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Fruit Juice Concentrates!!!
Yes, I guess this one is about 99% so I’ll introduce it here! Nothing fancy really, but there is some custom Javascript stuff going on (there is in fact no Flash). What do you think?
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I wanted to mention the 404 page – one of the great under-exploited features of Textpattern – check it out.
Last edited by rloaderro (2006-05-11 15:33:46)
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Re: Fruit Juice Concentrates!!!
Very nice design, wish I had the opportunity to visit Irazu ;)
The only thing I see that throws off the cleanliness of the site is the footer, there’s just too many lines there. Other than that, a job well done.
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The only thing I see that throws off the cleanliness of the site is the footer, there’s just too many lines there.
Hi! Thanks for the nice review! I have a question though – when you say too many lines do you mean simply too many lines of content or the vertical bars seperating the menu choices are clashing?
I thought it was nicer before the client asked to add the second address there too :/
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Yes, I think there’s too many lines of content.
Maybe use a smaller font and combine some of the lines?
Just my opinion, but the customer is always right ;)
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#5 2006-05-09 20:35:59
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Re: Fruit Juice Concentrates!!!
I like the design a lot! I’m experiencing some very strange things however. In Firefox 1.5.0.3 and IE6 the dots on the i’s in the footer are gone (I thought at first it was intended, but I see you’ve set Verdana for the footer. BTW I like it without dots), in Opera 8.52 they are there. And in IE6 when I’m on the home page, my cursor keeps flickering (no matter if I reload or hit stop loading), it doesn’t happen on the other pages.
Edit: okay the dots appear when you increase the text size.
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Els wrote:
In Firefox 1.5.0.3 and IE6 the dots on the i’s in the footer are gone
jeje – The lineheight was too small! It is fixed now – sharp eye you have!
And in IE6 when I’m on the home page, my cursor keeps flickering (no matter if I reload or hit stop loading), it doesn’t happen on the other pages.
hm – This is a defect of the script that handles the looping/fading images on the homepage. It is actually a javascript that cycles a comma-separated list of images (set in article_image of course). I guess IE doesn’t buffer the images properly though:/ I will look into it. Thanks!
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Very nice site, I like the nice subtle shading and colors.
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nice! consider using a smaller and brighter font for the footer to lower the contrast there, it attracts too much attention imo. i like the javascript automatic slideshow a lot! may i ask how this is done and if it’s pulling images from txp?
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Re: Fruit Juice Concentrates!!!
sthmtc wrote:
nice! consider using a smaller and brighter font for the footer to lower the contrast there, it attracts too much attention imo. i like the javascript automatic slideshow a lot! may i ask how this is done and if it’s pulling images from txp?
Hi! Thanks for the kind words! I took everyone’s advice and shortened up the footer. As to the slideshow, yes it is intergrated with TXP – it reads from a comma-separated list of images in the article-image field. It uses that to generate a CSS definition for the first image (if javascript is turned off for example) and to send the full list to the javascript function. I wrote a plugin to manage it, but it is ridiculously simple such that I would be a little embarrased to publish it in textpattern.org. Maybe I can beef it up a little – like incorporate the JS into the plugin – and release it if anyone is interested?
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There is another JS effect going on too. The images managed in the CMS are just plain, rectangular images. When the page is loaded a JS function executes framing the images in the green or black ovals of the brand. Try loading the page with JS turned off and you’ll see what I mean. I would love to be able to write a plugin in PHP that could do something like this when images are uploaded from within the admin > images panel – rather than something that is run post-process and subject to user’s having JS enabled..
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#10 2006-05-11 16:15:13
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Re: Fruit Juice Concentrates!!!
rloaderro wrote:
(…) As to the slideshow, yes it is intergrated with TXP – it reads from a comma-separated list of images in the article-image field. It uses that to generate a CSS definition for the first image (if javascript is turned off for example) and to send the full list to the javascript function. I wrote a plugin to manage it, but it is ridiculously simple such that I would be a little embarrased to publish it in textpattern.org. Maybe I can beef it up a little – like incorporate the JS into the plugin – and release it if anyone is interested?
I’m interested!!!
By the way, nice site…
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i’d be very interested in such a plug-in, even if it comes out as a really simple one.
i also noticed the other effect cause there is a short moment (in safari) when you see the original image and then the frame is applied to it. i wouldn’t have a use for that type of thing in the near future though, i guess :)
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