I was in charge to write the whole PHP engine for a sophisticated art community called Global Art Net. I really enjoyed working on this project, although it took quite some time to develop the code – is still being improved…

Art communities rule!

Global Art Net is an online art community and social network for artists and employers seeking creative artists. Suppliers use this site to find musicians, painters, photographers, models, djs or other artists. Artists use Global Art Net to find art supplies. Global Art Net also provides place for freelancing : registered members can post projects and place bids free!

So if you’re an artist, you can :

- show your artwork (upload images, audios and videos)

- promote your art events

- find a job or an art project

- connect with artists, employers and art suppliers

- get some traffic to your website or blog (even for FREE)

Suppliers have the opportunity to :

- promote their products to a targeted audience

- contact artists, music bands, theaters, museums and other organizations directly

- connect with artists, employers and art suppliers

If you are an employer, you will be able to :

- find lots of creative artists from all over the world

- post a project or job for free

- organize art events

- promote your company or organization (even for FREE)

D-Sign Counter is an upgraded ‘version’ of my previous script for counting number of pageloads. Actually, D-Sign Counter is a click counter that is extremely useful for counting clicks to EXTERNAL websites from your page.



A friend of mine (3D artist portfolio) asked me to develop a software that can be used to track visitor clicks to external sites (links that are pointing to 3rd party websites from your page). He wanted to better understand his visitors’ behavior and to find out if his links are at the best possible place.

D-Sign Counter is a perfect solution to that! It is a complete PHP/MySql driven package and it can be installed in 2 steps within minutes.
Very detailed description and DEMO of the program at : D-Sign Counter

You can often see labels like : ‘Post/Page visited : X times’ at blogs and various websites. Webmasters usually like to know how many times has been a particular post/website loaded, viewed by site visitors. PHP offers good basis for solving such a ‘problem’. There are many good scripts on the net that use an external TXT file to read and write to some specific data regarding page loads.

The problem however is tracking guests and members which have not logged in to your site. You can not track a user by his IP because some users do not have fixed IP. To set a cookie to the user browser to see if this is the same returning user is a good idea and a script with cookies will definatelly solve this issue the most elegant way.

My solution is a small PHP script that will track and insert visitors (registered members AND guests) into a database with NO needs of cookies, nor an external txt (or other) file.

If you know PHP/MySql, but you don’t want to (or you cannot) work with COOKIES, this script may help you out to track the page loads and visitors of your site.

Here’s the code listing :

// PHP SCRIPT FOR DISPLAYING NUMBER OF UNIQUE VISITS OF A PARTICULAR PHP PAGE WITHOUT COOKIES
// Written by : Victor Dujmovic – copyright – 03/09/2009
// http://www.blogofd.com
// dujmovicv@gmail.com
// skype : dujmovicv
// msn : blogofd@hotmail.com

$query_loads  = “SELECT * from visited_stuff WHERE username = ‘$session->username’ AND stuff_id = ‘$this_id’
ORDER by id ASC”;
$result_loads = mysql_query($query_loads) or die(‘Error : ‘ . mysql_error());
$num_loads    = mysql_num_rows($result_loads);

$username = $session->username;
$today = date(‘Ymd’);
$this_day = (int)$today;

if ($num_loads == 0 and $this_id != 0)
{
$query_update = “INSERT INTO visited_stuff SET
stuff_id = ‘$this_id’,
username = ‘$username’,
visited = ‘$today’,
nr_visits = 1 “;

mysql_query($query_update) or die(‘Error, query failed. ‘ . mysql_error());
}

// GET NUMBER OF PAGELOADS

$query_nr_loads  = “SELECT * from visited_stuff WHERE username = ‘$session->username’ AND stuff_id = ‘$this_id’
ORDER by id ASC”;
$result_nr_loads = mysql_query($query_nr_loads) or die(‘Error : ‘ . mysql_error());

while($row_nr_loads = mysql_fetch_array($result_nr_loads))
{
$that_day = (int)$row_nr_loads['visited'];
$nr_visits = $row_nr_loads['nr_visits'];

if ($this_day != $that_day)
{
$new_nr_visits = $nr_visits + 1;

$query_loads = “UPDATE visited_stuff SET
visited = ‘$today’,
nr_visits = ‘$new_nr_visits’
WHERE username = ‘$session->username’ AND stuff_id = ‘$this_id’ “;

mysql_query($query_loads) or die(‘Error, query failed. ‘ . mysql_error());
}

if ($this_day == $that_day and $session->username == “guest”)
{
$new_nr_visits = $nr_visits + 1;

$query_loads = “UPDATE visited_stuff SET
visited = ‘$today’,
nr_visits = ‘$new_nr_visits’
WHERE username = ‘$session->username’ AND stuff_id = ‘$this_id’ “;

mysql_query($query_loads) or die(‘Error, query failed. ‘ . mysql_error());
}

}

// END NUMBER OF PAGELOADS

Home-made Noteboek from Vimeo

Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo.

That’s an impressive Noteboek! And Vimeo is also impressive!

Additional words are useless and unnecessary!

Findyourself will soon get a new logo, website layout and PHP engine. The new design will bring you closer to the nature and the new PHP engine will give the site a new meaning.

We are all searching for something and seeking for answers to our questions every single day. We want to find our place on this Planet, to find ourselves, to find a car, house, girlfriend, boyfriend, pet, exotic destination, job, etc…

At www.findyourself.ws registered members will be able to submit their links, advertise their websites, services, companies for free or get listed at a featured place for paid advertising.

Findyourself will help you to – through its community – find yourself what you’re looking for. If you know what are you looking for!

Hello World!

Once I thought I will never have benefit of learning how to write algorithms. Except of those written for exams at the college, I haven’t written one algorithm. But now I realized I will never finish a complex sign-up form processor for D-Sign Responder without an algorithm…

And here it is! You might think I could have done this in Photoshop to look professional, but men… You don’t make algorithms in Photoshop! A coder will take a piece of paper and a pencil and will scribble the shapes and lines as fast as he can. That’s what I did. And it really helped me to write the code!



Thank you algorithms!!!!

Hi All! Finally, after looooooong time D-Sign Responder BETA is released, up and running! It took much more time to finish this program that I thought but I hope it worth the time and efforts! What is D-Sign Responder? Well, it can be defined as an online mailing list manager, autoresponder, content management system, e-mail scheduler…… It is a sophisticated program that offers mail sending services.

Autoresponders are often used as e-mail marketing tools, to immediately provide information to their prospective customers and then follow-up with them at preset time intervals. And that is the real POWER of them! It’s not a big deal today to have your own internet site. To own a successful web site (with hundreds or even thousands of daily visitors) that is what all the webmasters are dreaming of. If used with good marketing sense, D-Sign Responder can offer a SIGNIFICANT contribution to your success in rising the number of visitors to your website.

A logo and a few icons were designed for an upcoming online software called ‘D-Sign Responder’. It will offer e-mail marketing service such as automated and pre-scheduled newsletter/offers sending, e-mail hosting and a sophisticated campaign analyzes. Since it will be a powerful e-mail-handling application, less attention is payed to the graphic environment; and still, some portions will be really eye-catching with clear design and realistic reflections



Main colors used are orange and blue (and their nuances), I was trying to keep the overall look and feel of the ‘D-Sign concept’. At this point I wanted to showcase the graphic aspect of the upcoming responder software, basic features and description of the system itself will be posted shortly. Take care people!

“…. hey people! My boss told me about some ‘global recession’, or was it ‘global warming’???? Anyway, I don’t care much about it as long as there’s a sledge behind me! You should try to concentrate on your goals too! What????…..”

JK, a friend of mine from the ‘other’ side of the Globe asked me to develop an autoresponder system that will collect information from a pre-defined form and then respond automatically AND accordingly to the input. D-Sign autoresponder is able to accept .txt files (the moderator can upload them to the server) which then will be included into the newsletters. It’s easy to set up an email campaign with such a software.

Here you are JK! I hope your clients will enjoy reading your great articles, newsletters and tips!



From press release – OHIO :

WhateverCoupons.com is a web-based marketing company specializing in online coupons. The site was developed to help business owners make more money without the cost associated with all other forms of advertising. As for the consumer, they no longer have to search for and clip coupons because the site was developed for them, too. They save money by using any coupons on the site for free.

The company’s marketing is based on “narrowcasting” as opposed to broadcasting. The former results in higher sales and a larger public awareness. “It’s not like typical broadcast advertising. The way we do it is very cheap for businesses and we target specific consumers that in turn use the site for free. Businesses make more money and the consumer saves more money,” says Kopcial. “It may sound corny, but my #1 goal in business is to help others achieve their goals. If I can do that, my business will take care of itself. Everybody wins.”