Template Wip [by Johnny]

[Johnny 1]

My first ever real (100% Johnny-made) template. I just learned slicing last night. I'm proud.

This might be what I'll be using for my new upcoming graphics site (which won't interfere with gfxtrap or my work here, I assure you). I went for the simplistic/minimalism look, and of course it's blue.

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I still have to set up the navigation bar and the rest of the pages, and then I can work on bettering the news system.

So, rate/comment/criticize.

By the way, I was just wondering if anyone knew of an easy-to-use one (I'm going to look at CuteNews) that can generate news in a "light" format like it currently has. Let me know if you do.

Also, I was thinking about, instead of adding seperate pages for each navigation link, to just change the iframe where the content box is for each one. I already know how to set up the different pages and such, I just don't know how to get the clicked nav buttons to change the source file for that iframe. Tell me if anyone knows how to do that.

Thanks in advance.

[Damann 0]

You dont necessarily change the source file for the iframe. Your iframe should be named..I normally name mine "iframe" or something like that.

 

Heres an example of one of my navigation buttons on my website.

 

-->><a href="help.html" target="iframe"><<-----

<img src="images/ss13template_18.gif" alt="" width="156" height="27" border="0">

</a>

The a href part is what determines the target. Then the <img> is the button. My iframe is named simply "iframe". The part that names the iframe is...

 

<iframe src="home.html" name="iframe" width="410" marginwidth="0" height="410" marginheight="0" align="left" scrolling="yes" frameborder="0">

 

You can name the iframe whatever, you can even have multiple iframes. The <a href="whatever.html" target="<IFRAME'S NAME HERE!!>"></a>

is what determines which iframe it is opening the file in. Target can also be changed to _blank to open it in a new window. Oh and href="whatever" is the thing that it's going to. <a href="google.com" target="iframe"> would open google in the iframe.

<a href="cheese.html" target="iframe"> would open a file called cheese.html in the iframe. if the file is in a folder it would be

<a href="adirectorynamehere/cheese.html" target="iframe"> Etc.. If you need any further clearification on the topic, just ask.

Edited February 26, 2006 by Damann (see edit history)

[Johnny 1]

Actually, I already knew all of that stuff, I just didn't know you could target an iframe. Thanks for the input though.

[wild20 0]

Nice. A little simple, but but still good. I don't like using Iframes because you have to use two files to make one webpage. The only advantage is so that you don't have to edit the whole file when editing the content. But then you have to scroll, and besides, when you have WYSIWYG editors, I don't think Iframes are needed.Now concerning the actual template. It looks nice, but like I said, simple. I prefer something with sidebars. And a little more color contrast then what you have going. You could make a tamplate like that is on a WY editor. But again, not bad. Nice job on your first template.

[master_bacarra 0]

My first ever real (100% Johnny-made) template. I just learned slicing last night. I'm proud.

i wanna learn splicing too. do you have any tutorials? apparently, i'm having problems with the images that i put on my site.

[apollo 0]

Wow, that cool. Nice colors, nice text, everythink is cool. 9/10

[Saint_Michael 3]

Yeah!!! Johnny madea template, well for one being a template maker my self its not a bad design head looks great content box could be better but its your first one so I won't hold it against you.Well for one johnny you don't need to use iframes I would stick with cutenews one you can literally build a webpage with in it meaning you can use the template as your background image and then just fill your content from cute news without making any major edits that you need to. Like we are going to be doing with gfxtrap new design.So I would test out coding within cute news once you set up your nav menu and some other stuff with in the template.@mbacarraI suggest going to pixel2life.com for slicing they got some good stuff on the basics, but slicing is more of a science then anything else truefusion showed me that.

[Cool_Freaker 0]

I like it. Clean cut and minimalistic. Just maybe a little too blue

[Johnny 1]

Thanks for the nice comments all.

And yeah, I'm going to just drop the whole iframe thing and use cutenews. The reason the iframe was there was because I had a manual news system at first, which you can see here:

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

So I would only have to edit the news.html file instead of the whole front page.

Thanks for all the input everyone.

(Oh, and yes, pixel2life is the place to be. That's where I went anyway. Just do a search for slicing, and you'll find all that you need.)

[Becca 0]

Thanks for the nice comments all.
And yeah, I'm going to just drop the whole iframe thing and use cutenews. The reason the iframe was there was because I had a manual news system at first, which you can see here:

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

So I would only have to edit the news.html file instead of the whole front page.

Thanks for all the input everyone.

(Oh, and yes, pixel2life is the place to be. That's where I went anyway. Just do a search for slicing, and you'll find all that you need.)

or.... just do what I do. create sections using HTML.. and using PHP INCLUDE to put them all together! nice new layout!!

[vondominion 0]

Thats a nice lay out. It could be a bit more elabourate, but i like it