New baker in the house!

[ben]

Hi everyone,

Well I found WebsiteBaker early last week and what can I say, I fell in love! So easy to use in comparison to all the other CMS's I had tried. Plus I love the module system, i've already written one module, GDPics, an image gallery using the GD library. Anyways this is off topic, i'll post about that in the modules forum!

This post is meant to be about my first WebsiteBaker site, http://www.flatcube.org. It's just a personal site, not much on there at the moment except for photos from my trip to europe last year but now that I can easily add content I haven't got any excuses left!

Check it out as i'd love some feedback, good or bad  

Cheers,
Ben.

[bupaje]

Hi Ben. Looks good -and the module looks great as well. Only suggestion is you might want to put the page in a table to control the width or make the header tileable since on a higher resolution the middle of the page grows and the logo area does not and the footer tiles so you see another copy of it starting on the right.

[fienieg]

Hi ben

And welcome to the WB community, it's a great looking site!

[rabsaul]

Very nice looking site, Ben. My only aesthetic quibble is that your little nav and login components look kind of funny squished against the browser window, particularly with so much space in the other direction. Very nice site, though.

Welcome to WebsiteBaker!

[ben]

Hi everyone,

Thanks so much for all the feedback!

bupaje: thanks for the tip. I like to try and only use css if possible so I found a way to do what you suggested but using css.

rabsaul: I think you must've looked at my site while I was doing the fix bupaje suggested! If you get a chance have another look, the menu shouldn't be hard up against the browsers edge. If it is let me know what browser and version your using.

So I think now it should look ok in both 800x600 and 1024x768 res. I've tested it with Firefox 1.0 and IE6. If anyone isn't using those browsers and has a look at my site i'd love some feedback as to how it looks.

Cheers,
Ben.

[bupaje]

Nicely done ben. Like to redo mine at some point to get rid of all my mix and match tags and styles. Probably will wait till WB3.0 since I'm guessing I'll have to make some changes then anyway. Will be testing your gallery this week.

[jakob]

hi ben,
your site looks very good!
i did some browsertesting:
winXP
IE 5.01 - layout breaks apart
same with IE 5.55
netscape 7.1 and opera 7.54 works fine.

Mac OSX 10.3

Safari and FF are ok
IE 5.2 works with just minor glitches


@all: you can download standalone IE 5.01 and IE 5.55 under http://www.skyzyx.com/downloads/
these work with IE 6.0 already installed. Great for testing your css!

[Woudloper]

@all: you can download standalone IE 5.01 and IE 5.55 under http://www.skyzyx.com/downloads/
these work with IE 6.0 already installed. Great for testing your css!

For the Dutch readers under us, you can here read a Dutch guideline howto work with different versions of Internet Explorer.

I only suggest to only check you site with IE5.5 and IE6, as all the other browsers are very old and now one should be using them anymore as they have many errors. Even IE6 is 4/5 years old...

[jakob]

@woudloper:

well, it depends whos your target audience. Some of my customers still work with macOS 9.x.
these guys still use NS 4.x (or, if you are lucky, IE 5.1)

its a webdesigners nightmare, but there are still some people outside using OLD browsers. some of them may happen to pay your bills.

[fienieg]

Mmh, i'll give them a free upgrade, if there still using IE4.0 or NS4.x
And i don't hope that my clients have those installed!  

[ben]

@ Jacob: thanks for the browser testing and the link to the stand alone IE's! Bit bothered by my layout breaking in IE 5.55, i'll have to look into that.

As for the rest of them I see it as a time issue really. You can spend the extra hour, 2 hours, day, whatever making your design compatibable with older browser versions but because the percentage of people using them is so small it's hard to justify that extra time.

Of course for some sites it could be very justified, if you knew for example that a majority of the users were on older browsers. But for this site i'm happy getting it viewable from IE5.5 and up.

Of course if I was a better CSS coder it probably wouldn't be an issue or if some browser companies actually conformed to the standards!  

Cheers,
Ben.

[fienieg]

Of course if I was a better CSS coder it probably wouldn't be an issue or if some browser companies actually conformed to the standards!

I wished this was true, then we didn't need all those css hacks, to make it atleast viewable with other browsers

[rabsaul]

That's better, Ben. Good work!

[Eduard]

Anyway, it's a clean design and I like it...

Regards, Eduard

~=iii=(  Just a trumpet player...

[crumbut]

Very nice