[Phpip-support] HotScripts.com Febuary Newsletter

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*Newsletter - February 2005* 	



Greetings all,



I am delighted to say that we have a truly terrible web page designer

amongst us! Congratulations to Laura, winner of our 'Design The World's

Worst Web Page' contest. Her entry can be viewed at:



http://www.angelfire.com/wv/mbd/index.htm



As Vincent Flanders pointed out in his book 'Son of Web Pages that

Suck', web designers are inventing 'new and improved' mistakes. Web

design isn't brain surgery, but creating an effective Web page isn't as

easy as some people think. Hopefully Laura's website will show how you

can learn from design mistakes to make your web sites more effective.



Some of the biggest oohs and aahs last year went to plasma TV screens.

Want to enjoy the crisp and detailed picture quality of a Plasma screen

TV absolutely free? Read on and find out how to change your

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Remember to keep your comments coming to: new...@ho...



<mailto:new...@ho...>- Ahmad Permessur

Newsletter Editor



<http://www.inetinteractive.com/survey>



	Featured Scripts



*ASP* 	Liberum Help Desk <http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/6822.html>

*PHP* 	phpWebEd <http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/9027.html>

*JavaScript* 	* NOP free cart

<http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/20633.html>*

*Java* 	WebComponents JSP Tag Library

<http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/29981.html>

*CGI & Perl* 	Community Portal (CommPortal)

<http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/5732.html>

*ASP.NET* 	CuteEditor for .NET

<http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/38391.html>

*CFML* 	CFWebstore <http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/7625.html>





	Take our Survey and Win a Plasma TV



<http://www.programmingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=10909>iNET Interactive

is trying to get a better feel for their audience. By filling out the

iNET Interactive 2005 Visitor Survey, you will represent the

HotScripts.com community and also be entered in a drawing for a 37 inch

Plasma Display television. This survey is 100% confidential, and your

name will be kept separate from your answers. Don't delay. Time is of

the essence. Enter now because the future waits for no one.



To take the survey and for official rules, please click on:

http://www.inetinteractive.com/survey/



We appreciate your time and your input. You are a valuable part of the

iNET Community.



	Hot Interview



/Hotscripts is an amazing traffic generating tool for those who are

selling scripts or want to showcase their resources. We have over 14,000

listing partners who are taking advantage of this free extra exposure.

This month, we chat with one of those listing partners, Eddie Machaalani

of Interspire <http://www.interspire.com/>, and he tells us how

Hotscripts has been beneficial to his business. /



* **Hotscripts: Eddie, can you tell us more about yourself and your

products? *



Eddie: I am a co-director of  Interspire <http://www.interspire.com/>, a

web software development company who develops web based tools (scripts)

for web masters and web developers, such as content management

applications, email marketing tools, knowledge base applications etc. I

manage the day to day operations of Interspire, as well as the majority

of our marketing initiatives.



*Hotscripts: How long have you been in the business of selling scripts? *



Eddie: We first started selling WebEdit Professional

<http://www.interspire.com/webedit/> (our first product) in 2002, and

we've now expanded into 7 innovative products, with more on the way.



*Hotscripts: I noticed that you deploy your solutions in multiple

languages (ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, and Perl). Any particular reason for that?

Which one sells the most? *



Eddie: Yes, because of customer request, we decided to build our more

popular applications in various scripting languages. We diversified our

market, and were able to cater for all server environments and developer

preference. Our greatest revenue producer however, is PHP, and we've

recently decided to focus more on PHP development, rather than

diversifying into various other scripting languages.



*Hotscripts: You have been listed on HotScripts.com for a long time. Do

you get decent traffic from us? *



Eddie: Yeah, we've been listed on Hotscripts.com for as long as I can

remember, way before iNET Interactive took over (who's doing a great job

I might add). We get really good traffic from Hotscripts.com, but more

importantly, we receive targeted traffic -- potential customers who are

looking specifically for our product range.



*Hotscripts: How far has Hotscripts.com promoted your business? *



Eddie: It's hard to measure exactly, however, the first place I

advertise our new release products, is usually on Hotscripts.com.



*Hotscripts: You have sponsored listings for most of your products on

HotScripts.com. Do you see any particular payback that sponsored

listings have over normal listings? *



Eddie: Being a sponsored listing, means we can showcase our products to

a greater audience and improve our branding and this is a cost-effective

way for us to increase our traffic and sales.



*Hotscripts: What feature of HotScripts do you like most as compared to

other script directories? *



Honestly, there's no one feature that stands out, except the huge amount

of traffic :)



*Hotscripts: Any idea as to how HotScripts can improve itself and be

more beneficial to listing partners like yourself? *



Eddie: The one thing I can think of is to restrict featured listings to

a maximum number. Without this, the value of these listings becomes

greatly diluted and a huge list of advertised listings before normal

listings becomes a bit of a pain for Hotscripts.com end users.



*Hotscripts: Any final comments to Hotscripts.com's members? *



Eddie: I'd just like to add that iNET Interactive is doing a great job

with Hotscripts.com. They've maintained a great website without flooding

it with advertising, and it continues to be one of the web's most

valuable webmaster / web developer resources.



	Hot Site



HostingTech.com <http://www.hostingtech.com/> is as an online magazine

to WebHostingTalk.com and features periodic articles, interviews, and

reviews and daily news related to the hosting industry.



	Scripting News



PHP awarded Programming Language of 2004

<http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm>PHP has been awarded the Programming

Language of 2004, according to the TIOBE Programming Community Index.



Worm uses passwords to hit MySQL

<http://www.vnunet.com/news/1161093>Reports shows that a new net worm

has started exploiting MySQL databases configured with weak passwords.



Study: MySQL Hard on Defects

<http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3469631>Study

indicates that open source database MySQL has relatively few defects in

comparison to its commercial competition.



Microsoft: Web Services Covered With Indigo

<http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3481711>

Indigo promises to make Web services easier to develop and use.



Five Undiscovered Features on ASP.NET 2.0

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/02/WickedCode/default.aspx>

ASP.NET developers who have played with it are no doubt salivating at

all the cool new features.



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