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Mike Hankey wrote: I agree with OG on the fine points but overall I like it!
Thanks Mike, I've got all of OG's changes done except the heavy "about" page which I'm working on. 
Marc
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Looks good on Opera / Windows 7.
I like the nice clean newspaper look.
Navigation is easy and I can learn about you and your projects easily and quickly.
One challenge was that I couldn't find links to your articles.
Was a bit confused by the codeproject snapshot and thought there was a link to your articles there.
Is there one there that isn't showing up in Opera?
Then I scrolled down to section showing list of articles and thought maybe I'd get links to your articles there, but nothing there either. Is that by design? Just offering constructive criticism.
All looks good / navigable / readable otherwise.
I actually wish my own site looked anything close as clean to this.
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newton.saber wrote: One challenge was that I couldn't find links to your articles.
It was in the text "160 articles" but I also made the image itself a click-through.
newton.saber wrote: I actually wish my own site looked anything close as clean to this.
I'm quite pleased with SquareSpace (except the site looks like crap in IE, but they're working on that.) I've gotten customer service responses in under an hour from them, they seem quite good.
Marc
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Software Engineer?
The title font is coming in as jagged, Chrome, windows 7. Could be my setup here at work.
I like the clean look. I'm a big fan for clean and simple.
I put software engineer because that is an architect and developer, really and it is common place title in the industry.
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Slacker007 wrote: Software Engineer
No such thing.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Software Engineer
?? can't tell if you are joking.
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Slacker007 wrote: The title font is coming in as jagged, Chrome, windows 7. Could be my setup here at work.
Happens to me too. Looks best if FF. I'm trying to figure out how to use a different global font.
Slacker007 wrote: I put software engineer because that is an architect and developer, really and it is common place title in the industry.
Oddly, I just got a call out of the blue from a potential prospect because they were googling for "software architect" and came across my ancient Screwturn Wiki site!
I changed the heading to "Professional Software Architecture Consulting and Development", but I'm living with it to see if I really like it.
Marc
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It's good as a sitemap, but I'd think more about the main message for the main page and move the list of links down for the interested or put them on another page. It's difficult to find anything for the eye to rest on except the black image and that doesn't seem to be the real focus.
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Andy Brummer wrote: ut I'd think more about the main message for the main page and move the list of links down for the interested or put them on another page.
Thanks - that's definitely something to consider.
Andy Brummer wrote: It's difficult to find anything for the eye to rest on except the black image and that doesn't seem to be the real focus.
Exactly. Since that's my app, I changed the screen colors so the background is now white and re-snapped it. The big black blotch was also a problem for me.
Thanks!
Marc
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The font "Varela Round" renders with artifacts.
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harold aptroot wrote: The font "Varela Round" renders with artifacts.
Fixed. Now renders much better in Chrome.
Marc
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Agreed with OrigGriff on the "4.61 / 5" rating.
I was expecting some of the text on the main page to be links to more detailed info on the same.
I liked reading the About. The more I read, the more I desired to read. Thus, a good amount of text.
Overall, I like it. I'll give it another look-see this afternoon, when the coffee has worn off and I'm more grumpy.
Misc. Notes
Of your typing Ctrl+C to crash the PDP-11, I purposely crashed the TRS-80's at my school, including hacking the startup floppy disks to display hack msgs to other classmates on how their (then-80's) hair was wickedly outdated. 
Good choice to not include on the Home page "I'm 36.23% the man that @OriginalGriff is" in relation to your 391,711 CP points vs. his 1,081,167 CP points.  (Just don't include yer 5671.26% more the man than I am!!)
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Sorry to break it to you this way, but CP points doesn't translate to man points.
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If they did, JSOP would have used Griff for target practice long ago. 
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MacSpudster wrote: Agreed with OrigGriff on the "4.61 / 5" rating.
Yup, fixed that.
MacSpudster wrote: I was expecting some of the text on the main page to be links to more detailed info on the same.
I'll have to work on that a bit.
MacSpudster wrote: I liked reading the About. The more I read, the more I desired to read. Thus, a good amount of text.
Thanks! As per others, I'm going to break it up with some images relevant to each section.
MacSpudster wrote: Of your typing Ctrl+C to crash the PDP-11, I purposely crashed the TRS-80's at my school, including hacking the startup floppy disks to display hack msgs to other classmates on how their (then-80's) hair was wickedly outdated
Oooh - evil!
MacSpudster wrote: Good choice to not include on the Home page "I'm 36.23% the man that @OriginalGriff is" in relation to your 391,711 CP points vs. his 1,081,167 CP points.
 I'll make sure to omit that little detail. 
Marc
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The main font (Varela round) is somehow clustered/faded on my computer (Win7/FF24.7.0). Looks like your website has been staying too long outside in the rain.
I'd put thin borders to the images on the front page, so that the Code Project does not seem to be part of the web site.
I'd actually move the pictures and below content on a separate page. On the front page, I'd just add a small & brief description with your main message, and with links to the three columns on this separate page (CAREER, OPEN SOURCE, PUBLICATIONS).
I'd turn the bullet points that can be links into ... links, for instance all the Git stuff.
I'd remove the picture of the cat, but this is because I am a member of the CAC, the committee against cats.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: The main font (Varela round) is somehow clustered/faded on my computer (Win7/FF24.7.0). Looks like your website has been staying too long outside in the rain.
Fixed the font for a few things. It renders much better now in FF and Chrome.
Rage wrote: I'd put thin borders to the images on the front page, so that the Code Project does not seem to be part of the web site.
The whole image now links to the article list, but I think I want to stay away from borders.
Rage wrote: I'd actually move the pictures and below content on a separate page. On the front page, I'd just add a small & brief description with your main message, and with links to the three columns on this separate page (CAREER, OPEN SOURCE, PUBLICATIONS).
Yes, you're the second person to suggest something similar to that. I'll play around with it and see how it goes.
Rage wrote: I'd turn the bullet points that can be links into ... links, for instance all the Git stuff.
Done. Also made the links a different color so it's more obvious.
Rage wrote: I'd remove the picture of the cat, but this is because I am a member of the CAC, the committee against cats.
My girlfriend wonders how anyone can hate cats!
Thanks for the great feedback!
Marc
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In Mozilla, looks acceptable, there are some font issues as others have pointed out already. In IE your site looks like something I would have created, no margins, almost no formatting whatsoever and stuff showing up in odd places etc. (I don't do websites)
I know it's cool to not use or dislike IE of any flavor, however some of your potential customers may not know it's uncool to use IE and come across your website and say "oh dear...".
Or maybe you just haven't got around to IE testing yet.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Or maybe you just haven't got around to IE testing yet.
Hadn't, and since I'm using SquareSpace as the content provider service, I've opened a ticket with them. They are aware of the problem and working on fixing it. Good luck to them, haha.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: They are aware of the problem and working on fixing it.
The standard reply for all call centers and support forums.
Hope your website is succesful! Does this mean you are going add wesite design to your list of experience?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Does this mean you are going add wesite design to your list of experience?
Hah. Hardly. SquareSpace is for people who have no clue how to put together a website. Now, while I do not fit in that category, I am also not a website designer. I can program a website, but the design, graphics, behavior and all that should be in the purview of a designer, not a programmer!
Marc
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Nice ,clean and to the point. But I half expected the pictures on the frontpage to be clickable and do something (funny|cool|impressive) or lead somewhere.
I'm missing something that shows what you are/have been doing besides just telling us.
Or am I just expecting to much? (Says the guy that doesn't have a homepage)
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: But I half expected the pictures on the frontpage to be clickable and do something (funny|cool|impressive) or lead somewhere.
The open source and article pics now link, I'm working on coming up with something interesting for the switch ring.
Jörgen Andersson wrote: I'm missing something that shows what you are/have been doing besides just telling us.
Well, I'm hoping that's what "clients" and "about" covers, but I may actually have a link to my full resume as well.
Thanks for the feedback!
Marc
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If it's meant to be an online resume it's not bad. If it's meant to be a normal website then it's too much clutter to dump all on one page. So, as usual with tech people, the answer is "it depends."
Jeremy Falcon
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