Re-defining HTML: Helicopter-Traveling-Mansion-LIFE ( Journey HTML/CSS )

got halfway through finishing the styling on the new site, getting stuck so scrapping it all and starting again.
I made a few mistakes along the way anyway so It will be better.

Anybody know of using a platform like twitter bootstrap or something along those lines?
 
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Finished a sexy website, copied one of the websites off awwwards and replicated it near exactly. At first i even took the same images off the site, but after I finished I swapped them out with placeholders and now I claim this one (:
I just wish I knew how to do what the original site did, it was complex.

Took alot of concepts from building the site though, really beneficial.
I'll be posting pics up soon with broken imgur links so if someone really wants to see what I'm doing they can fix the link and use it.

I don't feel like typing much atm, so just moving on to building the next site. That's really what it comes down to anyway.




i'll be back with imgur links,

later.
 
Finished full width version of my second site,

I'm really happy with how it looks,

everything came together, I'm not really running into problems anymore. The problems I do run into do not take long to fix. And if the problems are being complicated, I usually take a step away from working and let my mind wonder about it as I do something else.

I'm tired, my phone wont turn back on and it's worrying me. It did this once before but came back on after hour. I've spent an hour watching a youtube video on the topic of another aspect of my life I'm taking action in while trying to get my phone to turn back on, and it's still not. Jailbroken and almost two years old now.. hope it's not due. I even made a joke about what i'd do if I lost it for real earlier today... instant karma.

So I'm keeping this painfully short.

I understand Ive been slacking on the posts lately,
but I'm trying to spend more time working and less time beating off ( metaphor ).


Oh and hey, someone brought pics (:

Let me know if they work. They do for me, but I also have cookies from visiting my profile signed in.

imgur. com/a/77DR2#0 --- Second site I just built

imgur. com/a/MRkRi#0 -- First Site that I copied from awwwards ( the picture with FUMA is the *original,* I re-created it. Then the second with the ocean is the version I modified so it looks different. only difference is pictures )


next post will be much more in-depth, new goals/plans/setbacks/problems/progress/etc
 
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girls, hw, consider this me taking a break until I can get some of my priorities out of the way first.

Suds I don't disagree, but I think we have different ideas about how a website should look ( different uses w/e )
 
The thing is that Internet is full of those kinds of templates for free while the one i showed (for example) is rare and 99.9% only buyable. In internet marketing you need to look how to earn $. the taste can vary but you need to catch their attention.

I understand that these aren't your "main" templates to earn money at the moment, keep on learning php and start including databases and user stored info.
Im not sure how artistic you are, but i strongly suggest you get good at photoshop, most of the time its the artistic work that makes the website stand out.

Btw. about that joomla website, i meant check how responsive it is to everything (the sliders ect.)
 
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I'm back.


I'm taking some advice and I'm going to move on from working strictly with HTML/CSS,
and I'm moving on to PHP.

So far, found a solid beginning resource and i'm breaking through it.

I fkkd up and got back into an old habit, and I've gotta break it again. ( nah, song is not connected relax )

I lost my motivation for this, and it took me a while to remember why I started in the first place.
I forgot what it felt like to have that burning feeling to learn.

It feels good to get back into it.
 
Okay, so since I switched into working with PHP, Brackets has no support for it.
I decided that i'd save myself alot of redundant effort and find a better editor.

Managed to get PHPstorm.
So far, it was working good until I couldn't edit anything in a live browser. I need to config it. So I'm updating WAMP and I think that will make my life easier from the next point on.
EDIT: yeah all I had to do was update WAMP, straight-forward from then on.
Downloading it on college wi-fi so It's going to take like 10 minutes hah, which is why I decided i'd write up this post in the meantime.

Truthfully, just don't feel like doing any thing code related. Whenever I try doing anything I just let myself get distracted by my phone/soundcloud and whatever else, or I can't focus at all. It's like watching a really shitty movie, problably made in france. But I realize I can't put off what I want for what I want right now ( stupid tumblr quote haha).


So I've been slowly forcing myself to keep coming back to it.
Won't be able to hide under the excuse of finals after Friday anyway so after then I'll be picking it up.

WHAT I'VE ACCOMPLISHED:

I found this amazing beginner guide by devzone, it's really easy to read and in-depth. The author is a genius and extremely thorough. I've been re-doing the practices until I have a strong grasp on what i'm doing.
SO far, everything is identical to javascript, except PHP. It's somewhat easier so far, but I also have the programming basics down from burning through javascript.

I think that how i'm doing it now is better, even though I'm not "progressing" as much as I would like to be. I've been doing small bits (20ish mins) at a time, it's because I cant focus and get bored, but I feel like I understand what I've done more instead of coding for like an hour or two at a time.
Which is obvious, but I still feel like I'm slacking.

WAMP finished installing, gonna see if I can figure out phpstorm some more and maybe i'll come back to this:

I want to create an update with new goals/plans, but I really have no idea what they would be, it's just to keep learning php for now lol.

Oh and If I don't get my first sale of whatever by June I'm going to say fuqq it and put in the money for hosting and start on a recipe (cooking) website.
I'm going home in a week and It'll basically be a place where I collect all my recipes.

More on that later.
But It'll probably be the start of an authority site.
 
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Drinking the most disgusting smoothie right now. Just moved back to my dads house ( schools out ) and left my protein in my car, and my dad only has green bananas but i was like fuck it, starving.
Tastes like natural protein nomsayin, ask me whats in it.

SO FAR

php is amazing.
It's soo much easier to understand and actually use, either it's the source i'm learning from or the language itself, this is really easy.

So far I learned:
php basics, it's exactly like javascript, syntax is pretty similar. I'm really glad I put in the effort of learning javascript for this reason.

server side form handling,
creating html content with php, which is redundant in the sense that i'm using it now but it has it's purpose for later uses.
Pretty much it so far, I've been re-doing the excercises until I've got them down. I'm going to try taking the learning part slower than i did with javascript.
I think this will help me make sense of what i'm doing more if I take it in small chunks (20-35 mins at a time max) instead of when I was doing ~2 hrs worth at a time with javascript.

About it,

later.
 
Might have my first sale,
I'm really confident in this design I created as a sample. Hopefully the guy likes it and takes me on.

[url]https://imgur[/URL] (X) com/a/t8Qe8

Definitely excited for that. Havn't done any PHP yet today since I've been working on the sample and unpacking since I just got back home last night. I probably put 3-4 hours into the site alone.
It's amazing how I still remember everything when it comes to html/css, I didn't have any errors and coding went so smoothly. The only reason it took so long was because I learned how to do the nav background and a few other things, I was just playing around.

If this guy likes it and agrees to let me build him a website, i'm looking at ~$50. and I'll be looking at a long term client.


Going to take a break for a bit and then I'm coming back to finish up this PHP lesson.
Working with arrays and applying it to a form.

I've been able to reproduce what i've been learning without looking back, AND understanding why it works.
Going great so far (:

Taking it slower and it's helping alot.
 
Can't decide on what color I want to use, let's try this for a bit...



I really need to figure out how to stay focused.
I waste so much time.

Covered:
loops,
Arrays,

and ending with functions.

Most of this is a refresher, similar structure to what i've done with JS.


I havn't gotten a reply with the site yet, it's been two days? So doubt it's happening. We'll see lol.
Not worried, that would have taken up alot of time anyway.

PHP is really nice, there's alot of practicality that it has that javascript didnt,

for example, when you're creating a loop to run through an array, you can just use ....

foreach ( $expression as $key){
echo ' You will see: ' $key ;
}

Pretty sure that's right. w/e PHPstorm would parse that for me (:

... instead of having to do alot of bs with javascript.



I was at the gym today, walking back to the locker room and I passed where there's a little sitting area right before the hall way to the locker room.

As soon as I walk by I hear
"don't do that again ' -- some boyfriend
.. pause
she goes " i was reading his shirt"
i walked slower so i could listen lol
some bf: "his shirt's not down there, don't do that again'
she just laughs at him and said something in defense and cut him off to talk about something else

lmao.


I think i'm going with alice blue and salmon, nice contrasts, readable.
 
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I'm starting to look around at methods for monetizing a site i'd make.

I'm thinking about working with tumblr, I love tumblr and it'd match up well with what i'm doing.

I'll look into it a bit more

still can't decide on a color btw,
 
I finally figured out how to connect to my MySQL database...

I jumped from 3-4 different sources until I could piece what I was trying to do together.
devzone source literally jumped right into it as if I knew wtf I was doing, and that threw me off, So FORTUNATELY FOR THENEWBOSTON, I went to him.
After that and a reading a few posts from stack I figured out what I had to do.
Newboston helped set the foundation, but he was using mysql and I have to use mysqli .... Apparently there's a difference but I couldn't tell you what. Mysqli is just newer.

Whatever, so since he was using a different version I couldn't fully follow, and since I was still confused I had to keep replaying and re-looking back/other sources.
It was simple after I figured it out, took probably 3 hours for that lmao...

Came back to add this on :
<?php ---- some say the php tag is unnecessary but i say erroneous! Finding that I left that out just saved my code.

?>

But I'm querying to my database now and pulling info out of it so I'm back to making progress.

Made an account on webmasterworld, have no idea what for but I thought it'd be a good idea.
.
There's a fun story behind it also, but it'd be a page just to introduce it.

Oh yeah, its under my alter ego too haha.

DIdn't get too much else done. had to spend ~6 hours setting up and then doing mod 1 of SSD, +1 if you know my pain.
 
Good morning everyone (:

Re-visited my After Effects days and uploaded a few hopeful ways to attract some sales.


Seems fun, and if it doesn't work out then nbd. I only put 2-3 hours into everything. AND it didn't go for nothing even if I don't have sales, i'll use them for myself with my websites. In addition, opens door for future projects.

But it should. Going to see a way to promote them a little bit.

This post sounds so mysterious haha.
 
I'm smiling like a 5 yr old,

I just posted the offer and I already
have my first sale (:


I'm trying to make a second order out of it haha. I'll spend his money better than he will

And got it.

Edited my original file so it's better after using it again from setting it up earlier, and I'm always going to offer the "bonus" now as a way to get a second/third sale. I'm glad I didn't post the "bonus" up as an additional offer I sell.



Working more with php and mysql,

I've been able to create a database with phpmyadmin, access it with php, and update it with a simple form.
I created an input that takes a username and password that will update the database when you press submit.


I have a general idea to make it actually like a login, and if not I can atleast use it to collect emails for now . (:
 
Good work sticking with it mate. Good read
and good luck. You'll do well in IM.

Sampler

 
I finished the devzone source.

What I mostly got out of devzone:
- Comfortable with PHP Language ( as in, the basics, how it works, the purpose )
- The only thing I can really do on my own and which was the main focus of the tutorial is
Grabbing values out of a form. For example, I can create a form and then use whatever values entered with something else,
It's basically creating functions and instead of arguments being in ... function example( being in here ){}...
They're in the form.
- I did have setting cookies down, but I forgot and tbh don't really feel like going back over it quite yet. I will later when it's a bit more of a priority.
- Working with MySQL
- Accessing and adding to a database

These last two bullets were a combination of sources and was a pain, but figured it out eventually.
MySQL was a labyrinth when I first looked at it, and it's comfortable ground now.

There's a few things idk how to do yet that I am probably going to be looking into soon
- adding database with php without manually creating one, idk if I can but I think so
- allowing access only if name is in database ( like membership pages and what not )
- things with database, in short


There was a last part about setting your own errors, SQLite and something else irrelevant, which I skipped.
Didn't want to waste any more time.

Now, I am switching over to TheNewBoston, which will be my next source to complete. I just kind of looked over it again, and I went through a few vids.



The only thing is the videos are unnecesary re-cap, and I'm probably going to be skipping the majority of it.

Since I'm switching sources, I felt like it would be a good time to start a php project to sort of test what I've learned and get some practice with it.

I googled beginning php projects and I'm first going to create a To-Do list.

That will be easy. Shouldn't take more than 15 minutes.

As i looked down the list i was like there's no way I can do these...
the 5th BEGINNING project was to make a "simple forum". lol

okay.

I'm going to finish a few projects and I'll oome back with an update.

later
 
Good to see some progress.
This forum is actually advertising you, people see that you aren't a complete beginner anymore.
 
haha what? You're joking..

Anyway,


So that To-Do list was slightly more complicated than I thought ahah.
Okie so,
Last Night:

I thought i had it all down when I was first thinking about creating the list as I typed up that last post,

simple,
create a form, set the method to list.php

Gather the data by setting the variable $tasks = $_POST['tasks'];

if(isset($tasks)){

$list = array();

explode( $list, '');
}

basically like that, that was my original idea, I know there are syntax errors in that, but it doesn't matter, that's just what I thought I would have to do.

And it worked!
Except, it could only add one task at a time, and it added the tasks on a new page,

So on the first page ( let's say index.php )
There was my form,
So i'd add a "task", click submit and it would take me to list.php page
Great, there's my 1 item list, but I can't add anything to it now from where I am, and if I were to ever go back to the form (index.php) to add something else,
it would only take the place of the item.

++:
- general concept is there
- Only had to look back for something small, I can't remember, this was last night/early this morning
- Need to figure out how to make everything work so it stays on the same page as the index ( a goal)

Bad:
- Wasn't exactly a "list"
- Didn't work, lol idk

So after 30?ish minutes of playing with the list, and completing it.
Went to google,
google told me to look at this christmas list tutorial from smashingmagazine

http://www.smashingmagazine X com/2011/12/22/create-a-christmas-wish-list-with-php/


was pumped, got halfway through it then quit for the night.

ALOT of the code was newish, more like new variations of what I Was using, and so I kind of was going through it with the mindset of okay, let's just play along and then once I'm finished i'll do a more independent run.


SO, I came back to it tonight, was excited to work on it now after not being able to all day.
The author of the tutorial decided to not edit it after he posted it, and
1) says to use a file (function.php) that was never mentioned at all before or after, and so we're left to guess where to put the code
2) at the end there's two blocks of code with no direction of where to put it. not only did I not know where to put it, there were variables that were never defined prior.

In short, it's a broken tutorial.

I tried looking in the comments, and everyone for some reason was caught up arguing the security fundamentals in a BEGINNER tutorial that WILL NEVER be used for production beyond merely learning. So, there were questions ( two people actually using the tutorial and taking it at values worth) but no answers to be found.

So Kind of mad about it, because
1) never got to have my independant run and understand what I didn't the first time
2) It's not finished.
3) It's not finished, and I can't even use it, or look at it.

He went to the length of creating it so you had to login with mysql to use it, and now it's just stuck at the login page lmao.

So yeah, still on projects, and going for round 2 somewhere else.

Later
 
omg, i create an infinite loop ONE time and phpstorm never forgives me. When i go to test it, my browser just sits in loading with a blank page. have to reset Everything. dumb.
Actually, jk, before I was almost done with this post it came back.
I just have to let it sit for a while or something. I still mean what i said.

Okay, so projects part 2 is going good,

I found phpexercises.com and inspired myself. <--- Wish I would've known about this earlier, and done the exercises as I was learning the material.

I went all out to solve this rediculously easy problem and it lead me to do this:

Created the motiVATOR, lmao.
Basically,

Website with a form. I styled this one too. It's gawjus.
You enter your needed dose of motivation ( a number) , pick the amount in oz,kg,mg,lb and push Submit.
Below it is a string that gets repeated depending on how much motivation you need.

That was the start.

Now, I'm expanding on it.

I kind of realized how to make a Tumblr page..

You see, I had the idea of adding motivational pictures after a certain amount of motivation was needed and it led me to figuring out how to add images with php,
AS of now, I searched how to add all the images in a folder, and after adding the code it looks like this:

a
left-aligned
tumblr
(all my images are like this )
.. CSS styling could quickly bring them center, Tumblr.


Anyway, so my goals for updating the motiVATOR are:

- Add varying amounts of images depending on how much motivation is needed
- Better usage of space, it's hard to explain
- oz/mg/kg/lb have an effect, this will be the trickiest part I think.


It's new to style this, because It's like php just adds it to the page, and I don't fully know how to contain ( I don't know where to do so at )
I just have to move the script into a div, and then make sure the div is where I want it. I'm pretty sure that's how that works. Then it's just like a regular div.

 
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