mezhopking.com
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Congratulations to Mez for going 2-for-2 — first with his design company, Hopking Design, and now with his personal Blog, mezhopking.com.
I just wasn’t sure about this site when I first saw it. It was unique in many ways, (not the least of which that he’s still running off WordPress 1.3 alpha), but was it unique in a good way?
Well, thanks to a week in the Gallery Preview, I now know that there are many who think it is, and the more I look at it, the more I like it too.
Welcome to the Gallery again, Mez!
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Wordpress 1.3 Alpha?! Someone convince this person to upgrade ;) Anyway, I like it. The red and blue contrast nicely.
Yes this is a nice site, but maybe a little too bland for a main feature of a CSS showcase gallery?
Yes, the design is sharp, minimalistic and pleasant on the eye - but there really isn’t anything here that makes me go “wow”.
I’m not saying it has to blow my socks off, but to be included in a showcase like this I would expect it to be quirky in one way or another - or have a couple of classy touches that make you sit back and study it for a moment.
It also doesn’t pass my latest test of viewing sites with images turned off - but that’s me being a weirdo and not many sites still function in that state anyway ;o)
lol - thanks for a another placement if your gallery Shane.
I laugh because of the 1.3 Alpha. I can’t upgrade yet, it means losing most of the functionality of the site if I do. I wrote quite a fair chunk of php for this to work in wordpress 1.2 but it failed to function in 1.5 or 2.0, so until I get around to upgrading my script, I won’t be upgrading the wordpress package.
Thanks again.
i dont see how he got in here….
Sasan, this site got in because many people rated it very highly. If you don’t think it’s worthy, let us know some specifics as to why.
yes, sorry i was in a hurry so didnt have time to comment.
but here i am again , :)
I never thought Red and Blue would go together that was first thing that brought this websites rating down for me
next thing was id rather not see everything floating and not in a specific place.
like the calender and navigation, there is no way you can see that navigation has started , i f you get what i mean.
a or a line would do great there, just to seperate and organize the page.
the links at the top , i dont like the red background when you go over them, font is a good choice tho.
also the fading of the header isnt just right.
tooo bland :)
my 2 cents :) wont matter if u dont care lol….
Now that’s the Sasan I know :) I thought it was odd that you weren’t more detailed in your first post. Thanks for coming back!