Gerard Ryan Furniture

rloaderro · 2006-04-10 22:14:31

This was a quick site I put together last month. It wasn’t intended to use a CMS as the content will be rather static, but it turned out to be quicker & cleaner to use TXP than to hand code all the pages!! Thanks to everyone in the TXP community for supporting such a great application/framework!

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soulship · 2006-04-11 10:32:35

I like it. Very clean and easily navigated. Tops! I have a question though….how did you do the “request info” link to the article?

sthmtc · 2006-04-11 10:56:06

nice, i like it.

rloaderro · 2006-04-11 16:50:27

soulship wrote:

I like it. Very clean and easily navigated. Tops! I have a question though….how did you do the “request info” link to the article?

Hi! That was done with javascript since I’m a bit more handy with js than php. That bit of the article form looks like this:

<code>
<ul><li><a href=”<txp:site_url />contact?subject=<txp:title />”>Request Information</a></li></ul>
</code>

Then on the contact page I use this script to parse the URL:

<code>
window.onload = function() { str = document.URL; x = str.indexOf(“?”);

if (x != -1) { x++; y = str.length; p = str.substring(x, y);

x = p.indexOf(“=”); a = p.substring(0, x);

x++; y = p.length; b = p.substring(x, y);

el = document.getElementById(a); if (el != null) { el.value = unescape(b); } }
}
</code>

Let me know if it doesn’t make sense?!

soulship · 2006-04-11 21:57:44

Thanks for the tip! That looks like a great snippet for me to try out. I like the way that works. Very nice furniture as well. I hope maybe you worked out some trade with the artist :)

Jamie

John@BKR · 2006-04-11 22:19:48

As people are saying, the clean simplicity of the site reflects the clean simplicity of the furniture on display. I would like to see an organic background color that reflect your “life-long love affair with trees.” The warmth of the wood is a cozy, calm feeling. It’s very inviting, yet contrasts the sharp white of the site. Maybe something like a yellow ochre background color?

It’s beautiful, and I love the lines.

whatbrick · 2006-04-11 22:39:37

Another voice in agreement. A very nice site.

The PHP equivalent (in TXP) would be something like:

<txp:php>
if(!empty($_GET['subject']))
echo $_GET['subject'];
</txp:php>

Just plug that into the value="" into the input element. Works when JS is turned off as well. Just thought you’d like to know. :)

soulship · 2006-04-14 17:25:26

Thanks! I’ll try that one out as well.

@Aeron: What camera/lighting setup are you using for your furniture shots? I have a friend who is a furniture maker in Montana and he wants me to help him redo his site. His furniture is great, but the photography is pretty terrrible and there is only so much I can do in photoshop to clean them up and make them presentable. I sent him a link to your site and he instantly realized there is a problem with the photography he is doing. (He liked your site alot by the way.) His site now is a little busy, made with tables in dreamweaver a few years ago.

Last edited by soulship (2006-04-14 17:27:06)

rloaderro · 2006-04-17 15:19:54

John@BKR wrote:

As people are saying, the clean simplicity of the site reflects the clean simplicity of the furniture on display. I would like to see an organic background color that reflect your “life-long love affair with trees.” The warmth of the wood is a cozy, calm feeling. It’s very inviting, yet contrasts the sharp white of the site. Maybe something like a yellow ochre background color?

Thanks for the very kind words! Yes, after reading your comments I agree with a warmer, more organic-feel for the site. In this case the client sent us about a half-dozen sites they liked for reference – all were very minimal, gallery-like, with white-backgrounds. Then the text came later on..

Last edited by rloaderro (2006-04-17 15:25:52)

rloaderro · 2006-04-17 15:24:58

whatbrick wrote:

The PHP equivalent (in TXP) would be something like:

Awesome – thanks a lot for that tip!

Last edited by rloaderro (2006-04-17 15:25:20)

rloaderro · 2006-04-17 15:40:05

soulship wrote:

@Aeron: What camera/lighting setup are you using for your furniture shots?

hi Soulship! I am sorry, I only dealt with the finished photos so couldn’t tell you much about what went into shooting them. I seem to remember there were 2 different photographers, and even then some of the pieces were shot quite differently from others. Guessing, I would think any medium-res digital camera would work fine. If they don’t have access to professional lighting equiptment, they could probably hack together something to increase ambient lighting (there don’t seem to be any strong shadows) like a bright, standing lamp behind white paper to diffuse the light (im just making this all up of course, but it is what I would probably try). I do quite a bit of touch-up in Photoshop to the images as well – it helps to start out with something high-quality of course – my usual bag of tricks includes boosting mid-tones in the levels dialog; boosting saturation; a little contrast; a light application of unsharp mask and smart blur.

Hope this helps!

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