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Re: important information (Thu 27 Mar 08)
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:52 pm
by stijn263
The
faq is updated
Can I make a donation?
Yes! For a long time Project Euler has been completely financed by Colin, but due to its growth it has become necessary to upgrade hosting. In order to meet these increasing costs and to be able to keep Project Euler running any donations would be gratefully received.
Re: important information (Thu 27 Mar 08)
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:27 pm
by rlindley
I just tried the paypal link, but I had problems. It seemed to ignore my login and return me to the same page. I logged in on the U.S. site and reset my password just to be sure I had the right one, then tried again, but the same thing happened. Will it take awhile for paypal to propogate it's information to U.S. ? I'll try it again later.
Re: important information (Thu 27 Mar 08)
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:32 pm
by Helen
I'm glad to see that donations are now possible. And it's nice to know who the mysterious "euler" is
Re: important information (Thu 27 Mar 08)
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:46 am
by sfabriz
@ euler:
Hello, of course if you work on that small png it won't become any better converting it, so maybe it would be better to start with a larger png file to work with.
In case you're interested, check out these urls:
http://www.kde-look.org/
http://fasticon.com/freeware/
http://www.iconarchive.com/
You'll find plenty of really cool (and most important - free) icons in different formats (.ico and .png) and different sizes (from 16x16 to 128x128), which are really great for websites.
For the transparent background image problem you could avoid that this way:
You just make 2 .png images, one with white background and the other one with lightblue background (of course it must be the same color you paint the alternate rows with). You call them icon_forum1.png and icon_forum2.png, then you write your code like this:
Code: Select all
...
$bg = '1';
while (there are problems to be listed) {
echo('<tr class="bgtable_row'.$bg.'">');
...
echo('<img ... src="images/icon_forum'.$bg.'.png" />');
...
$bg = ($bg=='1'?'2':'1');
}
...
This can avoid you the trouble of using transparent background images.
Of course it's an issue only for those who use IE6, but you should take care of the fact that not everybody has the opportunity to install IE7, due to it's hardware requirements, and not everybody would like to switch to ff (I know, I know...)
By the way, I'm glad the donate button is finally present!
Cheers
Re: important information (Thu 27 Mar 08)
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:16 am
by rlindley
I tried the donate button again. Rather than fill in the form, I tried to login with my correct email and password. It returns me to same page with an error that I did not enter an amount. So, I converted USD to GBP and entered an amount and logged in again. Same thing happens. Same happens if I select United States for country before trying to login.
I would think it would accept my login and take me to a page for U.S. funds or something like that. I have not tried filling in the whole form because I don't like the idea of entering my card number again. Paypal has my card number on file.
What am I missing here? Is the donate for U.K. only?
Re: important information (Thu 27 Mar 08)
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:28 am
by sfabriz
Worked for me.
Just select the amount you want to donate and press update amount.
After that you login with email+password and confirm operation.
No need to compile the form if you're already a paypal member.
Cheers
Re: important information (Thu 27 Mar 08)
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:45 am
by rlindley
Thanks sfabriz . I was not hitting the update button. I had not changed it (just initial value) so why update it? I guess I'm just "thick".
Re: important information (Thu 27 Mar 08)
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:28 am
by sfabriz
@rlindley:
You're welcome. I must confess I just had the same problem, so I guess it's not your fault. It's counterintuitive the way it's done. Since my first try didn't work I just did it the other way around and it worked...
Anyway, being used to project euler helped a lot, since with hard problems it's not so uncommon (at least for me) that the first solution doesn't work, so I do something different and then it works!
@admins: what about a dedicated "donate" page? It seems to me that the button is a little hidden back there, and I'm not sure that every p.e. member reads the forum.
Re: important information (Thu 27 Mar 08)
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:58 pm
by euler
sfabriz wrote:Anyway, being used to project euler helped a lot, since with hard problems it's not so uncommon (at least for me) that the first solution doesn't work, so I do something different and then it works!
As for your question about the increased prominence of the donate button... I am surprised that any of you found it! I will probably place an announcement at the top of the Problems page. But thank you very much to those that have made donations so far.
Re: important information (Thu 27 Mar 08)
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:40 am
by Mgccl
I found it strange to have that high CPU usage for 92005 hits.
Cache is the key.
Maybe it's nice for Project Euler to change to some cms... like Drupal... everything would then be managed already.