bunee1 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 I have been doing some website reserch as my boss has asked me to come up with a design for ours....and had to share this with you all....a little pointless but it made me giggle ...click parts os the body and move them..fast is funniest http://starck.puma.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Thats good Hannah! I'm going on a 2 day web design course next week, but I can't imagine they'll teach us anything that much fun!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyren Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 I have to admit I usually groan when faced with a "cool" Flash intro to a site - it may be amusing, but it's often an indication that the site will be difficult to navigate, light on useful content, or both... Give me an unoriginal but useful design any day of the week Anne Web developer and internet cynic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 I'm similarly grumpy when it comes to web design - any kind of pre-page that says "click here to enter the site" makes me instantly grumpy - why make me go through another door?? aggghhhhhh!!!!! I think it's getting better now, though - times were when sites had to be written yellow on an orange spotty background with every icon flashing on and off or spinning round... less is more!! Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 I've just had a play and he has something missing...I think Liked it though fun BBx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard T Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 I've just had a play and he has something missing...I think Liked it though fun BBx Yeah. Where's his belly? Richrd T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 I have to admit I usually groan when faced with a "cool" Flash intro to a site - it may be amusing, but it's often an indication that the site will be difficult to navigate, light on useful content, or both... Give me an unoriginal but useful design any day of the week Anne Web developer and internet cynic Have you tried getting into the stockists bit on this website??!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paola Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 How strange Not sure about the footware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 I've got to agree with what has been said so far. Esp. intro screens are just annoying and should be shot on sight. Just for info really I have some golden rules that I never break (well most of the time!) when making sites. 1) Use flash/Animations only when its really needed. (pulls the eye to the wrong places at times). 2) Never use large blocks of high chorma colours things like bright red, blue etc. (again these will pull the eye to the wrong places on the page. ) 3) Never more then 3 clicks to what people are after from the front screen, people will just give up after that and move on to the next site. 4) Dont forget to try and make your site accessable, no fixed font sizes. no curly fonts like script. Good colours for text and background. Alt tags for images. 5) Style sheets are your friend, far more powerful then plain html and work with most browsers. http://www.csszengarden.com/ is great to see the power! 6) The classic KISS applies to sites as well as life! 7) I will personally come round with a stick if anyone uses sound on a site. 8 ) Use frames only when you have too, there not a good idea really same with tables. Most screen readers hate tables and frames. 9) People rarely read blocks of text on sites, they just scan read. Too much text on one screen is offputting. 10) Get someone to look over the site in early stages so you dont waste time creating a beast of a nasty site. Well thats me done. Craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jess Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 UGH frames they really should be banned altogether Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyren Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 5) Style sheets are your friend, far more powerful then plain html and work with most browsers. http://www.csszengarden.com/ is great to see the power! Been there, read the book Our site is too information-heavy for anything but the simplest of designs, but we've used every CSS trick in the book to make it work in as many browsers as possible. We've had to give up on IE5 for Mac, though, as its Javascript is too buggy for our new "Google Earth"-style drag-and-scroll view of the genome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Pssst...... Does anybody know what they're talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 No - its a bit scary as my (very basic) 2 day course starts tomorrow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 .....so what are we doing in here then?? Good luck Christine - come back and tell us what they're on about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Been there, read the book Our site is too information-heavy for anything but the simplest of designs, but we've used every CSS trick in the book to make it work in as many browsers as possible. We've had to give up on IE5 for Mac, though, as its Javascript is too buggy for our new "Google Earth"-style drag-and-scroll view of the genome I'm not sure about IE5 for Mac but won't they be using Mozilla or something similar? When I get problems with buggy old versions, I use the classic reply of my sites will work with any currently supported IE browser. On Windows thats 5.5sp2 or 6, Cuts out alot of the problems that way. Bring back IE4, because I enjoyed the pain of trying to make it do anything. ........ Good Luck Christine, you'll be fine, lots of TLA's to remember! ......... Craig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyren Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 I'm not sure about IE5 for Mac but won't they be using Mozilla or something similar? Microsoft's own website now basically says "Hey, Mac users, we're not interested in you any more, go and use Safari!" I use Camino on my MacBook, as I've had font problems with Firefox (and Thunderbird) for OSX and I find Safari a bit clunky and IE-like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
