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Baney Design

November 10th, 2008 Category: Portfolio

8 comments to “Baney Design”

  1. Thomas Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 4:54 am

    I love it !

  2. James Davidson Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 5:28 am

    This is just not acceptable for BWG, sorry!

  3. James Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    their logo is nast, but nice site other then that

  4. author Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    big! makes me feel like the old 800×600 monitor days.

  5. Geeves Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    The site is huge… doesn’t fit much into 1024×768. 1. Fonts are incorrect.
    font-family: Lucida Sans, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

    There is no Lucida Sans on a PC… there IS however, Lucida Sans Unicode or a Lucida Sans Regular.

    Also. I really really hate sites that claim to be CSS & XHTML valid when the developer clearly hasn’t tested or validated it… if he/she had, they would have seen the 27 validation errors like I had displayed after running it through the W3C validator.

  6. Don Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    Geeves: huh? I’ve got Lucida Sans and Lucida Sans Unicode, but no Regular. Wikipedia seems to think Lucida Sans exists too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_safe_fonts

    I couldn’t tell you where I got it, but it exists on my PC. I also see web design leaders like Jason Santa Maria referencing it on his site: http://jasonsantamaria.com/

    As for the website: this huge trend needs to go. Are we overcompensating for the days of pixel fonts and 8px body text? Let’s just meet in the middle on this.

  7. Geeves Says:
    November 20th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    Well, if you have a look at the css for jasonsantamaria.com, you’ll see that he references Lucida Sans Unicode and two other variants.

    See css from Jason’s site below:
    body {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    font-family: “Lucida Sans Unicode”, “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans”, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    color: #333;
    background: #fff;
    }

    “I couldn’t tell you where I got it, but it exists on my PC”… If all web developers made this assumption, we’d be in a lot of trouble.

    NEVER ASSUME. Design and develop how you’d like things to appear, but make sure things can gracefully degrade.

  8. Adam Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 6:15 pm

    Yes, this is my site. I am proud of it. I spent a lot of time learning WordPress these past few months. With this, my first WP site, I have created a fully functional blog and portfolio (all run by WP).

    I designed the site to fit in a 1024×768 monitor, and even tested it in IE6, Win XP (undoubtedly the world’s worst browser). So, I know it works fine there.

    I came to the conclusion with the W3C, that their “web standards” testing through their website is not completely accurate. I have had many client sites that work just fine (even in IE), and when I run them through the W3C, the site’s code has errors! I examine the errors, and almost all of them are unnecessarily marked as errors. I think the W3C needs to re-evaluate their code testing service. I know that testing my code through their service won’t matter because with my newest site (finished in late 2008), I have gotten more than twice the amount traffic through it than I had before and more people contacting me about work. I am very conscientious about websites working in all major browsers across all platforms. I even use table-less design utilizing CSS and XHTML. I am confident in my knowledge in this.

    Thank you for the heads up on the “Lucida” font issue. I will add that to the CSS. I almost never use a PC any more. :)

    I sort of understand why you think it is a trend. I can understand that my logo is a bit because of the gloss effect, but the entire site is unique. Actually, I don’t really like too much use of the gloss effect, but it worked in this case, making my logo “pop” more against a matte background. I don’t like trends. I don’t even listen to POP music. I like unique.

    Thank you for all of your critiques. I am always interested to hear what others think (since none of my friends do web design and I can’t converse with them on this topic too much).

    As all designers, I am continuously looking for ways to improve. It seems harder to get a site just right for myself that I like. I am currently working on a more professional site (which is before I read these critiques). I am about to step up my line of services, marketing, and even design to an even more professional level. Keep checking back frequently to see all of the developments…

    Thank you all once again for your help and encouragement. Please let me know if there is anything I can do for any of you in design, critiquing, or just as a contact.

    Adam

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