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Thanks for the tips. I agree it's too wide, but I didn't know how to fit the search area in there without making it wide. I added the photo at the last minute because I thought it needed a punch. But then that photo takes forever on my husband's computer sooo, I'm going to get rid of it.
Thanks, I'm still working on it. Yes, the .swf file is very large (OK, huge) so I'm going to have to do some investigating to get it smaller. I created it with XWD. The point of our website is to be inclusive of members' pets so it's a rather important inclusion (and still growing).
I've actually just about completed a dog care website. Take a look at the Gallery page on my test location. This was done with java, not flash, and was a real pain to get lined up across the browsers, but is pretty efficient in the way it loads the larger (50k each) pictures (though on a slow connection, you will see the pics load without the css alignment sometimes). It also lets the client update the code to add more pics pretty easily - in your case that doesn't matter because you are the designer and the client. I don't know if you would be able to use a placeholder in some way to accomplish this...the original code for the slideshow was gotten from here: http://www.leigeber.com/2008/12/javascript-slideshow/ though I've removed the titles and obviously rethemed/resized it a bit.
Anyway - this site was not done with xwd, rather html/css hand coded (using MS Expression Web as the editor - which I really like since it creates fairly clean code and works with external style sheets, including GUI css tag changes - though all the graphics were done in xara xtreme. I didn't do the design - a graphic designer friend of the owner did. I just did the coding.
I didn't get XWD until after I was almost done with all the manual template creation, and the client doesn't want a "xara created page" - they want to be able to make updates themselves to a degree (which is really a bad idea for so many reasons, but...) - with that being said, I'd be able to do nearly the same site in WAY less time than it took to code, especially since xxtreme was used to mock the thing up to start with!
http://dogma.technicalrs.com
Love to hear your thoughts (except about design stuff, over which I have input but no "say").
Nice site, slavelle. Well done. I couldn't get the webcam button to do anything though.
My cover is still a work in progress but I've put it up as is for now. I'm recreating the flash & reducing the dpi on the photos (probably will end up being this weekend's project as I keep getting interrupted).
I'll look into that option, thank you! The member photos idea was a great one but I quickly got innundated with many more than I expected so a better plan is definitely in order.
Webcam button is to be scrapped - it will be added later - budget reasons dictated that the cameras would have to wait, as will the integration to the site. Clearly, this one is not quite fully baked.
heres my first attempt with Web Designer
http://www.crestoneendoflifeproject.org
love teh program, if I could get all my Dreamweaver .ste to import to text or load into WD, I dump Dreamweaver
Okay I was playing with webdesigner, and even as it is
easy you still make mistakes and don`t know stuff, which you
find out as you go.
Anyhow, I made a mock site, and when people see it
they know what it is all about
http://www.xs4all.nl/~anchhor/webtest/index.htm
Last edited by ankhor; 26 March 2009 at 09:02 PM.
be aware, not to become a ware.
Now, that's really great, Ankhor!
Remi
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