Topic: My Portfolio

[silicone_milk]

Hey guys, I know I had linked to my site in the private section of the forums but I wanted to publicly post that my portfolio is now online at http://www.siliconemilk.com

I would really appreciate it if I could get some feedback on it (ignoring the Art section) and receive suggestions on how to improve the site.

Thanks

[kat]

Add a couple of screen grabs from the games you're worked on, linking to the site is good (obviously) it would be better for you too show some game shots on your site so you directly associate some sense of 'ownership' over what you did in each context. Incidentally, you need to add "target="_blank"" to your external links otherwise you're 'loosing' visitor by loading over your site - always open external sites in a new page.

[silicone_milk]

Thanks Kat

I was working on changing up the layout and personalizing the web site rather than relying on the templates from Dreamweaver since that was an often-repeated "complaint" amongst viewers.

Right now the server is offline since I'm moving to a new place and all of my hardware is in some boxes right now.

But, here are two shots of the new design:
First Draft


Second Draft - lights on navbar removed since they didnt tile very well.


Playing with the tables for the programming page and trying to get the images to align correctly.

[ratty redemption]

I like that layout milk as it reminds me of q2

[silicone_milk]

Thanks

It should remind you of Q2. The template I'm designing uses Evilair's eq2 texture set

Website's been offline for a week or two now since I moved and haven't gotten around to hooking the server up again.

[ratty redemption]

hehe, cool and I remember some of evilair's work now that you mention it. he was talented

and good luck with your site.

[silicone_milk]

just bought a hosting plan so I no longer host the website on my own computer. I'm tired of fending off script kiddie attacks. (none were successful )

I also registered a new domain http://www.guineacode.com for some programming tutorials/experiments/whatever I feel like putting up that doesn't belong in my portfolio.

Both domains share the same host I'm just redirecting siliconemilk.com to a folder in guineacode.com's root.

Also, I have subdomains up. Should be able to type siliconemilk.guineacode.com to get siliconemilk.com but I'm waiting for the changes to propagate to see if the rerouting's successful or not. Likewise, guineacode.siliconemilk.com should take you to www.guineacode.com

[kat]

Ha.. love the new name! Self hosting is more trouble than it's worth these days so I'm not surprised you ended up buying o_O

[silicone_milk]

Thanks

I've always had issues with web hosts which is why I had chosen to self-host lately but my PC simply isn't meant to be a web server. Plus it puts the other computers on my LAN at risk for attack as well.

I just got through with a 6 hour struggle in DNS Management hell.

I have a machine on my network that I like to connect to through ssh to upload/download source code.
My domain name no longer points to the ip address of my router so I can't get to the ssh server through my domain name.

I contacted my host provider wondering if it would be possible to alter the DNS records so all ssh traffic ended up going to my router rather than to their web servers. The answer was "I'm not sure." then 20 minutes later "No you can't." then I was hung up on.

I had an idea after that to create a new A record for a subdomain of my site which, with my infinite wit, named ssh, points to my routers ip address.

So siliconemilk.com and www.siliconemilk.com points to my host ip address.
ssh.siliconemilk.com points to my home ip address.

Now I can access my ssh server as usual through a slight modification in address. I can type ssh://ssh.siliconemilk.com and get at the machine I want to get at

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I'm disappointed because a good friend told me this host was great and I should move my site to their servers. I've had a 5 minute downtime in less than 24 hours (guaranteed 99.9% uptime) and dealt with rude, incompetent tech support.

I'm not naming them because they don't deserve any additional google brownie points from me. But I'm sure you can guess what it is when I say the first part of the name is host and the second part is the kind of creature Godzilla is. (You need to watch more Godzilla films if you're guessing gator...)

[kat]

Hmm. not good getting support like that (with "H057 M0n573r"). I seem to have lucked out with the Co. I use. Be mindful that what you're doing isn't against their general terms and conditions some hosting companies are a bit funny that way.

[EDIT] just realised this means your images are down... make sure you re-establish the structure so they pop back into place.

[silicone_milk]

Yep. I was a little frustrated with the response that I got.

And yeah, I know the images will be down now. I need to fix all the links which, luckily, won't be too much of a hassle since I no longer want my images to be under the /music/ directory

I could always write a rewrite rule in the .htaccess file but I think a cleaner solution is to go on to the forums that link to the images and edit the posts to use the new addresses.

http://www.guineacode.com has a design now thanks to some wordpress theme magic.
Finally finished up on the configuration for search engine optimization

Was also having some 404 errors with some url rewrite rules so I just bit the bullet and decided to deal with the extra bit of the url that was bugging the OCD side of me.

[silicone_milk]

Tutorials are starting to take shape.

Didn't have time to finish the section on linking opencl in a visual studio environment but I'll have it finished tonight I think.

[silicone_milk]

Linking and Configuring OpenCL tutorial is finished.
http://www.guineacode.com/2010/linking-and-compiling-opencl/

 

[silicone_milk]

http://www.siliconemilk.com got a redesign with some HTML 5, CSS3, and JQuery love.

Still adding some content but it's pretty much around 98% finished I think.

[kat]

No links to the projects you worked on in the blurbs? (Site is nice an simple btw *up*)