Well it has been about 3 month since I started this project, and I am pleased to say that it is just about done! Blender.cgjam.net is just about finished!I am currently just putting some finishing touches here and there, I have a sidebar of related content that really needs some work as it currently relates to nothing! that's not good! and some video pages still need to be uploaded, but it is almost there!
any way
thanks to the Internet I have managed to create for free, a totally responsive website, with drop down menus, download buttons, integrated blog posts, responsive video frame, comments, twitter feed and social-media. which is awesome but only possible thanks to the massive range of free software and HTML tutorials available from the web. so i figure it's at least courteous to give these guys a link back so all you guys can take advantage of their knowledge too, if you were to be looking to scratch build a website :)
Timothy kwyn on youtube set me on the road with his in depth series covering the Microsoft Expression web software that i used to code the site, which is a really great piece of software though it is slightly out of date as it is no longer supported by Microsoft and thus only has limited understanding of HTML5. Not that that is a big issue as it doesn't stop you from using HTML5, it simply think there are code errors ( though that can be awkward when you have actual code errors and can't find them cause Expression web is hung up on a piece of HTML5 code! ).
The meat of the site comes from http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/ Their youtube video Create a responsive website with Html5 and css3 was fundamental to understanding how to make the site responsive, and much of the design for the tutorial pages stems from this template.
http://www.developphp.com/ web designer Adam khoury provided lots of little tricks and CSS3 tips that helped out in lots of small ways
and this lesson; HTML & CSS - Creating a dropdown navigation menu certainly got me going with the navigation bars. so yea, awesome!
I just need to come up with a badass design on the homepage now :D
