[casual_games] What's a good language?

[Robert Headley]

Judging by most myspace profiles, I would say... yeah, limited to a
particularly demographic, but you still want them to visit your site ;)

I suggest you switch to a tabbed interface (yeah bland, but browsable)

something like nifty corners http://pro.html.it/esempio/nifty/
might be useful for you as well.

On 4/14/06, Lionel Barret De Nazaris <lionel.bdn at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Well, for a web site, CSS is mandatory.
>
> I am quite wary of the AJAX hype, but knowing javascript is always good.
> It is a modern language quite different than the class based java & c++.
> It is based on a different paradigm (prototype). Beside it is very
> useful to enhance one's website (without even thinking about AJAX).
>
> Another pick would be python (my personal fav), this one is a
> shapeshifter : you can do OOP if you want, functional, etc...
> it Looks almost bland at first sight, but after a while, you realize it
> is hiding a lot of cool stuff (generator, decorator, etc.). It does have
> have a lot of web creation/management modules (web.py, etc...).
>
> I looked at your site, and i am quite surprised : the blinking stuff is
> quite annoying and i thought it was really a bad idea nowadays to put
> something blinking on a web site. Do you feel it adds something
> sales-wise ? maybe the statement blink=bad is limited to a demographic,
> I wonder.
> L.
>
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 17:20 -0500, Donald Bahlman wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I do so enjoy this group.
> >
> > I have a (maybe not so) simple question to ask.  I am in the process
> > of redesigning my website.  As I am a HTML and Java kind of guy, I
> > have realized that it may be time to expand into another language so
> > we can streamline and do more cool stuff on our site.  (I'd like to
> > kill two birds with one stone: 1) Learn a new language myself, and 2)
> > Rollout the new site with that language.)  Right now our focus is
> > primarily based on the download model.  And it seems we are evolving
> > into more of a portal site as well.
> >
> > So, what would you guys recommend? PHP, ASP, JSP, Perl, AJAX, etc.?
> > or stay with HTML?
> >
> > And what do you guys find useful, fast and flexible on your sites?
> >
> > Any comments would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks everyone!
> >
> > Donald Bahlman, CEO/Founder
> > xBlitz Entertainment
> >
> > www.xblitz.com
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