I am making a home page for a site and am wondering if you guys know of any places I can get some nice looking banners. Just like filler for a page kind of thing.
Also, I need this page to work for a phone and a regular browser. What is the best way in making sure that the page looks right on the phone. Do I re-direct it based on what kind of device it is? I also heard someone say something about javascript helping to stuff like that. Any ideas?
Alright, thanks guys. I'm going to try and apply some ajax code into this as well. It's right about now that I wish I had taken more web based classes haha
you need to tell that to inks. . .since he doesn't think anyone cares about that html stuff.
also, you might want to add a link at the bottom of the mobile page that links to the full site. . .but if you just link to the page, the code above will redirect back to the mobile page. my solution was to make the link on the mobile page point to "/index.asp?status=full" and then added an if statement to the main page which would skip over the redirect script (above) if status=full. food for thought.
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agree with TR...I hate it when mobile sites don't let you use the full site if you want....find this on the ipad from time to time...If I am on my ipad I want the full site unless they have a tablet site. I don't want to see the mobile site.
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Jordan, I would have to agree. I wish I had good web based courses. I took a few but learned absolutely nothing. It would have been really helpful as I am developing more web based applications.
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I learn better in courses but I have been doing all my research online to be able to accomplish my job. I just prefer a course over researching myself.
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technology and tools change so fast that relying on courses to learn is probably not a good idea :-)
As it is the college kids we keep hiring are having to be retrained because they are so out-of-date on techniques and good practices because their profs don't code in the "real" world.
Ya byers I was thinking the same thing. It's so difficult to keep up on all the new stuff coming out. Although, that makes it interesting and keeps you on top of your game. I know for a fact that I will have to be retrained because I have no "real" world coding experience. You are all to right I'm afraid, the profs talk about stuff that happened ten years ago as if it's cutting edge. It's a sad state of affairs.
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Byers & Jordan, Yes your write college kids are being trained for old technologies in college because most profs don't keep up to date. I got a wake up call when I began working as a developer. It is sad that we have to be retrained to do our jobs coming out of college but I guess companies can train them the way they want.
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I agree with TR tools are not a good thing to learn in College because tools change...you need to learn how to think about coding and design, database design, coding patterns, and algorithms etc.
My biggest issue with current college programs is they make students comment code which is dumb and don't teach TDD or automated unit testing (generally)....so the types of coding habits that are picked up in college are based on a professors view of coding which can become hard to break.
The concepts of not needing to comment your code and writing good unit tests and TDD will cause students to think differently about design and solving problems.
I would really be interested to see how many professors have read Clean Code, Clean Coder, Working effectively with Legacy Code (Brutal Refactoring) etc.
