www.quangdnguyen.com

[d0ne]

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This is my newly created personal website. It is still in progress but I think I've come to a good stopping point and would love to hear your comments, critiques, and/or suggestions. It's fairly simple as my purpose for it is to post my pictures and write some blog entries whenever time permits. Thanks for looking.

[ngoduyviet]

If it's for your personal use, it's good.

It was a bit weird to see the google map on top of it. I understand what you want to use it for, but still weird for a showcase gallery.

[d0ne]

Thanks Viet. I tried to put the map in a different position but that didn't work out very well either. I added the "hide" button for the time being until I can come up with something else.

[dryicerx]

I too agree with Viet, the map is a bit of a distraction. An alternative you could do is having it hidden by default. Another distraction is the drop down menu. Everything is dark and flat, and the drop down menu sticks out of place. Consider just having a set of regular links, or use a CSS/JS based menu that blends in with the rest of the dark color scheme.

Since the site mentioned you're a developer, some technical pointers. At the moment, every time a photo is shown, it's re-loaded from scratch without a cache-control header from loadpicture.php. Either set the "Cache-Control: public, max-age=400000" or similar value on the response header, or link directly to image files and let your web server handle it (better option). Also the image transitions seem a bit sluggish, try upgrading to jquery 1.4, maybe you'll notice a improvement.

Good work on rolling your own gallery, very functional and usable.

[d0ne]

Thanks J. Great advice, especially on the cache control. I totally forgot about that. I upgraded to jquery 1.4 and the transitions are still jerky at time. I'll live with that, for now :).