[homeweb1]

Hi there i'm new to the site and only been web designing for 6 months,

Anyway i've been asked by someone to design a site like this...

http://www.urbanowne...k/demoPopup.php

And to be honest i'm stumped

I do know abit about html css and php, but it seems to be really complicated,

Im used to throwing stuff on joomla (the easy way out!) and it looking great but this looks like its too complicated for me.

Anyone know how i can either learn how to do this or any add on's for any cms like joomla so i can just fill in the blanks?

Thanks in advance either way.

Mike.

[mrsminkie]

To be fair, it doesn't sound like something you're going to be able to produce in a hurry. I'm sure things like this can be bought off the shelf.....not sure. I'm sure someone will point you in the right direction.

If you can't do it - just say so. If you've only been 'designing' for 6 months, and not actual coding, then this is a pretty tough project.

[Ash Scott]

That will take a bit of time to code up, even for the more advanced web coder. Can you not get in touch with the company, and ask them what it is?

[homeweb1]

Thanks guys (and gals), me thinks i'm gonna tell them i can't do it maybe some coding lessons are in order anyone know any good free places to get learning materials?

[webdesigner93]

From what i can tell this requires a combination of Php/Mysql,Javascript/Ajax all combined into one so if you have only been designing for 6 months and don't know any of these languages then i really suggest you let them know its beyond your knowledge base, for now at least

[FizixRichard]

Actually I'd say thats a very simple thing to do, I cannot really see where PHP & MySQL come into that??? Unless the content is dynamically fetched from a DB. There is no requirement for it.

Basically all its doing is flipping between different "cells" when you mouse over the menu.

So they have coded a main shell (the menu and content area) and then the content for each of the menu links.

Then using JS (AJAX) they are transitioning between each of the content cells, changing the HTML description block for the next and swapping the image. This is done a lot these days and there are loads of tutorials on how to do it out there.

An experienced developer would be able to do that very quickly and to be honest, if you read up on JS/AJAX transitioning techniques you could probably be able to do it if you have a firm enough graps of HTML/CSS to get a rough idea of whats going on.

If you also look at these CSS/AJAX elements that "slide" through bits of content (not images but HTML blocks), those aren't too dissimilar either.

Even if you don't undertake this task I'd at least look up the techniques and try and learn how to do things like that. It would be a nice way to start learning JS/AJAX etc. and as there are many different scenarios where the basic concept is applied its a useful thing to learn how to do.

[webdesigner93]

FizixRichard, on 13 September 2010 - 10:02 AM, said:

Actually I'd say thats a very simple thing to do, I cannot really see where PHP & MySQL come into that??? Unless the content is dynamically fetched from a DB. There is no requirement for it.

Basically all its doing is flipping between different "cells" when you mouse over the menu.

So they have coded a main shell (the menu and content area) and then the content for each of the menu links.

Then using JS (AJAX) they are transitioning between each of the content cells, changing the HTML description block for the next and swapping the image. This is done a lot these days and there are loads of tutorials on how to do it out there.

An experienced developer would be able to do that very quickly and to be honest, if you read up on JS/AJAX transitioning techniques you could probably be able to do it if you have a firm enough graps of HTML/CSS to get a rough idea of whats going on.

If you also look at these CSS/AJAX elements that "slide" through bits of content (not images but HTML blocks), those aren't too dissimilar either.

Even if you don't undertake this task I'd at least look up the techniques and try and learn how to do things like that. It would be a nice way to start learning JS/AJAX etc. and as there are many different scenarios where the basic concept is applied its a useful thing to learn how to do.

Re look at the site and u would see where php comes into it u have forms? need proccessing theres a logout button in the top right obviously that takes php and look in the url demoPopup.php is the file name so theres 3 things that points in a php direction not to mention a contact form php processing again the list goes on And from what im gathering hes wanting to build a site like that which will require php regardless i don't think hes just meaning the JS effects alone.