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Not sure if it’s been mentioned yet and I’m sure that Veerle will probably come into the forums here to mention it but they (Veerle & Geert) now have their new ExpressionEngine powered Duoh website online.

Post about it can be found here and site here.

Best wishes,

Mark

Nice and very Veerle. I wonder if that’s running on EE2…

Nice and very Veerle. I wonder if that’s running on EE2…

I should darned well hope not 😉 or I want my copy NOW!!!

Just kidding support staff!! 😊

Best wishes,

Mark

I can assure you it’s not, if that makes you feel any better 😊

I can assure you it’s not, if that makes you feel any better 😊

I most definitely do feel better now thanks Ingmar! Almost had to take a lie down there thinking that it might have been built using 2.0!!

Simon whatever were you thinking of when you mentioned that?

😉 😊 😉

Best wishes,

Mark

Geez mark you get stirred up so easily. 😉 Good job Simon! 😊

Geez mark you get stirred up so easily. 😉 Good job Simon! 😊

I was only kidding, honest 😉

:D

The very nice screen shots we have seen of the back end of EE2 so far have included design work from Veerle. I was wondering how close she was to the project and what better way to launch EE2 than with a few pro sites already being live.
(You know that bag we had the cat in - there’s a big hole in the bottom…)

It’s all pure (naughty) conjecture on my part though. :D

>:)

:D

The very nice screen shots we have seen of the back end of EE2 so far have included design work from Veerle. I was wondering how close she was to the project and what better way to launch EE2 than with a few pro sites already being live.
(You know that bag we had the cat in - there’s a big hole in the bottom…)

It’s all pure (naughty) conjecture on my part though. :D

>:)

Just so there are no rumors about this, Duoh’s new site is beautiful and powered by 1.6.5.

did anyone else notice how they did the menu on the home page?
they had one graphic, repeated with mouse over / live options beneath it. They then use CSS to change the background image position on mouse over, etc…
I have heard people talk of this method, but never really seen it in a production site… Not sure it save any load time, or dev time on doing it this way - any opinions…

it doesn’t save in load times, or dev times. (well u need to slice less)
Many sites do use this method. (Pro sites of pro designers then) I do to.

The main advantage of this solution is just that you don’t have the problem that all your images load 1 by 1 , and your menu is actually building up. With images. But your menu is loaded in 1 time. Same with the hovers. If you use this. And people don’t have your hover images loaded in yet (what’s logic) when you hover, your image could be gone for a sec, untill it downloaded to the users cache.

With this u don’t get such effect and everything works very fluent from the first time you’ve loaded your page.

hmm, guess there are some advantages - especially for people on slow connections…
but maintenance must be longer / harder, more to change if you ever need to!

why should it take more change?
Just keep a PSD file of your static menu, that’s it. It’s not like you redesign every 2 months :p

well. my understanding would be that you would have to modify the psd (same as for a single graphic)...
But then you would have to adjust all pixel positions in the CSS sheet to cope with the new menu positions related to inserted menu item… But then again in this method you do not have to put the menu items in order, so yes i see your point…
i should perhaps think about the logistics of it for the occasions i need a image based menu - seems cleaner and effective.

I think it’s a good idea but only for a none-changing menu. If you were to try and use it for sub-menus where you might have a site where they are dynamically generated say by weblog entries then that would obviously be a no-no. It is nice to use though as it gets rid of the flicker problem.

Best wishes,

Mark