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- Interesting article and comments. A couple of things to consider: 1. Open Office 3.0 for the Mac or Google Docs 2. The faster startup (boot and hibernating) and lack of crashing OS can really...
- I really like the approach you've taken into prove the price specifications, cause at the end of the day, it is a yesterdays fact, that Mac is more expensive than PC, nevertheless you have...
- I didn't know you were a fanboy. When did that happen?
- You can create PDFs with a little program called PDF Converter 5 Pro from Buy.com for $99. Throw in a copy of OpenOffice software and the Dell is cheaper than the Apple. I don't buy it.
- Totally agree that many companies should not consider the Apple solution. That said, most 'no' answers are based on the pricepoint of hardware and in many cases, the TCO is actually cheaper...
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I love this new version of the site, but I'm almost sick of looking at it now!
Oh, btw, the only bit of the site that's fluid is the nav container with the blue background... Most of it's glued in place pretty solidly...
A fluid layout on this design would be a pain because of the three nav images, the content column would have to fit under them to give the page it's grid-like sensibility, but obviously the images won't stretch as the content would... It would throw out most of the design's grid and most likely look crap... That's why I made it fixed, but I forgot to tell you!
Sorry man, didn't mean to make a liar out of you!
Thanks again! Hope y'all like it!
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Jonic: You made it come alive man. :)
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I should note four things (not because I'm anal .. because I think you would want to see some feedback!)
1) While my screen is minimum 1152x864 .. I often read in my bloglines, then click on a headline and up pops a window .. not full screen image view. In Here, your top search field and input button right aligns to the size of window. When that happens, despite scroll bar to see the full screen and right columns .. the top "Subscribe to Technosailor" block disappears. I guess that's because of the fluid width over the two sidebar columns. It wouldn't work i.m.o. having the fluid width over the text because it's nice centered below the 3 images - Maybe you don't need fluid width with a 1024×768 view?
2) Unless "The Current" has great significance to you personally .. just having that as "HOME" would work just as well and maintain some normality!
3) Is it possible to increase the pixel size of the main text column words? It's too small for me - I normally just go straight to View/Text Size/ from my IEv7 window and just increase the text size for readability - all the other text looks too big with that orange and distracts you from the reading.
4) And finally .. the top "Your Opinion" right-aligned image on the posts cover the text of the second line of words .. perhaps adding some type of "hspace" to your CSS for boxes and images?
Oh - Bonus suggestion .. with the advent of Photoshop .. I would like to see AARON in a "Pretty Little Box" graphic somewhere ... maybe you standing in a Pirate's treasure chest? Hmm. Some box. Maybe. Maybe not.
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Stacie: Gotcha :)
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and speaking of nautical terms ... it would be nice if you "Anchor"ed your name in the header title - so we see the name Technosailer in the tabs/top of page. It currently just says "[post title] - Technology, Blogging and New Media". It's nice when you have many windows opened in addition to tabs, and see them stacked up on your task bar - with a name for easy reference.
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wanted to say congrats... looks awsome :)
There is however a weird "checkbox" appearing on the right side, in one of the adverts...
Check it out: http://dropbox.aplosmedia.com/techno-checkbox.png
Regards,
Eric
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Funny, I couldn't figure out what it's purpose was, and I kept clicking it wondering when it was going to take me to some site :p
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Nice to read your observations on why you went by this look. The idea of having a good sidebar has really got me thinking on getting to work on my blog sidebar to make it better targetted.
Just one thing I would like to ask is why is your feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/technosailor/YXQk
I mean the YXQk at the end? Is it because of the feedburner redirector plugin?
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I think the plugin assumes that whoever's using it doesn't know what feedburner is...
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The Notify me of followup comments below doesn't have a checkbox to uncheck... or is it just me? I noticed the same on Firefox and IE.
Would love it if you can provide me your comments on my blog...
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I'll say it's all in massaging the Loop. Using the posts_* filters provided by WordPress (but undocumented, so you'll have to play with them) and a lot of patience. Even once you filter the query through filters, the Loop still likes to reorder the posts by ID so I had to to reorder the posts array when it was all done. It was ugly.
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Most of the issues that have been raised in this discussion have been corrected, and it's not looks exactly like it was supposed to.
Leave a note here if you have a bug report/further suggestion :)
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Also, in the Conversation view, "receive" is misspelt!
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