Can you help test my new website?
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Sorry, I forgot to say IE7.
I feel bad about being so negative, but as Paul says having a big fixed resolution site is a no-no. I usually optimise them for 800px wide.
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All feedback is great - negative is probably more useful than positive, to be honest.
Looks like I might have to redo it slightly. I made this one 1240 px wide, which displays nicely on my 17" laptop (1400x900). I thought that would be fine, but I must have misjudged slightly, if everyone is having problems viewing it... I always view webpages in a full screen browser window, though.
As to the flash 'fullscreen' mode - is this really unpopular? I only found out it was possible a week or so ago, and I thought it looked great - since it means the page DOES draw properly on all screen resolutions.
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Yea sorry but Full screen is a no no, A full screen window could be hiding another window behind it doing nasty's, don't get me wrong I trust you, but years of experience have taught me to be wary or such things.
It also makes it obvious to my colleges and more importantly my boss that I'm not working
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@paul russam said:
It also makes it obvious to my colleges and more importantly my boss that I'm not working
ROFLMAO
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Alex,
Similar reaction to full screen...looks really nice but "what the hell" hit my brain right away. Also, the load times had me thinking the links were broken...started clicking around rather than waiting (glad I found my patience...beautiful work well worth the wait). Anyway, I bet you could come up with an equally beautiful "loading" gif to make people like me wait.
IE7Bottom line, though, is: Wonderful!
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Thanks for the feedback, everyone...
Sod... guess I'll have to redo it.
AJ
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What he should do is have the size percentage based instead of a specific amount of pixels.
Use his rather neat background image across the whole thing, then set the left side as say... 80% and the right menu at 20% width.
Then no matter what the resolution of the screen it will scale properly.Of course there is more to it than that, and you will still have to make sure it all looks ok as you scale it back on the screen, but thats the idea.
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hi alex,
i symphatize with what you are going through as i am in the process of making a new web site for me.
design-wise your site is fine and uncluttered, even elegant.
what i do not like about it is the mandatory full-screen mode. i also find it somewhat difficult to navigate through it. for my money you could have a more evident way of navigating through the sections.
regards,
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@masta squidge said:
What he should do is have the size percentage based instead of a specific amount of pixels.
I wouldn't say he should do that- he could do it, it's certainly an option, but many webpages are designed at a fixed resolution and for good reason. Architects, graphic designers, artists and perhaps most importantly web designers usually use fixed resolution sites (most often 800px wide) as it allows them to fix the composition of the layout. It's obviously pointless setting up a page to look just right when you know that any window resizing will completely screw up the proportions and from a matte painter's point of view I'd imagine composition would be very important.
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Coen -
If I knew how to program html sites
, I would probably do that.Unfortunately, I don't have the knowlege, the software or (to be honest) the time to learn it all. Knowing flash was sort of a by-product of doing animated presentations - I learnt flash long before I knew you could also use it as a developer tool.
I guess, like everything, it's a trade off - not having to pay a web developer vs. having a flash portfolio.
I know it would be better, though, so it's on my long list of things I need to learn
Thanks for the feedback!
AJ
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