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About PongWorld.comPongWorld recommends FireFox. For more detailed updates, subscribe to our free newsletter. You can register on the home page. 2008 Updates 2007 Updates 2006 Updates 2005 Updates 2004 Updates 2003 Updates 2002 Updates 2001 Updates 2000 Updates August 28, 2000 Soon I decided to have PongWorld professionally hosted by VeoWeb, a great webhost. This allowed me to develop dynamic pages using PHP, a superb server-side scripting language similar to Microsoft's ASP. With PHP, the HTML is generated "on-the-fly". PHP also integrates with a number of Relational DBMS's very well. PongWorld uses the mySQL database, the RDBMS provided by VeoWeb. To create the PongWorld database, I first modeled the table objects and relationships with PowerDesigner. This enabled me to not only create a sleek database design that works well, but also to generate the database DDL SQL with a mere click of a button. Then all I had to do was to execute this SQL script to create all of the database objects. Since I am not a big fan of frames, I have used PHP and Server Side Includes to encapsulate similar functionality and reuse it throughout the site. This simplifies maintenance and overall development work. My philosophy in designing this website has been to keep things simple and page-sizes small. This way, downloading the pages is fast and visitors hopefully won't be annoyed by blinking, moving, popping or other annoying objects. For more on this subject, consult Jakob Nielsen's website. Let us know how we are doing. Send us an email with suggestions, complaints, or praise. Your PongWorld Webmaster |
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