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So, I started a website - what should I do with it?
2010-01-16, 9:31 PM #1
In order to stave boredom during a particularly snowy winter break, I randomly decided to create a website. It's basically a blog, I suppose, dedicated to anything I deem interesting and unusual enough to post - language, politics, folklore, technology, and general weird stuff, mainly.

I haven't played with HTML or CSS in a number of years, so I'm quite rusty. I've done a number of small tweaks and adjustments, but have mainly left the default layout intact. I would love any comments or suggestions along those lines - what can I do to improve the design and layout? What about the fonts and colors? I'm thinking of putting a thin red border around the content, and a black background around that - would that look stupid?

Content-based feedback is appreciated too. Tell me honestly, are the things I posted even mildly interesting? Could you ever find it in yourself to read a blog like this? Thanks very much, everyone!
2010-01-16, 11:19 PM #2
Ha! I've got you beat by 11 minutes. It'd take me 1 Hour and 17 minutes to get infected. :p

Seriously though, looks like a good start.
2010-01-17, 6:43 AM #3
I was thinking about renaming my blog to "101 Ways JavaScript hates me"

Latest post:

What does the following function return, and why?

Code: 
function() {
  return
    1;
}


Hint: It's not 1

Not a bad site, though it does seem a bit plain, and I don't like the three-column thing, especially considering there's so little in the third column it doesn't seem worth it.

Switch to a two column layout, get rid of the "Recent Articles" (it would seem to be redundant) and the text blurb right below the tag cloud. I would also move the sign in link and the blog feed button to the very upper right corner of the site in the header.

Archives can go right below Search. Tag Cloud might be better put above Recent Comments since it's more likely to be used I think... the rest of the stuff in the third column should probably go into the footer, though the OpenID notice could be shrunk into an icon next to Sign In or maybe just put on the sign in page.

I dunno if Moveable Type supports it but you can see if you can only display the first one or two paragraphs of an article (might have to edit the articles to add a marker in) on the main page and you click through to read the rest. It'll make it easier to browse the most recent posts.

Oh yeah and you forgot a title in your <head> tag.

2010-01-17, 9:07 AM #4
Haha, it returns void. Semicolons aren't necessary so the return is parsed and executed before the 1.

I like this one:

'5' + 3 = 53

'5' - 3 = 2

+ is the concatenation operator for strings, so it converts the integer to a string. weak typing :suicide:
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2010-01-17, 10:27 AM #5
Close enough, it returns undefined. JavaScript has no void... >_>

I knew about +, though I can imagine it gets icky if you somehow have a number that gets cast into a string. I've never run into that though.

2010-01-17, 2:20 PM #6
Originally posted by Emon:
I like this one:

'5' + 3 = 53

'5' - 3 = 2


what? hahah..

This is why I just stick to JavaScript libraries instead of writing it myself.
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2010-01-17, 4:17 PM #7
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So, I started a website - what should I do with it?


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2010-01-18, 12:56 PM #8
Thanks very much for your suggestions! :) I'm going to try to implement most of them (especially Tracer's). MAZZTer, everything you said definitely makes sense.

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