my [work in progress] website Options

[=R6= Raile]

nah dude im sure ive said before we have a huge amount of in-house software.. to my knowledge, ya need linux cuz you can custom everything

[Lawpf2001]

wow a new thread :awes

[Magik5]

looking at redesigning website (again ), did this last night:

hmm thoughts / criticisms...

got a few more ideas but nothing viewable

[MonkeyFiend]

the typeface looks a little out of place, then again I have been known to employ garish and out of place fonts :S The rest looks good so far.

Although if you make that site by chopping up a jpg and hotspotting it, I will personally vomit in your face. That is all.

[Magik5]

heh i have little more web knowledge then that

and choosing fonts always fuk me off, can never get a perfect one

im thinking of either flashing it and using swfaddress to aid spydering, or js the fuk out of it

flash is the easy root as i can knock it out pretty quick, but considering the advantages of js, and the fact i need to learn it properly (darned as2 type syntax) im thinking i should go down that route...

[MonkeyFiend]

Personally I dislike flash, it used to be good when it appeared on webpages to add effects to things.

Then came the days of making entire websites in flash and worse those annoying little banners constantly trying to play video, animations or worse make annoying sounds or rollovers

Because of this I have a browser with flash enabled and another browser with flash disabled, that I usually use.

Apart from bad habits the now legal requirement for resizing needs for disability etc., increased website size, slower loading (based on single swf file hits), incompatability (so who actually has flash10?), indexing issues (swfaddress isn't perfect ) etc., etc.,

Flash when done well is good, flash when not done well is worse than no flash at all.

Besides from what I've seen of AS2 it's close enough to JS syntax to not cause any major issues.

I spent some time looking for a font organiser that worked well... tried several out, but they all sucked :/

[Magik5]

being a flash developer ( albeit the as3 side of it - think as2 is a disgrace ) im going to need some areas as flash for demonstration on my site.

i rarely do flash for websites tho, stuff here at work is usually e-learning, experiential type stuff or the odd game

have to mention though i agree full on flash sites are great if done correctly - e.g. providing a unique experience to the user ( example is http://www.experience159.com/ ) but can be crappy if its not required... i speak from experience heh

it used to be that the only way to get sleek looking interactive interfaces on a website was through flash, but now that javascript has evolved, and theres a great deal of library's available such as jquery and its variants, there is little point in using flash for basic menus items such as rollovers, small animations etc, hence why i think this is a perfect time to get my head into it.

being that flash player 10 is fairly new, i "should" still develop for 9, but a, the people who i care about seeing my site (employers etc) should have the latest version installed, and b, i like finally having type-casted arrays and the native 3d(2.5d) support... (raile - "yum install flash-plugin" you looser)

[MonkeyFiend]

Speaking from experience, I made a great CV, complete with my qualifications in a nicely laid out nested table. I found out after a while that some of the agencies that got my CV had office 97 that doesn't support nested tables.

The result was they printed out my 2 page CV as about 9 pages of highly spaced out cells.

Further the agencies were too stupid to mention this and just printed it out and sent to prospective employers, which considering I was claiming to be a highly qualified IT professional made me look like a joke. I know if I received a CV from someone that looked like that I wouldn't give them a job.

Can't always rely on the people that should have the correct tools actually having them :/

[Magik5]

your a highly qualified IT professional?

now theres a scary thought...

[Magik5]

second posible design...

[MonkeyFiend]

think I prefer the first (bubbly) one, the second is a little busy for my liking (distracts from the content rather than framing it) and the torn paper style edges just don't do it for me

[Magik5]

heh tbh i prefer the blue anyway, just wanted to try something a little different..

bubblys not perfect though, think ill go with the idea, but evolve it some more...

cheers for being the only one to comment so far though (everyone else is ghey )

[fido77]

it looks good. but i do agree with monkey bubbly one. but then again i really don't know much about any of that stuff

[Magik5]

soo.... design number 3:

i phail at design

kinda settling on the above, although its maybe too "blue" atm.

definitely javascripting it, just gotta see exactly how powerful it is.... ( lack of php on my cheap ass webhost has now annoyed me, so i hope js is good at dynamically serving up content ).

[MonkeyFiend]

looks good (although put some damn .htaccess in your directories!)

you can do quite a bit in js, the old battlefiend royale tournament sub-site, although was in php, was an experiment in not using a SQL database... it worked... kind of..

I'm a firm believer in you can make things like js do pretty much anything you want (whether it's always wise or worth the effort is another matter )

lorem ipsum - latin from cicero's 'On the end's of good and evil'. It's actually a rather good book.

[Magik5]

having (on and off) just short of a years experience in webby type stuff, im still unsure of overall security of webpages. i understand htaccess can rewrite/redirect/hide directorys etc, but have never been sure when and where to use them, considering i now little to nought about security.

i generally figure if u put sumthin on the web, anyone who reeeally wants to CAN get at your files etc, but ive always wanted to know how to set up a directory containing more "sensitive" files and give it a little protection, like a password etc... not something ive come across in the past year so have never got round to working out how

[MonkeyFiend]

There's a good guide here: http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

the htaccess file can be used to specify users/passwords, hostlinking prevention, blocked IP addresses, MIME type changes and most basicaly preventing users listing directory contents when no index is present.

The single largest web security flaw I come across is with directories with 777 permissions - a lot of forums and content managemt systems require a directory like this for file uploads (like the SM imagehost or avatar upload)

putting in a htaccess file with something like this:

<Files ^(*.jpeg|*.jpg|*.png|*.gif)>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Files>

means a person can only upload the above file types. Without this a user could upload a script. then with the 777 execute the script. (typically installing an IRC control client, a bunch of malware and chowning the legit files/direcotires to 99:99 so that the user would have to contact their webhost to get it fixed.

Not that I've done this, of course.

[Magik5]

ah sweet , thanks for that

i like how you can prevent hot linking as well, tho i doubt many people would want to link to my images etc anyway

ill give that ago over tweekend

[=R6= Raile]

anyone want to make me a website?
it would be super simple, like 2 or 3 pages only, to put my show reel on and a few bits of info.. would need some form of password protection to see the vid.

there would be no money involved

[Magik5]

if u do the graphics ill html it for you. video would be flv / f4v

but you already have a website?