JustRob

It seemed easy when I looked at it, but my bar on the right does not seem to work properly when singled out. It loses most of its styling and I have no idea why.

Hello, sorry if this topic is the same issue as my previous one, but I wasn't sure so I had to ask. On my website I have a vertical bar on the right that displays daily news among some other things. Thing is, my website has quite a lot of pages, and I want this bar to appear on every page with the same content on every page. So I was just wondering, is there a way to accomplish this without having to go through ALL my pages and editing it in every single one? I know copy and pasting speeds up the process, but still. Ideally I would like to only have to edit it once, and then it updates for all my pages.

Do you recommend learning JavaScript? On the PHP pages it says basic knowledge is required, but I don't really know much about JavaScript.

So what's the best place to learn without it taking ages? w3schools?

Hi guys, I'm making a website and on that website people can register and submit various things, such as articles. But I figured it would be a real pain in the ###### if I had a HTML page with all the articles and people send their articles to me and I keep adding them in the HTML page. So I was wondering, does anyone know how I can make a page where you have a field in which people can write articles and then click submit? Basically here's an overview - MAIN PAGE - Articles Overview (All the articles listed on different pages and sorted by submission date from newest to oldest)- Submit Article button- Article submission field (A field for the article title, and a big field for the article text) Also the articles should have the author's name which links to their profile page. And in the Articles Overview, there should be a row of leters (A to Z) which if you click on a letter, it shows all the articles that have a title that starts with that letter. On a side note, does anyone know if it's difficult to integrate a registration and log-in system for users? Complete with User CP and profile page?

So where exactly do I learn how to do that? Because I just re-installed WordPress, and all I can see is an admin panel I'm not familiar with and a blog page on my website.

Here this is exactly what I mean: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-add-0y-own-html-site-to-wordpress "You cannot upload html pages to WordPress.com blogs. What you can do is create pages using the WordPress.com editor. No html necessary.http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#video" So that's nice, we can use some crappy templates that 100,000 other people are also using, but we can't make any unique layouts. Welp. "Hi scotty,You can intergrate your own html and css (design) into your website.For that you may have to make some changes inside files or you may use css id's and classes to get the new style as you desire for the page.I am expert in handling html for joomla wordpress oscommerce." Some changes inside some files, some CSS classes or ID's, this is absolutely useless to anyone. "Some files" or "some classes"? Can they be any less specific? "No, you can't. Flash is stripped out at WordPress.com for security reasons. And you can't design your own theme; you can only choose from the 80 or so that are on your Dashboard under Themes." So, no Flash, con number one. Oh and you can't design your own theme apparently, which means you're stuck with a generic theme that everyone and their mom is using. "No that's not accurate. We cannot access the files to which you refer nor can we access and edit the HTML and PHP in template files. Also CSS editing is a paid upgrade. Please read these entries >http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ andhttp://en.support.wordpress.com/code/" Oh so now we can't access the HTML files, and CSS is a PAID service? Are you f'ing kidding me? I'd be skeptic if I got this off any other website, but these are from the Wordpress forums themselves. It's comments like these that lead me to believe WordPress is crap, and if you can prove me otherwise I very much invite you to do so.

I'm sure the process is a lot more complicated then you make it sound to be honest, I don't think it's just throwing in a few lines of PHP and done.

Well actually it's not that simple because if you copy and paste your HTML the whole thing goes bat######. The only way to do it is try to re-create your layout from scratch with the tools the CMS gives you. Which is a pain.

Simply put, WordPress is too much like a blog. As for what I want a content manager to do... Let me just show you the pages I have online right now (without a CMS) to give you an idea: - Home Page As you can see, on the front page I have several different news blocks for different categories. Up top below the logo I have the most important links in a menu. To the left I have all the main links in a menu. To the right I have a login form, where people, if registered, can log into their accounts. Below that I have daily news, and below that I have a poll. Nevermind the radio station. - Articles Page (Gamedesign) This is one of my article categories. In the center top I have the latest articles, with one being at the very top and two others below that. Below that I have shortcut letters to sort the articles by that letter. Below that I have different choices by which you can list the articles, like author or title. Below that I have all of my articles on several pages. To the right, I have a column with popular articles, which means I need to be able to check which articles get the most views. So, if I could do all this, that would be a pretty good start. One important thing for me is that I can exactly re-create this layout and this design in my CMS, down to the last column, without it taking me days of time.

Hello. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, I really don't know where else to put it. About a week ago I picked up an old website with the intention of getting it back online.This website mainly contains user-submitted articles, resources, and games.After a few days I realized something like that would be impossible without either knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL Databases, or, a Content Management System. So I tried out the various CMS'es that were included with my webhosting.I tried out WordPress, I tried out Joomla, I tried out concrete5, I tried out Drupal. However my problem with all of these is that there is either too much limitation or an extremely steep learning curve.Right now I am using Drupal, and something as simple as removing an empty space between my logo and my menubar is giving me a ###### of trouble. So, having tried out all these different CMS'es, and having found that each of them does not satisfy my needs, and having found that their support forums aren't supportive enough, I come here.Let me ask you, what is the best CMS to use? Isn't there a CMS where I can just make the EXACT layout I want without having to touch code? I know HTML and I know CSS. But all of these CMS'es have pre-set CSS classes which you magically need to find and override in order to do stuff. And that's just way too much of a pain in the ######.

I just hope I can pull it off... PHP programming is as far as I'm concerned a minor problem. I know how variables, operators, and if statements work, all I'd need to learn is PHP's way of writing the syntax. But this MySQL database stuff is confusing the ###### out of me.

So basically I need to learn JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL? This is gonna be a long year...

I actually tried this, with WordPress. But turns out WordPress is simply a "blog" type of system which I do not want. I want my website to look and function exactly as I want to, as in the above screenshot. Unless that's possible, it's not something I will consider.

Managing hundreds of HTML pages is virtually impossible, I don't have that much free time nor the strength of mind to not go insane while doing it. That was never an option to begin with. Alright, I guess what I want to know now is what else can I do with PHP. You may have noticed in my screenshot earlier there's a login field. Eventually, I want to make it so people can register and log in on my website, have their own profile page, and the ability to submit articles and videogames (which will then be moderated by me and either accepted or denied). Does that also fall under PHP? Because in that case even if it takes a long time, it's worth learning. I do have the idea to get this website running and manage it, and I doubt anyone would invest that much of their time for free.

I've done some ActionScript in the past, so I do know some of the programming principles, but that was pretty long ago. Should I try to learn PHP in general, or should I just focus on the stuff I want right now?

Is PHP hard to learn?

I don't know much about JavaScript, I've never written it myself. And I just want to use the way that's easiest, fastest, best, and most easily editable later.

Hello guys. I'm working on a website, and right now I am working on the "articles" page. What do I want? Look at the picture. So here's the rundown: When a letter is clicked, I want to show only the articles that start with that letter. When All is clicked, I want to show them all. Beneath that is a dropdown menu. When it is clicked, it shows the options "Title", "Author", and "Date". I want it so that when one of these options is selected, and "go" is clicked, it sorts the articles by that criteria. Next to that is an input box that shows "xx items per page". Same story, I want it so that if a number is entered and go is clicked, it shows that amount of items per page. All of these should obviously also work in combination with each other. And now for the problem: I have no idea how to make this. I know HTML and I know CSS, but I can't figure this out. Could anyone give me advice or point me in the right direction?

Okay, that works. It looks like I made a mistake typing the url. But still, I'm having trouble making this work. Like I said the divs are driving me nuts. In HTML, when I put an <img src> and then the <a href></a> tags, the icon is automatically in front of the link. But in CSS that doesn't seem to go so easily.

Hello, I was just wondering if it's possible to have the same images on my website, on several pages, with the same stylesheet. See, I'm making a website, and on the right I have a little menu that's on every page with links to daily news items, and in front of each link is a tiny icon. However, I have to put <img src> tags for every page for every icon. And that's pretty tedious. But, I can't do it with CSS either, because the images are in one directory, and I can only put one directory in the CSS, so for one page it will work but for the others it will give the wrong directory (because each page is in its own subfolder). Also, I have to use divs, because I apparently cannot style <img> tags. And that gives me problems, because the icons appear all over the place instead of just in front of one link. Does anyone have advice on this? Surely there must be a way so I don't have to put <img> tags on every page for every icon? I have a LOT of pages.

Nevermind sorry

Yup, that works! Thank you

Hello, I'm trying to build a stylesheet, and am currently working on the background.Right now my background consists of three elements: A background color and image that doesn't repeat, specified in the body CSS. Then there's another background image specified in a separate div, which is placed inside the body tags in my HTML. This second background image repeats vertically. However, this second background image leaves some empty space between it and the right edge of the screen. I want to remove that space so it lines up with the top image. Here's a picture of what's wrong: And here's my CSS so far: @charset "UTF-8";/* CSS Document */body{background-color: #132309;background-image: url(../img/top_right.png);background-position: 100% 0%;background-repeat: no-repeat;}#backgroundright{background-image: url(../img/rightbg.png);background-position: right;background-repeat: repeat-y;margin-top: 199px;height: 500px;}

Yes, and I don't have the problem with Internet Explorer. But I don't know why I have it with Firefox.