this type of thing... [1] http://CoverYourASP.com/default.asp?plain ______ 29 Jun ______ - I'm glad I had 3 copies of Interactive Week to read last night - I installed the .NET Beta 2, or at least tried to.   � Uninstalling Beta 1: 1 hour   � Installing Component Update: 1.5 hours   � Installing Visual Studio.NET: 1.5 hours until I hit a     bad file on my CD. This is HUGE! I shall burn a new CD tonight which will hopefully let me continue (my machine is patiently sitting at home, saying "Error reading file, Retry?", waiting for my return tonight). ______ 30 Jun ______ - I think I have .NET Beta 2 installed now, but I haven't had the nerve to run anything yet. I had quite a few weird and wonderful errors, and another 4 hours of installation, but it'll be worth it! I have a week off now, so maybe I'll get as far as "Hello World"... - I can't remember if I've told you about HitBox Doctor[1] before - but if you're serious about your website you need to visit. They check for broken links, bad HTML, load time and meta tags - and have a built-in image reducer. It's all free! I use it regularly - in fact I cut out over 5k from my front page by running the new logo and table graphics through their optimization! [1] http://resources.hitbox.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?tools/doc ______ 2 Jul ______ - New site source code uploaded! I'm happy enough with the new layout to update the download[1]. I've made a few changes to improve matters on NS 4.7 and Opera 4, but since 96% of you use IE (on my site), that's good enough for me. Have fun! [1] http://CoverYourASP.com/DownloadCYA.asp ______ 4 Jul ______ - Happy 4th July! I have to keep my head down at the local parade (I'm English, remember?) but the kids are really looking forward to it... ______ 6 Jul ______ - It's a big red-letter day today - I start work (finally) on CoverYourASP.NET! I have a day off, the wife and kids are visiting friends. The Cable Guy is coming this morning too to install my cable modem in my new house after a long wait, so it's all coming together at long last. Ready, Set, Go! ______ 7 Jul ______ - I'm so pleased with ASP.NET! Users familiar with my code will be too - since it just continues on from what I do with no render blocks[1] and classes[2] for everything. It'll be a while before you see anything because I have to create the site and page structure first, but I'm working on it... [1] http://CoverYourASP.com/DontRender.asp [2] http://CoverYourASP.com/Classes.asp ______ 10 Jul ______ - Ooops! I awoke this morning with a nasty feeling that I'd forgotten something, so I checked the site. Sure enough I completely forgot that I was due to publish a newsletter last weekend. Sorry. ______ 12 Jul ______ - I finally started to replace my tacky banners - there's a new 468x60 one on my "link to me" page[1] if anyone needs to update their links. Thanks. [1] http://CoverYourASP.com/LinkToUs.asp - My parents are flying into Atlanta tonight to stay with us for a few weeks - just warning you that email responses may be a little "sluggish" for a couple of days. =;-) ______ 13 Jul ______ - Planning is continuing for the planned sister site to this one - CoverYourASP.NET. I am writing it in C# - an exceptional language. To follow along I whole-heartedly recommend that you get this book[1]. It has already jumped to the top of my "favorite books" list: Inside C# by Tom Archer. [1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735612889/shawthingcom ______ 14 Jul ______ - New banners and buttons[1] to link to me are now available. [1] http://CoverYourASP.com/LinkToUs.asp ____________________________________________________________            R E C O M M E N D   T H E   S I T E !         Please recommend my site to your colleagues            http://CoverYourASP.com/Recommend.asp ____________________________________________________________ With all the changes, there was just one new article: "Displaying printer-friendly pages" A few lines of code is all it takes to implement a printer-friendly version of all your pages. Make all those pesky navigation bars and banners disappear! http://CoverYourASP.com/PrinterFriendly.asp ____________________________________________________________               H E R O   O F   T H E   W E E K ! ____________________________________________________________ Robert de Jongh is this weeks hero, for joining the developers who so kindly give back the modifications to my code so I can share them with you. Robert's change adds support for running the site on an HTTPS secure connection: "As you will see it's an addition to the SetBaseHref function found in utils/Init.asp: Thanks for all the code and sharing it" var sRootHTTP = 'http://' var sRootHTTPS = 'https://' var sRoot = Request.ServerVariables ( "HTTPS" ); function SetBaseHref ( ) {     var sProtocol;     if ( sRoot == "on" )        sProtocol = sRootHTTPS;     else        sProtocol = sRootHTTP;     var sBaseServer = sProtocol + sServer;     // test which URL I am running from     for ( var i=0; i<sURLTest.length; i++ )     {        if ( -1 != sBaseServer.indexOf ( sURLTest [ i ] ) )        {           // apply the offset if one given           if ( sURLOffset [ i ].length )              sBaseServer += '/' + sURLOffset [ i ];           break;        }     }     Out ( '<base href="' + sBaseServer + '/" target="_top">' ); } ____________________________________________________________                N E E D   A N   A S P   I S P ?         Use mine. You won't find a nicer bunch of guys.            Cheap, efficient and extremely helpful.                   http://EverPlanet.com/ ____________________________________________________________ A story you may have heard before, with a slightly different ending... A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, silently he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks; each about 2" in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They again agreed it was. The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.Of course, the sand filled up everything else. "Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognize that this is your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner,your health, your children - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else. The small stuff." "If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal." "Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand." But then... A student then took the jar which the other students and the professor agreed was full, and proceeded to pour in a glass of beer. Of course the beer filled the remaining spaces within the jar making the jar truly full. The moral of this tale is:  no matter how full your life is, there is always room for <homer_voice>BEER</homer_voice>. ____________________________________________________________                      F E E D B A C K             Have something to say? Please share!             http://CoverYourASP.com/Contact.asp ____________________________________________________________ Neil J. McLeish: "Hi James. Just read your article on iframes. Re the para: ===snip=== It gets stranger! The files being requested were the <title> of the page containing the IFRAME, with "/_files/iframe.htm" appended. So, this page, which has a title of "IFRAME's...and IE 5.5", would cause my server to get a request for a file called: ===end snip=== I can only guess but could this be IE pre-translating the file paths for the eventuality that the user will choose menu file|save as? Doing a save as web page (complete) on your page will give an html file called: IFRAME's___and IE 5_5.htm and a folder called IFRAME's___and IE 5_5_files.  In this folder we have the image files and 6 iframe files: iframe.htm..iframe(6).htm.   Each of these iframe(N).htm files has its own iframe(N)_files folder containing a file called displayad.htm. I have a feeling that the browser developers have attempted to prepare for all of thoses eventualities which may or may not occur.  It would appear the the browser is renaming the temporary file 'just in case' the user wants to save it. If my guess is correct (or even near the mark ;) ) then I believe it is a particularly stupid 'feature' as it will inevitably end up being a cause of many a problem for developers. But I could be wrong." Me: Like I said, bizarre! ______ Dean: "Just like to say i think this is a brilliant resource.  I first came across it just after it was first live on the web, but hadn't visited for a while, only to come across it again whilst sorting out my favourites, glad i checked it out again ;] I've downloaded the site and starting messing with the files.   I've had some experience with ASP before, but not that great, and everytime i come across a problem you have seemed to have an answer!  can't believe it. anyway the main reason for dropping this mail is i have a question about membership services.  I've seen an article on webpage templates on asp101 and i was wondering whether it is possible to integrate this within the site, so basically, a user could choose colours,fonts,logo's etc on the site and be stored as part of the membership. i'm sure it would be really easily to implement, but i can't quite figure it.  am i right, would it be fairly simple?  I'm not expecting you to do this but if you could point me in the right direction it would be helpful. Me: Oh yes, that's easy (and I love seeing the English spelling of colour again). In fact I do store some personalization for the front page in the member records. Just search for bIntro as an example. To extend it, just copy the code you find and add a Color to the database, or whatever. ______ jfSebastian: "As I was looking at the codes from the cover your asp site that I've downloaded, to understand how it works, I was thinking about how do you organize all the files that are called such as config.asp, startup.asp, etc. to be shown on the webpage, you know? I mean, when you open the page it's all organized, banners at the left, news at the center, etc. but when you take a look at the code itself to see how it's done, you realize that all it has is calls to certain files like header, footer, content, and so one. But looking at it you don't see how it's done in order to appear on the site at determined places. Am I getting too complicated? Got my point? You don't specify where each item will appear and how it will appear on the page, and that's what I want to know how is done." Me: Well,looking in Header() you�ll see that it uses tables to place the content in cells around the page, then content() puts content into a cell, and finally ShowAds() is called to fill the last cell. The site is just one big table, and that is what controls the positioning. ____________________________________________________________             H A V E   I   H E L P E D   Y O U ?           If I've helped you, help me help others!             http://CoverYourASP.com/Donate.asp          ===> now with new ways to say thanks! <=== ____________________________________________________________ Lots of new things coming too - I've negotiated a job board that will appear on the site very soon so you can all find that dream job; getting paid for doing what you enjoy! Also, Ryan at http://FuzzySoftware.com (a cool directory site linking to *everything*) is hoping to have a small presence on the site so he can share his news. All of this extra content will be customizable of course via your membership, so it just means more choices for you. Thanks Guys! Speak to you later. Warmest Regards, James Shaw [email protected] 885 Woodstock Road, Suite 430, #108 Roswell, GA 30075-2247, U.S.A. ____________________________________________________________                 S U B S C R I P T I O N S           Do you want to subscribe or unsubscribe?             http://CoverYourASP.com/Subscribe.asp ____________________________________________________________