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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Web Programming and Design => Topic started by: Deep Toaster on April 03, 2011, 12:33:57 am

Title: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 03, 2011, 12:33:57 am
As a challenge, I'm taking on a huge personal challenge in web design: making a complete website myself ... with color :crazy:

Seriously, if you've ever seen my main site (or my sig, or my avatar, or pretty much everything else I've made online), you know how big of a step this is for me ;D

http://contra.clrhome.org/

So, what do you think? Whipped it out in 30 minutes, and it's my second website layout ever.
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Michael_Lee on April 03, 2011, 12:38:25 am
Color?
But it's in mostly black and white...
Looks nice, though.

Also, may I ask which hosting service you use?
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 03, 2011, 12:40:54 am
Color?
But it's in mostly black and white...

More color than I've ever used before XD

I use 000webhost, as always. It's free and fast but kinda unstable (I've already had the database crash for two whole days, and I've personally made the main server crash >.>).
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: SirCmpwn on April 03, 2011, 12:58:27 am
I suck at web design x.x so I usually use someone else's stuff.  MojoPortal is a good open source one.
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 03, 2011, 01:08:56 am
I suck at web design x.x so I usually use someone else's stuff.  MojoPortal is a good open source one.

My main site (not this one but the root /) was actually based on a theme, but since I started using HTML/CSS myself I've edited it so much that it's now almost completely different from that theme.

EDIT: Added a Discuss tab.
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: yunhua98 on April 04, 2011, 10:15:43 pm
wow, that looks pretty nice.  I got bored and I enjoyed translating part of that text from Latin.  :P

oh, one more thing, I'm going to try to set a up a google apps thing for this, I'll PM you with info later.  ;)
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 05, 2011, 09:16:53 am
I'm not allowed to edit CNAME or A records, unfortunately. I think that's what Google Apps relies on.
/me needs to move to a new hosting service
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Yeong on April 05, 2011, 11:23:07 am
Latin?
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 05, 2011, 11:43:18 am
Placeholder text. (http://lipsum.com/)
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Madskillz on April 05, 2011, 12:20:52 pm
Looks good, you don't want the colors to overload the user and yours dont. It's nice and organized. Nicely done for a personal site.
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 06, 2011, 03:36:33 am
I like it, but for progress bars you should have the rest of the bars on black background I think. I think the site fits well the game type by the way.
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 06, 2011, 09:16:47 am
I like it, but for progress bars you should have the rest of the bars on black background I think.

What do you mean? Having the remainder of the bar (not filled in) be black? I can do that.

Looks good, you don't want the colors to overload the user and yours dont. It's nice and organized. Nicely done for a personal site.
I think the site fits well the game type by the way.

Thanks. The colors are taken straight from the Contra logo :D
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Munchor on April 06, 2011, 09:19:14 am
As a challenge, I'm taking on a huge personal challenge in web design: making a complete website myself ... with color :crazy:

Seriously, if you've ever seen my main site (or my sig, or my avatar, or pretty much everything else I've made online), you know how big of a step this is for me ;D

http://contra.clrhome.co.cc/

No real info yet; it's all filler text still. Sorry.

So, what do you think? Whipped it out in 30 minutes, and it's my second website layout ever.

Looks very cool indeed, and yeah I just noticed you're a greyscale pro :P
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 06, 2011, 09:29:51 am
Updated the stats and logs. Now that page actually serves a function :D

Which reminds me: I need to update my sig. That'll push it over the 10000 byte limit though.
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: yunhua98 on April 06, 2011, 10:41:32 pm
I'm not allowed to edit CNAME or A records, unfortunately. I think that's what Google Apps relies on.
/me needs to move to a new hosting service

I think co.cc supports it.  Although hosting on co.cc is REALLY slow.  :P
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 07, 2011, 12:39:43 pm
.co.cc offers hosting?
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Munchor on April 09, 2011, 06:26:59 am
.co.cc offers hosting?

I don't think so, I prefer to use 000webhost together with .co.cc.
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: yunhua98 on April 10, 2011, 07:19:48 pm
.co.cc offers hosting?
I think so, you can upload your site there, last time I checked.
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 10, 2011, 07:37:49 pm
Hmm, there's webhosting.co.cc (http://webhosting.co.cc) but it redirects to www.co.cc...
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Munchor on April 12, 2011, 07:43:16 am
I see you added the Alpha version there too :)
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 12, 2011, 06:18:31 pm
Yep, I'm hosting the actual files there. Spares other sites the bandwidth, since I have a lot of that left that I'm not using :P
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Munchor on April 13, 2011, 04:31:37 am
Yep, I'm hosting the actual files there. Spares other sites the bandwidth, since I have a lot of that left that I'm not using :P

Yeah but be careful with bandwith. The bars and stuff it's all PHP or JS?
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 13, 2011, 03:37:54 pm
Plain HTML/CSS. I didn't do an admin system there because I thought that would be overkill.
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 14, 2011, 08:49:44 pm
I like the site so far. :D
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on May 01, 2011, 12:14:52 am
Yep, I'm hosting the actual files there. Spares other sites the bandwidth, since I have a lot of that left that I'm not using :P

Yeah but be careful with bandwith. The bars and stuff it's all PHP or JS?

Moved to a new host with unlimited bandwidth, so I don't have to host the screenshots on Omni anymore (eating up the bandwidth here) :D

And the discussion page (http://contra.clrhome.org/talk/) now has a link here.

.co.cc offers hosting?
I think so, you can upload your site there, last time I checked.

Seems like they removed it :-\
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Munchor on May 01, 2011, 05:38:26 am
I also can't login :S, I get MySQL error in the PHP.
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on May 01, 2011, 11:42:14 am
Should be fixed now.
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on May 13, 2011, 10:32:27 am
Er, I updated it. A lot.

Better/worse?
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 26, 2011, 12:30:36 am
It looks nice to me :)
Title: Re: Color O.O (Contra Homepage)
Post by: Deep Toaster on July 18, 2011, 07:32:58 pm
Even bigger update! http://contra.clrhome.org/ complete with feed, progress, and other info, all on one page.

Yeah, there's a blank box, but I'm planning to put something there soon. I'm gonna start working on this project again :D

EDIT: I think this is the first time I made something that works in IE...