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Posted by mark | r on November 7th, 2003


Early demo version before the site gets integrated into a CMS

sudden.neue.co.uk

mark


Posted by Charles on November 7th, 2003


Nice job Mark!
Please consider changing several things that don't look good:

- the 2 rubbons that come out from the top banner into the "Latest News" section: I already
told you with your computer store web site, this is ugly
- make the top title bigger, remember, TinyText(TM) is not good
- overall text should be one unit bigger
- take out the word "flash" in the top-left corner
- change the design a little bit not to look like it was copied from the Macromedia website
- it is a better solution to put all emails server-side and to use only forms so that you
won't get spam
- bottom right column should be expanded so that it will align also with bottom line
- none of the right hand column work, if they should open a new window, remember this is not
a good idea as more and more people use pop up blockers
- "Page top" is totally useless
- in the top menu, I would take advantage of the dark grey place below to put a DHTML submenu
like the Macromedia web site, it would look nice (only if needed)
- top banner has a white space on the left hand side, you should fill it with people working
as bookkeepers or sthg like that

Good luck,

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Posted by Tomas Holm on November 7th, 2003


IMO the grey banner with the logo disappears into the background. This
creates an uncertainty of where you are. I would like to see a bigger
contrast to enhance the logo.

Otherwise nice layouted, easy navigated and workable as your work usually
is.

/Tomas

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Posted by BFM on November 7th, 2003


Nice Mark, looks great.

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Posted by mark | r on November 7th, 2003


thanks for that...


whats a rubbon? - seriously?

yep this is the placeholder for.. wait you guessed it, a flash file


yeah i new that was comming, i am using this site as a stepping stone to
another project so time is critical - i think its different enough for
now...

the email addresses are spamproof (i hope) using javascript .


difficlt to do in css!

yep theres no files there yet!

click 'software solutions' theres a cool slide in menu

see flash


thanks again

mark



Posted by mark | r on November 7th, 2003


thanks... i will consider it all

high prase indeed

mark
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Posted by Barefoot Kid on November 7th, 2003


nice.....very http://www.macromedia.com inspired
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Posted by mark | r on November 7th, 2003


damned right it is

mark

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Posted by colinr on November 7th, 2003


mark | r wrote:
'tis... broken in Mozilla / Firebird
Screenshot: http://www.unfunked.org/sudden_fb.gif

Sorry!
Looks nice in IE5 though.

-Colin



Posted by Charles on November 7th, 2003


| whats a rubbon? - seriously?
Ooops! I meant ribbon, on top of your page, if it's not a ribbon, then I don't know what it is.
Something round that comes out from the banner


| the email addresses are spamproof (i hope) using javascript .
Yes, good idea femail.js, I don't think their spam bots will ever grab this email adress )



| > - bottom right column should be expanded so that it will align also
| with bottom line
|
| difficlt to do in css!
Right, I don't know how they do this, using CSS or not, but they do it: http://www.macromedia.com
Looks pretty neat



| click 'software solutions' theres a cool slide in menu
Nice menu but look, there's a problem, re-size your browser window to measure about 800px wide,
and you'll see the menu doesn't fit well, it is not centered anymore, it goes to the right hand
side... You may need to re-configure position of this sub-menu. When using full window size, it's
working fine.



Keep it up! Take care,

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Posted by Charles on November 7th, 2003


Hi Mark,

Just a suggestion, don't you like the highlight effect of search box of http://www.macromedia.com
website? I like this a lot: when you click a search box, the outline turns another color and becomes
bolder. I have the code in JS if you'd like to:



// Add this input box in your web page

<input name="search" type="text" class="searchout" onmouseover="this.className='searchhover';
if(this.value=='Search this site')this.value=''; this.focus();"
onmouseout="this.className='searchout'; if(this.value=='')this.value='Search this site';"
value="Search this site" />



// Add these lines of code to your CSS file

..searchout {
border: 1px solid #A5B300;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #333333;
padding: 2px;
}
..searchhover {
border: 2px solid #FF6600;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #333333;
padding: 2px;
}


Best of luck,

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Posted by Charles on November 7th, 2003


Not even loading on my Mozilla or on my Firebird after a minute

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| > Early demo version before the site gets integrated into a CMS
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| > sudden.neue.co.uk
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| 'tis... broken in Mozilla / Firebird
| Screenshot: http://www.unfunked.org/sudden_fb.gif
|
| Sorry!
| Looks nice in IE5 though.
|
| -Colin
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Posted by mark | r on November 7th, 2003


yesh i have this in cleaner code too

mark

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Posted by mark | r on November 7th, 2003


hmm.. ive come across this before, moz doesnt like it when an image height
is less than the line hight of the encompassing DIV! it attributes the image
as a text element and gives it additional space...

luckily i can solve this but thanst for bringing it to my attention (just
reinstalled winblows after a meltdown and am still installing apps as i go)

mark

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Posted by Nathaniel Flick on November 7th, 2003


Beautiful site! I like the smooth grays.

The only problem is that the entire format is pushed about 1000 pixels to
the right on my iMac using IE 5.1. The date line seems to be the cause, but
I am not 100% sure of this.


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Posted by Adam on November 7th, 2003


Hehe I was going to mention that as well. I'm actually working on a site
similar to that style now, too.
Looks good, Mark.

Adam
www.webresults4u.com


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Posted by Adam on November 7th, 2003


Yep, Opera renders in similarly.

Adam
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Posted by Niels Vollrath on November 7th, 2003



I like it all, except for the problems with my Firebird, as already
mentioned.

One more thing, that has not been said yet.
I like the colores most, but the navigation bar should be closed on the
right side too. And either tho Loge is to smal, or the navigation bar to
big.
The Logo is very nice, but doesn't stand a chance against the nav.bar.

Gruß,

Niels

Posted by OpinionMan on November 7th, 2003


Nathaniel Flick wrote:

You're kidding me.

Beautiful?

If you consider an overdone design "beautiful", okay.

ZZZzzzzzzzzz

OpinionManiac


Posted by 48073 on November 8th, 2003


"mark | r" <markDONOT@SPAMMEnmd.freeuk.com> wrote:

Extremely boring. Not appealing to anything. Sorry.

48073.


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