Well after a long time when I thought Trap17 was down ive finally came onto well logged onto Trap17 Forums because I thought they were down, Now my site is buggered so im going to delete it and make a new Sub Domain, Now to get to the point.

See when you create a sub-domain for your site hosted with Trap17 and in Cpanel you can create sub-domains for your site, are they PHP enabled or only just a simple Sub-Domain ? But I know it has a CGI-Bin

and can you give me a tutorial on how to create a good template, in other words a good Website lol

If anyone could teach me on how to create a brilliant template and even a few pointers on PHP, MySQL etc. because when you look at all these sites there Index page is PHP then u browse the site and it comes out as blabla.php?=cat1&bla bla bal etc. how do i get that, I Know its to do with the scripts you have on your site but, Heres a site that is good Snildudes site, Nearly every Fellow Trap17'er has visited his site its #1 because its jam packed with fun stuff to do. and hes got good PHP Pages Here is what I need to know

1. How to create a Good PHP Template for my Personal Site ?
2. A Few pointers on PHP, MySQL ?
3. How to create a Successful Site ?

Well if anyone can help me God Bless them

and God Bless the UK instead of America

Please Help Me, I wrote this post for about 10 mins, dont want it to go to waste ya know !!!!

If you have any info please post it here or email me @ : johnmeikle@gmail.com

Thank You, John Meikle

That ?act=bleehehe is called , well I think it's called, dynamic something. I've forgotten. It just makes a website have like lesser pages I think.. for eg.. one whole page can have like 5 different pages within.. with out making seperate ones. I think that's what it is.. I'mstill beginner..
And if you don't know ANY mysql at all.. or how to set it up.. then heres what I wrote in a previous post .



but you probably know how to do that. I just quoted it incase you might need it or something.

Anyways. so what is the point in making sites?
- well obviously it's for the viewers out there, so it must be aesthetically pleasing to do eye. And must contain some "interesting" content. - but you probably know that already.

Colors.
- must at least match or somewhat look O.K together. eg.. a yellow page and white font is a NO NO.. that's just the basics everyone knows.
Try stuff that is unique, vibrant yet not too over the top
Organised
- don't really want a cluttered site, it's hard for you to edit and hard for the viewers to roam around.
- a nice simple layout will do,it does not have to be fancy or what nots.
- there is no need to go all "atsy craft" if you don't know how to make anything nice.. a no image layout is OK. just as long it's a VERY nice 'no image' layout.
PHP Layouts
A php layout does not need to consist of HARD coding. A very nice site can just be built on the basics. so don't go copying a load of coding and not knowing how to use it right.. plus ONE mistake in PHP can cause MANY MANY problems..so be careful

I take it you probably know all that but it's just kind of a summary.

My site is pretty crap, but I'm pleased with it.

I'll assume that you're talking about (X)HTML templates. You can learn to design some excellent sites using these resources, I esp. recommend Open Source Web Design (oswd.org):

http://csszengarden.com
http://oswd.org
http://w3schools.org
http://cssvault.com

If you need any help with CSS/(X)HTML, feel free to PM me, I'm quite the web design fanatic.

i'm good at it but why i should tell you or teach you?




This post has been edited by whyme: May 28 2005, 06:04 PM

Thank you for the websites whyme ! And what news provider should I use for example: CuteNews, SiteNews etc.

Any good ones that a free and good and easy to update ! if so please, please put the site here that has it availible for download or if it is a News Provider that is Self-Hosted and you need to just register to it, please put the site down, lol

Hmmmm...... I need some help with domains, im not 18 yet so I cannot register a domain, the only thing I can do is get a FREE DOMAIN if thats possible but I dont want to enter Surveys and to get visitors or that junk, it would be better to just get 50 credits and you can get a .com or a co.uk etc.

So the only domain I can get is Domain Fowarders like cjb.net/.tk/uni.cc/co.nr or just the trap17 subdomain

If there is any further information for you to tell me please post it here or email me @ johnmeikle@gmail.com

And once again Thanks for the Help !, and I already knew MySQL

Thank You, lol

glad i could help,I would recommend CuteNews if your just starting off, because it relatively easy to use and setup. (You can auto-install cute news by going to Fantastico on your cPanel). As for domains, I recomend that you use UNI.CC, it's the most powerful and reliable one out there and odesn't require you to pace a link back to them. If you need any more help, feel free to PM me.

Good Luck,

whyme

+ cute news is also fully PHP amd sometimes when the MYSQL is down CUTENEWS will still be up and running good.
+ there are also hacks and mods to easily install for this mod.

if you would like a really good news/blog script and have time to install and stuff you should use moveable type.

Why can't your parents get a domain for you? I'm 14.. and I've got a domain name.

My parents are paranoid of credit card scams on the internet.