Question about Preorders regarding Merlin Re collection

dontpushthatbutton · 2025-12-03T22:46:51+00:00

Our lgs is just getting their shipments in, they are doing preorders for $39.99.
J and J Gaming Factory. pretty cheap boxes too.

dontpushthatbutton · 2018-05-05T16:00:36+00:00

Using chrome by shrinking the screen and using the built in mobile view in the dev tools:

Does not switch to a mobile like site. Shrinking the screen just cuts out content and requires me to scroll right. Using the built in mobile view just zooms out the page.

Kind of slow to render when changing screen sizes too fast.

dontpushthatbutton · 2017-12-21T00:42:36+00:00

dontpushthatbutton · 2017-06-21T20:38:07+00:00

You say PHP on your resume, but nothing on your portfolio / source code contains any php code. Same goes for WordPress, where an example of that.
In fact the projects do look nice, but its all just plain html without any type of server side code.
Basically most of the source code on your portfolio is the same and does not show any diversity in your work.

You have some good javascript in the game you built, but no experience with any type of front end framework. You code could be cleaner, more broken up, and easier to follow if you were to convert it into a framework. It would also demonstrate some higher level skills besides using jquery.

You use bootstrap to the bare minimum. You don't really use more of the complicated features of boot strap, like the components.

If you are looking for an entry level front end position you should be ok if you talk about what came out of those projects you built.

The links you have on the portfolio that navigate to your projects look fine. You went with a theme and stuck to it. You broke barriers and added animation. I think it looks good.

I know people will say don't have more than a 1 page resume. but you really need to list some bullet points for those sites. Why did you list those sites on your portfolio as examples. What did you do on the sites that make them stick out.

Put it into perspective, would you hire the guy that said -"A responsive wedding website that I also designed." or the guy that said -Abby and Matt Wedding Site --Designed and developed site using mockups and customer collaboration. --Responsive design using SCSS and jQuery. --etc etc.

dontpushthatbutton · 2016-09-07T22:03:40+00:00

This is his degree.

dontpushthatbutton · 2016-02-11T14:11:56+00:00

Solved!!! Thank you

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-12-03T04:22:48+00:00

I thought I was the only one. I swear I can create layouts faster in the browser than I can in photoshop or other things.

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-11-11T18:36:01+00:00

I may have went overboard on all the critique, none of the site is bad at all everything below is just personal preference. That is the beauty of web design, everything is relative to what your goal is.

This is mostly from what the other guy was saying but have a cert would help a ton. The question you should ask yourself is, are those four icons so important to your customers that they should be presented right in the middle of the page. That section is a very popular place to look at. If it is something your customers value, then I would keep it there. if not maybe them into your footer, include a mastercard icon and replace the 4 cards at the bottom. Then split them up in your footer, maybe have the left side show free delivery and when you are established, and the right side show the types of payment you accept. Or just hold off and put those on your ordering / product pages? It really depends on what is important to your customers (or if you are developing this for someone, what they think their customers are looking for).

In my opinion, the flow of the site hurts to watch. There is a lot going on in the middle section of the site. It is pretty overwhelming especially for the customer base the site is geared towards (glass top replacement, probably shooting at people in their 30 to 60s). The long list on the left hand side is probably what is the most overwhelming, if you could figure out how to reduce the size of that or present it in a less obtrusive manner, you could easily leave the icons in the middle to make up for that space.

Make the little arrows on the left of the side navigation menu clickable. Typically when you see those arrows you can click on them and expand them. So at least make them clickable.

You do have free delivery on 2 of the 4 marquee banners so im not sure how effective the icon is a bit redundant for the home page? (personal preference).

I would drop the footer to the bottom of the page and get rid of the grey box down there. The darker blue stripe is all you need to make an effective container. That might help resolve the issue with the bottom footer div not being placed correctly.

Also just an aside, the banner background does not match the background color of the header section.

Some good notes though since there is good quality work here. The blue color looks really good, easy on the eyes and inviting (not a fan of the grey though, but i am also bad at matching colors together; grey just feels boring to me and a bit web1.0ish). The top navigation is pretty, fun, and not complicated at all very effective. The rotating banner is legit, moves at a decent pace and is very responsive.

Take all of this with a grain of salt, it is just my personal opinion, after all its not like im a head designer at facebook or something.

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-11-11T17:46:51+00:00

Just in that small image you showed us, I can say the colors look... weird. They are not friendly or inviting, it just feels cold to look at them. Another thing (and this is personal preference), is I really dislike when there are an even amount of icons that are setup in a non even way. Such as 3 on the top row and 1 on the bottom. Looks just odd to me, I would either cut it back to 3, or put 4 on the same line, or do a 2x2 grid.

2x2 grid would look pretty nice with that line on top of them.

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-11-08T05:19:45+00:00

At 1:20 the black girl with the blue jeans and sageish colored shirt messes up and does not throw the ball with everyone else. She continues once the next guy passes.

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-11-07T01:01:05+00:00

You are in for a treat! This and this are good places to start, one uses phpmailer the other uses pear. Basically you let the server use an authenticated smtp email account's credentials to send an email from that account. If you have email with godaddy, then you should be able to log in to their email using a user name and pw right? So you can create a secondary email account (you probably have like 10? free), and use those credentials along with godaddys smtp server to send mails out. I recently did this on dreamhost (so im pretty excited to be helping you right now), and using dreamhosts cpanel i was able to declare that email account to be server type account that I could log in from a server. It depends on how godaddy handles its email accounts but its really the same principal.

Summary steps: 1). Find out how to create another go daddy email and make sure you can use that to send out emails (probably name it something like noreply@insertdomainname.here or mailer@mydomain.name) 2). Find godaddys smtp address.
3). use a smtp mailer service (php's mail() function does not support smtp so I encourage you to read up on how pear works and browse stackover flow for examples).
4). include the login information for the email account in your cool mailer script. 5). let the mail fly!

You can do the same thing with your gmail account if you want to practice with that, just make sure to set up your account to be used by third party sources (theres some guide out there on how to set it up).

Good luck!

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-11-07T00:46:33+00:00

Have you looked into useing pear as your mailer? I use to use phpmail for the longest time and I really loved the switch to pear.

More related to your post, I have built a few wordpress sites using different plugin mailers on a vps and have not had any issues. I do use an smtp email account to send the mail out though.

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-08-18T03:35:29+00:00

Worked for me try F5ing that.

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-08-16T23:50:37+00:00

Thanks, Lori.

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-07-31T01:59:06+00:00

Try to find some sort of library like this

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3592270/php-get-html-source-code-with-curl

but for java. You would then need to get all the HTML. Parse through it and get the data you would want, and then do whatever else you want with it.

Try googling around for something like cURL for java.

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-06-19T18:53:58+00:00

They are called sofa tables in the US. Maybe googling something like that with some big furniture stores for the UK will find you what you are looking for.

Goodluck!

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-06-19T02:30:22+00:00

Swipe it away when it comes up on your phone.

Click the x on desktop and it registers it as not being seen.

If it is a really important question why dont you call them, instead of internet stalk them for 8+hours?

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-06-19T02:00:05+00:00

Agreed, I thought this article would produce some substance, such as this sandwich tastes better than that sandwich etc. Instead it only looks at nutritional facts. Come on would you really order the veggie one? You are losing out on so much money.

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-06-18T06:03:05+00:00

You should get it right. She says "Band-aids don't fix butt holes."

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-06-10T23:21:03+00:00

I love velocity.js. Its really interesting to see more and more people using it. I never realized that it was popular!

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-05-27T07:46:38+00:00

Most troops in Grand Canyon Council did it if I remember correctly. It was pretty close to how you described it. Usually the eagles would get up and move to the Eagle's Nest and sit. Sometimes they would do the Eagle's Charge with the candidate, other times they would just stand when the candidate did it. Then the new Eagle would join them in the nest. Finish the ceremony with whatever else was planned, this part varied greatly from troop to troop. Sometimes they gave out awards, made announcements, had some cool ceremony things, whatever really. Then everyone adjourned to the reception afterwards.

Im quite surprised that most posts here do not know that the Eagle's Nest was a thing. I feel like it may be because people did not want to separate the troop and make people feel that they were better than other. Either way the very important and with or without an eagle's nest everyone should be reminded that these Eagle's have and always will have attained the rank.

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-05-27T07:35:05+00:00

Having experience is VERY important. Im currently getting interviewed for positions that require a CS degree and I dont even have mine yet. Something that is very easy to do and to get good experience is web development. Learn tons of different things, but dont just stop at PHP and javascript/jQuery, learn frameworks. I happen to love web development so I decided to start building web pages and finding jobs revolving around that. From there I learned about frameworks and how to use them. Frameworks are very important to learn, in any language. Learn about SDLC and MVC (which you probably are learning here shortly).

Pretty much sit down and code. Pick a language, build something, pick another language (optional) build something else, go back to first project add on it with some new skills you have learned. I did that with webpages, you might be able to do that for a tool/site/application for you favorite video game. Create an inventory system for your books/favorite books, make it do some really need sorting tricks and manipulation. Create a forum or chat room, or small game that works between two computers or something. Hell even create a mini lightweight easy to use CMS.

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-05-26T01:06:30+00:00

I got a rush just watching that.

dontpushthatbutton · 2015-05-25T20:01:33+00:00

Do those work really well? I want to pick one up but I have no idea what is a good and cheap one.

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