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kick52 · Sep 11, 2006, 12:37 PM

Hi.

I recently got a new domain for my website and I have redone it. Please check it out. Its made all on my (sig) mac.

There isn't much new stuff on there, but check out the archive on the animation page.

Have fun: www.kick52.com

kick52

bstone · Sep 11, 2006, 12:48 PM

This is perhaps the best website I've ever seen!

kick52 · Sep 11, 2006, 12:50 PM

Also, can you tell me if the Flash banner works in Safari. Mine shows a blue box.

RAILhead · Sep 11, 2006, 12:55 PM

SirCastor · Sep 11, 2006, 01:00 PM

If I may (and if I may not, I'll do it anyway...) suggest some things:

Abandon Frames, The only purpose in your layout for them is to maintain your header at the top. Your visitors will see that when they arrive. They'll see where the navigation is, and if they need it, they'll go back up. Taking it out will give the site a less crowded feeling.

Is that uptime dynamic? It probably could be. That'd be cool.

Peter · Sep 11, 2006, 01:05 PM

MS Frontpage? :>

rickey939 · Sep 11, 2006, 01:06 PM

Bookmarked.

kick52 · Sep 11, 2006, 01:12 PM

Originally Posted by SirCastor

If I may (and if I may not, I'll do it anyway...) suggest some things:

Abandon Frames, The only purpose in your layout for them is to maintain your header at the top. Your visitors will see that when they arrive. They'll see where the navigation is, and if they need it, they'll go back up. Taking it out will give the site a less crowded feeling.

Is that uptime dynamic? It probably could be. That'd be cool.

thanks, maybe i will go back to no frames.

and also, what uptime?

Eug · Sep 11, 2006, 01:21 PM

Hmmm...

SirCastor · Sep 11, 2006, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by kick52

thanks, maybe i will go back to no frames.

and also, what uptime?

You mention the uptime of your G4 in the About page.

Peter · Sep 11, 2006, 01:33 PM

wow CRTs :o

kick52 · Sep 11, 2006, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by Peter

MS Frontpage? :>

no, Dreamweaver

kick52 · Sep 11, 2006, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by Eug

Hmmm...

yer, that animation got real f*cked up when i exported it as gif. should remove that.

kick52 · Sep 11, 2006, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by SirCastor

You mention the uptime of your G4 in the About page.

that would be really cool, but i dont know how to go abou doing that. especially when my mac isnt always on. maybe i could write a terminal command that dumps the uptime command to a text file, and then runs a PHP script that uploads that file to my site, then a PHP line of code on my main page reads that file of the uploaded dump.

Peter · Sep 11, 2006, 01:46 PM

uptimes are overrated, unless its over 100 days its kinda irrelvant

Dark Helmet · Sep 11, 2006, 01:48 PM

What... in the world... is the point of people going to that site?

No content, no design = Who cares.

kick52 · Sep 11, 2006, 01:51 PM

i have fun making my animations and stuff, so why not?

Dark Helmet · Sep 11, 2006, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by kick52

i have fun making my animations and stuff, so why not?

Hey by all means go nuts. Just don't expect anyone to be blown away when you tell people to check out the re-design.

SirCastor · Sep 11, 2006, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

What... in the world... is the point of people going to that site?

No content, no design = Who cares.

This describes most of the internet

demograph68 · Sep 11, 2006, 02:00 PM

Try WordPress.

iREZ · Sep 11, 2006, 02:15 PM

i have a fever...and the only cure is more stick figure gifs getting severely beaten.

SirCastor · Sep 11, 2006, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by kick52

that would be really cool, but i dont know how to go abou doing that. especially when my mac isnt always on. maybe i could write a terminal command that dumps the uptime command to a text file, and then runs a PHP script that uploads that file to my site, then a PHP line of code on my main page reads that file of the uploaded dump.

The system() function in PHP will run a CLI command:
PHP: system - Manual

turtle777 · Sep 11, 2006, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

What... in the world... is the point of people going to that site?
No content, no design = Who cares.

Sounds like the Lounge.

Oh, no, wait, we have design. Nevermind

-t

kick52 · Sep 11, 2006, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by SirCastor

The system() function in PHP will run a CLI command:
PHP: system - Manual

thanks, i can now get my webhost servers uptime status.
I now need to make php to dump that to a file and upload it.
i'll look tomorrow.

sek929 · Sep 11, 2006, 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

What... in the world... is the point of people going to that site?

No content, no design = Who cares.

Me-OW!

Oisín · Sep 11, 2006, 03:38 PM

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

Sounds like the Lounge.

Oh, no, wait, we have design. Nevermind

-t

Yeah, just no re-design!

besson3c · Sep 11, 2006, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by SirCastor

The system() function in PHP will run a CLI command:
PHP: system - Manual

So will exec.

besson3c · Sep 11, 2006, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by kick52

thanks, i can now get my webhost servers uptime status.
I now need to make php to dump that to a file and upload it.
i'll look tomorrow.

Why would PHP have to dump it to a file and upload it if you want to check the uptime of the machine it is running on?

besson3c · Sep 11, 2006, 04:28 PM

I hope the spammers don't find your Flash mailer thing. You might want to protect it.

SirCastor · Sep 11, 2006, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Why would PHP have to dump it to a file and upload it if you want to check the uptime of the machine it is running on?

I'm not sure that his machine is where his site is being hosted off of. (I haven't looked or anything) If it is, no problem, if it's not then he needs some intermediary to grab the file.

besson3c · Sep 11, 2006, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by SirCastor

I'm not sure that his machine is where his site is being hosted off of. (I haven't looked or anything) If it is, no problem, if it's not then he needs some intermediary to grab the file.

Yes... the retrieval and display of the file contents could be pretty easily handled right in PHP too.

ghporter · Sep 11, 2006, 04:59 PM

Mine is better!

GHPorter Home

Buckaroo · Sep 11, 2006, 05:55 PM

Very nice kick52. I have one suggestion. You might want to format the About page so the pictures and text stay locked in. As I resize my browser, the text and pictures move all over the place.

imitchellg5 · Sep 11, 2006, 06:01 PM

Cute iMac. Messy desk. Ugly CRT. Baaaaaaaaaaad. Website. Cute iMac. Lots of Macs. Sawtooth. Gooooooooood.

turtle777 · Sep 11, 2006, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by Oisín

Yeah, just no re-design!

MacNN is being de-designed since 1998. Or was it 1999 ? Who cares...

-t

kick52 · Sep 12, 2006, 01:01 AM

Originally Posted by SirCastor

I'm not sure that his machine is where his site is being hosted off of. (I haven't looked or anything) If it is, no problem, if it's not then he needs some intermediary to grab the file.

Well I have my website hosted by Z-Host, not on my mac.

i mean, i could get a script to run every 15 minutes, which runs a PHP script on my mac and then uploads the results.

Peter · Sep 12, 2006, 05:13 AM

why bother?

kick52 · Sep 12, 2006, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by Peter

why bother?

because i enjoy doing it. (as i said earlier.)

CMYKid · Sep 12, 2006, 04:17 PM

template monster

I think we'd all Paypal you a few bucks to pay for it.

SirCastor · Sep 12, 2006, 04:22 PM

Would you all Paypal me a few bucks to pay for something?

CMYKid · Sep 12, 2006, 04:28 PM

depends if what you have now is as seizure inducing as that site.

KeriVit · Sep 12, 2006, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by CMYKid

template monster

I think we'd all Paypal you a few bucks to pay for it.

Seriously, I know nothing about web design, only graphics and advertising, but could I use a template like that and get away with it or would I be better off finding someone?

Kick, keep goin, and listen to the boys, you're on the right track.

CMYKid · Sep 12, 2006, 09:46 PM

pretty much, yeah. it depends on the template of course, but theyve made it pretty simple.

kick52 · Sep 14, 2006, 05:07 AM

-UPDATE-

I have switched to wordpress. It looks so much better, and its easier to manage.

The only thing is, Safari doesn't do the WYSIWYG editor or the quicktag toolbar, so it really sucks doing it manually.

Though i downloaded Firefox, and I can see the quicktag, but no WYSIWYG editor, I'll fiddle about with it later.

I still havent made wordpress the main page, but i will do so later. until now, check it out.

kick52.com

RAILhead · Sep 14, 2006, 06:25 AM

Just get a blog and be done with it.

besson3c · Sep 14, 2006, 06:58 AM

Originally Posted by kick52

-UPDATE-

I have switched to wordpress. It looks so much better, and its easier to manage.

The only thing is, Safari doesn't do the WYSIWYG editor or the quicktag toolbar, so it really sucks doing it manually.

Though i downloaded Firefox, and I can see the quicktag, but no WYSIWYG editor, I'll fiddle about with it later.

I still havent made wordpress the main page, but i will do so later. until now, check it out.

Welcome To Kick52.com

The editors should display fine in Firefox... they do for me.

You might want to look into URL rewriting via mod_rewrite to replace WP generated URLs with clearer URLs that do not use wp02 as their parent directory.

SirCastor · Sep 14, 2006, 09:08 AM

The color scheme on that page is MUCH better, change the rest of the site to match that.

Landos Mustache · Sep 14, 2006, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by kick52

-UPDATE-

I have switched to wordpress. It looks so much better, and its easier to manage.

The only thing is, Safari doesn't do the WYSIWYG editor or the quicktag toolbar, so it really sucks doing it manually.

Though i downloaded Firefox, and I can see the quicktag, but no WYSIWYG editor, I'll fiddle about with it later.

I still havent made wordpress the main page, but i will do so later. until now, check it out.

kick52.com

That does look better but you should really have more contrast... something OTHER than blue.

If you are good at coding you can always have someone design it for you and you do the code.

iREZ · Sep 14, 2006, 12:02 PM

looks WAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY better.

KeriVit · Sep 14, 2006, 12:14 PM

Much better kick52