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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16  Posts: 1/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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Originally posted by TaraleNot necesary, the good thing about making your own admin panel is you can make it as secure as you want. Take a look at VBulletins, first of you need to be an admin (logged in) and when you want to enter the admin panel, you'll have to enter another password. Plus, an admin panel is great. PHPMyAdmin is quite the heavy program and quite slow at times you just want to change a little thing, a custom admin panel greatly speeds up work for you. |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 2/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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| A lot of columns won't do any harm, unless you overuse them and select too much data each time. For example, my members table has 77 columns, and I really don't need the data from every single one of those 77 columns on every page on my site. |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 3/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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| If that is true and you actually could give yourself more rights by just changing numbers in the query string, then the program/page we're talking about is just horribly bad secured. Any PHP (or ASP, or JSP, or whatever) programmer should know not to work with important values/variables through the URL/query string. |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 4/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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| I just started my own one-man webdesign and programming company (so that I have a legally registered company and tax number, which is vital if you use bills), and it works onders. You can have your own rules, and you're pretty much in command of everything. And the fact that I take care of everything I do myself, I have personal contact with clients which just works better than being a large company and seeing clients as just another number. Having an own company like that works wonders, the only thing that was a bit hard in the beginning was getting known and being spotted between all those hundreds of other webdesign/programming companies just in this one country. But, once I made some websites for a few clients (on which I all leave a logo indicating it was made by me, which links to my own website) I quickly got more clients and traffic.  Another thing I do is not being rediculously expensive. Seriously, I've seen webdesign companies that ask $5000 for a webshop or discussion forum script. That's rediculous. A webshop or simple discussion forum takes me less than 2 weeks, and with a little luck maybe less than one week, to make. I'm cheaper than the majority of the other companies, and money's what matters. My very first assignment was a simple webshop script with a CMS included, it took me 3 days and I charged €275 for it, the client payed me the double, €550. the only disadvantage of having your own company is that you need to document everything you do to prevent it from being 'illegal', plus, of course, the tax. Let's say I earn €500, I have to give 9% of that (€45) away, basically. Still, I made a lot of money with it, try it out. |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 5/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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| Kiwi: "DO NOT say you are an awesome coder, do not supply a list of sites you've worked on. They don't give a shit. Just make sure your 'resume' page mentions knowledge of the language(s) in question. " I disagree somewhat. Companies don't just want to hire any random coder that claims he can make shit, but can't supply any proof or experience. They want to be sure they're not hiring someone with zero experience. When I get new clients contacting me, they almost always ask for a portfolio. A portfolio is a good thing, basically, the bigger the portfolio, the more it says "Look at how much of an experienced/good webdesigner/programmer I am!". Not to forget, a portfolio is a bit of a 'power display', a webdesigner/programmer that has very popular and well running sites in his portfolio, such as ones being advertised on TV or websites dedicated to a celeb/TV-show, will make a majority of the clients go "Wow, I want that same webdesigner that made Justin Timberlake's website!", for example. A portfolio is the most effective way for a webdesigner/programmer to say "Look what I'm capable of!". As for a list of programming languages you know, it's a nice thing to put in your profile, or your website for that matter, but the majority of clients don't even know what a programming language is, let alone terms such as 'PHP', 'XHTML' and/or 'Javascript'. (edited by Narf on 01-13-05 04:24 AM) (edited by Narf on 01-13-05 04:25 AM) (edited by Narf on 01-13-05 04:26 AM) |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 6/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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Originally posted by GavinExactly. The thing I did on my portfolio/website was putting a list with things that makes me a good choice for clients when it comes to webdesign/programming, and I did it like the following: - Clean, compliant pages (read more) - Secure scripts (read more) - Using bandwidth and multimedia efficiently (read more) with 'read more' being a link to a page where the 'whole story' is explained, basically. |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 7/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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| Oh trust me, there's more newbies and fakers in the world of webdesign/programming than actually experienced people. Believe it or not, out of all the emails I get from people that landed on my webdesign page, most of the emails are stupid HTML, Javascript and mostly scripting questions from other webdesigners and/or programmer! Not to forget, if you examine a website built by a webdesign company closely, you'll often find that they just implemented downloadable scripts and sometimes even used downloadable site templates! Too bad 'dumb' clients usually don't know jack shit about this, that's why they want someone else to take care of their website in the first place. |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 8/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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| I just checked around the projects list, there's some pretty decently paid projects between them; $5000 USD and above, just wow... I admit I never earned a payment that high in my freelance 'carreer'; but a lot of low payments as well; $100 or less for a CMS script, and so fort. Of course, the -15% for RentACoder makes it even worse. I don't know, I'm Dutch, and I know a lot of Dutch freelancer networks and advertisement websites where people looking for webdesigners/programmers advertise and webdesigners/programmer themselves advertise for themselves, without the actual website in concern 'interfering' with the actual payment. Don't know about any English/American websites of this type. Though, I'm currently getting most of my references from websites/projects I made in the past. On every website I make I put a mini-logo and I put my name and website in the META tags. And anyway, windwaker, about your bidding style: like others said, it's not a good idea at all to be telling the client in question that you'll study the code, meaning you don't even know what you're up to basically. Only apply to the projects for which you're fully aware that your capable of doing so without any problems, it takes experience, so keep it to lesser projects at first. Furthermore, that goes for anyone, don't be afraid to place a rediculously high bid sometimes, really, you'll be 'lucky' a lot. I asked € 700 for a simple discussion forum and € 800 for an advertisement website (like the ones I mentioned above) which is actually a lot of money, but the majority of other webdesign/scripting companies asks over € 1000 for it, so it's fair. (edited by Narf on 01-23-05 04:26 AM) |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 9/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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| Gee, I see some major dickheads on this forum; hypocrites. Rejecting features like this all the time, using "the board can go without this" as an excuse, but in the same time wanting/using nothing more than completely useless roleplay and RPG features. Anyway, the more of these kind of things, the better; having more and better user/board status overviews is always good, especially when the data necesary to build something like this is already there so it's just the script that needs to be made. (edited by Narf on 01-25-05 02:33 AM) |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 10/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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| PHP and Visual Basic 6.0 I guess. I started learning PHP because I had a games website with over 100 (and growing) sepparate.htm pages, each with a menu on them and the same layout. So once I had to update a menu or thingie in the layout, I had to update ALL of those 100+ single files. I got air of PHP's include() and require() and learned I could put stuff on hundreds, and maybe thousands of pages which I could change by just changing one file. I got interrested (and greedy for more features for laziness, lol) and got into PHP. As for Visual Basic, this was actually last year, when I had to make several applications at work, I said I wanted to learn VB since I was already experienced with other programming languages and it wouldn't be hard to learn, and I was right, it was one of the easiest languages ever. I already got some apps running in less than a week. I never really went on with VB though, don't really like it, especially because of the fact you need to make huge distribution packets when compiling something. |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 11/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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| Heavy script? Not at all, just a matter of multi-table queries and selecting the poster, thread and forum ID. You know what's 'heavy'? Things like rank.php, and of course all of those oh so precious 80+ KB post layouts the most commoners of this board use. And I'm aware that Acmlm copied the EXP and level calculations from Final Fantasy Legend's vBulletin, where he originally made them too (oh, not EoFF btw), but I guess that was from before your time, 'Xkeeper'. if you really need to check shit, use stats.php or the damned memberlist, or check your profile. What would be the point, anyway? It's just a matter of having it there or not, which doesn't necesarily mean you're forced to use it. Apperantly some people do (Randy in this case, and there are undoubtfully other people that want to see something like this) so it wouldn't hurt having there. But, of course, what would be 'the point'? Let me ask this question, what is 'the point' of the ACS, the EXP/level calculations, color chart, Photo album, memberlist, etc. There is no real point to them, but they're there for ease, for fun and/or to add more functionality to the board. You know why vBulletin is so succesfull (don't get me wrong, I hate VBB's, now THOSE boards suck up unnecesary resources)? Because it offers a ton of features and it allows users to check pretty much any type of data at any given time. Yes, VBB is successfull, they've earned thousands of dollars with it after all. Just admit it if you just don't like a feature like that and you are against it, but don't give me a heap of shit. Either way, guess it's just a matter of how the board owners feel about this, depending on how many people would want this. I wouldn't mind something like this being made, the more overviews, the better. |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 12/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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Originally posted by GavinI want to bear your children. <3 |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 13/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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Originally posted by ElricI doubt, this board does have some nice features, but things like post layouts should've never been added, there's a reason pretty much NO other known message board system features this.. I think this board will in time make a nice impact on the gaming forum systems range, but this board is far from professional, both looks and coding wise. And yes, I too have seent he code of 1.9x and lower. Anyway, we're dwarreling off subject. |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 14/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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Originally posted by Kitten YifferThis too, I see as an argument being used to disagree with the addition of a feature, very commonly. But why? All features do somehow hold a risk of making people 'spam' to get higher/better on that feature *cough especially post radar and ACS cough*, there shouldn't even be a board in the first place if you're afraid of people 'spamming'. |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 15/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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Originally posted by knuckWrong, very wrong. That's what makes Internet Explorer so bad, Internet Explorer is built to 'ignore' messy code. Internet Explorer completely ignores the W3C standards. Firefox takes these standards into account when outputting the HTML which makes it a bit 'stricter'.Originally posted by FreeDOSAfter reading that, acmlmboards ROCK! Either way, if all webdesigners would write (X)HTML like it's supposed to be written, there wouldn't be any problem with incompatible webpages. Oh yeah, and if you guys are planning on fixing up this board's source so it outputs valid XHTML, then all I have to say is good luck. It's a bitch. And I can tell since I spent months converting my semi-big site and forums to Transitional XHTML alone, it's not a 5 minute job. |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 16/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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Originally posted by ZemThen how do you plan on letting people display their stats at other sites, or their desktop even? With XML/RSS? That's kind of clumsy if you ask me. |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 17/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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Originally posted by Retro-KasumiFilesize doesn't mean jack shit. I got a ton of 100+ KB PHP files on my server and the fact that they're so big doesn't affect speed, resources or anything at all. It's the output that matters. A 200 KB PHP file with efficient coding and HTML in it, is 'smaller' than a 300 Byte PHP file with a loop that spits out hundreds or thousands of HTML code snippets. And consider why browsers have been made so 'forgiving' in the first place, it's because people can't even use fucking HTML right, apperantly right from the moment it was 'invented', and since there were crap editors such as Dreamweaver and Frontpage. |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 18/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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Originally posted by knuckThat's why I make a lot of money as a webdesigner/scripter, and you don't. Originally posted by knuckI know a lot of people prefer 10 small files over one huge file, but that's just subjective; a matter of taste and preference. But the 'heavyness' of a script does not have anything to do with filesize. (edited by Narf on 02-03-05 04:03 PM) (edited by Narf on 02-03-05 04:03 PM) |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 19/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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| I know nothing about your life, not that I really care in the first place. But the fact is, I stick to those stupid W3C standards, writing HTML as it's supposed to, and I 'have fun' using <br /> instead of <br>, <img src="image.bla" alt="description" /> instead of <img src=image.jpg> and more of that stupid XHTML, and I get a lot of money for that because my websites look how they're supposed to in all browsers. I highly doubt you do. Of course I have fun with it. =) Oh yeah, 2 years ago I had the exact same opinion on XHTML as you have right now, and only now I realize what a dumbass I was when it came to writing scripts and webpages. (edited by Narf on 02-03-05 04:29 PM) |
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Narf Hi Tuvai! (reregistering while banned) Level: 16 Posts: 20/100 EXP: 17634 For next: 2622 Since: 12-26-04 Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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| The fact that i don't like xhtml won't stop me from being a webdesigner. You, a webdesigner? Don't make me laugh. If you'd ever became a webdesigner, you'd increase the ammount of pages improperly put together, thus breaking the Internet, as Gavin said. The only clients you'd get would be dumbasses that want a site that just works properly for Internet Explorer 6 on a Windows system. Not to forget, you're a copy & paste board lurk person, I recall you asking me on IRC and AIM how to fuck up this board after I found out the document.cookies exploit (Oh yeah knuck, you should know who I am now ). You're not quite a fit person to be walking around with a lot of knowledge about programming and websites in general, you'd fuck up other websites when you'd get the chance to.(edited by Narf on 02-03-05 04:52 PM) (edited by Narf on 02-03-05 04:54 PM) (edited by Narf on 02-03-05 04:59 PM) (edited by Narf on 02-03-05 05:05 PM) (edited by Narf on 02-03-05 05:10 PM) |
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