Website Design

[Ace195]

Alright here's my problem now, I'm currently set to design a website and everything that goes along with that. I can do the Html part and everything, But my problem comes with they want me to design a website with a flashy theme and possibly flash content, I have a background in networking and being a system administrator, Argh any help would be appreciated.


j/k

[Crash]

i'm good at flash

somewhat.

heres a website i did last year:

http://genesiscustomhomes.com

holy crap.... nevermind.. the a-hole changed it.... looks like @$$ now ok, the flash part is mine, the rest is crap!


ok, i found a page of mine:


http://www.genesishomescolorado.com/...ow/index.shtml

[Ace195]

Yeah, crash you look like you know whats going on, anyhelp would be greatly appreciated, My AIM is justseth2k3.

[gekko]

This is where you step up and tell them it's a stupid idea. Flash is just that, all looks and no functionality.

If you wanted the design to be more flashy, I'd recommend doing a tableless CSS design.

[GameMaster]

How did you get to be so knowledgable of computers, software, and design?

[Ace195]

gekko, it's not up to me it's up to the OIC and thats what he wants.

[gekko]

Originally Posted by GameMaster

How did you get to be so knowledgable of computers, software, and design?

No one has ever taught me anything, that's how. When I was a kid, we had a computer, but I had to teach myself how to use it. I had to teach myself how to install software, how to use MSDOS to unzip those Wolf 3D maps on the disk, had to teach myself how to fix the problems. You learn a lot that way.

As for websites, I started by running forums, learning how to advertise sites, then expanded from there. Created ****ty sites in FrontPage, then it couldn't do enough, so I went to HTML. Wanted to learn PHP, wanted a content management system for my site. What do I do? Build one myself.

Tackle this stuff head on, and it's not hard to learn. If you want to learn something new, find some tutorials, some examples, and you can use trial and error until pretty soon you figured it out.

If you want to get involved in web design, let me know. I got another site on the way.

Originally Posted by Ace195

gekko, it's not up to me it's up to the OIC and thats what he wants.

Well I know exactly what that's like. Flash it is

[Typhoid]

Flash is super easy to use though, it saves alot of time, and its not too difficult to make sites on.

Dreamweaver works good too i guess, especially since you can ( obviously) import flah stuff into it, and its also super easy to use.