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"Spank me, I've been a naughty monkey!!!"

I've broken almost every rule in the web design book of common sense by using a frameset within a frameset, layers to position the content and a huge chunking image for the background. Yet it rocks! I made a site for my uni course and you can check it here and tel me what you think:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.whiston/musictech
Beware!

It's just a make.

Thats a Mackie? ggrrr, still analogue...
ADAT..*drools* wanna get one but it's stupid paying £1,000+ for them!
the page looks good.

Fogmaster wrote:
the desk in that
> pic is nice, shame its analogue, get a digi! + didn't realise you were studying
> Music Tech...

It's a Mackie! Apparently it cost £10,000, so I'm very careful with it. The rack system to the side is a bit crappy, but the idea is to record onto ADAT and then transfer to CD via PC. 's fun. I'll have some pics of the drum kit I miked up on there soon.

funkygamer wrote:
> monkey_man wrote:
> The problem with that is bloody netscape. To center it
>
> bot x and y, it would take something stupid like a
> browser check
> and two sets of code. I couldn't be
> bothered with that.

Now go and
> get a job as a web developer and tell that to your clients, then see how long
> you last in the job.

I'm not joking when I say frames are crap. You can live
> without them, in the long run, they cause more problems than thet solve. I said
> it before and I'll say it again, how many of the worlds best known sites use
> frames??? Not many thats' for sure.

I know, I know, it's all been said before. But for this one instance, when my lecturer and me will be using a uni computer with the stupidly large connection they have and they use IE, it doesn't matter - although miraculously the site works in Netcape (for now, I haven't finished). Plus it was, like, 2 in the morning. What crazy foo' would be up at that time?

monkey_man wrote:
> The problem with that is bloody netscape. To center it
> bot x and y, it would take something stupid like a
> browser check and two sets of code. I couldn't be
> bothered with that.

Now go and get a job as a web developer and tell that to your clients, then see how long you last in the job.

I'm not joking when I say frames are crap. You can live without them, in the long run, they cause more problems than thet solve. I said it before and I'll say it again, how many of the worlds best known sites use frames??? Not many thats' for sure.

I don't think it would take more/less time with the space,

the desk in that pic is nice, shame its analogue, get a digi! + didn't realise you were studying Music Tech...

Whooo Style! wrote:
good to see
> someone else daft enough to be up at this time..

Heh, nobody else is daft enough to be up now though : )

Not sure about what the site is about, but then again, my screen is at 16 colors until i sort out the graphics card...

Oh, and just a quick question: When i taught myself style sheets, i learned the format as having a lot of spaces between things, eg:
...
p.styled { color : red ; font-size : large }
...

whereas when i (finally!) got to the source code here, the way the style sheet was written would give the following code for the example above:
...
p.styled{color:red; font-size:large}
...

Obviously this is much easier to write, far less messing around with the space bar, i was just wondering whether there is any reason not to do it this way (browser compatibility, 'poor form' etc).

Anyone?

I got it down to 87k, which in theory should take 2 seconds on a 56k modem. I have 64k broadband and it's having none of it. 15 seconds at least! Man I've got the munchies.

Probably. The problem with that is bloody netscape. To center it bot x and y, it would take something stupid like a browser check and two sets of code. I couldn't be bothered with that. I tried for ages to get that huge pic to a decent download size, but alas it wasn't to be without losing the jist of what the picture is about. The idea is that it would be all layers and that I coul hide content and show it when the user clicked - instead of loding a new page each time. Although the image is cached, it makes the screen shudder sometimes when a big thing like that happens. Christ that was a long sentence for this time of night. My head hurts now.

monkey_man wrote:
> What, my site?

nah, the topic..

good to see someone else daft enough to be up at this time..