Less Havoc in the next while...

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know I won't be in game for quiet a while. I have a big, and I mean big Web Development project ahead of me. (yes I am 14 and a Web Developer for a gaming site) so, if you see me online and have me, I will talk to you, but getting in game as of now, might not happen. The big release is in March, and I need to have the page done by then. I am doing a homepage for them, and I might end up with other pages, most likely not because I don't want to too busy as it is. So Ta Ta for now, and be in game in a few weeks!

This made me laugh hard. I think any webdesigner would get a kick out of it.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

jameless wrote:This made me laugh hard. I think any webdesigner would get a kick out of it.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

LOL! that was good, helps me get over what I was doing I have a lot of say in what I am making anyways, so its like "make it like this" me:I don't like it that way client:okay

Funny thing is, the client is a friend of mine LOL! Also, I can do what I want so I can make it nice and simple, but look nice.

jameless wrote:This made me laugh hard. I think any webdesigner would get a kick out of it.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

I lolled, big time!

lollll

okay so pretty much the site I am working on needs to be re-done grrr. Also gotta focus on school work some more, so you won't see me as much anymore. I will get on when I can, or if I have to. figured I would just re-post in this thread I previously made since they are the same reason pretty much.

Roger that Havik. I share your pain, webmastering sucks eggs. Glad that I went into super lazy mode right after creating pulpfortress.com v2 :p
Anyway, succes!

Nooooooooo! Dont leave me Havik!

UPDATE: Work on the site is pretty much done. Just gotta finish up some buttons. Here is the site link, so you can see the awesome work that was put into it. http://www.revampdev.com The buttons are getting set up, and there is already another make of this site by me, but it will be in PHP and not HTML. The PHP will be a progression over time, in which I can hone my skills and make it awesome So, you should see me on more btw my name is Angus

EDIT: Alex (part of my team ) stole some of my web set up credit, that was in fact me

the site lookz great, congratz and good job

I hate to be a buzzkill, but but there are some flaws with your main page.
First off, there is a line of bad coding at line 4 which I spoilered because not everyone wants to see it:

Spoiler:

Second thing I noticed is how the entire page streches if you resize the window (see screenshot). This is because you used the same code I have used for the MOTD background. Basicly this means that you got lazy and just created one image in photoshop for the entire front page, planned on doing an imagemap for the button links and call it a day. I don't mind lazyness for that is the most important thing when it comes to hmtl editing, but this isn't very practical. You should at least get rid of the streching problem. Try making the site optimized for the most common resolution instead of having it streching. Put the (clean) background image on the back and add layers for the text, additional buttons etc.

Third and final thing is that the music is set to autostart and cannot be turned off. This is very annoying and the main reason for leaving a website. Music on website is okay, but please give your users a way to mute it. A simple flash player which only has a mute button is enough and can be easily downloaded for free by using google. Here is a site that gives you a few with a way to use html for the tracks (no flash pro or skills needed).

On a brighter note, the forum looks and works fine. One last thing, there is an add-on for Firefox that gives you a lot of tools to test/debug websites. You can find it https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60. Just dont use that thing on the Pulp site, it has so many problems because I never recoded the site after I switched from MsFrontpage to Adobe DreamWeaver CS4 that it will only waste your time :p

Screenshot for 2nd thing:

Yeah, my friend Alex coded it, and added the text. I told her to use a footer div, she didn't listen. This site is only going to be temporary, and dayum were you ever good. how did you know I was going to flash the buttons? I tried, and I hate adobe flash ATM. I just can't get it right. always messes up. I changed it, but the problem is still happening I believe. It is fine in Google Chrome, but I have heard it is bad in IE. I am checking out some of the music players, and I will talk about it with the Owner. Anyways, I am making a new PHP one for it, that won't be released for a while. If we get fed up with this one, I will just convert to the old one, and make do with that. Thanks for the input. I will try to fix all of that, if I can't then, Lazy Webmastering FTW!

Havik wrote:Lazy Webmastering FTW!

Amen to that! Also, I played with Flash before even doing any html. If you want to do buttons the easiest thing I can think of is by making a flash file (actionscript 2.0) with the size of a button (120x50 with ActionScript 2.0).
Create a new symbol with the type being 'button'. Make the button in it and add frames for idle, mouse over, mouse down and mouse hit (last two can be the same). Go back to the main file window (with the grey and white area) and insert the button you just made by dragging it out of the library. After giving it the proper size right clik on it and select actions. This will bring you to the actionscript window. Add the following text to it:

Code:

on (release) {
   getURL("http://www.domain.com", "_root");
}

Export the file as a swf and use the following html to embed it on your site. This code will disable the white field of your flashfile. If you want to know what I mean, try both out by removing the wmode="transparent".

Code:

<object wmode="transparent"  width="200" height="45">
<param wmode="transparent" name="movie" value="location of your file">
<embed wmode="transparent" src="location of your file" width="witdh if file" height="height of file">
</embed>
</object>

Hope this helps you out. As for PHP, I have absolutely no knowledge of it except for adjusting value's. In fact all I know about HTML and stuff is thought to me by myself and tutorials on the web xD