Xaltlee's Journal: Site Layout Determined, Hosting Sought

Site Layout. This is the potential layout for my shiny new system. Kinda Slashdottish, I know, but hey, s'what it's supposed to be like. Now I just need somewhere that'll let me host PHP files and a nice big mySQL database... ahh yes. The search for hosting commences. *mutter* Hosting is always a pain in the ass. Here's my wishlist.

1. Competent admin. Someone who knows which end is up on Apache, so I don't have to worry about it. I'm not a server admin.

2. The ability to run PHP scripts and a mySQL database.

3. The ability to modify those files from the web, so I can work on it while at work, where I have the most free time. I don't have access to FTP upload.

4. Reasonably priced. I'm not a business user.

5. This thing is actually still in development. A lot of places won't take that sort of thing on - development on live machines is bad. If they will take it on, they'll likely charge an arm and a leg for it and stick it on a separate server. So... yeah. I'm not too rich right now. I suppose I can always wait until I'm actually /done/ with it, but then I can't show others the stuff as I go. Damn.

Anyone out there have any ideas?

Why is

[Com2Kid]

the page just ever too wide to display @ 800x600? Just a teeny bit too much, and shrinking the font size has no change.

Re:Why is

[Xaltlee]

Because your browser (whatever it may be) interprets HRs to read '100% of the whole page regardless of what else is on the page'. So if you put a HR in a div or a table, for some browsers it still goes far too wide. I discovered this last Friday, and made an alternate stylesheet to account for it. Haven't posted it yet. I think, though, that I'm going to have to skip using HRs altogether and go with graphics and divs and table cells. *sigh* At least then I can be assured that the line is only as wide as I tell it to be - and that 100% is the same on all browsers.

Well, huh. Cool. So far no critique of my shoddy spacing in the HTML file itself. Amazing. I was expecting a bit more of an attack - quite a number of people on Slashdot consider themselves, regardless of training, experts on UI and HTML. ;) I must be doing something wrong - I don't have enough critics.

Re:Why is

[Com2Kid]

• Because your browser (whatever it may be)

IE5.5, most widely used browser out there, I do hope you tested for it. *G*

Re:Why is

[Xaltlee]

Yup, did so. Weirdass. I'm dropping the <hr>'s. Oh well.