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Hi all, I'm hard at work on my new (and first) website so I'd love to know what you all think of it.

so point your browser to http://www.sputnikkproductions.com

and let me know what you think. I'm still adding the content so it's not finished yet.

Nice navigation interface, it loads slightly slow, perhaps a slow server... I would preffer for the whole thing to be in the centre of the page, it is bezzare to get it up completely. It is stack up and it doesn't help. Colours are a bit washed to me.

dp

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well done, good job and nice design
it loads very fast on my 56k thinband line so that's probably an inter-conti issue what Nestor experiences - worms occupying routers and creeping through cables ???
I'll check the music when on broadband in the office but your graphic stuff is mighty impressive, hats off !

keep it up, Tom

Very nice, overall!

It felt a little uncomfortable having the main text area over to the right hand side (for ease of reading purposes) - as Nestor said, having it centred might work better.

Also, the 'News' frame seems to get in the way a little bit where it is ... if the main frame were centred then it might look better as a tall, slim left-hand-side or right-hand-side frame.

I also agree with the comment that, overall the graphics look a little washed...it doesn't necessarily need changes to the existing graphics but perhaps something like a gently contrasting colour e.g. as the background to the text frames (the news one perhaps). The blue on white text also lends to the light graphical feel...

No problems with load time - it came up very quickly for me. I grabbed the 8.4 MB "the_yellow_planet" mp3 in about 1 min 15 secs - pretty fast!

2p spent.

Royston

Hi,

I like the site but...
(You asked for comments )

- I would prefere it 800 points wide

And that's the only thing I would change.

A tip:

- BTW I have to do it, too: in the 'contact me' part you should make a not direct e-mail address available, I mean mailto: xx'at'yyy'dot'com (or something similar) would be better for you. Background: a friend of mine who is a net specialist told me that some spam bots search the web for things looking like email addresses and if it sees such then it adds the link to its database to attack you with unwanted mail. If you write this workaround-typo in the href (mailto:xxx'at'yyy'dot'com) then it will not understand it

On 2004-05-12 18:19, Nestor wrote:
Nice navigation interface, it loads slightly slow, perhaps a slow server... I would preffer for the whole thing to be in the centre of the page, it is bezzare to get it up completely. It is stack up and it doesn't help.

I'm not quite sure what you mean. The page site should be centered in the page. About the loading: I will try to optimise it in the future but right now I'm just trying to get the whole thing to work properly.
btw what resolutions are you guys using?
I must admit I built it on a 1280x1024 screen so it might not look correct in different resolution. I'll check that out too.

On 2004-05-13 04:30, Counterparts wrote:
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I also agree with the comment that, overall the graphics look a little washed...it doesn't necessarily need changes to the existing graphics but perhaps something like a gently contrasting colour e.g. as the background to the text frames (the news one perhaps). The blue on white text also lends to the light graphical feel...

Again, I'm confused. Blue text? Do you mean the links? There is no blue text in the page afaik?? Just simple black on white.

Maybe you can make me a screenshot of how it looks on your screen?

On 2004-05-13 04:43, samplaire wrote:
Hi,

I like the site but...
(You asked for comments )

- I would prefere it 800 points wide

And that's the only thing I would change.

I'll see what I can do.

A tip:

- BTW I have to do it, too: in the 'contact me' part you should make a not direct e-mail address available, I mean mailto: xx'at'yyy'dot'com (or something similar) would be better for you. Background: a friend of mine who is a net specialist told me that some spam bots search the web for things looking like email addresses and if it sees such then it adds the link to its database to attack you with unwanted mail. If you write this workaround-typo in the href (mailto:xxx'at'yyy'dot'com) then it will not understand it

thanks for the tip
I guess it depends on wether you want to risk some spam or you want the people who want to contact you to be able to do so without having to change the addy themselves, which I can understand might be a bit annoying.

If anybody is REALLY interested in contacting you - he will understand it. What I want to say is that you can miss a valuable contact in the flow of spam you receive (considering that you don't know people writing to you as well as names appeared in spam posts are not known for you). Me personally I always clearly state in the e-mail subject who I am the way the person may recognize me or recognize my intrests.

On 2004-05-13 05:46, King of Snake
btw what resolutions are you guys using?

It depends on computer I'm at - in my daily basis I have 4 computers: 2 800x600, 1024x768 and 1152x900. I think 1024x768 becomes a standard these days but 800x600 is what I would do and did on my webpage.

King of Snake wrote:

Again, I'm confused. Blue text? Do you mean the links? There is no blue text in the page afaik?? Just simple black on white.

Maybe you can make me a screenshot of how it looks on your screen?

Sorry, could be a vagary of using Firefox.
My 'default' web page colours are dark blue against a green background...the text on your page (in the text areas) comes out as (a lighter) blue on white.

I can certainly do a screen grab and send it to you by email if you'd like.

Royston

Please do. Also, since I was really just concerned with building the thing in the first place, checking browser compatibility is still on my to-do list. So for now I can only guarantee it will work in IE6

Anyway there's really not much I can do if your browser overrrides the colours of the text (Sorry, but dark blue on green background? You colourblind? )
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King of Snake wrote:

Please do. Also, since I was really just concerned with building the thing in the first place, checking browser compatibility is still on my to-do list. So for now I can only guarantee it will work in IE6

That indeed is the art of building a good web page / site! Getting it to render equally well on IE, Opera, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape...NOT an easy task!

I'll do a grab for you ASAP.

Royston

edit: on its way

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thanks. I'd have to see if there is a way of overriding Mozilla text colour set by the user to "fix" that

On 2004-05-13 05:54, King of Snake wrote:
thanks for the tip
I guess it depends on wether you want to risk some spam or you want the people who want to contact you to be able to do so without having to change the addy themselves, which I can understand might be a bit annoying.

There's a way round this, I think.
This is how I do it on my site anyway:

Where you want the email address to go, paste in the following (with appropriate values changed, of course):

<script language="javascript">
var first = 'ma';
var second = 'il';
var third = 'to:';
var address = 'ben';
var domain = 'nortica';
var ext = 'co.uk';

document.write('<a href="');
document.write(first+second+third);
document.write(address);
document.write('@');
document.write(domain);
document.write('.');
document.write(ext);
document.write('">');
document.write('Ben Walker</a>');
</script>

This way you put the different elements of the mail address into variables, and get the browser to stick all these elements together when it displays the web page. This way, you don't include the email address in the source html, which is what the spambots will be looking at, but the mail address is still included as a usable link in the page which the user views.

Hope that helps,
Ben

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

good to see people doing things.
great job!

My only criticism is that your colours could be a bit more eye catching. The text doesn't bother me and I like the separate update text box.
For a first go, I'm impressed, and as I'm just starting my own 1st attempt at my website, I'm very curious.