AskVG.com - The Ultimate Place for all Windows Tutorials, Tweaks, Themes & lots more

[Vishal Gupta]

OK Guys

The time has come to announce about my website:



AskVG.com

Yes. After getting lots of suggestions for "AskVG" domain, finally I got it. Thanks to "Choto Cheeta" (Saurav Basu) who purchased it without letting me know about it and surprised me. He is a very nice person. He helped me a lot in seeting up the site. He arranged the webspace, installed all required things, etc. I can't forget his help.

Then its turn of "Navjot Singh". He helped me in installing all required plug-ins, setting up the sidebar and lots of. He was a tutor for me.

I can't describe in words how much these both guys helped me. If they were not with me, I could not launch the site. To be honest I could not think about the site. So hat off to both of them. It means a lot for me. I appreciate the help.

The things I did were creating the theme for the site. Which I didnt make from scratch. I took help from other themes and used them as a base but all the graphics are my own work. and of course the site material is mine.

I hope you guys will like the site and its contents. It was you who encouraged me to start a site and now its here in front of you all.

Thank you guys.

If you want then you can Digg it here:

http://digg.com/tech_deals/Hacking_W...cks_Themes_Etc

[infra_red_dude]

applause applause.... awesome!!! congrats vishal!!! may god bless you

[navjotjsingh]

Thanks Vishal for the kind words. I believe in sharing what I know. Best of luck with the site.

Dugg.

[The_Devil_Himself]

Great guys.a big round of applause for you all.

[piyush gupta]

Awsome Vishal

really great work buddy

[iMav]

looks awesome .. .congratulations ... a small suggestion as of now u have the sections in the sidebar ... a link on the top by the name sections would be really good and also a deviantart plugin like on joejoe for ur gallery and then if some 1 wants to download or see full screen they go to ur gallery on devaintart

[navjotjsingh]

Thanks Imav for your suggestions, your first suggestion definitely seems achievable.
Can you show example for your second suggestion?

[iMav]

first post on this page ...

http://www.joejoe.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=10507

and also out of curiosity what web management has been used ... seen a lot of such 'blog' based sited ....

[navjotjsingh]

Wordpress backs AskVg.com but since Vishal wanted a static type website, so Wordpress has been tweaked to make it look as a static site.

[shady_inc]

So anyone joined the forums there yet??The site looks awesome!!!!Posted about it on my blog.

[iMav]

ok its afterall a blog based site ... static site whats dynamic in other wordpress blogs??

@shady: the forum goes to merawindows ....

[navjotjsingh]

Nothing....But this one behaves as a static website. Vishal wanted a static one, but we ended up using Wordpress.
Dynamic websites have php queries and parse pages dynamically. This one does same but the look is of a static one.

[iMav]

o! that dynamic thingy ... i didnt know php queries are referred to as dynamic sites thanx for the info ...

[navjotjsingh]

Ok...Imav...got your second suggestion as well. And just got lucky as found the only single deviant-art plugin for wordpress. Should be implemented by tomorrow.

[iMav]

glad to contribute

[comrade]

i love that glossy header...

P.S i got the following err
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/.jocasta/vishal/vishal/wp-content/plugins/ddeviantart/ddeviantart.php on line 313

[iMav]

^^some testing going on ...

[shady_inc]

The error isn't clearly visible unless you highlight it.

Oh,and BTW what's that error for??

[navjotjsingh]

oops...my mistake...fixing.

[comrade]

mm....WP(wordpress) changed to VP(Vishalpress)

[slugger]

nice site u got the Vishal

congratulation, hope to see d site being regularyl upd8ed with qlty stuff

4 Suggestions: -

1.) Orange text on yellow background does not make for very easy/pleasent viewing. since r main content area has dark fonts on light background (black on white), you might want to consider doing the opposite with the side panel (probably not with the same color combo). This will also help d side panel from stealing focus while the reader is reading stuff

2.)Can you justify the text of thedescriptive parts of your site (tutorials, About me, etc). Looks a lot neater that way.

3.)Can you make the top menu bar follow the page as it is being scrolled down? there is this porn site that i visit , where they got this menu bar that follows as the page i scrolled down
that way there is no need to go all the way back up to access another section after you have finished reading that page

4.)Can you expand the sections in the menu bar, when 1 clicks on it
Fastr and easier than letting the whole page open to read a given tutorial
You could let the expanded view show the first 7 articles in that section to choose from. If the reader wishes to check out the 8th or 9th article, then he/she opens the whole page to click on the click.
That way the drop-down menu doesnot look very cluttered either

[navjotjsingh]

Fixed.

[blackpearl]

Looks great. Congrats!!

Dugg too.

[navjotjsingh]

Originally Posted by comrade

mm....WP(wordpress) changed to VP(Vishalpress)

Rightly said.

Originally Posted by slugger

nice site u got the Vishal

congratulation, hope to see d site being regularyl upd8ed with qlty stuff

4 Suggestions: -

1.) Orange text on yellow background does not make for very easy/pleasent viewing. since r main content area has dark fonts on light background (black on white), you might want to consider doing the opposite with the side panel (probably not with the same color combo). This will also help d side panel from stealing focus while the reader is reading stuff

Ans 1. Will try if we get a better background. But main content is still on white page. Try that.

Originally Posted by slugger

2.)Can you justify the text of thedescriptive parts of your site (tutorials, About me, etc). Looks a lot neater that way.

Ans 2. Not possible. Using Wordpress Page navigation and it won't work in the way you asked. If anybody knows how to do, shoot me with a PM. Even Vishal asked for it, but could not be done.

Originally Posted by slugger

3.)Can you make the top menu bar follow the page as it is being scrolled down? there is this porn site that i visit , where they got this menu bar that follows as the page i scrolled down
that way there is no need to go all the way back up to access another section after you have finished reading that page

Ans 3. I think the pages are not long enough. And longest post have been paginated. BTW please give some exercise to your mouse too. No pain No Gain. BTW this feature only appears on spammy and porn sites nowdays. You never see this on normal and reputed sites. Consider this fact too.

Originally Posted by slugger

4.)Can you expand the sections in the menu bar, when 1 clicks on it
Fastr and easier than letting the whole page open to read a given tutorial
You could let the expanded view show the first 7 articles in that section to choose from. If the reader wishes to check out the 8th or 9th article, then he/she opens the whole page to click on the click.
That way the drop-down menu doesnot look very cluttered either

Ans 4. You are asking for Drop Down Menus, I wanted that but I am not into CSS, so menu may break doing that. I need somebody's help in it. PM me if anybody can help me with it. But then don't expect Drop Down menus to contain posts...there will be a lot of posts and drop down menu won't fit on the browser. Only it can be used for showing sections of sites, which currently are appearing on Sidebar. If anybody can help making a drop down menu, contact me.

I hope I have answered well to you slugger.
After reading your suggestions, we may regret using Wordpress.

[anandk]

congrats vishal ! atlast ! we expect the best from you.

yes, njs and choto are very helpful. they helped me too. njs esp for getting my rss thing working

[saurabh kakkar]

congrats Vishal nd Hats off to Choto Cheeta and Navjot Singh both these

guys r great very very helpfull

[Vishal Gupta]

Thanks to all of you guys for ur sweet comments.
The site exists bcoz of you all.

[fun2sh]

wow its great VISHAL

[shady_inc]

Originally Posted by navjotjsingh

Ans 3. I think the pages are not long enough. And longest post have been paginated. BTW please give some exercise to your mouse too. No pain No Gain. BTW this feature only appears on spammy and porn sites nowdays. You never see this on normal and reputed sites. Consider this fact too.

Not really there's one on compaq site too.

Here

[Third Eye]

Congrats VG

Nice site