Omnimaga
General Discussion => Technology and Development => Web Programming and Design => Topic started by: Michael_Lee on March 26, 2011, 05:38:40 pm
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I made a website (using HTML 5): www.multiscale.webs.com (http://www.multiscale.webs.com)
I'm probably going to use it to post information about any projects I'm working on, to upload my programs eventually (when freewebs will actually let me :banghead:), and put other random stuff.
It's hosted with webs.com.
As websites go, this one is really empty (I don't have much content yet), and my color scheme is really dry.
But apart from that, how does it look? And if anybody cares to examine the HTML to any detail, how is it?
I'm open to any suggestions and criticisms.
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I might be able to assist a little if you do python programming of it. I don't know if webs supports that though
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Hmm question, why would you upload your calc games on a personal website and not in Omnimaga downloads section, even though you're part of Omnimaga programming team? ??? (For example, Minesweeper isn't even in Omni dl section, yet it's on your site)
That said, the site seems nice so far.
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More upload freedom, no format restrictions? That's mostly why I upload stuff to my servers.
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I might be able to assist a little if you do python programming of it. I don't know if webs supports that though
Webs doens't allow python :P
Concerning the HTML and CSS, which I browsed, I highly recommend centering the main div, or even better, the whole body.
Also, if you wanna do anything with your website try to get a proper host and domain (000webhost+co.cc, etc) instead of Webs.
Good job so far :)
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Yeah but I mean less people will see the files since the site is less frequented, plus the omni download section allows any format (although files has to be zipped). It just seems like some sort of boycott against Omni downloads section or something.
It's kinda like if Kerm decided to upload Doors CS7 in his personal blog somewhere online, but not even include it on Cemetech.
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Yeah but I mean less people will see the files since the site is less frequented, plus the omni download section allows any format (although files has to be zipped). It just seems like some sort of boycott against Omni downloads section or something.
It's kinda like if Kerm decided to upload Doors CS7 in his personal blog somewhere online, but not even include it on Cemetech.
I think that what Michael is doing is having a personal website, for various stuff. He doesn't have it only for calculator programs.
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Meh I think people should have personal freedom where they want to upload it. It is Scout's project after all.
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Actually, Minesweeper is in the Omnimaga download sections. I was the first person to try the user-download section, if I remember correctly.
Edit: And it's my project, not Scout's ;)
Edit 2: And I posted Minesweeper because I wanted to test file attachment (apparently I need to wait a week before I can do this or something), and to test how pictures would look.
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Yeah I know, but I mean if you check the Omni staff downloads section, Axe minesweeper isn't even there.
Actually, Minesweeper is in the Omnimaga download sections. I was the first person to try the User-download section, if I remember correctly.
Edit: And it's my project, not Scout's ;)
Nope it isn't. Check: http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;cat=29
I did a CTRL+F search in that page to make sure I didn't miss it.
(UNless you uploaded it in the wrong section?)
EDIT: Er merged double post
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Ah, ok. So I uploaded Minesweeper in the days before I was a staff member. It's in here: http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;cat=60 (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;cat=60)
That being said, I'll use my website to upload anything interesting, but I'll still post finished files to Omnimaga and probably ticalc.org.
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Oh right, I forgot it came out before you became staff. Sorry then. X.x
And leafiness0 I know, it just sounds weird if someone decides to upload a great calc game with lots of popularity potential on a personal site and not where there are many people. Granted, they would be sorted better there, but it's also good to get visibility, right?
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wow, there are a lot of games in that section that belongs to current staff members... Also, your site looks nice! ;)
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(Keep in mind that several of these games were made between 2001 and 2007, though)
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As websites go, this one is really empty (I don't have much content yet), and my color scheme is really dry.
By some standards that's actually very colorful ;)
Anyway, your layout's great. Just swap some colors and styles, move the whole thing to the middle (it's
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;), and it'll look great. Certainly better than half the amateur websites on the web x.x
Also, shouldn't this be in Web Development?
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Oh I didn't notice it was in the wrong sub-forum. I'll move it.
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I like what Deep Thought changed there. I think it looks better along with centering body :D
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Cool, thanks Deep Thought.
Also, I've been using webs.com for all of three days, and I have to admit I'm already sick of it -- the entire interface seems slow to me, and support is really bad. Also, for some reason, it prefixes any Javascript I post with some bizarre addition of their own, which prevents my site from being 100% valid HTML (which irritates me). I have suspicions that this might go away after seven days (I'm currently a 'provisional' user, so can't do much, which makes sense, I guess), but I'm not entirely certain. Plus, I've always wanted to try PHP and other web programming languages, but webs.com doesn't allow that unless I pay.
So...
I found this: http://0000free.com/hosting.html (http://0000free.com/hosting.html) hosting service, and I'm thinking of switching. I think Scout already recommended it -- does anybody else here have experience with this host?
Edit: Or maybe this one? http://www.heliohost.org/home/ (http://www.heliohost.org/home/).
Hmm, so many choices...
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Yeah, sadly free hosts, especially webs, are kinda crappy. Freehostia is better, but it's slow. I think they have lots of restrictions on what you can use. They probably blocked javascript and stuff. You could try the one Scout mentionned, but yeah, make sure to backup often, in case they pulled a Geocities or Jatol.
So far the only free hosts I ever used are Geocities, Earthforge, Freewebpage, United-TI, Lycos and Calcwebzine, but most are gone, no longer offer free hosting or they had terrible ads.
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Yeah, sadly free hosts, especially webs, are kinda crappy. Freehostia is better, but it's slow. I think they have lots of restrictions on what you can use. They probably blocked javascript and stuff. You could try the one Scout mentionned, but yeah, make sure to backup often, in case they pulled a Geocities or Jatol.
Nah, FreeHostia doesn't block JavaScript. Even if they did, JS is client scripting, so it wouldn't affect them in any way, so I don't see any reason they'd block it.
I think FH is actually a pretty good host for simpler sites. It even has some decent PHP and MySQL support. They don't accept .co.cc domains, though, so you'd have to settle with a SITE.freehostia.com subdomain.
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Ah ok, that's good. I wonder why Webs screws up with JS code, though. <_< I bet they did that to make sure people won't block their ads.
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Heh, probably. I haven't had problems with JS on Webs though. Maybe they fixed it recently.
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Meh.
Found a better hosting service, actually added content to all my links, and made a slightly less-random post thingy on the main page.
http://www.multiscale.co.cc (http://www.multiscale.co.cc)
The only interesting part I did was to figure out a way to expand things on this page (http://www.multiscale.co.cc/archives/2011.shtml) by clicking on the title of the appropriate entry. It doesn't work in IE, but it uses no Javascript ;D
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Nice and the new host seems to load fine. What host did you use?
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I used heliohost.org.
They had the most amount of features, and a decent support forum.
Sadly, almost just after I registered this Friday, their servers were hacked X.X
I get the feeling that it was a fluke, but I hope I haven't made a mistake...
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Meh.
Found a better hosting service, actually added content to all my links, and made a slightly less-random post thingy on the main page.
http://www.multiscale.co.cc (http://www.multiscale.co.cc)
The only interesting part I did was to figure out a way to expand things on this page (http://www.multiscale.co.cc/archives/2011.shtml) by clicking on the title of the appropriate entry. It doesn't work in IE, but it uses no Javascript ;D
I used heliohost.org.
They had the most amount of features, and a decent support forum.
Sadly, almost just after I registered this Friday, their servers were hacked X.X
I get the feeling that it was a fluke, but I hope I haven't made a mistake...
It took a while to load for me actually, but then when loaded it runs just fine.
I like it how you centered the body and also using 'a tags' (index.html#link) for news (like the first post) :D
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Ouch sorry to hear Michael. Sadly, that kind of free host is usually mismanaged. I remember Cemetech was on one of those before and they lost about 13000 posts. The posts are still kinda there, but half of the words are missing. In Omnimaga's case, the server was dropped in Dec 2004 while I had no Internet access and the person took months to buy a new one. I also remember other stories of hacking and taking ages to fix it.