Who's Got Beef with this navigation.

[fasterthanlight™]

http://fileservice.ca/fs/usr/jamie/old/


Yay? Nay?

[saracenvii]

Everythings very cool except the fact that I gotta drag them back in order to see the page again

[fasterthanlight™]

Ya, I'm trying to implement a fail safe so that if one is already in the dropzone and the user clicks and starts to drag another button the one thats already "locked in" will ease back to its origin. We'll see what happens...

[Lindquist]

Didn't I help you make that in a thread a few weeks back? Anyway, if you need help building that failsafe, just give me a holler.

[fasterthanlight™]

Didn't I help you make that in a thread a few weeks back? Anyway, if you need help building that failsafe, just give me a holler.

Sure did! :)!
Massive redo of the interface though...

I posted a message in the old thread:
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showpost.php?p=845822&postcount=20
Thanks once again.

[DariusMonsef]

i agree that you shouldn't have to remove one to see another section. it should just fade in maybe into its container when a new one gets dragged into the load area.

[REEF·]

Is it ground beef I:-)?

[fasterthanlight™]

It can be whatever you want it to be... ;)

[REEF·]

Then I pick steak :thumb:.

[fasterthanlight™]

**File updated with the return thing, thanks to Lindquist.

[booler]

much better! I like it

[fasterthanlight™]

Second option:

http://fileservice.ca/fs/usr/jamie/old/index_option2.html

Lindquist and I both like this version more. More fancy IMO.

[RadioactveChimp]

ooooh! very nice, i like it a ton! I know this is asking a lot, but I think it would be cool if the letters actually made a real word.

[fasterthanlight™]

*Whips out thesaurus to find possible other words to use*

[RadioactveChimp]

that's right...rock it..hard

[BoonDock]

****! very nice! I'm not big on the sounds, but they fit! wish I could come up with some simple but effective nav for my site! great job!

Boon out~ :cop:

[fasterthanlight™]

Thanks!

Quick! Whats a synonym for "Inquiries" that begins with the letter E?

[zacus]

hmmm, i quite like it, the only problem could be if someone wanted to navigate very quickly, it could be annoying then, but i do like it.

also, i knew you had to drag something b4 i saw the site so i wonder how easy it would be to figure out for the average computer illiterate person

GJ

[RadioactveChimp]

i thought i was pretty easy to understand..didn't take much brainpower for me

[BoonDock]

Exam (it's at least somewhat of a type of inquiry)

[fasterthanlight™]

hmmm, i quite like it, the only problem could be if someone wanted to navigate very quickly, it could be annoying then, but i do like it.

Agreed, will look into making a quick navigation controlled by the keyboard.



also, i knew you had to drag something b4 i saw the site so i wonder how easy it would be to figure out for the average computer illiterate person

I was hoping the "Drag Here" would help clear things up for them. :)

[fasterthanlight™]

Seeing as the inquiries page will be a form they have to fill out to get an estimated price, i've now called it Estimation. Now the letters read: P-E-A-C-E
Invokes a positive message, AND looks better than P-E-I-A-C

[RadioactveChimp]

perfect, nice one...but i think "estimation" should just be "estimates"

[fasterthanlight™]

True. I'm having second thoughts about "PEACE"... I don't want to be portrayed as a hippie... Oh well, early in the design, lots of things to do.

[RadioactveChimp]

i'll try to think of more words lol...yeah don't want to seem like a super patriot i guess

[SlowRoasted]

hey i really like that, nice idea.

[fasterthanlight™]

Thanks!

[fasterthanlight™]

Ok, forget about "PEACE", i'm going to use PIECE (I dont know why..... i just like it better), now i need a synonym for "About" that begins with an E, or an I.

[fasterthanlight™]

God dammit, disregard post number 28.

PEACH is what im going to go with... Now I need an H word for Experiments. or Estimates.

http://fileservice.ca/fs/usr/jamie/old/

[billystar]

'how much'

good job, like it a lot

[MetteBB]

About with an I: Information ?

if I look up the word Inquiries in my English-Danish dict. I get the word forespørgsel and if I look up that word in my Danish-English dict I get Enquiries... (?) So perhaps you can spell it either way, or is one American and the other British?

Experiments with an H : Hands-on training ;)

can't find an H word for Estimates tho cos I'm not sure what content you want to use it in...:puzzled:

Hope the above is of some use...


/mette


p.s. I like the design and the navigation, but I'm not a fan of the brown/redis sun. Not with the blue and I dont think it goes with the background pattern at all. I like the pattern tho ;)

[Pomme_]

Help me get rich
High and dandy
Hype and stylish
Hippopotamus
Heck, why do I need another section?

[BoonDock]

Looking great! I'd change the text back to what you had it before for each section...over on the left of the site...(in blueish color) other than that I think it's great!

Boon out~ (-:

[will roberts]

About with an I: Information ?

if I look up the word Inquiries in my English-Danish dict. I get the word forespørgsel and if I look up that word in my Danish-English dict I get Enquiries... (?) So perhaps you can spell it either way, or is one American and the other British?

Experiments with an H : Hands-on training ;)

can't find an H word for Estimates tho cos I'm not sure what content you want to use it in...:puzzled:

Hope the above is of some use...


/mette


p.s. I like the design and the navigation, but I'm not a fan of the brown/redis sun. Not with the blue and I dont think it goes with the background pattern at all. I like the pattern tho ;)

Inquiries is one word and Enquiries is another but they both mean exactly the same thing :)

I think the nav is pretty cool but i think you need to make it known to users what to do cos a lot of users may not know

[Tocksiq]

Yes i agree with will the nav might be to complicated for non computer literate people.

[fasterthanlight™]

I don't want to sound like a complete a-hole, but I thought that the "DRAG HERE" was pretty self explanatory...
Thanks for all of your input, keep it coming!

**Added an options panel, right now you can only change the rate of speed in which the buttons snap back into place, but soon it will be host to a whole slew of neat tricks.**

[fasterthanlight™]

Added support so that the user can choose between the two different "modes" (Slide vs. Fade) via the options panel. Tell me what you think!!!!!!

[BoonDock]

I really like the background, the middle of the site, and the tabs you have placed on the outside! Looking very promising!!! Great work thus far...keep going!

[.soulty]

I think the new variations of the navigation are quite smooth, i like it, my only issue would be conceptual, i think removing a letter when you drag the icon creates gaps in your layout.. I think if you have like a ghost or very dim version of the icon stay in its original place as you drag itself to the holder it would look much better.

[fasterthanlight™]

Thats a great idea soulty!

http://fileservice.ca/fs/usr/jamie/old/

[.soulty]

wait, did you just do that? or was this idea already implemented? :h:

[fasterthanlight™]

Just did it after you suggested it. :)

[.soulty]

:lol: cool ,that looks much better dont you think? and i like the additional animation options (slide, fade) nice work mate :thumb:

Oh and you may want to increase the panels hit area for more than the text area. i was cliking on the top and it didnt slide out so i thought it was not working..

[fasterthanlight™]

i agree it does look much better, retains the word PEACH when a section is selected. And the panel hit area was bugging me, just never got around to fixing it until just now.

[.soulty]

cool, also throw in a preloader, i get a few seconds at times with nothing on screen when i refresh your link.

its coming together.. nice work :thumb:

[ElectricGrandpa]

Yeah very neat.

I think you should make the slide as the default instead of the fade. And perhaps make it so that the other letter "returns" only once you drop it into position, instead of what you pick it up... but I'm just nitpicking.

I also like the sound menu and options menu pop-ups. very neat.

[fasterthanlight™]

Who knows how to use sharedObjects really well... I need to be able to store the Options panel information.

[buckcee]

I love the layout. I don't see any problem with it.

[fasterthanlight™]

Thanks B

[Lindquist]

Hey man, I can help you out with the sharedObject :) e-mail me the .fla again and I'll show you the ropes.

[fasterthanlight™]

Are the stars too much?

http://www.fileservice.ca/fs/usr/jamie/old/

[MetteBB]

Nah not at all... I think they are alright as long as you keep them in a neutral colour (white seems to do the trick)


/mette

[BoonDock]

I don't like the stars personally, starts to make it a bit busy, the lines were nice and simple! Keep the lines and ditch the stars!

Great stuff regardless!

[fasterthanlight™]

Aight, now it saves any options you want so when you go back to my site it remembers everything. :) Test it out to make sure it works on the different platforms!

[.soulty]

nice, worked for me, using firefox on xp.