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"Be gentle..."

I’ve been working on a new site design for my little arty site I like doing. I’ve been fiddling about for a while now with new ideas and I came up with this, now before you look it’s meant to be nicer on the eyes rather then super easy to navigate and find information.


This is the first page and the general look
[URL]http://www.7seven.cc/Beta/index2.htm[/URL]
I did put some nice rollovers where the links are in the top right but they decided not to work and I had to just settle for normal ones for now.


Then this is what the links when you click them will have at the end of them
[URL]http://www.7seven.cc/Beta/screen1.JPG[/URL]


As I said... Be gentle....

EDIT: Fixed the link

As a wise man once said:

"FFS"


It's was only like my first draft. Give me a break, alright?

Pah.

If it's a gallery - why not have thumbnails?

As long as you're constructive*


* indicates massive amounts of doubt

Okay well I look forward to seeing* the results of your endeavours.


*mercilessly mocking, degrading and humiliating

Nah, I think you've got the wrong end of the stick. What we're doing is a Flash app, with the bar at the top, a floating draggable thumb gallery, which loads an image into the background. Other info like about and news wil come from additional panels, but aren't the focus. You'll see. You'll all see. Mwahahahahahaha

monkey_man wrote:
> ? Are you being a tool on purpose?
>
> The site is a gallery of those pictures...removing them for the sake
> of efficiency would make the site pointless.

The way I'm envisioning his site working, as it's clearly different from the way you're picturing it (and I could have got the wrong end of the stick on this) is what he's shown us, with text and general site content over the top of the whopping great blue picture held in containers (such as the one shown in this picture [URL]http://www.7seven.cc/Beta/screen1.JPG[/URL] ). Now if my mental image is correct, then every page on his site is going to weigh in at 500KB before any content is even loaded. And if he's trying to use the background to demonstrate his art, then what happens if the user wants to view the art without any of the clutter and muck on top? They're going to have to follow a link which reloads the image without any divs plastered over the top, which is no different to a normal art gallery (except for being a hell of lot slower).

? Are you being a tool on purpose?

The site is a gallery of those pictures...removing them for the sake of efficiency would make the site pointless.

Well if you made them, then that's fine. I still say it's a bit much to have a picture like that loaded in the background of every page, your site will be a real chore to navigate through.

Miserableman wrote:
> Nice topbar style, but that image is pretty impractical:

> b) Assuming you did make it, it's much too large, and will drag the
> speed of your site through a hedge backwards.

It's a gallery of digital art...

I think he did make them - go through to index2 and there are quite a few more. It'll look good if you have the background as the gallery - i.e. you pick something from the thumbs and it loads it into the back. It'll work really well, please let me make it in Flash for you!

Miserableman wrote:
> a) I'm guessing you didn't make it, and you'll probably need
> permission from whoever did make it to use it on your site.



No one can accept I made them :\