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rust45
1,088 posts
Joined May 2009
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rust45
Hello osu! community. I know there are plenty of people here who are skilled with tech-ish stuff like html, css, and php. So I was wondering if I could get help on the website prototype I've made, and how I can get free hosting for it (Although I think I may be able to host it on the same server as my schools athletics site, but I'm not sure).

To put in perspective what I'm trying to do exactly, I'm the web master for my school's Key Club. And I have to make a working site that looks nice, and will be able to give visitors info about our group, or members the ability to check what they signed up for. I'm basically looking for ways to make the design better. And I need help with a way too be able to edit certain areas of the site (Such as the officer and events page) without editing the html files themselves. This is because the next web master won't actually need to know anything about making the sites, they'll just need to maintain the site but updating the info.

I also want to try to make forums for the website but that's low priority. And I've been told I'll need to learn php if I want to make it possible to edit the website. But I would like getting help on the php here as it seems it would be harder to learn than html and css was.

Anyway, I have a link to a .zip with the site in it. So I hope I could get some help with it. Thanks to anyone who decides to help, as my advisor has been waiting for this for a while.

http://www.mediafire.com/?tpst1qq31e8dsiu
Nekoroll
513 posts
Joined May 2010
Nekoroll
"Designed By - Asiyah Khan"

Tell Asiyah Khan that they need to pay for my new glasses because my eyes burned at that page. lol

You procrastinator, you. I'll make a quick redesign and post it up later. lol Need to go relax my eyes now.
rust45
1,088 posts
Joined May 2009
Topic Starter
rust45

Nekoroll wrote:

"Designed By - Asiyah Khan"

Tell Asiyah Khan that they need to pay for my new glasses because my eyes burned at that page. lol

You procrastinator, you. I'll make a quick redesign and post it up later. lol Need to go relax my eyes now.
Um, I thought I got rid of that link. That's not the one I made, the one I made isn't even on a server yet. Look at all the html files and the css file in the folder.
Nekoroll
513 posts
Joined May 2010
Nekoroll

rust45 wrote:

Um, I thought I got rid of that link. That's not the one I made, the one I made isn't even on a server yet. Look at all the html files and the css file in the folder.
Oh haha. Yours is uhhh... I guess a step up. Not sure if what I'm seeing (the new design made by you) is finished or not, but if it is, then yeah it definitely looks incomplete.

Basically what I can do for you is give you a design but that will be it. The actual process of cutting the design and assembling it into a web page I'll leave for you. :( I can do it but would really not want to.

For the issue of having the page be easy to edit, just supply whoever is going to be the next webmaster with some free WYSIWYG page editor if it's something like to edit the Officers page or something. For anything else that could be like blog-format articles (like the Events, etc.) you could set it up with Wordpress so that it'd be easy for them to add, delete or modify new or existing events or updates. Although it needs a PHP-enabled host, the Wordpress site (http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page) takes you through the process and it is surprisingly very easy to install.

Also, I'm guessing your school's colors are blue and yellow? And are Home, About, Officers, Events, and Forums the only pages you want in the navigation?
Rokodo
1,104 posts
Joined August 2008
Rokodo
Just trying to help here, so I'll give you advice assuming you know nothing.


  • Use a content management system and databases (I recommend WordPress for the CMS)
    Modify pre-made CSS themes using Notepad++ because it gives you a better starting point and a more standards compliant CSS theme.
The website CMS will allow you to update static page content from a web browser without editing page files directly. It will also allow you to create new pages that will automatically be linked from all the other pages via the main navigation menu.

I recommend that however you make this, the forums link links off to a separate subdomain. MyBB is an open source forum software you can use for the forum.

Free hosting for testing etc: http://www.000webhost.com/
Free domain: http://www.dot.tk - Sign up for the DomainShare program using 1 email and assign yourself a domain under another email. Note - Not personally sure if this works with the host I've given in terms of configuring DNS, but I know people who have used the host before.
IppE
IppE
I can probably help with some CSS stuff and if you're going to include video on the site, HTML5 (+ flash compatibility fallback thing)
Nekoroll
513 posts
Joined May 2010
Nekoroll
So I made something. lol

SPOILER

Edit: So I just re-read your post and you just wanted improvements to your design. LOL Well good night. My design never existed.
rust45
1,088 posts
Joined May 2009
Topic Starter
rust45

Nekoroll wrote:

So I made something. lol

SPOILER
[attachment=0:26ce8]keyclublol_prev.png[/attachment:26ce8]

Edit: So I just re-read your post and you just wanted improvements to your design. LOL Well good night. My design never existed.
My advisor has already looked at the design and wants me to stick with it. And my school colors aren't blue and yellow, that's for Key Club. An issue I know is there and I've tried fixing, is that my navigation bar isn't centered on higher resolutions. And that design you made wouldn't work due to the fact that it needs to have the official Key Club logo in the site.

Anyway, wordpress seems like a good idea, I know my dad uses it for his blog so I can ask him about some of the details regarding it.

IppE602 wrote:

I can probably help with some CSS stuff and if you're going to include video on the site, HTML5 (+ flash compatibility fallback thing)
Video won't be needed, my advisor wants something simple to give info to visitors or members. So all he wants his an about page, a page about our officers, and a page to tell people about the events going on. I may even drop the forums. (They'd probably be full topics talking about High School Drama)

Thanks for the feedback guys.
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