Help me with design ideas:

Mekrel · 4 Nov 2006 at 15:07

Hi all,

I'm doing some work on my site today, but I need help as im struggling to design my right handed side bar.

This will hold links and archives etc, as the site will be ported onto wordpress.

I have made a photoshop mock up of an idea that I have ha

You can view it here:
http://www.yoimg.com/h/117740146-designidea.jpg.html

The header above the search bar is the mock up, do you think that is a nice way of splitting the categories in the side bar?

Anyone else got any ideas?
Thanks.

unwashed potato! · 5 Nov 2006 at 22:45

im attempt some advice, but to be honest im not sure entirely what you mean. if your asking if the look of the text etc on thr right is good or not, i think its not. I think the headings are too large, and the sections are too close to each other, they need slight padding between each one, just slight padding, in my opinion

hope this helps, though even if it does it wont be even a slight pay back of how much you heped me with my sites.

Mekrel · 5 Nov 2006 at 23:21

Nah, what I meant was the heading for search which is only added via photshop.

The other headings are just word press default styles, which would be replaced with the same style headings is it looked good.

I've gone ahead with that now anyways, and it looks like this:
http://www.yoimg.com/h/38771655-example.jpg.html

unwashed potato! · 5 Nov 2006 at 23:44

ok i see now. Looking good by the way. i have heard of wordpress but no clue what it is, can someone just quick explantation of what it is? is it like flash in that you design the page select what you want, instead of like html where you right it or something?

Mekrel · 6 Nov 2006 at 00:35

No, wordpress is a PHP CMS (content management system).

It enables you to login to your site, and make posts without having to edit the HTML to add the post.

It does this by storing the information in a data base, then you edit your HTML files so they are .php and contain the scripts which pull the info from the data base.

The PHP scripts get the data, and enter it into the HTML - which is sent to your web browser for rendering.

unwashed potato! · 6 Nov 2006 at 00:41

wow, im going to defiently have to look into this when i get some time. sounds very dandy

Van Hellseek · 6 Nov 2006 at 00:42

just to elaborate a little...

wordpress is a cms designed for blogging. it has become so versatile that it can be used as a regular cms, but it's main purpose is for people who want a blog.

wikipedia said:
WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is available free of charge. The latest version is 2.0.5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordpress

oh, and the site's looking good mekrel.