So I have been slaving away trying to make a new design for this wonderful website. I wanted something fresh, simple and clean to replace my copied site. Also I am a huge fan of dark colors with bright highlights. I think this is perfect, well almost perfect, for me. It is still being tweaked but its almost there. Here is a preview of what the site will look like.

Edit: Link gone because it is done.

As usual the whole page is written in PHP, XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.1 with some images made using Photoshop. I made everything larger than it needs to be for expansion. So even though my header is only 200px high, the image file is 400px high. Same with the Footer. This is all so that if I need to change the amount of text in the section, than I can just edit the CSS file to make it larger. Simple as that. Also I made a file for the content part of page so that when content is added, a small 5px high file that repeats untill the element ends. This makes a continuous edge shadow along the full page.

Well soon I hope to get this all up and running on the site.

I started work on another web page for a new endeavor that Biggs, Ialacci, Krass, and I are working on. We are working on setting up a new computer repair business. Biggs is the one that came up with the plan but we are still deciding on basically everything. Anyway, so far I started a template for the web site for the business located at http://BanksHouse.org/Test. It is all written in PHP (as usual) but I started to try to learn something new.

What I did was setup the title tag for each page to use a the file name to write the correct title to the page.

Download it by right clicking and save as: title.php

That’s what I have now but I would like to clean up the code a bit but I don’t know what to do. If you know, please comment with a way to fix it.

Today I started working on my mobile site. So far nothing works quite right but I only started today. If you want to check it out the address is http://m.bankshouse.org. If you have a cell phone with web access, really, check it out. I made this for mostly Blackberry’s because everyone I know has one, or soon to be getting one. It is going to be build using PHP and CSS, that’s if I could actually get the CSS to cooperate.

Something new for me to work on. Yesterday I went to Borders and bought a few books. Well I am hoping that you can figure it out using the title of this post.

• JavaScript in 24 Hours – ISBN: 0-672-32879-8
• PHP in 24 Hours – ISBN: 0-672-32619-1
• Urban Dictionary – ISBN: 0-7407-5143-3
• Mo’ Urban Dictionary – ISBN: 0-7407-6875-1

So, to start the story about how I ended up with the books, last night me, Biggs, Forty, Nicole and her sister Kristin all went to The Witches Brew. That is an awesome NY coffee house in West Hempstead that I would recommend to anyone. Well on my way there I happened to read a few lines on UrbanDictionary only to laugh my ass off with some of the definitions so I see on the website that they have a book for it. So while I was at Borders, I found them and two other books for web page scripting and well, bought them. Nothing unusual for me. My advice is to definitely go out and pick them up. I brought them into the Witches Brew last night and well, lets just say I did not get the chance to deflower them.

Also just to let you know, I have been working on a post for the last few days so its not like I am not trying to post anything. Its just taking me quite a bit of time to actually post since how busy I have been. Till then, which should be soon, check out that book. You will LMFO fo’ Shizzle

Even though I wasn’t told I could start work on this officially but I started anyway. I am doing this more as another project and to learn more about web design/coding. I need to learn more about CSS and PHP so this is more my test bed than anything else. If you want to watch progress, check this link. It’s not amazing but remember, it is a work in progress (Like this site).

http://fd.bankshouse.org/

Stuck in class and nothing to do. Ill probably be updating my Christmas list and looking for car parts. I’m happy that ECSTuning is shipping out my timing belt kit today so I should be getting it sometime tomorrow or Monday. He is still looking for what the best plan is to repair my engine. We have not decided if he is going to rebuild my current one, used one or, (I hope not) a refurbished head from VW which would cost a good $2,300. We both don’t know how much it would cost for the other two ways but it will be much cheaper than the refurbished one.

I reset all the cables plugged into my gigabit switch so it all corresponds with IP addresses I use in my house. It turns out that somehow I am using twelve out of sixteen ports of my switch. I did not realize how much crap I have plugged into it.

If I did not mention already, I was going to try a new blogging program called “Habari” but my host, again causing problems, does not have the PHP version that Habari needs to work. I have no plans to switch to it anyway but why not test it. If you want to check it out, the link is This. It probably not going to work if you look at it but check out there website and try out the demo.

A random idea popped into my head about 10 minutes ago for something I should change to on my site. Since I do not update all the other files on my site to often, I thought that I should add a PHP function on my page to read the files modified date and post it on the page. That’s all well and good but here is the problem. I really don’t feel like placing it on every page, I want it more dynamic. I was thinking maybe put it into the footer but than how will it know what file to look at? One page on average uses at least 5 to 6 PHP files to render the whole page. I did find the function filemtime() but as I already said, I don’t know how I should go about making it just picking out the one file that has the content on it. Well I’ll probably be ripping out what is left of my hair for the next few days making it work. For now though, it’s bed time.

Recently i realized how much of a pain it is to write the whole site in html. What happens is that when i change the link on one pages nav bar, i have to change every single page. So my friend matt said i should start converting my whole site over to php based so its all dynamic. He was right. So right now my entire site is now switching over to php.