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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Thanks for giving it a rundown Suho. I agree with a lot of what you brought up. Lemme go over it point by point. Yeah it is very narrow and that bothers me too. I initially designed the page to be variable width as you can probably tell just by looking. (the menu buttons are all transparent and unaliased. There also isn't just a fixed with background but lots of cut up images and code to make what could be accomplished with just a fixed width background) I'm using a lot of modified [url=http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/]ALA sliding doors[/url] to layout the graphics. Its a way of making tabs, but the technique is very versatile if you get to playing with it. This should allow me to have a variable width page, but there is code in the works page that won't work correctly unless the page stays the same width. I think I'm gonna have to rewrite a good chunk of code to get this to be expandable. I really prefer expandable liquidy pages, but was willing to let it slide if I didn't hear anything negative about the width in here. Its the [b]first[/b] thing I heard in here though so I'll have to tackle it. :p The page wasn't designed for lower rez specifically, but I didn't want to exclude them. Thats why I picked a very narrow width when I couldn't get the variable width working. The menu items are prolly way to small. I made the dirtystyled button first as just a title graphic. Useability wasn't an issue with it since it was just for looks. But then I decided to put the menu there instead and I did all the buttons the same size. Still think it looks cool but you're right they should be bigger. I'm sure I can enlarge them while keeping the same feel. Maybe I'll make their font the same size as the next/prev/zoom buttons on the works page. The bottom border jumps around because it is positioned with CSS and javascript. Again I'm using mostly ALA code here, this time from their [url=http://www.alistapart.com/articles/footers]footers[/url] article. The article offers some CSS only methods but they don't degrade as gracefully. I think when I rewrite the sliding doors code to allow for variable widths I'll have to use some javascript to get all the positioning just so. I find with javascript and css you can do a TON if you only expect people to be using browsers like IE6 and FF. While I do want valid and accessible code, I'm not going to expect netscape 4 users here so I won't be using the most backwards compliant code. (The layout will DEPEND on javascript) Perhaps what I need to do is wrap the whole page in a div with display:none and set it to display:block when everything is loaded and placed. I think I've been here too long because I find it nearly impossible to start a web project without the color orange :D. I usually pick out a couple colors before I even start on the graphics. I liked the colors I had picked out when I started but the more and more I work on the site the more old they get. I think the orange inner border is the only nasty color that needs to be changed. Not sure to what though, I'll have to play around. Maybe I'll make all the different subsections of the site different colors there ......ooooh, that'd be fun! Having a pebble in my shoe is worse than torture to me, so I gotta fix the background :eek: Hehe, the original had even [b]less[/b] contrast. I do all my developing on my laptop now and its screen is great, it has a TON of contrast, too much actually. When I check things out on other machines they look washed out. I just bumped up the contrast on it, hope it looks better now. I also didn't want the background which is pretty busy to overwhelm the content, plus its some of the first serious pixel pushing work I've done and its not anti-aliased so it doesn't look so hot in high contrast. I think the next revesion is a good balance now, but tell me if it needs more or less. Well the code [b]DID[/b] validate, but after all this tinkering it hasn't for a while now. That'll be easy to clean up once the functionality is there. Thanks again for your comments Suho! and keep 'em coming if you or anyone else can. [url=http://www.dirtystyled.com/][img]http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~co097871/schitzo88x31.gif[/img][/url] Loading...
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