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I am attempting to design and build a website for my friends band. There is minimal content to be included such as bio,news,enbemdded Audio/Visual material. My web dev expertise is average.
I'm basicaly looking for inspiration, I was edging towards embedding a silverlight deepzoom xap object to add some visual stimulation, perhaps by featuring a high res photo of the bandshardware/equipment which zooms when mouseover occurs. Does anyone have any cool ideas for a central feature for this site, and which way to approact it in terms of technique (js,css,silverlight etc)
If anyone has any immediate ideas which they think would be cool then I am eager to hear them!
Also if anyone can link me to any cool band sites they have come across recently I would be greatful,nothing too complicated though please I will be doing all the work myself. Im want the site to be simple but have a certain wow factor!
I would just use wordpress. It is customisable with minimal effort.
I would exclude silverlight because it slows down the website and the user need the plugin to be installed.
For a simple stack of technologies, what you have tagged is allright!
You should (as mentioned by #Navi) download some wordpress/joomla band templates and try to understand how they're build, and then try to build your own webpages
Also for example you could try to understand some cool TABLELESS website structure (http://www.tommyemmanuel.com/..I like both the musician and the website :D ), and first of all you should try to obtain the same structure. Second of all you should apply some nice css and some jQuery/mootools/etc dom effects.
Look into Drupal. It has built in support for blogs, forums and a lot of other cool features.It is easily extendable for anything you need. For example, Michael Jackson's official website is built with Drupal.
Using a CMS or similar is great if the band want an easy way to put in their own content after you are done with the site. A search for 'lightweight cms' might get you a step further. :)
You can look up similar bands at myspace and check out their webpages for nice features.
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I'm sure this question has been asked and answered many times but I can't for the life of me find the answer I'm looking for.
Please bear with me, hopefully this will make sense, also I'm an enthusiast coder so please be gentle.
So I run a website for a very small 4x4 club. We hold get together once a month and get our cars all dirty. A few hundred photos get taken and are then uploaded to the website. I have to then manually create the html and thumbnails which can take quite a long time.
So, I'm looking for help and advice to make this task much easier and quicker. The website is running on IIS and I don't have root access so it's difficult to install anything.
Hopefully there's something out there to help me with this.
Many thanks..
It sounds like you need content management system.
Checkout wordpress.com, which is the most famous and widely used content management system. It is also very easy to get started and does not require any coding knowledge.
What is a content management system (CMS)?
A CMS allows you to manage your website via an easy to use portal. No coding is required. No scripting is required. The CMS is essentially a layer on top of all your code. It does the coding for you.
Instead of manually typing out the code to put your pictures, a CMS will let you simply upload the photo, as if it was a normal file. Then you can add any captions, headers etc. Depending on the complexity of the CMS.
This should make your life a lot easier. Check out wordpress.com.
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I am a beginner here. I would like to create a website for our network , to collect some basic information & in making a graph out of it . The problem is that i don't know in which platform shall i proceed. I am stuck with whether to use Drupal ( i have only heard of it & interested in studying ) or any other tools. Please help me to develop it efficiently.I know php & javascript basics. Give your opinion on it, please.
My honest opinion would be to try and dive into MySQLi and PHP and build a custom application. Mainly because it'll help you learn (trust me). It seems very hard at first but it'll be fun and you'll be able to achieve exactly what you want essentially.
As far as I know Drupal is a content management system, like a blog. So it's not really cut out for just gathering stats and making graphs from them. I suppose you could set up a basic Google Form for gathering information and then transferring it into a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet. More work that way but it's very easy and no development work involved.
Really depends what type of information you're after to be honest. A quick Google search can return loads of cool web apps for small business teams etc if you have a look around and see what does what. Really some more information on what you're collecting would be best though.
WordPress has plugins for everything. Including one that hooks into google graphs.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/googlegraph/
It's also fairly cookie cutter and well documented. If you're not a programmer at heart, but more jus interested in using it as a quick and dirty tool to get a job done quick, it may be the app for you.
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I am new to javascript (although I've developed a small nodejs API server before, but it is nothing interactive, animating, or fancy at all)
I'd like to develop a static, single page website that works on modern browser and mobiles. The intended design looks a lot like
http://global.tommy.com/int/en/Collections/runway/spring-women
which is quite common with
Static Title Bar that follows wherever user scroll
< li > on the left acting like quick jump control + navigation/position indicator
carousel
I'm totally at blank on how to achieve such impressive look and feel and animation and responsiveness. So far, I tried out several libraries such as Twitter's BootStrap, Google's AngularJS, and AmberJS but none is as impressive as my intended outcome. The closest I get into is the sample from http://www.portalapp.com/ but that's my best trial.
Would any of you recommend any good resources (technology/libraries, or getting started guide and tutorial) to get off the ground fast?
Thank you very much!
EDIT:
Do anyone has open source projects or sample on GitHub that uses any javascript/css libraries to achieve cross device, responsive, single page web app?
Please provide the breakdown of the libraries used as well., since javascript libraries are numerous
EmberJS has a nice guide from the official website. Their API documentation is also helpful. Moreover, you can take a look at the source which is heavily documented.
If you need help, there are community forums.
If you are into screencasts, here is one free and one paid.
A word of caution using resources from Internet: EmberJS is in a "stabilizing" phase as they work towards version 1.0. So, if you read an old resource, it might not work using the current version of EmberJS.
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I would like to use an online tool to work remotely with people to do Javascript learning and testing exercises.
The solution could be a shared, public Javascript console.
Does such a thing exist? I have seen http://jsfiddle.net. This works ok, but we have to keep updating our URL every time the other person changes code so it is not real-time and requires an update step on both sides.
I think a low-feature real-time shared console would be a pretty trivial solution to build. I'm thinking of building it myself if it doesn't exist, but I wanted to check first and see if anyone has heard of something like this.
Here are some links for you:
Collabedit, Online Code Editor http://collabedit.com/
Stypi, a realtime editor https://www.stypi.com/ (not about coding)
ShareJS, Live concurrent editing in your app. http://sharejs.org/ (not about coding)
Tutti, Test Javascript on different browsers simultaneously http://tuttijs.com/ (not collaborative ?)
Bonus: a JS console for mobile http://jsconsole.com/
Hope you'll find something useful in there :)
This answer is 3 years late, but should help if you are still checking this post. JSFiddle now has collaboration mode - it allows you to voice chat and IM, while editing together. Just click the button in the header and set it up!
http://jsfiddle.net#collaborate
http://syncfiddle.net/ is exactly what you're looking for. Simple clean interface that syncs real-time, but also functions as well as any other site out there. But be careful to save your code, it seems to delete your code after enough inactivity.
Almost two years later, a few great alternatives exist. The real-time enhancements to jsfiddle and plunkr are great, but for this use case, I haven't found any easier than Coderpad. It's marketed for doing code interviews and saves a history. Has JS/Coffeescript/Ruby/Java and more.
Try
http://jsbin.com/
http://jsconsole.com/
JSBin is very close to what your looking for. provides HTML, CSS, JS and Console code practices.
JSConsole on the other hand is very simple only used for console coding ofcourse.
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Currently I've finished studying the book name "Beginning JavaScript 3rd Edition", so I just wonder what should be my next step in order to strengthen myself on using and manipulating this language?
Besides, how can I improve myself in programming in JavaScript? Is it by thinking something cool myself, and start coding it? Or googling around the internet to find some task and question offered?
Is there any book that teaches the correct method of coding? Thank you
One recommended resource would be
http://eloquentjavascript.net/index.html
It is a combination online tutorial + online book
After that, it depends on whether you want to focus on clientside or serverside JS.
Have a look through http://howtonode.org/
for Serverside.
I would recommend that you avoid relying on a javascript library until you are able to make a good assessment of its quality. And pick YUI3 once you can ;)
Is it by thinking something cool
myself,and start coding it?
yes - think of something that would be funny/cool to code and try to do that (and, of course, ask mr. google if you get to a problem somewhere)
You could take a look at "Javascript: The Good Parts", Douglas Crockford, O'Rielly & Yahoo Press:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748
I suggest that you check out Douglas Crockford's JavaScript site for some quality articles on style and usage of the language itself. On top of that you should be constantly coding in it, look for interesting problems to solve and implement solutions using the techniques you have picked up.
As an aside I would also say that if you're looking to truly go further with the language and not just "get stuff done", stay away from jQuery etc for now until you have a good understanding of how it is likely to be working under the hood -- once you have this understanding though it'd be worth picking it up purely for efficiency.
Visual Studio allows you to develop mobile applications using JavaScript for all platforms. You can try your skills there
Watch the Crockford on JavaScript videos.