Don't try to learn anything just yet. 99% of art is outside the "techie" spectrum. I'd go so far as to say that tech has very little to do with art. It's just that the tech world borrowed words to express creativity in this field. Code ART has nothing to do with ART just as Software ARCHITECT has nothing to do with ARCHITECTS. If you want to pursue this path, your best bet is to go an arts/humanities school or universities // or other controlled environment where you can grow as an artist. DO KEEP your tech know-how as it will help you a lot later on. Most people in the tech world have a skewed understanding of all things, due to their familiarity with all things technical... they will be of little or no help. Regards, An architect. PS. Take it slow. It took 6 years of university/architecture to teach me how little i know, but where there's a will... Also... Gnomon are regarded as one of the worst courses online on "art", but somehow every beginner seems to find their way into watching them. (the main reason being that watching is NOT doing, watching someone paint and thinking you'll be a good painter is like watching someone cook and thinking you'll be a great chef) Keep in mind that for the first couple of years you'll be ridiculed and you'l probably give up a few times(just like smoking :) If it comes back to you... then you best not let it pass and pursue it. I've been ridiculed one too many times by people who think that just because the computer behaves the way they want it to... then so must the whole world. It's funny when things seen to work, all exept that perfectly written code, when you use them... in the real world. :)

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It has to be done in asp.net code. Something like here http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/132081.aspx[^] I need to create a method that returns just the www.website.com part of the url string.

How do i make the menu selected item have a different color? tabbed menu I am using the ASP.NET MVC default template. Well i want the menu i'm in to have a different color. Found this in the css but it does not produce any results. I've searched around the web, most people have solutions that require you to modify the menu alltoghether, having a variable to keep "tabs" on what is selected. Why isn't this working by default? ul#menu li.selected a { background-color: #fff; color: #000000; }

Question about domain names - any way to know where the user came from? I have multiple domains on a region/language basis. The website is located in a folder. Is there any way for it to know where the user came from? (without user interaction) Ex: www.qwerty.uk -> Default.aspx gets fired go to i do not know where www.qwerty.ti -> Default.aspx gets fired go to somewhere over the rainbow inside the same site Can the adress be passed to the website like a string or something or is it unaware of it? To sum it up: I have www.qwerty.com as the main site. There are two smaller sites www.qwerty.tk and www.qwerty.ti which people can access. I want my site to know where the user comes from. Did he type www.qwerty.tk and set the language to "this" or did he type www.qwerty.ti and set the language to that.

:) Last time i checked it all happened in the real world. As for the age "issue", i guess i passed that point when you stop counting... I wanted to make some suggestions and substantiate them with some actual know how, you know... in the "real" world, as in NOT "virtual" reality. :)

Thank you for sharing your opinion. I'm ALL IN when it comes to functional design. I wouldn't change a thing on the site... structurally; just change some of the font sizes and color. I have to say i designed very few pc interfaces to date. But i've done tens of projects requiring you to nagivate through somekind of space. And there is a certain component of interface desgin that exists only in the visitors head, and it can only be designed outside visual studio. This kind of website is similat to navigating a tree of information. It's not that hard to have this map into the visitors heads before they start, through visual cues or the use of similar design patterns in the hierarchy of objects on the site. The sum of visual elements and their properties(that are visual) should be used to do this.

Clicked in the wrong place... i find this kind of threaded view "confusing"... i'm used to phpBB's threaded view.

Thank you for your reply. I do hope someone takes what i said seriously. There are people who make their living doing interaction design. Indeed all the information stored here is golden, too bad sometimes you have to look at it through dirty glasses.

May i suggest less clutter on the site?! I find the site Extremely usefull. But the UI is completely out of standard to any forum i've ever seen. It's extremely hard to navigate. And there are no STABLE ads. Sometimes they are UP... then on the left... then at the end of an article. And colors change everywhere without any reason (not that i can see). There is apparent hierarchy for font sizes. There is this thing in the upper left corner asking me to subscribe... i've done so but it keeps changing and asking again and again... i keep looking at it every time i look at the menu. And there is this menu near the top... the green one... it seems quite similar to the one on the left, orange one... but they have some common items and then they go astray. And that tiny ad in the bottom left, I've never clicked it... it says bullfrogpower... BUT the other font is TOO SMALL. I can't read what it says. I've counted about 18!!! different colors that get USED... no counting the ads... some for text, some for visited links... I understand all the ads generate revenue to keep the site up and running. Is there any way i can change a theme or something or even pay to get rid of the ads? NOTE: I am not a Dev. I'm actually an Architect trying to learn some C#.

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If it were only one mouse, then you'd be using a mouse-hook. There's an example on that on Fourth mouse button[^]. I doubt that this technique will work with two mouses (especially if they're identical), but you might want to give it a try before diving deeper into the system. The second alternative is to write a small application that communicates with the serial port. We got many samples on that on CodeProject, especially for .NET - the only drawback being that you're limited to mouses with an old 9 pins serial cable. In that case you'd be interpreting the signals coming from the serial port yourself, and these signals may vary per manufacturer, or even by product. I have some c experience. Do you know any paid or free video tutorials on how to do this... There aren't that much video's on driver-development, you'd best start off with the Windows Driver Kit. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/Devtools/wdk/ What IDE does one use? You'd best ask the guys in the C++ forum what they're using - last IDE that I used was Borland C++ Builder 5. That compiler is still freely available today, I believe. A big thanks goes to Eddy Vluggen.

Hello, I have a small situation. Not quite a developer yet, so i need a top-down view from someone with experience. I have a windows 7 box, and two mice connected to it, both using the windows default driver. As you can imagine they both work as a "mouse". What do i have to do, to "manage" the input of the second mouse to make it do something else, not just mousing around? Use it's movement to map to keys, and so on and so forth. Thank you in advance.