Working on my webpage! :D
Mood:
ProductiveWell I finally decided to knuckle down and put together my own little corner on the net. Took me a whole two years to figure out what the hell to do, what with trying to find a name and all. That seemed to be the toughest.
I really do need some advice on the loading speed for the site though. I'm on a cable modem and this thing takes roughly 5-7 seconds to load. But I'm curious how slow it is for those on dial up modems. I've been trying to cut this thing back in how many tiny images need to load, but I'm getting to the point where there is nothing I can remove anymore.
Note: Not all of the site is functioning. The gallery and Info pages are still needing some work, and more links will be added into the Links page. Plus, the contact button doesn't work just yet. I need to figure out which email I want to use and sacrifice to all the email miners.
Also, yes, I know there isn't a garage to be seen! I tried to fiddle with a layout that would be reminscent to a garage but the design was far too cluttered and yucky. Thus I'm trying to keep with a more easy looking layout.
Anyway... Linky linky!
Dragons in my Garage
Please give me some feedback.
I'm looking specifically for these following things:
Loading time Navigation Layout Readible text Font problemsI ended up using Jenkins v2.0 font for some of the text since I didn't want more images to load. What are people's thoughts on this? Would it be too annoying for those who don't have that font to read the site? Or people not wanting to install that particular font?
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Ok, a little add on here. I got 90% of the site running, gallery and images included. I've come to the conclusion that I hate Javascript. Friggen thing will not function right, and even though I've been reading tutorials, I still have no grasp over how it works. *sigh*
At any rate, I suppose the seperate window popups will have to do in general. It still functions the same, but I just won't be able to adjust the window size.
Please take a look. Make sure all links work ok. It looked good when I went through it, and since there aren't many links I don't think there should be too much trouble.
I'm still open to suggestions on how to improve it.
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UpdateAHAHAHAHAAA!!!! *goes insane*
Got the iFrames to work!
*crawls up walls spaztically*
Only now for some reason the gallery won't show up right now. It keeps wanting to link to the old full page HTML file rather than the iFrame link I keep pointing it to. For now that area isn't working. I'd fix it now, but I'm tired... I'll save that for tomorrow.
And everyone thank you, thank you THANK YOU for all your imput, advice, comments, and feedback!
Check out the site now and see how your loading time is. I hope it's shorter than it was before. OO-------==---o---o---
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and the lower sections. . . maybe you should just make that all one picture and the buttons a css. . . i dont know forgotten most website stuff : P
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42.7% of the teenage population is not completely emo.
If your one of the 57.3% that is, STFU !
91.65% of all statistics are made up on the spot. . .
FvC : [link]
See your one up on me. I've been doing all this through Photoshop. Cutting up my images then loading them into Dreamweaver to do the rest of the tweaking. I still need to figure out how to do Popups for the images since they will have their own windows. I was thinking of doing some Java scripting, at least for the art pages. But I don't know... I'm so inept when it comes to this stuff.
basically a seperate .htm which you can link into your page to have the same features so. . . would cut the loading times for all the rest of the pages once that ones been loaded : o
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42.7% of the teenage population is not completely emo.
If your one of the 57.3% that is, STFU !
91.65% of all statistics are made up on the spot. . .
FvC : [link]
-Loading time: Cool, what that on dial up or DSL?
-Navigation: Yeah I'm hoping to get the gallery up today too. I need to figure out how I'm going to do the popups for the seperate pieces though.
-Layout: I have the same concerns. My monitor resolution is pretty high, 1280x960 or so, and the text does look fairly crunched. However I know that when you first build the site, you're supposed to be working off 800x900 resolution since some people still have old monitors. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this. I could go back and make it at least a little larger, but it would force people to scroll more than usual if they have lower res settings. You can never win in this area. :-/
Text and Font: Good! Unfortunately people who have Photoshop or Illustrator are going to have the fonts (I don't think Microshaft has it with XP or 2000 OS), so those who don't have either Adobe products probably won't be able to see the right font type.
You think it's a good idea to put that font up for download on the site? Adobe might not like that... but it would be a shame not to be able to view all the fonts properly. :-/
Navigation: Very straightforward and clear... excellent.
Layout: Acheives wonderful balance between simplicity and attractiveness. It's functional, but it's artistic. Just one thing; in the news updates the text may get a bit too close to the white boxes. Increasing the amount of padding between the borders and the words may help appearances.
Readible text: No problems here.
Font problems: Or here, either.
Very nice work on this! I can't wait to see content addition and whatnot.
Right now I'm in the process of doing the gallery content, but it's hell trying to get this code to work. I was futzing with javascript earlier, but now all my windows are all screwed up when I have links or images open a new window. *sigh* I hate this stuff...
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"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." Old Irish Proverb
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"Die and you lose, survive and you win, that is my way of the samurai"
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