can you check my site? potential employer saying its blocked!!

gartht3d

http://www.garthwtravis.com/

I just finished my website and sent it off. One potential employer said its blocked! If you can be bothered, can you check to see if it works for you and let me know your browser type?

Cheers

Garth

MissMaddyTaylor

It's working for me. I use Google Chrome. Best of luck!

Luke_Starkie

Working for me too! Also Firefox.

Swizzle

Working fine here. Using Firefox.

Some really quality work on there, by the way, and a nice layout.

Texelion

Yeah working with Chrome, no problem.

Ask this potential employer if he uses IE, and if he does, refuse the job ^^.

Vailias

If they're getting a "blocked" message, that's more than likely on their end. They could have some kind of IP level blocking policy. There are hundreds of sites that share the same host IP as yours and I imagine at least one of them is spam.

Good luck with the employment hunt!

VPrime

Works here also.
Tried in Chrome and Safari

gartht3d

ok great thanks for your time.

So its likely an internal block. Man! That's a shame:( Hope this doesn't happen everywhere.

Cheers

ZombieWells

yeah it works for me as well

-Em'-

Working too and i'm using firefox with addblock and ghostery ^^

And awesome folio

Logithx

The site works but pictures are loading slowly, some not at all. I noticed they are .png files, I recommend using .jpgs - the quality will be the same but filesizes will be dramatically reduced.

JR

It opened here, using chrome, but images didn't load. I'm in Brazil, with a shitty connection.

gartht3d

thanks for the feedback.

@ Logithx and @ JR

Can you let me know your average download speeds? All images are .png's I noticed most people use .jpegs.

Is anyone else noticing slow image load times?

Cheers

JR

I tried a 2nd time, and after a while, they loaded. My connection is 15Mb, but not so reliable.

JohnnyRaptor

works here too,

Stinkfoot

Works at where I work, and thats a miracle cause they're blocking almost everything from here.

Pookhan

It works but the images take a very long time to load.

Grimmstrom

Works fine for me but it's quite a slow website. You have some really nice work on there, so best of luck with the job hunting.

gartht3d

Grimmstrom wrote: »

Works fine for me but it's quite a slow website. You have some really nice work on there, so best of luck with the job hunting.

Thanks mate

So .jpegs are the way to go then? It seems Im getting mixed speed results with .png

Xoliul

Blocked for me at work.

sltrOlsson

I guess it depends on what isp you got and where in the world you'r at. I think it's fine, I loaded everything in like 3 seconds and I live in Sweden. And yes, that's from my work computer..

Btw, if the chance for employment doesn't work out, you can always contact Marty!

gartht3d

Xoliul wrote: »

Blocked for me at work.

DAMN!

no idea what I can do about this:(

gartht3d

sltrOlsson wrote: »

I guess it depends on what isp you got and where in the world you'r at. I think it's fine, I loaded everything in like 3 seconds and I live in Sweden.

Btw, if the chance for employment doesn't work out, you can always contact Marty!

LOL. I would of fell for that if I didn't already have a friend who did:P

RexM

You could try a couple of things.

First, use .jpg compression for your images. It is slow for me as well.

1.) Send an archive of all your portfolio images

2.) Save your website into an offline version and send that, through dropbox or some other upload site

Hope it works out, like your work btw

3dcaspar

Works for me (using Opera) and everything is loading quite fast..

Btw: really nice stuff!

nufftalon

site is working for me as well (Chrome) great work on there btw. I would advise your employer to try other internet browsers or check for viruses.

JustGarry

sltrOlsson wrote: »

I guess it depends on what isp you got and where in the world you'r at. I think it's fine, I loaded everything in like 3 seconds and I live in Sweden. And yes, that's from my work computer..

Btw, if the chance for employment doesn't work out, you can always contact Marty!

Haha this is the first thing that popped into my head also as soon as I seen Melbourne!

@Garth3d site works fine for me both at work and home, and loaded fast enough aswell , I like the idea of having a zip file on dropbox though, just to be sure, my web hosting dropped out at an interview before when they asked to get my site up! (luckily it was only down for 5 minutes)

S_ource

Site works for me to, maybe you can send a pdf to the employer.

sheckee

If it helps, It works for me at work on google Chrome
Good luck!

AlexCatMasterSupreme

Your images wont load on mine, Im using chrome.

haiddasalami

Doesnt work for me. Using chrome. Could send them a zip file with all you're stuff as a backup.

Justin Meisse

yup, send them a zip of the full size images, they don't need the site. They shouldn't penalize you on presentation since it's their IT department that's causing the problems, not you.

DWalker

For actual interviews, having a portfolio on your mobile device (preferably a tablet) works as a backup.

gartht3d

Thanks so much everyone for taking the time to check. I really appreciate it. I got some good crits out of this also. Im changing all the images to jpegs atm so site should get faster.
I did all I could re: blocking issues but my web host is adamant its not the site its the studios security. They put in a request to IT to have my site accepted so should be fine:P

Any crits on the site are welcome also

Thanks

okkun

Brilliant scheme to get a bunch of people to look at your folio!

gartht3d

okkun wrote: »

Brilliant scheme to get a bunch of people to look at your folio!

lol. I realized that about 10 posts in:P