I made changes to the brycecoulson.com layout:
- The site is now broken up into several content boxes.
- The 600×160 Google ad is no longer fixed, I moved it to the right side.
- I used <hr /> tags to separate each blog post.
- Blog navigation moved to right side.
My brother and I have been working on a computer game for almost a year now called Distant Empires. It’s an online multiplayer space conquest game that only works for Linux right now but we plan to make it work for Macintosh and Windows.
I created a website for Distant Empires, its similar to the design of brycecoulson.com. You cannot download the game yet, but there are a couple screenshots at http://distantempires.com. I may put up a video to show off the game play later.
I encountered a few things after my website update:
- For a while, anyone visiting my site through Google would end up at an old broken PHP page, I fixed this.
- Google search results for my page still have my old links, this means you will have to find pages manually. I’m not sure how long it will take for Google to update my website with new links or if theres anything I can do. I tried 301 redirects in my htaccess file without much success.
- My website looks terrible in Internet Explorer 6, sorry to anyone using this outdated browser. Please update your browser or use Firefox.
I added text advertising to the side and bottom of each page. I’m quite happy with how I was able to match the text ad colors to my site.
The website update is done except for the text or banner ads! List of changes/additions:
- Navigation links are now horizontal and always stay on screen.
- XSPF music player is shrunk to make room for non-existent banner ads. Hurray!
- XSPF music player, ads and contact info always stay on screen.
- Added a Friends page instead of rotating links. Wrote a blurb about each link on the Friends page.
- Change header colors to make website easier to read.
- Folder names make more sense (words instead of numbers: /tutorials/beginner/).
I used Gedit in Ubuntu to code the HTML needed for brycecoulson.com.
- I’m doing a massive overhaul on my website. My website currently uses the CKEditor which lets me edit my pages online through my website backend. It works really well but I don’t feel like messing with PHP on my site anymore. I’m going back to using HTML, this will let me use an easier to read folder structure. (/tutorials/ instead of index.php?name=1248465560_Tutorials). I think the new folder structure will get be more search engine friendly.
- I’m also changing the look of my site, my current design needs at least one more color.
- I’d like to earn a bit of money from my site so I plan on adding some sort of banner or text advertising as well. I will change my site around to make space for this.
When I make these changes, brycecoulson.com may go down several times, sorry for any inconvenience.