Kit: in regards to bigger images - are you talking about all the portfolio images, including screencaps or just the art section? How large should the screencaps be and how should I balance between size and download time in this case?
I think the ones for the artwork are fine, but I wouldn’t mind seeing the Website portfolio pop ups a bit bigger. This is probably a first for me, as tend to loathe pop up windows. I wouldn’t say make them huge / actual size or anything, because of download time obviously. Depends how big they are at the moment. Lemme check…
Alright, the first image for the modelling one is about 29K. You can probably add a few K to that without worrying too much about downloading. Plus since you’ve scaled the pop up so that it fits exactly that first image, none can tell from the start that they might not have all loaded yet or whatever. If that makes sense. Perhaps making them .gifs would cut down the file size on a bigger image?
As for the angled text, I do like it like that, it’s just I have to twist my head a bit to read it.
Lost: Platform? IE version? Popup not showing up at all or are you getting the 404 error?
Are the popups a consistent error with EVERY gallery item or only for some of them?
I keep getting inconsistent testing results from other people - it works on a Win2k/IE6 platform for some and not for others. Works on all Mac/IE5 platforms so far. I’m not sure where to begin troubleshooting at this point.
What would I do without you guys? Thanks a million for that tutorial. I’ve implemented it on the first two buttons in the website gallery section. I know you are busy people and believe me, your time and efforts are very much appreciated, but if you could find a little time will you please, just one last time, check to see if it finally works? If this is the ticket - I’m going to set it for the rest of the gallery. If not, I’m going to have to shut down this part of the site and stab myself repeatedly with this mechanical pencil in my hand.
Thanks a bunch guys.
Kit: your design sensibilities are right on target - I’ve received a number of suggestions to resize the screencaps and will be doing just that tonight.
See, I tested out that tutorial myself, and it worked superb, but here I am still getting the same 404 error. I even cleared all my Temp files, cookies, and my history. Still the same thing.
I use the same kind of URL forwarding as you do, and my pop ups work great. If you want to check out the script I use, you can check the .txt file I attached.
Really, I was about to punch myself repeatedly in the face! I wonder if it’s a loadMovie problem. Is it working for you on the when it’s loaded on the main site?
*Edit: I just uploaded newer versions of everything. That’s a good theory Lost, I’ll make the heavy version load outside of the URL cloaking just to be on the safe side. I just uploaded a fresh swf with the popup code changed for all the thumbs.
It works for me if I access any of the pages directly.
If I access the page through www.donnalopez.com they don’t work, this is why I believe(d) it was a frame problem since you use a stealth redirect system which encases your actual page in one huge frame (which is why the URL is always the same in the address bar).
Well AS and Javascript are a tad bit similiar. DHTML and AS are almost exactly alike, but DHTML is so much harder to impliment.
Please refer to it as Javascript because Java and Javascript are 2 completely different things, so to prevent confusing people it is refferred to as Javascript or JS.
Sorry if that sounded rude, but Java and Javascript really are 2 different things, pretty much completely :-\
So it was just for future reference so you don’t tell people you know Java, but instead you know Javascript (unless you know java, which would be way cool).
I wouldn’t say make them huge / actual size or anything, because of download time obviously. Depends how big they are at the moment. Lemme check…
