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Post October 5th, 2005, 4:34 pm

I just finished this site for a composer friend of mine. He's worked on music for CSI, Without A Trace, America's Most Wanted and much more. His resume is quite long.

He wanted a site that was simple, fast loading, yet prfessional looking. I did the layout in Fireworks then sliced and took it to Dreamweaver.

Let me know what you think please.

http://www.scoredog.tv
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Post October 5th, 2005, 4:34 pm

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Post October 5th, 2005, 6:53 pm

You've done a great job designing a professional website for a musician (which can sometimes be tough!) and I can only offer a few suggestions. I would take out the welcome message on the homepage and put pics of Craig's latest album instead. You may want to offer a dropdown menu on the credits page so users don't have to scroll all the way down to see Craig's trailers. Lastly, you want to be careful about putting his work on the site as mp3 downloads. Maybe offer just the middle :30 of the song as download. Overall, though, you did a great job with this cool site.
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Post October 6th, 2005, 4:04 am

It is nice site with good mangment of content. The bottom font used for header is excellent i would like to know the font name used at the bottom of the page.

Over all site give good apealling looking. and the pic of dog is really cool.

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Post October 7th, 2005, 6:51 am

The last few sites I have seen have made me blind, this one however has relived me like clear eyes, wow. Anyways the area below the wonderful pic of the dog could maybe be filled with something. News perhaps? :wink:
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Post October 7th, 2005, 12:30 pm

Thanks guys. It was a fun job that didn't take too long and was fun...

mic check, the page won't be updated enough to call for a NEWs section on that page, originally I wanted him to write a short letter of intro and sign it and we could use that to even out the page, but we were both concerned about putting his signature online.
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Post October 7th, 2005, 5:02 pm

I sent this link to the composer I did the site for, he wanted to post this himself but didn't want to register assuming he'd never be back. :)

Craig Sharmat wrote:
I want to thank Alan for designing my site. I am getting lovely remarks from fellow composers, friends and my agent who is a tough sell. The music at 30 secs length is a good idea but I decided to post longer examples. The pooch is an oil painting of my dog (Dan Meske is the artist) scanned and used as various pics.
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Post October 8th, 2005, 10:55 pm

All browsers on WinXP
IE6 - Opera8.5 - Firefox1.0.7
All maximized

Great consistency between browsers !
Though Opera is giving either a padding or a margin on top & bottom.

Failed validation (Markup) (3 simple missing img alt attributes)
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... edog.tv%2F

You're not giving me many chances to use my red pen here. :lol:

Code: [ Select ]
body {
    margin-left: 0px;
    margin-top: 0px;
    margin-right: 0px;
    margin-bottom: 0px;
    background-color: #333333;
}
  1. body {
  2.     margin-left: 0px;
  3.     margin-top: 0px;
  4.     margin-right: 0px;
  5.     margin-bottom: 0px;
  6.     background-color: #333333;
  7. }

Is there a reason you're not using ?,
Code: [ Select ]
body {
    margin: 0px;
    background-color: #333;
}
  1. body {
  2.     margin: 0px;
  3.     background-color: #333;
  4. }


I think the Javascript based rollovers could be emulated with somthing like this so they work with no JS.
(this is also about 3/4 of the filesize of the JS)
Code: [ Select ]
/* Set common structure */
a#m1, a#m2, a#m3, a#m4 {
    display: block;
    height: 22px;
    width: 111px;
}

/* Set initial states */
a#m1{background-image: url(header_rollover_r1_c1.jpg);}
a#m2{background-image: url(header_rollover_r2_c1.jpg);}
a#m3{background-image: url(header_rollover_r3_c1.jpg);}
a#m4{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c1.jpg);}

/* Rollover states */
a#m1:hover{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
a#m2:hover{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
a#m3:hover{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
a#m4:hover{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}

/* Spans stop Opera from blanking out on initial rollover */
#a1{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
#a2{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
#a3{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
#a4{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}


    <p>
        <a href="one.html" id="m1"><span id="a1"></span></a>
        <a href="two.html" id="m2"><span id="a2"></span></a>
        <a href="three.html" id="m3"><span id="a3"></span></a>
        <a href="four.html" id="m4"><span id="a4"></span></a>
    </p>
  1. /* Set common structure */
  2. a#m1, a#m2, a#m3, a#m4 {
  3.     display: block;
  4.     height: 22px;
  5.     width: 111px;
  6. }
  8. /* Set initial states */
  9. a#m1{background-image: url(header_rollover_r1_c1.jpg);}
  10. a#m2{background-image: url(header_rollover_r2_c1.jpg);}
  11. a#m3{background-image: url(header_rollover_r3_c1.jpg);}
  12. a#m4{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c1.jpg);}
  14. /* Rollover states */
  15. a#m1:hover{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
  16. a#m2:hover{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
  17. a#m3:hover{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
  18. a#m4:hover{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
  20. /* Spans stop Opera from blanking out on initial rollover */
  21. #a1{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
  22. #a2{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
  23. #a3{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
  24. #a4{background-image: url(header_rollover_r4_c2.jpg);}
  27.     <p>
  28.         <a href="one.html" id="m1"><span id="a1"></span></a>
  29.         <a href="two.html" id="m2"><span id="a2"></span></a>
  30.         <a href="three.html" id="m3"><span id="a3"></span></a>
  31.         <a href="four.html" id="m4"><span id="a4"></span></a>
  32.     </p>


Overall great work. :D
Strong with this one, the sudo is.
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Post October 12th, 2005, 6:06 am

Thanks Joebert - I'll implement those as soon as possible. :)
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Post October 12th, 2005, 11:54 pm

everything looked so perfect and welcoming and then i look to the right and see a picture of you with a make sift studio in the back, i personally think that should be removed it doesnt go with the elligance of your website, it throws everything else off, maybe get a photographer do a photoshoot with an instrument, you want everything to be top quality just like your music. Thats just what i think have a nice day

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