Kevin M

Looks good, far better than my first layout. I agree with ste about the text, but other than that it's really good.

In an AJAX script, is the following line required? The only in bold. I'm making a script that changes page content without making the user have to go to a whole new page. But there's at least 5 PHP pages with content that will be switching involved. I don't even know if I need a link there, but if I do, would this script require it's own PHP server page to go along with it too?Thanks,Kevin

I'm going to look at the XSLT tutorial at W3Schools later, hopefully I'll get a good idea on something that I can do. The first version of the CMS would probably just be for my own personal use, but as I get better, and it gets more developed I may make it available as an open source code. It all depends on how the first version goes though. I know this will take quite a while, but that's the whole idea of the project for me. Work really hard on it, and hopefully get a great output. I just hope I don't get in to it sort of "over my head" if you get what I mean. I haven't even started yet, except finding a few good colour schemes for the site layout.Anyway, thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to look into XSLT later. I think I have a fairly good idea about what it's for, but I have no idea how to use it. I was considering making the CMS XML/XSLT based. I've just got to learn a bit more about both (especially XSLT). I will keep you guys posted on how things are going.Any other suggestions about the CMS or anything are still welcome.

I'm planning on working on my own personal site / portfolio sort of thing. I want to be challenged so I can try to improve my coding in many languages. So I want some suggestions on features/additions that I could add to a personal site, to not only test my coding, but also attract visitors and hopefully make them enjoy my site. To rephrase, what are the kinds of things you look for in a website that you would frequently visit? I want ideas. This is going to be my biggest project yet in the little while that I have been a developer. The things I already have planned in my head are these: Change Page content With AJAX *** Gallery and Blog/CMS Script (Made by me) Nice valid layout, that looks good and users like Ability for affiliation/links back (Like on some blogs) ***So that user doesn't have to change a whole page (which should cut down on loading time for Dial-Up users)So any other suggestions are welcome! Anything that you look for when you visit a website. Like usability, cool features/additions anything, even something like an RSS feed. I'm going to be spending quite a bit of time on this, probably months. I don't have a certain date set for anything, I just want to try and improve the best way I can, which would be to practise.Thanks a lot,Kevin

U2's guitarist is named Dave Evans (according to a quick Google search) He's nicknamed the Edge... but there may have been a guy named Larry Ullman.

I'm guessing that's what your member title said, it just says Member right now though.A little late, but it looks great now. Definately a huge improvement over the last time we saw it. The penguin looks good too . The log in is a good addition. A couple suggestions.1)In the Admin CP page thigie, maybe seperate the links at the left into caterogries with headers, eg. News, Pages etc.2)To get to the comments page (the only way I've found) is to click "Read More". My suggestion would be to have where it says 2 Comments (or whatever is there) to link to the read more page, but have the link automatically scroll down to where the comments are (eg /link.php?page#comments with the # sign).Just my two suggestions, other than that it looks so much better than before.

Visit the XML Parser tutorial with-in the PHP Tutorial at W3Schools, here: Link.Take a look at that page, and the two after it.

You could change the page content using AJAX if that's what you mean?So if a user clicks a link, then it's sort of like a frame, except not using frames. Does this make sense? I'd read the AJAX tutorial at W3Schools if you haven't already.

I agree. If you're serious about getting a web designer job, you should know how to write your own code. You could still use the code section, but I wouldn't go near design. I use Notepad when I code, and my stuff turns out fine.

I think the reason that's there is the fact that their tag reference comes up soon after that page? Just because you've read through the HTML tutorial, doesn't mean you know every single tag out there. The tutorial expains the basics, and talks about a few tags, but the reference has pages dedicated to different tags.

I'm sure you could do it, but I wouldn't. It's best to get a good grasp on a language before starting a new one in my experience. I wouldn't honestly say that two weeks would be enough for you to say that you have good experience in PHP/JavaScript even if you spend 6 hours a day working on it. I've been developing for almost 8 months now, and there's still things that I don't understand (I'm still young though, so that may have something to do with it.) If you want to try and do it, then I'm sure you could try. JS and PHP have a sort of similar syntax (I emphasize sort), so if you have good knowledge of one, then picking up the other shouldn't me too hard. It's really up to you.Isn't WYSWYG just a rich text editor? I didn't know you could develop with it.

The white is much better. The layout took about a minute to load all of the images. You may want to try and improve it there, I'm using DSL and it took that long, imagine dial-up.

Like justsomeguy said, definately HTML and CSS first. I would suggest reading through the XHTML tutorial at W3Schools too. XHTML is basically just some rules put into HTML, and it isn't really a language of it's own, but it's worth learning the rules of it.For PHP and Java Script, it depends on what you want to do. Java Script is client side (done by the browser), and PHP is server side (done by your server). It you're looking to add some cool effects, or do things like validate forms, add some mouse over effects or something similar, than Java Script is what you're looking for. But, if you'd like to make your own web application, like a photo gallery, guestbook, blog or even as advanced as a forum system, I would learn PHP and Java Script. They both have their own seperate purposes, but learning both and using them correctly in a good way will truely improve the quality of your developing/programming if you ask me.

function showmenu(elmnt){document.getElementById(elmnt).style.visibility="visible"}function hidemenu(elmnt){document.getElementById(elmnt).style.visibility="hidden"} That's a Java Script file, not CSS. You would either need to place it in the <script typ="text/javascript"> and </sctipt> and put it in the <head> section of your file, or make it external, by saving it as a .js file, then putting this in the <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="linktofile.js"></script>

Thanks for the help, I got the hover over part working. The menu won't vertically align though, I've tried vertical-align and line-height. Any ideas on another solution, or maybe I'm just doing it wrong?

Just to add to what justsomeguy said:Like he said, CSS doesn't replace them. However, it gives you the ability to style them. You can change around the colour of different elements of a form using CSS, rather than including it in the actual HTML tag. Hopefully that makes some sense.

I'm working on a layout, and it uses the <ul> tag for the navigation bar. When someone hovers over a link, the background image should change. The only problem is, not the whole image shows up, just enough to cover the text. I want the whole background image to change to an image that's 90 pixels in width, and 30 pixels in height. Here's the page:LayoutIf you hover over the menu, in IE it does what I explained above. Not sure how it is in Fire Fox. The background image for the hover is this image:And the Style Sheet section for the navigation bar: /*Navigation*/#nav {width: 550px;height: 30px;position: absolute;z-index: 3;left: 126px;top: 180px;background-color: #1c3754;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;}#nav ul,li {display: inline;list-style-type: none;height: 30px;font-family: tahoma, georgia, veranda, arial;font-size: 12px;color: #FFFFFF;}#nav li {width: 90px;height: 30px;text-align: center;font-weight: bold;padding-right: 10px;padding-left: 10px;vertical-align: middle;}#nav li a:link {font-size: 12px;color: #FFFFFF;background-image: url(/images/link.gif);font-weight: bold;width: 90px;height: 30px;}#nav li a:hover {font-size: 12px;color: #FFFFFF;background-image: url(/images/hover.gif);font-weight: bold;width: 90px;height: 30px;} So any suggestions on how I could get it so that the whole background changes when the link is hovered over? Or something that I did wrong in the coding?Thanks,Kevin

Sounds like a good idea. I'll look around for something like that. Thanks.

I guess. I will have a way to store the user's IP address, and therefore have a way to ban users from leaving comments. But like boen_robot said, I wouldn't register to leave a comment on someones personal site. I'll think about it.

That's probably what I'll do. Have it set so that only "adminstrators" can add images to the gallery. But a user doesn't have to log-in to leave a comment or rate a photo.

Good idea. It's not going to be something that I would try to get people to use. More for a learning experience. If I ever use it, it will be for a personal site of mine, so for that I wouldn't require people to register. If it turns out well, and I use it for say a fan site I decide to create, then that would be different, and I would probably have add in a registration option.I've actually been working on a template for my own personal site the last little while, so maybe I will use it there.Thanks for all the help.

I guess I was a bit confused there.Thanks for the clarifitcation. I think I sort of understand now. I'm leaning more towards that a user wouldn't have to log in to post a comment. It would be a form that would have name, e-mail/website and comment. Or do you think it would be better to have some sort of log-in system, where the user would have to be logged in to add a comment? If I do this, I think I may use MySQL. The XML library sounds interesting, but I'm not sure if I'm good enough yet as a developer/programmer to do something like this.

You would have to use either a Browser Scripting language (JavaScript etc) or a Server Scripting Language (PHP,ASP(.NET),ColdFusion etc). Then check if the user has a cookie set that would allow them to view the page. If they do, show the page, and if not, don't show the page.

Ok, thanks. If I use XML, I'll use a structure similar (If not exact) to that one. Is it really worth going through the trouble of encrypting the XML files, when I could do it with MySQL and not have to encrypt? That Annotea project looks interesting, but I only have knowledge of XML right now. Would it be worth doing something with RDF? And if I did decide to do something similar, what other XML based languages would I need to make myself familiar with?

My current host does have MySQL (It's a free one too. ) But if I ever start to pay for hosting, I would definately get a host that supports it. That was a good topic for me to read, thanks. So if I were going to do it with XML, it could be something like this: <comment><user>Name of user who posted</user><id>ID of comment (1,2,3,4)</id><message>Message</message></comment> Would something like that work? Or would it take a while to parse it, and load the page?