Hi Everyone. I've just improved (hopefully) my site http://www.crazyhermit.com to include some of the things I've learned through the great Dexterity forums and articles. Please let me know where the site needs improvement. Feel free to pick apart even the smallest thing. I've got a thick skin so you won't hurt my feelings!

Thanks for your time!

I just wanted to comment that I love the name and logo you have for it on your site. :)

Looks really good.

Only two things...

There are some minor rendering bugs in mozilla based browsers. Just download firefox and take a look.

"Fortunately" IE has a bug, which can be used to work around some differences:

#somediv {
width: 410px; /* this one is for IE */
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family:inherit;
width: 390px; /* this one is for all other browsers */
}


Everything after voice-family: "\"}\""; is invisible for IE.

And the other thing... animations. They are distracting and degenerate the impression of the page a bit. I'm really sensitive to motion, therefore it's quite the drag. Imagine you want to read a book and 3 kids jumping around you screeming me me me look at me! ;)

As a member of the small percentage of paranoid (or IE-using, with all the security problems lately!) users on the web who disable scripting, ALL I get is a blank white page with the words "FREE Game Downloads!" in blue in the center.


(Yes, I know, MOST people have javascript. Most people also get viruses and spyware, and I don't. :) I also use lynx occasionally. I am strange.)

Thanks guys. I downloaded firefox and I see what you're talking about. I'll fix that up.

As for the Javascript the site is built about 95% from script. Any suggestions on how do handle those that don't have scripting enabled? I'm totally new at building websites so I'm pretty clueless.

Thanks about the logo and name. I'm really happy with those. Suits me perfectly too!

Any other opinions on the animations? I was worried the page looked kinda dead and boring without them.

@papillon

If you use IE, disabling scripting doesn't help. You can just create another declared as "safe" context and script from that... or bounce of build in error messages to execute scripts.

Just switch to another browser. Firefox with everything enabled is saver than IE with everything turned off (plus all patches).

@hermit

>As for the Javascript the site is built about 95% from script.

Hadn't believed you, but you really told the truth. Ugh. Use php instead and generate the page serversided and not client sided. I also guess that google or other search engines won't be able to spider through the page flawlessly.

What you can keep is that email cloaking script... just show an image instead if js is disabled (noscript block).

Yeah, yeah, I know, Firefox good, and IE has problems even without scripting. But it does *help*, especially back before other browsers were so common and helpful (and doing side business in porn, I had to be on a lot of sites where you do NOT want js running! :) ) Will get around to it eventually. I was just sort of amused when the 'official' recommendations of what to do about several IE vulnerabilities lately were "Use another browser or turn off scripting."

Hadn't believed you, but you really told the truth. Ugh. Use php instead and generate the page serversided and not client sided. I also guess that google or other search engines won't be able to spider through the page flawlessly.

Exactly. You are hurting an otherwise very nice looking site with the Javascript setup. The only function you have to learn in PHP to get rid of that mess is "include()". Check out www.php.net

I didn't realize this whole Javascript setup would give me grief.

I'm looking into PHP. Not sure what you mean by "include()" being the only thing I need to learn. Won't I have to rewrite the entire JS file too?

I hope there's still room in my little pea brain for learning something new!

Yes, you definitely have a lot of rewriting to do. I just mean you don't have to learn complex server-side scripting or how to connect to a database or anything like that.

http://www.php.net/include/

This is the magic pony that allows you to generate an HTML page out of multiple files.

I get it. Thanks.

I like your website in general, it is quite nice.

Things that I would change:
- I find the animations distracting. Maybe it is because they are at the top/side, so it draws the attention away from the center of the page. I _want_ to look at the center, but my eyes get drawn away.

- I find the text pretty small. It is hard for me to read. I would make it larger.