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Making Some Progress

A few notes of inter­est, while we con­tinue to chip away at the ever-growing to-to list:

Keep check­ing in, we’ll be back soon…

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Monday, October 20th, 2003.

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15 comments on “Making Some Progress”

  1. Posted by Mike on Tuesday, October 21st, 2003.

    Wow, great job on those sites… even with a loom­ing dead­lines they def­i­nitely look great!

    What’s up with TalkS­mall? I’m already excited ;)

    Mike

  2. Posted by Nate on Tuesday, October 21st, 2003.

    Hey Dan, very impressed with the new sites. Keep up the good work!

  3. Posted by Emilio Vanni on Tuesday, October 21st, 2003.

    You’re damn fast :)

    Great Job!

  4. Posted by paul on Tuesday, October 21st, 2003.

    bril­liant work.

  5. Posted by Lea on Tuesday, October 21st, 2003.

    Very pretty. And under tight dead­lines to boot. Tho, I bet it helps that both of those sites have only four main nav­i­ga­tional links, and that you could repeat some of the imagery in the pages. Tho I frown on the fact they “forced” you to get that done in such short notice. If you can be that good in so lit­tle time, I won­der what would hap­pen given more thought and time. :)

  6. Posted by Dan on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003.

    Mike: Thanks — as for TalkS­mall, well… you’ll just have to wait and see (that’s why it’s called a teaser :-)

    Emilio: We do what we can.

    Paul: Cheers mate, com­ing from you, that’s high praise indeed (2:30 does some of the nicest work I’ve seen)

    Lea: The sim­plic­ity of both sites made the tight dead­lines pos­si­ble. Even with that though, when you add the admin­is­tra­tive time for each (client con­tact and com­mu­ni­ca­tion mainly), along with the fact we were work­ing on other, larger projects at the same time, it still required a few all-nighters to get them done in time. As for what we can do with more time, hope­fully a few of the projects we have still in the pro­posal stages will come to fruition and let us strut our long-term stuff :-)

  7. Posted by Benvolio on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003.

    Great work Dan!

    The sim­ple + clean IA, UI and colour palette make both sites a breeze to nav­i­gate… I’m envious!

    Ben­vo­lio

  8. Posted by francis on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003.

    Dan, those sites are awesome…great work!

    Only com­ment would be to have logos link­ing back to the home page…minor details!

    /ff.

  9. Posted by Keith on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003.

    Those are some great sites! Nice work!

  10. Posted by Dave S. on Thursday, October 23rd, 2003.

    The part­ner­ship is start­ing to bear some pretty tasty fruit. I could swear I rec­og­nize that SharkRodeo from a cer­tain e-mail a few weeks back.… hmmm.… ;)

    Great job, guys.

  11. Posted by Louis on Thursday, October 23rd, 2003.

    Very good-looking sites. Maybe you could post some quick tips on stream­lin­ing the design process for the ben­e­fit of design­ers (like myself) whose turn­around time isn’t nearly as fast.

  12. Posted by Dan R. on Friday, October 24th, 2003.

    Ben­vo­lio: Thanks :-)

    Fran­cis: We’re aware of the logo-link-to-home issue, it was skipped on both to meet the dead­lines. One of the issues is that we used CSS image replace­ment to turn a text-filled h1 tag into the lovely logos you see in the browser, but that makes it less-than-straightforward to add a link to that ele­ment, while still hid­ing the text and dis­play­ing the logo graphic. We may just switch to an inline img tag for both, since with these sites there isn’t really any seman­tic or acces­si­bil­ity gained by using CSS image replacement.

    Keith: Thanks for say­ing so!

    Dave S: Hmm, I won­der who you’ve been talk­ing with lately? ;-)

    Louis: Great sug­ges­tion! After things slow down a bit, I will take some time to explain some sched­ule, pro­duc­tion and design tricks and pub­lish them here. One warn­ing though: You can usu­ally expect the solu­tion to a light­ning quick devel­op­ment process to include very lit­tle sleep (for exam­ple, these last few weeks I’ve been aver­ag­ing 3 nights of sleep per week, which adds up to a whole bunch of all-nighters (I’m fin­ish­ing another 40 hour day right now…)

  13. Posted by Scrivs on Sunday, October 26th, 2003.

    Glad to see you are get­ting the busi­ness you obvi­ously truly deserve. Thanks for the bookmarks…always good to come across new inspiration.

    The inabil­ity to link to h1’s using the FIR is the only thing keep­ing me back from using it sadly.

  14. Posted by Mike on Monday, October 27th, 2003.

    Scrivs,

    You can check out the image replace­ment tech­nique I use at my blog. Some­one recently posted a com­ment (way at the bot­tom) about a good way to use image replace­ment with click­able header images, so maybe it’ll give you some ideas :)

  15. Posted by Scrivs on Monday, October 27th, 2003.

    Mike: Thank you very much.