Well the last day has been pretty awesome for me in terms of website design. Not so good in that I didn't go to sleep last night, for various reasons including lots of noise.
I finally solved the javascript problem I had been having for months so I can go ahead and make a fancy custom skin engine for my forums, and the calculator's for wscape.I also came up with an idea a couple hours ago for what I currently call Pyco Design Language (PDL), it's basically bbcode+html.However I did it in a way I have never seen.Heres a running example. http://www.gameplague.com/sites/pyco/sites/test.php , so its bbcode but then theres the parameters. I wrote the parser so that any tag can have an unlimited amount of parameters, things like background color, border, etc. All I have to do is tell how to convert the parameter into html/css. I've never seen a bbcode system this advanced =] It also seems to be running with no noticeable lag, of course I haven't tested it with anything full page sized yet. But if it's fast enough I might port it over to my my other sites bbcode systems so that I can add some advanced tags.This will also make adding tags for things like polls and comment systems a lot easier.The fact that I completed this in just 1 night means that PycoSites is actually ahead of schedule to be released within 2 weeks =DI guess I will release some info about my plans for PycoSite features.Upload limit: 1mb.I know, I know…. it's terrible. But with my current host it's all I can spare. It should at least be enough for layout images and a logo. Once I get enough money and find a better host I will increase it to at least 10 if not 15-25. Of course you can get your games hosted at game plague seperately. Paid accounts will get at least twice the storage space as free ones.Bandwidth Limit: I wont add one unless I start running out.Languages: PDL for sure which should allow you pretty good use of html/css and some special php and js stuff. I'm not sure if I will allow actual html on free accounts or not.Site Manager: You will log in on the Pyco Productions website and the manager will allow you to create folders, upload, delete, move, copy, and rename.Password Protection: I will add a feature (either in PDL or Site Manager) to password protect pages.Paid Accounts: Though PycoSites is coming soon these aren't, I wont add them until sometime after the blog add-on is complete. Preferably once I get a new host.Any features I missed that you guys think would be cool for a free site host?
PDL sounds good, so long as it's secure, of course ;)
1MB… ain't so good.So if you pay you get 2mb? HOT DOG, sign me up!
Oh, that is ok then.
Can we pay in cheese?
I will have to see if there is such thing as cheesepal.
Also just to clarify paid will come out after free accounts have 10-25mb.Where can you go to learn web design? I don't want to go to classes.
I taught myself just by looking up functions with google. But I learn differently than most people.
Also I am looking into getting my hosting upgraded, I am using bluehost and it seems they now offer unlimited space/bandwidth but my account was registered before that =/Worst comes to worse I can always get a 2nd account with them unless you guys know of a better host?Well I learned the codes and the improvement in design came from using them alot.
My friend uses Dreamhost and they seem to be very good for pretty cheap.
$5.95 per month if you commit for 10 years. 500GB web space, 5TB bandwidth + loads of other stuffs.http://www.dreamhost.com/Also, I think once you start making websites and see lots of examples of websites, you start to see more clearly what is good design and what is not. I think it's just a case of practice and research makes perfect. :)