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My website is completed..finally.
Posted: 2005-09-05 07:52pm
by brothersinarm
Well my website is finally completed. I started it on june 8, when I returned from my trip to Hong Kong and found that I had no where to share my images online. I went through 3 designs all of them being flash. Now I've converted the one I liked best to html. Just thought I'd share my site with everyone here. What i'm most concerned with is that it's not displaying properly on explorer. If anyone would like to look at my
siteand comment on it I'd really appreciate the feedback. I've also uploaded some of my best pictures that I've taken as wallpaper so feel free to use them as you like.
Posted: 2005-09-05 08:20pm
by Acidburns
Just had a quick browse, seems very smart. You must have spent some time on this! It's simple, smart, efficient. Navigation is clear and straightforward. I like it!
Posted: 2005-09-05 08:24pm
by brothersinarm
Thank you acidburns for your comment. I quite happy someone finds it pleasing. And yes it took months to make. It evolved from earlier designs. Did you use explorer? Was there any problems?
Posted: 2005-09-05 08:26pm
by Qwerty 42
I used explorer and had no problems with it.
edit: I just noticed that was my Ultimate Answer post
Posted: 2005-09-05 08:30pm
by brothersinarm
I used explorer and had no problems with it.
That;s very good to hear. Very good indeed
Posted: 2005-09-05 09:01pm
by DocHorror
Had a quick look
Considering you have your own web-site, would you not consider moving you're blog from blogger. Or is there some advantage to staying?
Posted: 2005-09-05 09:13pm
by brothersinarm
Had a quick look
Considering you have your own web-site, would you not consider moving you're blog from blogger. Or is there some advantage to staying?
Well the university only allotted me 50 megs and I plan to use it all for my picture gallery. And besides it's so easy to blog with blogger I'd rather do it that way.
Posted: 2005-09-05 09:19pm
by DocHorror
Fair enough, i was just interested...
Looks nice btw
Posted: 2005-09-05 09:52pm
by brothersinarm
thanks
Posted: 2005-09-06 12:49am
by Comosicus
That's a very nice website. Congratulations.
Have you made it all by your self? Designing and coding? Are you becoming a web designer? Because you do seem to have the potential.
I find the News flash movie on the left side of the homepage very interesting. It fooled me the first time to think that it is HTML
As nitpicking
-> you could try and alter the :hover state of the links (my a slight change in color), so that the user gets a better feedback while browsing the site. Also, if possible, you could try and change the blog skin to match the site style more.
Overall, on a scale from 1 to 10, I'd give it an 8 - 8.5. It is not very complex, but it does it's job more than satisfactory.
Keep up the good work.
Posted: 2005-09-06 01:12am
by Praxis
It says, "This site has been hacked"...
just kidding
looks nice!
Posted: 2005-09-06 08:35am
by Acidburns
I used Firefox btw, and no problems.
Posted: 2005-09-06 09:00am
by Son of the Suns
brothersinarm, if you want feeback on your design for the website this belongs in G&C, and if you are wanting to advertise the site you should just put a link to it in your sig.
Posted: 2005-09-06 10:30am
by Faram
Nice site
I stold some of those images, great photos!
And slo that steam clock, where did you find that?
Posted: 2005-09-06 01:11pm
by brothersinarm
Have you made it all by your self? Designing and coding? Are you becoming a web designer? Because you do seem to have the potential.
Yes I made the entire site by myself all drawn out in flash. (The site originally in flash and was fully functional and completed.) But then I noticed that it didn't look very good as a flash site since it didn't have any animations. So I copy pasted all the images, lined them up in html and converted it to html. I'm actually not really good with html that is why originally I went with flash. And nope not becoming a web designer. I work far too slowly to ever hope to be hired. but thanks for the vote of confidence
As nitpicking Twisted Evil -> you could try and alter the :hover state of the links (my a slight change in color), so that the user gets a better feedback while browsing the site. Also, if possible, you could try and change the blog skin to match the site style more.
Actually I couldn't figure out how to do the :hover state for the links. It would be nice to change the text color when you move the button over it. Maybe you could post the script? And I'm not even going to bother with the blog. No one will ever read my rants.
It says, "This site has been hacked"...
just kidding Razz looks nice!
brothersinarm, if you want feeback on your design for the website this belongs in G&C, and if you are wanting to advertise the site you should just put a link to it in your sig.
Sorry about that. Thought it fit better as off-topic.
Nice site Smile
I stold some of those images, great photos!
And slo that steam clock, where did you find that?
Thanks I'm glad you like the photos. Don't consider it stealing you can use them! I found that steam clock in Vancouver. Can't remember the street name but it is a famous tourist attraction so it shouldn't be hard to find a map to it. Did you check out the video for the steam clock? Every hour it plays a tune.
Posted: 2005-09-06 05:18pm
by Comosicus
brothersinarm wrote:As nitpicking Twisted Evil -> you could try and alter the :hover state of the links (my a slight change in color), so that the user gets a better feedback while browsing the site. Also, if possible, you could try and change the blog skin to match the site style more.
Actually I couldn't figure out how to do the :hover state for the links. It would be nice to change the text color when you move the button over it. Maybe you could post the script? And I'm not even going to bother with the blog. No one will ever read my rants.
You can use either an external stylesheet or place the code into the header, between the <style> tags. Then you just have to create a definition like this:
Just be sure to place it after the definition for the <a> tag. Also you can remove the alink, link and vlink attributes from the <body> tag.
You can find a nice first-steps tutorial on CSS on
www.w3schools.com
Posted: 2005-09-06 05:44pm
by brothersinarm
Thanks Comosicus. I'll take a look at it and see if I can figure this out. Hopefully it's not too much trouble, otherwise I'm going to be lazy and leave it the way it is.
Posted: 2005-09-06 05:57pm
by Comosicus
brothersinarm wrote:Thanks Comosicus. I'll take a look at it and see if I can figure this out. Hopefully it's not too much trouble, otherwise I'm going to be lazy and leave it the way it is.
For the begining, all you need is to create the CSS stylesheet, add the rules to it, as I showed you (just replace the code color I place with the one you like). Then you can attach the stylesheet to the page using this tag, placed in the header section:
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css">
This assumes the stylesheet is named style.css and it is in the same directory as the file it includes it.
Posted: 2005-09-06 06:03pm
by brothersinarm
Hmm it wasn't too hard. I added the a:hover {color:#ff9900;} between the style tags like you said, changed the color and it works. At least it shows up on my browser. Anyways thanks alot for your help Comosicus. I never thought it could be that simple.
Posted: 2005-09-06 06:05pm
by Comosicus
brothersinarm wrote:Hmm it wasn't too hard. I added the a:hover {color:#ff9900;} between the style tags like you said, changed the color and it works. At least it shows up on my browser. Anyways thanks alot for your help Comosicus. I never thought it could be that simple.
No problem
On the long run, it is more convenient to use a stylesheet, as it allows you to make a change that is reflected on the entire site.