webASK

[php4life]

webASK is an idea I came up with two nights ago. I've finally finished the base of the site, and I will now continue to build upon it with the feedback from you guys and other members. I really put a lot of programming into this site the past few days, and I haven't really put much effort into the design itself; most effort went towards the back end of the site. So, please, try not to be too harsh on the design of the website. I want it simple & easy, anyways.

This website allows people to register within a few seconds (so they don't have to go through these annoying registration forms and then activation emails to ask their question) and login; they can easily submit questions regarding their site. For example: You can ask about what mods are good for phpBB forums, do you guys think phpBB is a good forum software, why is this PHP error happening, and all kinds of other questions within the range of website and forum related questions.

Not in the mood to ask questions? Are you too good for that? Then you can be a good 'ol sport and answer other peoples questions!

I'M LOOKING FOR STAFF MEMBERS - Staff members are appointed by me and maybe soon a few selection of others. Until now, I will be manually appointing two people or so to moderate all questions and replies. Staff members get different colored post colors and a blue name with a crown by it. You have the power to hide questions (so no-one can see them, for reasons such as: spamming, offensive content, off-topic).

MY WEBSITE: http://webaskius.zxq.net/

 

[kavin]

Good work php4life. Keep up.

And once you finish the back end, do a proper front end design, before releasing it to public.

Also, get a proper domain.

P.S:-
Weird thing is, i though about the same idea (almost) today morning, and though i would work on it once i finish my current works. Just saw this topic now, and you already did it. lol
I won't be starting up a similar project. 😀

 

[php4life]

Hah, thats pretty weird. The only thing that is going to be a HUGE problem, is the design. I'm not good with CSS or Graphics, as PHP is really my strong programming language.

I'm going to have to find something to do about the theme/design... :/

 

[kavin]

Get a free HTML+CSS design online and use it. Tweak it a little to make it unique.

 

[IAAM Radio]

Interesting, good luck and keep us up to date on how things are going.

 

[php4life]

Interesting, good luck and keep us up to date on how things are going.

Thanks. I've decided to stop all updates and learn the markup language CSS. After learning quite a bit of that, I'm going to look into how to apply that to making a good website design. This will work very good with my knowledge of PHP - I can be a one man team. 🙂

 

[php4life]

BUMP! Website has been updated with a new theme. 🙂

 

[Connor L]

Honestly, I'm not going to lie, just posting my perspective as a fellow web developer.

It looks really, really, really bad. And it isn't a very new idea, nor complicated idea to code. I do just as well or better over night to be honest.
But don't give up, and it may not be a bad idea to higher a third party designer to do the design for you.

 

[kavin]

Honestly, I'm not going to lie, just posting my perspective as a fellow web developer.

It looks really, really, really bad. And it isn't a very new idea, nor complicated idea to code. I do just as well or better over night to be honest.
But don't give up, and it may not be a bad idea to higher a third party designer to do the design for you.

And a more experienced developer than you will do it in a hour. 😛

It all depends on experience, and everybody have to start somewhere. Instead of saying something bad, you can tell him what to improve.

 

[php4life]

Honestly, I'm not going to lie, just posting my perspective as a fellow web developer.

It looks really, really, really bad. And it isn't a very new idea, nor complicated idea to code. I do just as well or better over night to be honest.
But don't give up, and it may not be a bad idea to higher a third party designer to do the design for you.

No one ever said it was complicated to program.

 

[dojo]

I won't come to say how bad the design is, will come to give some ideas to make it better:

1. set a font style for the site. Verdana, Arial or Trebuchet MS, these are the 'norm' and look pretty cool.
2. background image - the gradient is a bit too 'tough' .. maybe tone down the darker blue in it and make it closer to what you have down the page (the light blue).
3. header gradient should have 2 similar hues. It's always better to have it as a discreet gradient and this is accomplished by choosing 2 similar hues (move the color picker a little from one to get the other).
4. if you keep the header background this dark make the text white. Don't use black and white in the same line, doesn't look OK, try similar hues again.
5. I see no logo
6. if you're using a 'table' looking design, maybe you can add a right border to the elements, even if it's dotted.
7. don't use such strong colors as background. You should use a 'strong' color as an 'accent' for a design (a logo, a menu, links) not backgrounds. Try a light grey instead. Will look way better
8. make the 'posted by' meta information different than the actual content. Maybe a smaller font size and a lighter grey, to help me, your visitor, see what's the content and what's the 'fluff'

Hope it helps 🙂