Unilad Controversy.

Everyone needs to get a grip over the comments placed on unilad.com! The site allowed young adults like myself to express ourselves, at times poking fun at the dark world provided to us by you the older generation! The Jokes about rape which sparked much controversy are just that! Jokes! They were in no way intended to be taken seriously! Personally I found much of the content the site provided to be hilarious and well written including the articles in question. Am I the only one?

I have been saddened to see my close friend Jame Street's life torn apart by the recent unfounded media harassment. Jamie is one of the kindest and most caring people I have met during my two years here at the University Of Plymouth, his recent persecution has left me sickened. I would like to take this opportunity to wish Jamie and the rest of the unilad team the best of luck in the future! Tom.

Publishing My Site.

Today I realised that my sites file size was far to big so I decided to edit my images and save them with the .GIF file extension to save on space. My site now hardly lags at all when it is called into a browser and I am really happy with the results. I also gave my css styling some more attension changing the site container to white which I am really pleased with as it makes the content of the site stand out more, I have also added colour to my form and changed the font of my text. I have created an additional page which contains a facebook comments box which I inserted so that I can interact with users and hopefully get some good feedback.

Form Validation

Yesterday I decided that I would validate my form to reduce the amount of invalid forms that are submitted to me. I created a Javascript file which I then linked to my form HTML file via the head, I used IF statements which prompt the user to enter data when certain fields are left empty. I have inserted a note and highlighted the fields so the user should understand the fields that are compulsory. I decided to allow the user to submit a form without a phone number as I feel some users may want to keep this information private. I plan to continue to update my sites CSS syles. : )

Navigation Buttons

Today I decided I would give my site navigation some attention and create some buttons using dreamweaver. I created a glass effect using two layer and the gradient tool. I used CSS to hide and reveal the two parts of by button images to create a pink glow when the curser passes over them. I am very happy with the results.

CSS troubles

I have been finding creating my cascading style sheets rather difficult  but I now feel that I am starting to understand CSS.  I have created the header for the three pages on my site and the question form to allow user of the site to ask me questions. I soon plan to begin work on the navigation aspect of my site. 

Web Space And Domain Name.

I have been searching for domain names and web space from for a few weeks now and feel I have found some appropriate sites to purchase these from. I am going to purchase my domain name from http://www.123-reg.com/ and my space from http://www.ipage.com/. I choose to use 123-reg as they are respected and have many good reviews and I choose ipage as they offer  unlimited domain hosting, unlimited badwidth and unlimited space for a cheap price.