Comments on: Making Some Progress

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:51:59 +0000

Mike: Thank you very much.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:48:04 +0000

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 :)

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:36:01 +0000

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.

By: Dan R.

Dan R. — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:16:26 +0000

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…)

By: Louis

Louis — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:24:50 +0000

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.

By: Dave S.

Dave S. — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:28:06 +0000

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.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 04:55:16 +0000

Those are some great sites! Nice work!

By: francis

francis — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 04:08:46 +0000

Dan, those sites are awesome…great work!

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

/ff.

By: Benvolio

Benvolio — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:34:20 +0000

Great work Dan!

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

Benvolio

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:34:57 +0000

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 :-)