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Finally, after years of working and teaching in the industry, I've put together my own site. It's to promote my web design/print/video/consultancy business.
At this stage, it's very much a "version 1.0" site. In fact, it should probably be beta. I'm not doing any search-engine optimisation on it yet, or promoting it in a big way until I get it going completely.
But if you feel like moseying over and finding out if it breaks, you'll find it at: http://www.thinksync.com.au
EDIT - have just done a major "Look & Feel" revision, again, it's nowhere near final, more me just playing around trying to get closer to what I want.
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Looks like he built the site with postnuke, and I'm not sure what he did the graphics in.
*applies for job*
Actually, I'm semi-serious there. If you ever need to get someone to do a bit of coding in php, java or a number of other languages (and I do database work as well), put my name in the hat.
And I'm inserting here a plug for drupal as a consideration if you're ever looking to migrate your site to a different CMS; it's much cleaner to extend with code, and has fewer security holes, though it doesn't have as widespread support as postnuke.
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The graphics were all done with Photoshop, templates were put together with Dreamweaver, then the whole lot was PostNuked, as fugu rightly guessed.
The graphics are only temporary until I can do something really special, I just wanted to get it out there as soon as it was functioning. Took my a while to get my head around PostNuke, but everything seems to be running quite smoothly now...
And fugu, sure! That's how I'll be working initially anyway. I have a designer who contracts for me now, as well as some 3D and video people. I didn't use any of them for the site, as I can't afford to utilise them myself. So I'll keep you in mind for any tricky coding problems that occur.
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Guessed, nothing . I took a look at the source code . I already suspected it from the layout (and the well-warranted decline in popularity of phpnuke), but why guess when you can be sure ?
Oh yeah, and I'm cheap to hire. I need to build my resume, and my current job isn't paying all that greatly (it's tech support), so I have a remarkably low opportunity cost for a bit of coding work .
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Well I'll keep that in mind fugu. In a few weeks I'm going to be putting a proposal to a company that I do work for. Every year, I update their website for them, and with Postnuke, it wouldn't need to happen anymore.
But they may want an e-commerce system. While there are some available for PN, I haven't tried to integrate them yet, so I may need some help there.
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Interface criticism: on your splash screen (which, by the way, should probably not exist), I kept thinking those chiclets were buttons.
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Love the site! But Tom's right, I almost thought the thing wouldn't work with my browser, cause the splash screen "buttons" weren't working. The "enter" text is hard to find.
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Yeah, the splash screen is just temporary at the moment, by the time I'm going after clients it will be in Flash, with the background moving and the chicklets clickable and floating gently over the background.
But good criticism!
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