You are doing great but don't do that for along time otherwise people will get used to your "volunteer" stuff especially in the field of development they will use you alot. I have done several volunteer works to develop websites for friends when i was in college and i also do my own stuff which doesn't pay also.

14. I remember writing pascal programs and running them on a floppy disk

You are right. sometimes we the 2000'G developers tend to forget that some tasks that run on the background of our phones eat-up alot of memory but we dont even bother cleaning up ourselves. we leave everything for the Phone's OS to kill the app for our selves which is a fake approach. I personally i do forget to do such kind of tasks Nowadays i don't care about pointers as such because i don't use C or C++ or any other language that will bring me back to this...although before the end of the year, i will be diving to C++ for game development. To wind-up this short story may be i can ask a simple question whether its our fault/ we will be on blame to leave all these memory cleanups to the OS or the programming language or to the several programming languages like Java which do garbage collection for us.?

The problem is that your app[web page] doesn't create a successful database connection before passing you query statements to fetch data from the db:: //make sure you are using the correct user and password: //if you are using any Apache servers like xampp,wampp.. and you never supplied your password later on ,then the default credentials to connect to your db is:====> $host="localhost"; $user="root"; $password=""; $con = mysql_connect($host,$user,$password); if(!$con){ echo "SERVER CONNECTION FAILED : source =".mysql_error(); exit; //remember this avoid any further page processing... }

Am not getting your question clearly but hope this will help you...if not just say it.. you would like to create two columns with different content sources lets say an external page[.php,.html .. e.t.c]. For my web apps this is what i do:-i will use an example: ==>supposing this is my index.php file === <div1> [Shows my page header] </div> <div2> [Shows my page content] </div> <div3> [Shows my page footer content] </div> Content posting -- --create your header.php file --create your footer.php file NB: save all the includes pages in one directory like /inc/...> to show the header content this is what i will do: using php ===and my content will be displayed in here do the same for other pages ==HOPE THIS HELPS ==