Making A Small Website For Guides

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01-22-2007, 10:59 PM
blade5x

I see a lot of guides on the forums, many good ones, and I thought it would be easier on everyone if people could just view these guides on a website (DV has guides, but not all of them listed, seems only the major ones are there). Also me just having learned a decent amount of php, all of sudden I want to start making websites.

Anyway, this is for anyone. Any guide can be submitted and put up. Navigation is quick and easy, the colors are... meh I might work on them later on. Hopefully it'll just make it easier on people trying to learn to lucid dream. Trying to keep it small and easy to use.

Sleeping Awake: Lucid Dreaming

Still not complete, but I am getting there. ;)
01-23-2007, 01:15 AM
dsr

Why don't you make a thread with links to all the useful guides and ask a moderator to sticky it? A web site seems unnecessary, and you might run into copyright issues if you neglect to ask permission from each poster whose content you borrow. I'm sure there are other ways to practice your PHP skills ...

In terms of the site's design, I like how you are using div tags and CSS, but I recommend moving the JavaScript to an external .js file. On your home page, you have 125 lines of seemingly unnecessary code littered throughout an otherwise nice HTML (actually PHP) file. Isn't the whole purpose of CSS to separate content from everything else? Also, I'm not sure I like the idea of coding the entire site in PHP. You really only need server-side scripting for the submissions section, and a simple Perl/Python CGI script or one page of PHP would suffice.

If you are really set on making this web site a reality, make sure you don't put up any content without explicit permission from the poster on DV. Good luck!
01-23-2007, 01:54 AM
blade5x

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Originally Posted by dsr

Why don't you make a thread with links to all the useful guides and ask a moderator to sticky it? A web site seems unnecessary, and you might run into copyright issues if you neglect to ask permission from each poster whose content you borrow. I'm sure there are other ways to practice your PHP skills ...

In terms of the site's design, I like how you are using div tags and CSS, but I recommend moving the JavaScript to an external .js file. On your home page, you have 125 lines of seemingly unnecessary code littered throughout an otherwise nice HTML (actually PHP) file. Isn't the whole purpose of CSS to separate content from everything else? Also, I'm not sure I like the idea of coding the entire site in PHP. You really only need server-side scripting for the submissions section, and a simple Perl/Python CGI script or one page of PHP would suffice.

If you are really set on making this web site a reality, make sure you don't put up any content without explicit permission from the poster on DV. Good luck!
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Yeah I'm not going to do that. It's all free submission pretty much. And even when somebody submits, I'll be sure to check with that person on these forums that it was themp that submitted their file.

The reason I'm making websites is, well I'm practicing pretty much. I've found it to be a much better use of my time then playing a video game or just randomly browsing the internet :P I've just recently over the past month become obsessed with it - it's the only thing I've actually taken on to learn on my own time.

I will definently move that javascript, the thing is huge I agree. It's not even my script (I am not yet experienced in java-script, though a I have a friend who knows a good deal about it) You forgot to mention the other thing that php was useful for was themysql databases ;) I'm just trying to keep it consistant with the .php extension, I have a lot of includes, but like you said, a simple script for one page would suffice (but I have to learn that first - so any pointers would be nice).
01-23-2007, 02:02 AM
wasup

Uh... isn't this what the tutorial section is for? If you think there are other guides that are good, they should be made formal and more professional looking (concise, coherent, not many grammar/spelling mistakes, nice formatting like the other tutorials, etc.) and then ask seeker to make it a tutorial (you will have to ask the poster of the technique to make it better). But remember that a lot of "techniques" are just variations of stuff in the tutorials section.
01-25-2007, 03:23 AM
dsr

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Originally Posted by blade5x

like you said, a simple script for one page would suffice (but I have to learn that first - so any pointers would be nice).
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I'm not a web programmer, so let me refer you to comp.lang.php. Good luck with your PHP endeavors.