Recently I've had a lot of free time on my hands (well, I've not, I should have been revising but that's not the point =p) and out of that free time came four main projects, the online newspaper is the only one that's survived really. I've just finished doing the flash (i'm still an amateur in flash so i'm proud of what i've done
) and I took an old design to integrate it into. Only problem is the name I have for it is
"a word to the wise" which is crappy at best, so I need a name. A domain will be to follow so it's gots ta be snappy. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, and hell, even comments on the website will be appreciated as well! While I wait for replies I'll take the suggestions off the other thread and start knocking letters out of verbs and grabbing a thesaurus
Sneaky Peak! - btw, I've got a few artclies to put in, but any offerings to write would be great, not permanent every wek, justa few articles here and there if you want. Futher more It's not gonna be a conventional newspaper, the thing i put in the flash now is just to see if the flash actually works, lol.
PS: the quick edit feature is ultra cool, i've only just used it/discovered it, and i like it a hella lot
EDIT: Okay, now i'm definately gonna have to come up with a name, some bugger has uploaded a website under that company... the domain was registered back in 1997 but the website wasn't there when i searched a few days ago, lol.
Looks nice
I like the flash, but you should also have a text version for printing and such.
Nice flash and design
- Unfortunately I'm right out of imagination for this week (blame my GCSEs) so I've got no name suggestions
What type of news is it gonna be about?
ValSpy Wrote:Looks nice I like the flash, but you should also have a text version for printing and such.
Thanks, and great idea, forgot about that. I'll probably insert a link to both a stand-alone image of it and also a separate text variant, thanks again.
the andyman Wrote:Nice flash and design - Unfortunately I'm right out of imagination for this week (blame my GCSEs) so I've got no name suggestions
What type of news is it gonna be about?
Thanks, and I'm the same from my A-levels. I've got another month or so to think though... I'm not planning on 'releasing' it till July-ish.
As for what it's gonna be about, I haven't a clue. I've got vague ideas, I wanted a wide selection of the 'best' articles on varying topics, rather than a good article and loads of crummy ones about a specific topic. I was thinking something like one main news article (news-news, like an international event or the main issue focus) then a featured artist, maybe a comic strip (varying artists, but I'm not sure if I'll get permission off the artist at all). Also, some technology news and possibly reviews. Furthermore I wanted an article a week to take a twist on a proverb or saying and relate it to the world today: eg the first one I was looking into was "the walls now have a little more than ears", taken from the phrase "the walls have ears" and exploring the issue of the 'big brother society' becoming a reality. Also, a few varying articles here and there on damn near anything as long as it steers clear of blogging
I think you should use some .htaccess hacks (well, not really hacks) so that it's search engine friendly. So instead of /news/?id=about it's news/about/
.Lou Wrote:I think you should use some .htaccess hacks (well, not really hacks) so that it's search engine friendly. So instead of /news/?id=about it's news/about/
very good idea... I'll have a look into doing that, I'm not too familiar with that, but I'm sure I can find out more on Google. Thanks for the tip, I was going to submit it to a few online directories when launched and a couple of serach engines but yeah, this should help
Cheers
Code:
RewriteRule ^about$ index.php?id=about
RewriteRule ^about/$ index.php?id=about
That will take care of using url/about and url/about/ .
Also, you'll want to use some php for the links in your navbar to work properly. Therefore, I suggest you set a variable to $siteurl and when displaying your links, print the siteurl and then the link. That way, the links won't ever turn out to be
http://site.com/about/contact and will always be
http://site.com/contact
Edit: Example:
PHP Code:
<?php
$siteurl = "http://www.methos-studios.co.uk/wise";
print '<a href="' . $siteurl . '/contact/">» Contact</a>';
?>
Edit 2: Also, your contact page should read "Contact us" and not "Contact me". Also, if you're using it to send email, I suggest you simply use it to post to a database which you could view in your admin panel. This way, all your news posters can reply to e-mail, and it makes the job easier for you.
.Lou Wrote:
Code:
RewriteRule ^about$ index.php?id=about
RewriteRule ^about/$ index.php?id=about
That will take care of using url/about and url/about/ .
Also, you'll want to use some php for the links in your navbar to work properly. Therefore, I suggest you set a variable to $siteurl and when displaying your links, print the siteurl and then the link. That way, the links won't ever turn out to be http://site.com/about/contact and will always be http://site.com/contact
Edit: Example:PHP Code:
<?php
$siteurl = "http://www.methos-studios.co.uk/wise";
print '<a href="' . $siteurl . '/contact/">» Contact</a>';
?>
Awesome, thanks .Lou, I'll update tomorrow night sometime.
.Lou Wrote:Edit 2: Also, your contact page should read "Contact us" and not "Contact me". Also, if you're using it to send email, I suggest you simply use it to post to a database which you could view in your admin panel. This way, all your news posters can reply to e-mail, and it makes the job easier for you.
Haha, yeah, I lifted it off the old design, I'm gonna re-do a conatct form and use a database like you said, or maybe just use php and text files, lol. Might be doing a cms as well yet, we'll see.
Thanks for all the comments so far, they're really helping (especially from .Lou who seems to be going through the site with a fine toothcomb, haha). Any name suggestions? Thanks again!!
Quote:Also, if you're using it to send email, I suggest you simply use it to post to a database which you could view in your admin panel. This way, all your news posters can reply to e-mail, and it makes the job easier for you.
Plus, it would be safer, as if the form wasn't protected correctly, it could be used to send spam emails out from your website.
That happened here a year or so ago.
I like the flash looks like a cool project. Good luck with your exams and keep us updated
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