My new site's template...opinions?

michaelsanford

Translator, Web Developer
Hey everyone,

http://www.michaelsanford.com/index.php

I've been intermittently working on my personal site, between music and my real work. I'm going to migrate to XHTML1.0 when I've got the template nailed down.

Right now, each content page (blue part), and navigational table (red part) are called from the $_GET['go'] which is passed to index.php; this is my clever little way of avoiding frames, while still getting almost all the benefit of frames. ;)

All of the ONLINE/OFFLINE texts for the services like radio and LORD are dynamically generated with PHP when the page loads. Also, none of the application download links work, they're just placeholders (the files are 0 bytes).

I've also got a little forum going, which is starting to get some decent-ish traffic.

http://www.michaelsanford.com/forum/index.php

I've been testing the site on Safari, Galeon, Mozilla, IE, and fo far it all seems to look pretty much the same. One of my main concerns is preventing the navigational menu items from wrapping, so if any do please tell me.

Any and all comments and suggestions are welcome.

Also, I'm going to translate the site for the /fr/ part, once the comments and content are done.
 
Incidentally, I've just tried to implement a "Page generated in xx second" thing at the bottom below the © notice.

At the very top of the page:
<?php
$start_load_time = str_replace(" ", "", time() . microtime());
?>


At the very bottom of the page:
<?php
echo "Page generated in " . substr((str_replace(" ", "", time() . microtime()) - $start_load_time), 0, 4) . "second.";
?>


Occasionally I get these crazy numbers like 9.14 seconds to load the page, which are wrong, since the page loads in less than one second 100% of the time for me, and I'm not even local to the page's server.

What could be causing these wrong numbers? I prepended time() to microtime() and removed the space in microtime(), what could be the problem? Has my brain taken a walk :rolleyes: ... ? Or is it just some freak anomaly (I rarely see this).

Similarly, I see ranges from 0.22 to 0.01 seconds for pagegen. I find it hard to believe that (say the browse lyrics page) could take as little as 0.01 second to load on a shared host, but I guess it's not that far fetched...
 
Oh wow...those colors are a very...erm...interesting mix. ;)

Might I suggest some colors that give a steady mood? Like orange, blue, and grey, or yellow, red, and orange? Maybe two shades of blue and a grey?
 
Yeah, that blue makes me want to die. :)

Maybe just tone it down a bit. I don't really mind the RYB scheme, but jeeebus, that's bright!
 
Hehe yeah the colour scheme is a bit whack :p It's just a template for now, since I used my little include(); trick I can change it, in fact, easier than I can change a frameset.

What about functionality?
 
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