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#1 2008-01-06 14:05:48
- guiguibonbon
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Skulls. And other strange, painted stuff.
Very minimal website for very talented artist Stephan Balleux.
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#3 2008-01-06 14:25:56
- guiguibonbon
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Re: Skulls. And other strange, painted stuff.
That’s smoothScrool by mootools not working the way it should. Not working at all actually. Decided to leave it like that for now. Is on the to-fix-when-i’m-bored list.
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Interesting! I see that on the home page when one hovers over “Stephan Balleux” the BG covers the skull to the right. Looks like it could be the “.navigation a:hover” rule. Using Safari.
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#5 2008-01-06 14:39:37
- els
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Re: Skulls. And other strange, painted stuff.
jstubbs wrote:
I see that on the home page when one hovers over “Stephan Balleux” the BG covers the skull to the right.
Same here, using Firefox/Linux.
guiguibonbon wrote:
Very minimal website
The works itself wouldn’t require anything else. I like it, interesting, disturbing works. The larger images don’t fit on my screen.
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guiguibonbon wrote:
Very minimal website for very talented artist Stephan Balleux.
im all for minimal sites. the design suits the content well i find.
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#7 2008-01-06 15:10:21
- guiguibonbon
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Re: Skulls. And other strange, painted stuff.
I see that on the home page when one hovers over “Stephan Balleux” the BG covers the skull to the right.
Thanks, fixed that. Wasn’t very clean indeed.
The larger images don’t fit on my screen.
What size we would display the images was the main concern, since these paintings and drawings are all about the fine details. And we didn’t want any of those complicated zoom in/zoom out and “click wait click wait click wait” lightbox kind of stuff. We went with scrolling. That became the whole mantra of the website: “scrolling is really ok”, even at the price of only seeing some images in fractions.
It’s the fun part about working with good artists. They have very different concerns than the average client, which would never have accepted images not fitting on a screen. Or having pages with miles of text that just plainly admit they’re somewhat boring.
This guy made me actually hate lightbox, while I used to think it was rather smart. Now I see it as mostly a sign your website wasn’t very well thought out in the first place.
Anyway, I’m glad you like it minimal ! :)
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#8 2008-01-06 15:19:58
- els
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Re: Skulls. And other strange, painted stuff.
guiguibonbon wrote:
This guy made me actually hate lightbox,
Well, I still think lightbox is a very nice thing, but I agree with you when it comes to this particular site.
I forgot to mention that the videos don’t load in my browser (FF/Linux), the window remains black and keeps saying ‘Loading…’. I have no problems with videos on other sites.
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#9 2008-01-06 15:24:52
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Re: Skulls. And other strange, painted stuff.
Els wrote:
I forgot to mention that the videos don’t load in my browser (FF/Linux), the window remains black and keeps saying ‘Loading…’. I have no problems with videos on other sites.
They are quicktimes. Not sure quicktimes work on Linux. Will test, thx!
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guiguibonbon wrote:
They are quicktimes. Not sure quicktimes work on Linux. Will test, thx!
Yes they do work, as Quicktime has it own lite version for Linux, but only few Linux users use it. But Linux do have MPlayer that is common and works as alternative to Quicktime as it supports mov-files. Althought it’s not 100% compatible.
Cheers!
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#11 2008-01-06 16:15:48
- els
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Re: Skulls. And other strange, painted stuff.
Gocom
I have MPlayer. Do I need an additional Firefox add-on or package to be able to view quicktime movies?
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I have MPlayer. Do I need an additional Firefox add-on or package to be able to view quicktime movies?
Yes, you do need mplayerplug-in
Cheers!
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