formal shizzle

Site map

"walls"
Caterogized set up for the wallpapers, seperated by members. This is already as logical it can get, provided that you are not a newbie fan.

"new"
A different set up for the wallapers, this one is reverse-chronological, seperated by pages. It should be pretty convenient for returning visitors.

"about"
Information regarding the site. Obviously you are already in there anyway. Oh yeah, and the guestbook thing for you to blah about with.

"links"
URL linkage to various great wallpaper related sites, friendly folks etc.

Wallpaper sizes

In the beginning, I only offered 4:3 dimension as an appeal to the mass, which, is of 1024x768 screen resolution. That is already a good 70% and it includes me anyway, so I left it at that.

But as I got chances to see my wallpapers on other larger format, or simply wider monitors I started to get itched about having *every* screen out there being able to use my walls. Especially on 16:10 wide screens, which I own one now, it is just a perfect ratio to have anything looking good on.

So the offer has been widen to the following:

Standard 4:3 - 1600x1200, 1024x768
Wide 16:10 - 1920x1200, 1680x1050
Tall 5:4 - 1280x1024

This should already cover 95% of what people have. Of course, if you have like, 1152x864, or 1440x900 etc, you should already know which ones to get so it will scale correctly.

Lastly, as I maintain my design at the native 1600x1200, and it is not always the case that the source photo is big enough for a 1920 width, therefore I will leave 1920 as an occasional thing, depending if the design allows it.

Site viewing

"Site best viewed with anything BUT preferrably not Internet Explorer" is The official line here.

I spent at least 3 days to deal with 2 seperated CSS bug IE has, just because IE cannot render a bunch of standards-complaint code. My site is lucky that I am getting upwards 20% FireFox views, and some 15% Safari, so IE6 is not a norm (though still majority), and those 2 usually handle my code very well, and don't render my site like ass.

I believe that a webmaster should try to conform every browser out there as much as possible, and I am already trying the best. As such I resorted to old school tables and js img anchor borders, which work across all browsers... but technically this is a big joke if you bring that up in front of any remotely professional web desginer.

Oh yeah also screen resolution is not a problem, seeing how small the layout is. If you are 1024x768 down then may need to scroll the frames, but it is inevitable given how the menu works... and by the way the menu is done with DHTML, a mix of CSS and js. If you have js turned off the menu should still be functional anyway, it just doesn't do the fold / unfold.

Legal crap

Blah blah yada yada sky is blue earth is green, lawyers don't fly and if you put your eggs in the fridge for too long, jesus will hate you.

Okay, seriously, who gives a damn... Nothing here is legal, copyright infringement is practiced here. However, as long as you download these wallpapers and only use it on your own, no one cares (not even UpFront Agency, Hello!Project's management). And if you sell these for money, wow, hook me up where da bitches.

Also, if you claim these as stuff that you made instead of me, I likely won't care at all. That is an ego boost even, since it proves I can pimp shit out that YOU can't, cheapass.

Hot-Linking

Lastly, hot-linking. You know, once you post something on the web with an URL, it is public. If I were paranoid I could htaccess and script my site hardcore so you can't even copy&paste URLs to show the image files, but that is pointless (not like I don't have bandwidth). However, I did lock up the index of the /walls/ dir though, that is to protect against the fucking media robot crawls.

I know that barred off people who may want all my wallpapers at once. Just take the trouble to wget my site at least... if you really want that bad.

Anyway, so I don't care how ever the hell you hotlink the wallpapers here. Just keep it down a bit please.