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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2006 21:17 Edited at: 4th Aug 2006 17:51
http://catfolio.net/

Hi

Just placed a few samples of new work on there and still pretty much have to fill it in. But it's the design I'm looking to get opinions on. Ignore the code.

Thanks!

edit: Please note, I'm a graphic designer and not a coder. So any "fix taht code" requests will most likley be noted quite dully unless someone would like to code for me in exchange for graphics/art.
Saikoro
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2006 21:22
Much much better design. Catchy and easy to navigate.


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Posted: 3rd Aug 2006 21:40
I'm not all that crazy about the big sushi board menu thing, it looks big and bulky.


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Jeku
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2006 23:09
You're actually going to put your personal journal on your commercial site?


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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2006 23:13 Edited at: 3rd Aug 2006 23:20
Commercial?

Also, is that not what

everyone

does

nowadays?

I don't quite see how it can be picked on. This site will serve as my folio for college applications and potential clients, it only makes sense to allow people to get to know me by including a journal.

Thanks for the comments.
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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 00:43
I got this mixed up with your commercial venture.


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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 01:12


already told you everything over MSN

Looks great and I cant wait to see some new sh*t.

by the way did you ever poop out that oddmind logo? the one with the alien head with the bite chunk?

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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 01:50
Sweet. Very navigatable.

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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 02:17
I still say change the font on the sushi board. Other than that, I dig it.


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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 03:28
how come I cant pick up the knife and stab the sleeping cat?



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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 03:41
Is a catfolio anything like catphelia? Because they both sound very nasty. Some of the links on the front page don't work. Not sure if anyone already said that but I'm too lazy to read the rest of the thread.

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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 04:03
Quote: "Not sure if anyone already said that but I'm too lazy to read the rest of the thread."

Apparently too lazy to even read the first post?


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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 06:42
Quote: "Apparently too lazy to even read the first post?"
I don't really read much, ya know I just click things randomly.

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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 09:34
V. Nice design, as always

However, you need to change the font for body-text to a sans font, something like Helvetica, or Tahoma, or even just Sans

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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 12:26
Also, not a great idea to have your journal on another site, you'd be better off using a free one or writing your own, looks more professional

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I like it. Very clean, but also a touch cartoony.

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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 13:01
Very well done.

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Posted: 4th Aug 2006 21:22
he's a catpheliac, didn't you know?

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Posted: 5th Aug 2006 00:56 Edited at: 5th Aug 2006 01:20
yes. Megaton, I will code for you once more, and by the looks of the site, it would be much easier to prove what you all said, I had a chat with megaton:



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Posted: 5th Aug 2006 01:26 Edited at: 5th Aug 2006 02:50
Thanks for the comments again.

I'm leaving right now and will be in the US for the next week, so no internet access. Will reply to more comments when I get back.

Thanks.

edit:

Ugh, and the server is down. Again.

edit2: Uh...back up. (But for how long? Dun dun...)
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Posted: 5th Aug 2006 03:45
And (when you get back) the link on your home page that goes to /Personal.htm, should be /personal.htm .
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Posted: 5th Aug 2006 04:27
Quote: "However, you need to change the font for body-text to a sans font, something like Helvetica, or Tahoma, or even just Sans "


Agreed, serif's were typically designed for newspapers and printed text. Sans-serif fonts are much easier to read on computer screens.


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Posted: 6th Aug 2006 00:57
Megaton - I dont know if you got my email, but I've redesigned the page to work properly with DIV's, etc. Its also completely Javascript free while keeping the mouseover's on the nav chopboard. Slight issue with IE, but who uses that browser anyway!
http://megaton.dbp-site.com/

Lemme know what you think.

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Posted: 6th Aug 2006 01:04
Very well done Nicholas. I do not see any issues in my ie<.< You used css for link overs too.

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Posted: 6th Aug 2006 05:14
And you used a Sans font, good job

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Posted: 6th Aug 2006 19:05 Edited at: 6th Aug 2006 19:06
This is the problem I have in IE (ie 6)...


Btw: Thanks for the kind comments!

I was quite chuffed at the non-js rollovers They should work in any browser - with or without javascript. They should also degrade nicely too (if they should ever need to).

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Steve J
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Posted: 7th Aug 2006 08:22
I dont get that, odd

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Posted: 7th Aug 2006 11:11
I only get that in Internet Explorer (SURPRISE, SUR-F-ING-PRISE!)

I honest hate Internet Explorer. I've always thought it ironic that nobody at M$ did a little research into what the definition of an explorer was... But it basically comes down to someone entering unknown territory to learn what's in there. So Internet Explorer actually admits to not knowing what the internet IS and us pretty much wandering blindly though it!

I have a feeling that problem is caused by a margin on the header date block...

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Posted: 8th Aug 2006 09:26
I see the same in IE...

I think, however, that it may be that you're trying to use a transparent png in IE (which it doesn't support without that annoying work-around hack).

Try changing it to an indexed GIF, and you then you don't have to specify the transparency for the background colour in the #leftColumn .innerContent .top class which should get IE over it.

But, I'm only guestimating

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Posted: 8th Aug 2006 11:37
I'm not using transparent PNG's. They're PNG8 run through a nifty tool called PNGOut which strips out all the crap that Photoshop leave in AND runs it through a high level compressor multiple times, often knocked about 20% off the file size. Its a FANTASTIC tool and cant recommend it enough. It can take any file type and turn it straight into a compressed PNG. It can support PNG8, grey scale, RGB and RGBA. They're also developing a plugin for Photoshop so you can just do "Save As..." and go straight through their tool rather than save to web and then run it through the tool. Nice! I THINK the tool also supports multithreading too - usefull on my Athlon X2

I gave up using PNG24 ages ago - although it works fantastically in any browser except IE6, most people use that "unfortunate" browser.

I'm thinking this problem is SOMETHING to do with padding or margins on the content of the box. Not sure though. Its the same technique I've used on my www.dbp-site.com which works perfectly in all browsers (AFAIK).

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Posted: 8th Aug 2006 18:28
Ah, ok, fair enough

Well, it was only a guestimate like I said...

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Posted: 8th Aug 2006 18:49
An an appreciated one too. Its often those simple things which are hard to find. Example: the left block is id'd as #mainLeft. in the CSS I'd called is mainleft (note the capitalisation issue). Took me about 2 hours to figure out why it wasn't floating!!!

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Posted: 9th Aug 2006 01:54
Oh yeah, been guilty of those ones myself!

That's when good ole Copy+Paste comes in so very, very handy!

No matter, I'm sure Megatron can figure it out if he goes with your layout

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Posted: 10th Aug 2006 17:24
Its fixed - this is the best bug I've seen in IE so far!

You may have noticed IE doesn't like having empty table cells, well it turns out it doesn't like empty DIV's either...

I was using a DIV with an ID and no content so I could style a block. IE didn't like it. The solution (as found here http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/6285.htm) is to insert a comment (YES - A COMMENT!) into the DIV!!!

So instead of doing:

Do this:


Oh dear lord thats stupid!

Anyone seen or heard from The Cat recently? He's gone off all radars...

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Posted: 10th Aug 2006 19:23 Edited at: 10th Aug 2006 19:24
hes gone off catdar!?
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hes in a better place now....

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Quote: "Anyone seen or heard from The Cat recently? He's gone off all radars..."

He's in the States for a "vacation".


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Posted: 13th Aug 2006 18:17 Edited at: 13th Aug 2006 19:10
Hey guys

The FBI finally caught up with me at Atlantic City and just dropped me back off at the border.

A pic I took as I was about to jump of the Empire State Building...



Overall, visited Manhatten, Washington D.C, Baltimore and Atlantic City.

Anyway, thanks for the comments on the site. I'll be working to solidify it in the coming week.

Sent ye an email Nicholas.
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Wow - america and New Zealand look uncannily similar!!
http://gallery.digitalkiwi.co.uk/kates/DSCN0532.JPG.html

Thats from my holiday earlier this year...

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Not really, almost all modern metropolis cities look like that...

And I would hardly say Manhatten represents what all of America looks like.
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I work in London - so I'm not used to seeing a Modern Metropolis London is very....... 60's

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Posted: 14th Aug 2006 05:45 Edited at: 14th Aug 2006 05:47
yeah um heaps of issues to resolve megs.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatfolio.net%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&outline=1&sp=1&noatt=1&No200=1&verbose=1



28 errors to solve.

Without being hypocritical I have 6 to fix on my site.

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Uh-oh, cat fight

Megs--- what does the Chinese mean on the top right of the site? Just curious.


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Posted: 14th Aug 2006 05:59 Edited at: 14th Aug 2006 06:06
Quote: "yeah um heaps of issues to resolve megs."


I've heard of people who just read the first post then skim over the rest of the thread, but right here we got a mystical and rarely seen being who doesn't even read the first post.

I rekon it's time to move up from the Dreamweaver generated code before telling other people to validate their temp design slices.

Jeku: It's Japanese Kanji, and it means says "Aiki". It's very hard to translate into English and there is no real transparent translation out right now, but a simple Wikipedia page will tell you more about it.

Funny how some people who have a close connection with either Chinese or Japanese assume either one if the one they know best. My Great Uncle was a Japanese Translator and Officer for the Soviet Union during WW2, so naturually because he dealt with alot of Japanese he refers to all Asian people as "Japanese". He even called Jackie Chan a Jap the other day.
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Posted: 14th Aug 2006 06:07
If you cant handle good advice regarding your site, your not going to hold clients for long.
I gave you good advice regarding errors, but you seem to have a glitch with my advice.
not my problem, take care.

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Quote: "I gave you good advice regarding errors"


And I gave you a link to the post where I specificially announce not to pay attention to the code as it's temporary and I did not code it. If that's not as up front as it gets, then I dunno what is.

Obviously not your problem, nor mine, which is why I'm not to fussed about it. Doesn't take a master to know Dreamweaver/Fireworks code won't validate.
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http://catfolio.net/folio_images/polycat_large.jpg

Says on that page that Polycats Studios is run by people with "an" vision.

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Posted: 14th Aug 2006 06:18
Quote: "Funny how some people who have a close connection with either Chinese or Japanese assume either one if the one they know best. "


You *do* know that kanji is taken directly from Chinese characters, right

I realize your site is Japanese themed, but the characters originally are Chinese.


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Posted: 14th Aug 2006 06:21 Edited at: 14th Aug 2006 06:23
@indi -
Megaton did say that his source code was not important right now, that the design was his primary concern, that's all. That's why all of the advice so far has been focused on the design.

Quote: "You *do* know that kanji is taken directly from Chinese characters, right"

I was a bit surprised to learn how much Japanese culture is derived directly from China. It's like... almost every bit of of. I thought they'd have more of their own.


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