[riceraver]

heylo all. I'm currently working on my design for my new personal site: http://www.firstreality.net

First venture into php too! yippie! There's no content really but that'll come after i finalize the template.

So what do you guys think? I'm going for the minimalistic style this time around.

[riceraver]

umm.. whoops.. i thought i did this in the sitecheck forum.... stupid eyes.. can't see right anymore. :D

[codeman]

Sweet entrance page.  Nice graphic, I like the colors.  The site loads QUICK!  I took a look at the source and found a pre-load image script, smart.  The transparent buttons are awesome.  I like the font for the buttons.  Nice Work!

[riceraver]

Thanks! The reason the site loads soo quickly is because of php and css..

You are only looking at one page, but the php script loads the content dynamically. yippie!

[skyhawk133]

#Moderation Mode

Moved here

[capty99]

hey ricey, didnt know you were over here @ dic. nice 2 see you. i like the site. specially the background images , and how the whole site fits together pretty much seemlessly.

[riceraver]

thanks capty.. yeah i'm around here once in awhile. Still a fk baby at heart though..lol... but it's nice around here.. much smaller.

[DoubleC]

Hey y0, I think its an awesome site. :0}

[Quizzical]

Nice site.
I like the php implementation (how did you do it?) and the background and the general layout is good.
I also like your footer image but thats something else.
You are very good at imagery.

[Sonic]

nice

don't know about the four lines on the left though

you try just one thin one that matches the height of your text?

[riceraver]

I tried one line but it looked to bare. I'm thinking of maybe reducing it to 3 lines... i dunno.

Thanks for the comments! Now i just need time to finish it!

[jaredigital]

i'm proving to everyone that i'm not lazy!!! look, mom, i'm typing a site check!!!

like i told ya, ricey, the site looks cool. i like the green color and the minimalist graphics approach, my favorite kind of design. but no slacking off now, okay? i wanna see something in that portfolio toot sweet!!!!!

:p

[riceraver]

hahaha... maybe I should say that my portfolio is "recharging" :D

[gneato]

Nice.

I hate the Dreamweaver rollover code though. Slow as ####.

Here's some code I wrote, really fast and easily customizable. It works with Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla and others.

<script language="Javascript">
//  Begin Javascript Rollovers

loadimg = new MakeArray(5)
//make sure this number ^  is greater than
//     the number of images to preload.
//
//  list all the images you want to be preloaded
//
       loadimg[1].src = "images/first.gif"
       loadimg[2].src = "images/first_on.gif"
       loadimg[3].src = "images/second.gif"
       loadimg[4].src = "images/second_on.gif"

function MakeArray(n)
       {
       this.length = n
       for (var ii = 1; ii<=n; ii++)
               {
               this[ii] = new Image()
               }
       return this
       }

function over(imgname){

//
//  you can change the
//    "images/" + imgname + ".gif"        
//             and
//    "images/" + imgname + "_on.gif"
//  to match your image naming method.
//
document.images[(imgname)].src="images/" + imgname + ".gif";
}
function out(imgname){
document.images[(imgname)].src="images/" + imgname + "_on.gif";
}
// end
</script>

The links look something like this then...

<a href="first.shtml" onmouseover="over('first');" onmouseout="out('first');"><img src="images/first.gif" width="125" height="26" alt="First Image" border="0" name="first"></a>