Criqitues please...

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Criqitues please...

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http://dm7.net/ :)

I'm aware of flash weird animation thing when you have your mouse over "about me" button when it just scrolled down after being loaded, it'd jerk at first. No idea why. *shrugs*

Anyways, what do you think? :) I'm not designing it for 56k dialup users... since I'm using it for my portfolio and it would be mostly geared to business, etc. so I don't think I need to worry about that... even if 56k user goes there, the download speed for flash is tolerable.... at least imo. :) Of course, it's far from being complete. :)
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fails W3C validation
a few warnings about the CSS
Section 508 and WAI fail as well, if you are going for that...
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I have no idea how to fix that flash tags... I copied and pasted the code that flash generated for the page... :/
And.. CSS.. I don't want background colors there... how do I fix that warnings?
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Dm7 wrote:I have no idea how to fix that flash tags... I copied and pasted the code that flash generated for the page... :/
Greater minds than ours have pondered it too, and found a solution. Google tells us!: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/
Dm7 wrote:And.. CSS.. I don't want background colors there... how do I fix that warnings?
You can use the obscure css property "inherit" to combat the obscure warnings they added in the last two months just for this one issue. Obnoxious, isn't it?

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.footer     { background-color:inherit; color:silver; font-size:0.6em }
Other things..
NOTICE: best to view in higher resolution than 800x600.
If I'm using less or equal to that, its a rude statement about my technology choices. If I'm using more, I'm already happy. So, just leave it out. :)

The purple on black is hard to read, but the purple on-top-of the blue background on the home section is *really* hard to read. Consider doing a faded box for the text that is still transparent. Then it makes it easier to read the text, and makes clear where the text belongs, but still retains your artistic style.
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Dm7 wrote:http://dm7.net/ :)

I'm aware of flash weird animation thing when you have your mouse over "about me" button when it just scrolled down after being loaded, it'd jerk at first. No idea why. *shrugs*

Anyways, what do you think? :) I'm not designing it for 56k dialup users... since I'm using it for my portfolio and it would be mostly geared to business, etc. so I don't think I need to worry about that... even if 56k user goes there, the download speed for flash is tolerable.... at least imo. :) Of course, it's far from being complete. :)
I like the flash background...thats neat :)

Can you do the same thing for a not so fantasy looking web site??? :D

Like say a company which specializes in autobody chip repair???
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Hockey wrote:
Dm7 wrote:http://dm7.net/ :)

I'm aware of flash weird animation thing when you have your mouse over "about me" button when it just scrolled down after being loaded, it'd jerk at first. No idea why. *shrugs*

Anyways, what do you think? :) I'm not designing it for 56k dialup users... since I'm using it for my portfolio and it would be mostly geared to business, etc. so I don't think I need to worry about that... even if 56k user goes there, the download speed for flash is tolerable.... at least imo. :) Of course, it's far from being complete. :)
I like the flash background...thats neat :)

Can you do the same thing for a not so fantasy looking web site??? :D

Like say a company which specializes in autobody chip repair???
Yeah I can do that... I think... lol

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Everybody, I'm designing a special holiday site.. haha for fun.. not sure if I'll implent it to my current one, but for sure I'll use it as my portfolio... I wanted to see what you think of it... http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/bea ... dling2.jpg :D
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