Web Dev Questions That Don't Need Their Own Thread v4 - Developers

Ok, so my friends brother wants me to make a website for him. To give you an idea of the flow, as soon as you enter the website, youl be greeted by a login page with a registration button and nothing else. You then have a dashboard once logged in. One to submit a thread (once you get onto the thread submission page you will have 3 category options there) and another to look at the questions which are separated by 3 categories. There will be also a rewards system for each question you answer correctly. You can also set a limited award for a suitable answer. Being a total noob to forum editing I am considering just making my own forum system. I did this a few years back when I was 14 and it was totally functional. Im now 16 and can probably do a miles better job but im just wondering if that would be a good idea? Id really appreciate some opinions. Thanks!

Following your advice I tried to do my own thing, using some minimalistic sites as examples and came up with this: [QUOTE][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/CzrhhC1.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Needs more content but I like it. Does anyone know of an Icon pack of social media/networking sites where its just a white logo on a transparrent background? So I can apply my own color Im thinking at the top right I will have nav buttons, so for example: blog, projects, portfolio, contact...

[QUOTE=Richy19;42417105]Following your advice I tried to do my own thing, using some minimalistic sites as examples and came up with this: Needs more content but I like it. Does anyone know of an Icon pack of social media/networking sites where its just a white logo on a transparrent background? So I can apply my own color Im thinking at the top right I will have nav buttons, so for example: blog, projects, portfolio, contact...[/QUOTE] Its better because its your own design, but as you said needs more content or at least fill out the page. Also I added you on steam, drop a line. [editline]5th October 2013[/editline] Also, Can't you view folders in sublime text 3's sidebar? (also sublime 2 as far as I'm aware).

[QUOTE=Richy19;42417105]Following your advice I tried to do my own thing, using some minimalistic sites as examples and came up with this: Needs more content but I like it. Does anyone know of an Icon pack of social media/networking sites where its just a white logo on a transparrent background? So I can apply my own color Im thinking at the top right I will have nav buttons, so for example: blog, projects, portfolio, contact...[/QUOTE] I use this font [url]http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/[/url].

[QUOTE=Moofy;42417532]Its better because its your own design, but as you said needs more content or at least fill out the page. Also I added you on steam, drop a line. [editline]5th October 2013[/editline] Also, Can't you view folders in sublime text 3's sidebar? (also sublime 2 as far as I'm aware).[/QUOTE] I'll add you once I get back home, and what do you mean about the folders?

[QUOTE=Richy19;42418348]I'll add you once I get back home, and what do you mean about the folders?[/QUOTE] Oh the folder thing was a question to Facepunch, not directly to you :v:

[QUOTE=Moofy;42417532]Also, Can't you view folders in sublime text 3's sidebar? (also sublime 2 as far as I'm aware).[/QUOTE] There's probably a better way to do this, but if you go to Project -> Add folder to project you can browse it that way i guess

CSS: What is the difference between id and class other than # and . respectively

[QUOTE=Cronos Dage;42422030]CSS: What is the difference between id and class other than # and . respectively[/QUOTE] Nothing.

[QUOTE=Cronos Dage;42422030]CSS: What is the difference between id and class other than # and . respectively[/QUOTE] No real difference in the CSS itself But in the html You can only use an id once in html Classes can be used several times

[QUOTE=gokiyono;42422102]No real difference in the CSS itself But in the html You can only use an id once in html Classes can be used several times[/QUOTE] [url]http://jsfiddle.net/WMnhB/[/url] You should use an id once, but you're allowed as many times as you want.

[QUOTE=Coment;42422277][url]http://jsfiddle.net/WMnhB/[/url] You should use an id once, but you're allowed as many times as you want.[/QUOTE] That is because the browser is nice to you. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

[QUOTE=hobothehero;42415229]Ok so I'm trying to display images from a website on this webapp I'm making for university. The images I need to display are randomly selected, so they change. I can construct the url of a webpage that contains just the image and some text, but not the url of the image itself because the webpage generates temporary images every time. So I've put that webpage into an object on the page but now i want to get rid of the text and just have the image. Is there anyway to access an image that is in text/html <object> tags? Here is an example of the webpages i'm embedding [url]http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/printArticleJpg/131330226/3?print=n[/url] The point of the webapp is to guess the decade in which the newspaper article was printed, so the text needs to be removed somehow.[/QUOTE] Anyone? I'm trying to display an image from another url but the image is temporary so i can't construct the url.

Installed XAMMP but getting errors running apache, hearing it interferes with Skype on port 80. Any fix?

[QUOTE=Moofy;42430305]Installed XAMMP but getting errors running apache, hearing it interferes with Skype on port 80. Any fix?[/QUOTE] In Skype: Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Connection -> Untick "Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections"

[QUOTE=Sc00by22;42430357]In Skype: Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Connection -> Untick "Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections"[/QUOTE] Why that is on by default I still have no idea.

[QUOTE=Sc00by22;42430357]In Skype: Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Connection -> Untick "Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections"[/QUOTE] My hero right here ladies and gents!

Managed to get some time to fill in some content, also changed the positioning of the icons with respect to their text. [QUOTE][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DF9TXWB.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] What do you think about the links being the same as normal text? The first 3 things (Education, Location Work) are just text, tho i might make them link to their respective pages. Ex: Home would link to GMaps or something, Work to the work website and Education to the university webpage

[QUOTE=Richy19;42432467]Managed to get some time to fill in some content, also changed the positioning of the icons with respect to their text. What do you think about the links being the same as normal text? The first 3 things (Education, Location Work) are just text, tho i might make them link to their respective pages. Ex: Home would link to GMaps or something, Work to the work website and Education to the university webpage[/QUOTE] Try making the links bold and give them a very light touch of detail when they are hovered [editline]6th October 2013[/editline] Btw just use [t] on your images to make them smaller instead of quoting them :)

[QUOTE=mobrockers;42430509]Why that is on by default I still have no idea.[/QUOTE] Because most firewalls will allow port 80 and 443 since they're used for HTTP/HTTPS

[QUOTE=Goz3rr;42435018]Because most firewalls will allow port 80 and 443 since they're used for HTTP/HTTPS[/QUOTE] I'd understand it if they were used as fallback ports when you can't connect on the default port, but it's set to use 80 and 443 by default which is stupid. [editline]7th October 2013[/editline] It even has port 27000 something filled in by default, but it's not used because the alternative 80 443 port checkbox is ticked by default.

[QUOTE=Moofy;42434577]Try making the links bold and give them a very light touch of detail when they are hovered [editline]6th October 2013[/editline] Btw just use [t] on your images to make them smaller instead of quoting them :)[/QUOTE] Like this? [t]http://i.imgur.com/OhYKcxL.png[/t] I also made the icons be part of the links, so they also change colour (however there not affected by the boldness)

[QUOTE=Richy19;42435885]Like this? [t]http://i.imgur.com/OhYKcxL.png[/t] I also made the icons be part of the links, so they also change colour (however there not affected by the boldness)[/QUOTE] Make them all bold by default and then do a slight effect on hover, not bold on hover. I think that'll look pretty good!

[QUOTE=Moofy;42439992]Make them all bold by default and then do a slight effect on hover, not bold on hover. I think that'll look pretty good![/QUOTE] They are all bold by default, or do you also mean the non-links? At the moment when you hover over them they just go slightly darker

I'm making a simple website that displays the content of a database but I got a real issue trying to keep it all organized. Right now I'm just echo'ing out the entire page from PHP but there has to be a more organized way to structure this. Also, what is a nice CSS development setup? Anything I found doesn't work well since my workspace is on a samba drive/folder.

[QUOTE=Hunter234564;42442783]I'm making a simple website that displays the content of a database but I got a real issue trying to keep it all organized. Right now I'm just echo'ing out the entire page from PHP but there has to be a more organized way to structure this. Also, what is a nice CSS development setup? Anything I found doesn't work well since my workspace is on a samba drive/folder.[/QUOTE] You can drop out of php at any point, display the html, step into php for whatever data you need to get, drop out continue html.

[QUOTE=mobrockers;42443457]You can drop out of php at any point, display the html, step into php for whatever data you need to get, drop out continue html.[/QUOTE] A better way would be to get the dynamic stuff, store it, and later on echo it. E.g. do all the logics on top, html under the php, and only have php tags in between that go <?= $result ?>

[QUOTE=eternalflamez;42446121]A better way would be to get the dynamic stuff, store it, and later on echo it. E.g. do all the logics on top, html under the php, and only have php tags in between that go <?= $result ?>[/QUOTE] Do this. For control flow stuff in your html section do... [code] <?php if($something == true): ?> It's true!!!! <?php endif; ?> [/code] You can do while/for/etc that way as well and it makes php templates a lot easier to follow.

[QUOTE=eternalflamez;42446121]A better way would be to get the dynamic stuff, store it, and later on echo it. E.g. do all the logics on top, html under the php, and only have php tags in between that go <?= $result ?>[/QUOTE] That's what I meant.

[QUOTE=mobrockers;42452917]That's what I meant.[/QUOTE] Oh it looked more like you meant something like [code] <?php $table = true; ?> <html> <head> </head> <body> <?php if($table) { ?> <table> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> <?php } ?> </body> </html> [/code] Since that's exactly dropping out of php to display html. But okay I guess.