Awakened-Soulja — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:07:59 +0000

I like the photo at the header, youve done a good job! keep it up!

nicora — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:13:19 +0000

as requested, photos added to the header, with the option to close.

weblaunch — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:11:16 +0000

Not bad..how about some pictures on the front page?

surferkit — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:46:16 +0000

good design.
ilike your javascript application.

nicora — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:55:42 +0000

anyone else want to chime in?

Acadia — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:08:42 +0000

It's pretty slick. I like how the articles turn blue when you mouse over them. I wish I had something more constructive to say, but I am incompetent.

questmedia — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:49:57 +0000

Nice page...atleast it's clean and your can read the text. Should work on adding content to fill up the blank spaces

nicora — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:45:22 +0000

server must have been down, its been on and off lately

teammatt3 — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:02:42 +0000

Hmm, now when I click a picture Firefox freezes up for 5-15 seconds and I get that “Not Responding” thing on the Title bar of the browser. Everything goes white. That didn't happen before. I restarted FF and it still happens. I can't even get to your site now without that happening. Are you getting this too?

nicora — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:21:55 +0000

thanks guys, I have just updated the site with a few modifications. First, let me address a few things:

Opera: I have discontinued supporting Opera about 2 years ago, both personally and professionally, and since making that decision, there have been no complaints (on the proff side, mainly because they do not involve this level of JS). And I have to admit, according to my site stats, opera makes up less than 0.5% of the browser share and has been declining, so it really isn't worth the several hour effort to get things working in that particular browser.

Firefox: I don't have the time to support BETA releases, is there anyway you could test with a solid version?

The design: Yes, it is less flashy than previous iterations, but my goal for this site was to implement a new backend development platform, and I spent little time in creating an extravagant design, although I thought it was very clean and well thought out. I will shorty reconsider some of the elements.

Frequency in re-designing: I know, I know - always re-designing. That is because I use this site as a BETA environment for new methodologies that I implement, thanks for putting up with me =)

Back button: There are solutions in "fixing" the back button, none are elegant. This is a test to find out whether the benefits out weigh the disadvantages for breaking the back button "some of the time", such as Flickr has done. Jury is still out for me. Hopefully the browsers will introduce a standard way of dealing with AJAX and history.

Photobox animations: I have dramatically reduced the effort the browser has to make to display the photo box, Megan was the straw that broke the camels back. It was indeed too much, the animations were making the experience annoying, not pleasurable. The reduction should have sped up the transitions, it has for me anyways, let me know if it has for you.

Too many effects: Yep, but these are all required for an upcoming project, hence: this is my test bed. I tried to find the most elegant way to implement all these tricks, but its difficult with only three sections and 10,000 effects.

So if you get the chance, both Megan and Matt, please take another look --> I value these critiques, which is why I always come back, and I am not done tweaking the site per your suggestions.