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Old 12-01-2010, 04:41 PM   #1
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Examples of work example sites


Okay, I know the title isn't that clear, but what I want to start creating a site that I can use as an example for companies when I go for internship or job interview. Does anyone have any examples of their own?

I don't have much to put on one right now, but I figured it would be good to start getting the site together so when I'm stuck in my dorm with a programming book and some random idea, I can upload it.

Thanks in advance,
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Old 12-02-2010, 01:31 AM   #2
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Well if you don't have any content to put on the site yet, I'm not sure how anyone can help you figure out what it should look like. I guess your best bet at this point would be to setup a blog with one of the free services like Tumblr, and start putting your ideas and bits of code up on there. That will at least get your ideas out on the Internet, and when you feel like you have collected enough content, you can figure out a site from there.

Or not. It seems like the trend anymore is to simply maintain a blog with ideas and projects rather than doing a real site. I don't personally agree with that logic, but to each his own I suppose.
 
Old 12-02-2010, 03:33 AM   #3
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Does this help ?
http://web-design.createafreewebsite.net/
 
Old 12-02-2010, 08:17 AM   #4
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Uhm, yeah, there's a member here named Jeremy. He has a website.

You can find the websites of other members by looking at their signatures. Such as mine.

Point is, you might want to revise the question.

My recommendation? Find a place that offers cheap PHP and MySQL hosting, install Wordpress on it, and use Wordpress to build your site. That way you get to use Wordpress themes, many of which are excellent, instead of worrying about design. You also get a content management system, which you should be using anyway. And you can do as much PHP coding (to customize your site) as you want.

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It seems like the trend anymore is to simply maintain a blog with ideas and projects rather than doing a real site.
Could you please tell us your definition of a "real" site?

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Old 12-02-2010, 10:09 AM   #5
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Hi...

There are sum dudes which have sum cozy site...

http://www.nsa.gov/ or this

http://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/index.html

LULZZ

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Old 12-02-2010, 02:36 PM   #6
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Could you please tell us your definition of a "real" site?
Seems pretty obvious, a blog is not a website. Just because it is a page on the Internet doesn't make it a full-fledged website. A blog is simply a collection of posts with no real hierarchy or structure.

For something to be considered a "site", you need to have multiple pages of relatively static content, not just a running log of small entries. It is the same as the difference between a webpage and a website. They infer different levels of cohesion and completion.
 
Old 12-02-2010, 08:33 PM   #7
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MS3FGX: Thank you. Its so sad that you have to state the difference between a web site and a blog these days. The closest thing I have to a blog (or will ever want unless it is a company thing) is a myspace that didn't delete correctly so its there with only a Handle. And blogs feel really unprofessional, almost like cheating.
Any who, I will say, I do like your site digifail. That is something I would consider a nice design and show of work.
And to your original post, I don't have content yet for a site. However, I was more trying to see if other had sites they had created for hiring purposes, to show what they have done. I didn't consider a site with some tutorials to be one to show a company.

anishakaul: I would rather create it by hand. Shows more skill and gives that homemade touch.

dugan: Cute. haha
Wordpress does sound nice, however, I would rather do the coding by hand. Again, homemade touch.
Next semester, I am taking adv. web which teaches PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript so I would be working on that aspect next semester. As for finding a hosting company, my income is $0 so I have to work locally for server-side applications. (Reason that I want to start creating, at least, the design for it so when I can afford none ad covered web hosting, I don't have to put an "Under construction" page while I create the web site.

Alexvader: http://nsa.gov/ does look nice, however, "Central Security Service" isn't quite the CSS I was looking for.
 
Old 12-03-2010, 08:29 AM   #8
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I don't know, what I'd do is install Apache and use it to play around with and learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, etc.
 
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However, I was more trying to see if other had sites they had created for hiring purposes, to show what they have done.
Load my homepage and click on the three links I have under "Friends" (the current latest news update). Two of those three are exactly that: portfolio sites for getting hired. One of them actually was hired largely on the strength of that site and the knowledge he gained making it.

For learning Javascript, I recommend buying Douglas Crockford's book, "Javascript: the good parts", reading it, and then watching his 12 hours of free videos on advanced Javascript programming. Do be aware, though, that in production you'll usually be using a Javascript framework such as JQuery. Which you should learn too.

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Old 12-03-2010, 11:52 AM   #10
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MTK358: I have Apache installed on my laptop. When I was working on my website for my web devel class, I worked off of Apache rather than updating to the main server all the time. I do plan on learning these skills and tool sets.

dugan: Thank you. Those links were exactly what I was looking for. Every tech persons web site is always "blog" like and more for the community. Again, thank you.

I'll have to take a look at that book and those videos. I'll have to put that on my Chanukkah/school books list. I do know of JQuery. Some of the Javascript and flash apps I used on the site for school used it.
For JQuery, should I get a book or use online tutorials?
 
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I learned JQuery from the book called "JQuery in Action." It's very good. However, a lot of people just start from the tutorials on the JQuery website and look up things in the API docs as needed.

The best way to find JQuery tutorial videos is to search for "jquery tutorial videos" on StackOverflow. I haven't personally watched any.

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Old 12-03-2010, 12:05 PM   #12
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dugan: Thanks. $25USD on Amazon.com. I think I could handle that. I'll take a look at the JQuery website.
 
  


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