Post all your fake names here! Some fake names to get you started:
Jack Ingoff
Dick Hertz
Ben Dover
Jack Hoff
Sook Ma Weena
Hugh Jazz

At 7/2/08 08:35 PM, ScorpianX0 wrote:

At 7/2/08 08:32 PM, Anim8or666 wrote:

At 7/2/08 08:30 PM, ScorpianX0 wrote:

At 7/2/08 08:19 PM, Anim8or666 wrote: -- anime, because almost anybody can learn to draw it these days.

>: / .........* hits nerve slightly, but keeps mouth shut before he gets flamed *

Not you, man. Your stuff is good. By anime, I mean those blobby MS Paint rejects that people pass off as anime, which gives anime a bad name.

oh....... I thought you meant anime in general ( including shows, manga, everything ), I undersatnd what you're getting at now.

and thanks

I really enjoy manga and anime. It gives me a sort of inspiration to draw after I read/see it. Even though I don't draw in a manga style, there are still manga-ish influences in my work...

At 7/2/08 08:30 PM, ScorpianX0 wrote:

At 7/2/08 08:19 PM, Anim8or666 wrote: -- anime, because almost anybody can learn to draw it these days.

>: / .........* hits nerve slightly, but keeps mouth shut before he gets flamed *

Not you, man. Your stuff is good. By anime, I mean those blobby MS Paint rejects that people pass off as anime, which gives anime a bad name.

Meh. Here's my half-assed contribution. Meant to offend.

I've been cheating on Photoshop with Flash. Please don't tell Photoshop, I don't want to hurt its feelings.

Meh. I don't really like anime, because almost anybody can learn to draw it these days. I like the cartoon sonic better, because it's more sonic-y. Besides, anime is cartoon, it's just a different style of cartoon. The real topic name should be: Original, retro Sonic Vs. Anime, sellout Sonic.

I drew a robot, too. This is quite old, because I'm focusing more on drawing people rather than machines.

I'm actually kind of disappointed at you guys, don't you already know that nns357 is a troll?

At 7/2/08 05:20 PM, smulse wrote: You explained it really shitly. It's a hell of a lot easier than that. You don't even need most of those pages, as WP will display the default (index.php) template if you don't define one for the page (ie archives/search) and just display that.

It's not hard at all really.

I never said that it was hard. It's just time-consuming.

At 7/2/08 01:39 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 7/2/08 01:35 PM, Wreckages wrote: guys, guys, guys!

what needs to be done is obvious. a lemonade stand.

durr.

I love lemonade.
E-lemonade?

Erotic chat. That'll get the money flowing real quick, and you don't even have to show your face.

At 7/2/08 11:45 AM, citricsquid wrote: Hi guys :D:D:D:D:D:D

Just give Sam his account back... he's been grieving for months now. And by grieving I mean creating several alts every week.

No offense to squid intended.

Thanks man, I'll do that. One more question though: what's a good place to buy domains from?

Thanks for the tip, BoneIdol. I'll try that for now. Now to answer squid's question- No I did not get it "free," I had to pay for it, and it was part of the bill.

It sounds complicated, but it's actually quite easy, if not a little tedious. I made my template easily, even though I have absolutely no knowledge of PHP. If you're too lazy to make your won template, there are thousands of free templates out there. Not to mention that Wordpress is extremely customizable.

How about for your next project you use wood? You could have used some wood for the stock and the grip thing, it would look so much more realistic. The "metal" parts you should have used a glossy spray paint. Maybe put a varnish over it for a little shine?

At 7/2/08 11:02 AM, notsquid wrote: They won't release it.

Does that mean I have to get a new domain and wait until my contract expires to get my old domain back?

Yeah, I got it all backed up. *sigh of relief* Now I just have to get my old host to let go of my domain name... And since my contract with the bad host ends in December, I might as well use it as a proxy so it doesn't go to waste...

You can't just make a design for Wordpress, you know... You have to go and make a template. When you install Wordpress, you're going to see the default template. Then go into your server and browse to your wordpress directory > wp-content > themes > default. Since you're new at Wordpress, it's best if you just modify the default theme to your liking. You'll probably want to modify the index.php, archive.php, archives.php, footer.php, header.php, page.php, and single.php. Put all your styles into style.css, which is in the same folder. Just make sure to leave the PHP code in the template, and build your design around it. Hope this helps.

By the way, I have an urgent question! My server seems to be up again, but when I go to my site, it shows a "great success, Apache is installed" page. Does that mean all my data is gone? Also, how would I go about backing up and restoring a Wordpress database?

There's a way to recover the data from your hard drive, though. It's a bit technical, but it should work. Since you're posting this, I assume you have a working computer. Use it to download Ubuntu Linux. Then burn it as a bootable disc. Put it into your busted computer and boot from CD, usually by accessing your PC's BIOS. Google how to boot from CD, as every computer has a different method. Once you've booted from the Ubuntu CD, Ubuntu will start up. It has this nifty try-before-you-install feature, so you don't even have to install it. Run Ubuntu, and once it loads, you will see the desktop. Go to your hard disc through Ubuntu and pull you files over onto an external hard drive, or disc or whatever. Hope that helps.

At 7/1/08 08:10 PM, Andy-Smithy wrote: Just out of curiosity, which host were you with?

Fastnext.com. Terribly cheap prices for what seemed to be a lot- 3tb of "supposed" bandwidth. This was before I learned of better hosts like Dreamhost and Media Temple. Media Temple is expensive; at $200 a year compared to $80 for Fastnext. However, Fastnext is down every other day, which really does not look good, especially since I host my portfolio on it. Not to mention Media Temple has free 24/7/365 support.

At 7/1/08 12:48 PM, notsquid wrote: Building, coding and designing websites is great fun, if you don't want to put effort in and plan on using a WYSIWYG you don't deserve arms.

You've pretty much made your point clear, seeing as you have like 20 sites currently deployed.

At 7/1/08 09:34 AM, CW-Clayt wrote: well you definetly need to change the design of your website.

no affence but it sucks, those navigation buttons are hideous.

id like to help you out

contact me via email: afternoonend@hotmail.com

Not to mention that the site has a Flash-based navbar when the rest of the site is HTML, which is a major no-no in web design. Those same effects can easily be done with CSS and some animated .gifs. Although I don't know much about backend programming, I can definitely help on the whole front-end thing. PM me if you're interested.

It's time to bring spamtheweb into the 21st century.

At 7/1/08 06:11 PM, Jessii wrote:

At 7/1/08 10:19 AM, Ositoozy wrote: ok cool, i'll look into it then. Does it make use of PHP or other languages?

It's written in PHP, XHTML, CSS, and as squid said, it uses MySQL as the database.

I don't recall squid (or any of his alts) posting here yet. And I was the one who mentioned the whole mySQL thing...

Am I becoming like squid, with the whole "have to butt in on everything" 24/7 thing?

I hate my current host. Their downtime has pissed me off to the point where I don't care whether my contract is up or not, so I bought a new hosting plan from Media Temple. The question is, how would I go about transferring my current domain onto the new host/server?

I'm sure citricsquid or any of his dozen alts can answer this...

Dude, your art rocks. Have you tried coloring your pictures? By the way, you could crop out all the white space so you wouldn't have to downsize your characters so much.

Nice animation, man. I don't have the time or the patience to do that. By the way, July 1st is the day Adobe re-opens the trials downloads. Before that, the downloads were down for a while.

Yeah. I used a GUI for my first site and it turned out hideous. It's still up there, in all of its ugliness. Compared to my newer site, which was coded in a text editor.

Yup. PHP and mySQL. It's pretty easy to work with, and it uses a template system for it's looks. Customizing it is relatively easy, and you barely need to know any PHP. Wordpress is easy to use, completely free, and insanely customisable. You can make it look like whatever you want.

I downloaded Dreamweaver, also. I used the GUI for a while, but I got curious and decided to take a look into the "code" section. Eventually, I picked up CSS and XHTML. Dreamweaver is more of a learning tool, because once you learn HTML and CSS, it's much faster.

At 6/30/08 03:03 PM, DannyIsOnFire wrote: I wrote one a while back (it must have been a fair while back actually because it uses tables). It worked fine from what I remember though, but it dosen't include the last thing you mentioned (naming a file). Still, you should be able to modify it to do that.

Thanks, man! Even though it doesn't name (as of yet), it works perfectly for me. I also updated the layout a bit, with divs rather than tables.