Heyyy, I don't know if this is the place to post this, but I would like to show you guys a little of my photoshop art on my website template.

To fully make my photoshop's art interactive in webpage form, I have made the items in the logo clickable. And what you are about to experience is a fully AJAX-ed enviroment (including shoutbox), that also means you only load the page, once.

My Website : www.wahkiz.com

If you like it, please introduce your friends to come over too, will have more updates!!

I respect your courage in asking others to pull their friends in.

anyway, i think it needs work on the experience part. as far as i see, i think it's just a website that implemented AJAX for the sake of coolness and technology standards.

if you did have reasons how AJAX actually would benefit your visitors, do let us know. I know I'd like to hear them.

cheers.

The Ajax is great... but designwise, its not that great ... try adding padding for most div.. and the sidebar could have been bigger.

I beg to differ.

I can't agree that the AJAX is great, in fact it actually poor implementation of AJAX technology. Let say that I want to get to Article then each time I need to browse the main page then I can get to Article. It wouldn't just be me, other visitor also will have problem to browse specific page since they can't bookmark them (which going to make people go elsewhere) and also bad for SEO.

So think about that for awhile.

Call me blind or old style but it took me sometime to figure where I can actually post a shout. Change the cursor to finger to link. People don't like to click each text to test if they actually plain text or link.

Customize your adsense, It making the blog look cheap.

This post has been edited by crynobone: Apr 9 2006, 10:38 PM

design wise - it's not that, umm... Umph! U know what i mean?
code wise - uhh, a lil lost... what is AJAX? (besides being a football club, afaik )

Want make money with ur adsense??! Btw maybe u should remove it , what crynobone said its true.

come on, don't jump to conclusion that he's trying to fool us to gain money thru adsense. if i'm not mistaken, adsense will only give u money if u click on the banner, not by showing it to them (correct this if i'm wrong).

one thing i like bout the site is, the mouseover.

What I mean was customizing it, see how others are doing with it. Uncustomize adsense look something that would come out from a free webhosting where you have no choice but to accept the adsense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX

Sorry if I conderm you too much. There a lot of improvement can be made. Some of it is by actually using RSS and not just stating it. I hope you are using some sort of CMS with rewrite rules since a closer look at your AJAX coding each page is refers to htm page.

Haha, lol. Yeah, I am just a beginner in Ajax, making this website as an interest not for profit. So not everything inside is customized enough yet.

Cyphereza : Google do pay for page impressions, very little tho.

crynobone: I agree with you, currently I am just playing around with ajax, and the implementation isn't really something to shout about. There is a workaround on your problem thought, ajax communities suggested the use of hidden iframes to record your whereabouts, enabling both the back button and favorites.

ikram_zidane : Paddings on the divs, especially for the shoutbox, kills the whole template, my bad

etsuko : Yeah, I am still experimenting ajax. Currently the shoutbox uses ajax instead of iframes, however still flawed in IE.

ardhawk : The purpose of the adsense banner is to support my domain, am a high school student therefore financially tight to support my domain

*sry for da double post, del diz mods. thx* streamyx.. *cough*

This post has been edited by wahkiz: Apr 10 2006, 03:25 PM

Well it can be done if you know how to use a technology, but I haven't heard anything about improving Search Engine Optimization (SEO) since I heard that most web crawler using text based browser, and so far I don't think they understand onClick event.

So each time webcrawler visit your site they will only find this link
http://www.wahkiz.com/# for blog
http://www.wahkiz.com/# for music
http://www.wahkiz.com/# for testimonial
http://www.wahkiz.com/# for article

This is bad since webcrawler wouldn't be able to extract content then other from what you see at the main page.

This post has been edited by crynobone: Apr 10 2006, 04:02 PM

Yeah I noticed the current links are bad for search engines. In the future, I might employ the keyword solution which is on my previous replies. (The workaround)

http://www.wahkiz.com/#blog for blog, works fine with the workaround.
Thanks for your comments, currently I am using no CMS, but might make a PHP news script soon. Viewed ur cms blog, nice stuffs there, and good briefing on ajax too

Programming is a lot of try and error process. Even my CMS will need to be improvement from time to time. I also considering AJAX navigation but it would be limited to registered user which they can toggle from their user panel.

What I can advise you is to look into current available CMS in the market so you can see that important today. WordPress would be a great study case to see why future website implementation should be (there other but I feel that it easier to understand WordPress compared to Mambo).

Just remember.. use AJAX only when necessary and because it'll help improve the experience of your customers in a sure way.

Hmm.. well as I said previously, this website is built by me mainly as an interest or hobby. Not going to load in any CMS neither commercial blog publishing software like WordPress.

I have edequate knowledge on PHP, MYSQL, javascript, html. Therefore, this website is where I put my skills to the test.

About Ajax implementation, of course, it's all about trying out new technologies. I figure out if I could start off web designing early in at my 17's, I could have a better experience when I am off to work when I grow up

Hope you didn't miss understood what I meant. Most of the time even if we have good knowledge that alone will not be enough. By doing STUDY CASE we would have the chance to see what function that we should be considering in our own CMS.

I also do STUDY CASE when I'm developing a system which I know little on how it going to operate. My company website is a result of WordPress study case.

for me.. thumbs down...
do more research mate....

my grade for ur blog:

graphic wise : D
layout frame : C
CSS design : D
blog content : C-

2cent

hmm..
crynobone : Regarding your study case, I don't really get it. What do cms has to do with WordPress? I think phpnuke or mambo would more likely be the one you should be studying on.

chocobee : Mind elaborating your rating system? Coz the D and Cs I am getting doesn't do justice without explaination. Thx

Blogware such as WordPress is still a Content Management System

Weblog software (also called blog software or blogware) is a category of software which consists of a specialized form of Content Management Systems specifically designed for creating and maintaining weblogs.

taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogware

Which would you think easier to understand and develop? Mambo or WordPress plus the coding isn't that tough