Check out my new website. It isn't finished yet but there is a message board and some other cool stuff. Come check it out at www.fatman5.netfirms.com :)
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Check out my new website. It isn't finished yet but there is a message board and some other cool stuff. Come check it out at www.fatman5.netfirms.com :)
read the sharky member post on the tag-board thingy
Won't pull up for me.
The simplicity isn't necessarily a bad thing, but a little more style would be nice :)
If you're coding the HTML by hand have a look at your header, it consists of this:
And then you have a <head> tag after some code. Try and put all of your HTML between the body tags, and give it a proper header:Code:<html>
Then put all your HTML in between the body tags, and end it properly:Code:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Fat Man's Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
Check out http://www.w3schools.com for some really good tutorials and samples on HTML if you want. Happy coding :DCode:</body></html>
hey dude phil go easy its my first attempt at a web page. ive inproved it though, try going to it now. www.fatman5.netfirms.com
Whaddya mean go easy? :confused:
nevermind i thought that you were saying it wasn't good enough
for you. By the way what did you mean. My homepage is a lot better now so take a look
im not saying anything bad but i think youll get there in time thats how my old pages looked :rolleyes: but now there gettting better;)
All I said was that I couldn't pull it up. Thought you might like to know ,if you didn't already, that your site was down.Quote:
Originally posted by Kranky Car
nevermind i thought that you were saying it wasn't good enough
for you. By the way what did you mean. My homepage is a lot better now so take a look
ooh, taken a look at it...
looks a lot better than my first couple of sites... hehehe
I didn't know how to use tables properly... could be bothered trying...
I got in to frames and stuck to those instead... going back in to tables a bit now.. they fix a few little problems you can get with frames.... for me anyway..
Re-designing my companies intranet at the moment... Pretty big job... Have to do that as well as break-fix stuff (physically fixing peoples computers).
Just a quick complaint though... I kept on doing this till last year some time as well... The first thing i noticed when i saw your page... BRIGHT!!!!!
Shouldn't be too much work... just dim the background a bit and brighten up the foreground just a little...
Sorry, don't mean to criticize, just trying to be constructive... It's good to get used to... But i guess i've done a few subjects on Multimedia/web design. You'll definitely get there though.. Looks pretty good...
First step is to design something that works, then you can start working on fixing up colours and whatever...
Keep it up... would love to see what it looks like in future..
I have been doing web pages for five years. the first few attempts were always hard for me. It takes a lot of work with not only learning HTML and such, but learning abou styles that look good and function. In just this past year I have finally reached the point where I think my work is decent.
Have fun with it. Dont take anyones oppinion too seriously, they are just trying to help ;)
It looks rather good, but may I make a couple of suggestions? [i'm assuming that you're not just putting this here for pure advertisement. :rolleyes:]
the red of "Mark's Page" could be a little lighter, because it is rather unreadable. and you may want to specify link colours for the whole page. You may also want to remove all the extra space at the bottom of your pages.
What HTML generator are you using?
I believe it's Dreamweaver.
Your HTML needs some work, maano.
http://edawg.invercia.net/
Check out my HTML out if you want, and note the copyright notice in the footer... You'll notice that I use style sheets to make it look pretty in most graphical browsers that support style sheets, but, it is also functional in older browsers and works fairly well even on my Palm browser.
Originally posted by e_dawg
Your HTML needs some work, maano.
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Heheh, yeah I gotta agree. Stylesheets will make your life a lot easier, too... if you are using Dreamweaver still I'm not sure how much control you have; or for that matter, how much you care ;)
I'll be straight with you, since I always like a little constructive criticism as opposed to fluff. It's kinda hard on the eyes, the fonts are very large and each page has a different style.
Try shrinking those fonts down, if you want to know why just try looking at it in 640x480 res, and it is a good idea to maintain a consistent look throughout the site. Unless you wanted to have the different pages have different background colors and styles, I'd try and find a style set you like and stick with it.
It's not done, but since I'm in a good mood you can check out my site: www.fury-tech.com. !BE WARNED! It is in the middle of being ported over from an older site I had and I am doing serious work on the backend, but at least you can check out the style and setup.
My goal is to maintain a clean usable interface, and a consistent look throughout the site. Using stylesheets lets me use a consistent style across pages without a bunch of <font face="blah" size="blah" blah blah stuff.
Anyway, all of this is based on just how much you care to learn the technology. If you just want a simple site to post your stuff then I wouldn't sweat it; if you want to learn how to code, read these posts, ask questions, and learn CSS/HTML before you get any deeper.
Happy coding :D
Tekime, Why is it taking a while to port that site? It appears to be dynamic, so shouldn't it just take a template change or similar?
Since you are using PHP, if it isn't template-based, check out http://pear.php.net/ and look up the HTML templates section. You might want to move to a data-driven rather than flat-file-driven site design, since it is far easier to handle (I use something similar to forum code to input articles for my site in the database).
Mine is all dynamically generated from the database, except for the actual page layout itself, which is a template. If I came up with a new and niftier design, I could change the layout of the data just by placing a new template in my templates directory.
e_dawg,
hehehe if only it were that easy.... I'm in the process of developing my own content manager, so the real work isn't in just changing the template, but rather in re-writing my CMS for additional functionality.
I'm an intermediate PHP programmer, and the CMS was one of my projects that helped me learn the language. As such, it's gross. The code is ugly, it's very static, and bulky. I'm trying to 'modulize' the entire project, so like I said I'm pretty much re-writing the whole thing. Most of my time is spent on that, as opposed to just whipping off a few style sheets. Maybe I'm dumb to re-write the wheel but it's fun as hell and by the time I'm done I'll have a full-fledged CMS on my hands. Hopefully sometime down the road I'll make it publicly available, but for now it's just too yucky ;)
Also I have been wasting a lot of time on a forum project I had going; it was originally developed in Perl/MySQL (I had and still have a huge affinity for the language), but I've become addicted to PHP for web content and began re-writing the forums in PHP.
That, combined with a full-time job, a full time girlfriend, a vicious addiction to spinning vinyl and part time tech work I don't have a lot of free time.
Does that answer your question? ;) :D
Yessir, it does...
Mine is also my homebrew content management system (though I am too lazy to make a nice administration tool at present, so it isn't ready for initial OSS release).. I noted its main tricks above.
If you want to read and/or use the code I use to generate my site, drop me an email. Maybe we could combine forces.
Mine is rather light at the moment, the code is dirty, and it doesn't have categories (yet), however it does show how to use templates to totally modularize the web design portion from the programming portion. For my site I implemented a cross between forum code and everything2 style hyperlinking, so it is pretty neat that way (it still needs a nice administration tool, as I said before)... I could toss together a data-driven category system without much effort as well.
I made a contact management system out for funzies last summer with PHP/MySQL. It was definitely a rewarding experience, and much like yourself Tekime, the main reason I did it was to give myself an excuse to better-familiarize myself with the language.
Cool thing is I love my Contact management system, I've used it exclusively for the past year, I honestly don't know what I'd do without it! You can scope it out for ideas if you want: http://elephant.wox.org:81/
Unfortunately I don't see myself doing any cool side-projects like I did last summer. I too have a full-time job and a full-time girlfiend gobbling up my time like crazy. But lately - any time I have off from work, I'm in NO mood to code or even look at a computer for that matter.
Anyways, I'll be happy to swap source-code with yourself and e_dawg if you ever want some code snippets/examples to get you started.
Nice work, Grizzly. I took the liberty of setting up an account, and it has a very clean interface; impressive :)
I'd love to see your code too, guys. I could use all the help I can get and I'm interested to see how other people are managing their code.
I think my biggest struggle at this point will be breaking down my site into more replaceable components; it's really only usable for myself now due to its nature. My biggest achievement so far, though, is a database structure for tracking multi-level categories, so I can use recursive functions to get infinite levels of categories (which Grizzly helped me out with some, thank you!).
You should see an email soon too, e_dawg.