Alpinist's Site: DonBowie.net using Dimensions
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- John Klinefelter
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Website URL:
calpinist.com/site/component/option,com_myblog/Itemid,34/
Additional Extensions: MyBlog, SlideShowPro, Feedburner
Any specific areas of my site that I'd like feedback on, if any: presentation, functionality
Additional Comments: Don Bowie is high altitude mountaineer specializing in alpine-style (no sherpas, no supplemental oxygen, light-and-fast) ascents of difficult Himalayan peaks. His website uses a blog frontpage to chronicle the ascents, dispatching from a sat phone and laptop in basecamp. His recent exploits on Annapurna unfortunately ended short, with the death of Iñaki Ochoa, world renowned Spanish Alpinist. Roughly 40% of those who attempt this summit have died. Don will be receiving a Gold Medal for Merits in Sport from the Spanish government for his efforts to rescue Iñaki at 25,000 feet, despite severe and dangerous conditions.
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- Terp
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I must confess; I wasn't a big fan of that template before, but your implementation is very clean, uncluttered, professional, subtle...very nice, sir!
The only thing that looked odd to me was the bio page and the three pictures/expeditions writeup. I think it would look cleaner if you aired it out a little and had more space between them. I always like the alternating picture alignment (left aligned, right aligned, left alinged), but your first and second picture are nearly touching...second picture's text is longer than the first, so this spaces it out from the third picture...just didn't seem uniform being all crammed together.
...best I could do to offer constructive criticism, as this is a great example of Dimensions. Perfect.
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- John Klinefelter
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Thanks for the comments and the suggestion, Terp. I just checked that page in IE7 and it looks messed up, so I'll sort that out with some tables. Again, I appreciate you pointed this out.
I also didn't really favor the Dimensions template initially, but I started playing around and it seemed like a good fit for this site. I made some changes to the typography that I think helped, too. Dimensions is very easy to customize with the background images, especially the fade effect. But, it would be nice have the background images as a module that can be assigned to different sections. Instead, I created copies of the template with different BG images and assigned these to the sections - kind of a dirty work-around.
Cheers.
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- Terp
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John Klinefelter wrote:
Terp. I just checked that page in IE7 and it looks messed up, so I'll sort that out with some tables.
Okay, you caught me; I was, in fact, using Internet Destroyer and didn't think to check it using FF this time.
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