TxP.com home page

thebombsite · 2009-09-02 14:17:35

Yep, Stuart is still doing the front-end work. There are still some minor details to be thrashed out and I have to wait before I can move forward with my side of it. Never-the-less it really is “almost” there, like about 99.5%, so hopefully it won’t be too long now.

Yes the logo was a separate issue and was dealt with.

Helvetica is not a standard font. I don’t have it and most people visiting the site won’t have it either nor would they be willing to shell out rather a lot of money for it. For those of you that have it, great, it’s a really good font, but short of using some form of image replacement technique which in my view would be OTT and probably slow the site down for those with lower bandwidths, not to mention the fact that you would need a copy of the font, at whatever it’s cost, on-site for the IR script to pull from, most people will get it in Arial. Helvetica is contained in the font-family listing for those areas that use Arial but you should remember that the site has been designed with the general public in mind, not the privileged few. :)

As for Matthew’s involvement, he is a designer and deploys sites using Textpattern. I know that for a fact because I’ve worked on them. His own site has evolved into something which is pretty much hand-rolled but that should not preclude his involvement. He is still a user.

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Bloke · 2009-09-02 14:18:37

I’m not close enough to this to be of much use (I don’t even have a login!) but as far as I heard, Matthew, Stuart and wet were all but done with it. It’s waiting for something — final testing, copy tweaking, dunno, your guess is as good as mine — but I don’t think a launch is too far away¹.

¹ I reserve the right to be utterly wrong :-)

EDIT: Stuart beat me to it :o)

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masa · 2009-09-02 16:16:46

thebombsite wrote:

Helvetica is not a standard font. I don’t have it and most people visiting the site won’t have it either nor would they be willing to shell out rather a lot of money for it.

Just to clarify, I was only referring to pixel-based typographical elements of the new look/identity, not live text on viewers’ computers.

Neither did I mean to suggest using Helvetica instead, personally I find it a boring font ;-)

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thebombsite · 2009-09-02 20:25:41

Ah. I see. Then you will have to wait and find out Martin. ;)

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Destry · 2009-11-09 23:54:15

Thar she blows!

So is that why there’s been delay? Had to start with a different site first?

LOL!

thebombsite · 2009-11-09 23:58:30

Ha haa. Not quite Destry. My content is a lot easier to handle. ;)

Destry · 2009-11-10 00:06:41

Well, despite being very funny (all things considering), it looks good. It’s time to wrap this on the wiki, I guess, though some slight mods to the nav will be needed to account for wiki editing tabs.

I’m not a fan of all the extra words in the main nav. Pointless. And I miss not seeing a bit more of the Txp yellow, if just a few more touches here and there, but no doubt there’s much to appreciate with the new look.

Uh, Bloke, if you’re seeing this, I get bounced when trying to send you an email at the “me” station.

wet · 2009-11-28 10:15:33

Finally.

Credits:

Designed by Squared Eye.
Built by Stuart Butcher and Patrick Woods.
Logo created by Phillipp Schilling.
Copy text narrated by Peter Moulding, Destry Wion, the team et al.
and all other enthusiasts I may have forgotten…

kees-b · 2009-11-28 10:25:54

wet wrote:

Finally.

Wow!

woof · 2009-11-28 10:53:12

wet wrote:

Credits:

Designed by Squared Eye.

Built by Stuart Butcher and Patrick Woods.

Logo created by Phillipp Schilling.

Copy text narrated by Peter Moulding, Destry Wion, the team et al.

and all other enthusiasts I may have forgotten…

Well done to all, it looks fabulous.

graeme · 2009-11-28 11:01:48

Worth the wait! Thanks to all involved :)

MattD · 2009-11-28 11:06:52

Sweet

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