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[DoctorMason]

I'm building a website for a non profit community television group, and need some advice about it. What is missing, generic info to include, ect.

This site is supposed to become THE site where everyone in this part of California who is involved in show business will be listed. Links to their video archives, web sites, etc.

More importantly, is the developement of a simple but effective database where one minute video clips are stored for streaming. So, for example if someone send us a vdo (mpg,cd-dvd,etc) for the televised dating show, a copy is also online for anyone to see. Along with a thumbnail photo. The one I'm attempting to modify (phpyellow.com) is now located at http://sales.devictormason.com/yellow/pylite527/

Most dating websites charge both ways but ours does not. You pay to be listed and anyone can watch your one minute video streamed to them.

Anyone want to offer some advice we can use? Any software we should try to integrate?

My background and resume

My ezine teaching how to star in local TV commercials is Here!

Thanks for your taking time to review all of this and offer your advice.

[kgun]

Perhaps you should start to learn

1. Objectoriented relational database implementation. A relation in an oo db is a pointer. Efficiency.

2. A field (column) in a table in an oo relational db is like a sack. It can store different objects (instances of different classes).

3. If you are working on pictures and movies (a movie is nothing but an array of pictures), you should study
- compression techniqus
- database normalisation
- efficiency in databases.

4. May be paralell prosessing and distributed objects.

5. Class libraies and adapter classes, classes that map methods in different class libraries on to a unique method in your code. This is part of a more general concept, design patterns.

[DoctorMason]

Well thank you very much Kgun for your suggestions.

As of today we have already mastered portions of your suggestions, specifically:

3. If you are working on pictures and movies (a movie is nothing but an array of pictures), you should study
- compression techniqus
- database normalisation
- efficiency in databases.

5. Class libraies and adapter classes, classes that map methods in different class libraries on to a unique method in your code. This is part of a more general concept, design patterns.

Am still working on your suggestion re:
1. Objectoriented relational database implementation. A relation in an oo db is a pointer. Efficiency.

Current Challenge:
Modify the database here: http://sales.devictormason.com/yellow/pylite527/ so that everyone will have a link to their website. And, if possible, add their photo. Next, do more searches than the one SEARCH BY BIZ that is allowed.

Any suggestions?
DKM