Happy New Year!
This being the busiest drinking day of the year, I can’t guarantee that I’ll have the ability to post anything from now until the second (sorry, folks, but I’m honest). Let me take the time to say happy new year and drive carefully. As of now, if you’re reading this, you are one of my first readers and as such I can’t afford to lose you (next year, maybe, but not this year). I figure my readers will drink at least as much as me (or maybe half as much). Make sure it’s good beer, not that cheap stuff, and drink plenty of water in and amongst the beer (or that lame fruity girly stuff that you drink). Water minimizes the hangover, though maximizes the bathroom time. It’s a trade off, but one that’s very worth it.
Keep the suggestions coming, and I’ll make fun of them. I’ll even make fun of me if need be.
Remember to comment on not just this blog, but all blogs that move you (even if they only move you to the next blog).
Now, it’s party time.
Drink up, for tomorrow is hangover.
Cheers!
Very useful post. Your current Website style rocks as well!
I was navigating the web looking for some cool stuff and came across your website. I just wanted to tell you that I think your site has some good pages and that I have already bookmarked the page so I can visit again soon! Fine job!
Aaron Reply:
December 20th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Commenting here is a scary prospect when your site needs so much work… I’m just sayin’…
I have beeing trying to find the WWW for such information and just wanted to say thanks to you for this post. Also, just off topic, where can i download a version of this theme? – Thanks
Aaron Reply:
December 12th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
There’s no information here. Just sucky websites. The Theme is a custom job, but is loosely based on the Japan Style theme.
Happy New Year Aaron
I don’t think you should bother about mark-up validation. See, Opera says that only 4.13% of all web is mark-up valid (http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/17/opera-just-413-of-webs-code-is-valid/). Todays browsers can handle invalid markup just fine so it’s the last thing you have to worry about. Duh, Google’s homepage isn’t valid
Aaron Reply:
January 3rd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
The whole thing was because of one forgotten quote on a target attribute. It was no big deal to fix. Though, I have noticed that there are several things in ancillary scripts for WordPress that need “fixin”. There are all sorts of extra spaces in the code that cause validation errors. Like you said, this in no way detracts fro the site, but some folks need to see that “valid” thing from 3WC.
Cute idea — I’ve seen it before on a few sites, but I have to say this is a hard path to walk. The code here has lots of little validation errors, including some deprecated code we don’t use at all anymore:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omfgthissucks.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
Which puts you on my site failure list already. The design look and feel of this site, although I wouldn’t say it’s bad, I don’t think it’s immune from criticism and doesn’t put you in strong position to call many sites bad by any means.
You’ve got even more issues with:
http://www.theakkadian.com
Deprecated tags, inline html styles, break tags when you should be using CSS — and again, a design that isn’t bad, but wouldn’t have cleared an Art Directors desk.
Open discussion: I’m not here to throw bile back and forth, but a site like this means you’re probably open to the discussion and the criticism. I hope it gets better with experience and time!
Aaron Reply:
January 1st, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Thanks for the input. The akkadian site is one of those things that isn’t used for much if anything, so dig it all you want. As stated in the text of this site, however, it was thrown up in a day and I’m still working on the validation and what not. I know this is a hard path, and as I go, things will get better…
Yes, indeed, we’re open to discussion and we have a sense of humor.
Thanks again, and anything people find useless here will be fixed eventually. As it turns out, and from your Bio / portfolio, you are a superdesigner, and you are the type person we’re trying to get people to seek out when they need work done.