New Website Look

I've reworked my web site. It was looking a bit more like the uniform of a NASCAR driver than a web site, so I reworked the layout to make it cleaner. I admittedly stole many of my ideas from other web sites and templates I saw.

The other reason for the change was to eliminate ViewState.  I noticed my pages ballooning from the sheer size of the HTML that was being generated, much of it as ViewState.  I've eliminated ViewState in almost every case.  For example, the size of the HTML of my home page was reduced from 134K to 48K.  That's just HTML size, not images...so the real size change should be even more dramatic.

Let me know what you think and if you find anything not working.  Thanks!

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Like the new layout, one gripe though, could we have black text on white background. I find that after looking for a while at white on black, I get afterimages
- or is that just my bad vision ??

Keep up the good blogging

Cheers,
Steve C.

SteveC (Posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 )

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Thanks Steve. I went back and forth on this a while. I code with white on black because I think its easier to read, but i'll keep that in mind!
Thanks for the input.

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 )

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Looks good Shawn! Is this your work?

Sahil Malik (Posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 )

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If you mean, did I do the web design and programming? Yes.

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 )

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Umm yeah, thats what I meant :).

Okay so bug #1 - when I click on the "Title" in bloglines, it takes me to a filenotfound page.

Sahil Malik (Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 )

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I'll check it out and make sure that the URL's are setup right. Otherwise, it might be a bloglines issue.

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 )

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I know this is an older post, so I hope you see this comment. I think I may be seeing an issue similar to what Sahil reported regarding the URL's for post titles. The links for post titles do not appear to be resolving to "real" URL's In RSS Bandit (v. 1.5.0.10) either. For instance, the title for this post links to http://5b562506-730a-475b-a088-49444144c4ac/5b562506-730a-475b-a088-49444144c4ac in RSS Bandit.

Running your RSS feed through feedvalidator.org it complains about all of the guidisPermalink elements found in the feed ("guid must be a full URL, unless isPermaLink attribute is false:..."). For this post, the value in the RSS is as follows: <guid isPermaLink="true">5b562506-730a-475b-a088-49444144c4ac</guid>).

The site looks great from the browser though.

Mike Prilliman (Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 )

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No bloglines is still broken.

Sahil Malik (Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 )

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It should be fixed when the next build runs (in the next few minutes) Thanks for letting me know.

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 )

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Now that's what I call speedy service! The title links are now working correctly from my feed aggregator.

Obviously you have never worked for Comcast...

Mike Prilliman (Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 )


 



 
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