[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]It just seems like A LOT of time to make a website using an editer. :ph34r:
Well I did all of my brother’s site just using notepad. It’s one of those strange things, but you start off with a small webpage, and you add a little, and tweak a few things and before you know it you’ve got a very complex looking site, but because you did everything it doesn’t phase you!
nice job groovy, it looks very “pro” nice and clean.
BTW : thanks for all your reviews coze they are very well done. As a matter of fact it was right after reading you PCGA-CK5T review that i ordered mine. :D
No, I don’t use a WYSIWYG editor as they tend to do more harm than good. I use the text-based Homesite 5.5, which is a slightly more full featured version of same code view found in Dreamweaver. Actually, if you have everything setup correctly, then working in text mode is much faster and you have way more control over everything.
I really wanted to be table free but the interface demanded it. I may re-do it without the drop shadow and if i do then i can get rid of the tables. At any rate, the page sizes aren’t that heavy. The coding was actually the easy part. The photoshop mockups took the longest to figure out. Also, the cutting took a while to figure out in order to line up correctly.
I’m both a programmer and designer and am at constant conflict with the different ways to develop a site.
Thanks for all the input. I’ll continue to tweak it until I’m happy with it. I already found something i forgot to do… :?
[quote author=“tifosiv122”][quote author=“gr00vy0ne”]I use the text-based Homesite 5.5, which is a slightly more full featured version of same code view found in Dreamweaver.
Homesite is the best, originally made by Allair, but bought over my Macromedia….this is my editor of choice…
Erik
Yeah, I’ve been using Homesite since version 1 when it was Nick Bradbury’s Homesite (pre-Allaire purchase). Doh, did i just date myself? :wink: The best thing was that being an original license holder entitled me to numerous free version upgrades. Of course, since the Macromedia purchase, I’ve had to pay for the upgrades but it’s been more than worth it.
Homesite’s ability to integrate with Merant’s PVCS Professional has been extremely awesome on some of the larger web projects I’ve worked on. Their lame Java-based check-in/check-out utility was always buggy, memory hogging and insanely slow. I believe it also integrates nicely with VSS as well.
[quote author=“gr00vy0ne”]Yeah, I’ve been using Homesite since version 1 when it was Nick Bradbury’s Homesite (pre-Allaire purchase). Doh, did i just date myself? :wink: The best thing was that being an original license holder entitled me to numerous free version upgrades. Of course, since the Macromedia purchase, I’ve had to pay for the upgrades but it’s been more than worth it.
Damn, I didn’t discover it till Allair!
I had to upgrade as well…then everyone told me to go to dreamweaver…so I did…but the code section reminded me of a bloated homesite, so I went back.
Yeah, Dreamweaver is good to use and sometimes it does help to have some WYSIWYG abilities for troubleshooting but I feel it’s a little bloated for what I do most of the time.
Oh, regarding the forums interface…yes, it will go through a subtle metamorphosis to match the site; however, this will be an ongoing process as I try to give each section a little more autonomy. Basically, the idea is that the main forum page will be the “summary” page of what’s going on in all the forums. Then, each major forum will have it’s own theme and section that’s product specific. More details and mock ups of this later. I have reviews to finish first. :wink:
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Drachen - CSS is a blessing if used correctly. My personal site has a few CSS items…namely the background colors, text colors, link colors. This way, if I decide to change all the colors, it will take 2 seconds and everything will be uniform…
Erik
This was the manner in which i thought they are relatively similar to modules… Modules don’t have to be huge… If all you wanted to do was change a tiny function in the module it will be applied to all the rest… then again… that could be bad.
[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”][quote author=“tifosiv122”]
Drachen - CSS is a blessing if used correctly. My personal site has a few CSS items…namely the background colors, text colors, link colors. This way, if I decide to change all the colors, it will take 2 seconds and everything will be uniform…
Erik
This was the manner in which i thought they are relatively similar to modules… Modules don’t have to be huge… If all you wanted to do was change a tiny function in the module it will be applied to all the rest… then again… that could be bad.
Well, CSS could be used for much more then that, but I find it doesn’t handle complicated things well. I like it for fonts, colors, sizes…it allows you to make a uniform change in 10 seconds around the entire site..pretty smart if you ask me.
[quote author=“gr00vy0ne”]No, I don’t use a WYSIWYG editor as they tend to do more harm than good. I use the text-based Homesite 5.5, which is a slightly more full featured version of same code view found in Dreamweaver.
Does 5.5 support code completion for ASP.NET or script coloring for C# of VB.NET? Homesite 5.1 doesn’t.
[quote author=“Drachen”][quote author=“gr00vy0ne”]No, I don’t use a WYSIWYG editor as they tend to do more harm than good. I use the text-based Homesite 5.5, which is a slightly more full featured version of same code view found in Dreamweaver.
Does 5.5 support code completion for ASP.NET or script coloring for C# of VB.NET? Homesite 5.1 doesn’t.
I haven’t seen that it does, and their site doesn’t mention it, but I could be wrong…
Due to my obsessive nature…I have completely rewritten the template pages for the http://www.siliconpopculture.com site. It’s now completely table free and uses DHTML/CSS.
The end result is that the pages should load faster as they are 1/3 of the original size and there’s less graphics to load. I had to sacrifice a few niceties but overall it’s almost identical for a small UI changes. It has been tested in IE6, Firefox 1.0, and Opera 7.5x. They all pretty much look the same except for minor CSS implementation differences.
