gettin' paid to make a website

r0tten · Post by **r0tten** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 9:11 pm

for my work,

so far i have done this today:

http://sunshineliquidators.tripod.com/index.htm

theyre going to buy the url once i'm done so the adds will be gone then.

like i said i just officially started it today so none of the links really work or anythung but this is just the start. i only know HTML Java and CSS so this is the best i can do right now.

it looks best in IE5.5+ , firefox it kinda looks screwy

tell me what you think, theyre a liquidation company/grocery store

[SK]Yourpain · Post by **[SK]Yourpain** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:59 am

*Giggle* I remember tripod..and i never wanna see its face EVER again..I hate it =(.How much $$ r ya talking? =)..Oh and if u learn flash..That will be the best liquidation site evr =)

MaestroMan · Post by **MaestroMan** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:05 am

i helped make a website once... the link bars on the right hand side could be shiney wiht..uh..little vegetable icons next to them, but i bet it it'll turn out realy good

dos mes · Post by **dos mes** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:45 am

What are you using to make it?

It looks nice so far.

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:57 am

Dos Mes wrote:What are you using to make it?

notepad?

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 10:26 am

You need a good template. It's incredibly basic.

r0tten · Post by **r0tten** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:12 am

yeah all i know is html java and css like i said so it's going to be incredibly basic but it's only for a liquidator with a chain of 3 grocery stores it doesnt have to be amazing. i thought it looked good so far.

edit: and yeah i have been writing it in notepad, i'm old school.

Caboose{SE} · Post by **Caboose{SE}** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:25 pm

suggestions....don't use tripod..if your getting paid then buy some webspace and its own name. charge them extra for that

use notepad or html kit to write the code

also. html doesn't have to be basic.

its very simple to make a good looking site with html.

good luck

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:51 pm

the editors that people use suck for html. it just aligns everything in tables. html is the better way to do things.

r0tten · Post by **r0tten** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:55 pm

last time:

i write in notepad and then just copy and paste it in there, i'm not staying on tripod, when i am done they are goin to purchase it and have me purchase a webspace for them (which i will charge extra for) then i will be paid monthly for updating it. we have'nt decided a price yet but theyre good people i'm sure it will be worth my time.

and i dont believe my html is that basic, i just have only put like 2 hours of work into this, including their logo

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 3:49 pm

div > tables

Other than that it looks fine.
w00t for notepad, it looks really neat too (although I wonder if firefox automatically formats the source like that

SS-kojak · Post by **SS-kojak** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:18 am

Oh my god, sorry but that looks quit.......bad. Use photoshop, dreamweaver, and learn CSS/PHP
then you will be on your way. I dislike it very much, I could make that in like 10 minutes.

EDIT: just noticed you used notpad, that's good for using notepad

r0tten · Post by **r0tten** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:25 pm

also it is using CSS what do you think the buttons are made of. and you're the first person to really not like it. my employer loves it and thats all that really matters.

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:29 pm

looking at the code, why dont you use a seperate style sheet?

to SS-kojak: if you need dreamweaver, you might as well give up.

dos mes · Post by **dos mes** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:34 pm

Not true, DreamWeaver is great, it just makes everything so much simpler.

r0tten · Post by **r0tten** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:43 pm

Darco wrote:looking at the code, why dont you use a seperate style sheet?

to SS-kojak: if you need dreamweaver, you might as well give up.

i'm all self taught and thats the way i learned to do it, if you'd like to explain more indepth as to why this would be beneficial i would rally like to hear. i never took any classes or anything i have just read hundreds of tutorials and i do 90% of my work in notepad from memory. btw not only am i not a fan of the drag and drop style dreamweaver uses i don't have hundreds of dollars to go out and spend on software (atleast until after i get paid for this)

i should probably get some more work done on it i really am slacking but they arent giving me all the information i need. i still need to make the "main" section of the page too, maybe i'll do that tonight. but now, shower, i stink from work.

btw it's fully compatible with all browsers except firefow, i need to fix it for that, it just doesnt look clean. the butons resize and ish like that.

edit:

SS-kojak wrote:I could make that in like 10 minutes.

also i would love to see you make something similar in 10 minutes, let me know when you start....

SS-kojak · Post by **SS-kojak** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:52 pm

I couldn't make it in 10 mins with notepad, but tell me, why is it better to use notepad to do it? I am sorry for criticizing you, I didn't know it was made in notepad. I couldn't do that in notepad! I was saying I could do thta very easily using dreamweaver and css. I don't wanna waste my time doing it, with school starting I'll be very busy.

r0tten · Post by **r0tten** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:01 pm

i never said easier, but it probably is for me, thats how i taught myself, i started doing html when i was like 10, then didnt do it from like 13-21 i just started again like a year ago for stupid little small things. now my company offered me money to make them a site.

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:06 pm

i didnt take a class either, i went straight to ta and learned flash. external styles sheets make it simpler to just link to for every page and it also means less code on each page. easier on the eyes when editing.

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<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" />

thats all the code needed for an external stylesheet on each page. then you just name the stylesheet w/e.css and replace the url in the href to what you used.

its easier to use notepad because you're actually writing the code yourself. when i created the site for my old warcraft clan, i tried using dreamweaver because i had access to it and wanted to learn how to use it, but i ended up only using it to make the flash buttons and writing everything in notepad. its just easier that way. ctl + s, alt + tab, f5. thats what i got used to doing when i started, so its just easier for me.

edit: anothe reason to use external stylesheets is because when you get a lot of different pages, it makes updating the styles so much easier.

r0tten · Post by **r0tten** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:40 pm

hmmm nice, thanks, i'll definetly look into it.