my somewhat finished site... please rate?

no go. is ee some image place holders and a tiny bit of text

ditto - ya got image links pointing to your hard disk...But, even so it's clear that the graphics won't scale to any window size....they don't even fit on 1024x768 width widows by a long way.

ugoin, wanna have a template? http://www.styl-x.com/styl-x.jpg
If you want it just let me know and I will send you the html and images.

hey people, i am almost back to terrorize the message boards

Thanks for the warning.

If you "View Source" you can get to his other pages.....Graphics are definitely HUGE

Click on one of the links below...the rest are the same graphic...different title

http://www.sdzine.com/downloads.htm Downloads
http://www.sdzine.com/links.htm Cool Links
http://www.sdzine.com/other.htm Other Stuff
http://www.sdzine.com/msgboard.htm Message Board
http://www.sdzine.com/pics.htm Pictures Gallery

if you need any help you can email me... [email protected]

wstaylor
wstaylor.net

I've been working on mine and I think I have gotten a handle on it... www.wstaylor.net

Site loads within half a second for me

Loads quick enough....just that I'm using 1280x1024 and I still have to scroll the title image

work on the site in a 1024x768 Resolution

you'll see

thanks people. whoops got it fixed now. thanks for the input.

one question on windowblinds: how do i change this around:::



so that the user name is centered and bigger and also, how do i get rid of the user picture? thanks ahead and thanks for the input on the site.

i will make the site in 1024 size also because that will make it so that you all dont hafta scroll sideways. thanks ahead again and see ya all later.
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*bump*

thanks again.

If you want to get rid of your own user picture in WindowBlinds, you need to do it through Configure WindowBlinds...>User Overrides. Under Advanced Settings, disable Show user icon in startpanel(if not domain).

If you want to try to prevent other skin users from having a user picture, you need to adjust content margins for the User Pane (a negative value for Left margin) until the user picture disappears.

To adjust the location of the Username text, you can use the Text Alignment settings in combination with the Content margin adjustments for the User Pane (Find these setting by clicking User Pane under StartPanel in the left tree pane of Skin Studio, and then looking for them in the right attributes pane in Skin Studio.

The font settings can also be adjusted in part in this same area under Text Settings>Font Normal. The constraint is Font#, referring to Preset Fonts you define, found under Miscellaneous>Presets>Font Presets in the left tree pane of skin studio.

thanks alot shameless design. thanks alot, now hopefully this works with the free version of SS... thanks again and see ya later all!

RE: site - may I suggest that you don't "...make the site in 1024 ..." but that you make it to scale to suit any window size? Break the graphic up into bits (just like a window frame in WB), and use a table with fixed size cells for the graphics, and scalable cells with solid colour (or tiled backgrounds) for the "stretchable" bits.

This will also have the advantage that you won't need to crank up the compression as much to make the page load quickly, hence avoiding the jpg artifacts the graphics exhibit at the moment.

...of course, this would be much easier if you have good tools for the job such as Fireworks, DreamWeaver or ImageReady for example.

as an example of scalable web design, here's one I've taken inspiration from in the past:

http://www.ulst.ac.uk

It's aim is very different to your's, but look at the title banner for the technique I'm refering to. (BTW, ignore the first page as someone seems to have broken the scalability on the main bit of that one page!)

Holy shimolly!...I can see one button at a time on my screen...I think I need a big screen TV to see it all.

welcome back ugoin! I was denied on the site access. http error!

i didnt mean.. make the site 1024... I meant get out of the 1600 screen res you are in when you are working on it...

You also need to have every page open in same browser window. My Popup Killer is killing your site

i dunno what wrong with the popup thingys i will fix soon. yea, i didnt know it matters if i am in 1600, i made my site to be 1280X1024 typeish... will fix later, now, work. (back to your hole dish boy!!!)

there we go, finally made it better, however, it is still under construction!

http://www.sdzine.com


thanks for the help all!


'specially you wstaylor!
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I am far from an expert so I cannot get very technical with you. I like the way it presents except I am at 1280 x 1024 res and the page displays at 1/4 the screen. I hope you know how to fix cause I don't. Just thought I would let you know.

Me no expert either.....is small, I'm using 1280x1024 screen resolution and have my browser set to open up at 1024x768. Some kind of scaleable graphics would be nice so that no matter what resolution some one uses it will still look good. Don't know how to go about doing that thought. I like to colors and the font you used to make your images

there we go, fit for everyone and almost ready cool. please rate on a scale of 1-10 1worst 10best, thanks ahead.