My Portfolio Site (90% Complete)

ARC9.NET

Been working on this for about 6 weeks:

All CSS, XHTML Transitional, and most graphics are in the lovely .png format :D

Thoughts?

#164976

WoW! Cool! I like that style! :lol:

#164983

The scrolling box on the left doesn't work in safari. About 25px of the right of it doesn't scroll with the rest. :)

#165012

very nice site dude (Y)

#165024

well done.

why dont you get some flash action in the back section?

:) it would be sweet.

#165039

nice :)

#165045

That's a fairly nice site...

I would make a couple of comments, though (which is no surprise to the regulars, I'm sure).

You've got buttons for XHTML 1.0 and CSS compliance - make them links and prove it to us!

Your home page (images included) is somewhere around the 200+KiB mark - this took almost a two seconds to fully download on my broadband internet connection - I would guess it'd take about 20 seconds on dialup (if they're lucky) - you might want to make it a little less image heavy, or conpress the images a little more, or something...

The left navigation is, whilst cool, a usability nightmare - the buttons aren't obvious enough, and I didn't even realise they were scrolling controls until I rolled over them.

The top navigation - you might want to think about doing one of two things with the images here - either ensure that they're preloaded (otherwise your site looks sluggish, even on broadband), or consider using "CSS no-preload rollovers".

All that said, it's a nice looking site, just a little too heavy on the images for my tastes. Kudos on the XHTML/CSS, but, as Contra says "Real men validate XHTML Strict".

#165109

Thanks for the comments guys, I will consider optimizing the images further. As far as the scrolling blog not working in Safari, it seems fine on my iBook... <_

#165199

Weird. I still get it.

#165270

Originally posted by "Contra/Stevie"

Real men validate XHTML Strict

LOL That's great.

I'll agree on the css rollover comment. Here's another article on rollovers just to help drive the point home. :D

#165291

Weird. I still get it.

Hmm, that doesn't make sense, like I said it works on my iBook....

Another thing is, those boxes are divs, which shouldn't, by any reasoning, split like that. There must be, somehow a bug in certain versions of Safari, or some plugin/software you installed is casing it.

I will look in to it further but there is nothing in the code that I can think of that would cause such a thing :(

#165505

Originally posted by Stevie BM@May 20 2004, 03:53 PM

I would guess it'd take about 20 seconds on dialup (if they're lucky)

Just cleared my chache and times it to load i clocked 35seconds on my 56k =O

According to a guy I talk to in irc I dun even have hair on my nut but I am a real man 'cause I validate xHTML Strict

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

Take a peak :smartass:

#169101

Originally posted by dewy@May 29 2004, 10:43 AM

According to a guy I talk to in irc I dun even have hair on my nut but I am a real man 'cause I validate xHTML Strict

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

Take a peak :smartass:

Oh no you didn't!

Tentative validation is barely validation at all :rolleyes:

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