not a powerpoint, but just how you would do a slide show on a website.

Example: http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/
Like on the front page of that website, how it scrolls through pictures with descriptions (which I'm guessing is whatever you write for the alt tag). What is the easiest way to achieve a similar effect with about 10 pictures?

http://www.visioninternet.com/home/index.asp
I'm using this website design for idiots tool that has some basic options for images, text, documents, tables and the like, and you can switch to an html view to do more complex stuff if you know how which clearly I do not.

The extent of my html knowledge however is embed src= img src= kind of things for posting stuff on tdub, and aligning picutres left or right, and that is about it. I already have the images I want, and can host them on the site, but I don't know how to do a decent slide show.

So far I've just looked at redirecting from page to page automatically every 10 seconds, but that is a very awkard way to do it. How can I make all the magic happen on one page like the portlandonline site I posted above?

5/26/2010 2:18:56 PM

http://www.powerpoint.com

5/26/2010 2:26:53 PM

1. Right click
2. View Page Source
3. ...
4. Profit

5/26/2010 2:39:08 PM

lightbox

5/26/2010 2:41:44 PM

I, too, support the conversion of your Soap Box photobombs to slideshows.

5/26/2010 2:42:59 PM

http://jquery.com

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/web-development/jquery-image-galleries/

5/26/2010 2:57:39 PM

If you're not up on web tech why not just use Flikr and their embed feature. Or windows movie maker it and put it on youtube and embed that. If you want it customized you can do it in Lightroom, or a slurry of free image programs. Or you can lookup lightbox - it's crazy simple. Or you can find a free flash site that makes these. So many, many ways to kill this cat.

5/26/2010 4:06:54 PM

Thank you for your caticide advice everyone, I will look into these options

5/26/2010 7:54:37 PM

Quote :

"caticide advice"

Say ... what?

5/27/2010 10:02:41 AM

I think it's when you kill a cat

5/27/2010 10:06:24 AM

^indeed

Okay, I've got the photo slide show thing down, the next thing I want to learn is how to do an online form kind of like this but with only one option of who to send it too, and a few more drop down menus instead of leaving the fields open for typing a response:
http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/citygovernment/council/emailcouncil.htm


Yeah I know, view source, but its still kind of jibberish to me at this point and its hard for me to pick out where the thing I want to use begins and ends and how to change it. And I'm not quite sure what to google to find an answer to how to make a form like that. I want some kind of form builder that will e-mail the content to a designated e-mail address.

[Edited on May 27, 2010 at 10:49 AM. Reason : .]

5/27/2010 10:45:32 AM

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

[Edited on May 27, 2010 at 10:47 AM. Reason : If you want a builder, you could do worse than http://wufoo.com]

5/27/2010 10:46:49 AM

^thanks.

I've got the basic form thing down.

Now I'm looking to learn other simple website features. I've got the photo slideshow scrolling thing down, the contact form down, how to embed a twitter feed. I know how to embed pictures and videos and text obviously. I know how to put up documents to be downloaded. I can do links and tables and can make pages redirect too.

Next I am going to try to learn how to do frames instead of putting everything basically in one box. I can align the pictures to the right to make room, but its still getting crowded.

What are some other simple features one can add to a website that I should learn? I'd like to go from being HTML illiterate to reading atleast at a 3rd grade level.

5/27/2010 3:19:03 PM

Quote :

"lightbox"

i prefer colorbox because it's more versatile, but yeah, +1

though i realize the original question has already been answered

5/28/2010 9:28:40 AM

Quote :

"Next I am going to try to learn how to do frames instead of putting everything basically in one box."

No

5/28/2010 9:31:59 AM

Maybe someone can help me figure this one out.

Right now I have a lot of things on one page. And whenever I get a lot of stuff on one page the editor I'm using starts to get a little glitchy and wont always save when I make edits and I'm not sure why.

I'm thinking maybe the different features I'm putting on the pages are interacting, maybe I didn't close all my html tags properly or something. Is there any tag I can put at the start and end of each feature to tell it only to read in a given area.

[idiotproof]code for twitter feed here[/idiotproof]
[idiotproof]code for photo slideshow here[/idiotproof]
[idiotproof]code for youtube video here[/idiotproof]

Something that would keep my screw ups with any given feature from affecting the others so that I can kind of isolate each feature. How can I do that?

I tried the iframe thing but that embedded whole pages which wasn't really what I was looking for.

[Edited on May 28, 2010 at 12:45 PM. Reason : changed from < to [ to make it show up]

5/28/2010 12:44:41 PM

http://validator.w3.org will tell you where your markup is fucked

[Edited on May 28, 2010 at 1:36 PM. Reason : and what you're asking about isolotion makes no sense and isn't possible]

5/28/2010 1:31:37 PM

Damn. Ive never been in the tech talk section. I looked at all the threads and this was the one I most identified with. Fucking WOLFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!

5/31/2010 10:59:45 PM

haha, glad to know my thread on html & website design incompetence is identifiable

http://www.governor.state.nc.us/eTownhall/Blog/

The next thing I want to do is set up a simplified version of a blog that is stratefied by categories like this one. You can view it all, or you can view only the ones that have a particular tag. The thing is I don't want to just set up a blog on its own, I want to build it into another site.

I'm going to start by google searching on this topic after clicking post reply, but if anyone has any insight or direction they can point me in, I'd be happy to have the help.

-

Maybe I could do an external site if I had to, maintain the same basic color & design scheme as much as possible, and then use the iframe thing to embed it into the main site? I still have to learn about blogs though. I've posted on a few, but never created one myself (nor do I plan to make 1 for myself, I just want to learn how to do it as more of a news feed type thing). I've heard of something called wordpress I think. Are there other decent & free blog sites?

[Edited on June 2, 2010 at 10:43 AM. Reason : .]

6/2/2010 10:36:52 AM

The iframe idea worked.

Next I wanted to, if I can, create a button that clicking on it results in searching a particular site for a particular phrase.

I notice that if I search on google like so:
wolfpack site:http://www.ncsu.edu

the url is then
http://www.ncsu.edu&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=wolfpack+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fhttp://www.ncsu.edu&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

And clicking on that url is the same as entering wolfpack site:http://www.ncsu.edu into a google search. So in this example I could find a little picture of a wolf, make it a link to that url, and it'd do what I want. But for how long? And is there a better way to achieve the same effect?

6/9/2010 10:11:51 AM