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It's not live yet, it will be linked to www.raymondlin.net when its done but this is it so far :)
http://bludomain35.com/~raym/
What do you think? There is music on the site, turned off at the moment, there is also a shopping cart too that is LIVE and linked to paypal.
Does anyone know where i can get some Blog software and how does one do that? It'll be something like a photo Blog with text, i am not too good with just writing pages and pages of text about myself :evil:
Loading 100% ... FF3, OSX. Oh and as for blogs, Wordpress but I think I may have mentioned it :)
Is everyone else having that problem of stuck at 100%?
It's fine on both my home pc (IE and FF2) and work PC.
Works fine for me. If you insist on having music then please, please, please have a very obvious 'OFF' button. Personally I loathe it when sites have music on.
The speaker in the corner next to the shopping cart is is the music player, can play, stop, and skip tracks.
I have issued a support ticket to ask about the 100% stuck problem, will wait and see what they say.
Looks nice, I like the style. You should really have a pic of you on the page about you :p
Agreed with Desmo. It looks really nice but you need a picture of yourself in the about section. Don't be shy. :p
One where you don't have girls on each arm too :p
I vote for the pic where you look like Shigsy ;D
LeperousDust
12-08-2008, 13:26
No comment, i've commented enough :p But if it wasn't flash you could have a blog better integrated..... :)
Booo its a flash site :(
Me cannae use flash ere :(
BB x
Awesome site Mondo, personally really like it. Viewing on XP and Safari, looks great :D
Only gripe, very minor, is that you could use a nicer looking font for the links at the top - Times New Roman is sooo last year.
Assuming he has any control over that.
Awesome site Mondo, personally really like it. Viewing on XP and Safari, looks great :D
Only gripe, very minor, is that you could use a nicer looking font for the links at the top - Times New Roman is sooo last year.
I will do that :)
I need to find/think of a funky font first, and then email it to them and they can change it at their end.
"Funky font" Oh dear :p Comic Sans is "funky" :p
I can't find the bit where i read that says i can just email them the font now...
Booo its a flash site :(
Me cannae use flash ere :(
BB x
Awww, wait until you get home :)
The great thing about this is that i can edit it while at work since the CMS is hosted remotely on their server :)
I'll admit up front to being a bit of a grumpy old man when it comes to all-flash sites (I have my reasons), but as it goes I like the look of that. Definitely with Burble on the music though. If you're intending to use the site in a professional capacity (selling stuff) then I'd give thought to what your prospective customers will think.
The music thing is for me basically at the moment, testing it out. i might only put them in the galleries and not the home page or just in the clients only section. Dunno yet.
LeperousDust
12-08-2008, 16:24
I'll admit up front to being a bit of a grumpy old man when it comes to all-flash sites (I have my reasons), but as it goes I like the look of that. Definitely with Burble on the music though. If you're intending to use the site in a professional capacity (selling stuff) then I'd give thought to what your prospective customers will think.
Don't worry i've already heckled him more than enough for use of flash only ;D :p He doesn't really need anymore...
Yes, we will be happy to change your font if you purchase Maggie. Simply email the font of your choice to info@bludomain.com and we'll load it up for you. You must include your link and the font must be in .ttf format
:) I can change the font
Purchase Maggie? You have to buy your own women in this cult? :p
tbh, i am beginning to like the default font.
I just got a reply regarding the 100% load stuck issue
hi Raymond,
i tested the site on firefox, safari and IE7 on both mac and pc and could not re-create the issue. does the site load if they refresh it?
thanks,
Zahari
:)
does the site load if they refresh it?
Nope, not for me with Fireferret. Working in Safari though. :)
FF 3.0.1 and stuck on loading 100% here :(
This is odd, it loads in FF2, Safari and IE7, only problem is with FF3 but it seems he can't recreate the same fault.
hi Raymond,
i tested the site on firefox 3 on both mac and pc and it loaded. with firefox 3 on windows they may need to update the flash player by clicking on the flash player link on your splash page.
let me know if that does not resolve the issue.
thanks,
Zahari
How about this for the font type in the top ?
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/1010/clipboard01vq1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/1010/clipboard01vq1.4e0bd4717b.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=376&i=clipboard01vq1.jpg)
Is anyone using FF3 able to load the site?
FF 3.0.1 (Vista) and working fine. More likely something to do with a particular version of Flash.
As fonts go, I think that works well for the navigation. Probably not such a good 'body' font though. :)
Works fine for me in Safari with Flash 9 and not in FF3 with Flash 9.
How about this for the font type in the top ?
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/1010/clipboard01vq1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/1010/clipboard01vq1.4e0bd4717b.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=376&i=clipboard01vq1.jpg)
Any objections for this font?
I really like it, more than the current one.
Ok, i think i am almost done !
Anyone got any suggestions before i go live? ie, do you think there is enough content, rearrange the icons order at the top, stuff like that?
http://bludomain35.com/~raym/
OK, here goes. Please don't think I'm ripping your site apart.
Flash, and music. Grr. That's all I'll say. You've made your choice and it's your site. :)
You seem to have two 'About Me' type sections. One under 'Mondo' and another under 'Info / Me'. Is there a reason for the separation? Would these be better either combined or put under the same menu?
The first paragraph under 'Info / Pricing' doesn't make sense. Could you re-word it please.
The text in the various sections (e.g. 'Mondo' and 'Info') isn't particularly easy to read for me. I don't know if it's because I like to run my system with larger fonts (something I can't do on a Flash site), or whether it's a problem with the font and/or layout (line spacing).
The shopping cart icon almost bumps into the picture frame on the homepage. Seems to be OK elsewhere.
The text in the shopping cart itself is tiny.
Hope this helps and isn't too overwhelming.
Thanks Mark
Point 1 - can't do anything about being a Flash site :p, music can be turned off.
2 ..... the mondo one is a joke, i am going to take it off i think, or call it something else
3. I will :)
4. made slightly bigger now
5. I think that's fine, it doesn't overlap, i could make it invisible though if need be
6. Don't think i can change the size of the font in the shopping cart though.
2) OK - I didn't read much. Just saw the 'About Me' heading. Don't mind what you call it but it's a little odd that there's two seemingly unrelated pages 'about' you right now. :)
4) Bigger font hasn't helped much, sorry for suggesting that. It may simply be because I'm tired. I'll try again tomorrow.
6) That's a pity. Worth asking the creators of the software? If they're US-based, you could try waving the words 'Section 508' at them. That should put the fear of god into them. ;D
They are US based, i could ask them about slightly bigger font. :)
thou i am not too bothered about the shopping cart, i doubt many people will buy prints off it from some random on the net, it's very unlikely !
It's Live !!!!!!!! Just transfered the DNS server acrossed.
www.raymondlin.net
Can people tell me if it's working yet in their end? :)
Ta
Yeah - it's working - except that the music has vanished. :)
Yeah - it's working - except that the music has vanished. :)
You can still turn it on manually, best of both worlds :D
LeperousDust
22-08-2008, 17:11
Lacking music can only be a good thing ;D :p
I'm shocked though, you're homepage is 2Mb!?! And for some reason it seems to be loading pretty slow for me, i never got over 8Kb/s and it took 3mins 40 to finish =/ I only waited because its you're site :p
You can still turn it on manually, best of both worlds :D
I tried that, but it just showed up 'Undefined' and didn't play anything. Agree it's the right way around now though. :)
Edit - ah - clicking 'next track' gets the music playing. Panic over. :)
Lacking music can only be a good thing ;D :p
I'm shocked though, you're homepage is 2Mb!?! And for some reason it seems to be loading pretty slow for me, i never got over 8Kb/s and it took 3mins 40 to finish =/ I only waited because its you're site :p
I never thought it is that big !!! :shocked:
Might need to have less photos on the home page to rotate....
Very impressive... from the point of view of a web designer, and photographer. What did you use to build the site?
I cheated in regards to the design of the site, I joined a cult and bought a template :o
The photos are mine thou :D
LeperousDust
26-08-2008, 15:36
Very impressive... from the point of view of a web designer, and photographer. What did you use to build the site?
Its not impressive from a webdesigners point of view at all, its all flash :p
Its not impressive from a webdesigners point of view at all, its all flash :p
But 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of people who look at it don't know that :p
I even had this reaction from a guy.
Nice site coming from the guy who loves minimalistic and classy non flash sites. :D
Changed my Front page font logo now :)
It'll be there until i get my own logo done which is in the process from a friend.
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