MY web site

bdbodger · Post by **bdbodger** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:22 am

I am having trouble deciding how the look of my site should look . Is this layout any good ?

k47a · Post by **k47a** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:20 am

[you might get eye cancer from that colour mix]
the background is nice per se i guess but somewhat dull and distracting - the blue windows on it have the effect of a k1 kick right where it hurts (in the ocular sense) followed by an uppercut - technical knockout in the first round.
what i do like however is the borders (esp. the grey part) and the way the site is arranged - maybe keep the background as simple, windows more transparent, add a pin up... no wait, typo, i meant flowery vector ornaments or something - as mj once put it: sex it up!

peace!

ps: it speaks for itself that i just now realized how well camouflaged the download button is...

bdbodger · Post by **bdbodger** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:27 am

There is another little bit at the bottom as well it was off page .I probably won't have the view button in the final version unless I change it all again . This just a design the page isn't up yet .

And the front page ( I sexed it up a bit too

) Just Kidding but have you any links to what you concider to be a good page ?

Post by **Rookie One.pl** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:20 pm

bdbodger wrote:have you any links to what you concider to be a good page ?

https://map.moh-central.net/

Killerdude · Post by **Killerdude** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:01 pm

Rookie One.pl wrote:
bdbodger wrote:have you any links to what you concider to be a good page ?
https://map.moh-central.net/

v31
rofl

k47a · Post by **k47a** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:11 pm

bdbodger wrote:have you any links to what you concider to be a good page ?

here's one site that i really like - from the design point of view (as well as the contents):

http://www.bittbox.com/

*edit* in fact, axion's site looks great too imo
http://www.freewebs.com/axion9/index.htm

211476 · Post by **211476** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:13 am

i guess it looks good for a website making rookie. Except the layout looks like its a few years old. And JMO: Don't use your .MAP sig at the top Use something longer

bdbodger · Post by **bdbodger** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:26 am

The graphic at bitbox is nice not sure what I would do since I am not artistic . One thing to concider is that some of the pages will be dynamiclly created . I will have one or more "Master pages" for the over all look but as far as showing my mods for download that part will be dynamically created . Right now it does that from reading the files in a certain directory but I will also have a txt or xml file that lists the images and descriptions of the mods . That is not really what I am asking though I am looking for the right look and feel right now . Would a longer page you have to scroll down be better than a box you have to scroll ? Do you like a lot of images or just some simple colors . How do you want the information presented to you ?

211476 · Post by **211476** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:39 pm

What I like is a clickable thumbnail of the mod on the left, and next to it some info and D/L link
When you click the thumbnail it should take you to some screenshots.

bdbodger · Post by **bdbodger** » Mon May 05, 2008 7:05 am

Well the first draft of my new site is up although it has issues with browser compatability . Works fine in IE but not in Opera and I don't have firefox or any other browser to test with right now .

211476 · Post by **211476** » Tue May 06, 2008 1:07 am

Looks fine to me. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.14

bdbodger · Post by **bdbodger** » Tue May 06, 2008 1:24 am

Well looks better than opera but not right the blue label is longer and the heights are a bit better in IE but I am working on it getting closer .

211476 · Post by **211476** » Tue May 06, 2008 3:13 am

I tried it on IE 6 and none of the files showed up

bdbodger · Post by **bdbodger** » Tue May 06, 2008 6:08 am

Well looks fine in IE7 but I am changing it any way moving away from <div> tags and dynamically creating tables instead . Seems ok in fact for some strange reason seems to work better in Opera than in IE go figure . It's too bad all browers where not compatable with each other would make things a lot easier .

Post by **Rookie One.pl** » Tue May 06, 2008 2:47 pm

I'd just like to point out that micro$oft is to blame for a vast majority of these incompatibilities. They just blatantly disregard the W3C standards, by implementing their own, proprietary extensions to (X)HTML, among other things. Plus their CSS support sucked ass ever since they introduced it.

Firefox and Opera, on the other hand, abide by the standards quite closely.