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Avick -> New Furniture Site (3/14/2007 12:44:35)

This is the third incarnation of the website.

Always updating and never go anywhere else for there site work.

A really great company and customer.

http://www.furnituredesigns.ie

All feed back welcome.



jaybee -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/15/2007 15:28:31)

What can I say... nice. [:D]



Avick -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/15/2007 19:46:00)

Thanks Jaybee,



mar0364 -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/16/2007 8:47:19)

I like it very nice and clean which is how I prefer things. However it seems like the upper left is missing something?

Rich



jaybee -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/16/2007 10:35:34)

You mean like a nice animated gif or maybe a marquee? [;)]



womble -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/16/2007 10:59:18)

V. nice!

My only teeny concern from an accessibility point of view is that the 'more information' windows on the different project ranges require javascript, but aside from that I couldn't find anything not to like.



Mango Himself -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/16/2007 11:27:35)

Love it!

One question: are the pictures on the different product categories (the pic on top) enlarged on purpose? I like it but visitors may think they were stretchted inadvetantly



Avick -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/16/2007 11:34:15)

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You mean like a nice animated gif or maybe a marquee?


O god no, don't make me include these. Its just to painful.

I had put a nice graphic in the top left but it took away from the simplicity of the site so I removed it.



jaybee -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/16/2007 12:02:11)

Funnily enough, the reason I might like it is a site I'm working on right now. (still waiting for content so don't expect too much.



Avick -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/16/2007 12:12:12)

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One question: are the pictures on the different product categories

The images where resized to look slightly stretched. It was that or a slight blur effect and it didn't look as nice with the blur effect.
Although the image is there and its large, I don't want to take away from the images of the products which are all in focus and the right size. Strange I know :)

quote:

Funnily enough, the reason I might like it is a site I'm working on right now. (still waiting for content so don't expect too much.

Nice site but where's the animated GIF or Marquee!



Mango Himself -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/16/2007 12:58:17)

Actually, when I look at the picture, I like the concept. Very nice site. Minimalist. I like that

jaybee

your cycling site is really nice. One question. Being the fact that English is my fourth language (not even my second) I am surprised at the spelling of the word 'Tecnology'. I know in the US they tend to ad 'z' everywhere like in specialize, yet I'd never seen 'tecnology'. Is it acceptable in UK?



jaybee -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/16/2007 13:08:53)

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Tecnology
[:)] No it's a spelling mistake, that's what you get for copying without spell checking it first. [sm=icon_redface.gif]

(Dang should have just said yes it's the UK spelling, or even, it's so that the readers pronounce it correctly)

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Nice site but where's the animated GIF or Marquee!
I did say I'm still working on it. [:D] Actually, check the favicon.

Mango you might be interested to know, that's the one done in EW.



Mango Himself -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/16/2007 13:57:30)

my dear jaybee

EW is proving to be destructive to me! I downloaded and installed it last night. My! When I performed the step where they ask you to associate all Office my PC went crazy. I spent the next three hours removing, reinstalling, calling MS,etc

I am finally back to normal. I do not understand it. Did you download the trial version from MS or are you using the Beta? And, if you downloaded the MS version how did you bypass the Office deal? I tell you, it's driving me nuts



jaybee -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/16/2007 16:11:21)

I'm using a full boxed copy. The real McCoy. Generously donated by Microsoft in return for spending 3 minutes filling in a form on their Vista machines at UK HQ. Personally I think I got the raw end of the deal. [;)]



mar0364 -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/16/2007 16:15:00)

Just something can't put my finger on it. Maybe I've been listening to clients too much. LOL

God knows they have no idea what they want.



jaybee -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/16/2007 18:31:09)

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Maybe I've been listening to clients too much. LOL

God knows they have no idea what they want.
I know what you mean, we're used to seeing logo left and whitespace right. I think it would look odd though id Avick started sticking things in there just to fill the space. How about centering the logo (darn these US spellings, the english ones look wrong to me now.) The might be different enough but not so unsettling?



Nicole -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/18/2007 7:29:09)

Alan,

Nobody seems to have asked so far, why do the individual product details open in a new browser window that you've tried to limit the user from resizing that window?

They all see to fit within that window, and seem to work at 800x600, but I just wondered why it's necessary? It seems to me to be a bit unnecessary and probably an accessibility issue that could easily be avoided.

Nice clean looking site apart from that though, the "stretched" images didn't bother me until I saw the one for "beds". She looks a bit "google earthed" though don't you think?



Avick -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/18/2007 7:45:17)

Hi Nicole,
The idea of the new window opening was to keep the product page (The selected one) open so they could 1 view a number of suites and compare prices and sizes.
I sat watching people using the site and noticed they all opened new windows to look at more then one product, so I incorporated this feature into the site so the uses doesn’t have to do it.

As for the stretched images, I'm a beliver that not all images should be perfect size and focus. I recently designed a very small site for an interior design company where the entire site was in black and white. The only images that has colour where the photos of her designs.
Here is another that I built using the same technique. www.envie.ie

I guess I'm strange that way. [:D]





jaybee -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/18/2007 9:16:36)

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I'm a beliver that not all images should be perfect size and focus.
Eh? If I'm buying something off the web then I want to be able to see it clearly. If the image isn't sharp I wonder if there's damage which is why they've blurred the pic.



Avick -> RE: New Furniture Site (3/18/2007 11:37:06)

Good answer Jaybee,
But its only the styling images that are blured, the images of the products are in perfect focus. [;)]




jesse1 -> RE: New Furniture Site (4/1/2007 9:22:50)

I think there is too much space up top.

other than that it look nice clean and crisp



jeanmorris -> RE: New Furniture Site (5/15/2007 1:08:49)

site looks neat and professional and straight to the point style



anderskorte -> RE: New Furniture Site (5/15/2007 9:03:23)

It's a very nice design and a very refined look but why do you use Arial in your text graphics? Are you running on such a low budget that the only fonts at your disposal are the Windows defaults?

The company has a very nice and unique identity. Use typography to support it, not to take away from it. They are a design company and possibly very demanding.



Avick -> RE: New Furniture Site (5/15/2007 9:31:15)

Hi anderskorte.
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It's a very nice design and a very refined look but why do you use Arial in your text graphics? Are you running on such a low budget that the only fonts at your disposal are the Windows defaults?

All the text in the site uses Arial font. I wanted to make all the graphic based text to match the real text on the site.

Another reason for using Arial is one of the reasons you mentioned above:
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the only fonts at your disposal are the Windows defaults?

The more you stray from the norm, the more visitors you lock out from your site.

There are quite a number of sites on the net with the dreaded "Best viewed with IE6"
What they are really saying is, This thing won't even come close to working on any other browser.

I use the same text on my sites where I can. Only I include all the browsers:
Best viewed with "IE, FireFox, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape" [:)]

I think its a nice way of saying to visitors "Use whatever you like, it will still work anyway"




d a v e -> RE: New Furniture Site (5/15/2007 12:23:09)

Only I include all the browsers:
Best viewed with "IE, FireFox, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape"

what about the mac and linux ones like safari, konqueror, etc? ;)



Avick -> RE: New Furniture Site (5/15/2007 12:53:21)

Works with safari to! I just don't have a little logo for it :)
Don't know about Konqueror

Can you check it form in that browser!!

http://www.furnituredesigns.ie [:D]




d a v e -> RE: New Furniture Site (5/15/2007 13:24:09)

i think it's based on the gekko rendering engine too (though i cold be wrong) but i'm don't have KDE along with my ubuntu install anymore... i'm sure it's ok :)

maybe there's someon with konqueror (Bobby??)



anderskorte -> RE: New Furniture Site (5/16/2007 15:20:09)

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ORIGINAL: Avick

The more you stray from the norm, the more visitors you lock out from your site.

No, I meant the graphics. Take a look at Mint for an example.



Avick -> RE: New Furniture Site (5/17/2007 5:30:25)

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No, I meant the graphics. Take a look at Mint for an example.


Some good points their. Looking at that it might be worth taking a second look at the thoughts behind my ideas !!



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