Website with "windows"

[mburt]

Hey,

I'm working on another website now (actually, I just intended for it to be a project), and it looks pretty cool. It's almost like your desktop, with the navigation on the bottom, and they open up windows. You can minimize, tile, or maximize the windows. It's all server-side by the way (PHP), not Javascript windows.

http://www.mikeburt.net/ (changed to my main website)

[magicyte]

I clicked on the link and my server said it wasn't found.

-magicyte

[Nile]

It looks like he updated it to here:
http://www.mikeburt.net/

[magicyte]

thanks.

-magicyte

[mburt]

Sorry about that folks... The link is updated now. I decided to change it to my main site, I think it looks better then the old one.

[Medyman]

Doesn't putting advertisements in a pop-up window defeat the purpose? I know there are some ad aficionados out there who'll click on it to check out how sexy your ads are. But for the general population, you're not going to make money off of it (if that is your intent).

Accessibility and usability wise, you're in some trouble. But, it's a cool idea. For a personal site, I say do whatever you want. It's your playground...who cares about standards, accessibility, etc... If you want to try it out, do it.

I like the design of your tutorials section!

[magicyte]

Oh well.

That is a pretty nice site with awesome graphics!! Kudos and cheers!! (Whatever that means) - (i bet it's good though)

-magicyte

[mburt]

Doesn't putting advertisements in a pop-up window defeat the purpose?

I thought at first the ad thing would be good... But overall, they just ruin your layout, and for me, hardly make me any profit. I might make 25 cents a day if I'm lucky :/ . Soon I'm scrapping the whole idea.

My original purpose for the ads was to make back some of the money I spent on hosting (which clearly isn't going to happen). Oh well, I only paid 25 dollars for a year with my domain anyways.

[Twey]

If you get one of the rarer domains, like mike.burt.name, they're usually cheaper. I pay £5 (~USD$10) per two years for my twey.co.uk.

[fileserverdirect]

The link does not work? It says page cannot be displayed on mikeburt.net . Please fix ;)

[Moshambi]

Nice it looks good mike. just curious though, did you switch to a forum service or are those still your own forums?

[mburt]

Forum service... Creating your own forum is hard to match existing forum software. It takes a lot, so I just switched.

[Ryan Fitton]

Nice site, I love the window effects when ou open a link. Looks good, keep up the good work :D

[mburt]

Thanks, I checked out your site too, nice design!

[Twey]

Hmn, Ryan, where'd you get/make the grass image?

[mburt]

I think he took a picture of the ground...

[Twey]

No, it tiles.

[mburt]

Wow you're right... It's practically seamless.