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hottweelz

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In website features that you normally cannot find.



IE..
1. Real MP3s
2. Webmail Access
3. Mobile/Cellphone/BlackBerry Formatted Pages
 
Taste
Speed
Robustness

When I design a site, I try my damnedest to keep the whole of each page (images + text + generated output) under 3-4Kb, but still keep it totally usable.
 
CaptainZilog said:
Taste
Speed
Robustness

When I design a site, I try my damnedest to keep the whole of each page (images + text + generated output) under 3-4Kb, but still keep it totally usable.
Dam how do you do that? When I was starting my personal site, I figured I wanted something that gathered information from and or about the subjects I frequent daily, for example, Cars, Tech News, Music and Multimedia... and design some sort of a Central Hub. My problem is that due to "real work" I only get to work on my site during free time and I lose track, and as much as I want other people to enjoy the site as well and participate (after all it IS on the internet) I'm packing it up with all of my tastes, Games, Music, Cars, blah blah blah...

So my goal is to create a "hub," per se, for myself, but it might as well be a decent center point for anyone else who wants it to be as well.

I'm like the most non-creative person there is. :Bang

And DEFINATELY wanted it to be as Mobile Friendly as I could, as I LIVE OFF of my BlackBerry
 
hottwheelz - I seriously code a *lot* of CSS into my sites. There is NO style information in the core HTML (which I generate using PHP mostly, sometimes Perl), which is the way it should be. Images are only used to present information, not as navigation or anything else. Most people would probably say my sites aren't flashy enough, but I tell you this: render any of my stuff on any screen and it will work (aside from IE 5.5 Mac, but MS can go to hell, the non standards-compliant whores). When you render static images they look like ass on any screen but what you design for. Lots of extra work for less navigability and larger page size. Not cool.

I also use a lot of DIV tags. Probably 10 a page. Keeps things nice and neat, but that's where IE starts shiatting the bed. Man, I hate that browser. It seriously can't handle anything worth a damn. Anyhow, CSS + DIV tags = easy sailing ahead, you just have to get the sweet setup. The way I have a modularized site going is with PHP generating a bunch of different little pages. Each could stand on their own and meet the W3C standard compliance, but they get encapsulated in DIV tags. Each option you choose to go to, changes the output of the PHP to enter different things into the HTML page being sent to the client. Like, if you choose "Cars", the "get.php" I wrote will select "cars.php" to run, instead of, say, "music.php" or "aboutme.php". Then each php file just handles one part of the page. I might not be explaining this too well, but I'm tired and drunk, so if you have any questions, go for it - I'm going to bed :p
 
Thanks! LOL It was only recently that I figured out PHP actually had HTML inside of it. So it's going SLOW
 

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