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Gaieus

Bruce,

Really nice work and great help for all those interested in building a website.
Here is a nice (and free) little program to build javascript photalbums (many layouts posible):
http://jalbum.net/history.jsp

Have fun ad keep up with the "classes"!

alan wood

Hi Modelhead,
Alan...Let me know your thoughts on navigation. I'm guessing you are not sure on direction.
Reply.
If I had a choice, and I’m not sure if this is possible within Sitebuilder, I would prefer a navigation bar, so that when I placed my mouse over it, gave me a menu. If that was possible, that would be, my choice. In that way I could have under the tools, navigation bar on my web site, marking knife, dovetail marking knife, marking gauge, etc etc.

you said
The scrolling pictures are good....just one tip...you don't need a vertical scroll bar. It has appeared because the page you built for the iframe is taller than the iframe. If you make the page the same size or smaller than the iframe the scroll bars will disappear.
Reply, thanks for that.

You can also remove the scroll bars completely.
Reply. Right I will look into how to do that from the help menu.

and either
build separate files to call to each iframe via regular link
reply I think I know what you mean. I’ll work on that today.

or you can place named anchors as I have mentioned earlier.
reply not sure how to do that. I will check in the help menu.

I need instructions from you on the direction you would like to take with the page from here.

reply If you can give me some time to explore a bit more on the above topics it would be helpful please. The boss is back and she needs a bit of time on the computer.

cheers,
Thanks
Alan.

Edson

@gaieus said:

Here is a nice (and free) little program to build javascript photalbums (many layouts posible):
http://jalbum.net/history.jsp

would it be possible to integrate it with a website like the ones we are creating under bruce's guidance?

edson

Edson

hi bruce,

i apologise for not answering before. i had to take care of some academic unfinished business but here i am. i decided to stick to the last lesson you posted, and so i have a number of questions about that before i try to do it.

@unknownuser said:

What we are going to do is build a separate web page to fit into an iframe.

The first thing to do is create the page of course and you can just reference this new page in the iframe dialogue as you position it on your main page.

Then just drop the iframe page into the middle of the main page and surround it with a layer of navigation to the left of the main page as in the project list at the side of the slide show.

You will have a separate iframe page for each of your projects. All of these iframe pages
(pages with iframes embedded) can then be referenced from the outer nav frame.

i understand the principle behind the idea but do not quite get how it is going to be done.
i get the relation between iframe and project page, between iframe and the main page, and between the iframe and the nav frame outside it. my main doubt/question is: what is the structure of each page that will be referenced in the iframe dialogue? how is it going to contain all the pictures of a project? where would they be? on this seoarate page? on the server?

as i finished reading the part on named anchors i had the same feeling as before: i understand it but do not know where to put it. fortunately you came to my rescue by mentioning that it could not be inserted into sitebuilder just like that.

@unknownuser said:

So the big question for you all is would you like me to get myself an editor (that we can share) and then go ahead and launch a lesson on the use of the tag……
Or, should I just go get us some canned code……..sorry to leave you this way but I need your help with this.

  i would very much like to learn how to deal with the tag code. i am afraid using canned code will be ok in the short run but will leave my hands tied as to future changes to the site. thus if it is ok with you please get the editor and let's do a lesson on the use of tags.

i always prefer learning how to fish than being given the fish as a gift, if you know what i mean.

and, once more, my appreciation for all you are doing for us.

Gaieus

@edson said:

would it be possible to integrate it with a website like the ones we are creating under bruce's guidance?

edson

Sure, it creates html files (and all the necessary folders for the images, thumbnails etc) that you just upload to your site.
However I haven't followed how this sitebuilder works - I mean whether you can custom-upload your own pages/files to the server or "just" use whatever is built into the sitebuilder software.

alan wood

Hi Modelhead,
I would be very happy to travel along the same path as Edson.
Having viewed Edson's pages, it has given me the idea that on my tools navigation bar, it will lead me to a page, full of the links to all the 'tool' subjects that i need to talk about.
That will be a much clearer way, I believe, to nagivate around my site.
Great idea, thanks Edson.
Thank you Bruce
cheers
Alan.

PS having viewed loads of sites for ideas, and I believe we are travelling along the right path, and getting there. At the time of this posting the site has not been updated.

http://www.hand-cut-dovetails.com

updated 1057hrs

Edson

@gaieus said:

Sure, it creates html files (and all the necessary folders for the images, thumbnails etc) that you just upload to your site.
However I haven't followed how this sitebuilder works - I mean whether you can custom-upload your own pages/files to the server or "just" use whatever is built into the sitebuilder software.

gai, at any rate, my plan is to get the site running with sitebuilder and then export it to dreamweaver so that i can host it anywhere and insert all sorts of elements like the one you are suggesting.

cheers.

Gaieus

Edson,

Cool. That is the final goal anyway.
I have a whole lot of "web developer tools" (websites bookmarked) which I have already promised Bruce to share here. During the week-end I'll put together a little "package" with some very basic descriptions where you can find what and post it in this topic if you guys don't mind me interfere...

Edson

bruce,

in order to better orientate the viewer i would like for some elements of the nav bars to be highlighted in some way (underlined, or in bold, or in a diffrent color, etc) to tell people where they are on the site. to exemplify this i posted a picture of the site in which the cyan rectangles indicate that the viewer would on the portfolio section, architecture sub-section, viewing project X.

is this possible to do with the resoursces we have?

cheers.

Gaieus

Some "webmasters' resources":

Free buttonsets:
http://www.freebuttons.com/index.php?page=freebuttons&buttonName=BlurMetal&color=8
http://www.prodraw.net/button/buttons1.htm
http://www.webdesignhelper.co.uk/design_elements/web_graphics/buttons_113to140/buttons_113to140.shtml

Unicode charts:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/

Link validator (Xenu)
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
CSS editor (go down the page for the "lite" version)
http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/TopStyle/Default.aspx

HTML
Getting started:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

Code tutorial
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/

Some more tuts
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/

Another "introduction"
http://www.case.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html

Soma other basics
http://www.sparklist.com/resources/tools/htmlbasics.html

Maybe this is the best of all
http://www.w3schools.com/html/

Javascript collections*
http://www.123webmaster.com/Scripts/Java_and_Javascript/
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
http://www.hotscripts.com/JavaScript/ (!)

And so on, but I think this is enough for now.
I'll get back with more links & resources later.

*Always check if a javascript works at laest on all major browsers!

Edson

hi, bruce.

all of us have other stuff to do too and i (we?) am not in such a hurry. your contribution has been great so far. thus, take your time. it will be fine whenever you find time to do it.

meanwhile, i got my hands on a couple of training videos on dreamweaver cs3 which are amazingly instructive.

regards.

alan wood

Hi Bruce,
I will second Edson's comments. I have plenty to work on ,and any time you are free, I will take up the lessons again, when you have time.
Thank you
Alan

Gaieus

Hi all websitebuilders,

I just checked "Givaway of the day" website and found that they have "ConceptDraw WebWawe" for free today (for another 16 hs to download adn install).

The product is 300 bucks otherwise so it must be a powerful one (I haven't tried it yet just downloaded).

Also, read carefully the TOS.

Have fun;

Edit:
Ah well, the link

alan wood

Hi Gaieus,
thanks for that
Alan

alan wood

Hi Modehead,
Great to see you here.
Thanks for this lesson.
This feature could have a great deal of use in my project, allowing the viewer to have a 'brief overview' of what I am going to cover in a particular teach package.
This will keep me busy for tomorrow.
Thanks
Alan

http://www.hand-cut-dovetails.com

Edson

thanks, bruce. i will have a look a it tomorrow morning. a presentation rush in the last 48 hs left me almost brainless.

cheers.

edson

Edson

bruce, i am glad you included that caution note. i will wait a bit for the cut and paste.

cheers.

edson

Edson

great, bruce. can't wait to get my hands on it!

juju

this is totally OT:

couldn't stay away any longer heh Bruce? good to see you back and posting

alan wood

Hi Modelhead,
Just picked up the latest lesson.
I will get on with that this evening.
Thank you
Alan