[Subzero Diesel949]

http://alphasubzero949.cjb.net (also in sig)

I decided to go for the clean look. Any thoughts? Notice anything wrong or jerky? I viewed it under MSIE 5.2, Chimera, and OmniWeb.

[skalie]

The logo misses it's bottom, it reads RFYOND instead of BEYOND.

Nice feel to the site though.

(I.E. 5.1 for Mac)

[KaptainKaya]

Loks good under Safari

[Subzero Diesel949]

Originally posted by skalie:
The logo misses it's bottom, it reads RFYOND instead of BEYOND.

Nice feel to the site though.

(I.E. 5.1 for Mac)

Hmmm...looks fine over here.

Are you using 800x600? That could be why.

[der Kopf]

Really nice work, IMO. I should get around to learning flash, as I assume that's what you're using. Also, I like the 'minimalism' of the design. Nothing slapping you in the face. However. I think the flash intro could do with a little audio. I wouldn't exactly know what, but ... Also, maybe you should trim it down just a bit. It is very nice, but 'in der Beschränkerung zeigt sich der Meister' (something like 'true mastery is shown in brevity').

[Subzero Diesel949]

The audio sample there now is a snippet from DJ Quicksilver. It's called "Escape Mix."

[der Kopf]

Well, apparently I had the volume all down when I visited the site, but there actually IS audio. What with beschränkerung and all, wouldn't it be possible to have a little higher framerate when moving the text-art around.

[Subzero Diesel949]

Good point. I'll try playing around with it. However, the animation sequence runs pretty fast on some computers I've tried it on, and dog slow on others.

[skalie]

Originally posted by Subzero Diesel949:
Hmmm...looks fine over here.

Are you using 800x600? That could be why.

Happens when the browser window isn't maximised, a scroll bar appears and the top logo shortens.

[Xeo]

I recommend you use javascript on the left frame to preload the images. It's a bit strange to have them load at the time of the mouse over.

[Subzero Diesel949]

I haven't been able to figure out a script to do that. Any advice?

[Xeo]

Sure, no problem. You can pre-load the images into a JavaScript array and then call that instead of the actual images. You could call the actual images as well, because since they are in the array, they have been cached by the browser. Either way works.

For example, this is one possible way:

Code:
<font size="2">&lt;script language = "JavaScript"&gt;

// populate the array with the number of images you will use
    image = new Array(3);

// this isn't necessary, but you have to do it to each entry in the array 
// before assigning it an image, so it's easiest to automate it with this loop

    for (i = 0; i &lt; image.length; i++)  // loop through the array and
        image[i] = new Image();         // add new images to it.
   
// here are 3 images I'm preloading. 
// Notice I didn't preload myimage.gif, we do that below

    image[0].src = "/images/myimage2.gif";
    image[1].src = "/images/myimage3.gif";
    image[2].src = "/images/myimage4.gif";

&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;!--Here is an example of a link. myimage.gif is loaded in the img tag--&gt;

&lt;a href="link.html" onMouseOver="picture.src = image[0].src;" onMouseOut="picture.src = '/images/myimage.gif';"&gt;
    &lt;img src="/images/myimage.gif" name="picture"&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;!--Here's another example. Notice I'm simply not calling the array anymore. 
This should work too because it should read the image out of the cache.--&gt;

&lt;a href="link.html" onMouseOver="picture2.src = '/images/myimage2.gif';" onMouseOut="picture2.src = '/images/myimage.gif';"&gt;
    &lt;img src="/images/myimage.gif" name="picture2"&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;</font>

[alphasubzero949]

Thanks...trying it out now.