My website is completed..finally.

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2005-09-05 07:52pm

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.

Acidburns · Post by **Acidburns** » 2005-09-05 08:20pm

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!

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2005-09-05 08:24pm

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?

Qwerty 42 · Post by **Qwerty 42** » 2005-09-05 08:26pm

I used explorer and had no problems with it.

edit: I just noticed that was my Ultimate Answer post

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2005-09-05 08:30pm

I used explorer and had no problems with it.

That;s very good to hear. Very good indeed

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2005-09-05 09:01pm

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?

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2005-09-05 09:13pm

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.

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2005-09-05 09:19pm

Fair enough, i was just interested...

Looks nice btw

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2005-09-05 09:52pm

thanks

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2005-09-06 12:49am

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.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2005-09-06 01:12am

It says, "This site has been hacked"...

just kidding

looks nice!

Acidburns · Post by **Acidburns** » 2005-09-06 08:35am

I used Firefox btw, and no problems.

Son of the Suns · Post by **Son of the Suns** » 2005-09-06 09:00am

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.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-09-06 10:30am

Nice site

I stold some of those images, great photos!

And slo that steam clock, where did you find that?

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2005-09-06 01:11pm

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.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2005-09-06 05:18pm

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:

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a:hover {
color:#ff9900;
}

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

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2005-09-06 05:44pm

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.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2005-09-06 05:57pm

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.

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2005-09-06 06:03pm

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.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2005-09-06 06:05pm

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.