NOTE: If you cannot or choose not to enable JavaScript, or if your browser is old (basically, if the text you see below this panel is telling you to enable JavaScript), then feel free to change to any theme without "XML" at the end of it. This can be done with the small drop down list at the top left corner of the page. Thanks!
Welcome to Source Code Central! This was my first web site ever, and it started off looking significantly 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!
I finally decided to make the guestbook a bit more presentable. Nothing signifigant has changed...just trimmed out a bunch of the redundant titles and headings at the top and formatted the comment entry form. I also figured out what was causing that stupid visual error in Internet Explorer and eliminated it, too. It still doesn't look quite like I'd like it to look, but at least it now looks straight and proportional.
In lieu of the old CGI guestbook being a pile of crap, I've turned it into a PHP/MySQL version. You shouldn't notice much of a difference from the old one, except for a little formatting snafoo that I can't seem to get rid of. Now that it's all pretty and stuff, start signing it!
Let the celebration ensue! Fourth of July? What's that? This is the grand reopening of a sight that's been live for years! Except it was a bit different than what it is now! This blows all other fanfare out of the water!
Eherm. I hope you know I'm kidding, though I am quite happy to have it under my belt. There shouldn't be any links to the old Game Vault, so if you find one then please be so kind as to report it, as well as any simple dead links, too.
You may have noticed some changes in The Game Vault. Well, that is what the new Game Vault will look like[semi] however, there are still some structure changes that won't be reflected until I've hammered out some symantic PHP stuff, and when I've gotten at least a few games back up. As of right now, I have one game up, and I'm pretty sure that there are some bugs in my PHP. But The New Game Vault is well on it's way to going live...
Code snippets in tutorials now have some special formatting around them. I might further refine/pretty up said formatting later, but for now I'm satisfied with the way this looks.
On another note, once I finish updating the JavaScript tutorial, I'm going to gear up to switch The Game Vault over to PHP, and that will inevitably spurn me to add to it. It probably won't be up for a long time, but I'll be working on it pretty soon!
...I have been tweaking text shades on the advice of a "3rd party advisor." It's amazing how big a difference such a small tweak has made, and in the spirit of that I'm going to make a few other tweaks to different things around the site while I'm updating the tutorials. No major formatting changes though - just color changes!