How is this done? (web programming (Javascript) quesn.)

resetreset · 12-06-2011, 08:16 AM

Hi,
Go to www.bigrock.com and try out the demo of their site creator.

I'm interested to know exactly what's going on, ie. how does it know where on the webpage to pop up the "text enterer" thing? Has the designer fixed that somehow (for each of 500 designs)?!!! How is that data put onto the site?

Also, has anyone seen anything like this before? I was BLOODY impressed with this thing, wanted to know if it was original.

Thx.

acid_kewpie · 12-06-2011, 08:28 AM

How can we possibly answer this?? It's all done by professional programmers who know how to program very well. How much more do you really expect us to be able to tell you?

The text enterer thing? really??

dugan · 12-06-2011, 08:39 AM

I tried out the demo, and this is my comment:

You're going to have to be more specific about what you mean by "the text enterer thing." A screenshot would help. I didn't see it, and I'm not going to waste any more time on that commercial site.

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(for each of 500 designs)?!!!

Why would this surprise you? The way you describe it, it may well be be part of the design.

As to how the developers of the blog templates knew "where to pop it up", the answer is very likely to be "relative to the position of another DOM element."

SigTerm · 12-06-2011, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by resetreset

Hi,
Go to ----------------- and try out the demo of their site creator.

You may want to remove the link because this seriously looks like a spam/advertising attempt, plus website itself looks like standard piece of **** that bombards you with "get it for FREE!!!!!" messages.

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Originally Posted by resetreset

I'm interested to know exactly what's going on, ie. how does it know where on the webpage to pop up the "text enterer" thing? Has the designer fixed that somehow (for each of 500 designs)?!!! How is that data put onto the site?

You do know that you can see source of webpage in any decent browser, right?
Open page, read source (Ctrl+U in opera) and try to understand how it was done.

Juako · 12-06-2011, 10:26 AM

Meh. I don't get what's so impressive about it. Just a bunch of generic designs and dhtml. Not difficult to set up at all. Sure way to make dull pages, though.

I kinda expected something along these lines.

acid_kewpie · 12-06-2011, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Juako

Meh. I don't get what's so impressive about it. Just a bunch of generic designs and dhtml. Not difficult to set up at all. Sure way to make dull pages, though.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" all in the eye of the beholder I guess.

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Originally Posted by Juako

I kinda expected something along these lines.

wow, impressive stuff there for javascript!

resetreset · 12-09-2011, 01:30 AM

This is definitely NOT spam, rather these guys are going to kill MY business, so I want to scope them out and find out exactly what they're up to.
For the guy who wanted a screenshot - well just go here: http://www.bigrock.in/website-design/index.php and go to "Try your free demo", and try one of the designs at random.

Anyway, I got the answer from Dugan, which is that it's probably "relative to another DOM element".

Learning bit-by-bit guys, bear with me

, not a WORLDWIDE EXPERT on web dev. *yet*.....

Juako · 12-09-2011, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by resetreset

Learning bit-by-bit guys, bear with me

, not a WORLDWIDE EXPERT on web dev. *yet*.....

Neither am I

, no need to defend my friend, me at least was talking about *the page*, not *you*.

resetreset · 12-09-2011, 08:53 AM

Thanks Juako, you're a pal!