outstanding, funny, unique web site

[jelloshotsrule]

do you like to laugh?

if not, your soul must be pretty dark

if so, go to www.brianellisrules.com


laughter heals the soul


seriously, it's a funny freaking site, as some people here will already attest to

and, it's updated pretty frequently... and. well, you'll see.....

[shadowfax]

man, i was expecting something new. i read through nearly that entire website after you posted it in the MR pics thread.

good stuff, though, that guy's got a great sense of humor.

[jelloshotsrule]

did you not see the latest about the freaking thong?????

come on man

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
did you not see the latest about the freaking thong?????

come on man oh god, i didn't see that. that's so wrong, haha.

i feel violated.

[jelloshotsrule]

it was the funniest thing.... i had to play it cool though at the time, what with the ladies around ;)

[jelloshotsrule]

look at this site.. seriously.

[tazo]

bleh

I didnt find it very funny...

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by tazo
bleh

I didnt find it very funny...

well, you're not the target audience anyhow.

[tazo]

who is then?

[monkeydo_jb]

His pitorials are hilarious. Thanks for the link, I always appreciate a good laugh.



-jeff

[gello2424]

That was really damn funny.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by gello2424
That was really damn funny. Originally posted by monkeydo_jb
His pitorials are hilarious. Thanks for the link, I always appreciate a good laugh.



-jeff Tazo: here's the target audience, plus me :)

[kettle]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
well, you're not the target audience anyhow.

Lots of things can be labeled - outstanding, funny and unique. In fact, to the right demographic anything can be labeled anything. It's all true. Also, 86% of statistics are made up.

IMO, a nice clean site, despite being built with Microsoft FrontPage, should look into XHTML and CSS, would have been even better.

[scem0]

I left an amusing note in his guestbook under the name 'scem0'.

check it out.

This part is great:

Due to the fact that we are a bunch of untrained monkeys and couldn’t really get this organized very well, we just wanted to tell you that we messed up. If we would have had some sort of organizational skills and got 17 day old information to you we would expect you to pay this. Seeing as though we have limited brain capacity and it was our fault that you pleaded guilty and paid the fine that was clearly marked, we do not expect you to pay. Take care and please, if you have any extra bananas we could use them at the next board meeting.



Throwing our feces around,

The Municipal Court of Washington Township

;)

scem0

[trebblekicked]

i missed that part, scem0, but the comment on the non-linking exclamation points was simultaneously funny and frightening. i mean, how? why?

the guy has a good sense of humor. different. nice catch, yello.

[scem0]

Originally posted by trebblekicked
i missed that part, scem0, but the comment on the non-linking exclamation points was simultaneously funny and frightening. i mean, how? why?

the guy has a good sense of humor. different. nice catch, yello.

i don't really know why I put that...

Boredom... To be different....

I dunno.

Glad to know it was funny and frightening :).

scem0

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by trebblekicked
i missed that part, scem0, but the comment on the non-linking exclamation points was simultaneously funny and frightening. i mean, how? why?

the guy has a good sense of humor. different. nice catch, yello.

hard not to catch it when you're plastering the website's stickers all around maryland... and soon to be nyc and dc.... ;)

i mean, i'm in some of the damn pictures for crying out loud. ha.


scem-you frighten me

shadow-exactly

[jelloshotsrule]

on behalf of the administrator(s) at BrianEllisRules.com

in response to the guy who isn't impressed with the technical wizardry of my
site: my apologies!

in response to the people who hated my site: thanks!

in response to everyone else: thanks!

[scem0]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule

scem-you frighten me


I frighten lots of people...

scem0

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by scem0
I frighten lots of people...

scem0 yeah, it's probably got something to do with your jaw-dropped-ogling-like-a-voyeur stare...

[jelloshotsrule]

a note from the webmaster....

I updated my site so it now uses CSS on 99% of the pages._ The technocrats can rest easy tonight!


the end.

[Rower_CPU]

He's hiding it very well...I don't see anything on his site besides the stuff in the header frame. :p

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
He's hiding it very well...I don't see anything on his site besides the stuff in the header frame. :p maybe it would be more noticeable if he stuffed a sock in there under it...

:eek:

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
He's hiding it very well...I don't see anything on his site besides the stuff in the header frame. :p

can you clarify?

the only stuff that is CSS is the header frame stuff?

i don't think he's an expert on it

and i certainly am not


though, the sock would always help...

[Rower_CPU]

j-ho-

OK, he's added it to his main pages now...but he needs to touch up his negative margins to get rid of the overlaps.

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
j-ho-

OK, he's added it to his main pages now...but he needs to touch up his negative margins to get rid of the overlaps.

strange. first time i've seen that happen..

he was surprised to see it looked different the first time he saw his site on safari... and my brother helped him get it to show up the same on both... but i'm not sure what happened now... will let him know..

[Rower_CPU]

One thing that'll really help here is the W3C's HTML and CSS validators. If the code is valid, display issues can be chalked up to browser bugs.

http://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
One thing that'll really help here is the W3C's HTML and CSS validators. If the code is valid, display issues can be chalked up to browser bugs.

http://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html

thanks, i'll pass that along to him.

[brianellisrules]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
j-ho-

OK, he's added it to his main pages now...but he needs to touch up his negative margins to get rid of the overlaps.
I think that's browser related stuff. I checked it on IE and Opera (running Windows XP) and it looks fine.





Like J-boz said, I'm VERY new to all this stuff. Baby steps...

I was hesitant to add it (edit: it = css) to the main page because I'm using blogger software to update the main page... and that meant I'd have to change about a dozen 'templates'. But, I did that today and apparently it's not showing up right on the Safari browsers... I'd imagine my stories are showing up looking like arse too now (the Master Plan, Rejected stories, etc).

I set it up to use a negative margin to eliminate some white space between different sections... Here's how it looks like on mine:

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by ber.com
I think that's browser related stuff. I checked it on IE and Opera (running Windows XP) and it looks fine.

Like J-boz said, I'm VERY new to all this stuff. Baby steps...

I was hesitant to add it (edit: it = css) to the main page because I'm using blogger software to update the main page... and that meant I'd have to change about a dozen 'templates'. But, I did that today and apparently it's not showing up right on the Safari browsers... I'd imagine my stories are showing up looking like arse too now (the Master Plan, Rejected stories, etc).

I set it up to use a negative margin to eliminate some white space between different sections... Here's how it looks like on mine:

Brian (I assume) welcome to MR. We can only hope you can live up to jello's shining example. ;)

OK, I checked your page on IE/Mac and it's doing the same thing. I think it might be a combo of the neg. margins and your font size declarations. When I increase the font size it clears up.

Here's what I'd suggest:
- change all the pt size for fonts to ems (ems are percentages of the users' base font size and tend to work better)
- rather than use neg. margins to offset the default ones added to <p> tags, explicitly state margins for each element

Take a look at this example: http://organicallydigital.com/ber/

I've used some shorthand in the CSS so ask if you have questions.

A couple other notes:
- Make sure you've got a valid HTML doctype and character set declaration
- Keep link styles in the following order link, visited, hover, active to make sure they don't cancel each other out

All that said, I dig the site. There's something to be said for a man who's not afraid to stand up to the lies and deceit of the thong manufacturers, no matter how many tube socks they have to use to get their point across. Kudos.

[brianellisrules]

wow, thanks for the help!!


Yeah, I saw 'em' used in the web tutorial, but I didn't fully understand it, so I sort of steered clear of it.

Also, I didn't realize you could state {margin: 0} and have that override the default margin used by the <p> tags. Very helpful to know that. Thanks.

Dumb question: "Make sure you've got a valid HTML doctype and character set declaration" - what does this do for me? I noticed you had it in the header of my remix page you did, and I've seen it on other pages as well, but what's the purpose of it?

Uh, I guess that's about it... I went into the rest of my .css files and took out the negative margins... thanks again!

[Rower_CPU]

Hey, no prob' glad to help. :)

The doctype declaration (DTD) tells the browser exactly how it should interpret your HTML. There are unique DTD's for each version of (X)HTML. Without this, it is almost impossible to predict how any given browser will interpret the code. It's the keystone of writing valid HTML. Yours should be a mix of HTML 4.01 Frameset for the frameset pages and 4.01 Transitional for the content pages.

The character set tells the browser and user the kind of characters it can expect to find in the page. Most English pages use Western Latin (ISO-8859-1), but I like Unicode (utf-8) because it's more flexible, allowing foreign font characters, etc. Either one is fine.

[brianellisrules]

Thanks again for the help, but I have a couple more questions....

I've switched over to em's and have been tweaking my css files to make sure everything shows up alright.

However, I tried putting in the DTD and character set in the html code, but for some reason, it added a horizontal scroll bar in the bottom frame, regardless of what page was displayed. Any idea what caused this? Anyhoo, I panicked and took it out.


Also, I thought everything was going well with my page, but when I checked it out from a friend's house (win xp, ie6) and all the font was MASSIVE and it looked like garbo. From asking around it seems as if the computer has their font set on anything larger than 'medium' the page looks like crap. So, using pt's to set font size is out and em's causes the page to look like poo when the default font is set to large or anything higher... is there a work-around for this?

[Rower_CPU]

If you can post a sample page with the DTD and character set that's getting the horizontal scrollbar, I'll check it out and let you know what's up.

As far as user text size goes, that's just one of the things you have to test for when designing. If you use pts or pixels, IE/PC users won't be able to resize the text at all. So, using percents or ems will usually give you the text you want and still give people the freedom to resize the text.

I just checked the page on IE6 on an XP machine and it looked fine to me even at the largest setting. What was "garbo" other than the fact that it was big?

[brianellisrules]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
If you can post a sample page with the DTD and character set that's getting the horizontal scrollbar, I'll check it out and let you know what's up.

As far as user text size goes, that's just one of the things you have to test for when designing. If you use pts or pixels, IE/PC users won't be able to resize the text at all. So, using percents or ems will usually give you the text you want and still give people the freedom to resize the text.

I just checked the page on IE6 on an XP machine and it looked fine to me even at the largest setting. What was "garbo" other than the fact that it was big?
Hmmm, I'm not sure what the problem is then. The garbo I was referring to was just about how the large font only has like 2 words per line and how the links in the top frame were pushed off the bottom of the page.


As for the horizontal scroll bar... the only page it's showing up on now is http://www.brianellisrules.com/stories/bs.htm..... when I open the page in it's own browser, it shows up fine, but when it's in the frame (www.brianellisrules.com > stories > washington township: f-) it has the scroll bar.


Also, I went to www.w3g.org and validated all of my pages. They all go through except www.brianellisrules.com/stories/about.htm. It doesn't like that I have <center> tags in between my <h2> tags... but I couldn't get the text to center any other way... although that could be a result of me being a moron. Now that I think about it, I think I'm going to go back and play with the css files some more.

[Rower_CPU]

Well, you can fix the text pushing out of the frame by making the frame size a %, but that's not the best approach. Personally, I'd get rid of frames, but that's just me.

For the "Keeping it REAL" page, it might be the image size and some padding being applied to it. Try adding a {padding: 0; margin: 0;} for a class on that image or images in general and see if that helps. Also, your last <p> tag on the page doesn't seem to be closed. Could be that, too.

The best way to center text within a block-level element like h1, h2, etc. is to use {text-align: center;}.

Make sure you validate your CSS, too.

[brianellisrules]

Thanks for taking a look. I closed off the <p> tag, and added the margin and padding to the css file for img tags, but still no dice. I think I'm just going to blow it off since it's only on that one page.

And yeah, the more I take a closer look at the webpages I visit, the more I'm starting to realize that frames are probably NOT the way to go.

Maybe an entire site overhaul is needed... haha

edit: css is validated too... actually caught a few errors there.