Gallons of coffee, back on the cigs, another child later, new grey hair and we are back. The longest tinker of a design ever!
Too much self involvement with this re-design probably obscured how I look at things. If there is anything glaringly obvious wrong with the site or things that annoy you then let me know please. I realise there are a few updates to be made to the tutorials.
The headlines (FEATURED etc) appear gray on white background in Firefox on Ubuntu. Firefox on Vista as well as IE7 display it correct. A Firefox/Linux bug ??? Can somebody confirm it?
Welcome back vinnyio, looking forward to some fresh content then here.
I’m finding it easer to design for others than myself, I’m my toughest customer, if that’s what you meant by self involvement.
Challenging one’s own bias is tough.
More feedback coming soon, progress 0%, lol.
Keep up the great work.
Hmmmm, now I get a “please update to flash version 382” on green background and if I make a refresh the headline is visble on green background too. On Vista still OK. Seems to be a Flash-Issue.
I don’t want to update the flash version because I prefer for testing purpose the std. distribution of Ubuntu 7.1. I ran it under VMWare on a Vista-Host. But that is usually not an issue.
Looking into the source. The headlines are normal h3 background:transparent. I’ve tested background:transparent with my project and it is working as expected. So “transparent” is not the problem.
FF-Webdeveloper reports a lot of css-warnings, on Linux as well as on Vista. I suggest to install it, I always check my site this way.
Hmmmm, now I get a “please update to flash version 382” on green background and if I make a refresh the headline is visble on green background too. On Vista still OK. Seems to be a Flash-Issue.
Yup intended as I updated the flash.
FF-Webdeveloper reports a lot of css-warnings, on Linux as well as on Vista. I suggest to install it, I always check my site this way.
I have done since its creation. the warning aren’t related.
The acual green background looks like a problem if you have the plugin FireShot installed. If you have that installed then it might confirm it regarding the green background problem.
If you have that plugin installed there is a fix suggested here
Firefox on Ubuntu is hard to please. I have seen so many sites fall apart in that browser that I probably wouldn’t even both with Ubuntu Firefox problems on my own site.
I found the sIFR was a little slow loading, and then it did load it caused the content to jump a few pixels down (which i guess is the reason i noticed the half second it takes for sFIR to work).
The projects section doesn’t seem to be up though.
The projects section doesn’t seem to be up though.
The official line on that is
The project area remains closed for the time being until I can come up with a suitable workflow and design that will make things very easy to maintain.
Hi vinnyio. Hope you’ve caught up on (some of) your sleep. I’ve been putting together a design for a community site in the UK, to be built on EE, and one of the things we are toying with is a mini calendar on the home page. I’ve always remembered yours from your last design, and was wondering why you’ve dropped it for the recent version?
Burly,
I think at the time I felt and archive and using the tag module was enough for people to find their way around. I can dig it out and add it to a post if you’re interested?
While convalescing I did more tweaking which in-turn led to another redesign. It’s like an addiction. Sorry for the down time. This is the last time I promise!
Very nice. I think out of all the designs you have gone for I like this one the best so far. Just seems to all meld together really nicely. Is there any way you can add into the flash titles an option to open the link in a new tab at all? I like to work with tabs but the only option in there is to either open in the same window (which I never do) or open in a new window. I know I can get all the windows into one tab pane in Safari easily enough but was just wondering if it was possible to add into whatever SIFR file you are using? Just curious really
Also I have to ask but this picture here I was just wondering where that is exactly? I have an image just like that somewhere and the field looks really similar although what with over 40,000 images of helicopters (my wife and I are both helicopter pilots) then they do start to all look the same after a while!!
Just wondering where it is really.
Anyway very nice re-shuffle of the design, really liking it!
Is there any way you can add into the flash titles an option to open the link in a new tab at all?
Not at the moment. I just change the option in Firefox to open new windows in tabs which fixes that problem for me. Or if on a mac hold down the command key while clicking links. Just one of those cons of sIFR, although at least now you get a choice in your context menu which is better than nothing.
The helicopter pic was taken with my phone just outside my last place of work. The helicopter was delivering somebody to Apple I think which was just up the road from us.
Thanks for your comments. I actually enjioyed working on this one. There is still a bit to go on getting the load time though but that will come eventually.
Hmm just noticed something a little odd. Probably to do with the flash file though. When I went to the link you provided just a couple of posts up then the Flash SIFR technique shows up. I’m forever using Command click on the Mac to open up new tabs but this doesn’t work with links in Flash but if I go to your site and take off the www part then the Flash SIFR doesn’t take over so I can do it like that instead. I’m guessing it’s just the old Flash cross-domain problem but gets your site working the way I want for me anyhow!!
I’m guessing you’ll go and fix that now though
Regards that helicopter it looks really familiar, don’t know why though. May be someone I know as the helicopter world is quite a small one and we all seem to know everyone else in one way or another!
