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[poser532378302353]

I'd appreciate it. Also, reccomendations for the best program that writes code? I mean where it simplifies the design process by having you just post pictures and type or whatever and the program codes for you.

jason

[Awad]

http://tizag.com/

http://w3schools.com/

To teach you to design, in the artistic sense, is another battle in itself. Dreamweaver does what you're asking...

[Nelson]

Adobe Dreamweaver is one of the most popular and complete website editors. Nvu is a popular freeware alternative. A few website hosts (namely Geocities and Freewebs) have WYSIWYG editors.

HTML Goodies offers some easy to follow primers and tutorials.

[WhiteIce89]

If you are going to take the design of the website into your own hands, I recommend learning how to use the Slice tool in Photoshop.

[sgp3213]

w3schools.com All Day.

Haha, atleast thats what we used in Web Design class.

But for complete site editing, maybe frontpage or dreamweaver, but depends where you are hosting it.

Freewebs anyone?

[NickC]

Does anyone know how to make a "sign in" thing for a website? Similar to bthsnews, but on a regular site

[AFaust3]

NickC, on Jun 24 2008, 04:38 PM, said:

Does anyone know how to make a "sign in" thing for a website? Similar to bthsnews, but on a regular site

You need to build a database, have it link to a login form and some other stuff I'm not familiar with. I wouldn't go about trying to code it by hand as it's extremely complicated.

[daBKLYNdoorman]

NickC, on Jun 24 2008, 04:38 PM, said:

Does anyone know how to make a "sign in" thing for a website? Similar to bthsnews, but on a regular site

Yeah, you need to create a database in mySQL first. Then you create a table with two columns, one for username and the other for password. To login, use PHP to check if the password that the user inputs matches any of the passwords in the system. If it does, make sure the username matches too. Or you can do it the other way with username first. It's up to you. And another thing, if you need extra security, add some encryption because I think its available in mySQL 4.0 and above.


As for the original question, knowing how to write code is pretty pointless if you don't know how to create a good design or template. Learning how to code is one thing, learning how to design is another. I suggest you google "PSDTUTS" or "NETTUTS" for help with design.

[Awad]

aes encrpytion is where it's at. but sha will do the trick.

of course all of this is pointless to say because it would be easier to use a cms then writing your own code...if you don't know how to code.

[NickC]

Waits, whats AES? whats an encrpytion? Whats a CMS?

[Awad]

AES is a method of encryption. Encryption is storing data in a secure manner (passwords, in this case) so that others can't read and access it.

A CMS or content management system is an application that powers and manages a website. Basically any blog or even BTHSNews has an underlying cms. It's so that people don't have to go in and change code but rather just create and update new sections or blocks of writing and can mess around settings to prevent unauthorized access. You can have a login only section on a cms. Hope that helps at a very rudimentary level.

[z2z007]

Yea, for the news section, we use Mambo CMS.

[marek]

Awad, on Jul 3 2008, 02:56 AM, said:

aes encrpytion is where it's at. but sha will do the trick.

of course all of this is pointless to say because it would be easier to use a cms then writing your own code...if you don't know how to code.

Personally I believe hashing passwords with a salt is better than encrypting them. In the unlikely case a hacker ever gets into the web server, they can get the aes key and the db and have the passwords while having say salts that differs per user(user id works good) and hashes barely helps(as that makes brute forcing the passwords for all the users rather difficult).

Just trying to add words to confuse

[NickC]

I tried but gave up. Damn... maybe computer sci major would've been helpful -.-

[z2z007]

A lot of this stuff you can just pick up by reading constantly online. I try to keep up with the tech but I focus more on what's out on the market and emerging technology.

[marek]

Mages, on Jul 29 2008, 06:24 AM, said:

I've designed websites before, but only used dreamweaver once for my sister's wedding sites. I have used Joomba (I think that's the name), PHPNuke, and like 2 other ones that weren't very good. If your looking for an easy interface to setup websites then Joomba should be what you want. It's simple to create pages and stuff. And if you need help setting up DB's and FTP's then don't worry about asking me.

Btw you don't only have to have a login section. There are patches and hacks that allow you to integrate you forum and CMS logins. So users don't have to do both. It's easier with PHPBB in my opinion, but you guys have VBulletein.

These forums ain't vbulletin, they are IP.Board. Also close on Joomba, it's Joomla.

[z2z007]

Joomla is a close relative of Mambo, which we use now. We might move to Joomla in the future.