my site :)

[Patch^]

Hello all! thought I'd share my current site and see what you think took me a few hours to do the other day and some advice on how to improve it would be greatly appreciated :) .

Things that I plan to do/plus possible bugs: -

- Adjust it so it supports 1024x768 resolution.
- Contact form is not currently working! (going to fix it soon :) )
- want to add scroll wheel to portfolio page (not sure how to do this, might need some help, something to do with mouseWheel I think)
-not too sure about the splash page, not really needed might want to add 'detect flash' or something :cross-eye

that's it I think.

LINK! (http://www.liamchapman.co.uk)

oh and I'm working on a XHTML version to compliment it :)

enjoy :D

[doctor_funk]

It's a very nice site. Though I think you could have accomplished most of it with CSS and some Scriptalicious AJAX. This is an argument I've been bringing up more recently. I guess I'm getting more in the mind set of using Flash when XHTML and CSS can't go any further. Your site is very pretty, nice colors and nice work, but I think it would be more accessible without having to wait through all of that blurry animation and fancy masking sequences. Anyway, nicely done and good layout.

[travis]

Great site, I like the transitions and the blurring when you scroll.

[Patch^]

It's a very nice site. Though I think you could have accomplished most of it with CSS and some Scriptalicious AJAX. This is an argument I've been bringing up more recently. I guess I'm getting more in the mind set of using Flash when XHTML and CSS can't go any further. Your site is very pretty, nice colors and nice work, but I think it would be more accessible without having to wait through all of that blurry animation and fancy masking sequences. Anyway, nicely done and good layout.

Yea I know what you mean, one of my previous versions of my site used AJAX and CSS, but I found it took me too long to do and I found flash easier to use.


Great site, I like the transitions and the blurring when you scroll.

Cheers mate, thanks a lot!! :)

[Supergizmo]

i wonder how you did the blur thing... :)

[Patch^]

i wonder how you did the blur thing... :)

This isn't the exact one I used, but this should help: -

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2107505#post2107505

[Starpromo]

Looking good. Keep up the good work.

[Patch^]

Looking good. Keep up the good work.

thanks!!

[sokhodom]

the site looks professional. Great site! by the way, my suggestion is to make the preloading has some form of indicator when it will load finish, may be a percentage rather than simple loading bar without any ending indicator.

[Patch^]

the site looks professional. Great site! by the way, my suggestion is to make the preloading has some form of indicator when it will load finish, may be a percentage rather than simple loading bar without any ending indicator.

good idea, might do that. :D

[red_A]

Nice site, i like the colours, simple and elegant design looks very cool...just one think, if you could notch up the frames a little i think it could be better, so that the transitions look smoother at higher fps

[Starpromo]

Yeah i agree with that. A faster FPS wouldn't go a miss!

[Patch^]

it was set at 25fps, but i've changed it to 35fps. Any better?

[red_A]

it was set at 25fps, but i've changed it to 35fps. Any better?

A little better, however the transition with the circles still lags a little...
also since IE is no good and doesn't support png images, the image on the main page has a blueish background instead of the transparent one you intended.

use this code to solve this, for ie 6 and below:
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader (src='your_image.png');

[hybrid101]

love the fonts, but the blur just friggin lags.
nice use of colors, digging the site, love the portfolio too:D
good job:thumb:

[Patch^]

A little better, however the transition with the circles still lags a little...
also since IE is no good and doesn't support png images, the image on the main page has a blueish background instead of the transparent one you intended.

use this code to solve this, for ie 6 and below:
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader (src='your_image.png');

where do I put this code, in a frame?


filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader (src='your_image.png');

Would I have to give my image linkage too?

(or does the code go in the HTML file)

I'll try it out anyway :)



love the fonts, but the blur just friggin lags.
nice use of colors, digging the site, love the portfolio too:D
good job:thumb:

Cheers, i'll up the frame rate a little more and see if it improves

[Fl4SH'ER]

ok, one problem with the site... i quite like how it's done but i'm facing a serious problem ( don't know if it's caused by FF but it's weird ). So, when your portfolio section loads, i see the scrollbar and the thumbs but when i scroll it down the scroll bar kinda gets lost ( meaning well, it goes under the browser, and i can't see it anymore... ) blehh, really hard to explain.. here's the screen shot:

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/2729/duhub4.jpg

So, the bottom of the page is like "cut off"... it's not displaying all the data correctly and as you can see the scroll bar gets "lost" and well, i can't even scroll the whole page down or something...

PS: wooops, i just read you are planing on fixing this bug... heh, sorry, i somehow missed that part in your first post :P nvm...

[funkyjones]

Very nice, colors and effects and everything.. Only thing, you should settle the scroller so it only scrolls on whole pixels because you use pixelfonts. At some spots the scroller puts your portfolioMC on uneven pixels and the text lose its crisp.

[t0mm0]

Nice, love the color choice
But i do not understand why the underscores and forward slashes are in the page title.

[Pasquale]

Great typography. The text on the homepage is very blurry though.

[Patch^]

Great typography. The text on the homepage is very blurry though.

Yea I know what you mean, I think it's to do with the scrolling blur thingy, not really sure how to stop it at the moment.

Thanks for the comment on the typography :)

[333]

I really like it, but the flash thing doesn't fit onto my page. I have to use both the flash scroller and the page scroller to see whats at the bottom.

[Patch^]

I really like it, but the flash thing doesn't fit onto my page. I have to use both the flash scroller and the page scroller to see whats at the bottom.

yea I'm going to try and adjust it later so it supports 1024x768 at the moment it only just manages to support 1440x900 and 1280x1024. I'll let you guys know when I've changed it :)

[Patch^]

I've made it a bit smaller, don't know if it looks any better though :S

[red_A]

where do I put this code, in a frame?


filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader (src='your_image.png');

Would I have to give my image linkage too?

(or does the code go in the HTML file)

I'll try it out anyway :)




Cheers, i'll up the frame rate a little more and see if it improves
Add this code to the head of your html file.

<style type="text/css">
.main_img {
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader (src='your_image.png';
}
</style>

Where your image is located, just put this code:
<img src="your_image.png" id="main_img" alt="" width="535" height="232" />

Cheers,
red_A