Here is an interesting note from a former CIS 430 student:

Just thought you would like to know that the website project  to sell something online (www.CuriousCountryCreations.com) that you gave me an A on 4 years ago is still up and running and making me thousands.  It was just a joke back then when I showed it to the class but I have to say it is a great side business now.  We have branched out from just selling tumbleweeds, yes tumbleweeds.  Now we sell wheat, dirt bags, skipping rocks and cattails. If you are thinking we do a lot for to make these products you would be wrong.  It really is just dirt in a bag, flat rocks, free cattails and wheat that I get from a farmer.  If any of your students struggle with what to sell on the internet then let them know that you can sell anything you want.   Check out some of my customers.

• Ralph Lauren (Store front)
• The Gap
• Schick Razor (commercial)
• The Year One (2009 movie with Jack Black)
• Museum of Natural History
• Sweet Bay Grocery Store (commercial)
• Dallas Arboretum (charity event)

and many other photo shoots and events that we are not aware of their use, as well as selling to:

• Dubai
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Britain
• Ireland
• Germany
• Ukraine

and others.

I just made up this list for a Radio program in Vermont that wants to talk to me about tumbleweeds so I thought I would send this over to have some fun.  I have 19 domains now and some are starting to be profitable but this site is still leading them in sales.

A note from John Young:

I posted my sample CSS layout here: http://imustdesign.com/lectures/csslayout.html
The style sheet is here: http://imustdesign.com/lectures/csslayout.css

Try turning off the style sheet and seeing how the info is laid out.  It's set up so that the main content in the center column is actually listed above the side bars.  I replaced the dummy text with info from w3schools

Link for registering your upload account: http://cis299admin.cob.isu.edu/addnewuser.aspx

After I approve you, you can log on and upload files at http://cis299admin.cob.isu.edu/login.aspx.

For guidelines on file uploading click here.

Download Firefox

ISO Recorder

You can also program your web pages so that they respond when you hit the Enter key in an input field.  Here's how:

<input id="txtMPH" type="text" onKeyDown="if(event.keyCode==13) calcKM();"size="9">

You can see a demo at: ../courses/CIS120/Spring08/demos/jsTest5.htm

Either the button or hitting the Enter in the MPH field calls the function.

Showing Solution Configuration Drop-down List on Toolbar in VS 2005

PC Support set up a new account so that you can submit your programming assignments via email. You can now submit your assignments to cis220@cob.isu.edu.  I recommend requesting a return receipt.  Just zip the entire folder that your program is in and submit the zip file.

(Those with gmail accounts may have to use your ISU accounts due to restrictions on sending zip files containing exe files. I've read that by changing the extension to something like zpp you can send them via gmail anyway.)

Showing Solution Configuration Drop-down List on Toolbar in VS 2005

Some optional reference books:

• Deitel, Harvey M,. and Deitel, Paul J. (2006) Visual Basic 2005 How to Program, 3rd edition, Prentice-Hall, Inc. (ISBN-13: 978-0131869004)
  - or -

• Deitel, Harvey M,. Deitel, Paul J., and Nieto, Tem R., (2002) Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall, Inc. (ISBN-13: 978-0130293633)

PC Support set up a new account so that you can submit your programming assignments via email. You can now submit your assignments to cis320@cob.isu.edu.  I recommend requesting a return receipt.  Just zip the entire folder that your program is in and submit the zip file.

(Those with gmail accounts may have to use your ISU accounts due to restrictions on sending zip files containing exe files. I've read that by changing the extension to something like zpp you can send them via gmail anyway.)