Alilmstudios

Yo homies...

My new site, theres some interesting reading there if your bored and interested in my projects. You can find out about the progress of all of em and the now unveiled Tabber 2 :who's your daddy:

So go go go soldiers...

~alilm

Oh and tell me what you think of my l33t design skills lol

#89357

Looks great, nice banner at the top, and underneath its really simple to navigate

Great work on your site with the lovely apps.

#89358

Quick, simple, and efficient design.

Although, I have two suggestions:

1- a little bit of space in between the "Latest Project" and "Other Projects" colums would make it a little more visually appealing, just some padding space, ala 10px or so.

2- perhaps a larger info page for your finished products, with screenshots and a more detailed description and/or FAQs would help people in deciding whether or not they wanted to test out your applications.

Other than those two little things, I have no complaints. Very cool.

#89361

Things I'd do:

Get rid of HTML tables - use CSS2 positioning instead
Add a doctype
Make it fully XHTML and CSS2 compliant

Other than that, not bad, but the layout is a lil' bit on the confusing side >.<

#89368

Originally posted by Stevie BM@Dec 15 2003, 01:23 PM

Make it fully XHTML and CSS2 compliant

Wow, Stevie, you've been promoting XHTML and CSS2 lately the way Contra promotes Linux... do recent browsers even fully support CSS1 yet? I remember having some compatibility problems amongst IE-based browsers with even some simple CSS.

Personally, being a programmer who loves structure to his code, I totally agree with you that XHTML and CSS2 are the way to go, but I'm always worried that things using CSS styles are going to show up wonky on different peoples' browsers.

#89370

Originally posted by Cerebral@Dec 15 2003, 07:38 PM
Wow, Stevie, you've been promoting XHTML and CSS2 lately the way Contra promotes Linux... do recent browsers even fully support CSS1 yet? I remember having some compatibility problems amongst IE-based browsers with even some simple CSS.

Personally, being a programmer who loves structure to his code, I totally agree with you that XHTML and CSS2 are the way to go, but I'm always worried that stuff positioned in CSS are going to show up wonky on different peoples' browsers.

The only browsers you really ever have "real" XHTML/CSS issues with are the v3 browsers (the just plain don't support CSS et al., but they also have, collectively less than 0.5% of worldwide usage), and Nutscrape 4, the biggest insult to the web ever made.

I've been promoting it so much because it's so good - I looked into it a few months, and I've not looked back since. OK, so it's a bit of a pain to not support NS4, but it's possible to make the page much more usable in XHTML and CSS2 than in HTML 4, and you can make pages smaller on average, because you don't have the mess in every page that tables create, and all your styling goes into one (cacheable) file.

There are a few (very minor) differences between rendering in IE/Moz/whatever recent browsers, but they're typically minor, unless you're really anal (I got into a pseudo-row with Timmie because he was insistant that IE users shouldn't have to put up with 2 extra pixels' height on the homepage ).

#89374

I always have a hell of a time centering content on a page using CSS.. even using the align: center or whichever it is.

As well, I've always wondered, what the heck's the difference between a DIV and a SPAN?

#89376

Originally posted by Cerebral@Dec 15 2003, 07:47 PM
I always have a hell of a time centering content on a page using CSS.. even using the align: center or whichever it is.

As well, I've always wondered, what the heck's the difference between a DIV and a SPAN?

I will concede that centralisation is what We Who Are In The Know About XHTML and CSS2 call "A Bugger".

As for divs and spans (XHTML is all lowercase, remember? ), spans are inline, divs aren't. In other words, a div will be on a seperate line to anything before or after it, wherease a span will be on the same line (unless you put brs around it).

#89377

Originally posted by Stevie BM@Dec 15 2003, 01:50 PM
I will concede that centralisation is what We Who Are In The Know About XHTML and CSS2 call "A Bugger".

As for divs and spans (XHTML is all lowercase, remember? ), spans are inline, divs aren't. In other words, a div will be on a seperate line to anything before or after it, wherease a span will be on the same line (unless you put brs around it).

Yeah, to center stuff, I remember I actually had to use the old-school

tags surrounding a

..

And thanks for the clarification, and yes, I know, xhtml is lowercase, I'm not used to that yet, because my first programming ever was in BASIC where everything is capital, and when I started writing HTML I just naturally capitalized everything. I've had a few years of capital-writing html, so it's tough switching.