i would suggest removing that iframe. ;-) - AJ Batac

There is no iFrame. Do you mean the content background? - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

I think he is referring to the div holding your main content, which uses scrollbars to handle overflow. It appears to be a frame (but is not). - Tom Harrison

Also, check IE6 (yes, I know. IE.) - AJ Batac

I hate IE6. Can I even DL IE6 anymore? - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

blame Drews Cancer? - AJ Batac

I'll be honest. If you are still viewing my site on IE6 I don't want to work for you. IE7 or higher, Firefox, Chrome or Safari please...oh and Opera too I guess. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

btw, it's ok to hate IE6. But don't forget your audience. Trash to you, gold to them. ;) - AJ Batac

IE6 is still fairly widely used, IMO. I know my former employer still doesn't allow any other browser except IE6. And it's a major business (10,000+ employees). - Rochelle

The trick is to catch older browsers, at request-time if possible, in client-side scripting if no other way. Redirect them to a page that exhorts them to upgrade, but sets a cookie that lets them visit the site normally if they don't want to. But warn them of the suck they'll get for using a such a shit-ass browser. - Chris Charabaruk

I just don't understand how you can't update to IE7 at least on accident. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

If a lot of sites stop working with IE6, businesses will pretty much be forced to upgrade whether they want to or not. Peer pressure. - Chris Charabaruk

Yea, I do have a script that I keep meaning to implement that will prompt them to upgrade from IE6. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

So, any other feedback about my site? - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

At my former employer, we couldn't upgrade to IE7, even on accident, because the computer required admin rights to do that and only IT staff had admin rights. - Rochelle

And yet no one in IT upgraded the computers to IE7? That is what I Just don't understand. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

Mathew, the IT people said anything above IE6 was "a security risk". They also had no idea what .docx was... Not exactly highly educated individuals. They're also still using Office 2000 for the same "security" reason. - Rochelle

http://friendfeed.com/ajbatac... - AJ Batac

Yea, that is ridiculous. And if you are going to use that argument you should realize that IE6 is a security risk as well. Every browser pretty has some security flaw at one time or another. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

I love how this thread went from me asking about my site to me ranting about IE6. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

Heh, yeah. I'm just trying to point out that everyone using IE6 isn't necessarily doing it by choice. - Rochelle

Mat... Adobe's new BrowserLab server may help you in seeing how your design looks in IE6 without having to install it: http://bit.ly/OM8IZ - .LAG liked that

Thanks, I'll check that out! - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

@pea No, and my business card isn't going to look like that anymore. Since then I have changed a lot of things. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

@LAG Doesn't look like I'll get to use it. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

test your site in different browsers http://browsershots.org/ - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど

Thanks, now that I can use. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

@Alfredo It keeps giving me this error, "cannot read www.mathewballard.com/robots.txt.". - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

your web server has a robots.txt file and it's not letting it do it's thing. i can't help you there buddy. i would try a different service because it might take you a while figuring out what caused that. - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど

try this one http://ipinfo.info/netrend... - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど

To me, the buttons look like something you downloaded from a free web buttons site. Not sure why but I think it's the big borders and the speckled background. - Kenton

Nice design. I'm in the middle of doing a re-design myself...... - Roberto Bonini

@Kenton I can assure I made those myself. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

You missed a t in matthew. :p - Rich

Just got some great feedback over the phone about what wrote up in my about section there. If anyone has the time would you give it a read and tell me what you think about it. In all honesty that is actually the hardest part of all this, writing up that section. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

@Mathew I wasn't accusing you of stealing them, just that that's what I see when I look at them. - Kenton

Oh I know. I just wanted to make sure I said that they were my creations. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

Well you asked for it: I think the drop shadow around the frame and the rock/metallic buttons are old, certainly for someone presenting themselves as a graphic designer. Especially because there´s yet another font used in the button captions. Maybe also use a lighter background like your business card (which it looks like you´re emulating) because the gray, grayish green and the bg makes it all look a bit "dirty". I like everything else; the simplicity, the icons in the bottom, b/w photo, tagline and the logo. My 2 pence FWIW. - ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ