Sunday, April 18, 2010

Signupandmakemoney has a new look

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/RFhRL)
Signupandmakemoney.com Logo.After over a week of vigorous style sheet hacks I was finally able to come up with a decent looking yet simple new look for Signupandmakemoney.com. I would love to hear your thoughts and/or opinions of the site if you have any at all.

I'm learning new things about web programming and web design all the time. The reason I never made these  changes a while back was because I didn't know how to set up my own local server. Once I figured out how to accomplish this it was just a matter of setting up a copy of my site on my local computer. I prefer to use wamp, but there are other free ways to accomplish this besides manually setting up php, apache, and mysql.

My site (Signupandmakemoney.com) uses third party software such as wordpress, simple machines forum, and affiliate pro 4. It first started out as a simple static html based website. Along with the new look, I also parsed all the html files to act as php files with my .htaccess file. This makes it way easier to update the site. I can make one header for the entire site and only have to make one change verses 70+ changes with my old html files. That's right, I got a lot of pages on the site.

The reason I made the changes was to make a better user experience at the site. Each section had a different header, width, and footer. Now I can gladly say they all look much like the same site. The other reason I made these changes was to hopefully increase the value of the site. Which I think this will.

I still have many more updates and changes I would like to make to the site. But for now this has been a huge step forward in the right direction as to what I believe the site should look like.

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