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The text that appears in the top left just doesnt line up for me... Maybe you should fix that, eh?
 
Vedy nice. 👍

Do you have all of the rollover images setup to pre-load? I can see that you have a javascript for the pre-load function, but since I don't know how to read javascript, I can't tell if you have it for all of your images... the rollover took a while to get working.

Also, while having the complex rollover (where hovering over an image causes an image at a different location to change) is really cool, it drastically slows things down... there's a very distinct pause.

And, like the others have said, a san-serif font would be better. ;) Arial is nice, but I've had the best luck with Verdana, size 11 or 12. Helveltica would be nice, but PCs don't antialise it as well as the others.

On your "Studio" page, I think it would be best to use thumbnails. You wouldn't believe how long it takes to load such big images over a 56k line. ;)

The top Flash image is a bit jumpy for those of us not running the latest PCs... I think you might want to try to make it smaller (as in complexity and compression).

And jumping back to the nav bar, I think it would be best to have primary navigation, and sub navigation... the number of links there is a bit overwhelming.

I'm such a critic... :D
 
That's a great looking site, although I personally am not a fan of white on black, unless (as ALPHA suggests, you use a thicker font such as Verdana).

I love the nav bar down the left (youth_cycler, it doesn't make any difference whether the swapped image is the one you roll over or a different one, it all depends on image size and connection speed, also, it's a Dreamweaver page, and DW - as you should know :P - will by default preload all the rollover images).

I did spot a number of typos/spelling errors though - you may want to get someone to edit it.

It's a really clean look. Can't speak for 56K users, but over here it loaded great, and looks great. Good job!
 
Wow! Such great responses already... I couldn't agree more about the font. There's just something about it...and perhaps changing the font and even a softer color, other than white, would present a better feel to the text.

As far as the "Studio", HAHAHA yes, those pics are huge. They were thrown in there quick charle to fill in some space. All images on the site will be a thumbnail that you can click on for a popup window, you know, standard thumbnail-popup scheme. ;)

I designed our first site for the 56k'ers, this new design is more for, ummm....the other people. Once the images for the nav bar are loaded, it should run fairly smooth for the duration of the visit.

I'll have to look into that top flash animation. The slowest machine that I looked at it from was a PII 400mhz.

Anyhow, thanks for all the feedback....., and suggestions.

Back to the page for some more revisions.

:cheers:
 
Originally posted by Acid X
The text that appears in the top left just doesnt line up for me... Maybe you should fix that, eh?
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Could you tell me a little bit about what your running?

Browser Version:
Screen Resolution:
Operating System:

That way I might be able to mimic the problem that your having with it aligning correctly. I'm using layers, and multiple one's at that. Given that, I know Netscape has some layer issues that are less than desirable.
 
Pako... very nice. I wish I was as Flash literate as you.

Regarding your intro... I thought the pics were a little too small and dark.

Regarding the site... I agree with the font suggestions above, and maybe there are a few too many buttons. Ever consider dropdown buttons? Are you that Flash literate? :P
 
Originally posted by milefile
Pako... very nice. I wish I was as Flash literate as you.

Regarding your intro... I thought the pics were a little too small and dark.

Regarding the site... I agree with the font suggestions above, and maybe there are a few too many buttons. Ever consider dropdown buttons? Are you that Flash literate? :P
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I almost went that route. My only concern was compatibility. With the navigation bar being as critical as it is, I didn't want to cripple the links of the site with a "Flash Only" Nav. Bar.

If it's just a picture or something, no harm done if it doesn't display for the user, but if the nav. bar doesn't display, their stuck. And personally, my days of up dating a HTML and a FLASH enhanced site are over. My content is very static, so making dynamic changes that would affect both versions is beyond my current Host's Features.
 
Originally posted by Pako
Could you tell me a little bit about what your running?

Browser Version:
Screen Resolution:
Operating System:

That way I might be able to mimic the problem that your having with it aligning correctly. I'm using layers, and multiple one's at that. Given that, I know Netscape has some layer issues that are less than desirable.
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IE 6
1280x1024
Windows 98.

Heh.
 
ahhh..., It's that higher resolution that's doing it. I suppose that the text is appearing at towards the top. The font size is a fixed size, however, the pixel attributes would change (the box/layer) gets smaller, the higher the resolution.

Humm..., I'll have to think about that one.
 
Pako...

How did you get the pages to fit the window at various resolutions? I've only done it once and Now I can't remember. I seem to remember it being pretty simple though. Maybe you can save me another trip through the Macromedia tutorials.

Oh I'm assuming you used Dreamweaver right?
 
I did it by designing the site's layout around Tables, and setting those width attributes to percentages rather than pixels.
 
Originally posted by milefile
Man that's high? Why do you have it like that?
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I have a big monitor. 17", and i dont feel like i want to back away from the screen every time i want to read something. :lol:
 
Originally posted by Pako
I did it by designing the site's layout around Tables, and setting those width attributes to percentages rather than pixels.
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I think that the problem is that the site slides further to the right of the screen at the higher resolution. I'll look at your sites code and see if i cant help you out, and not screw it up for other people at the same time. ;)
 
Ok, i think i found your problem.. Look at this code:

Code: 
[b]<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0">
  <tr> 
    <td width="21%" rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top"> <table width="51%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr> 
          <td height="107"> <div align="[color=red]center[/color]"><img src="buttons/dynamic_window.gif" width="213" height="105" class="normal"></div></td>
        </tr>[/b]

You see what i've highlighted? Thats your problem in your html code. You cant have it center if the dynamic text you have doesnt center automatically with it, as it is in a fixed place, therefore, what i have highlighted in red should say "left" instead of "center". Changing it to left would align the dynamic box to the left, so that it would be with the text at all times. The box would leave more space to the right, but atleast it would look proper to the people with higher resolutions.

Hope you can try this out. ;)

EDIT: Oh, and this code is taken straight out from main.html, right under all the DIV tags that contain your mouseover messages. You should be able to spot it if you crack open the html on the page. I have a feeling you will have to change this for all of the other pages, too. Sorry.
 
gt2_gs,

Thanks man, I'll give that a shot tonight. Fortunately all the pages were designed off of a template in DW, so if I can get the template to work, I can update all the pages using that template without too much grief.

Unfortunately though, all I have at home are LCD's with a resolution limitation of 1024x768, so I might be calling on you to see if it fixed it or not. ;)

:cheers:
 
Not a problem..., guess the site is just intended for the norm... ;)

I'll continue to work on it though, I have a couple of ideas that I'd like to try..
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
...(youth_cycler, it doesn't make any difference whether the swapped image is the one you roll over or a different one, it all depends on image size and connection speed, also, it's a Dreamweaver page, and DW - as you should know :P - will by default preload all the rollover images).
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But only if you click on the checkbox! ;)

Also, Pako, I'd suggest that the index.html page have links for "Enter- Intro" and "Enter- Skip Intro" or something to that effect... when I first went to your site, I had my speakers on fairly loud, and it scared the bejeezers out of me! :lol: Also, I was playing some music on the iBook, so suddenly having music intrude on it might not fare well with some of your vistors. ;)

Oh, and, what about fixing your CSS? :P
 
:lol: Sorry about that Yout-cycler. ;) I'm actually working on a different index file that will do one of two things, it will load faster, simple thumnail pics, the band name, and two links. One link is direct to the site, the other link will be to the flash intro (with sound). I agree that giving your audience a little heads up is a polite thing to do. ;)

CSS ? What's wrong with those? :D

I know...

Thanks for the suggestions though, they're greaty appreciated.
 
Ok youth_cycler, I've adjusted the site so that your background music isn't interupted by the over compressed mp3 of ken's screamin' guitar lick. ;)

On to the next suggestion.
 

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