Website Help

alanp · October 08, 2008, 04:03:28 PM

That's horrible! It was the best program..... I'm keeping it on my computer.

Geekyfanboy · October 08, 2008, 04:07:53 PM

Quote from: AlanP on October 08, 2008, 03:57:09 PM
Yes!

Use code:
Star1

Thanks.. you can use multple codes on one order.. I found a code online to get 20% off my web hosting for a year.. and then your Star1 code got me 10% the entire order...

Thanks everyone.

Geekyfanboy · October 08, 2008, 04:50:43 PM

okay that was painless.. thank you all for you help.. I am now the proud owner of Geekyfanboy.com for three years and I also signed up for 12 months of web hosting with a linux system. I got all that for only $75.00.. not bad. Now the fun part.. I have to see if I can transfer my info from one site to another.

jedijeff · October 08, 2008, 04:57:55 PM

Hi Kenny, good Luck with the site. I am looking forward to seeing it. Like Rico said, a lot of these Webhosts provide automated installs and control panels to install website programs like Wordpress, so it really is just a few clicks and it is installed. I think choosing Linux for the website to run on was a smart idea, as it seems most of the common webapps run on it, and generally the servers are more robust in support and performance. This comes from a person who supports Windows webservers ;) .

Good luck, and if you need any advice or help, I am happy to give some from my experiences with my own sites.

Geekyfanboy · October 08, 2008, 05:03:00 PM

Thank you Jeff.. I will be taking you up on your offer of help.. luckily for me my hubby is pretty good at this stuff as well.

Geekyfanboy · October 09, 2008, 09:35:56 PM

Does anyone know Dreamweaver? I just got Dreamweaver 8 and I'm trying to re-build my web pages.. the question I have is there a way to build a page that would expand to whatever size the person who is view it in.. right now it creates pages 800x600 but when you view it on a monitor that is large you get white on top and bottom... any help would be great.. thanks.

celestialteapot · October 10, 2008, 02:01:51 AM

Did you use tables? If so, I think the sizes need to be in percentages rather than pixels.

Feathers · October 10, 2008, 03:41:12 AM

Quote from: celestialteapot on October 10, 2008, 02:01:51 AM
Did you use tables? If so, I think the sizes need to be in percentages rather than pixels.

Tables and percentages are the way to go (from my limited experience) but they can complicate pages - I'm talking of raw HTML coding here, though. I've not used a tool llike dreamweaver.

billybob476 · October 10, 2008, 04:49:31 AM

*Web developer hat on*

To make your web page 'elastic' you want to encompass your page in a 'top level table' with a width of 100% (unless you want some gutter on either side, then you can make it less)

so we're looking at

Code Select


<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
   <tr>
      <td>
         *website content*
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>

Technically the 'right' way to go about this is to use divs and style sheets but to make life easier go with tables. I'm pretty sure Dreamweaver puts in absolute values by default so you'll probably have to edit the percentages manually.

Lemme know if you need any help, this is my job so I can probably help you bang some stuff out pretty quick. Sorry i didn't see this thread till now.

Geekyfanboy · October 16, 2008, 02:13:06 PM

Harry has a question.. he's trying to set up Joomla on my computer..

if you try to run Joomla 1.5 local on your computer in the systemfolder /localhost... and you have at the same time Dreamweaver installed that creates for itself a folder /localhost... will that cause problems so that you can't get Joomla working...

Rico · October 16, 2008, 02:36:43 PM

Not sure why you are trying to run Joomla locally. I used Joomla for a long time as my main web page and it all ran on my host server. You just log in there and edit and do what you need. Usually your host can install it for you on your web site space too.

Geekyfanboy · October 16, 2008, 02:52:31 PM

I wanted to be able to work on pages offline and when they were complete I wanted to upload to my server. Is this not possible?

jedijeff · October 16, 2008, 03:10:40 PM

For Joomla, you more or less create your pages in the application. It is more template driven, and also adding in Plugins and Components into the site. You could probably redesign the templates a bit with dreamweaver to get the look you want.
You might be able to install two instances of joomla on your webspace, your primary site, and then a dev site for you to do your testing and development. I know I had thought as well of installing Joomla on my PC, but there is a lot of work to do, as you need to Install MySQL, Apache and PHP before you can even start with installing Joomla. I spent weeks getting it setup, but in the end I never really needed it.

Rico · October 16, 2008, 03:25:38 PM

Quote from: StarTrekFanatic5 on October 16, 2008, 02:52:31 PM
I wanted to be able to work on pages offline and when they were complete I wanted to upload to my server. Is this not possible?

Offline? What is this offline you speak of??

--- Seriously as Jeff said, it's not really designed for that. Kenny you will find many popular web tools in use these days really work best online. It's the slow move to "cloud computing" or everything done online. Joomla, Wordpress, Blogger, etc. are all designed like that.

Meds · October 16, 2008, 11:48:57 PM

I'm going to need some serious help next year when i set up my podcast. (me being the main presenter and every week a guest host) But i have absolutley no idea what to do, how to get started and regarding making a web page, jeez i'm way out of my depth ha ha. I look at this site and the main page and i am in awe at Rico's work. Mine will probably look like bad scrap book. ha ha.