Topic: Café

This is for english project finished the site in 2 hours and spent 3 hours typing and posters and stuff...
it might be a little hard on loading with divs and transparent stuff for http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum8/HTML/000354.html Max said that there's stuff wrong with the div opacity.... anyways I like the outcome:

http://ayu_design0.tripod.com/ReadersCafe/

If you *must* use a chromeless window, at least give us a way to close it.

I had to Alt-F4 it.

nod me too..

looked like a cross between docs 404 page and and a few of his other bits thrown in....

works fine on IE6 on win 2k at 1600x1200

bit on the dark side as far as the nav stuff at the bottom

If you move the window out of the way there is a Launch/Close button. There should be some distinction between the pop up window and the background so I know that it's a seperate window.

ok fair comment about moving the window out of the way but a hint for new visitors to the site about moving the window so ya can find the close button would be nice, his target audience might not see that i missed it krets missed it i assume (apologies if ya didnt!) so what is a user not familira with this style of site gonna do??? its annoying thats all...

and i tried it once or twice and it didnt close it everytime (after i saw ya post)

sorry about the close thing... there is a button on top right cept i made it stealth... it looks ugly... I'm waiting for the creator of the script to give me a new code to actually close the window within the window...

as for the distintion i can't add a border to the whole thing cuz for some reason the border counts in different areas and looks messed... maybe i'll change the other bg.... my stuff always look darker for others... can someone take a screenshot for me to see the difference? it might be my old monitor that is different on brightness...

I have to agree with the launch/close issue--not clear enough.

Also, I have a program that automatically kills pop-up windows, because I hate them. I also hate pop-up sites. That's just me, of course. I suppose I can see why you used a pop-up here, though...

Can't see much, the menu buttons don't work for me (IE .50, Mac 9.2)

Your scripts are conflicting, use 2 frames instead of 1 - gotAndPlay(1); on the second.

The pop-ups from Lycos are annoying as...

Nice grapics.

5G

Interesting...the content window followed me back here. Shouldn't it close when leaving the site?
Viewing at 1660x1200, there's a hella lot of wasted speace ont the page...but maybe the window is baigger at lower res...
Nice graphics.

Allewyn

Took forever to load on dial-up.

The animated background and small repeating-transparent gif background for the content frames was slowing my PC down to a crawl (AMD 1Ghz, Windows 2000 IE6). If you were to do it in DHTML and not flash then the animation would be a lot smoother and less CPU intensive. Animating large bitmap images in flash is never a great idea.

That half transparent gif trick makes the text really hard to read. That trick only works well when the pattern is maintained. With text over the top the pattern is broken and it no longer fools the eye into looking half transparent thus causing all sorts of nasty jaggies around the text which is already jaggy enough to start with.

Seriously needs that close button on the window. Better yet, just put the whole thing into a centered div/frames on the main page.

Your text is white. Your links are also white. Why?

The background seems too busy.... It's also got some nasty jaggies.

Why's there a technical diagram in front of it?

Where's the cup of coffee fit in except for the name?

Why is one part of the "texty" bits for that technical diagram done with flash rendered tect and the rest in the bitmap image?

Dem clouds in the background image look way too big to me.

Why does the main page have the least ammount of content?

Do a gramma check.

The whole site is ~almost~ monocromatic but not quite. Which irks me a tad. Try and get a nice uniform blue (Unify the Hue but alter the saturation and brightness) running through the site then add in one other colour for highlights or things you want to stand out (links maybe).

It broke in Mozilla / NS6 and Opera. (Not even gonna try NN4) Which makes it a rather selective site:
Mast have flash
Must have IE 5+
Must have use Windows OS (quatroGringo said it didn't work on his Mac, haven't check it from the mac myself yet).

It's an OK site but you said you finished it in 2 hours and it shows. With more time it could be a lot better.



[This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 06-18-2002).]

Okay... I removed the transparent blocks and replaced with an image...

i'm not really good with coding so i usually have to use a WYSIWYG editor every now and then to help out so i don't want to really work with divs within divs within divs right now.

text = white link = text = white
a + b=c
d=b
a+d also =c
only three links more uniform...

Why is one part of the "texty" bits for that technical diagram done with flash rendered tect and the rest in the bitmap image?
The background seems too busy.... It's also got some nasty jaggies.

Same answer... must have matte inorder to not show show jaggy lines... it's jaggy lines now but atleast they're not white. two sets of text is done in flash because when matte the text looks ugly and it was due in about 20 min so i just erased that part of the bitmap and added text in.

that technical diagram is my logo for those who do know me knows that i put that for all my designs...

that is not a cup of coffee rather hot chocolate and it fits in nowhere but the text

Dem clouds in the background image look way too big to me.

damn

main page has the least content because there shouldn't be anything there... teacher didn't say write an introductory paragraph

I rather not do a gramma check i'm not a doctor...


is it the coding that makes my site not universal... how can this be solved?