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Website redesign

January 24, 2006 at 12:46 PM

Here's something I've been working on for a while. I've done a complete redesign of my website, and have just loaded it up. Ben Clapton, violinist and composer. Please take a look and let me know what you think.

Also, if there's any webdesigners out there, could you please take a look at the about page in internet explorer. There's a bug which is meaning the last word is repeated down a couple of lines. There's nothing in the code that means it would do that, and it's not doing it in firefox or netscape. It's odd, but I would like to have it not doing it any more.

Verrry nice indeed. Love the soothing colours; and all the links work!
Hi Ben. It renders properly for me in both firefox and IE. No small feat to do with the differences in how they interpret CSS! Looks good!
Duh, sorry I do see what your talking about. I see there's an extraneous div tag there in your code, other than that not sure.
Nice Ben, but as the paranoid one pointed out there is an unclosed div tag there.

Neil

Wow, wow, wow, nice job! envy....
Everything lays out well in Safari.
Very handsome site. I suggest adding a picture, though; people always want to know what the performer looks like. :)
I've taken the extra div out, but it still seems to have the problem on IE. Picture of me is coming once I get a picture of me that I like :)
Ben,

I really like your new website. The layout is very good (visually appealing) and easy to read. Some specifics:

• The navigation links on the left sidebar are unambiguous. However, I got confused on the center part and clicked in places where I thought links would be. For example, on the home page, I tried to click on Ben Clapton – violin and on the dark blue square at the end of the light blue bar. After all, links are in blue, right? Of course, I know better, but I wonder if some of your other readers might be confused initially in the same way.


• I love the floating question mark. How did you do that?


• I liked your frequent use of comments in the code. I’ll revise my website accordingly.


• I really like your thanks. I especially like the way you singled Aleesha out and the phrase for supporting him in his dreams. That is so important. It prompted me to think about who I would thank in my life.


• On your home page, you said In the resources page, you will find links to … my friends websites. I didn’t see any. If you put in a link to my website, I’ll put in a link to yours. ;-)


From ES The Paranoid
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 2:57 AM
Ben go to w3c.org and run the site through their validators, both for html and css. Since you're including document type info in the page header, it will validate it accordingly.

From Neil Cameron
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 3:08 AM
I ran it thru the w3c validators already and both the html and css pass cleanly. I suspect the extra "can." in IE is a CSS thing, but what exactly eludes me. :)

Neil


From Neil Cameron
Posted on January 25, 2006 at 3:09 AM

Trying to end Paula's unclosed ul indent.

Neil

thanks all for your comments. Pauline, yes, I will include links to my friends sites (including yours), i just forgot about it. :$

Its an odd problem, so I think I'll e-mail a few people and see what I can find out. Thanks all for your help.

IE sucks and doesn't follow standards, who knows. Maybe email the guy who actually wrote the code. I'm sure he stared at it for a hundred hours while putting it together heheh.
Actually IE is off the hook. Change in your column2 definition

padding: 12 40 30 9

to padding: 12 0 30 9

and see the extraneous 'can' disappear.

Please don't post more technical problems. I'm like a crack addict with this stuff and can't stop until it's resolved. ;)

OK, ES the Paranoid. If I ever want to drive you crazy, I know what to do.
Careful now. Normal billing rate is $175/hr ;).