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Critique my new website please Steven J. Sobol 04-24-2007
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Posted by Steven J. Sobol on April 24, 2007, 2:46 pm
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Been working on this thing on and off for a few months, tinkering and
adding stuff here and there.

http://stevesobol.com/blogged/

Was looking for constructive criticism. Also, the weather link is slow
to pull up - it takes a local copy of an XML file I grab from
Weather.com, and parses it, and it's a PHP class that I use for
parsing. I was wondering if maybe PHP has a built-in extension that
provides for XPath queries. I'm using PHP 4.3.11 and do not want to
upgrade to PHP 5 at this time.

I'm also using SWFobject for auto Flash detection. If you have flash
or Javascript turned off you'll see the non-Flash menu.

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Posted by Paul Watt on April 24, 2007, 6:38 pm
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> Been working on this thing on and off for a few months, tinkering and
> adding stuff here and there.
>
> http://stevesobol.com/blogged/
>
> Was looking for constructive criticism. Also, the weather link is slow
> to pull up - it takes a local copy of an XML file I grab from
> Weather.com, and parses it, and it's a PHP class that I use for
> parsing. I was wondering if maybe PHP has a built-in extension that
> provides for XPath queries. I'm using PHP 4.3.11 and do not want to
> upgrade to PHP 5 at this time.
>
> I'm also using SWFobject for auto Flash detection. If you have flash
> or Javascript turned off you'll see the non-Flash menu.
>

http://www.paulwatt.info/sobol.png

not the effect you was after i'd say! also i find the rotating flash thingy
anoying

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Posted by Steven J. Sobol on April 25, 2007, 12:45 am
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> http://www.paulwatt.info/sobol.png
>
> not the effect you was after i'd say! also i find the rotating flash thingy
> anoying

I think I'm going to include a switch to turn that off... set a cookie
or something for people who don't want to see it animate. Frankly,
that was my first use of Swift3D on an actual website... :) if you
browse the site with Javascsript or Flash turned off, you see a static
logo instead of the animation. I will probably just use that.

Regarding the screenshot, thanks... that looks like IE 7 on WinXP,
maybe? I'll definitely need to fix that.


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Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows
Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED

It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

Posted by freemont on April 25, 2007, 7:11 am
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:45:32 +0000, Steven J. Sobol writ:

> Regarding the screenshot, thanks... that looks like IE 7 on WinXP,
> maybe? I'll definitely need to fix that.

Looks more like Vista to me. ;-)

Note the start button and that dashboard whatever thingy.

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Posted by Steven J. Sobol on April 25, 2007, 10:04 am
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> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:45:32 +0000, Steven J. Sobol writ:
>
>> Regarding the screenshot, thanks... that looks like IE 7 on WinXP,
>> maybe? I'll definitely need to fix that.
>
> Looks more like Vista to me. ;-)
>
> Note the start button and that dashboard whatever thingy.

Yeah, yerright. I was focusing on the task bar which was set to Luna
blue, not Aero 3-d black (Luna being the default visual theme for XP).


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Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows
Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED

It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

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