I use and xbox controller on my computer and it works GREAT. Analog triggers for brakes and acceleration -- nice! If you get the XBCD drivers you can even change the size of the dead zone on both analog sticks. Very cool and works very well.
My vote is for the video card. Wait on the 360 until the market has matured a little bit and see if you actually like it without all the hype. You know PC games rock, and PCs are fun - let the early adopters drop the cash figure out if the 360 kicks ass or not.
I wouldn't spen more than 350...
The Good:
-Header Design
-Footer Design
The Bad:
-Horrible sound when the page first opens. (annoyed the crap out of me - and my coworkers)
-FRAMES?? What the -- no. bad.
The Ugly:
-Tables for layout - need I say more.
-Horizontal scroll bar at 1024x768
-Vertical scrollbar in the...
I'm looking into mediatemple.com. A slew of high end design sites use (mt) - they seem to be pretty serious. I'm pretty sure that there's not a restirction on hits/visits a day, just bandwidth usage.
Fixed and will now validate to strict if you force it -- kept it transitional as the target attribute of the a tag has been depricated?
I checked and you must be running in 800x600 or at least have your browser windows that small -- as 1024 works like a charm --
Haven't decided if I'm going to...
I just finished up a new site of mine called "The Peoples Vehicle ". I was hoping to get some feedback design wise. It's one of those pixel pushing sites ala milliondollarhomepage.com with a twist.
Colors? Layout? hmm? :)
Downloaded the trial's for Studio (dw, fw, fp) yesterday here at work and only had a few mins to play with them. Initial impressions are good -- but I don't like the new splash screens/branding -- a minor nit-picky thing to say. :) Perhaps they will grow on me who knows. I'll be using 8 all...
First of all -- kudos on the site -- I really like it! As for the weird blackness during image loads on IE, perhaps you could use some kind of image preloader of sorts as it seems to only have a problem on the first load -- if you go back once the images have been loaded it seems fine.
btw...
Oh... and before anyone else confronts you -- you may want to hit up google for answers before posting to forums... Just a kind suggestion as it may save you a flame or two in the future. :)
Sixth down on the search results.
Open the file with "notepad" and then chose "Edit -> Select All" and hit "Backspace" or "Delete" on your keyboard. Save changes.
You could also just create a new text file and change the extension to .htm or .html -- this will do the same thing.
Html files are human readable with any...
Ditch the blue-dotted line around the border of the site. Also -- you may want to take a look at www.colourlovers.com for some new colors. Take a look at the palettes. That site has helped me quite a bit in the past couple of weeks.
I was able to improve my framerate significantly (from 8fps to above 30fps -- at the lowest) by updating my video drivers to version 77.77 and creating a settings profile for Dungeon Siege (display properties advanced).
I turned off a bunch of crap and now i can max the settings in the game...
Just discovered another mult-page thread regarding nvidia performance issues.
http://forums.gamespot.com/gamespot/show_messages.php?board=914954&topic=22961637&page=0
BF2, HL2, D3, NFSU2, etc all run flawlessly -- smooth as glass max settings all day long. Defrag'd after install as usual. No such luck -- I've heard many other nvidia owners complaining about it as well...
*edit* -- not to thread hijack but I just posted a complete description of my issue...
I love the game -- I'm having a great time playing it -- except for the framerate... I've got a sweet setup -- but I'm getting LOW framerates -- like low... 10fps-30fps flux...
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on my framerate situation...
My framerate TOTALLY BLOWS. I go down to 10fps on occasion. Usualy hover around 20-30fps. Which is total crap. I have tried changing the graphics settings to no avail -- I keep getting the same framerate whether I'm maxed on...
I have two of these and they ROCK. Drivers are good too. You can even use them for Stepmania (open-source DDR clone) as it has a mode specifically for dance pads...
-- if your into that... but I wouldn't know anything about that...
Major "spillage" in Firefox. Goto "Parts -> Differentials" and the footer does not stay below the content -- it stays in one spot and the content overlays and keeps on "truckin" :)
The layout is not vertically fluid on Firefox.
Also the "F.A.Q." is just nasty. It spills over the bottom...
I believe all of the songs in the retail DDR games are copyrighted and cannot be downloaded "legally". So unfortunately it would require a visit to the dark underbelly of the internet which is not a topic that can be discussed here.
There are many good free songs out there to be downloaded...
I purchased a USB to Playstation 2 Controller adapter called the "SmartJoy PLUS". Every button on my PS2 controller works flawlessly. It's pretty tasty -- retailing around 12 dollars.
Images
Quick off topic reply... I need to update my sig -- I sent that XFX 6800GT back as it died on me the 2nd week I had it. In it's place resides a BFG 6800GT (only one DVI /sad panda). I saved my cash for a couple of months and decided to splurge -- as I'd been living off a laptop for the past 5...
I agree with the general consensus on Dyndns.org being good. Used the free part for years personsally and now using the pay part at work. Refer to my previous recommendation: Post #4.
I found that once I had learned my first language and was comfortable with programming concepts and methodologies -- most of the other languages I tried were relatively easy to pick up.
The key is understanding the concepts and methodologies behind programming. Once you have that, you can...
Hahahaha -- I got a kick out of that one! :p
Thanks for all the comments! I totally understand that the contrast sucks but that's what my friend wanted. I was only the facilitator of the css layout as he is not a "code monkey" as he put it in the first post. My sites tend to be white with...
My friend is working on a personal website and has come up with two versions -- "site 1" and "site 2". I assisted on design 1 and he came up with design 2. He thinks design number two is the better version. I'm thinking not.
We need the opinions of a 3rd party to settle this matter, but...
I have a couple MX700/Wireless Keyboard combos and they both use just a single base -- they came that way. I purchased them as a bundle.
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2162,CONTENTID=6831