If you have visited my website in the past, you will know how it use to look (pretty basic); now however, I have decided to make a change.
My previous efforts at a template were through 100% my own coding, which can be tricky when you are starting out with HTML, PHP, CSS, ect... Today though, I decided to drop what I had and have a go at working from a pre-existing template, then heavily editing that to make it look how I want. What you can see here is the result.
At this point, the website is still WIP and will remain that way till I get everything sorted out (coding wise). For now, feel free to take a look and check back later for updates!
UPDATE March 13th: F1GP Pics page is online!
UPDATE March 15th: Game Mods Page added, About page added, Contact page added, Sidebar MySQL reliance replaced by PHP array script.
Yet again it has been quite a while since my last update; but I have finally decided to add in something that this website desperately needed - a proper news content system. In the past I have been adding news via the un-necessarily complicated style of raw text; but now I have included an easy to use system created by the people over at cutephp.com; and as you can tell, it looks much better.
Using a News System also means that the date for each article is reset unfortunately, but this is a minor issue. I also plan to make a couple more changes to the site in the coming days; so check back later for updates.
As you can see, it has been around 7 weeks since my last update. The main reason for this is that I have been quite busy with my course work and playing games on my new 660Ti GPU (great card btw). For today, that will change.
The first thing I would like to point out is that I am aware of the image pop-ups that I added in the last update aren't working on IE; I hope to get around to fixing that at some point (when I have the time). Also, I am still hoping to get Youtube trailers up for all games; I haven't given up on that yet and hope to get around to it soon.
Finally, I have added a new "F1GP Pics" page to the nav bar. Here you will find pictures of my trip to Singapore from when I went to see the Formula1 race over there in late Spetember; I hope you like them! I would also like to add that as my final exams get closer, I will no doubt go dark again; rest assured I will be back!
Today I have been working to remove an old page that was no longer needed (F1 2011), while also adding a new page in it's place (My PC).
This new page is basically just a test for something I have wanted to try for a while (hovering popup images); so feel free to take a look for yourself using the link in the navbar. Please note that I have not done much testing on this new feature, so I am not sure if it will consitently work in all browsers.
More to come.
I am currently running some tests on an idea for sidebar content. At the moment, the idea is to randomly select 2 or 3 games from a database list and then display their box arts as a "Games to watch out for" kind of thing. It will fetch new box arts every time you reload the page or change to another page, this is how I designed it to be.
I may end up keeping the content there, but at this point I am not sure though. Please keep in mind that it's still in the early testing stages as well.