| 'The Newsletter' the face of information exchange brought to you by StickySauce.com This issue of The Newsletter is being compiled from various different pieces of hardware, due to the fact that my PC is still in the dubious custody of Pickfords Removals, and is currently midway between north Italy and the UK. However, such is our determination to serve you, our members, we felt that it was not prudent to wait until Pickfords decide to show up before rushing this issue direct to your inbox. As usual, this issue will be available from our Newsletter archive - for future retrieval. Firstly your StickySauce Webmasters would like to take this opportunity to apologise to any members/guests who experienced recent downtime during the shift to the new server, this was thankfully for only a short time and was unavoidable as we strive to ever improve our service to you, we thank you for your understanding. Last month we gave you the opportunity to check out a CSS FAQ via The Newsletter, and to see the just how CSS is changing the face of Web design at a rapid pace. We hope that the FAQ managed to whet your appetite, and encouraged you to give CSS a go for yourself in your latest designs. Should you, however, experience slight trepidation over the varying components of CSS and how to use them, Irv has produced an online CSS generator to make your life even easier. You may also wish to check out the quick tips on CSS within this issue. WYSIWYG vs Hand coding? What do you use? Personally I use both, afterall if it is just a matter of editing a couple of lines of code there is no need to fire up DreamWeaver to enact instant changes. However, sometimes you need a WYSIWYG editor to add a little flair to your design. If you are someone who relies heavily on a WYSIWYG editor, you may not be aware that they all add their own proprietary code, which in turn bloats the size of your pages. By the use of our code tidying tools you can reduce the size to a more manageable and quicker loading page. Select either DreamWeaver or FrontPage. Have you found yourself in the process of compiling an e-commerce site, but having trouble finding a countries list for the shopping cart? Use our e-commerce tool to easily list world countries and/or US states (along with a 'protect' submit button, to avoid repeat submissions). In recent issues we have supplied you with code obfuscators and various code converters - well, how about a converter that takes your HTML and changes it to PHP, Perl or Javascript? Simply select your converter, paste your HTML and obtain your new code, what could be easier than that? Okay, that is pretty much it for this issue (which I apologise for being somewhat less in content than normal) - but when/if my PC arrives I can begin to hash together a bumper issue for next month. What's on the horizon for us at StickySauce? Well, we are all gearing up for the forthcoming celebrations of our second birthday, which is due in July. Which means that in less than two years we have achieved our original goal to become the #1 Web developers resource and to remain FREE for you, our members. To commemorate the occasion Irv has set about planning the move forward for StickySauce (to take us to an even higher level), this plan includes a further full redesign of the whole site, something that I am sure you can appreciate is no small job, and all this only a few months after the current design went live. However, as Web developers I am sure you can all appreciate the need for just such a resource to stay current, fresh and innovative. We would like to hear your views on the site, the Forums and any other issue you wish to impart - so please feel free to utilise the StickySauce.com Forums or e-mail us directly Wicksie & Irv | 
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