StrangeDarkness ReDesign - Works In Progress

strangedar · August 2005

Hey guys just thought i'd get some opinions on my new design for an old site of mine strangedarkness.com.
I was geting a bit bored with it and no one was joining so I decided to try and make it a bit more interesting. I've been getting into digital art alot lately (esp. dark photo manips) so I decided to add that.

Anyway heres the basic idea for the new look: http://www.strangedarkness.com/SD-v2/
Constructive crit very welcome ...even if it is a bit harsh

PS
That eye is still a WIP - Just thought you should know...

pfgannon · August 2005

Im in a hurry so I'll have to make this brief.

Use some CSS and make the left nav text smaller.

CannonBallGuy · August 2005

Kinda messed up in Safari 1.3 on Mac OS 10.3.9

strangedar · August 2005

ah Crap.. Cheers CBG didn't realise .. too be honest I havent had time to browser check it yet so i'll need to do that soon...

fourtoone87: Did you mean use some CSS in my site? 'Cos I am... Or did you just mean use some to make the 'left nav' smaller. It isn't actaully navigation just google ad's in the place of usual naviagtion in the hope of more clicks...

EDIT: CBG is that all that's seen in safari, just the top? Any ideas on how to fix it?

EDIT02: OH fourtone87 did you mean the submission links? I see now... I should probably float the right or something shouldnt I? ... Will play with it later..

CannonBallGuy · August 2005

I can see more than that, I just only took a screenshot of the bit that was messed up.

strangedar · August 2005

Dont s'pose you know of nay little tricks I can use to just make changes that will only display in the saf browser?

CannonBallGuy · August 2005

There is a way to work out what browser the visitor is using...
Then, you can define separate stylesheets to be used depending on what the browser is...

EDIT: I asked about this on webmaster-talk a while back: http://www.webmaster-talk.com/showthread.php?t=27472

strangedar · August 2005

Thanks for can I use that to detect safari? From what oberon was saying it sounds like it can only be used for MSIE.. Or am I just not reading it right...

CannonBallGuy · August 2005

Uhm, It works for every browser... Unless I am reading it completely wrong?

strangedar · August 2005

Yeah you're right... Really need sleep.
Don't s'pose you'd be willing to take another screen shot after I added the code? Unless you know a site that will show me the site in safari for free... Oh wait actuall I might be ok .. I'm on another comp so I should be able to get a free trial @ broser cam again...

Thanks for your help CBG

strangedar · August 2005

OK I've tried fixing the problem but browsercam isnt showing any changes. I dont mean to sound like a bum but dont spose you could play with the safari stylesheet and see if you can fix the problem? It's ok if you cant, I completely understand but if you can i'll be eternally gratefull!

Safari Style: http://strangedarkness.com/SD-v2/style/safari.css

CannonBallGuy · August 2005

I have 2 possible ideas...
Changes are in bold.

1.

#content{
  min-height: 400px;
  padding: 0;
  padding-top: [b]25[/b]px;
  margin: 0;
  background: #000 url(../siteimages/eye_background.jpg) right top no-repeat;
}

#content h1{
	font-size: large;
	padding: 0;
	margin: [b]25[/b]px 0 10px 10px;
	color: #eee;
}

Maybe one of those will work... maybe both, maybe neither.
You could also add a margin to the top of the #content div, perhaps.

strangedar · August 2005

Yeah that's what I treid but I think I know why is wasn't working. I had the safari stylesheet before the main sheet so I guess the CSS from main.css was overriding safari.css. Will try again later.
Could I add you to my MSN so I could maybe give you a buzz when I've done it and maybe you could give it another look in safari?

CannonBallGuy · August 2005

Sure.

strangedar · August 2005

OK added. Made some changes to the safari.css if ou check this before I speak to you could you see if the changes worked?
Thanks for all your help!

CannonBallGuy · August 2005

Ugh, You've messed something up.
This is what I see:

0 ) $css = "safari.css"; else $css = "main.css"; ?>
Error 404
Sorry page not found...

And this is the source I can see:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<?php
if(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"Safari") > 0 ) $css = "safari.css";
else $css = "main.css";
?>
<html>
  <title>StrangeDarkness: Dark Art - Dark Poetry</title>
  <meta name="keywords" content="Dark Poetry, Dark Art, Poetry, Art, Dark Arts" />
  <meta name="description" content="Website to showcase dark art including digital
  art, photo manipulation and traditional art and dark poetry" />
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
  <link rel="StyleSheet" href="style/<?php echo $css; ?>" type="text/css" />
  <style type="text/css">
  @import url(style/main.css);
  @import url(style/navigation.css);
  </style>  
  </head>
  <body>
  <div id="wrapper">
  <div id="header"></div>
  <?php include('includes/nav.php'); ?>
  <div id="content">
  <h1>Error 404</h1>
  <p>Sorry page not found...</p>
  <div id="footer"><?php include('includes/footer.php'); ?></div>  
  </div>
  </div>
  
  </body>
</html>

Notice how I can see you'r PHP...

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