I have just launched the site significant-media.com.
First of all I’d like to thank both GT and the GT Community, everybody has provided an enormous amount of support. I have learnt a great deal in the process about Perl, Links, XHTML, CSS, design and still have a lot more to learn :). To give back to the GT Community I expect to explain how I obtained certain effects/functions. Some of the functions are down to plug-ins, others from globals and finally extensive template modifications. I’ll try to cover as many as I can here in the forum or on the site.
I’d especially like to thank several people that have provided help, support and advice, without which I would not have been able to achieve so much. First of all I would like to thank Gossamer Threads, in particular Jack, Virginia and Alex but also Adrian, Jason, Aki and Tarrin. From the GT Community I have would specially like to thank Andy, Laura, pugdog, Yogi and Philip (aka fuzzylogic) but also minesite, HyperTherm, webmaster33, SWDevil.Com, Chaz, sangiro and sorry if I have forgotten others that have helped out…
I have exclusively used Links and Links plug-ins for the site. I use several mod_rewrite rules and the site runs under mod_perl so I obviously chose GT to host the site. The site uses valid XHTML and CSS nearly all pages are XHTML 1.0 Strict. I also designed the pages and did the artwork. I hope this personal site can inspire others to use Links.
Some areas that you may want to look at :
A graphic version of the categories directory page :
http://www.significant-media.com/mag/
A modified version of the popular page using afnir’s plug-in :
http://www.significant-media.com/popular.html
A contact page for a specific member using Andy’s plug-in
http://www.significant-media.com/contact/user/jag
Note : the whole site is dynamically generated
I have taken care in the design process but should you see any issues please drop me a PM so that I can rectify it :)
Thanks all again,
John
Significant Media
First of all I’d like to thank both GT and the GT Community, everybody has provided an enormous amount of support. I have learnt a great deal in the process about Perl, Links, XHTML, CSS, design and still have a lot more to learn :). To give back to the GT Community I expect to explain how I obtained certain effects/functions. Some of the functions are down to plug-ins, others from globals and finally extensive template modifications. I’ll try to cover as many as I can here in the forum or on the site.
I’d especially like to thank several people that have provided help, support and advice, without which I would not have been able to achieve so much. First of all I would like to thank Gossamer Threads, in particular Jack, Virginia and Alex but also Adrian, Jason, Aki and Tarrin. From the GT Community I have would specially like to thank Andy, Laura, pugdog, Yogi and Philip (aka fuzzylogic) but also minesite, HyperTherm, webmaster33, SWDevil.Com, Chaz, sangiro and sorry if I have forgotten others that have helped out…
I have exclusively used Links and Links plug-ins for the site. I use several mod_rewrite rules and the site runs under mod_perl so I obviously chose GT to host the site. The site uses valid XHTML and CSS nearly all pages are XHTML 1.0 Strict. I also designed the pages and did the artwork. I hope this personal site can inspire others to use Links.
Some areas that you may want to look at :
A graphic version of the categories directory page :
http://www.significant-media.com/mag/
A modified version of the popular page using afnir’s plug-in :
http://www.significant-media.com/popular.html
A contact page for a specific member using Andy’s plug-in
http://www.significant-media.com/contact/user/jag
Note : the whole site is dynamically generated
I have taken care in the design process but should you see any issues please drop me a PM so that I can rectify it :)
Thanks all again,
John
Significant Media
Thankyou and giving back