Website virginity broken at last.
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Hi folks, Just thought I'd post this to the collective masses here at CP. After a lot of swearing, a hell of a lot of reading, and even more late nights I've finally built my first website. I thought I'd offer it up to your scrutiny so I could get advice as how to improve on it. For some reason the normal domain name www.ozfarmguide.com stopped serving about an hour ago (I'm gonna sleep on that one cos I'm stumped) You can have a wee look at it here http://ozfarmguide.web702.discountasp.net[^] I'd like to thank everybody here on CP for all the articles i've read and questions I've had answered. You guys rock! Oh and it's written in VB and Linq to SQL :-D
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
Nice layout, seems good. Fails validation[^] though.
Simon
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Hi folks, Just thought I'd post this to the collective masses here at CP. After a lot of swearing, a hell of a lot of reading, and even more late nights I've finally built my first website. I thought I'd offer it up to your scrutiny so I could get advice as how to improve on it. For some reason the normal domain name www.ozfarmguide.com stopped serving about an hour ago (I'm gonna sleep on that one cos I'm stumped) You can have a wee look at it here http://ozfarmguide.web702.discountasp.net[^] I'd like to thank everybody here on CP for all the articles i've read and questions I've had answered. You guys rock! Oh and it's written in VB and Linq to SQL :-D
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
I like it, well done. Just a little suggestion, you could make the website link to a farm a hyperlink, if you don't want people leaving your site just make it open in a new window.
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Nice layout, seems good. Fails validation[^] though.
Simon
It's a lot better than the 63 google.com fails! :)
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008) -
Hi folks, Just thought I'd post this to the collective masses here at CP. After a lot of swearing, a hell of a lot of reading, and even more late nights I've finally built my first website. I thought I'd offer it up to your scrutiny so I could get advice as how to improve on it. For some reason the normal domain name www.ozfarmguide.com stopped serving about an hour ago (I'm gonna sleep on that one cos I'm stumped) You can have a wee look at it here http://ozfarmguide.web702.discountasp.net[^] I'd like to thank everybody here on CP for all the articles i've read and questions I've had answered. You guys rock! Oh and it's written in VB and Linq to SQL :-D
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
Nice Site! You've done an great job, well done.
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Not bad! A bit slow maybe, but I'm not sure whether it's my connection.
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I thought it a little slow to load, (not depressingly so, just a bit clunky). (Perhaps because it has to come all the way from Oz! :) But, yes, I Like it too.
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Hi folks, Just thought I'd post this to the collective masses here at CP. After a lot of swearing, a hell of a lot of reading, and even more late nights I've finally built my first website. I thought I'd offer it up to your scrutiny so I could get advice as how to improve on it. For some reason the normal domain name www.ozfarmguide.com stopped serving about an hour ago (I'm gonna sleep on that one cos I'm stumped) You can have a wee look at it here http://ozfarmguide.web702.discountasp.net[^] I'd like to thank everybody here on CP for all the articles i've read and questions I've had answered. You guys rock! Oh and it's written in VB and Linq to SQL :-D
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
Man, that is way better than anything I produced in my first year or so of web-dev. Nicely done.
JimBob SquarePants wrote:
For some reason the normal domain name www.ozfarmguide.com stopped serving about an hour ago (I'm gonna sleep on that one cos I'm stumped)
Seems to be working again.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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It's a lot better than the 63 google.com fails! :)
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)It's a lot better than the 307 my new company site gets too. (See post above). It was validating my company site that made me try out this one. Has anyone actually got an example of a large scale site that does validate? Google really deserve a good beating. They've only got about 3 lines of markup on their home page. How did they manage to get 63 errors!
Simon
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Hi folks, Just thought I'd post this to the collective masses here at CP. After a lot of swearing, a hell of a lot of reading, and even more late nights I've finally built my first website. I thought I'd offer it up to your scrutiny so I could get advice as how to improve on it. For some reason the normal domain name www.ozfarmguide.com stopped serving about an hour ago (I'm gonna sleep on that one cos I'm stumped) You can have a wee look at it here http://ozfarmguide.web702.discountasp.net[^] I'd like to thank everybody here on CP for all the articles i've read and questions I've had answered. You guys rock! Oh and it's written in VB and Linq to SQL :-D
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
Great layout... Speed is a little slow but that could just be the host, not your site. Just one question... are you sure this is your first site? I dont think I have seen anyones first proper site come out that good
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
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Hi folks, Just thought I'd post this to the collective masses here at CP. After a lot of swearing, a hell of a lot of reading, and even more late nights I've finally built my first website. I thought I'd offer it up to your scrutiny so I could get advice as how to improve on it. For some reason the normal domain name www.ozfarmguide.com stopped serving about an hour ago (I'm gonna sleep on that one cos I'm stumped) You can have a wee look at it here http://ozfarmguide.web702.discountasp.net[^] I'd like to thank everybody here on CP for all the articles i've read and questions I've had answered. You guys rock! Oh and it's written in VB and Linq to SQL :-D
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
Great job JB; especially for a "first time". It's clean, easy to use and understand. I've always been a believer in the K.I.S.S. principle. Congratulations on the loss of your web virginity. :-D
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Hi folks, Just thought I'd post this to the collective masses here at CP. After a lot of swearing, a hell of a lot of reading, and even more late nights I've finally built my first website. I thought I'd offer it up to your scrutiny so I could get advice as how to improve on it. For some reason the normal domain name www.ozfarmguide.com stopped serving about an hour ago (I'm gonna sleep on that one cos I'm stumped) You can have a wee look at it here http://ozfarmguide.web702.discountasp.net[^] I'd like to thank everybody here on CP for all the articles i've read and questions I've had answered. You guys rock! Oh and it's written in VB and Linq to SQL :-D
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
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Hi folks, Just thought I'd post this to the collective masses here at CP. After a lot of swearing, a hell of a lot of reading, and even more late nights I've finally built my first website. I thought I'd offer it up to your scrutiny so I could get advice as how to improve on it. For some reason the normal domain name www.ozfarmguide.com stopped serving about an hour ago (I'm gonna sleep on that one cos I'm stumped) You can have a wee look at it here http://ozfarmguide.web702.discountasp.net[^] I'd like to thank everybody here on CP for all the articles i've read and questions I've had answered. You guys rock! Oh and it's written in VB and Linq to SQL :-D
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
Not bad for a first site, i'm impressed :)
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Hi folks, Just thought I'd post this to the collective masses here at CP. After a lot of swearing, a hell of a lot of reading, and even more late nights I've finally built my first website. I thought I'd offer it up to your scrutiny so I could get advice as how to improve on it. For some reason the normal domain name www.ozfarmguide.com stopped serving about an hour ago (I'm gonna sleep on that one cos I'm stumped) You can have a wee look at it here http://ozfarmguide.web702.discountasp.net[^] I'd like to thank everybody here on CP for all the articles i've read and questions I've had answered. You guys rock! Oh and it's written in VB and Linq to SQL :-D
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
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Hi folks, Just thought I'd post this to the collective masses here at CP. After a lot of swearing, a hell of a lot of reading, and even more late nights I've finally built my first website. I thought I'd offer it up to your scrutiny so I could get advice as how to improve on it. For some reason the normal domain name www.ozfarmguide.com stopped serving about an hour ago (I'm gonna sleep on that one cos I'm stumped) You can have a wee look at it here http://ozfarmguide.web702.discountasp.net[^] I'd like to thank everybody here on CP for all the articles i've read and questions I've had answered. You guys rock! Oh and it's written in VB and Linq to SQL :-D
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
Question: Are there Any farms, or is this just a test? I don't see any.
"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."
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Hi folks, Just thought I'd post this to the collective masses here at CP. After a lot of swearing, a hell of a lot of reading, and even more late nights I've finally built my first website. I thought I'd offer it up to your scrutiny so I could get advice as how to improve on it. For some reason the normal domain name www.ozfarmguide.com stopped serving about an hour ago (I'm gonna sleep on that one cos I'm stumped) You can have a wee look at it here http://ozfarmguide.web702.discountasp.net[^] I'd like to thank everybody here on CP for all the articles i've read and questions I've had answered. You guys rock! Oh and it's written in VB and Linq to SQL :-D
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
I agree that it seems to be a bit slow (I'm in USA). But overall, it is a good layout and seems to be an original idea (most important part). One thing I noticed is that your "Info Menu" appears to redownload all of the data for the menu every time you mouseover it and it doesn't always complete or sometimes it is very slow (10+ sec) to complete. Unless you plan on changing the contents of this menu very frequently, I would recommend sending it once on each enite page refresh instead of every mouseover.
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Nice layout, seems good. Fails validation[^] though.
Simon
Thanks, I'll have a further look at it. Something's majorly wrong with the dns pointers though. still can't get on through the normal address.
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
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Great layout... Speed is a little slow but that could just be the host, not your site. Just one question... are you sure this is your first site? I dont think I have seen anyones first proper site come out that good
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
Cheeky! Yeah, my first. I really really worked hard on it. I think more so because it was for me. I studied my ass off. I'm thinking that I may have to implement some sort of script handling to boost the speed a wee bit (I saw an article on CP about that but i'll have to translate from C#). All my images are small and I've tried to get everything to load in the right order. I'm pretty sure my code could probably do to be refactored also. Thanks for having a look!
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
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Question: Are there Any farms, or is this just a test? I don't see any.
"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."
Hehehe.... There will be. I'm backpacking at the mo so been working on a few. I'm forcing my friends to do writeups too and I'll be putting up posters in the hostels. Hopefully word of mouth can get the ball rolling.
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
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I agree that it seems to be a bit slow (I'm in USA). But overall, it is a good layout and seems to be an original idea (most important part). One thing I noticed is that your "Info Menu" appears to redownload all of the data for the menu every time you mouseover it and it doesn't always complete or sometimes it is very slow (10+ sec) to complete. Unless you plan on changing the contents of this menu very frequently, I would recommend sending it once on each enite page refresh instead of every mouseover.
Cheers. I'll have a look at it. The sites actually hosted in North America on DiscountAsp. I'm not getting the menu problem but I'm not 100% happy with it anyway. At the mo the pages are loading within one or two seconds but I'd like to cater for all connection speeds if I can. I'll have a wee tinker.
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************
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I like it, well done. Just a little suggestion, you could make the website link to a farm a hyperlink, if you don't want people leaving your site just make it open in a new window.
Cheers. Good suggestion. I'll get on to that. ;)
JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************