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whew What a relief! I was definitely expecting rocks to be slung at me since that has been the result of my critiques in the past. I would definitely love to give you a helping hand. I don’t think it would be very hard - right now I’m imagining a main template for the index page, an articles template and maybe a special template for other pages. It doesn’t seem that bad/difficult, especially since it’s a news site. Since your site is mostly text, I think a full HTML site rather than a Flash one would serve you best, but maybe a small Flash animation would work out.
At work we use custom tags to make editing and updating layouts much easier. Are you familiar with this? I’ve gotten to know how it works a bit - if I help you out I definitely recommend using custom tags for the articles.
Woohoo, I’m excited now!
Renni-
That all sounds great to me. the only thing I would like to keep is that flash space taker upper on the top, as that is the only way I will be able to keep up with the menu on thousands of pages, one change and all the pages change. And the menu will be updated infrequently to frequently so, thats about the only thing Im married to inside the site, And Jubba offered and I accepted his offer to make that portion. And of course the news and content links, search bar for news, along with a site search (not there yet but needs space consideration).
Just promise me this, that when I send you the dreamweaver formatted stuff so you can use all the stuff w/o re-creation, that you don’t advertise how terrible the HTML coding is, let me do that here! :lol: IM SURE IT SUCKS! YEP, SURE IT DOES. COULD HAVE BEEN DONE BETTER, YEP SURE IT SUCKS. Now that I got that out of the way…HTML–It is terrible, full of horrible errors I am sure. All generated through dreamweaver and the javas are all cut and pasted and Im not even sure I did that correctly. I was just happy the ads and javas showed up. My method was to make a table, highlight the table, go to the HTML side, and place all the javas inside the table after the &nsbp or something like that. But it worked. Let me know what I need to send to you and anything else I can do to make this as easy as possible so you spend as little time as possible.
Thanks Renn-
pj
my rock bag is empty! Doh! Not looking to rephil it either-too heavy to carry around! Doh!
Question: Is this site database driven? If so then you should only have about 5 cfm files: one for the main page, an article template page, and maybe the other static parts of the site.
Renn-
No its not database driven, and to be honest, although that sounds neat, I do not even know the meaning. From what I can tell everything but the index are .cfm extensions. Does that answer your Q?
pj
I see - so with each new article, you create an entirely different file from scratch?
That’s cool - I’ll have to wait until Jubba’s flash file is complete so I can design around it though. Question number two: what is your reason(s) for programming the site in Cold Fusion?
Renn-
The title bar will be just a little bigger than it is now, but with a menu atteched inside. Might be like 33% bigger as far as length. The width is/will be 1000 pixels or the full legnth of the top, and as far as when I add a new article, I have a template I use, throw it into there and then publish. As far as Cold Fusion I only used that because I knew it would werk and wasnt sure about asp, jsp choices. Whatever you think though, you are the one who does this for a living–You can go ahead an design around the title/menu though as it will be the same as it is now only about 33% more length—space for the menu.
Maybe, since I dont have any idea of your schemes though, Jubba and you can speak out and find the coordination of colors, etc…Anything but dark, and preferably not too light/bright. I’ll try to phlag Jubba down to help hammer out schemes between you two–he should show up here soon, watch fer him, thanks again Renn!
pj
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uhmmmm yeah…
Renn: give me a color scheme to work with.
Phil: Tell me what you want on all the buttons. You said 10-12 buttons, but I am not sure what you want them to say, or where you want them to go…
Jubba,
I’ll have em to ya by days end. I’ll make a little thing in flash to give you an idea. Something simple. Color scheme, this is what I would really like, if possible; For whatever color scheme is chosen, not too dark, not too bright and hopefully something that will make the back 280 pages blend in as though they are part of the motiff, as thats a lot of pages to change and I would rather start adding more content as soon as possible. I’ll start working on it now.
Thanks-
Rigel Dominar XVI
Rigel opened up a giant can of whoopass and got, well, quite vitriolic on the IRS. I think its a good opener. 
Phil - how many aliases do you have?