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A new site we’ve been working on for a couple of months. Finally the client said “let’s go!”
In the pipeline is the French and Dutch variation, but we’re awaiting the text from the translators.
Comments, bouquets, brickbats, snowballs, all welcome.
Heather
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Nice! I’m not interested at all in their product, but the site looks great. 
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On 28 Aug 2008, at 13:14, Heather Kavanagh wrote:
Comments, bouquets, brickbats, snowballs, all welcome.
Very nice Heather. One thing: that text took so long to fade in, I was
already making a reply to say I thought it was broken! Then I saw it
appear in the background …
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On 28 Aug 2008, at 14:09, Paul Bradforth wrote:
Very nice Heather. One thing: that text took so long to fade in, I was
already making a reply to say I thought it was broken! Then I saw it
appear in the background …
Heh! Good point. I sort of timed it so that it appeared “as if by
magic” while you read the text on the right. I might have a tweak there.
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On 28 Aug 2008, at 14:24, Heather Kavanagh wrote:
Heh! Good point. I sort of timed it so that it appeared “as if by
magic” while you read the text on the right. I might have a tweak
there.
Great effect, could just maybe do with being a tad faster?
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On 28 Aug 2008, at 14:32, Paul Bradforth wrote:
Great effect, could just maybe do with being a tad faster?
I’ve knocked a second or so off each fade in now. See what you think.
Thanks for the input, by the way. The client obviously hadn’t really
noticed during testing!
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On 28 Aug 2008, at 14:45, Heather Kavanagh wrote:
I’ve knocked a second or so off each fade in now. See what you think.
Much better. I’d even knock of a tad more, myself.
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On 28 Aug 2008, at 14:54, Paul Bradforth wrote:
Much better. I’d even knock of a tad more, myself.
I haven’t tried half seconds. I’ll have another play.
Cheers
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Oops - actually I was going to mention that myself. I think it works great now. Nice effect!
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On 28 Aug 2008, at 13:14, Heather Kavanagh wrote:
Finally the client said “let’s go!”
I guess I ought to add some technical information to big up the
Freeway aspects a bit, in the hopes it might encourage some of the
newer users on the list to experiment with what’s built in to Freeway.
The fade in on the home page is the Transition FX Action.
Images were enhanced using various Freeway Actions, including Sharpen
and Photo Magic. The ghosted Alpine watermark in the top left is also
done using Photo Magic. The drop shadows - apart from those on the
rollover buttons - were created following my own (currently offline)
tutorial.
The region maps were done in Illustrator CS3; the PDF download links
are Tim Plumb’s excellent Download File - Plus Action.
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Nice site Heather
One small thing - i am getting a page shift to the left when going from Home/About Us to any of the Property pages in FF 2.0.0.16
Dont see it in Safari 3.1.2 - haven’t tried FF 3.XXX
Probably no big deal anyway if all OK in IE
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On 28 Aug 2008, at 15:31, DeltaDave wrote:
i am getting a page shift to the left when going from Home/About Us
to any of the Property pages in FF 2.0.0.16
It does happen in Safari as well. I think it’s because the pages are
centred and the property pages are long enough to cause a scroll bar
to appear, which then makes the page jump slightly to the left.
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The only things I see so far is that you have an item still named “item1a” using a link style. Plus no “body” tag in your CSS. If you create a “body” tag all those styles that have “Verdana, Arial, Helvetica” as your font name can all be put into one tag. You can then set default font’s to be 12px and then start with the #323232 color. Put your line-height “leading” under your “p” tag or else the layout gets goofy. Instead of having lots of styles and making the same font-attributes for them you can put them in the “body” tag and it’ll make it that by default any time and anywhere you write out text.
I have a screencast coming out in about 20 minutes dealing with the body tag. Otherwise it’s a solid looking site Heather, good work.
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