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Trace
12-22-2010, 04:18 PM
Like, very, very early stages. Let me know what you think, mainly about the layout

http://tracehagan.com
SXRguyinMA
12-22-2010, 07:16 PM
so far so good :D

where do you have your hosting and how much is it if you don't mind me asking
Airbozo
12-22-2010, 07:28 PM
mmm RED!


lol! Good start
Drum Thumper
12-22-2010, 09:22 PM
What the hell, no drupal? Good lord have we got some work to do.
SXRguyinMA
12-22-2010, 09:28 PM
what is drupal?
SgtM
12-22-2010, 10:02 PM
Drupal (http://drupal.org/)
Trace
12-22-2010, 10:12 PM
I'll look into it
CorsePerVita
12-22-2010, 10:54 PM
Drupal rocks. Drupal and Joomla are my favs. Looks simple and clean so far.
Oneslowz28
12-23-2010, 04:01 AM
Its not a real website unless its running a drupal backend. All of my stuff is drupal.
dr.walrus
12-23-2010, 04:15 AM
Just a couple of minor points really:

1. With a flexible wwidth layout, I normally specify minimum widths for small screens (it doesn't break when you shrink it, but it goes a bit crumbly). This is a minor point and is more to do with what your spec for small screens is.

2. I really don't like working too much with ID's in my CSS - having your basic structure with ID's at the bottom of your div tree will overwrite any class name further up, where you shouldn't neccessarily be using an ID (e.g. for a repeated div). Personally, I don't ever use div IDs for CSS in my work any more.

3. Where's the love for .net?! http://umbraco.org/
OvRiDe
12-23-2010, 04:41 AM
Where's the love for .net?! http://umbraco.org/

The biggest issue with .net is .net :( Windows hosting with .net support just doesn't seem as plentiful as Linux hosting, and then on top of that it usually costs more. The only .net CMS that I had really seen in the past is dotnetnuke, and I wasn't terribly impressed with it. This umbraco does have me intrigued a bit. I must admit it does appear to have some very nice features. I can see Umbraco as a good fit in the corporate world where a company is heavily vested in Windows servers, MS SQL servers, Exchange, and of course .NET developers. Thanks for the introduction.

As for you site Trace... sigh.. where do I begin...

:P

Looks like its a great start.
dr.walrus
12-23-2010, 04:51 AM
The biggest issue with .net is .net :( Windows hosting with .net support just doesn't seem as plentiful as Linux hosting, and then on top of that it usually costs more.

It's dead easy to find, but you're right that there are less 'budget' offerings.

My company doesn't really touch a dev project worth less than £2000-£3000 so hosting cost isn't really a priority - I have a client with a hosting package for 20 websites, infinite databases for £20 a month.

Basically, the only additional cost of running a Windows server over Linux is a copy of Windows - IIS is built into every version other than home/basic/whatever I think.