# I just finished my new website. Could you guys check it for me?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 23, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339 "2005-08-23T22:41:02Z")
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### Author:  [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/1 "2005-08-23T22:41:02Z")
Hey guys
Just finished the new site for the band, and I’d love to have a bunch of people take a look at it to check for breakage.
It’s checked out on Safari at 1024 and Firefox and IE at 800x600.
Please let me know which browser and resolution you’re using.
Thanks a bunch!
P
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### Author:  [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/2 "2005-08-23T22:43:52Z")
It would probably help if I gave you the address. :smack:
[Barleycorn](http://www.notyerdaddysbluegrass.com)
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### Author:  [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/3 "2005-08-23T22:51:10Z")
Looks cool to me. The only thing I’d say is that it sort of looks off center (vertically). Meaning, I can’t see the border at the top of the screen, but I can at the bottom. Can you move the box down just a smidge?
Other than that, I really wish I was closer, because I’d love to check you guys out. (Is that you in the first picture on the photo link?)
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/4 "2005-08-23T23:02:20Z")
In general, very good, nice & clean & easy to navigate.
Two criticisims:
At 1280x1024, it’s noticably off-centre (to the left), which at a glance at the source I guess is from all dimensions being specified as absolute.
Also on the matter of dimensions - everything is specified in pixels. This is no problem as long as you’re using default browser settings, but not everyone does. Try fiddling about with the text size in Firefox on the ‘music’ page to see how things start to overflow!
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### Author:  [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/5 "2005-08-23T23:03:48Z")
No, that’s Caleb, my mandolinist. I’m the hairy guy in the pictures without the bandanna. Although my wife just pointed out to me that I should really put up some more recent pics of me, as I cut off the long hair and beard and lost about 15 pounds.
And unfortunately, we won’t be in So Cal anytime soon - next spring/summer we’re planning on Colorado, the PNW and TN/NC
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### Author:  [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/6 "2005-08-23T23:09:08Z")
Thanks for the feedback, **GM**
I will probably go in and adjust relative vs. absolute later - I’m new to the whole layers thing, and I was under a real time crunch to get this up.
I’m assuming I can’t fix the off center in higher res issue without doing that though.
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### Author:  [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/7 "2005-08-24T01:53:40Z")
Looks really good to me too. Definitely **doesn’t** look like you were in a rush.
I’m looking at it in 800x600. I browsed through it with Firefox and it worked really nicely. Glad you’re checking out all the browsers; I hate getting to a site where I have to switch to IE.
So will you be playing in Ohio anytime?
GT
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/8 "2005-08-24T03:41:12Z")
I viewed it via Netscape 7.2
In general:
The pages are square on my screen (which is rectangular) and they’re off-center to the left half of the screen. I get about one inch of white space to the left and four inches of white space to the right. They also seem to be slightly elevated; there’s a small gap at the bottom of the screen but the border is just offscreen at the top.
The picture, logo, fonts, and colors overall are nice. But I don’t like the white lettering of the links against the pale green background.
I’d recommend you have the band members bio and band history in its own section rather than just in the Press section.
But overall a very good site. It’s effective in conveying its message and well-designed.
Nitpicking:
You wrote contragulate instead of congratulate.
What’s “super kind camping”?
You wrote Ftichburg instead of Fitchburg on your August 31 announcemnet.
Shouldn’t it be under instead of underneath in “as protected by copyright underneath the Creative Commons License”?
On the More News page, “gas prices they way they are” should be “gas prices the way they are”.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/9 "2005-08-24T04:19:16Z")
I like the layout, it’s clean and simple. Your use of CSS and good semantic markup is to be commended, although you do have a couple [validation](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.notyerdaddysbluegrass.com%2F) [errors](http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.notyerdaddysbluegrass.com%2F&usermedium=all) (but it’s a lot better than most sites.)
The domain name is a bit long. 🙂
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/10 "2005-08-24T04:21:01Z")
Nice website—clean and easy to navigate.
One thing: on the Press page, the color photos will not display because they contain errors, according to my browser.
Firefox 1.0.6
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/11 "2005-08-24T05:01:35Z")
> [@mhendo](#):
>
> Nice website—clean and easy to navigate.
>
> One thing: on the Press page, the color photos will not display because they contain errors, according to my browser.
>
> Firefox 1.0.6
That’s because they (at least some of them) are saved as CMYK files, not RGBs, which will not show up on browsers. You should save them as RGBs, and let the designers switch them over to CMYKs for press.
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### Author:  [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/12 "2005-08-24T15:10:02Z")
**Garden Traveler** - nothing on the books at the moment, but it’s not outside the realm of possiblity, especially on route to our TN anchor dates in spring/summer.
**Nemo** -
> [@](#):
>
> The pages are square on my screen (which is rectangular) and they’re off-center to the left half of the screen. I get about one inch of white space to the left and four inches of white space to the right. They also seem to be slightly elevated; there’s a small gap at the bottom of the screen but the border is just offscreen at the top.
>
> _The off-center thing is a result of my rushing throuh and getting the site up so quickly - I started designing Monday afternoon and had to get it up by yesterday - that design was the quickest way I knew to make sure it was good with most resolutions (I’m pretty new at this design thing)_
>
> The picture, logo, fonts, and colors overall are nice. But I don’t like the white lettering of the links against the pale green background.
>
> - Thanks - but what pale green background? it shows up on all my machines as a light tan\*
>
> I’d recommend you have the band members bio and band history in its own section rather than just in the Press section.
>
> - That was a conscious decision on my part - we very much market the group as an ensemble, and don’t want the relatively large past accomplishments of some members to overshadow that of the younger members. In fact, we only peripherally touch on bio and history in the press release as well - it’s more about the sound and what we’ve done musically as a group.\*
>
> But overall a very good site. It’s effective in conveying its message and well-designed.
>
> _Thanks!_
>
> Nitpicking:
>
> You wrote contragulate instead of congratulate.
>
> _Noted_
>
> What’s “super kind camping”?
>
> - a nod to our stoner fans\*
>
> You wrote Ftichburg instead of Fitchburg on your August 31 announcemnet.
>
> _Noted_
>
> Shouldn’t it be under instead of underneath in “as protected by copyright underneath the Creative Commons License”?
>
> _Noted_
>
> On the More News page, “gas prices they way they are” should be “gas prices the way they are”.
>
> _Noted_
**Friedo**
Thanks! That’s been our tagline since inception, so the fans know it well. I’ll probably start pointing some simpler domain names at it soon.
**mhendo, pulykamell**
Yes, I wanted to keep them as CMYK because I don’t trust that all clubs or promoters will know the difference by a long shot. And the printing of promo materials is more important than random browsing, IMO, so I’d rather risk some surfers not being able to see the ridiculously large pics than some dumbass admin assistant deciding the colors are wrong and monkeying with the curves or saturation.
Thanks, everybody!
But by all means, keep the comments coming!
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/13 "2005-08-24T15:22:38Z")
> [@picker](#):
>
> **mhendo, pulykamell**
> Yes, I wanted to keep them as CMYK because I don’t trust that all clubs or promoters will know the difference by a long shot. And the printing of promo materials is more important than random browsing, IMO, so I’d rather risk some surfers not being able to see the ridiculously large pics than some dumbass admin assistant deciding the colors are wrong and monkeying with the curves or saturation.
Umm…that’s fine and all, but you have web-res images as CMYK. That makes no sense.
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### Author:  [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/14 "2005-08-24T15:43:41Z")
:smack: You’re right - I was thinking of the print and med-res.
Noted, thanks!
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### Author:  [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/15 "2005-08-25T01:32:34Z")
Looks very nice.
- The white links are a little hard to see, but it’s not bad.
- For a larger screen, the 800x600 size is tiny. I don’t think they make anything 800x600 anymore.
- Personally, I don’t like the iframe in the schedule. I’m a keystroke person, and it annoys me when I can’t use keys to move around. Also, it seems that the purpose of using the iframe is to ensure the footer stays in view. Which would be cool if the footer were something good looking, but instead it’s a copyright notice. The way I see it, copyright notices are a necessary evil. You want them around to protect your rights, but no sense in making it a highlight of the site.
- I would send the link to creativecommons in it’s own window, so you stay open.
- The initial photos are very small, especially considering the whole site is 800x600. I would do the thumbnails as two across.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2005, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-new-website-could-you-guys-check-it-for-me/318339/16 "2005-08-25T13:18:38Z")
I’m using Opera, screen res 1280/800.
On the home page, the heading “Don’t Miss This” is floating on top of the words on the bottom line of the paragraph above. Looks a bit messy.
Other than that and the off centre issue, it looks nice.