DEVELOPMENT 4 LIFE

by John Magne Spilling

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Why Development4life.net? by John Magne Spilling

I as many other people have been surfing and searching the net for software developing related sites, that is not limited to one programming language, but relates to software and game development in general - with no luck.

I therefore decided to start development4life.net to serve as a home for all developers. The site currently focuses on LB, since it's the only language that I really know pretty well, and I belive it's the best language to get started with programming, but many members uses multiple languages.

The name was partly thought through. As one of the forum members said, Development is what we do, and when you get started it becomes a part of your life. But the name sure has its disadvantages; one member asked a friend to visit development4life.net. He replied that his health was fine.

So I started out, using pure HTML, making a portal to the computer developing world. Of course that did not work. And thanks to all the free CGI programmers out there I was able to use PostNuke. PostNuke is a free portal system licensed under the GNPU license. My CGI knowledge is limited, but since I know programming in general I can see the structure and tweak the scripts into my command (most of the time). I also bought a forum, so we all could discuss code and issues that we meet on our way. I'm glad that so many members with all their knowledge have decided to join us, and we will always have room for more, both experienced and newer programmers.

The site is user based, which means that you, the member, are in charge of the content of the site. Posting an article, news, reviews, links or downloads is easy. There are several forms that can be accessed from the main navigation bar. When your contribution is received, one of the moderators will publish the contribution on the site. You do not need to be registered to make a contribution, but your name will show up as "Shy". If you want your name shown as the author and you want to take part in the contest you must be registered. Registration is free of course, and you do not receive any spam mail. You've got my word on that one.

Features of Development4life.net

A forum with the most helpfull friendly users. They've got experience with many languages, and authors of two (rumors say three) programming languages, yes that includes "our" Carl.

I'm always working on the site, and each month you can expect to see new features, small or large. Sometimes it is a new look, sometimes a totaly new feature. This will continue until all online tools for developers are avaiable at the site. At the moment there are three projects in development: an advanced visitor counter for United Developers Banner Network members, a poll that you can have on your site (no scripts needed) and we will run a monthly "Coder of the Month Award". The last one is probably ready when this issue of the LB newsletters is out.

You might say that the sites features are too much related to webmasters, but the special part of this is that all sites have to be computer related. And developers get advantages. You might wish that you only wanted programming related sites included, but if you want to show your site or product to non-programming users we will need more than programming sites.

United Developers Banner Network is also a part of development4life.net. As the name says, it is a banner exchange for developers. But we also accept computer in general sites since we want users of our creations, and potential new programmers. You can also set which type of web sites you want to target, and I believe it's the only banner exchange that has Liberty BASIC as a category. But one should note that two or more sites must be listed in that targeted category in order for the network to work.

Featuers of the banner network:

Developers gets 10.000 starting impressions

None developing sites get 5.000 starting impressions,

that is still a good deal.

The exchange ratio is 2:1

For each click the banner on your site gets, you get 15 impressions.

(Without charging another member)

For each click the network banner gets, you get 20 impressions

If your site has free open source made by you, you get 1.000 free

impressions each month.

Target you impressions

You get a free visitor counter

You can run your own newsletter, without any ads!

Banner Clicks opens in a new window

The direct url to United Developers Banner Network is

[http://development4life.net/united/]


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