Iāve got the skeleton of my new site working, and any opinions on it from you guys would be much appreciated.
Itās no special URL, Iāve just replaced the old one. So www.nowingsnohalo.co.uk will work fine. Iām figuring no-one goes there often enough to worry about not having a fully working copy up.
So yeah, half the links wonāt work and itās kinda buggy. But before I tell the massesā¦
But theyāre so pretty and lovely and I just couldnāt refuse themā¦ āUse me! Use me!ā they called, and it would be churlish to say noā¦
Iām 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¦
Correct, I did post the idea a while back (though Iāve only just acted upon it) and you wonāt find a single transition on there. :beam:
I was thinking of adding preloaders to each little module, but theyāre mostly so ickle it hardly seems worth it. Toyed with the idea of transitionsā¦ But I didnāt want it to appear overly in-your-face and flashy. Plus I couldnāt actually think of any.
That was the major stumbling block.
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? )ā¦
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:
Itās going to use Flash more eventually though. Right now Iām just re-creating everything thatās 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.