Phase III

gwpriester.com Phase III

Gary Priester

Moderator Person

<a href="http://www.gwpriester.com">
www.gwpriester.com </a>

http://www.thuntek.net/gwp/flag.png

gwpriester.com Phase III

Gary Priester

Moderator Person

<a href="http://www.gwpriester.com">
www.gwpriester.com </a>

http://www.thuntek.net/gwp/flag.png

I can't quite put a finger on it, but something about the rollover images doesn't fit. The idea is good, the placement in the descender is good, but the images are too....something.
The only thing that really sticks out is at 800x600, with standard IE toolbars, half of the rollover images are below the bottom edge. At 1024x768 it fits fine, of course. Hopefully someone else can provide more helpful feedback.

I get an "Error on page" message, however I can't tell what the error is. The homepage puts me in mind of the XaraXone page. I like the look.
Mike

Gary, I like the look and feel of the new rollovers, and haven't noticed any particular problem with loading speed on my 56K modem.

But there is clearly some kind of a problem somewhere even though it appears to have worked fine for me in IE6 (see attachment) — haven't had time to look into this yet except to run HTML Tidy over your source code (suggest you might try the same and/or the W3C validator). Haven't voted (so do I have to?), but must stress that, 'problems' or not, I like it! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Peter</p>

Peat Stack or Pete's Tack?</p>

I like it. It's unexpected and made me smile. It's the kind of thing that makes me want to go further into the site ... and that's the point after all.

Mickie

Gary,

THe error is common whe you use the rollover componet in Fusion. Sometimes it wigs out. It just happened to me just yesterday.

Milt

When viewed in Nutscrape 4.7, it tells you there is an error, and to type 'javascript:' in the Location field for an explanation. Here is the explanation:

JavaScript Error: http://www.thuntek.net/gwp/, line 15:
MM_preloadImages is not defined.

The rollovers all work just fine, in IE and NS, so I guess it's just a minor error. I'm not a programmer, so I don't know how to fix the error, or if it is even necessary to worry with it.

Gary V.

or if it is even necessary to worry with it.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I would tend to agree with you, except this is a site where perspective clients are looking for web design. Might turn some away.
Mike

Here's the line with the error:

&ltBODY NOF="(MB=(HomePage, 126, 50, 0, 10), L=(gwpriestercomHomePageLayout, 749, 791))" onLoad="MM_preloadImages('assets/images/about_us_reg.gif', 'assets/images/about_us_reg_over.gif', 'assets/images/about_us_hi.gif', 'assets/images/about_us_hi_over.gif', 'assets/images/our_services_reg.gif', 'assets/images/our_services_reg_over.gif', 'assets/images/our_services_hi.gif', 'assets/images/our_services_hi_over.gif', 'assets/images/our_work_reg.gif', 'assets/images/our_work_reg_over.gif', 'assets/images/our_work_hi.gif', 'assets/images/our_work_hi_over.gif', 'assets/images/our_fees_reg.gif', 'assets/images/our_fees_reg_over.gif', 'assets/images/our_fees_hi.gif', 'assets/images/our_fees_hi_over.gif', 'assets/images/contact_us_reg.gif', 'assets/images/contact_us_reg_over.gif', 'assets/images/contact_us_hi.gif', 'assets/images/contact_us_hi_over.gif')" TOPMARGIN=0 LEFTMARGIN=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0&gt

You don't have to know javascript to realize that most of this is a list of your image files. I suspect that the error pops up (in some browsers), because one of these images doesn't exist.

This type of error occurs all the time in programs like Fusion, because designers click whatever button they have to click to generate the script. The script generator then scans the file for any image tags and creates the preloader script for those images. Then, the designer decides to delete one of the images. But the script generator isn't smart enough to go back and remove the reference to that image.

If I'm right about this, then you can fix the problem by (a) deleting and regenerating the script, or (b) hand editing the javascript to remove references to any deleted images.

Browsers are actually quite lax about errors. Many pages contain errors that are not fatal, and the browers will display such pages. Depending on preferences set by browser owners, the pages might alert browser owners about the errors before displaying the page. But then the page displays just fine. This is what happens to me (and some others here) when we visit your page.

These warning messages annoy the hell out of me. About 20% of pages I visit have these trivial errors, and I'd rather not know about them. I keep going to preferences and checking the "don't alert me to errors" option, but for some reason this option keeps getting unchecked.

Marcus Geduld
{ email me } { visit me }

.. the same feeling as "toographic"...

The I sat back and sipped some of my over-prized Gallo, Merlot... and...

I think what makes me feel funny about the images that pop up in the G; are the "images" themselves.

Some of them don't seem to fit in with style/feeling of the main page or each other.

The "services" and the "work" pop-up look great but the other 3 don't work for me. They don't seem to "fit in"...

You look friendly and inviting in the photo; and I think it will look good if the other four images - have the same style/feel to them.

I like the idea with the images appearing in the "G"!

Just thinking...

Risto

risto@ristoklint.com

Visit my Web site!

Looks great Gary, except that as someone else said, your rollover graphics disappear at the bottom of the page when viewed 600x800.

As this is the focus of the page, perhaps you should make it fit. I also get the error on page message. IE 5.5

I love the concept, I voted better than OK. J

My good friend Milt, who provided me with the code for the preloading buttons is going to come over next week and show me the right place to load the script, aren't you MILT!

I thought I got rid of those tags but apparently they have a mind of their own.

Gary

Gary Priester

Moderator Person

<a href="http://www.gwpriester.com">
www.gwpriester.com </a>

http://www.thuntek.net/gwp/flag.png

Gary,

I like the simplicity of your design.

But (there's always a but), the 'gwpriester.com' logo is weak when compared to the logos in your portfolio.

Robert

First off I think the overall look and feel is excellent. But a couple of thoughts
1. It *is* too big, from what I can gather more people use 800 x600 than anything else but I'm probably wrong.
2. The sub-image roll-overs don't hang together very well, they look too graphically divorced from each other.
3. The text could do with some "pointers" to split it up - sub heads, bullets. It doesn't lead me through it
4. The logo examples at the side are great but you don't know what they are until you scroll down - I thought they were ads for the companies at first.
I must say this is very nit picky and I could never design a site to this high standard to start with.

Are we in the right section here?
Tony

I like the clean, simplistic look of the site. I especially like the mouse rollovers which display graphics within the "G" logo. I do though agree with others that there is something missing. My take on it is to add a little color, bevel bwpriester.com and make the "G" smaller. Or in other words, very little change is needed.