Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Entering Contests
Categories: Art • Technology
I don't typically enter design contests. But, I'm short on cash. And it provided motivation to redesign my site.
The previous design was done because I hated the design before it. I was mostly happy with the last design however, it looked pretty bad in IE and my font choice of Lucida looked beautiful on my Mac and absolutely horrid on every PC that didn't have the font (which would be most of them). I also wasn't fully supporting visitors who had smaller screens than I did. Since part of the site is a fan site for Sixpence I had visitors coming from places were high resolution screens are a little harder to come by. Enter the awesomeness ofJavascript. I happened to read an article a month or two ago about getting the visitor's browser width and feeding them StyleSheet based on the width that is obtained . Why would I want to do that? Basically so that I can make sure the site works whether your screen is at a 640x480 resolution or 1280x1024. The article and the idea isutterly brilliant. However, there was one issue the code the article provides doesn't work quite right in IE. So I go back to the source of the idea The Main in Blue who wrote a similar article. However, there was an issue. His code (which worked in every browser I tested) didn't server up three different style sheets based on three different browser widths like the Particle Tree one did. So I had to edit the code a bit. And thankfully, success.
You can try it out your self by making your browser window smaller or larger. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I could go on but I really should get back to my responsibilities. I hope you like the new design. And I'm going to try to be better at posting semi regularly from now on. I promise. :)
So I used this as an opportunity to design for all of the major browsers.
Posted by Jamie at 01:17 PM
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Nice one, Jamie! How’s things going? (Hmm.. I see the timestamp on this entry is 2:17pm.. :) cool looking new design. like the idea of feeding different CSS for diff. screen sizes.
hope all is well. school is kicking my ... I’ve reached that point where I’m wondering what I was thinking and why I chose to spend the last 2+ months to do what I have been. The subjects are interesting but the quarter system sucks.. too fast, too much information to cram into the brain. I took one too many classes.. 3 is a full load.. I went for 4. For a disciplined student, this might have been manageable. my only mistake was not dropping before it was too late. It’s an elective and I was taking for credit/no-credit. <--- not really a comment on your post.
reiterate.. diggin’ the site design.
Posted by Larry on March 02, 2006 at 04:26 AM
Larry!
Great to hear from you. Yeah, 2:17...I got moved back to the network lab for a little while. :)
Dexter got stuck in the Philippines. They thought he was kidnapping his own kids or something along those lines so he is waiting for the kid’s birth certificates to make it there so he prove he is their dad. Weird.
On school...yeah, but you are that much closer to graduating right? My time at Xerox is almost over now myself. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do until recently but I’ve got a pretty cool job that I’m going to end up with if things go somewhat according to plan. I’ll probably make a post about it or something if it pans out. :)
Glad you like the new design. I’m pretty happy with it at the moment.
Posted by Jamie on March 02, 2006 at 10:37 AM
the gcc command is not working in my MAC OS Terminal.When I type gcc it says command not found..But I can fing gcc folder in /usr/libexec…
Posted by HeyRam on March 16, 2006 at 03:52 AM
Looks good, even on my 240x240 treo screen.
Hi-5
Posted by Ryan on March 17, 2006 at 05:59 PM