New Portfolio Website up!

[DodgeR]

Finished redoing my new portfolio website, which took me about 2-3 weeks here the final result.

http://www.thedumpvalve.com

Comments, Crits and ideas welcomed

DodgeR

[Privateer Puddin']

tested in both Opera and IE

In Opera, a section is a lighter purple and looks wierd, fine in IE however, can provide a screenshot if needed

[Eggie]

Those pictures are Nifty McSpiffy!

[OneThinkingGal and ._.]

Nifty Dodgy!

The only complain I have is that the left side navigation seems rather empty atm.

[makri]

A crippling flaw is that the gallery doesn't work unless JavaScript is enabled. Size wise it's not awfully bad, being slightly under 70 KB, and the html is mostly valid.

user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT; en; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030311 Beonex/0.8.2-stable

Improvement suggestions:

- Leave out all JavaScript - scripting is supposed to be done at server side, not at the client end.
- Leave out the frames. Everything that can be done with frames can be done better without them.

[DodgeR]

Custard: cheers, dont know anything about opera myself but i seen a poll somewhere where something like 90+% users use ie so i optimized for that:-)

Eggie: Thanks! still room for improvement

OneThinkingGal: heh cheers, your right it does look empty was supposed to add extras in there:-)

Makri: Yeh valid point about the javascript dont think its crippling though, most people have java enabled, not had any probs yet and about 100 people have seen the site.  Might provide a link for non java users in the future.  As far as the iframe goes im sure there are better ways of doing it right now this serves my purpose fine.  

Thanks for the comments so far:-)

[makri]

I think my point was that "optimizing" a page for certain target audience (eg. IE5.0+ users who have JavaScript enabled and who run their browser on 1024 x 768 screen maximized) is generally considered to be bad design choice.

It's quite easy to make a page that reaches 100% of the users and still looks good. Regrettably small number of web site designers want to go for it though.

According to TheCounter's global statistics, 86% of users leave their JavaScript enabled (and 84% have Java enabled, but Java has nothing to do with JavaScript).

I didn't want to sound that much html purist

[DodgeR]

like i said before its a fair point an ill take it into account, i dont have the resources to code my site to accomodate everyone.   I can understand why people do it but personally i dont have the technical knowledge or know how to do it, so far no one has not been able to view my site that alone speaks for itself.

hey if you offering to optimise my site for me i wont say no:-)

But thanks for taking the time to reply.

Dodger

[Synthetique]

i think you should name the pictures.. under them there should be names.. would look good

[DodgeR]

synthetique: Hey i wish i knew how to do that.  Its some javascript function and to be honest i didnt even know what javascript was until about 4 days ago so i dont know how to get my text in with the picture :'(

If anyone thinks they can help me with this i would be well pleased