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[virtuamike]

Old website
New website

So what do you think? Still a work in progress, I really don't have many images to work from so most of my time has been spent searching for material, ugh. Thinking about putting a row of thumbnails along the bottom row, random generated from 4ImagesGallery. Main text area will be filled by phpbb fetch from news forum. Guess I'll use the phpbb calender for events etc, too lazy to code it.

And yeah I know, the last 2 rollovers on left still need images. But I'm too tired to look anymore, will pick things back up tomorrow.

Besides, this is just layout, the fun stuff I'll get to this weekend.

 

[StageLeft]

Looks good but a HUGE pet peeve of mine is websites where you have to mouseover to see where you want to go, because the author wants you to "explore" their site. Perhaps in your case it's ok because I don't know your target audience, but generally I freaking hate it when a website reduces functionality in the hope of increasing the artistic flare.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

it looks like
skdfj;lskdfjlksdjf;lksdjflksjdflksdjflksdjf;lksjdflksjd
skdfj;lskdfjlksdjf;lksdjflksjdflksdjflksdjf;lksjdflksjd







hehe not bad...i know i can't do it that well

maybe you can have background random pics under info and affiliates links?...or went all the way and used flash instead?...

 

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Looks good but a HUGE pet peeve of mine is websites where you have to mouseover to see where you want to go, because the author wants you to "explore" their site. Perhaps in your case it's ok because I don't know your target audience, but generally I freaking hate it when a website reduces functionality in the hope of increasing the artistic flare.

Yeah I generally hate it too, would rather have the site load faster and junk all the graphical stuff, but this is for a night club and in this case style sells. It's an all-ages club so target audience is high schoolers on up.

And no, I don't get to use flash on this one. Will prob put images of DJ equip and the actual club under info. Affilliates will be random banners from other sites me thinks.

Oh, and all the important info stuff will be in the main text area. No need to mouse over unless you're planning on going to forums or gallery or whatnot.

 

[StageLeft]

To such a limited degree it's probably fine then It does look good, and not being able to use flash is not a bad thing

 

[DaviDaVinci]

the rollover is slow for me, i hate that. I don't like waiting for the other pic to show. even if it's half a second wait, I rather have them pop up right away.

Anyone else experience a slight lag on the mouse rollovers?

 

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: DaviDaVinci
the rollover is slow for me, i hate that. I don't like waiting for the other pic to show. even if it's half a second wait, I rather have them pop up right away.

Anyone else experience a slight lag on the mouse rollovers?

Yeah I was getting the lag too. I cleared my temp internet files and reset security to medium zone, that got it going fast again for me. Dunno what caused it, my work PC and roommate's PC load fine.

 

[Aharami]

chage that scrollbar into some other color...or some other style. use javascript to use a fade-in/fade-out effect when you mouse over the links...other that that it looks great

 

[blackdogdeek]

i like it. much better than the old version. the rollover images load quickly for me.

are you going to have music play in the background?

btw, "calendar"

 

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
i like it. much better than the old version. the rollover images load quickly for me.

are you going to have music play in the background?

btw, "calendar"

Hey it sounds close enough

Dunno if I'll have music in the background. Personally I hate it but it is for a club so . . .

 

[StageLeft]

BTW mouseovers for me are snappy and quick, and this computer is a total POS.

 

[remagavon]

Preload the mouseovers if they aren't already, otherwise those with slower access (i.e. dialup) will be VERY annoyed by them, I know I was back when I had it.

Looks pretty good.

 

[remagavon]

ddddouble post

 

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: remagavon
Preload the mouseovers if they aren't already, otherwise those with slower access (i.e. dialup) will be VERY annoyed by them, I know I was back when I had it.

Looks pretty good.

Rgr, they're preloaded.

 

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
BTW mouseovers for me are snappy and quick, and this computer is a total POS.

That's good to hear! Tried keeping all the gifs below 10kB, total so far is 97kB for the page as-is, will prob go up another 50kB or so after the rest of the images get put on. It's not very 56K friendly but we're hoping to attract clientele that can afford something better than 56K

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: virtuamike

Originally posted by: remagavon
Preload the mouseovers if they aren't already, otherwise those with slower access (i.e. dialup) will be VERY annoyed by them, I know I was back when I had it.

Looks pretty good.

Rgr, they're preloaded.

I don't see any code that shows me that they are pre loaded virtuamike.
Link

Either way, they swapped fast for me.

I like how you took use of the div tag instead of an Iframe.

You broke the common design rule of using more than 2 fonts, but sometimes rules need to be broken. In this case however, It isn't that bad.

 

[crisp82]

Sweet.

One question though....

Is that phone no. the girl in the pics!?

 

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: Regs

Originally posted by: virtuamike

Originally posted by: remagavon
Preload the mouseovers if they aren't already, otherwise those with slower access (i.e. dialup) will be VERY annoyed by them, I know I was back when I had it.

Looks pretty good.

Rgr, they're preloaded.

I don't see any code that shows me that they are pre loaded virtuamike.
Link

Either way, they swapped fast for me.

I like how you took use of the div tag instead of an Iframe.

You broke the common design rule of using more than 2 fonts, but sometimes rules need to be broken. In this case however, It isn't that bad.

ImageList = new Array ();

for (i in ImageSrc) {
ImageList[ i] = new Image();
ImageList[ i].src = ImageSrc[ i];
}

There's my preload, errr, image array load. Guess I should call that on page load huh?

Yah figured div was cleaner.

The different font on navigation top right does kinda bug me, I'll change it.

 

[virtuamike]

More opinions?

 

[theNEOone]

looks great. i like the suggestion someone made about changing the scroll color/style. also, what about making it a little bigger vertically? i'm at 1280x1024 and it takes up less than half the screen.


=|

 

[hdeck]

well it's a definate improvement

 

[GoingUp]

mouse overs are too slow and the site loads really slow...

and if youre gonna go that artistic, just use flash

 

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
mouse overs are too slow and the site loads really slow...

and if youre gonna go that artistic, just use flash

Can't do flash, they won't let me. The test site is hosted off dixiesys, they're not the fastest, going with crediblehost so that should speed it up some. Is it loading slow for you because of connection or because of file size? Or both?

Yeah, I thought about making it bigger too but I gotta stick to designing this for 800x600. Besides I don't want people to do too much scrolling to find what they need. I'll work on style for vertical scroll next. Is that an IE-only thing or will it work in Netscape too?

 

[Palek]

It looks a little odd that in the mouseover images in the top right menu the titles appear in the middle of the image instead of snapped to the bottom, like in the menu on the left. Just looks weird to me. I would suggest moving the titles down to the bottom...

 

[virtuamike]

Hrm, good point, I'll move it later and see how it looks.