Dave Littler Dot Com

[dave_littler]

For years now, I've been neglecting my hideous old website. There's a number of reasons for this, and one of them is that it was so much a product of its time - some ten years or so ago - that its design was ultimately just beyond any sort of repair or renovation. An entirely new design was needed. This was going to be a massive undertaking, of

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[gbcahawk]

You may wish to scale this down. I'm using a Macbook with a pretty bustin' resolution and I still had to scroll sideways to see anything more than the first 50% of the first column of links, and all of your photos are off the bottom of the browser screen for me.

I imagine you're using some kind of crazy-huge resolution on your monitor?

[dave_littler]

Well, 1280 by 1024. I hadn't considered the idea that that would be unreasonable in this day and age; my monitor is some six years or so old, and my assumption was that in the years since then, that would indeed have become somewhat antiquated (especially with the rise of high definition flatscreen monitors and suchlike).

I suppose that if there's too many more complaints of this nature, I can do something about it. It wouldn't take an inordinate amount of work.

[rpeate]

I've received the same complaint. I've felt that someone else's monitor issues were exactly those, someone else's monitor issues, and that I would create the site I wanted to create. I have also seen the same site--mine--appear very small on other monitors.

[dave_littler]

Well, as I said to Hentaikid, below, I figure most people can adjust the display size so easily it scarcely bears consideration past a certain point.

Out of curiosity, what do you do with your site?

[rpeate]

I am seriously impressed.

[dave_littler]

Then my efforts have been a success! Huzzah!

[hentaikid]

Looks good, I had to press CTR- once to make it fit on my laptop screen (1280x800) but overflowing out of the screen slightly fits your personality I think.

Do not, I repeat, do not, just abandon a 10 year old .com domain, it's saleable for cash moneys.

It could have better pagerank though, try doing some link swaps (better yet people linking to you without you linking back) or linking to the site from your other online ventures so google will know there's something there worth looking at

[dave_littler]

Yeah, I figure a little crtl+mousewheeling is all it really takes on any browser I know of in order to make a too-big site just right-size. I do it so often these days it barely even occurs to me that anyone would even worry about resolution, past a certain point.

I don't know who on earth would ever pay cash for the rights to a domain name like bjorn-comic.com, but I hadn't planned on just getting rid of it anyways; both of them point squarely at my current site.

I'll look into doing some googlebombing in the near future; I hadn't really wanted to advertise the domain name until it pointed at something worth seeing, which, until today, it had not.

[hentaikid]

Someone paid money for http://www.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com/
so all bets are off

there probably is a comedian called Bjorn out there who'd love the domain or a band who wants to have a comic book of their adventures, a la kiss

or someone who wants to put a parking page full of pay per click ads on it

takes all kinds!

[ashbet]

I'm on a laptop set at 1280x800 (highest resolution on my options list), and it goes off the screen for me, too.

With that said, the site looks AWESOME -- and I love the body painting on the girl in the hat!!

-- A <3

[zeddidragon]

I, for one, am extremely relieved to know there's someone who I can refer to when I need something looked at, knowing in good conscience that when he comes walking, he's very likely to be wearing shoes.