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How to make this site?
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:04 pm
by Mike_D4321
Could anyone point me in the right direction for how to make a site like this? I'm kinda new to web design, but it looks like it's all done in php.
Http://onemillioncollegefans.com
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:14 pm
by Benjamin
That is a knockoff of the milliondollarhomepage
There are some developers selling the script. I don't know where to find them.
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:11 am
by Mike_D4321
I guess I can't ask for how to do the whole site at once, but how do they set it up so that the little squares will turn to a certain color on the grid? The whole grid seems to be one single image. Maybe I could start there?
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:37 am
by josh
GD image library
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:48 am
by Mike_D4321
Hmmm, this may be more over my head than I thought. I look into the GD image library and it sounds pretty complicated. I guess I've got a lot of work to do.
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:23 am
by jayshields
I haven't looked, but I reckon by now someone will be selling (or letting you download for free) one of those one million pixel scripts on
hotscripts.com. I don't think it would be too hard to make your own though.
I doubt the million pixel thing is just one big image, but I haven't checked the source - it's probably HTML table/CSS based.
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:35 pm
by Mike_D4321
There is one on hotscripts.com, but I think you have to buy it. I'd rather write my own if possible. Thanks for the help with this, guys.
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:06 pm
by josh
Using GD wouldn't be that hard in this application, if you had the images you wanted to put together into a 1000 x 1000 pixel image for example, you create the image with imagecreate() and then use imagecopyresized() to place each smaller image into the larger image. From what I recall the milliondollar homepage did use a method like this, and he overlayed an image map on the top of it, which is the right way to do it IMO because having multiple images would complicate non-rectangular regions, and also you could potentially have up to 10,000 image requests each time (not to mention the overhead in filesize that would be saved by just having one huge image)
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:30 pm
by Christopher
That site seems like a real scam. Their goal is to take in $5 million and give out only $700k. Maybe they know how bad college kids are a math?
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:30 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I think MDHP went from multiple images into a single 1000X1000 image that was actually manually updated each night after payments cleared. I am not totally sure, but the kid's blog described some of the processes he was taking (including hiring a developer to manage sales and payments

).
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:11 am
by Mike_D4321
arborint wrote:That site seems like a real scam. Their goal is to take in $5 million and give out only $700k. Maybe they know how bad college kids are a math?
Maybe your math is not so good. Look again - they are giving out $1,000,000, not $700K, and I would guess that after taxes, that's a pretty big chunk of the profits. Besides, who cares what they do with the rest of the money? I think it's a cool idea, which is why I started this post in the first place.