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[EBrown]

Hey guys,
I have been working on a website template for a contest, and I was wondering if anyone would like to preview it and give me some ideas/recommendations on how I can improve it.

If you want to see it, shoot me a PM. (The template is for a contest, and I don't want to actually publicly display it until I either win or lose the contest.)

Fair warning, it works great on everything except IE. And it works fine on desktop browsers, but I have no Mobile version yet.

Again, if you want to see it and give me some pointers, send me a PM or post and I'll send you one. I'll make the link public Friday. (The contest ends Thursday.)

Thanks,
EBrown

[dlewis23]

PM Sent.

[EBrown]

PM Sent.

Sweet! (I already know you're a good designer, so I especially want your opinion on it. )

Thanks,
EBrown

[mudmanc4]

Consider this a sent PM

[EBrown]

Consider this a sent PM

Heh, I sent you the link and everything.

Thanks,
EBrown

[mudmanc4]

Well whats the story ?

I did like the template, real nice job. I was even more impressed with the explanations and reasonings , very well thought out for sure !!!!!!!

[CA3LE]

Send it to me too..

[EBrown]

Well whats the story ?

I did like the template, real nice job. I was even more impressed with the explanations and reasonings , very well thought out for sure !!!!!!!

Well, they extended the contest to midnight today...so I haven't got news back yet.

I did add some more text to it, if you want to read that as well. (It explains more about why I used real text and not Lorem ipsum.)

Send it to me too..

Well, since I just entered it in the contest, here it is:

http://evbpc.com/tem...simply_elegant/
http://evbpc.com/tem...y_elegant/?c=bp

That is the final of my official entry. I may update it later, but if I do I will add pictures of what it looks like right now.

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Anyone who views it, PLEASE do not use IE, it is not as sleek in IE as it is in, oh, Chrome for example. (And don't use Mobile browsers either...lol)

Thanks,
EBrown

[mudmanc4]

Microsoft must have some reason behind there lack of give a crap for advancements in web design.

It's become more then an issue. Say I create a site and use some of the latest CSS options ect , IE tosses them out and you get a square crappy looking outdated page. I have a customer I'm working with right now that has very real pissed offdedness over this. Sure ,I can do all the required fixes and I do most , at the same time , it's never the same.

[EBrown]

Microsoft must have some reason behind there lack of give a crap for advancements in web design.

It's become more then an issue. Say I create a site and use some of the latest CSS options ect , IE tosses them out and you get a square crappy looking outdated page. I have a customer I'm working with right now that has very real pissed offdedness over this. Sure ,I can do all the required fixes and I do most , at the same time , it's never the same.

Some of them IE supports, like the @font-face rule. The Border-radius is supported as well. But none of the transitions or animations are yet. (And if I recall right, Opera doesn't support animations yet.)

It's just one of those things. Microsoft won't support it until after it's a standard.

Thanks,
EBrown

[dlewis23]

Some of them IE supports, like the @font-face rule. The Border-radius is supported as well. But none of the transitions or animations are yet. (And if I recall right, Opera doesn't support animations yet.)

It's just one of those things. Microsoft won't support it until after it's a standard.

Thanks,
EBrown

The hole thing is screwed up how CSS3 stuff is supported in IE9. Gradients are a joke, you have to use a SVG but in IE8 you could use filters. I hope people rapidly switch to IE10 when it comes around if you stick with IE.

If everyone would just use Web-Kit we wouldn't have any of these problems...

The best solution is to make your CSS dynamic. Makes IE fixes so much easier.

[EBrown]

The hole thing is screwed up how CSS3 stuff is supported in IE9. Gradients are a joke, you have to use a SVG but in IE8 you could use filters. I hope people rapidly switch to IE10 when it comes around if you stick with IE.

If everyone would just use Web-Kit we wouldn't have any of these problems...

The best solution is to make your CSS dynamic. Makes IE fixes so much easier.

Go figure. Lol Microsoft is part of the group to set it up, but when it comes to implementing it, they make their implementation a big secret until five years later. Lol

I, personally, prefer Google Chrome because it syncs all my information between PC's. So I don't have to add the same bookmarks to each one, etc.

Thanks,
EBrown

[tommie gorman]

Sounds almost like a browser war .......... each to their own on that one I always say. IMO of course.

[dlewis23]

Sounds almost like a browser war .......... each to their own on that one I always say. IMO of course.

Its not a browser war, its just this one stupid browser (IE) that keeps screwing web developers making our lives so much harder and holding back what the web really can do. Its the only real reason why we still have flash sticking around and nothing works right in it.

If Microsoft would just switch IE to a web-kit based browser and pull a chrome with forced updates in the background the problems would be solved overnight.

[EBrown]

Its not a browser war, its just this one stupid browser (IE) that keeps screwing web developers making our lives so much harder and holding back what the web really can do. Its the only real reason why we still have flash sticking around and nothing works right in it.

If Microsoft would just switch IE to a web-kit based browser and pull a chrome with forced updates in the background the problems would be solved overnight.

It would heavily simplify things. And that is why they don't do it. Microsoft has serious ego problems. If there was one good thing someone else did, they won't do it.

Thanks,
EBrown

[mudmanc4]

It would heavily simplify things. And that is why they don't do it. Microsoft has serious ego problems. If there was one good thing someone else did, they won't do it.

Thanks,
EBrown

Wonder if anyone in the company ever took a minute to mention that being different does not necessarily mean going against the grain and disrupting much simply to gain very little or none.

That and my dog keeps farting.

[EBrown]

Wonder if anyone in the company ever took a minute to mention that being different does not necessarily mean going against the grain and disrupting much simply to gain very little or none.

That and my dog keeps farting.

Nobody in the company would say anything about it. They just say, "Yeah, fine. Whatever." I am sure someone has mentioned to the company that they should do things differently, but why would they listen? They are a billion dollar corporation, that can do things how they want, and people will buy it.

Thanks,
EBrown

[dlewis23]

Nobody in the company would say anything about it. They just say, "Yeah, fine. Whatever." I am sure someone has mentioned to the company that they should do things differently, but why would they listen? They are a billion dollar corporation, that can do things how they want, and people will buy it.

Thanks,
EBrown

They are doing stuff about it. IE10 kinda works. Its about 1/2 way there. The most common CSS3 stuff works really good. A few more of the advanced things need some work.

[EBrown]

They are doing stuff about it. IE10 kinda works. Its about 1/2 way there. The most common CSS3 stuff works really good. A few more of the advanced things need some work.

Well that's good, at least IE10 has hope. Of course, it won't fully work for a year or two yet, if they even get all the CSS3 stuff in IE10. They might not even get it all in it. I bet IE13 or IE14 have full CSS3 compatibility.

Thanks,
EBrown

[EBrown]

Haha, just realized my Windows 8 has IE10...and it actually supports all my CSS3...with the addition of using -ms-transition...>.<

Thanks,
EBrown