QUESTION FOR WEB DEVELOPERS?
Question by tekhnolyze [explosively delicious]:
question for web developers?
there are two certain styles of website that I want to build. examples of them are at:
1: http://www.envato.com/
2: http://wiki.envato.com/
the specific effects I am looking at are the static background, forms, and buttons, in the first example, and in the second example the linkbar on the side where each option sort of highlights when you mouse over it, and the tiny square links at the top.
What scripting language/web format/etc was used to build these pages, or at least the functions I named? Or if that cannot be found, what is a method that could be used to make them?
I’m specifically wanting to build a site with a static background like the first link, but with a sidebar like on the wiki link, and I am trying to figure out what exactly I need to do to make that, and if those two functions are very difficult for a newbie to implement.
Thanks
@ first poster:
by static background I mean where the background picture stays in place as you scroll up and down the page
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Answer by josh
Well the sidebar can be made many different ways.
Many use Javascript for that to preload images and replace them on mouseover and restore them on mouseout.
Im not exactly sure what you mean by static background though?
EDIT: Exactly what the second poster said, using css you would write
Not exactly rocket science, but its always good to have some css under your belt 
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about 2 years ago
Switch your file extensions to .php
make a new php file called ads.php and place ONLY the advertisement code there
on every page, where you want the ad to appear put:
< ?php
include('./ads.php');
?>
Thats the simplest way. I would just switch to a PHP powered website entirely if you want to update it frequently.
about 6 months ago
The buttons shouldn’t be too bad with “rollover” javascript. For an example and directions see here:
http://www.htmlite.com/JS019.php
I caught your “static background” question. It’s very easy to implement a background that never changes, as long as it eventually fades into a single color (so it looks okay on larger monitors). To do this, somewhere in your document you would have this code: