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spock · April 17, 2006, 12:52:46 PM

How much did you pay for site pal?

Rico · April 17, 2006, 02:18:45 PM

Quote from: spock on April 17, 2006, 12:52:46 PM
How much did you pay for site pal?

All the info is right here:
http://www.oddcast.com/sitepal/

spock · April 18, 2006, 02:47:12 PM

Thats kinda spendy in my opinion but it is cool.

Rico · April 18, 2006, 03:07:14 PM

Yep, it ain't cheap but it is cool. Not sure how long I'll use it. Just wanted to see how it worked and try it out for a bit.

spock · April 18, 2006, 07:21:19 PM

I see. Nice idea.

Picard_delta_5 · April 18, 2006, 09:23:15 PM

oh, i see, thats awsome

Jen · April 19, 2006, 10:54:26 AM

Hi Rico,
I've been admiring Site Pal for several years now. When used correctly, they are a great feature to add to a site. I think they add dimension to yours.Â
In the recent past, your site hasn't worked perfectly on the Mac browser, Safari. I haven't mentioned it because of the relatively low number of Mac users who would be using your site...its alot of work to chase a bug down, for a browser a fraction of the population uses.Â But I'm happy to report that today, Safari isn't having any trouble with your site (the tables aren't blown). Looks much better, and functions perfectly.Â Good job. I particularly like your sound effects on the links.Â Dream Weaver is a great WYSIWYG editor. For those of you who may not know what that means, in web design lingo it stands for "What You See Is What You Get". It works hand in hand with Flash and Fireworks.Â I highly recommend it over Front Page. But there is a slight learning curve as you mentioned in your podcast and you will need to clean up the code from time to time. I'm glad that you're looking into it. It will add polish to your evolving site.

Rico · April 19, 2006, 02:17:31 PM

Thanks for the comments Jen. Very helpful. Yeah, I just need some time to dig into Dreamweaver. I've mainly been trying to keep the site pretty simple so far. Learning as I go along. I find it much more satisfying that way. More things to come soon hopefully!

Riskygodfather · April 19, 2006, 07:18:40 PM

I think to your site, the Java makes it look better, but on some sites, Java makes it look like they cheated and used all Java, and no skilled HTML and photoshop work.

Picard_delta_5 · April 19, 2006, 07:46:15 PM

whatever works.... why do you say java is cheating?

Riskygodfather · April 20, 2006, 01:45:48 PM

Becasue with HTML/CSS you have to design everything yourself, with JAVA you download something and put it on the page, and poof!

Picard_delta_5 · April 20, 2006, 06:42:26 PM

i see, so its easy, i like easy...

Riskygodfather · April 22, 2006, 01:53:14 PM

Lol, ya, but you have to have skill to use HTML and CSS and with java, I think it's too easy. But for people who aren't extremely familiar with HTML then java is good for them.

Rico · April 22, 2006, 02:58:57 PM

Things are easy when you know how to do them. If you don't know, it's then not easy. So whether you use HTML/Java, or CSS or some combination it doesn't really matter. As long as you get the desired result.

Riskygodfather · April 22, 2006, 05:23:08 PM

True.