testing new site

[von*ferret]

man HOW did you get hired with that portfolio.

I love the colors and I can't wait to see it all final. Nice job andrew!

[KungFuSquirrel]

bump omfg

http://www.button-masher.net/content.php?t=7

This isn't hooked up for non-direct navigation yet, but have at it and let me know what you think. There's still stuff missing (mostly for the old content shots) and some descriptions in disarray or needing re-writing, but the functionality should all be there.

Meh? good, bad? how's the portfolio vibe? is it too different from the rest of the site? do the text boxes over the images work?

Hoping to launch this this week once I get all the content hooked up (maybe as early as tomorrow night) but I imagine I'll still be tweaking little things for weeks/months/years.

[Thrik]

I'm a fan.

The only minor complaint I have is that on 1024x768, the site borders right up to the edges of the browser and this doesn't look so good. It'd look much nicer if there were at least the same amount of space between the design and the browser edges as there is between the three big images. As it is, it looks quite cramped.

This goes for the other page(s) on the site too. Bordering right up against the browser borders is a bit of a no-no.

Thumbs up, though. I'd go with this one.

[Skjalg]

I'm a fan.

[..]

Thumbs up, though. I'd go with this one.

[st0lve]

Looks pretty pro

[KungFuSquirrel]

The only minor complaint I have is that on 1024x768, the site borders right up to the edges of the browser and this doesn't look so good. It'd look much nicer if there were at least the same amount of space between the design and the browser edges as there is between the three big images. As it is, it looks quite cramped.

This goes for the other page(s) on the site too. Bordering right up against the browser borders is a bit of a no-no.

haha, with all my old site designs people were like, "dude, people use higher than 640x480" and now that I've embraced my higher-resolution overlords it's too wide?????

I can probably pull it in to 980 wide (it's 1000 right now, which would strip 10 pixels off either spacer and put them to each outside edge of the site. Not much, but probably would help 1024 users a bit. I'll look into it. Good news is, if Google Analytics is telling the truth, over 85% of my visits are from higher than 1024x768.

[Thrik]

Probably true, considering the design audience; 1024x768 is by far the most common in general though, and even though my desktop resolution at work is 1680x1050 and 1920x1200 at home, I run my browser at both locations in a 1024x768 window. I think most people on large widescreen resolutions do this. Not sure if Google is smart enough to detect that.

[KungFuSquirrel]

This is true. I tend to keep mine close to 1280x720 (on a 1900x1200 res monitor), so not unreasonable to expect some smaller windows on other resolutions.

I'll poke at the stuff later this week to see if I can bring it in a bit. Won't be much, but probably enough to make it comfortable for 1024.

[Bic-B@ll]

the thee nav buttons up top... main seems to be aligned to the right while the others are centered. when you mouse over them you can tell.