 | | Personal page —Tim Courtney
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| | | I just thought I'd post here to tell people I've been working a bit on my personal page. I've changed the format from silly and stupid to a bit more fringe artistic in the web community. Recently I met a student here on campus who is into the same (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.people) !
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| | | | | Re: Personal page —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) It might be fringe artistic, but it's not very clear what the user needs to do to go where. As a user of a site my desire is not to be wowed with art, but to be able to get where I need to go quickly and unambiguously. For a personal site (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | | "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G3Lq9n.6G5@lugnet.com... (...) more (...) to (...) you (...) I understand your point there. When I'm finished with it, it will probably have a bit more navigability (is that even a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Tim Culberson
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| | | | | | (...) I realize that I don't post much so you might not actually recognize me but... I would have to agree Larry. This has become a somewhat popular thing even among some major web developers but is known as "mystery-meat navigation" I believe. You (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | "Tim Culberson" <t_c_c@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3A07FEBF.A056D2...hoo.com... (...) websites, but I purposely chose this for artistic style. Not saying it cant' be better or little rollovers couldn't help while keeping the original intent, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | (...) I think it's fine that way, for a personal page. However, it maybe ought to be more consistent from section to section... (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Jude Beaudin
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| | | | | | | | | (...) What do you mean by more consistent? Do you mean the location of the navigation bar? Jude (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | | | "Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn90g5u8.ldt.....bu.edu... (...) original (...) to (...) How so? Graphical layout? Nav button placement? Anyways...I'm still trying to get over someone saying my work sucks. -- Tim (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Jude Beaudin
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I know how you feel Tim. ;-) I think people are not understanding what you are going for in design. Me, I like it, I like it a lot! I feel you are consistent in the inconsistencies. The nav buttons are always together in the same way but you (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | | | | | "Jude Beaudin" <shiningblade@home.com> wrote in message news:G3nwrG.8tD@lugnet.com... (...) ought to (...) Heh... but we all know the character of MM. (...) I (...) Ok. (...) always (...) thing (...) Thanks. What I'm ultimately going for being able (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | RE: Personal page —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | | | | | Tim Courtney (...) is, keep it simple. IMO, both of those sites are too busy, have too small text, and don't give me any information at all. Especially for the site of a company or organization, I want to know what the heck the company/org is and (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | | | | | "Bram Lambrecht" <BXL34@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message news:MABBIBJJFOJIOHD...wru.edu... (...) that (...) Valid point, but not coupled with appropriate disclaimers (if in fact that was the intention of his message) to keep me from taking offense to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) Be very carefull in making small text. Parts of Lugnet are very difficult for me to read (and I like small text). Part of that of course is that I've already set my font size small. Remember, most folks seem to like "large print" (I've finally (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Jennifer Clark
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) You are correct, good (or at least sensible) layout and artwork are just about essential if you want people to enjoy your site, although to say that "boring simplicity" is bad is not always true. For example, your content may be of great (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Graphical layout a little bit -- doesn't need to be the same, but needs to be tied together some how. Consistent nav button placement would help. (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Jim Hughes
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| | | | | | | | (...) Tim, first of all your personal site doesent suck at all, its pretty good. But it does look like a whole school of similar sites on the internet. There are 2 different diametrically opposed camps on site design. The Jacob Neilson camp (which (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) I'll just say this. When I evaluate web guys (and I do that a fair bit, since what I do is advise clients about how to get stuff done) in deciding whether to award them work, I look at whatever sites they have in their portfolio.. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | | | "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G3o2zq.1n5@lugnet.com... (...) Ok. (...) don't (...) from (...) Thanks for the advice. I believe I understand the correlation between ease of use and moneymaking on the web (and (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Personal page —Tim Culberson
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| | | | | | (...) You mean based on URL? Yeah I thought that might look like I was being a little nasty but I consider Vince Flanders to be one of the best in web design knowledge. Seriously, I did not mean to seem mean by choosing that URL Tim. (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: Personal page —Jude Beaudin
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| | | | | (...) I like it for what it is... a personal site. You did a good job with the graphics (not overloaded). When are you going to post a picture of Muffin? I guess you being a fan of The Holy Grail means you must have loved Josh and the Big Wall, eh? (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Personal page —Frank Filz
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| | | | You might want to check out your "me" page at different resolutions etc. When I look at it here at work, the sidebar pictures and the text overlap... (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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