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I finally have a website!

M1chae1

M1chae1

Hey everyone. My lovely wife--the sly lady she is--created a website and purchased a domain for me for Christmas. What a gal. Have a look!

It ain't flashy...but I think it's simple and effective. Just need to put my reel up (within a month).

http://www.michaelreedactor.com/Home.html

ps. I recommend you view it with Firefox.
 
Site looks great! You should make a FaceBook Fan-page! If you just use your normal FaceBook page to connect with people you will run into the friend limit that is set by Facebook.
 
Nice clean layout..

a couple points of feedback for you, from someone who works in web development all day every day.

There's something weird going on that's causing your background image to be broken on the home page. The content extends beyond the bottom of the content area background image.

Also, the 'resumebanner' image on that page is WAY too large of a file.. there's no reason for it to be a png. A jpg with a quality setting of 65 will look just as good, and cut down the overall size of the home page by over 300K.

Not sure what all the javascript files being loaded are supposed to be doing, but they are also adding another 200K to the overall size of the page.

Of course, with a high speed connection, this isn't a huge issue, but it's worth being aware that you're home page alone is between 300K and a half a megabyte larger than it needs to be.

As for the first item I mentioned, edit the home.html and change this:
Code: 
          <div style="height: 120px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; width: 700px; z-index: 0; " id="footer_layer">
            <div style="height: 0px; line-height: 0px; " class="bumper"> </div>

            <div style="height: 236px; width: 700px;  height: 236px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: -116px; width: 700px; z-index: 1; " class="tinyText style_SkipStroke">
              <img src="Home_files/LayeredPaper_04.jpg" alt="" style="border: none; height: 236px; width: 700px; " />
            </div>
          </div>

to this:
Code: 
          <div style="height: 120px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; width: 700px; z-index: 0; " id="footer_layer">
            <div style="height: 0px; line-height: 0px; " class="bumper"> </div>

            <div style="height: 236px; width: 700px; left: 0px; position: relative; top: -36px; width: 700px; z-index: 1; " class="tinyText style_SkipStroke">
              <img src="Home_files/LayeredPaper_04.jpg" alt="" style="border: none; height: 236px; width: 700px; " />
            </div>
          </div>

Still not the best solution to several layout issues that I see, but it's a quick 'n dirty fix that should make the background behave anyway..

Such is the problem with using a wysiwyg editor to build a website though, they always stuff in a bunch of excess code and whatnot that isn't needed, increases page site (and subsequently page load times), and makes it difficult to edit by hand.
 
Dang, Will. I didn't know you could speak Klingon! :eek:


Nice site, Michael. I'll be lookin' to check out your reel when it's up there. :cool:
 
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