I use this cms called doop to build my web designs around because I like the way it makes html pages dynamically that can be called into the one index.php file and styled with your own css file.So basically you can style countless html pages with just one css file.Very neat and tidy.And then those pages can be opened and edited by whomever. Me and doop were doing really well until I hit the speedbump of needing to use a more complex form inside one of these pages instead of the simple(but wholly functional) one that doop provides in it’s addons folder.The doop default editor’s textarea basically ate the closing tags of the form and this pretty much ate my project.I wasn’t able to fix it until I used filemanager and filezilla to delete this one page and start over.
It fixxed the broken pages problem but didn’t solve how to get my form into one of these pages.I couldn’t use HTML so that was out.So I turned to this open source php form generator to build my form with.It was still an html form but renaming the file extension to .htm and using a php include to call the form worked like a charm.
awesome!
I used to have a link to an example but that is long gone.You’ll just have to imagne how awesome it was to behold.
Category: Technical Blog
Website How-to pages with tons of errors
It’s a slow day and none of my clients want to return my emails.Until I hear something,anything from any of them I can’t go any further on the projects…So I’m taking this time to try to learn a bit more about few programming language implementation techniques that I’m still a bit fuzzy on.Like XML or even just plain old javascript.As a designer I haven’t had to do much with either beside link the external files properly in order to get this or that to work.The Mozilla developer center listed this PAGE as a good source of information.I guess it might be if almost every link didn’t return some scary looking error page.
Result: I learned nada and wasted a little time.
Some more searches led me to the Yahoo answer page.
Who else finds the Yahoo answer pages to be really annoying with all those cartoony avatars looking at you? I really dislike the whole avatar thing.Almost every forum or social community site asks you to upload one or worse,like Yahoo, use their cheesy selection to build from.
I had to do it for Flickr(Yahoo again) but mine is of a cartoon sofa.
New Gallery-Old Art
I finally found an AJAX gallery I liked to present my art from my old site on my new site. It’s by this guy based on a few other guy’s designs taken from this batch of comments left here.
You can see my stuff here.
I never would have found if if I hadn’t read all the comments left…so I guess it pays to be nosy.
I’m still not sold.
For the most part, all of these entirely flash based sites do not impress me.With the exception of a very few they all look quite the same.The same can be said for a lot of CSS based websites,I know.But at least I can read the text in these sites.Perhaps I am just not used to the flow of a flash layout after being so comfortable with the “holy grail” of a css layout.
And it does seem like a lot of flash designers dearly love the scrolling text box with a very small font for the text.
I was just at one a minute ago squinting at the tiny print and thinking am I so old because I am getting a headache reading this crap I have no interest in!
Continue reading I’m still not sold.