6 scripts l learned in 409

So I've learned more then this, but our assignment is to post 6 scripts of some kind that we learned how to do in 409. Three of these scripts happen to be at my homepage at home. At this page I have:
Pop-up window thanks to javascript
Pull down menu that launches through javascript
Date modified thanks to SSI

At recipie I have a script that changes the background color based on the time you arrive at the page.

At Form demo I have a php script that takes data from one webpage and makes a decision based upon that data.

At simple_form I have a php mail script that I wrote.

At data I have a simple php script that reads in data from a file called data.dat.

So that is actually 7 scripts, but I had to include them all. They were a lot of fun to work on.

PHP

So if you head over to My PHP Demo you will notice that I have some PHP inserted.

Interestingly enough this does not run locally on my vista computer. I spent 20 minutes messing with the code before just uploading it to the gibson to test it. Low and behold, that was the problem. Turns out vista needs the file to be called .php3 or something like that to recognize it.

Other then that everything went really smooth with the exercise. I added one more thing to it then the assignment asked for. If you do not check a radio button, it now tells you that you didn't choose an age. I think that works a little better.

Peace!

Ohio, the Heart of it all

Well, my midterm project is up at This link.

It was really interesting to build a site ground up with the CSS I've learned so far. I used the same layout as my home page, because I really like the layout, and I think it is the easiest to navigate. I took out the right column navigation because I think it is unnecessary.

Validation is always a fun time. Mostly small errors and things like forgetting to close a comment properly were my biggest errors and time wasters. Things are going along well.

Trevor

Javascript

Javascript in action.

So I added a script that changed the background based on the second. It was pretty interesting and I think I'll be able to apply what I've learned to other pages.

The Land of Nod, references to the nerd.

I chose to work on the poem, The Land of Nod, by Robert Louis Stevenson. The format I choose for the site was referencing the Brotherhood of Nod from the Command & Conquer series. It was a lot of fun messing with the color scheme and moving the parts of the site around. This is the first time I've put in several blocks of text and then manipulated them afterwards with CSS. I feel much more confident about my ability to effectively use CSS. I was also able to change the appearance of links, which was cool. So without further ado, I bring you, The Land of Nod.

"Zen Garden", or "How the internet killed my soul"

So we're looking through Zen Garden looking for good/bad css templates. These two seem to be very poor designs. For the greece themed design, the top image is to distracting and it takes over. The colors also do not match the rest of the page.

The Movie theater design doesn't seem good for text, which the page mostly consists of. Scrolling is sporadic at best, and resizes are not its friend.

BAD
Movie theme
Greece theme

The lego design just strikes a good chord with me. The image is large, but fits into the theme so well it almost isn't noticeable that it takes up half or more of the screen.

The body snatchers design also has a large integrated image. It makes the text engaging without taking up unnecessary amounts of screen space. Over all, I think the body snatchers design is my favorite out of the designs I had a look at.

GOOD
Body Snatchers
Legos

It really took a lot of looking for me to find two instances that I liked. Therefor, the internet killed part of my soul.

People who looked over files with me
Dayne Kilheffer
Tim Leverett
Trevor Mumaugh <--thats me!

The home page of pages

If you head over to Home you will notice some new changes. Mainly, implementing the css style sheets we discussed last class. It is of course still in a very basic form, but I hope to work on it more today and get everything up to par.

One problem of note so far is that things seem to be finicky for me. While attempting to implement the drop down menu, it simply would not work, and broke all the rest of the images on my page. I removed it and worked on other things for a while. When I went back and tried again it worked. As far as I know my code was identical, because I used the example in class as a basis. Well, its working now, so ok.

Also, on my computer the date is displayed on the right instead of the bottom, which did not happen on the lab computer. I will attempt to resolve that today as well.