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One thing that sets great sites apart from mere words in cyberspace is an intuitive style of site navigation. We've developed a navigation style focused on your ease of use.
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page directing you to information sources we recommendAll navigation buttons are 3D and animated so you can for example see the one you're hovering over. The buttons that took you to the viewed page have their colors changed to red text on black. You'll also notice that all links are displayed as buttons, even in the body of text. Most buttons have icons as well as labels to indicate the type of information is linked to. We use icons for:
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Each post has a background that separates it from other posts. Post titles, section labels and summary comments appear red on black similar to how the current page buttons are indicated, except these aren't buttons but page width bars. Every page has an information box with a cloudy sky background that summarizes whats on the page. The site is formatted dynamically to accommodate your window or screen size. It renders correctly on any screen including an iPhone or Android vertical portrait view. The minimum screen width not needing to use a horizontal scroll bar to view a 3 Joes' page is about 300 pixels. The exception being if any image on a page is larger than the screen width.
3 Joes' is designed to be browser agnostic. The site should be viewable on virtually any device and any web browser. If you find your device has a problem with this site email us and we'll look into it. To accommodate narrow screen dimensions the site is a single column design and won't assail you with animated advertisements on the right and left. One last browser point, although viewable by antiquated browsers like Internet Explorer 6, changing to a modern browser like Google Chrome or Firefox will enhance your viewing pleasure. For example, rounded corners are used as is an embossed visual effect in title bars and buttons when using a modern browser.
This site is totally hand coded in HTML, CSS and a sprinkle of Javascript. PHP is used for the server side registration process. I've used no depreciated or proprietary markup. Flash videos can be viewed but I don't use Flash, Silverlight or other packages to implement my sites. I have used HTML 5 markup that is universally available in modern browsers but still renders acceptably in Internet Explorer. IE6 and older can render 3 Joes' but doesn't handle transparent PNG images properly and will have some visual deficiencies. No doubt packages such as Wordpress would make content management easier but I wanted the flexibility and performance only available in a hand coded site. Content Management Systems and HTML WYSIWYG editors generate code that renders correctly because of the forgiving nature of browsers but the markup is depreciated and generates errors when run through code checkers. Having been a software engineer for all these years I demand clean code of myself. Over 95% of all sites have coding errors but I choose to be in the 5% that doesn't. I also wanted a design that worked dynamically on a broad range of devices and browsers.
It's well understood that IE6's lack of standards compliance and miscellaneous bugs make it's support difficult. Some sites no longer support IE6. I use a Javascript hack for IE6 to display transparent PNG images but there are still the occasional display quirks. With IE6 and other CSS3 non-compliant browsers you'll miss out on a number of visual niceties like shadows, transitions the embedded text rendering used on 3 Joes' buttons and header bars. The HTML5 markup and CSS3 I use is ignored by IE6 but readable rendering with that old browser is still acheived. My priority is the best possible user experience with modern browsers. My hosting and development environment are all Linux based. My desktop OS is Ubuntu and my browser of choice is Google Chrome. I use a mashup of Gedit, GIMP, Midori and FileZilla as my web site development environment.
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