Thoughts on my site

Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Tony wrote:
>
>> I'm really opening myself up here - I know how you guys can be! (For
>> that matter, I know how *I* can be!)
>>
>> So, what do you think? Overall, technical, etc.
>>
>> http://www.patternsofchaos.net/
>>
>> Disclaimer: I haven't done a once-over to check for validation and such
>> yet, so I won't be surprised if there are some validation errors. They
>> will eventually be dealt with...
>
> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/comp/chaos1.jpg
>
> Is it your intent to have the page name appear in tiny characters at the
> upper-left corner of each white section? If so, why so tiny?

I checked your code, and I see that it's intentional, as is the use of
pixel specifications in general for your font sizes.


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"Tony" <nospam DeleteThis @example.com> wrote in message
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> I'm really opening myself up here - I know how you guys can be! (For that
> matter, I know how *I* can be!)
>
> So, what do you think? Overall, technical, etc.
>
> http://www.patternsofchaos.net/

Your very first "musing" is about usability. Yet the text in that "musing"
is set at 80% of my preferred font size. This page is only "usable" to me if
I increase *my user font size* to put the effective size back to 100%. Why
is this?

> Disclaimer: I haven't done a once-over to check for validation and such
> yet,

Why? Using firefox with the relevant addins it takes one key stroke.

> so I won't be surprised if there are some validation errors. They will
> eventually be dealt with...

Apart from a missing character encoding it validates.

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Tony <nospam.DeleteThis@example.com> wrote:

>So, what do you think? Overall, technical, etc.
>
>http://www.patternsofchaos.net/

At first glance, it is aesthetically pleasing, resizes, easy to scan.
Nice.

The applications page appears to be empty?

Your grammar should be adjusted. You have incorrectly used a colon
where a commar or semi-colon is more appropriate:

"I have long been an advocate of usability on the web: basing design
on what is easiest for the user."

By the way, you have a slight issue when viewing the site with a
character-based browser. You'll see what I mean if you check it.

Matt


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On Feb 12, 10:55 pm, (Matt Probert) wrote:
> Tony <nos....TakeThisOut@example.com> wrote:
> >So, what do you think? Overall, technical, etc.
>
> >http://www.patternsofchaos.net/
>
> At first glance, it is aesthetically pleasing, resizes, easy to scan.
> Nice.
>
Yeah what he said.
Although where you link to an external site you might want to say so.
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> http://www.patternsofchaos.net/
>
> Disclaimer: I haven't done a once-over to check for validation and such
> yet, so I won't be surprised if there are some validation errors. They
> will eventually be dealt with...

overall, first impression, piece of junk.
I would click through it so fast.
I don't understand what you are trying to do.

the layout is funky and meaningless.

Revamp the whole thing and try again
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On 2008-02-12, (Matt Probert) wrote:
> Tony <nospam RemoveThis @example.com> wrote:
>
>>So, what do you think? Overall, technical, etc.
>>
>>http://www.patternsofchaos.net/
>
> At first glance, it is aesthetically pleasing, resizes,

Except for the "Musings" page, which, like the vast majority of
blogs, does not.

Is there no good blogging software out there?

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> Tony wrote:
>
> I'm really opening myself up here - I know how you guys can be! (For
> that matter, I know how *I* can be!)
>
> So, what do you think? Overall, technical, etc.
>
> http://www.patternsofchaos.net/
<...>

My thanks to everyone for their input. I'll be looking things over once
again with your comments in mind.
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Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On 2008-02-12, (Matt Probert) wrote:
>> Tony <nospam RemoveThis @example.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>http://www.patternsofchaos.net/
>>
>> At first glance, it is aesthetically pleasing, resizes,
>
> Except for the "Musings" page, which, like the vast majority of
> blogs, does not.
>
> Is there no good blogging software out there?

The software is not the problem, the template is. It's not that hard to
make a blog template that is *not* fixed width, it just takes a little time.

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Bergamot wrote:
> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>> On 2008-02-12, (Matt Probert) wrote:
>>> Tony <nospam.TakeThisOut@example.com> wrote:
>>>> http://www.patternsofchaos.net/
>>> At first glance, it is aesthetically pleasing, resizes,
>> Except for the "Musings" page, which, like the vast majority of
>> blogs, does not.
>>
>> Is there no good blogging software out there?
>
> The software is not the problem, the template is. It's not that hard to
> make a blog template that is *not* fixed width, it just takes a little time.
>

Agreed - I'm working on that. The trick is to not break it completely in
the process...
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