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Anyone starting a new website and want someone else?

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I really want to get involved in a big website. I have no ideas about what to do or where to start. It seems like everything out there has already been done. I would love to do something with Punk Music or something but that has been done 10 times over. I don't know what to do...Any help?
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submissions are always welcome to any of the PHPDN sites...
tutorials, articles, general help - just ask around

I know I wouldn't mind some submissions or help finding some news in the mornings....
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I'm doing a web site site... (hehe...) If you'd like to help by creating tutorials and the like, I'd be glad to have you. I'll be getting separate servers for it tonight (right now it runs off another one I own) or sometime soon.

http://www.maxxxtorque.com/prodigy
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I am planning to launch a new site soon.

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I am planning to launch a general webmastery site soon at webmastery.info. Since there are so many PHP sites already, the PHP site that I started then never really went very far with will be incorporated into the new site. Anyway, I would certainly be interested in finding some people to contribute in some way.
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Brian; sounds like a good project. Gimme a shout if you need anything.

MSN: david_speake@hotmail.com
AIM: hexey1337
Email: david@evilwalrus.com
Site: http://www.evilwalrus.com/david
Portfolio: http://www.evilwalrus.com/david/portfolio.php
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Also, I am *considering* a DJ-related site. I've got a demo template up at http://www.evilwalrus.com/david/frozen but it's just prototype atm. (Created at first purely for me to play with some graphics). If I get some people that are interested in it though, I may make it live.
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btw - the sites that bill themselves as "the coolest <insert terms here>" for anything ususally end up focusing more on prettiness than content

just dont follow that pattern and you'll be okay :)
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Lol. That was just a preliminary slogan to fill that space. Kinda went with the theme... I suppose I could do with a new one!
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Nice design.

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(Created at first purely for me to play with some graphics).
I do stuff like that all the time. When you download photographs of Star Wars figures just so you can remove the toy lightsabers then replace them with new, properly glowing lightsabers in Photoshop, you know you love doing graphics just for fun. :)

For some Photoshop silliness, check out my personal site. Make sure you have JavaScript on so you can see the pop-up window. I made the goofy logo on the front page just so I could mess around with some Photoshop Elements styles I recently bought with a book. The pop-up graphic was just me playing around for no particular reason, although I did end up using a pattern I recently made for the scanlines.

By the way full version of Photoshop is old--4.0--and for a different platform than I am using right now and I did not want to buy a full version of Photoshop 6 knowing that a new version could not be far off, so I bought Photoshop Elements to fill the gap while I have been waiting for Photoshop 7. In many ways, Photoshop Elements is actually better than my old version of Photoshop! Ha!
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Some nice looking graphics there. How'd you do the thing on the popup? The 'lines' across the pic? Are they 'scanlines'?
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hex wrote:Also, I am *considering* a DJ-related site. I've got a demo template up at http://www.evilwalrus.com/david/frozen but it's just prototype atm. (Created at first purely for me to play with some graphics). If I get some people that are interested in it though, I may make it live.
Hex, if ever you do actually go ahead with that plan and decide that you nee help, ask me!!! Serious! :D
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Ooo..Photoshop!

I love it. =) Actually, before NN, I used to run an RPG site, and I did some pretty mean photoshoping back then. I am actually still pretty good at it, I just don't have the time any more to spend 5 -10 hours on a good design of anything.

Maybe I should, because while I wasn't as good as the people at work (Of course, they were trained to do this), I can honestly say I had the most attractive RPG site out there...a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away.
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Sure Timmy, I'd like to hear your ideas. Mail me some, and maybe some kinda mini resume/portfolio. (david@evilwalrus.com). And nice little sig graphic, looks like you could be helpful!
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Post by sam »

Damn t!mmy that is one sweet looking sig you have got there...
Time to whip out the old photoshop CD and start some stuff of my own...

Cheers Sam
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Thanks guys! I kinda like it too! :D I used Photoshop 6 for it, I kinda suck with it compared to some people, but it's fun to play around in... Simple gradient to make the barcode effect, then just stuck in the PHP, Perl and Apache logos...

And thanks Hex, I'll get that email sent off to you as soon as possible!
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