[cody44]

Those dashes are actually gif images to outline and strengthen the borders. Nothing wrong with that is there ?????????????

As for the CSS (Turn off) why the hell would I design a site with CSS only to turn them off..............so I should not use CSS!!!!!!! I dont think so.

A lot of people shy away from XML and XHTML, Mainly because they have templates pre made!!! they are only use to html design and have never progresses from the college handouts...................you tell me that xhtml validation is a waste of time............further instills my believe that because you cant take the time and trouble of validating, it means 'fuck all' to you..............and yet w3c validation is the grounding for all standards of coding - NOT THE CONTENT of the design.

Sometimes design can be 'thinking out the box' and sometimes it can mean going against the grain. Refer back to posting title 'constructive' feedback.............the site is not a sacrifical lamb............I am a big boy and take critisism...................but not at the attitude you come in at and certainly not at your expense.

Take aside the AGGRESSION in the posts, there is some 'constructive' critisism that I have filtered out the crap and will find it useful, summary being im very happy with the site, although, there are design issues need resolving, hence posting the site on here, I have also looked at your 'feedback' and wonder if thats the best attack from you ( A DEVELOPER!) then I am very content i am going in the right direction.

I believe maybe you should also join a few forums to study 'interpersonal interaction' and Social skills...............Think you fail to understand that because you have done a few sites yourself, you are slowly making yourself redundant and you should be spending time standing back and looking at your own design and correcting.

Just a response and nothing personal !!

[pgo]

Originally Posted by cody44

Take aside the AGGRESSION in the posts

You started it.

Originally Posted by cody44

I believe maybe you should also join a few forums to study 'interpersonal interaction' and Social skills

That's rich. The internet as a model for interpersonal interaction. I think it's obvious that's where you learned your people skills, you arrogant prick. People try to help you and you shit all over them and do nothing but sound like a 13 year old the whole time.

Yes, there's something wrong with using a GIF of dashes to "complement" the borders. That's a presentational element and should be kept in CSS, which should be used - only you're not really using it. You're using tables to lay out the page. Talk about "never progresses from the college handouts" (actually, I doubt you went to college...probably still in high school...maybe a 2-year technical school)!

The reason I posted a screen capture of your site was because viewing a site without its CSS gives you a hint as to its marked up (semantic) structure, which gives you an eye into how well you've structured your XHTML, which gives you an eye into how search engines will view your site.

Your site claims that you produce...

The nitty-gritty of implementation - writing good semantic XHTML and robust CSS, and testing thoroughly to ensure accessibility, graceful degrading and good cross-browser compatibility.

Wrong. And wrong again. Your XHTML is not semantic (in fact, it's the opposite of semantic - I see no headings, no lists, no nothing but tables and a few divs and spans, a font tag here and there) and your CSS is not robust - otherwise you'd effectively be separating content from presentation as is the entire theory behind building sites with web standards (XHTML and CSS). In other words, you'd be using CSS for layout - not tables.

That goes back to your "GIF dashes" - those are presentational elements and, as such, should be kept in CSS - not in XHTML, which is a structural language (not a presentation language).

You talk about "cross-browser compatibility" then I see this: <link href="browser-check.js" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> Hmmm. A browser sniffing script. Generally, people who write "cross-browser compatible" code don't need those.

To close, I love this statement. The self-contradiction is great.

We have set our own standards and will maintain W3C Validation on all website designs for 2006.

Also, where are the stolen PingMag images? That's hilarious - someone lectures us on how we don't know what we're talking about when he can't code for shit and steals images from other websites.

[mx]

Originally Posted by cody44

Those dashes are actually gif images to outline and strengthen the borders. Nothing wrong with that is there ?????????????

As for the CSS (Turn off) why the hell would I design a site with CSS only to turn them off..............so I should not use CSS!!!!!!! I dont think so.

Haha! put your toys back in the pram and go and do some reading on accessibility. Shit like that only goes to show how little you actually know.

The crit is: Your code is unprofessional and outdated, your design is unfocused, your content is nonsense. Browns comments were completely valid, if you can't take critiscm you shouldn't ask for it.

P.s Funnily enough Brown's site validated in xhtml strict. What site are you talking about??

[pgo]

At first I thought he was talking about anyoldshit.com, but that seems to be nowhere to be found. I think he was just assuming he's smarter than everyone else and assuming that Brown's site was shit because he gave him less-than-positive criticism.

Also, I asked before, but can someone send a link to the page on his site where he stole the PingMag images? Or has he taken them down already?

[smallbeer]

http://www.bdimedia.com/process_1.htm

[mx]

Originally Posted by smallbeer

http://www.bdimedia.com/process_1.htm

The thieving gypo

[finbarr]

flippin' pirate... I wonder where he got the textual content from?

[pgo]

Just shot off an email to PingMag.

Have a look at http://www.bdimedia.com/process_1.htm
- he seems to have taken your Lego development process directly - images and text. Without attribution. Anyway, just wanted to make you aware in case it's not authorized (as I assume it's not). Keep up the great work!

Screenshot:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...pingmagrip.jpg

[finbarr]

Originally Posted by pgo

Just shot off an email to PingMag.

haha... quality

[d*d]

"Compassionate about design"

Learn english, you have no idea what that means

Compassion: Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it. See Synonyms at pity.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=compassion

[pgo]

And posted it http://forums.pirated-sites.com/view...hp?p=1545#1545

And I'll submit a report to RipperHunting as soon as I get confirmation from PingMag that he did not have permission.

[d*d]

wherever theres an injustice on the web, when intellectual property is threatened, PGO - copyright vigilante will be there to help

[pgo]

Got a response already:

Thanks for letting us know, Patrick.

Hmmm not sure what we can do about that. At least lots of people (like yourself) already know it came from pingmag anyway! I suppose we'll have a word with his host....

Cheers,
Jon

Haha.

Originally Posted by d*d

wherever theres an injustice on the web, when intellectual property is threatened, PGO - copyright vigilante will be there to help

[ZenElements]

Well.. I have come in a little late on the critique of this site. Many points that have been made and so I will only mention the one thing that has bugged me about your site and I don't think has been mentioned: Your Navigation.

On appearance, we can mouse over and click anywhere on your links (top left) but in fact the only active 'link' is that of the text. This is misleading to people, especially when they will get their cursors changing for the entire table cell.

Well.. I hope you have found this useful.
ZenElements

[i3lance]

(Also a little late on this bandwagon) hahaha...this is absolute class! Torned to shreds! hahaha

The dashed lines hardcoded onto the page itself were pityful...

On another note, I've noticeed that code44 has pretty much disappeared off the face of the planet.

If I read correctly he designed this for a Design Website Service or is this really his own site? If its the former perhaps also getting in touch with the MD's of that company will also teach this rip-off merchant a good lesson??

At least TRY and "be original"...hahaha