Welcome to Source Code Central! This was my first web site ever, and it started off looking signifigantly different than today's incarnation of it. Anyways, it was meant to both teach you guys out there how to program C++ console applications (basically, programs that ran in MS-DOS), as well as teach me how to make web sites. This is a pretty good place to start learning how to program, as pretty much everything else you'll do in the world of programming will assume you know these basic concepts and even the syntax.
Anyways, I previously only put in the "structure" of my HTML tutorial, but I never actually wrote the darned thing. In fact, I pretty much quit working on the site altogether. And that was the way it was until early 2004, at which point I picked up where I left off and wrote all of the content you see here today.
With the history out of the way, let me tell you the general direction that my web design tutorials take. They are intended to give the Notepad programmer the tools he needs to build a good-looking and efficient web site. As a Notepad programmer myself who has gone through numerous drafts of this web site, I think I am fairly well qualified to give such tutorials. You may not think that it's that difficult, but there are many hidden hardships that await the Notepad programmer who aspires to make his own web site. Hope you enjoy!
One new feature of the site is the theme selector, which will allow you to modify the look of the page for the duration of the visit. If you don't like this look, try another one!
The site was inaccessible for around 24 hours prior to this news item due to my web host upgrading to a new version of PHP. All is well now, however. Ciao!
You didn't know this, but over the past few weeks I've been hard at work making a new website builder, and what you're now seeing is the result. Yeah, yeah, it looks exactly the same as it always has, but as always the backend has undergone a severe facelift. I'm still working on making the program more presentable, but sometime in the future (hopefully the near future), I'll release it to the public for nobody to use because there's much more simple stuff out there. But I made it and it works, dammit, and in the end that's all that matters!
In other news, I finished updating the C++ tutorial a few weeks ago. I hope you find this updated version a little more palettable.
I've also phased out The Game Vault, which is why you don't see any reference to it anymore (and if you do, let me know where!) The site is still up, but you can't get to it from here and ideally from anywhere else. Ciao!
Upon seeing how frighteningly out-of-date my C++ tutorial was, I decided it was about time to update it. I imagine it will take a little while, but as of this moment lessons one and two have been redone. Expect some major adjustments once I hit lesson 5 ;)
I've added an alternate stylesheet option for those browsers equipped to use it (read: not IE). In Firefox, simply click on View -> Page Style -> Basic to peruse it. Yes, I know. Very, very white. I'm not good with colors, OK? :P
For now the stupid thing has no memory between pages, so it is more an annoyance if you prefer the alternate stylesheet. When I get the time, I will add a wittle script to at least remember your choice of stylesheet while you stay within my site, but I'm booked for the time being.
Oh yeah, this only applies to this main page area and Source Code Central. I don't much care for The Game Vault no more...
Finally got around to putting the new, spam-free guestbook together, so I figured I'd bring it online asap to see if it actually prevented spam. The system is fairly simple[semi] just replace the numbers (1-26) with their corresponding letters - I provided a key for simplicity - and you're in!
I've adopted something of a new look on the site, and I like it MUCH better. It is slightly different visually, but the bulk of the changes went into the backbone of th site (as usual). Basically, I discovered this style of web page design known as floating; it's the same thing that the CSS lesson to my left teaches, but it is applied to the whole page, making things a little simpler (and forcing every element to pretty much have the same dimensions and borders and margins in the process).
In addition to that, I also localized my site navigation to one pretty little file, so I can make one change that will reflect across the entire site. I had a system wherein I could do that before, but if I wanted to rearrange my navigation or anything, perish the thought...I'd have had to go to each page and make the same change individually. Plus the source code for the pages just looked ugly. ;)