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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject: The webpage design and blog help thread |
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I'm finally getting around to designing my own blog and am looking for someone who cuuld help write a template for it.
What I'm looking for is a simple homepage.
Page color: light gray
Title: Matthew's Blog dark background and light colored letters
Buttons on the left: My Music My Photos My Movies rectangle, same as title bar
A calendar under the buttons - if possible, I would like to have these linked to my blog posts.
Tabs under the title, above the side buttons and starting on the right edge. Home, My Blog, Resume, Bio, Teachers, Students
I'm not looking for anything too flashy. I'll send someone a Word file with a proposed template.
I've seen some of your blogs, very professional. How does one go about finding blog code?
I've got a Xanga site but would rather put everything on my Geocities until Yahoo gets blog space. Korea Yahoo!s blog space looks pretty good. |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 5:40 am Post subject: Re: The webpage design and blog help thread |
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| matthews_world wrote: |
I've seen some of your blogs, very professional. How does one go about finding blog code?
I've got a Xanga site but would rather put everything on my Geocities until Yahoo gets blog space. Korea Yahoo!s blog space looks pretty good. |
I used Wordpress software (wordpress.org) which is extremely flexible and easy to install. I rented space from omnis.com, about $5 a month, i think, and it means i get my own domain name and basically unlimited space.
I could program a template but it would have to be for pay. The advice is free though, and WP has active support forums. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:12 am Post subject: |
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Are you using MT, WP, blogspot, blogger or what? Noone can help you without this info.
For myself, does anyone know how to add a picture into the header of an MT default template? |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:01 am Post subject: |
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I just got on unipeak.com and have problems reading the Korean. Seems like a good site however. I'm looking for more than just a blog site. Hope to have a couple bulletin boards going for my current and future students, etc.
How much would one be willing to charge for a customized template with a banner and just a few buttons and tabs? I'd know how to code the rest. I'd do it myself but don't have photoshop or any imaging software. |
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jay-shi
Joined: 09 May 2004
Location: On tour
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:10 am Post subject: |
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| matthews_world wrote: |
| I'd do it myself but don't have photoshop or any imaging software. |
You can download GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
It's a great, free, open source image manipulation program. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| matthews_world wrote: |
I just got on unipeak.com and have problems reading the Korean. Seems like a good site however. I'm looking for more than just a blog site. Hope to have a couple bulletin boards going for my current and future students, etc.
How much would one be willing to charge for a customized template with a banner and just a few buttons and tabs? I'd know how to code the rest. I'd do it myself but don't have photoshop or any imaging software. |
IMHO, for website design, including buttons/tabs, dropdown menu, and flash/dynamic html creation, the best software to use is Dreamweaver MX with the appropriate free plugins from deamweaver site. You can get a free trial version for all macromedia software on http://www.macromedia.com and even a trial of Photoshop CS on http://www.adobe.com. One month of testing time should be ample for your uses and you can unlock the software later if you like it. |
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The King of Kwangju
Joined: 10 Feb 2003
Location: New York City
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:03 am Post subject: |
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| jazblanc77 wrote: |
For myself, does anyone know how to add a picture into the header of an MT default template? |
Replace this:
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<div id="banner">
<h1><a href="<$MTBlogURL$>" accesskey="1"><$MTBlogName encode_html="1"$></a></h1>
<h2><$MTBlogDescription$></h2>
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in your template, or use some kind of css image replacement technique. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| The King of Kwangju wrote: |
| jazblanc77 wrote: |
For myself, does anyone know how to add a picture into the header of an MT default template? |
Replace this:
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<div id="banner">
<h1><a href="<$MTBlogURL$>" accesskey="1"><$MTBlogName encode_html="1"$></a></h1>
<h2><$MTBlogDescription$></h2>
</div> |
in your template, or use some kind of css image replacement technique. |
Thanks a lot, I'll try it out tonight.  |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I kinda like Swiss James' set-up on his blog. Anyone know how to get blog space embedded into regular web page like that? |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| matthews_world wrote: |
| I kinda like Swiss James' set-up on his blog. Anyone know how to get blog space embedded into regular web page like that? |
Don't copy me unless you want to be stuck using the WYSIWYG editor of Mozilla and/or a text editor. When I first started I had no idea there were tools to help with this kind of thing.
That site is all sticky tape and bits of string! |
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thorin
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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jay-shi
Joined: 09 May 2004
Location: On tour
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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The King of Kwangju
Joined: 10 Feb 2003
Location: New York City
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:18 am Post subject: |
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| SuperHero wrote: |
| http://www.opensourcecms.com give every possible cms you are interested in a test drive. |
I'm interested in Plone and Zope these days, neither of which are on that site.
Unless I just can't find them? The site is a good example of how not to use a cms with your site. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:14 am Post subject: |
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| Well I use a commercial script for 3 of my sites so it's not listed there and I havne't looked often. But I do know that you can submit new scripts to that site for inclusion. I'm pretty sure there's a link there somewhere. |
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