My personal site

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Okay... I have no idea what I was thinking when I first started making this 1 hour ago.

I guess I thought it would be creative.. please tell me what you think.

http://www.101h.com/tyler/

Thanks.

Tyler Cruz

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It is creative but sometimes there is a line where creativity and realism collide. This is one of those cases. Some people may think that they have stumbled upon something wrong when they go to your site because they have to put in an access code. If the entry part was a little more clever or funnier it might work but it doesn't to me right now.

Mark Irving
I have a mind like a steel trap; it is rusty and illegal in 47 states

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Okay, point taken..

what I wanted to do, was give the user a tiny bit of 'surprise' so they think like "hey! I got in! let's see what's here!", but i didn't want to make it as easy as clicking a link, so i thought that if they clicked some buttons to see what happends, they would be redirected.

Any suggestion to this?

Tyler Cruz

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Very Interesting. I like the site, very futuristic. Maybe add some sweet graphics and not have all the text centered and that would be a nicly unique site.

Ken Prescott

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Nice Smiling

The entry part is confusing, I just pressed a couple of buttons as after reading the previous posts I assumed that I'd get in eventually!

NEVER center text, it doesn't look professional & it's hard to read.

On the contact part, make the emails links, people don't want to have to type your address!

Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....

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Nice, you gave me some ideas. I migth make something simular with PHP and flash and stuff like that. If that is OK with you.

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I kind of like the access code thing - a bit of a neat idea. It would be cool if you could get those messages above it to animate in some way, to make them look more dynamic and realistic.

Once I get in there should be something to see, but all I see is "login correct". What you could do is have the "login correct" show up just for a few seconds (maybe flashing in red??? Could this be a case where the blink tag could actually be useful????) and then redirect to something else.

Definitely do not center text! I would really like to see some more graphics on here too. If you're not too good at this just try to keep it simple or ask someone to help you make some nav buttons and a logo. For a logo you can just have your name in a font that you like.

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Yeah, you see,

I really wanted to have it all souped up with graphics, making it resemble a type of federal GUI application, but alas, I am one of the worlds worst graphic designers. I can't draw anything unfortunately, otherwise I was planning a lot of cool ideas for the site.

Tyler Cruz

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