Opinions/comments on my band's website...

#11

kchayka wrote:

Quote:

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign
(site seems down at the moment)

That's too bad. I have a fear it's gone forever now, as it was
graciously hosted for free at AffordableHost.

Has anyone heard if AffordableHoser is discontinuing the hosting?

Quote:

I'm sure you heard what happened to AH, if you weren't one of the
unfortunates directly affected by its takeover/demise.

Yes, I have. I do have one site hosted there, but so far the only
problem has been the auto-billing, which seems to get lost about every
three months. One of these days, I shall move it. Maybe I shall entice
my client into meeting a loose moose.

Quote:

Maybe the wayback machine can help...
URL:http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign

Ah, yes of course. Directly to the page:
<URL:http://web.archive.org/web/20041012213559/http://allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign>

--
-bts
-When motorcycling, never follow a pig truck

#12

drummerdusk (AT) netscape (DOT) net wrote:

Quote:

It's the biggest size possible without having it covering essential
content of the site in 800*600. Any tips? I'd like to keep it because
you lose the top menu when you scroll down and the bigger pages.

At 600 X 800, if you increase the text size a couple of notches, the
'floating' menu starts to hang below the window bottom. Increase text
size a couple more notches and it's gone completely. If you want it to
remain visible, you can't use ems to space it away from the window edge,
'cause you don't know how many ems high / wide the window will be.

Chris Beall

#13

kchayka wrote:

Quote:

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign
(site seems down at the moment)

Has anyone heard if AffordableHoser is discontinuing the hosting?

Whois says the domain name expired Oct 13, so I guess it's moot.

Oh. Too bad. :-(

--
-bts
-When motorcycling, never follow a pig truck

#14

Okay, thanks for the comments. Most of them were very useful and
justified. So far I chenged the following:
- removed any font-face settings
- put the style code in a seperate file
- changed the color of the links (and I absolutely hate it)
- removed the validation buttons, although now it actually validates :-p
- removed the "floating" navigation bar

Changes are only done on my testserver for now. Results can be seen at
http://dusk-metal.kicks-ass.org/site/

Any better now according to web standards?

I liked the previous one better...

Tommy

#15

TomB wrote:

Quote:

Okay, thanks for the comments. Most of them were very useful and
justified. So far I chenged the following:
- removed any font-face settings
- put the style code in a seperate file

Couple of hints. Consolidate. Put the font-size: 100% on the body
element, and remove it elsewhere in the style sheet. That's the Cascade
of Cascading Style Sheets.

Remove the colors from the HTML
<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#CCCCCC"
and add them to the CSS as well
background-color: #000; color: #ccc;

Quote:

- changed the color of the links (and I absolutely hate it)

...though it is legible.

Quote:

- removed the validation buttons, although now it actually validates :-p
- removed the "floating" navigation bar

Great news! :-)

Quote:

Changes are only done on my testserver for now. Results can be seen at
http://dusk-metal.kicks-ass.org/site/

Any better now according to web standards?

Much better looking! Really, I like it (and I'm a jazz fan).

Quote:

I liked the previous one better...

Well, sure ... <g>

--
-bts
-When motorcycling, never follow a pig truck

#16

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Quote:

Much better looking! Really, I like it (and I'm a jazz fan).

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I made a heavy metal site

that appeals to Jazzers O_o

To quote one of the most influential Americans from the nineties: Doh!!!

Btw, I just figured out what you guys mean by outdated code... It will
be a lot of work to get this thing to validate against strict 4.1 goddammit.

#17

TomB wrote:

Quote:

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Much better looking! Really, I like it (and I'm a jazz fan).

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I made a heavy metal site
that appeals to Jazzers O_o

<lol> (he says, cranking up Coltrane...)

Quote:

To quote one of the most influential Americans from the nineties:
Doh!!!

Who?

Quote:

Btw, I just figured out what you guys mean by outdated code... It
will be a lot of work to get this thing to validate against strict
4.1 goddammit.

...but think of how satisfied you will feel! :-D

--
-bts
-When motorcycling, never follow a pig truck

#18

In article <Pine.LNX.4.62.0510201025130.11767 (AT) ppepc56 (DOT) ph.gla.ac.uk>,
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell (AT) ph (DOT) gla.ac.uk> wrote:

Quote:

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

looks decent in Lynx.

You think so?

I guess decent is too strong a word, but I'm used to seeing much worse.

leo

--
<http://web0.greatbasin.net/~leo/>

#19

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:52:48 +0200, TomB <drumscum (AT) dusk-metal (DOT) kicks-ass.org>
wrote:

Quote:

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Much better looking! Really, I like it (and I'm a jazz fan).

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I made a heavy metal site that
appeals to Jazzers O_o

:-D My favourite is Beethoven (not yet fully ready for Wagner, but I'm getting
there) and guess what... I like the looks of your site too.

--
,-- --<--@ -- PretLetters: 'woest wyf', met vele interesses: ----------.

Quote: