steveking

Here be my conky :D

So I have recently re-kindled my love for conky, an amazing piece of software that is fully customizable! Who else uses conky for that extra bit of desktop bling? Share your conky set up! I know this is a web design forum, but this is general chat why not show off your artistic and coding abilities in this thread?

Care to explain? I don't see why not? But obviously I am open to opinions, maybe you can make me see the light

Ok so after selling my soul to google I got my hands on a couple of android devices and started to wander. If mozilla and their boot to gecko (Mozilla OS) can use html5 natively to speed things up etc why cant we do it on android devices? THis is when I stumbled across a launcher in the play store designed for this. So far so good, but why you might ask? Well simply put I dont know Java or objective C enough to make all the customizations I want to in android. This is where this launcher stepped in, I was set to make my own launcer built using html, css and javascript. But these guys seem to have done the work for me It isn't a perfect product, but it is a very good base to be built upon. You have customizable home screens, there is as usual a limit as to how many you can have. I currently have 3 screens set up : home, work, and play. Each one can be set as default home screen by a number of methods. You can set it to change by the wireless connection. So at work using the wifi there it will be on the work home screen (etc etc etc). Or time of day, so between 9 and 5 its on the work home screen. All in all an interesting project. You can create your own widgets quite simply just using html, so whats the catch?? Well the price is what puts alot of people off. It cost me a whopping £6 something to buy from the google play store. Also it is designed specifically for tablets, which puts the android phone users off. But as more people start to use a product like this we will start seeing more and more interesting things come along for android. Just think one day soon we may have an android device that lets you design your own UI using html, css and javascript. Imagine the possibilities! Total customization of your device the way you want it. Tis a dream Anyway rant over.... The launcher is called - Chameleon Launcher, you can go to goggle play store to buy it if you like. Or alternatively go to the xda-forums and do a search I noticed a couple of cracked versions floating about. I can't guarantee the cracked ones work 100% but always work a go. Thoughts? Anyone using? What is the general opinion on html built user interfaces on mobile devices? Is it the future or a waste of time? I know this is a web design/developer forum but this could be interesting for all operating systems. Maybe one day ios will come with a html5 interface you can customise? I think Steve Jobs would have wanted it but then again it could make him turn in his grave.....

Its getting there mate, the text unfortunately looks abit standard and boring. but it works and gets the message across. Obviously you want to concentrate on the reason for the website, ie gaming. The website is a link, somewhere you can all come together and get info without having to dig around, it begs the question how fancy does it need to be? If your happy with it then I would leave it, the more time you spend making the site design perfect the less time gaming you have. Which is what Im guessing you enjoy most ?

The obvious is always where you look last. You start exploring the more technical side of things as it has more chance to mess up until you realise it was something so simple. Just helped a mate do some yahoo log in thing because his developers couldnt get it working. It was real simple, the file name was wrong so yahoo couldnt verify it. Im no expert but I see the obvious very easily sometimes lol!

haha thats ok mate, sometimes the simplest of solutions escape us all some time! I remember one of my first sites and I was testing it to make sure all functionality was there and was getting annoyed why the contact from wouldnt send. Rebuilt my php code 3 times to make sure there was nothing wrong. Then after 4 hours realised the php wont work and send email unless the site is on a live server lol!

Have you tried to use float: left; and float: right; ???? Seems the simplest way to do it then add a margin?? So: <style id = "" type = "text/css"> #valetingPanel { position: relative; float: left; width: 286px; height: 330px; background-image:url(images/p_valeting.png); } #detailPanel { position: relative; width: 286px; float: left; /*left: 300px; top: -330px;*/ height: 330px; background-image:url(images/p_detailing.png); } #carpetPanel { /**/ position: relative; width: 286px; float: right; /*left: 600px; top: -660px;*/ height: 330px; background-image:url(images/p_carpets.png); } #valetingPanel:hover, #detailPanel:hover, #carpetPanel:hover /**/ { background-position: -300px; } #panels { position: relative; left: 40px; width: 1000px; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; }/**/ /*object#FlashID2 { position: absolute; top: -200px; }*/ </style> <div id = "panels"> <div id = "valetingPanel"> </div> <div id = "detailPanel"> </div> <div id = "carpetPanel"> </div> </div>

In that case watch this space..... not too much though, I have other things I have to do first lol!

So far so good! It has quite abit of bloatware on it from lenovo, but other than that is pretty good. I got the lenovo ideapad Tablet K1. The spec is reasonable, if not too good for what it will be used for, the only downside to it is the screen density isn't as good as the iPad. Uses 1240 x 786 res. We have an iPad and Samsung kicking around our office and thats what tempted me to get one. It came with a free keyboard so its a little easier to do things on and the keyboard is nice. Doesnt have the cheap feel to it, and the buttons are all nicely useable. I will be writing a review on it for my blog at some point, just got to stress test now.

Ordered my lenovo tablet last night and it is here already! Very happy indeed! Anyone tried using one before? Its my first tablet and am rather excited

I will be honest I think that the gap between nav bar and content box looks good, spaces it out just enough. My only critisism is that it looks a little boring. Possiblt change font/colours. Black is the right colour but too much makes it way too dark. Try mixing it up a little. It may not be the kind of site where you want nice colourful stuff but plain black is abit too boring. Mix in some grays etc...

If you have an idea and you know html and css then you can pretty much do it yourself. Themes and templates are good for projects with no coding experience but why settle for something like a theme/template when you can code? Edit a template/theme or build your own thats my suggestion.

No website is hack proof no matter what security measures you take. The plain fact is that if it is online it is hackable, from a base install wordpress is as secure as you can hope for. As soon as you start adding widgets, calanders, plug ins, this is where you create your loopholes for an attack to come in. The more complex you make it the more holes appear, as soon as one is found the others are quite obvious to see. Lets be honest if you dont take the correct security measures when you set up a wordpress site, you deserve to be hacked. Internet security is a big issue. It is also one that wont go away. Facebook has been hacked a number of times, and are they not simply a CMS? It goes to show no matter how much money is spent and how popular or unpopular it is it will be targeted by someone with the latest version of Backtrack and just enough knowledge to be dangerous.

Not it is on my own server so download the tar.gz unzipp and install through browser I work for a hosting company so I get certain perks (like my own pizza box)

Well the top graphic is definately getting there! Have you thought about adding a follow us link for facebook etc? The idea of a gaming clan website is good, if done properly. You want people to be able to chat and communicate through as many channels as possible. You may want to think about maybe a twitter account giving news etc of up coming games that are being organised and then add in a twitter feed? Thats just what I think. For a site like this (a community site) you want people to be able to communicate through all their normal channels like facebook, twitter, etc.

I have never tried to create a custom theme before, it is something I am looking into at the moment tbh. If you know html and css then it should be easy enough but wordpress has rules etc on how to create a theme otherwise it wont be recognised properly.

Wordpress site has alot of free themes. But there arent a great deal of them and alot of them have been used. If you know html and css you can edit exsisting themes to suit your needs. Here would be a good start: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ other than that you may stumble across one every know and then. Also try: http://speckyboy.com/category/wordpress/

Wordpress is your best bet, there is alot you can do with it. Especially throught the admin panel. Create users and let them access and edit certain areas etc. I think (dont quote me) that you can set pages to publish to only certain groups. But Im not 100% sure not something I have looked at yet.

I have desided to go with wordpress as from a base install it offers the most security. From there god knows what as I have never made any drastic changes to a wordpress site before so maybe its time I learnt...

What is your website for? Do you just need people to be able to access and make changes every now and then? You don't need to use it as a blog, you can call it what ever you like "content" might be a good suggestion.

With wordpress you can make a "landing page" which is just a page you can design yourself. When you set one up if you create 2 pages at first, 1 called home and 1 called blog. With the home page you can specify what template you want your home page to use, but you need to have coded it and saved it in the right page first off. How much experience with coding/websites do you have?

With something like wordpress you can add users and set their permissions to edit certain areas?? http://wordpress.org/support/topic/allow-user-access-without-allowing-them-access Hope this helps

The site isn't being paid for (girlfriend) she hasnt asked for anything other than a standard coded site, but to make life easier I was thinking of using CMS so she doesnt bug me when she wants photos uploaded. I don't suppose you know of any good tutorials for Wordpress customization do you? I have played with it alittle but not to the extent that I may require.

Hi, I am in the design process of working on a site and was wandering (as updates are constatly required) if it would be best to build a custom CMS? I don't have the most experience in using CMS so editing is going to be a minimum. How would I go about building a CMS? Is there one that would suit my needs best? The only thing that would need to be uploaded is photos, a calander style widgety thing, and maybe minimal blog posting. The rest of the site will remain as is apart from the occational chop and change. Am I best using an original CMS or would building a custom one be worth the effort? Thanks in advance...