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Old May 16th, 2005, 12:00 PM
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http://www.graphixplus.com/gamut/index.php

hi there.

here's a new one that i'm working on. open for some criticism.

keep in mind, the navigation leads to 'localhost' so don't bother clicking any where.

i will be including a footer with all the links shortly, mostly looking for layout/graphics/performance opinions.

Thanks!

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Old May 16th, 2005, 10:06 PM
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Ah yes, this site

Um, all I can suggest is more colour. Outside of the header, there is no colour at all. Maybe give those dotted borders a blue. The rollovers are a wicked colour, but maybe give the non-rollover images a paler blue.

Other than that, looks good!
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hi some nice work... I think that the idea to add a pale blue colour to the off state of the menu buttons is a good one, if for no other reason than that greyed out links are often used to denote that they are not yet functionable... on my screen resolution of 1152x864 the space between the text and the pictures of the products is quite big breaking any association between the two (windows 2000 mozila firefox 1.04) and when reducing to 800x600 the gap is still quite big but the products frame looks squashed and requires horizontal scrolling. quick download

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thanks...i realize there is quite the gap between the two...as cybersaga knows, it's so the left tables arent' forced under the right table when the window is minimized.

i'll have a go at the rollovers too.

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i've made some changes to the way the pricing tables are displayed on this page

Let me know what you think!

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The samples seems to be the only thing right justified. And the name "Samples" is separating from the icon. This is in its header.

This is in Firefox at 1024x768 resolution.

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I concur about lack of colour.

Another thing I notice is a ton of various-sized images that do that gradient background. You should consider making a single 1px-wide one and using the following css

background: url(img.jpg) repeat-x;

That one tiny image will make your site load much quicker for dialup users and save loading 7 or 8 images of different sizes.

instead of using Javascript you can then use :hover CSS to change the image url

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thanks...i realize there is quite the gap between the two...as cybersaga knows, it's so the left tables arent' forced under the right table when the window is minimized.

i'll have a go at the rollovers too.

Thanks again!

Y'know, if you have a container element, I wonder if applying 'white-space:nowrap;' to it would stop it from falling below.

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The samples seems to be the only thing right justified. And the name "Samples" is separating from the icon. This is in its header.

This is in Firefox at 1024x768 resolution.

Hope you know what I'm talking about.


Not sure what yer talking about actually. i'm looking at it at the same res. in a bunch of browsers and it looks fine...hmmmmm....

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Old May 18th, 2005, 09:29 AM
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I concur about lack of colour.

Another thing I notice is a ton of various-sized images that do that gradient background. You should consider making a single 1px-wide one and using the following css

background: url(img.jpg) repeat-x;

That one tiny image will make your site load much quicker for dialup users and save loading 7 or 8 images of different sizes.

instead of using Javascript you can then use :hover CSS to change the image url


i'm also not sure about that...the header consists of the main logoed portion, and then a 1 px. wide chunk of blue that tiles across the page.

the grey bars are 3 parts...the logo, the middle (which tiles) and the cap on the right.

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Not sure what yer talking about actually. i'm looking at it at the same res. in a bunch of browsers and it looks fine...hmmmmm....

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yowza...is that captured from right now?? cause i don't know what's goin on there.

thanks for letting me know!

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Yup, that was just now. I'm at work, but this was happening at home too.
Win2000/FF here, WinXP/FF at home

Seems every time I refresh it's rendering differently. Sometimes, it's the way it's supposed to be, with the samples off to the side. Sometimes it's the way I showed you. I've even seen the samples sticking to the left. Really weird.

IE seems to be unaffected.

Edit: 'nother screenshot

Last edited by cybersaga : May 18th, 2005 at 09:47 AM.