glimpse at life template

[jagX]

First, since there is such a graceful requirement to validate, about validation:
I think, that validators are machines, and they are a good reference but they are not an absolute reference. Anyways, I don't want to argue but only mention ahead of time that my css does not validate because of the opacity elements. There. Phew!
Now, the reason I'm posting is to get more than 2 opinions about peoples' interest in simplistic templates. And I really mean simplistic. I do not, however, mean unfunctionnal.
My template was modded with php addons and my own code, not only html and css. Most of the design (if any) was done with css and html. I do use js but it is degradable without big artistic loss and certainly without functional loss. Also, the site was tested with IE and FF from Win and Safari from Mac, it should look good in most browsers, but I can't be sure.
So, tell me what you think.

http://glimpseatlife.ca/pblog/

Oh, almost forgot, I use pixelpost 1.4.2 (yes, I'm stubborn and do not want to upgrade)

[dankster]

it has almost no style.

[Joe[y]+]

i like the about page but that's about all really. for example, the contact page is a totally different design to the rest.. it doesn't really fit in.

i like the browsing for previous and next on the image though - but that's nothing new.

[jgrayson]

please don't take any offense by this but i think the main reason why your site isn't validating is because the coding is really bad. the site doesn't even work in safari. the main page shows the top nav and main photo justified to the left (i believe it is supposed to be centered in the browser). the photo title rollover isn't working. i click on the main photo and the comments appear for a spilt second below the photo, then disappear and the main photo doesn't change. i click on the thumbnails page and all i see is a black box with only a few images that appear when i rollover them but then turn back to black..... then my browser crashed big time.

you are the only pixelpost blog that has ever crashed my browser.... in fact, i think you are the only site to ever crash my browser.

and for the record, safari can handle transparent/opaque styles.

[jagX]

Originally Posted by jgrayson

please don't take any offense by this but i think the main reason why your site isn't validating is because the coding is really bad. the site doesn't even work in safari. the main page shows the top nav and main photo justified to the left (i believe it is supposed to be centered in the browser). the photo title rollover isn't working. i click on the main photo and the comments appear for a spilt second below the photo, then disappear and the main photo doesn't change. i click on the thumbnails page and all i see is a black box with only a few images that appear when i rollover them but then turn back to black..... then my browser crashed big time.

you are the only pixelpost blog that has ever crashed my browser.... in fact, i think you are the only site to ever crash my browser.

and for the record, safari can handle transparent/opaque styles.

None taken. Now I'll know how to use my website against people I do not like...

As for the crashes, check your computer, because I tested my site on Tiger/Safari and it worked like a charm. If you have older versions, all I can say is UPGRADE. I appreciate the detailed description but I have not noticed any of this behaviour with IE/WinXp, FF/WinXp and Safari/Tiger OS X. Pretty chaotic, the way you describe it. Doesn't look to me like a code problem.

As per validation, I never believed in standards. So I really don't give a poop if a somebody says my site is not conformant to some rules he made up. Every browser interprets rules in the way it's coders felt like, so the best site is not the one that validates by a program, but in real world testing, that is partly the reason I posted here. I can't physicaly have tested it with every piece of hardware and software possible. Besides, there are too many standrads to validate against XMLS, HTML, CSS, CSS2, CSS3 etc.

Anyways, thanks for the feedback.

[jgrayson]

Originally Posted by jagX

As for the crashes, check your computer, because I tested my site on Tiger/Safari and it worked like a charm. If you have older versions, all I can say is UPGRADE. I appreciate the detailed description but I have not noticed any of this behaviour with IE/WinXp, FF/WinXp and Safari/Tiger OS X. Pretty chaotic, the way you describe it. Doesn't look to me like a code problem.

i'm always running the latest software.... in fact, i updated to 10.4.7 this afternoon right after it was released.

are you running 10.4.7? if not then maybe there's an issue with safari in 10.4.7.

when i get a chance later on i'll take some screen captures on your site so you can see what i see.

john

[cbtoday]

I think it's not bad at all, I have no idea why they think it's no style. I just dont quite like the font, other than that, it's good.
Less is more.

[jimhere]

The tumbnail page freaks out my Safari, too.

[jgrayson]

Originally Posted by jimhere

The tumbnail page freaks out my Safari, too.

it's still crashing my safari.... and on two different machines.

[jagX]

Thanks guys, for not abandoning me. I will try to change things around and will post when I think it is good. Thanks again, since I don't have Safari at home, I could only check my site quickly at an electronics store and didn't have time to load all pages and click all the links.

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