My latest Waste of Webspace

[Barrucadu]

An attempt at a personal site. yes I KNOW the padding on the right side is wrong. If anyone can think of why, i'd be grateful.

http://me.yarrt.com

 

[Mike]

Simple, straight forward, but could need some "action". It's too plain to be attractive, also, if you've done coding work, display the sites you've worked for. If a client comes along, they like to see the functionality of your work, not just a mention.
In terms of design, i'd reduce the width of the screen and place the content in the center.

Other than that, i like the subtle coloring, it's not screaming. Again, even though the colors aren't screaming, you still needed some action going on, it would help.

 

[music_man]

Hi.

Nice simple and easy-to-use layout. Are you sure you want that background gradient to stop so short? On your contact page you may want to spam-protect your email address. Also, are you sure you want underlines for the headings? I like how you use <h1> tags - good for SEO. You could also add the "title" tag to links.

Just a little thing on your Standards page:

if($foo == 'bar'){
...
	mysql_query('update foobarbaz set foo = foo + 1 where bar = "baz"')or die(mysql_error());

In your update you forgot to make the foo a variable ($foo).

I do queries like this

$var = "Hi";
$id = "1";
$dbc = mysql_connect("localhost","user","pass")or die(mysql_error());
$db = mysql_select_db("db");
$e1 = "UPDATE table SET var='$var' WHERE id='$id'";
$e2 = mysql_query($e1,$dbc);

But each to their own Anyway, your website is nice and valid with good code. It's heartening to see other people code to standards!

 

[Barrucadu]

In your update you forgot to make the foo a variable ($foo).

Actually

if($foo == 'bar'){
...
	mysql_query('update foobarbaz set foo = foo + 1 where bar = "baz"')or die(mysql_error());

is perfectly valid code, if the variable $foo is equal to "bar", update the numerical field named "foo" by one in the table "foobarbaz" where "bar" is equal to "baz"

I've reduced the width of the page, added title="" for links, made the banner image a link to the homepage and removed underlines on headers. I'll work on the background image and a focal point after school.

 

[music_man]

True. My bad!

 

[Barrucadu]

Changed the background image and banner now.

 

[music_man]

That looks great now!

 

[Barrucadu]

I've changed it a bit. Now the navigation bar is horizontal, under the banner. The code on the standards page is in a box, and tables have a 100% width.

Edit: I have just changed the banner image, making it brighter and the reflection slightly more visible.

 

[Barrucadu]

*final bump before thread dies*

Any more opinions?

 

[Alex.]

On your outbound links, I'd put target="_blank" so that people can still say on your site when navigating away.

The design looks quite interesting very minimalist, I like what you've done with the tables.

A side note off the design aspect: do you really think its wise linking to a site that has your dad's mobile number?? There are a lot of evil people out there, I'd suggest not tempting them.

Otherwise, very very nice

 

[Barrucadu]

On your outbound links, I'd put target="_blank" so that people can still say on your site when navigating away.

Done!

A side note off the design aspect: do you really think its wise linking to a site that has your dad's mobile number?? There are a lot of evil people out there, I'd suggest not tempting them.

He asked me to put the number there to make it easier for potential employers to contact him, and he can ring me up (or email me) and get it removed in minutes if he wants to.

 

[Alex.]

I understand that, im just suggesting that your giving out a heck of a lot of personal information, which could be used against you.

Also, I'd suggest that employers might not be interested in which primary school you went to etc.

Just my 2C.

 

[Barrucadu]

Also, I'd suggest that employers might not be interested in which primary school you went to etc.

Could be, you never know =P
It's not just a business site, its a personal site (hence the informality of it all and the latin quote on the index page)