I need some help with website development

Team SomeGuy · General **Joined**: 18 Aug 2006

I'm working with a team to develop a new website system for a local non-profit for a University class (Senior Professional Project) and I am having some issues with a dabbling of poll software I have implemented.

Now the poll itself (powered by FPoll 1.1 from phpfront) works plenty fine. The problem is the interface for the page.

Every time I go to submit the first time, it brings a 404 even though the vote is counted. I need it to show the poll results first time every time.

Yet I have caught a bit of a snag, I am trying to figure out where it is busted but I thought maybe a second (or third) opinion may help.

<div><form>Now is it working?<br> (Form has action="/polls/poll.php"
method="post" for extra parameters)
<br><input> Yes
<br><input> No
<br><input> Why do I care?
<br><input> Because if you do not you die!
<br>
<input> (type="hidden" width="15%" name="refer" value="submit" is for this input)

<input> (type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" class="initial2" for this one)

</form></div>

It looks like that in code and my first thoughts is the last <input> tag. Something about it needs changed first. I am not sure what however off the top of my head.

Note: I write all of my webpages in a text editor, it's just cleaner that way. Additionally, since we are still in development, the poll's contents are just drawn humorously/snarky for the time being.

EDIT:

A better way is simply show the page to show what's not working.

http://www.action22.net/index2.html (Our secondary index page to test edits not yet fully implemented across the site)

DeathRay2K · Commander **Joined**: 01 Sep 2002 **Location**: Canada

What exactly are you expecting it to do that it's not doing?
As far as I can tell, it's working fine, no thanks to your atrocious HTML. Seriously, if you're going to use a text editor, at least make your code clean and standards compliant...

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Team SomeGuy · General **Joined**: 18 Aug 2006

I am expecting it to bring up the results (/polls/poll.php) page first time every time.

I know the HTML is atrocious, the original was built off of FrontPage by the person before!

It's much more readable now than it was 2 weeks ago.

(And we're not yet finished and deployed, it'll be cleaned up in the revisions phase in just under 2 weeks)

DeathRay2K · Commander **Joined**: 01 Sep 2002 **Location**: Canada

It's giving you a 404 because it's taking you to /polls/submit.
I'm telling you to clean up your HTML not because it'll look nicer, but because problems like this are much easier to figure out.

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Dark Templar X · Commander **Joined**: 26 Feb 2009

Instead of 'fixing' anything that's broken. Redo the whole thing. Seriously.

I'd do it for you but I don't do a great deal of freebies anymore. If you don't mind paying out some funds, I'll lend a hand.

Team SomeGuy · General **Joined**: 18 Aug 2006

I already fixed it however. I was working on it this morning.

Dark Templar X · Commander **Joined**: 26 Feb 2009

It needs to redone. I looked over it and wow. Low budget doesn't even begin to describe how bad it is. No offense of course.

I'll shoot you a PM later, TSG, with some ideas and how much I could really help you out...

Team SomeGuy · General **Joined**: 18 Aug 2006

I know it's amateur, why the hell do you think it's part of Senior Project?

Because the organization is a genius at HTML?

It's part of what the University does for some reason. Local community prospects have projects like these and they in turn get done by people like me.

Win-win for everyone is the line of thinking. Local orgs get new IT shit, IT majors like me get real-world experience, University looks good in the process.

By all means shoot me a few tips and pointers if need be. I could use them to clean up what's left in doing the thing.

Dark Templar X · Commander **Joined**: 26 Feb 2009

I bounced you a PM a couple days ago.

The thing I noticed most is that it doesn't look professional. I suppose that's the entire problem...

Team SomeGuy · General **Joined**: 18 Aug 2006

I saw the PM. I know all about stylesheets (were gonna build one this week) and many other pointers you said.

And yes the original website was very amateurly done. By someone with literally no IT background.

Hence why were doing it in the first place!

Dark Templar X · Commander **Joined**: 26 Feb 2009

The problem is FrontPage. Any site made in that is complete garbage.

And technically, you don't need an IT background to write semi-decent HTML code. I looked through the source and it's a poorly formatted mess of shit. And that's part of the reason why I'd like to rend my services for you guys... probably for free too cause I'm nice like that.

CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

Frontpage is like SE2k to modding...