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Yet one more in the tinting series. Green and black theme this time, again tried to keep it clean and simple with just the right amount of information needed without going over the top.
http://www.windowtintingkeighley.co.uk/
Hope you guys and gals like this and your comments as always are welcome.
Looks good skech :)
Thanks Frances, what's the loading speed like for you.
It loads quite fast for me on my PC and my windows 7 phone.
Was this site done using Xara?
The reason for my question is because of the full size banner at the top.
Yes Rik, all xara, using the tall thin bar method, the ray burst is on the page itself rather than the background.
@Rik - I don't know whether Skech used this, but all you need is Covoxer's Tweakset :-
1 A suitable tiling image for the page background
2 The ‘Tile background horizontally’ tweak
3 The ‘Static Background’ tweak
http://xara-users.info/demos/full-wi...ader/index.htm
Yes Skech did use Xara to create this site (and all of his window tinting sites) If you right click on the background of a webpage you should (I believe this works in most browsers) get a menu and in that menu there should be an option to view the page source code. all pages made in Xara will show "Xar files" in the meta name and show that Xara was used as a generator. As the moderator for the Xara web gallery I check this information for all new sites that are posted, before I approve them :)
I did look at the page source, Frances.
But I was puzzled by the full width banner at the top of the site.
I think John has answered as to how that can be done.
I'll have to look at the soon!
Great looking site, Skech.
I don't know what you mean by 'the tall thin bar method' ?
I do not use the tweak, basically I create the page using the method below.
- Create the page with all the elements which you want; the footer, the green banner and the rest of the stuff which goes off the page, tweak the positions
- then resize this to say 16pixels (keep the length to what you set for the page (make sure you have whole numbers of pixels, nothing like 15.9pixels)
- and then export it as a png
- then import it into the page
- delete it
- and then select it from the bitmap gallery and select 'Background' and that's it
The 'bar' for this site is http://www.windowtintingkeighley.co....tm_files/0.png
Hope that helps.
Rik, for fixed height pages the method Sketch uses is also the method I've used many times in the past.
It's pretty straight forward :)
In fact I created a short YouTube tutorial back when Designer Pro 6 was the current version.
► http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKUc87rL--A
I think I got it from a tutorial you might have done on this forum somewhere, but this is a great video, very easy to follow. Can we not have a section for video tutorials on the forum.
Thanks Sketch. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by skech
► http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...-Xara-ProgramsQuote:
Originally Posted by skech
But was closed two years ago.
How about bringing it back, after all if a picture is worth a thousand words how many words are 5 minutes of 24fps worth (120,000) it would be a great addition as more and more people buy xara products.
You'd have to contact the current Admin of TG about resurrections :)
Yes it's true, the 5 minute (or so) videos are certainly the best. People can absorb and retain more information when they are kept short and to the point. They are also more likely to be viewed again.
Sketch, great to see the apostrophe has gone!
How about making the £89 (and car) a bit smaller? It's merging with the car and squashing the from.
The 'from' is not important it just needs to be there, and the text overlapping the car adds depth to the site rather than a flat image (Right Steve?)
It's not an argument, with a right or wrong, it's an opinion.
Whatever Steve thinks I'll still feel the same way.
I wasn't suggesting removing the from.
I'll cease an desist!
eh!, why has the argument word reared it's head, I put sites on here to get the opinions of you guys because the people who have commented so far including yourself are the people whose opinions matter the most to me, don't forget that I am a relative newcomer to xara and all you guys and gals have helped in my understanding of the software. So please don't ever feel that it is an argument, if I feel that what you say needs to change I will change it, of I feel or the client feels that it needs to stay the same I will leave it the same; it does not mean that you are wrong or I refuse to make the change because I feel that I am right, also remember that all the sites I do are for clients; my opinion or your opinion are second to that of the client.
I was referring to your comment asking Steve for his judgement on whether you are "right" in positioning the text over the car.
I am no artistic guru in these matters, so it's only ever an opinion, completely ignorable.
My point is that because the text is white and the car is white, this 3D separation isn't strong enough to stop these merging together and reducing the clarity of the 9. If the car hadn't been white I may not have made that comment.
To my eyes the composition of the text and car looks a bit uncomfortable and my comment was a suggestion to try and remedy that. Others, including yourself, Steve and the customer may not feel the same way.
As for the "customer is king" approach - that's quite right, but in many ways clients are poor judges of what works, particularly if they only see one version of a layout.
It's possible my suggestion sucks, but I do think the white text overlapping a white car looks uncomfortable to my eyes. The car is certainly a prominent competitor for attention when I think the price is intended to take centre stage.
That's all (regardless of what Steve says!).
Sketch, you produce some fine layouts. In many website examples produced with Xara, I wouldn't even comment - not because they are great but because they have so far to go. You have a great eye for layout design.
The (Right steve!) is actually nothing to do with this thread, it is to do with a post steve made over on xara users before any of this regarding overlapping text in general, nothing to do with your comment. Like I said I look forward to comments from everyone on here because they are not sycophantic in any way, they are the type of honest opinions one would get from real friends.
No worries. I don't visit xara users.
For me.
The size of the car could possibly do with being a bit smaller. But, it certainly catches the eye. Then, you are inevitably drawn to the price.
The thing that worries me is where the word 'from' is situated.
At the moment, it reads 'Your Car Tinted £89 from'.
So, for me, the word 'from' needs to be somewhere above and before the '£89'.
Just my opinion, and remember that I am not the customer!
I still say that it's a great looking site. Very functional and easy to navigate. All the pages load very well for me.
Thanks Rik, I have moved the 'From' to above the price so it makes sense now.
Beautiful, Skech. :-bd