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Easiest way to create a professionally looking website?
- Thread starter gar598
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Ryan
Lifer
Originally posted by: gar598
I'm poor and it's not like it's a site I would ever make any money off of..... So paying would be a tremendous effort....Originally posted by: rbloedow Yea - you pay someone to do it. It requires no effort (unless you count taking out your credit card).
Well, that was your list of options. You can add "whoring yourself" to it, but that your prerogative.
Not neccessarily. This is my website. It has practically no graphics, and I think it looks pretty professional.
An SSI include basically lets you insert the output of a program (usually some type of script. perl and shell scripts are common) into an html file.
you could write a simple perl script like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
opendir PICS, "images";
@images = readdir PICS;
shift @images; # remove '.'
shift @images; # remove '..'
$num = rand @images;
print qq~Content-Type: text/html\n\n<img src="$images[$num]">~;
and then you could insert an SSI include like this: <!--#exec cgi="thescript.pl"-->
into your html file. each time the html file loaded, the script would run, and youd get a random image from the "images" directory displayed on your page.
you could write a simple perl script like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
opendir PICS, "images";
@images = readdir PICS;
shift @images; # remove '.'
shift @images; # remove '..'
$num = rand @images;
print qq~Content-Type: text/html\n\n<img src="$images[$num]">~;
and then you could insert an SSI include like this: <!--#exec cgi="thescript.pl"-->
into your html file. each time the html file loaded, the script would run, and youd get a random image from the "images" directory displayed on your page.
SherEPunjab
Diamond Member
not fred, thats an allright website, lots of table usage and bg colors. Nice choice of pastels.
Notfred is correct, you dont' have to use a lot of graphics. I think his website looks fine.
btw, if you want to try something jazzy a lot of people like to take a pre-made image (good quality of course) shrink its file size down, and make an image map in image ready or even dreamweaver, and add hyperlinks/hotspots to certain areas of that same, static image image that redirects you to other pages in the site. it can look cool, but isn't very fast loading (but ppl with cable modem wont' have ANY probs).
another eay way is to take someones webpage (like notfreds), and save the .html file and edit it to you taste. change the text and so forth, and thats it! Notfred may not appreciate this, but he won't be able to control you taking it 😉
btw, i think dreamweaver is a good product for newbies, you should use that when you do your basic coding. and, for the record, I ONLY hard code my webpages, Textpad baby!
Notfred is correct, you dont' have to use a lot of graphics. I think his website looks fine.
btw, if you want to try something jazzy a lot of people like to take a pre-made image (good quality of course) shrink its file size down, and make an image map in image ready or even dreamweaver, and add hyperlinks/hotspots to certain areas of that same, static image image that redirects you to other pages in the site. it can look cool, but isn't very fast loading (but ppl with cable modem wont' have ANY probs).
another eay way is to take someones webpage (like notfreds), and save the .html file and edit it to you taste. change the text and so forth, and thats it! Notfred may not appreciate this, but he won't be able to control you taking it 😉
btw, i think dreamweaver is a good product for newbies, you should use that when you do your basic coding. and, for the record, I ONLY hard code my webpages, Textpad baby!
ThePresence
Elite Member
Pay me money to do it for you. 😀 Easy.
ThePresence
Elite Member
All depends on what you wanna do. PM me if you are serious. 🙂
Dreamweaver MX is a great web making program, way better than that piece of crap Front Page.
Just buy a book and learn how to make web pages.
Just buy a book and learn how to make web pages.
ThePresence
Elite Member
NetworkDad
Diamond Member
FrontPage is your friend! ...... 😉 j/k - Stay away from it like the plague.
I've been learning PHP recently - very good stuff. I put together this e-commerce store all done in PHP. I have to admit, the basic core of the store is opensource, but all the modifications and add in's, i've done myself. I've had to learn a lot of coding PHP to make it work the way i want it to.
My suggestion: Grab a good book, and start reading, practice, and have fun with it! You'll feel much better about your site when you know how it works and why.
I've been learning PHP recently - very good stuff. I put together this e-commerce store all done in PHP. I have to admit, the basic core of the store is opensource, but all the modifications and add in's, i've done myself. I've had to learn a lot of coding PHP to make it work the way i want it to.
My suggestion: Grab a good book, and start reading, practice, and have fun with it! You'll feel much better about your site when you know how it works and why.
ThePresence
Elite Member
Thank you.
Not bad. Although, a lot of my work is mostly building functional intranet sites and aren't availible online. But...one site i did the layout for that is a good example of basic minimal graphics is http://www.therapyisokay.com. I only touched up the graphics as best as i could and made the info she gave reable and easily navigated from the end users point of view.
And a site i'm currently working on which is to be an online community type site is http://www.bonsaitree.com.
Hope you like.
BTW, just so you know, i wrote the javascript for the order form on the therapy site. 😀
And a site i'm currently working on which is to be an online community type site is http://www.bonsaitree.com.
Hope you like.
BTW, just so you know, i wrote the javascript for the order form on the therapy site. 😀
ThePresence
Elite Member
cool.
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