Website Coding

SuperSayian · 20-08-2015 4:07pm #1

Hey guys,

So I ended up getting stuck to code a website for my team. We're in an international science competition and I genuinely have no clue what I'm at. I was wondering if any of you could help me? I'm not good at design so I am just really in a spot of bother.

Thank you,

A girl going insane

Trojan · 20-08-2015 4:16pm

What are you trying to achieve with the site? How far have you got so far?

SuperSayian · 20-08-2015 4:32pm

I'm trying to make it look nice. It doesn't need amazing features, it can be basic but I kinda need to have it responsive. It's all fixed background scrolling. I've made a banner, boxes that flip on hover, a carousel on the main page and it's all responsive bar the boxes.
Then for the other pages I just have a fixed scrolling bg, one of which is like a red & green floating animation.
The team page is a bit different, I have circles for pics that animate green and red swirls around them and get bigger when you hover over them.
I have to do a sort of Q&A page which I'm struggling with atm.

Thanks for replying

smash · 20-08-2015 4:37pm

Have you actually coded all that or is it at concept stage. Because if you've coded it, then I wouldn't say you don't have a clue what you're doing.

SuperSayian · 20-08-2015 4:51pm

I have coded it but it has literally taken me months. I found the very vast majority of the code abd only coded the simple stuff myself.
A guy I know said that my CSS is not "proper" and that it's odd, but I have no idea what that means :P

RedXIV · 20-08-2015 4:54pm

Are you looking for general pointers?
Help with a specific problem?
A mentor?

SuperSayian · 20-08-2015 5:03pm

A mentor tbh, but I know that's a lot to ask so I'll take what I can get!

SuperSayian · 20-08-2015 7:48pm

If someone were willing just to let me bounce ideas off of them and maybe get small amounts of help, it would be amazing.

pillphil · 20-08-2015 9:06pm

You could try doing code academy tutorials.
Do the html and css course and then the build a website course it'll teach you how to make this:

http://codepen.io/pillphil/full/eNweNm/

Then just rip that off for your own site.

SuperSayian · 20-08-2015 10:29pm

I wish I could but someone did that before xD

sheesh · 21-08-2015 11:52am

ok then requirements!

is the site part of the competition?

How many pages? it there are not alot just use a flat site.

do you need some sort of scripting? Does the user need to be able to input info and get a reply back or is it a site that only displays info about the competition entry.?

I would suggest lynda.com get a 10 day free trial and look at their responsive website tutorial I found this very useful
http://www.lynda.com/CSS-tutorials/Creating-Responsive-Web-Design/110716-2.html

Also have a look a web frameworks this will take most of the headache out of creating a responsive website

I like Foundation http://foundation.zurb.com/ as it is well documentated which is essential in using a framework.

by the way if you could use a cms like wordpress using one of their own themes would also take care of the responsive requirements I'm not too sure if that is allowed.

professore · 21-08-2015 11:55am

Is the website part of the competition? Or just a showcase? If it's the latter just get someone else to do it and concentrate on the competition itself.

Graham · 21-08-2015 2:04pm

professore wrote: »

Is the website part of the competition? Or just a showcase? If it's the latter just get someone else to do it and concentrate on the competition itself.

+1

Or use a drag and drop website builder or a template/theme.

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