Kickin' Off The Year With My New .COM

[Paul Marossy]

:cry:  After many long days of agony fixing links, webpage problems, etc., etc., etc., I am proud to announce that I now have my own domain: http://www.diyguitarist.com

After giving all of my pages a facelift, I basically took the 55 megabytes of webpages and files that I had spread out over six email addresses at my AT&T account and uploaded them to my new server. I am getting 250 megabytes of free space, thanks to a friend.  

So, now everything's in one place and everything is much more orderly as far as the file structure goes. I left links to my popular pages directing visitors to my new site. I will be adding more stuff as I go along. At least now I won't have to worry about running out of space for all of my ramblings.... And now, what stompbox project am I going to do now!?!

Anyhow, Happy New Year to you all.  

[Ansil]

cool congrats on the site man. i am tryign to save up some moolah and get mine done

[javacody]

Ansil,
     What kind of work are looking to have done? I ask, as I work in web development for a largish banking firm (shh, its a secret). I've been in Web Development for about 5 years now, so I am competent to say the least. I've done stuff (paid on the job type stuff) in Perl, PHP, ASP, and now Java, if you are looking for anything more complicated than just a static sight with basic navigation. If you are looking for Macromedia Flash stuff, then I ain't your man. But if its straight html, or some fancy schmancy stuff with Javascript and a bit of backend magic (database driven stuff, etc.), I'd be glad to help out.

[javacody]

Paul, great site. Lots of useful stuff. Your pedals really look professional.

I wanted to mention that you appear to be missing 4 of the images in your top frame? Maybe you missed them in your upload?

[Jim Jones]

Great stuff, Paul - another bookmark!

Jim

[Paul Marossy]

javacody -

That's funny, those four images load up for me. Anyone else have that problem? From left to right, there should be a picture of a strat, a stompbox, inside an amp chassis, and a twin reverb.

[Paul Marossy]

OK, I think that image loading problem in the top frame should be fixed now. Let me know if there is anything else that doesn't load up.  :wink:

[smoguzbenjamin]

"The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings."

And it loaded up fine just 3 hours ago... :?

[javacody]

Paul,
   As you add new stuff, I hope you add a little flashing "new" gif and "updated" gif to your links.

By the way, that little article on sewing machine pedals is killer.  You suppose you could make a wah out of one of those things?

[Marcos - Munky]

Very cool site, go to the Bookmark now.

[brian wenz]

Hello Paul--
  The site looks great!
Thanks.
Brian.

[Paul Marossy]

Thanks for the suggestion javacody. My homepage really isn't quite what I would like it to be, but it's a start. I'm just not an expert at using DreamWeaver. I don't know how to do a lot of things, yet.  :oops:  Maybe I need a different program. I'm just using this one because it was given to me.

Unfortunately, I don't think you could get a wah inside of a sewing machine pedal, it was a bit of a challenge just getting four jacks, a switch and a 9v battery to fit inside of it. That's because of the design of the thing. A wah has a lot of big parts in it, a pot, an inductor, the PCB, plus the battery. I dunno...

Anyhow, thanks to all.  

[Paul Marossy]

OK, I need some feedback...
When you pull up the main page, does the text look really tiny, or does it look medium sized? All of my pages should have medium sized text that should display about 1/8" high or so on the screen. Does it look that way?

I think I have some kind of error with my Internet Explorer, it seems to be displaying the fonts too big on pages that it didn't used to. Can anyone help?

Thanks.  

[Mike Nichting]

Oh,I bookmarked that MOFO~!!!!!

Good job bro~!!!

Happy newyear yada,yada

Mike N.

[Hal]

those images in the top seem a bit large in size, for such a small image, which may be why they didn't load.  96k is huge for us dial-uppers!  :-D

since its already a jpeg, try saving it with a higher compression ratio...I bet 25% would bring the size down to about 10k, without hurting the quality much at all.

[javacody]

Dreamweaver is one of the standard wysiswyg (what you see is what you get, another way of saying graphical in that you can graphically layout and drag and drop html elements on the page just like a Microsoft Word document) editors for html. It seems to be one that many professionals use. I like it. I vastly prefer it to Microsoft's Frontpage. I've used both professionally.  There are others out there that are supposed to be good too, but nowadays, I do 90% programming and 10% layout/content work, so the ole standby is good enough for me. Sometimes I just do it in notepad if I need to make a simple change.

[Doug H]

Paul,

The site looks great!  You obviously spent a lot of time and paid attention to a lot of details. I like how you are using AutoCad for your designs. I have recently started using Powerpoint to draft a packaging layout for the inside so I can do a "fit check" on the computer before I start building. I derive drilling templates and etc from that and it works great.

Nice work!

Doug

[Paul Marossy]

Thanks, Doug, that means a lot coming from one of the giants here at the forum.  :wink:

Fortunately, most of that stuff was already published, I just had to fix everything so that it worked from my new server. I spent probably three solid 12 hour days getting everything worked out. When I started my new site, I didn't even really know how any of this stuff worked, I was teaching myself as I went along.

Giving all the pages a facelift was easy compared to fixing all the links and stuff! I'm just glad I don't have all these pages on six different email addresses anynore, file manangement was getting to be a pain...

Anyhow, using AutoCAD is natural for me since I use it every day at my engineering job. Since AutoCAD became Windows based, the fonts available for making the graphics have been a lot better. I also like being able to do a "virtual layout" with it. The only thing that is a pain about it is trying to create a PDF file from it. I have it down now, but it's a bit of a process...