I finally put up the new siliconpopculture.com design. It’s mostly done so I figured I’d put it up since it was the one thing keeping me from posting new reviews. So, enjoy it and as always, your comments, queries, and thoughts are welcomed.

http://www.siliconpopculture.com/index/

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Brilliant! I have been anticipating the new look and I must say I love your new layout. The color scheme is also very pleasing with hints of subliminal mecha feel to it.

sweet be jezzes..  nice…

one suggestion…

i miss the lower letters

like re.VIEW instead of the RE.VIEW ahahha such a minor detail….

i dunno how that popped out on me

Looks good, groovy, nice job!

Erik

Very nice aesthetic touch gr00vy :drool:

BTW, just curious… did you make the whole site by html and rss editers?
I know it probably sounds stupid but I’m always curious if people actually write webpages in html or just use a GUI and then edit the html for things the GUI program is hindering them from…
It just seems like A LOT of time to make a website using an editer.  :ph34r:

Very nice work. The only thing I’m a bit iffy on is the drop shadow. Is the forum going to get a redux to match the new color scheme?

[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]I know it probably sounds stupid but I’m always curious if people actually write webpages in html or just use a GUI and then edit the html for things the GUI program is hindering them from…
It just seems like A LOT of time to make a website using an editer.  :ph34r:

Pros, especially coders, don’t use WYSIWYG-style editors. :wink:

I still can’t decide whether CSS is a blessing or the work of the devil.

[quote author=“Drachen”]Pros, especially coders, don’t use WYSIWYG-style editors. :wink:

I still can’t decide whether CSS is a blessing or the work of the devil.

WYSIWYG = ???????  You basically saying pro webpage makers DON’T use editors? The WYSIWYGSYGW really threw me off.

CSS a work of the devil?  You are talking about Cascading Style Sheets right?  What is evil ‘bout those?  I thought they are similar to modules from other languages like Python or C++; therefore making it easier to program webpages.

[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]WYSIWYG = ???????  You basically saying pro webpage makers DON’T use editors? The WYSIWYGSYGW really threw me off.

CSS a work of the devil?  You are talking about Cascading Style Sheets right?  What is evil ‘bout those?  I thought they are similar to modules from other languages like Python or C++; therefore making it easier to program webpages.

WYSIWYG is an aging term meaning What You See Is What You Get. It’s basically what you mean when you say GUI. I personally use Dreamweaver, but I only use code view.

CSS is nothing like libraries, modules or assemblies. Libraries are more-or-less containers for code that you can use in your application. CSS is just syntax for precisely placing and styling HTML elements. It also provides a shorthand for complex styles. The big problem is that CSS isn’t applied the same way across all the browsers.

Here’s a concrete example. Pay attention to the dark red border around the pictures in “Artists” on the upper right, “Video” on the middle left and “Ask the Artist” on the middle right.

Version 1 looks good in IE (baseline for this excecise) and in Opera, but the red boxes ‘merge’ in Mozilla/Netscape and in Safari.

Version 2 looks good in IE, Safari and Mozilla, but the images are off-center in Opera and overlap the red background box.

I’d have prefered to use version 2, but Opera’s rendering engine fucking the image alignment is unacceptable.

Nice… i’m looking forward to see new look of the forum section :wink:

Looks nice, it kind of reminds me of the current design aesthetic of Sony’s notebook line. The forums look good as they currently are, though it wouldn’t be too bad to have some skins to choose from. 

[quote author=“Drachen”]
It’s basically what you mean when you say GUI. I personally use Dreamweaver, but I only use code view.

All that money towards Dreamweaver… for a text editor?  :xeno:
Why program by code?  Isn’t it slower? Just viewing the source for http://www.siliconpopculture.com scares me…

[quote author=“Drachen”]CSS is nothing like libraries, modules or assemblies. Libraries are more-or-less containers for code that you can use in your application. CSS is just syntax for precisely placing and styling HTML elements. It also provides a shorthand for complex styles. The big problem is that CSS isn’t applied the same way across all the browsers.

Isn’t that more-or-less a problem with the browser rather than CSS themselves?

[quote author=“Drachen”]Here’s a concrete example. Pay attention to the dark red border around the pictures in “Artists” on the upper right, “Video” on the middle left and “Ask the Artist” on the middle right.

Version 1 looks good in IE (baseline for this excecise) and in Opera, but the red boxes ‘merge’ in Mozilla/Netscape and in Safari.

Version 2 looks good in IE, Safari and Mozilla, but the images are off-center in Opera and overlap the red background box.

I’d have prefered to use version 2, but Opera’s rendering engine fucking the image alignment is unacceptable.

I’m using MYIE2… both look fine to me except some minor shifting the artists’ names under the images.  Did you design that website?

[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]All that money towards Dreamweaver… for a text editor?  :xeno:
Why program by code?  Isn’t it slower? Just viewing the source for http://www.siliconpopculture.com scares me…

That’s actually pretty straightforward code. The only thing unusual are the RDF tags. Writing the actual code gives much more control over the outcome. To quote a movie, “After a while, I don’t see the code, just blonde, brunette, redhead…”

I’m a programmer as opposed to a designer, so I need that control and flexibility. If you have all the products you sell in a database, I’m the guy that tells the webpage how to retrieve and display the product you want. Until then, the webpage will look empty and broken in design view.

Yes, Dreamweaver is a horrible, memory-hogging bloated mess. My company had standardized on Coldfusion and for the most part used Coldfusion Studio. When we added a few people and *cough* legitimized a few licenses, Dreamweaver was the upgrade path.

[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]Isn’t that more-or-less a problem with the browser rather than CSS themselves?

Yes, but I have to deal with it. If you write a page in HTML 3.2, just about every browser on earth can render it properly. If you use complex CSS and JavaScript, you will find that your sites don’t work exactly the same for every browser. Most tend to blame IE (and not without reason), but as my above example shows, other browsers have problems too.

[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]
I’m using MYIE2… both look fine to me except some minor shifting the artists’ names under the images.  Did you design that website?

MYIE2 (haven’t you upgraded to Maxthon yet?) uses the IE rendering engine, so you won’t notice a difference. Use Firefox and Opera to see what I’m talking about. I didn’t do the design, but I did have a lot of input on it. I did the ASP.NET coding for the site. I also want to go on record saying that I have nothing to do with the forum.

WYSISYG sucks! It never works 100% right.

Dreamweaver is a decent program, but only in the code view…

Its more then a basic txt editor becuase it closed tags for you, runs through your code for errors…and once you create CSS you can easily link items.

Drachen - CSS is a blessing if used correctly. My personal site has a few CSS items…namely the background colors, text colors, link colors. This way, if I decide to change all the colors, it will take 2 seconds and everything will be uniform…

Erik

Wow, the website index looks very neat and nice…

is groovy or tifosiv the one renovated the website? i am just curious.. hehhe

btw, what weblanguage did groovy or tifosiv use to code it?

suriani

[quote author=“suriani”]Wow, the website index looks very neat and nice…

is groovy or tifosiv the one renovated the website? i am just curious.. hehhe

btw, what weblanguage did groovy or tifosiv use to code it?

suriani

I had nothing to do with it.

He used HTML, CSS, Javascripts, and the format was set with tables.

Erik