Script Kiddies

I have the following 6 scripts for the script project:

My Home Page
My home page actually serves double duty. It has both a script to manage the drop down menu and a script to manage the opening of a new window with the picture.

Poem Page
This page has a javascript that tells you when you accessed the page.

Super Secret
A php script for the Super Secret Society Login.

Links page php
A php script that builds a links page based on a flat file.

Script for Redesign proejct
This is a script that builds a gallery detail page for the Dale Helms site using the Drupal Content Management System. It's called by another page, but it does it's job. Pretty nifty.

PHP Form For week 7 inclass assignment

I did my php scripted form for the in class assignment. I used the existing mail form and modified it to support the new form. Andy Zickler showed me how to mix PHP and HTML for the response page, and make it so that it links back if you go directly to the destination page.

LINK

Midterm project

I finished up my midterm project this morning. I think it turned out ok. It's a tongue-in-cheek site about my current housing. The testamonials are clearly made up to create content, I don't think that really matters.

Andy and I are cranking on that design document for the website redesign. With any luck, we'll be done with that after class tommorrow.

Web Poetry

I did my poem page for the week 4 in class exercise.

My choice of poem was Robert Frost's Mending Wall, for the simple purpose that it leads to easy imagery: a wall. So I went out to the web, and found a tileable stone wall texture on TurboSquid for use as a video game texture. Since it's tiling, it makes a good background texture.

This is the first time I've manipulated an image to blend into the background color, I've never done that before. It's also the first time I've layered text over a background image. It's a simple page, but it's at least somewhat interesting looking. I guess you could say that's what I learned. I'm starting to get better at positioning: the use of that global #container div really simplifies page construction.

Zen Garden Best and Worst

Andy Zickler and I looked at some of the styles on Zen Garden. We disagreed on what our favorite styles were, but we agreed that the 'Retro Theatre' style was particularily awful. Retro Theatre is my first screen shot above.

Retro Theatre is constricting, and difficult to read. All content is constricted down to that small box in the centre of the screen, and many columns are reduced to one word per line in many instances. It's terrible for usability.

The second screenshot is 'Elegance in Simplicity'. I liked this one, it's clean, fairly nice looking. The color choices are consistent, bright and nice. Navigation down the right side is nice. It might be better with a little more contrast, but in general it's pretty good.

In addition, we put together a simple form. Mine is located at http://people.rit.edu/~mfe9164/409/mailform.html

Maybe later I'll add some styles to it.

The in class assignment not done in class

Here are the links to my two pages:

html recipe
xhtml recipe

I started by downloading and installing TextPad to do my HTML editing. It works ok, but I remember BBEdit being better. It had templates that would put the boiler plate code on a new document. I then dug up some of my work from IMM and grabbed the boilerplate code from them. We didn't actually do HTML 4.01 in that class, so I actually wrote it in XHTML transitional first. I then had to spend some time with the validation site before I got it validated for 4.01, changing stuff to match the older standard.

After that, I reversed my changes, saved it as the xhtml version, and validated it. I slapped it up on Gibson via WinSCP, and called it a day.

EDIT:

On Wednesday, we continued editing the page and added some CSS. The I ran into some problems with positioning, but eventually figured out which commands were interfering with one another and worked it out.

My page is still pretty plain, but it's got some stuff there now.