Arek Bulski: personal and game website

[ArekBulski]

I finally (cough) can say my personal and game website is finished. Home page points to CodeCall as well as to my racing game.

Personal page of Arek Bulski -> F1Simulation: Racing game made in .NET

I am open on discussions and comments.

[Jordan]

I love it! I like it being so simplistic and easy to navigate. I thought you were going to use WordPress?

[ArekBulski]

Yes, I did thought about starting a blog but I realized that I just do not have time nor strength to write posts that would satisfy me. That is why I will focus on 2 things only: racing game (maintanence) and the future TODO notepad. Both will be laying on this website.

[Xav]

It looks nice, but you did it in Microsoft Word?

Dude, never write webpages in Word. It is awful at producing HTML. Just take a look at the source to see what I mean.

51 Kb for an HTML page is ridiculous. I would expect maybe 5 Kb for the simulation page, not 50 Kb. Your site needs redoing with proper manual XHTML coding.

I'd be happy to freelance it for you. PM if interested.

[ArekBulski]

51 Kb for an HTML page is ridiculous. I would expect maybe 5 Kb for the simulation page, not 50 Kb. Your site needs redoing with proper manual XHTML coding.

Dude, have you got hit in your head? This page of this thread has 82KB of size, and no one dares to complain about that.

Also I know only how to use Word. I have absolutely no idea how to write HTML, and you know what? Jordan says it looks great. So wtf do I need HTML for? Looks good. Loads in no time. What more can you offer Xav?

[Xav]

I can offer you a properly constructed page.

Take a look at the page - turn off CSS and images. That content should fit into half a dozen Kb - instead it takes 50 Kb.

If you have no idea how to write HTML, you ought to pass the job onto someone that does - hence where someone like me comes in. The web is made in HTML - and quite frankly, Word is terrible at it.

This page's HTML takes up only 25.47 kB, and is a page filled with content. Your page is very simple and clean, so the number should be much lower.

I agree that it looks great - I never said otherwise. But its construction is terrible. And actually, the page took longer than I expected to load, which actually lead me to view the page source in the first place.

Consider the large number of people that now use mobile devices (such as the iPhone) to browse the internet. Just pull up a Google search to see what I mean (for example Mobile browsing becoming mainstream - CNET News, which is 3 years old, which shows how many people must be using the mobile web now). Not everyone has access to ultra-fast broadband. Some people are still on dial-up - and many areas do not have access to 3G mobile broadband.

Word does not look at the bigger picture - when building web sites, one of the largest challenges is to make it suit all mediums, and all users. At the moment, this site doesn't.

My offer still stands. I am not trying to be insulting or anything - I'm trying to help.

[Vswe]

I must agree with Xav, It's much more code then necessary. Even though the page itself looks very nice.

[ArekBulski]

Hmm, you made a strong point here, Xav. Sorry for being so rude, ...but look at this from my perspective:

- I would need to pay you, or even more, have to keep you on payroll because I would not be able to maintain and expand by website in future without your help - at first it sounded to me like aggresive advertising that offers nothing. Below is why...

- I am making this website to show it to my potential employers when finishing uni. I really doubt that they will browse it from a phone. Also no one here in Poland uses any dial-ups, because we used to have a phone monopolist. They never upgraded their cable infrastructure so transfers are just idiotically low while the price of it would be probably higher than a broadband.

[Xav]

Ok, then consider this. Your website is about programming, so I assume your employers would be looking for a coder. Now consider that the very first thing they are going to do is probably click View Page Source, to see how you did it.

How do you think it will go down when they see that mess of Word-generated code?

If you really don't know any HTML and you still want to be able to maintain your website, simply install a CMS (like WordPress).