Beta

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Not ā€˜Lostinā€™, but ā€˜version of my siteā€™.

Iā€™ve got the skeleton of my new site working, and any opinions on it from you guys would be much appreciated.

Itā€™s no special URL, Iā€™ve just replaced the old one. So www.nowingsnohalo.co.uk will work fine. Iā€™m figuring no-one goes there often enough to worry about not having a fully working copy up. :slight_smile:

So yeah, half the links wonā€™t work and itā€™s kinda buggy. But before I tell the massesā€¦ :slight_smile:

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I like the layout, but I canā€™t read any of the text on my 19" monitor set at 1600x1200 resolutionā€¦

I donā€™t know how many over 40 desingers with high res monitors are in your target demographic, but that is my observationā€¦

Rev

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Point. :slight_smile:

I succumbed to the lure of pixel fonts Iā€™m afraidā€¦ :sure:

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The Dark side is strong.

Rev

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I know, I know. :slight_smile:

But theyā€™re so pretty and lovely and I just couldnā€™t refuse themā€¦ ā€œUse me! Use me!ā€ they called, and it would be churlish to say noā€¦

Iā€™m think I need some sound in there. A Star Wars-y type beep on a menu button click, that kind of thing. Good idea? Or troll-like in stupidity? Does it bug people? Arghā€¦ :stuck_out_tongue:

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I donā€™t have my speakers on by default. Iā€™ve had way too many sites loudly announce their arrivalā€¦

but again, Iā€™m old, crotchety, and opinionatedā€¦

Rev

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And more often than not, bang on the money. :slight_smile:

Iā€™ll forget pingy fx for the moment. Might be an idea to get the whole thing working before I start tinkering. :wink:

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I think youā€™ve posted the layour somewhere before?
Anywho, I must say, it is brilliant, and the color scheme is great! :slight_smile:

The only thing it lacks is some transitions, as it took me a while to figure out the siteā€™s a flash movie, i thought it was html, lol

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Correct, I did post the idea a while back (though Iā€™ve only just acted upon it) and you wonā€™t find a single transition on there. :beam:

I was thinking of adding preloaders to each little module, but theyā€™re mostly so ickle it hardly seems worth it. Toyed with the idea of transitionsā€¦ But I didnā€™t want it to appear overly in-your-face and flashy. Plus I couldnā€™t actually think of any.

That was the major stumbling block. :stuck_out_tongue:

There is actually a gap in each movie for a transition / preloader if I want to put one in (or any bright spark has an idea? :wink: )ā€¦

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lol, hey, a simple fade-in/fade-out would be much better than nothing, and would go pretty well with the rather minimalistic look :bounce:

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Now why didnā€™t I think of that? :sure:

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lol :stuck_out_tongue:

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Looks great and the layout is great :slight_smile:

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I was wondering why it was Flash when the layout could of been more easily done via HTML.

Then my dumbarse realized the pixel fonts are why :hangover:

Very nice Kit, I LOVE IT! I too find the pixel font a bit too small for my liking (but I can still read it), but I think it looks good none-the-less.

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The problem with pixelfont is that itā€™s meant to be small; anything bigger would be (IMO) pretty unattractive.

Pixelfonts are great though. They stray from the nominal Verdana or Arial font we see everywhere. Has its own originality, if you will.

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Thing was, I did try doing the layout in HTML, because that seemed the logical thing to do. But it all got so complicated with tables, then layers and there were about a million graphics involved tooā€¦ Major headache.

So I stuck all the contect into Flash movies and just the header, footer and border in HTML. Plus of course, I can get my pixel font in there. :beam:

Itā€™s going to use Flash more eventually though. Right now Iā€™m just re-creating everything thatā€™s currently there (plus a few more odds and sods). But I want a shoutbox on there, and some gamesā€¦ Email form in Flash would be cool too. You know the kind of thing. :slight_smile:

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http://www.nowingsnohalo.co.uk/downloads/resume_pdf.doc & http://www.nowingsnohalo.co.uk/downloads/resume_word.doc = 404 , not good for potential customerā€¦ same for the ā€œlive urlsā€, i think iā€™d get the resume section working firstā€¦

and hilite the current section and disable itā€™s button!
preloaders not needed with cable connection.

about the footer: can requierements only be recommendedā€¦?

nice site, but lately i prefer livelier colors, to much blackā€™nā€™white,
nice layout.