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Post July 29th, 2008, 7:01 pm

Hi everyone, I have recently re-designed my site at http://www.jakeboyles.com , what do you think? Any ideas/opinions? Thanks
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Post July 29th, 2008, 7:21 pm

I like the color scheme and wood header, it makes for a soft feeling that is warm. It makes me want to explore the website. Good job!
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Post July 30th, 2008, 10:54 am

Thanks for the comment!
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Post July 30th, 2008, 11:21 am

Nice design but your graphics are a tad big (Kb). I'm on a nice BB connection and there was still a small but obvious delay in downloading all the images.

Suggest you try and get them all under 10k.

Good luck.

Cheers, Prime... :D

PS> Put your javascript in external file(s).

PPS> I'm viewing in FF 2.* and there some CSS issues with your right hand navigation menu. hard to explain, you need to take a peek.
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Post July 30th, 2008, 11:55 am

Ya, I no about the images, I still working on getting them down, dang png 24s lol. I'm on ff2 and don't see a problem? What exactly is wrong? Thanks :)

Ps. My laptop got sent to dell yesterday along with my HD, so the grahpics parts on a hold right now
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Post July 30th, 2008, 12:02 pm

the words are overlapping, specifically "archive" and others.

also, u have a javascript error. It would appear you're using a prototype syntax but haven't got prototype loaded...

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$(document).ready(function(){
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Post July 30th, 2008, 12:37 pm

Ok Thanks "should" be fixed :)
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Post July 30th, 2008, 12:41 pm

errrrrrm :roll:

CSS issue still active and now you have 2 javascript errors :( You should be able to see them yourself. If you can't see them install the firebug extension.
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Post July 30th, 2008, 12:45 pm

Thats wierd what os are you using? in on xp with firefox 2 and its displaying right, is there anyway you could upload a screenshot. I have also done browsershots.org and firefox displays right on all os's on there
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Post July 31st, 2008, 8:52 am

Excuse me but I didn't read all the comments before posting. Looks nice but a few things that kind of stand out to me, the site is very image heavy, which is cool, but the imagery at the top, ie. the phone, sharpie, etc, don't have any real depth. Again I love the layout, but I think the graphics need a little help. and it doesn't validate. But this is a great start!
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Post July 31st, 2008, 10:02 am

"Thanks for visiting JakeBoyles.com, This site is built using CSS, XHTML, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Wordpress" - and this line of text does not render good in IE7. It looks like a footer line done in CSS which escaped some div . In IE 7 it floats at the right of screen and in resolution 1024x768 I get long horizontal scroll bar.

Otherwise I like it!
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Post July 31st, 2008, 1:40 pm

Hi, Ya im still woring on IE like always lol but all it should take is a float right tag. Thanks!
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Post July 31st, 2008, 6:39 pm

Ok i tried to add depth to the images any better?
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Post August 3rd, 2008, 2:09 pm

Looks really great, I was surprised.

It would be really cool if you knew flash, and could make the unlock button on the iPhone do something... like open up a sort of hidden menu.
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Post August 3rd, 2008, 2:52 pm

Ya, If only I knew Flash, lol I still have some plans for it though
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