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w3bsite building 101 (pg. 3)
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbax
damn lira hes making a site for his classroom. XML and CSS might be over the top lol. Hes not doing webservices!! |
Maybe I shouldn't have added the X in XHTML, but CSS is not difficult if you speak English.
I mean...
h1 {
font-family: Arial, Sans-Serif;
}
p {
font-family: Times New Roman, Serif;
text-indent: 20px;
}
... this is not really that hard, is it? :conf: |
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| Orbital32 |
| make sure you run plenty of java and flash programs at the same time! |
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| Orbax |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbital32
make sure you run plenty of java and flash programs at the same time! |
agreed the web is all about "widgets" embed embed embed. Google website add-ons or web page widgets or gadgets and plaster them EVERYWHERE |
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| LeopoldStotch |
i think we are asking for too much for the poor guy. remember his HTML knowledge isn't that great(then again, it can be if he stays committed to it in a week. it's very easy to learn.). In my opinion, he can start off with how HTML works, and why certain things go in certain places to have it displayed a certain way. Then he can move to CSS to format text and manipulate HTML objects. When he gets that down, scripting and maybe some Flash is the way to go for him. we were going hyperspeed for him. :(
but then again, this is a research website. judging from my experience flipping through some research websites, it doesn't really require much shebang. The most important stuff is the context on the page and links to the sources. |
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by LeopoldStotch
but then again, this is a research website. judging from my experience flipping through some research websites, it doesn't really require much shebang. The most important stuff is the context on the page and links to the sources. |
bingo !!
it's gotta have lots of information, some pictars and some external links. Nothing more. I am not looking for a job of a web designer :wtf: I am part of the research group and I just volunteered to do this because I wanted to learn something new. |
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| Orbax |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
bingo !!
it's gotta have lots of information, some pictars and some external links. Nothing more. I am not looking for a job of a web designer :wtf: I am part of the research group and I just volunteered to do this because I wanted to learn something new. |
where are you hosting @@ |
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| Omega_M |
 Gotta think about that now :o |
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| Orbax |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
Gotta think about that now :o |
download WAMP
Windows Apache MYSQL PHP
or just apache...but either way there are lots of things that will let you host out sites off a home computer. Youll learn valuable skills that way! all that free hosting crap is for noobs |
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| LeopoldStotch |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
Gotta think about that now :o |
hold on. the research group doesn't have that provided for you? do you know if they have their own server? is it part of a research group within a school department? if not, i think you're getting the raw end of the deal here (doing more than what's expected for you). it's pretty easy to setup a web server and the environment to host the web stuff, but i thought you were hired as a web designer, not a web designer/sys admin/computer tech/_insert title here_.
however, it also doesn't hurt to learn new things, and set up a web server. :D |
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| Omega_M |
| See I'm basically a mechanical engineer and I'm doing research on vehicle propulsion systems. We are a new research group in the University and we are thinking of putting up a website. I figured it's not gona be that hard to build one. As for hosting, the school has it's own servers and we have student/employee accounts which can be accessed from any network computer on campus. Once you log into your account, there's a folder where you can store all your webpages which can be accessed by a standard http://people.schoolname.edu/~myname link. I just gotta know how to change the name of the weblink to something like http://www.schoolname.edu/auto_research since this will be a website for the lab and not for a particular student or faculty member. Or maybe there's some other way of doing it by hosting the website from a server in the lab. Dunno I gotta figure that out. |
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| LeopoldStotch |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
See I'm basically a mechanical engineer and I'm doing research on vehicle propulsion systems. We are a new research group in the University and we are thinking of putting up a website. I figured it's not gona be that hard to build one. As for hosting, the school has it's own servers and we have student/employee accounts which can be accessed from any network computer on campus. Once you log into your account, there's a folder where you can store all your webpages which can be accessed by a standard http://people.schoolname.edu/~myname link. I just gotta know how to change the name of the weblink to something like http://www.schoolname.edu/auto_research since this will be a website for the lab and not for a particular student or faculty member. Or maybe there's some other way of doing it by hosting the website from a server in the lab. Dunno I gotta figure that out. |
well then that's easy. :) talk to the IT guy at your school, and see if you can create an account for the username "auto_research", since you say that it invovles just the auto research group. He'll give it you, with a password, and you can log into the account. Bingo!
to start off with making a website, you have to make(or maybe it's already created for you) a new web directory at your user root (/home/u/__name here_). name it ".HTML" or "public_html", depending on what type of web server you guys are running. it looks like all the web setup is there for you. all you need to do is drop your stuff, and you're good. :) |
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