My first whole site for Churchill has just gone live. :beam:
Check out www.csgclaims.com - the design isn’t the greatest in the world, but as they say, it’s what the customer wanted.
And before anyone asks, no, I have absolutely no idea of what these guys do. Something to do with insurance is all I know. I just cut and pasted the text…
I don’t know how much power you have with it, but can you get someone to define the background color! My default color is light blue and everywhere that the BGCOLOR is not defined I see that blue and it completely throws off the entire page. SOrry I’m reallly picky about this…
Other than that it looks very nice and professional.
Luckily the people who wrote the brief for this one had a little more taste than those who are doing the Intranet (remember that God-awful design I posted a while ago?).
Anyway, Jubba, I’ll write in the BGCOLOR tag for the first update. There’s one or two things I want to tweak on it as well, so they won’t mind if I slip that one in.
Lost, I totally agree with you about the buttons being huge - when you run on an 800 x 600 res then they <i>just</i> about fit, which isn’t too great. They weren’t originally that large, but the company came back and said they wanted them bigger, bolder and ‘chunky’. So they ended up like this. Ah well. Long as it works I suppose. The people who use it aren’t going to be worrying about what it looks like…
What, the Flash grid with the fading pictures? That grid?
I guess the buttons things is subjective - some people will like it, others won’t. I think they should have been a little bit smaller, just so as they’d fit better on a 800 x 600 screen, but that’s just my view.
'Fraid I had my hands tied with the colour. It’s the corporate thing, blue… Luckily I managed to persuade them not to use the same blue they do in their brochures - it’s the primary, bright one. Eek. Too much of that would do everyone’s heads in.
If I’m honest, I have to admit to major cheating - there’s no scripting involved in it whatsoever apart from the odd stop() action. Because of the major time limit on the whole thingy, I didn’t have the time to sit down, work out and test the ‘proper’ way of doing it so I did it all with tweens. Blech.
Sadly, can’t seem to attach the .fla it’s too big… Basically all I’ve done is set up five different movie clips of the blue box fading in and out once at a different speed and a different alpha value. Stuck them all into one big MC, with the different speeds placed at different intervals. Similar thing with the photographs. Just set the length of the MC to the same for each, then made them go in and out at different times.
Like I said, no scripting at all… I know the pics make up a large part of the file size, but I could probably knock it down more if I scripted the alpha fades…