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Content management w/o PHP or CGI

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Vegeta

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Well I just got connected to some great new FREE webspace provided by my college but as far as I can tell it doesn't support PHP or CGI or any kind. I have a very nice design up and was wanting to have some sort of photo gallery going to where I could upload the files online and possibly implement an RSS feed into it. But without PHP support of CGI support I don't know how to do anything. Am I stuck with simple static content or is there some other way to go about doing things without CGI or PHP? Also, no ASP.

Any idea would be appreciated.
 
Vegeta said:
Well I just got connected to some great new FREE webspace provided by my college but as far as I can tell it doesn't support PHP or CGI or any kind. I have a very nice design up and was wanting to have some sort of photo gallery going to where I could upload the files online and possibly implement an RSS feed into it. But without PHP support of CGI support I don't know how to do anything. Am I stuck with simple static content or is there some other way to go about doing things without CGI or PHP? Also, no ASP.

Any idea would be appreciated.
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not something i'd call "great" IMO. you're pretty much restricted to plain old static pages. do they at least support SSI? not that it would help much. I recommend you take a pass on this "free" offer.
 
It's a load of storage (not sure on the numbers but its more than I would need) and it's easily accessable thru a network drive. I like using it.

Since it is a network drive is there anyway I can use something on my computer to manipulate the files like I would a php login system to post blogs? Do they make stuff like that or will I juts pretty much have to generate everything myself?

I can run my own webserver off of this computer but that would mean leaving it on most all of the time which I do not always do. I guess an apache server would be my best bet though if I wanted to install PHP though., huh...

Edit: Here is the site right now if you wanna see what it looks like...
 
I graduated from UMR 2 years ago. there is a group on campus that CIS allows to be public...talk to some of your comp sci friends

worse comes to worse, you can host your SSI files on their server and iframe the content into your dynamic parts.
 
You can use ajax to do some stuff (dynamic loading of pictures etc), but without a server-side script to generate non-static content, that's about the extent of it.
 
Well I accomplished what I wanted, pretty much. I feel proud of how I did it. Here's the short n skinny of it:

First, I went to Blogger.com and registered an account. I made a few tests posts on my new 'blog'. Then I went into Blogger's options and went to the easily exploitable editable templates. Now all I needed was the actual post content; no comments, no dynamic links, no sidebar, no archives, no blogger buttons or toolbar at the top.

Well I used some CSS to hide the Blogger toolbar from the top of the page. I guess in theory it is still there, but not in actuallity. I either hid, disabled, or totally deleted the other items from the template totally.

So then I shrunk the blog conent area to about 500px, what I need for my site. I set all the background colors to transparent. I then went to my site and put a nice Iframe in the place where I wanted my content and used some browser hacks to make it transparent, so the nice semi-transparent PNG background can be seen it all it's glory.

A few scroll and border tweaking and it's pretty much perfect. I think I still need to figure out how to keep it from scrolling on the horiz in certain browsers. blogger's way of integrating pics and formatting into the posts are so great.

So so far so good... check it out at http://web.umr.edu/~mjedm6

I think the background just ties it together nicely. Simplistic yet so much to look at.... :)
 
Vegeta said:
So so far so good... check it out at http://web.umr.edu/~mjedm6

I think the background just ties it together nicely. Simplistic yet so much to look at.... :)
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On a note about your spacing, in your CSS definitions, set all your margins to 0...it can look something like:
*: margin=0 0 0 0;
that is not syntactilly(?) correct, but should give you the idea.

also, now that you have done what you wanted, be forwarned that when you start looking for internships/jobs, you might want to have something a bit more professional. I have heard stories of students not being placed due to inappropriate web pages and/or voicemail/answering machine messages. Just some food for thought.
 
Suggestion noted, Fark. The great things about how the PNG's work.. that background is all one image, so I can replace it with others easily. As far as the content goes.. well, it's a personal website only shared really to people here at UMR and on Facebook. I know how employers can and do check facebook, and I keep that space very tidy.

I always though that if the margin was just defined as margin: 0px; then it defined all 4 values as 0...
 
Vegeta said:
So so far so good... check it out at http://web.umr.edu/~mjedm6

I think the background just ties it together nicely. Simplistic yet so much to look at.... :)
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very nice job! but couldn't you have just applied the style to your Blogger page instead?
 
Vegeta said:
I always though that if the margin was just defined as margin: 0px; then it defined all 4 values as 0...
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Yes, the one 0 defines it for all four. However you do not need px. 0 is 0 whether is be px, pt, inches, or decibals, it's 0.
 
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