arcticsnpr

Good job bro. I've been scrolling through some of these web designs here. You actually got my attention. Good design. I have a couple complaints however. Lol, sorry... don't use "Papyrus" typeface please. Way overused and doesn't fit your website. Top left corner "Obelisk". Take the time out of the title. I have my own watch. Take off the date. Other than that, I dig it.

this cracks me up. why do people post these kinds of questions online? sure, go for, I just think it's dumb. Ask somone who is married. In person.

Hey,
Well your title really caught my interest to start, because I'm a Christian. I would assume you are one also.

Here's a few things you could do to add something to this site..

- Make the whole thing around 800 - 600 px wide and center it. Reading content that is wide is often very hard.
- For your links on the side, a rollover should always be lighter, not darker. It's highlighting it, so when it goes over it should light up, not darken.
- Add more to your header. A header is really what draws a lot of interest. Add a photo that is somehow related, something soft.
- Not sure if you can or can't, but I think you should change that maroon color, the grey is good.


Overall, don't let the earlier comments get your confidence down, just keep going. Start with an idea and work with that, you'll be suprised what you can do the more time you put into something.

If you want more help with this, I'd be glad to work with you. PM me.

Nick
index/index.php
My Portfolio

Hi,

I'm making a forum right now, and i'm having some trouble with BBCodes. I want it so when they click a button it will add the bbcode and highlight (or place the cursor between) the code. Let me clarify, I want a button to be clicked, it adds code to the textarea and places the cursor between the tags.

 

Example:

[b] (cursor here)  [/b][b] | [/b]

The cursor is between the two tags. I REALLY appreciate it, i've search so long with no luck.

hey all! I finally got the domain for this site and it's pretty much all up and ready.

ok thanks so much for your help guys! much appreciated

hey, i know the issue of time and date with php and just been posted. But honestly, i didn't get the answer i neeed. I'm building a user personalization website, and i need help with the time. It all get messed up because the server is in a diiferent time zone. Should i use gmdate() function? because i'm using date().All that said, whats the best way to use time and dates for like a forum in php?

moldboy - thank you for the comment. but keep in mind, this is only a localhost site, for me. so i don't need to worry about load time, because it's reading it right off my hard drive. and your right, the blocks don't show anywhere else, thanks.

I used a program called Blender
cool open source 3D program. I'm a modeler too

cangor: yes, but keep in mind this is a localhost, not a full website. If it was, i wouldn't leave it so open, but i have nothing else to display.

lemonwonder: this is not a site is only a display.

ahh! thanks, i can't believe i just did that! I have a header! just didn't upload it correctly! check it out now

i love this site! one of the best i've seen on Xisto!

it took a while for it to load, and i'm on cable. i can't imagin how long it would take on dial-up. your site is rather large. the images are all over the place. with this kind of site, you could leave the option of a "alternate design", this would be much more simple, for the users that don't really care about the layout. just an idea...

well, after overwriting my original localhost website, i decided to build a new one. I began this two nights ago, and liked the end result, check it out:
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
if any of you want this on your computer, i would be more then happy to give this to you. All you need is PHP5 and MySql installed and running.
comment!

I like it, well done. Very basic layout, but nice. Although i have one large problem. You used window xp's icons for almost all your buttons and icons. Please build your own.

Decent, but I think you could make this site a bit better.

1. You really have no color scheme to this site. It?s mostly grey, white, and black. This dulls the site in my opinion. Grey, white, and black work well with other colors, but together they give a washed out, dull, feeling. That blue (the one you have for the nav-rollovers), for example, are a good color you could use. But we don?t see enough of it.

2. Your header is likewise a bit dull. Simple isn?t bad, but this is a bit mundane. Be innovative with your headers, think of crazy ideas, and you can clean it up after. My point, give your header a little more attention. In my opinion, a header really sets the mood of your site, make that vibrant, and if gives immediate life to your website. Also, your header repeats the page; you honestly don?t really need this. It is your preference I suppose, but you are repetitive in your header (you say: ?Links?, for example, on the header, then on the page again). This forces the browser to download each header for each page; I would recommend using the same header every page.

3. You have no footer. Please add something like: ?copyright Your Name year. Some rights reserved? to the bottom of your page, in the grey. Then, add all your links on a different line.

Now I know this sounds like I?m degrading the value of your site. But this is not my intension. Your site is, honestly, better than a bunch I?ve seen. The three tips I gave you will knock up the style of this site greatly. Very nice work, keep going!

 

oh, and how do you like the google add thing? i'm interested in that

thank you very much for the kind words just to let any of you know, my partner and I have a web deveopment business. So if you, or you know someone that needs a good site, we can do it for a very low price. thanks again.Plenoptic: feel free to use my layout

hey hey! I'm working on a site right now, pretty much done. Just want to ask you all what you think. You can login as "guest" with password "password" to check out beyond the front page.
Digital Ink
If you want to know more about the site read more on the site

And, this is only temporary hosting, I'm going to get it's own domain ect..
please tell me what you think!

you rock spectre! thanx so much!

long explaination: hey, I'm building a user profile site right now. And, I kinda know how to make a online/offline detector, but not totally sure. I know I can make a mysql database to track them, but how does it entrer the information? I could easily put in a field where when they login it sets them to online, but if they don't sign out, and just exit the browser, how can I tell.short: I want someone to tell me how to make a online/offline status detector, like they have here on Xisto.I'd be thrilled if you can post to this, thanks, arcticsnpr

i think all your looking for is one small funcion:

htmlspecialchars(data);

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but what this does is takes any html tags and puts them into english, so it will print out the html.
, arctic

I know that querying the database multiple times in a script is bad, because it uses bandwidth. But what if you have practically unlimited? If you have too, is it ok to have many queries in one script?

Jesus reigns, no sence in debating what is insignificant. The Lord is commin back one day, if you reject that, your blind to the truth, and I pray with all of my heart you will see what blinds you.

ok, I should have clarified if you knew very much stuff about this. I'll tell you what... I can't do it now (big chem test) but i'll hook you up with a search thing in no time. few questions. are you using mysql? do you have the whole Bible in it? I'm going to need your table structure, the way you built it (rows columns ect..) and.. when dealing with this kind of stuff, you really should use PHP 5, if your running the server, install it, trust me. if your not running a server and you have no choice... I'll see what I can do. But for now please supply with your table structure in your database. If you don't know what this is, research it. I'll code it, no worries. in Christ, arctic

hahahahaha!! wow! this may suprise you all, but ahh.. thats me, the poster of this. I posted that like a looong time ago, very shocked it's still here!! alot of replies! daang... yes, I'm nickmealey no lies

aight, I made somthing to what I think your asking. If you go to the church site I made: CBF , it has a area where you can search for sermons in a database.
I'm thinking your using PHP 5.
aighy, here you go man... just wrote this up real quik for yu, very simple, hope it works for you
, Arctic

html form:

<html>	<head>		<title>Search Test</title>	</head>	<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0">		<form action="search.php" method="post">			Search Term <input type="text" name="searchterm"><br />			<input type="submit" value="Search">		</form>	</body></html>

php search.php:

<?php/*set varibles from form */$searchterm = $_POST['searchterm'];trim ($searchterm);/*check if search term was entered*/if (!$searchterm){	echo 'Please enter a search term.';}/*add slashes to search term*/if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()){$searchterm = addslashes($searchterm);}/* connects to database */@ $dbconn = new mysqli('host', 'username', 'password', 'database'); if (mysqli_connect_errno()) { echo 'Error: Could not connect to database.  Please try again later.'; exit;}/*query the database*/$query = "select * from tablename where tablerow like '%".$searchterm."%'";$result = $dbconn->query($query);/*number of rows found*/$num_results = $result->num_rows;echo '<p>Found: '.$num_results.'</p>';/*loops through results*/for ($i=0; $i <$num_results; $i++){ $num_found = $i + 1; $row = $result->fetch_assoc(); echo "$num_found. ".($row['tablerow'])." <br />";}/*free database*/$result->free();$dbconn->close();?>

oh, and your right, never alone with Christ, he reigns 4-ever