Redesigning web page

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OneBadS10

Member
Hey everyone, I sure could use your help.

I am going to redesign the Michigan SyTy page and need some good ideas on how to make the site a better experience for everyone. It's needed it now for awhile and now that I have a laptop and a phone line, i want to get started on it. Here are a few ideas that I had in mind...

1. Making/using a non-scrollable wallpaper
2. Making a new welcome picture with transparency
3. Making the links better
4. Relocating the pictures so it doesn't look all clutered and not well kept.

Look at the site and give me your opinions.

http://www.angelfire.com/mi2/MichiganSyTy

Thanks guys,
Eric
 
Loeryder

Loeryder

New member
yeah those aren't too tough to do...

Fixed back ground.

In your Body Background tag use
BGPROPERTIES="fixed"
That makes the background pic immobile.
This gives the effect of the text floating over the background.. very kewl

Making transparent gifs can be done in Adobe Photoshop.
I believe its export gif as 89A then you can select what colors you want ot be transparent. Not too difficult to figure out and the seamless look is a must have.

Making links better is al in opinion.
Is more better or is accurate better?
I have been building a links page for quite some time as different things pop up.
www.sytyauthority.net under links.

Organized I cannot help you on.
My site is a prime example. I cannot organize jack chit.
Ian Adam or Jesse can give you LOTS of pointers, if they have time.

Just make some changes and post up a link and ask for criticism, you will undoubtedly get it good AND BAD!

BEst of luck,
 
SYO237

SYO237

SyTy Registry
Get off angelfire and get a real host. You'll be much happier in the end when you start doing major updates and deeper in code.

yeah, angelfire is free...but free comes with limitations.


phpwebhosting.com is what we use for all of our clients


i know theres a few syty'ers on here who offer hosting service for very cheap also..
 
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OneBadS10

Member
I've been wanting to get off it for awhile now...looks like this is the time.

I was thinking about getting Microsoft FrontPage for the syty page.. Any pros or cons on the software?
 
Hu Ryde

Hu Ryde

Donating Member
"IMO"

phpwebhosting is ok, everyone here at school says they have all kinds of problems when you ask for more room and it's slow. www.icdsoft.com now has USA based servers that are fast and offer the best support I have ever delt with. All for $5 a month. They also support the gallery and phpBB functions and plugins are already installed. It's ready to go as soon as the domain name servers are refreshed in your area after purchase.

If you can stay as far away from Front Page as you can, it's writes C code as part of the html code and it's not always compatible with netscape/mozilla/opera browsers. Front page is a microsoft product so it works best with IE. On top of that it's extremely hard to use as a beginner.

Mozilla has a free html composer that has the most up to date XHTML 1.0 Transitional code and will be compatible with everything without all the garbage front page puts in and is also alot simpler to use than front page. The composer is part of the mozilla install for win/mac/linux.

If you want to get a nice program to code html get Dreamweaver MX 2004 and be done with it.

Peace.
 
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OneBadS10

Member
On that note, since I am a beginner and don't know too much about HTML, looks like that's the way to go, unless anyone else has any other suggestions.
 
Syclone#1992

Syclone#1992

SyTy.net Moderator
STORM needs a complete over haul. The website is really out dated. I would like to help if it is at all possible. Don't know if you were at Woodward or not....but that was the only meet. We should really model the website after Georgia SYTY and Chitown SYTY. STORM needs to be revived and starting next year, my goal is to make it happen. More meets...more new members.

Anyone who would like to host.....we would be greatful. I know that smaug hosts websites.....maybe he can help us out.
 
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OneBadS10

Member
Anyone that has any ideas is more than welcome to submit them. At the time I didn't know if there was a STORM site or not. If there is, I do not want to step on anyone else's toes. If there is, please tell me and I'll just delete the Angelfire web page ASAP.

I'll need help with some HTML stuff, so I might be asking some Q's in the Off Topic section
 
BigBadSmoosh

BigBadSmoosh

Picking fights on I-65 since 2013
i have no problem hosting the site, but it will be on a personal machine, which means, no promise of 99% uptime, or backups.. you need to keep backups of your own site, and if its down, im me once or twice, not 500 times :D

also, if anyone is looking for legit, business type webhosting that is top notch, and does NOT cost alot..

http://www.crnc.net

the owner is extremely nice, and extremely helpful, his customers are his first care.
 
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OneBadS10

Member
OK guys, I am about to cancel the free web hosting to Angelfire. I am now doing the web development in Notepad (under .html) until I can find/research a good web server to host the site.

Also, if any of you know any HTML (basic or advanced) it would be greatly appreciated since I don't know alot about HTML and learning on the fly.

Thanks again,
Eric
 
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OneBadS10

Member
I have been looking at DreamWeaver Software for the WYSIWYG design part of the project. Or is Mozilla better? Just trying to get some feedback.

Also, I bought a book called The Complete Refrence: HTML & XHTML by Thomas A. Powell. This has HTML, XHTML, CCS1, CCS2, and XML. So I hope that this will give me some good code to use.

I seen alot about the DOCTYPE in the first chapter of the book using either HTML 4.0 or XHTML 1.0. Which should I use for the code part?
 
Hu Ryde

Hu Ryde

Donating Member
Dreamweaver is industry standad and the best on the market but at a cost. Mozilla is free and does a good job for being free.

Use the latest XHTM Transitional

Good luck.
 
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