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Microcontrolled Online - Test site up

MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
edited 2010-04-01 07:23 in General Discussion
I have gotten my new website recently up and running. I have coded it entierly in HTML in Notepad, so there may be errors. Check it out and see what you think!

microcontrolled.propmodule.com/

Micro

P.S. Before anyone complains about the flash, it is only there the first time the page is loaded.

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  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2010-03-29 20:09
    Flash?

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  • RobotWorkshopRobotWorkshop Posts: 2,307
    edited 2010-03-29 20:16
    microcontrolled said...
    I have gotten my new website recently up and running. I have coded it entierly in HTML in Notepad, so there may be errors. Check it out and see what you think!

    microcontrolled.propmodule.com/

    Micro

    Hello Micro,

    You may want to take down your article content at least until it is published in Nuts'N'Volts. Instead you should just show a few pictures and perhaps a brief overview.

    Robert
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2010-03-29 20:42
    I just clicked through your site with Safari running on an iMac and all looks well - no glitches from my POV.
    One of the problems with website design is that it won't always look good on each and every browser but yours is looking sharp on Safari at least.

    Good job!

    smile.gif
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-03-29 20:47
    @RobotWorkshop: I have removed the download and put a "sneak peek" of the article on the page. It only has 2 of the 5 sections, so I don't think it will cause any trouble.

    @mctrivia: Yes, the homepage has a flash video on the first time it is loaded, but after you navigate away from the page and back it loads in a different homepage file, where the flash video is replaced with a still image (link).

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-03-29 20:49
    @ElectricEye: Thanks! Yea, the icons will kind of wrap and the header may come out wrong, so on some browsers it may not be displayed in full glory. Right now though it looks good on FireFox.

    @mctrivia: I just looked at your site. If you are comparing mine to yours, then mine looks horrible. smile.gif

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  • TubularTubular Posts: 4,718
    edited 2010-03-29 20:49
    Very impressive, micro. Nice clean code. I'm sending off the prop.on.net redirects today so that should work soon too
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-03-29 20:51
    Thanks, Tubular!

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  • Paul Sr.Paul Sr. Posts: 435
    edited 2010-03-29 21:02
    Nice going!

    Please don't be offended, but you should run all your content through a spell checker and have someone verify grammar, etc. It will help with your presentation a great deal.

    Also, if you are using vanilla notepad, I would suggest you check out NotePad++ - it's open source and very handy - huge improvement over notepad.
  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2010-03-29 21:34
    Nope the flash just did not load. Curious how you get to load only once? Php and session variable or javascript

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  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2010-03-29 21:43
    Here is what I see when I tried the site.
    microcontrolled.propmodule.com/ said...
    Your connection to this server has been blocked by our server firewall.

    If you are seeing this warning for the first time then wait for thirty minutes and ban will be lifted automatically. If after thirty minutes, You still cannot access your site or services please login to our client area Click Here and submit a support ticket. Please include the IP address listed below so we can resolve this issue for you as soon as possible.
  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2010-03-29 21:50
    just got home and like how it looks. if you want to make it so it actually only loads once you can do the following at the page beginning:

    <?php
session_start();
if (!isset($_SESSION[noparse][[/noparse]'firsttime'])) {
  $_SESSION[noparse][[/noparse]'firsttime']=true;
} else {
  $_SESSION[noparse][[/noparse]'firsttime']=false;
}
?>



    then where you want things to show up only first time do this:
    <?php
  if ($_SESSION[noparse][[/noparse]'firsttime']) {
    echo 'HTML to show on first time';
  } else {
    echo 'HTML to show other times';
  }
?>



    what this does is stores a variable firsttime on my server that is tied to the users visit. If the variable is not there then it is there first visit so it will insert the HTML code between the '' into your page before sending it to the user. if the variable is there then it will send the user the second option.

    Nice thing with using php is it is all done on the server and does not mater what browser the user has.

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  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2010-03-29 21:52
    HollyMinkowski send me your ip number and I will get you unblocked. Strange that the firewall would get you.

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-03-29 21:57
    @mctrivia: Interesting that the flash does not load for you. What browser are you using and can anyone else see the flash?
    I am also assuming that you saw my workaround to get it to only play once. smile.gif I am going to take the PHP tutorial on the same site I learned HTML.

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  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2010-03-29 22:00
    firefox works for the flash. just not blackberry browser.

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  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2010-03-29 22:11
    micro,

    Looks great! On the sources tab, I did find this small glitch - Propeller Demo board schematic <a href="

    The only other thing is the few typos already mentioned. It is very hard to catch these yourself. Get a friend to proof-read for you and then make the corrections.

    It was up fast too!

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  • CannibalRoboticsCannibalRobotics Posts: 535
    edited 2010-03-29 22:13
    Nicely done! The video worked great on my Mac too!
    Jim-

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-03-29 23:10
    Thanks! I do need to spell check it...... :-( Right now I am working on learning Javascript. Then the real fun begins.... Sorry about the extra href command, FireFox must filter that out.

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  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2010-03-29 23:27
    @mctrivia

    I can see the site now that I'm home. For some reason it would
    not let me in from my office machine at work.
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2010-03-29 23:39
    Nice work [noparse]:)[/noparse]
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-03-30 01:39
    Looks good, Micro! Now the really hard work begins: keeping it updated with fresh content. smile.gif

    -Phil
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-03-30 02:29
    I'll say!!! smile.gif

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  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2010-03-30 04:46
    that is what they invented mySQL for. Tell me when you want me to set you up with that.

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  • P!-RoP!-Ro Posts: 1,189
    edited 2010-03-30 04:48
    ...just thought I'd mention your audio spooked me. Either it was a car rumbling outside my window or someone hacked my computer; I had to go through quite a few windows to find out it was neither!

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-03-30 17:19
    @PiGuy (ok, I mean "pi'd"): I need to mute that video and republish it. I didn't know that converting it would carry over the sound so I didn't see any reason for muting it.

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-03-31 01:03
    I have added a few other things including a "disable flash video" button.

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  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2010-03-31 12:12
    your download all button does not work. looks like an invalid href address

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  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2010-03-31 14:06
    Nice page!


    How about an old school page counter?... [noparse]:)[/noparse]

    www.11points.com/images/animatedgifs/counter.gif

    OBC

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  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2010-03-31 15:06
    Yes though why not write your own.

    Open a file.
    Copy number
    Increment
    Save file
    Display

    You can use session data to remove duplicate counts.

    Or better yet use a database and have separate counter for each page.

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-04-01 00:57
    @mctriva&OBC: Nice! I should have a counter.

    The reason the "Download all" button does not work is that I am linking it to a file with the ftp subname. What would be the proper HTML code to download a file?

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  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2010-04-01 01:03
    Users can't use ftp. Link to http://microcontrolled.propmodule.com/file

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