a in development site im working on

Hi, I just wanted to show my personal site im developing for my freelance php showcase, this site is no where near finished yet but i was hoping some people would comment on how they like it so far, im still in the process of coding/styleing the site so theres not really any content.

Some cool features so far
->Ajax Page Loads w/ Back Button/Bookmark Support
->Flash Header uses Ajax too and also NonFlash Tabs look close
->Even The Search function works in the flash header


Anyways id love to hear some comments on this site

heh o yea a link

http://www.dakotastorm.com

--ShawnC

Thanks for sharing ShawnC. I’m sure many (including me) would be quite interested to learn how you pulled off the various Flash/Ajax/MODx integration bits. Is the main navigation built dynamically from the MODx using something like Wayfinder?

As far as feedback goes, reloading the various sections reloads the whole header "intro navigation" (for lack of a better nomenclature), and that gets old really fast. At least it builds very quickly though!

Also the highlighting on the you-are-here tab state happens too frequently ... it’d be cool to see that happen randomly every 15-60 seconds, instead of what seems to be now about every 5 seconds.

Keep up the great work ... can’t wait to see it come together.

Quote from: rthrash at May 28, 2007, 09:27 AM

Thanks for sharing ShawnC. I’m sure many (including me) would be quite interested to learn how you pulled off the various Flash/Ajax/MODx integration bits. Is the main navigation built dynamically from the MODx using something like Wayfinder?

As far as feedback goes, reloading the various sections reloads the whole header "intro navigation" (for lack of a better nomenclature), and that gets old really fast. At least it builds very quickly though!

Also the highlighting on the you-are-here tab state happens too frequently ... it’d be cool to see that happen randomly every 15-60 seconds, instead of what seems to be now about every 5 seconds.

Keep up the great work ... can’t wait to see it come together.

Wow thanks for the comments, The TabNav is static in flash with javascript calls, and the nonflash version is just some basic image rollovers that gets a onclick adde d to them by javascript. Eventually ill be doing a wayfinder call to feed links to flash(flashvars) but for now it was quicker to just make it static.

The Treemenu in the topleft greenbox is the Yahoo YUI! treemenu and via WayFinder template i have added a onclick to a ajaxpage loader function

The whole bookmark fix is using yahoo yui! also (ps this is a very nice library, iv moved from prototype->mootools->YUI! )

Im tryin to fix all the little bugs in the ajax page loads and ill be releasing a tut on how i did it which was fairly simple.

I must admit MODx is the most powerful CMS iv ever tryd and i love the snipets and chunks and stuff:)

EDIT : Fixed the no-flash/flash link in the header/footer


--ShawnC

Thanks Shawn for the kind words.

Nice work Shawn, and I look forward to see the completed version

best regards.

I hope you bought this template, because it’s a TemplateMonster. And don’t ask why i know that this one is particular popular with all kinds off TM(rips) forums.

So my questions is: why change The default font? The change in font gives it in my opinion a much less nicer look. And when you enter a search term and gets the results view you’ll get a font change, which is for me (as a webdesigner) quite irritating. But as far as the coding goes: it looks like you know what you’re doing.

~Q

If I click from the top flash menu to Portfolio for example, it highlights it saying I’m there.. then if I go from the tree menu to some else area, the top flash menu still says I’m in the Portfolio section..

But nice things going on there, keep up the good work.

Quote from: RWQ at Jun 01, 2007, 10:49 AM

I hope you bought this template, because it’s a TemplateMonster. And don’t ask why i know that this one is particular popular with all kinds off TM(rips) forums.

So my questions is: why change The default font? The change in font gives it in my opinion a much less nicer look. And when you enter a search term and gets the results view you’ll get a font change, which is for me (as a webdesigner) quite irritating. But as far as the coding goes: it looks like you know what you’re doing.

~Q

Yes it was a template monster template(and yes i did pay for it as a web developer im not gonna cheat other dev’s out of there hard earnd work ) that got recoded to XHTML CSS instead of table layout. I suck at desiging graphics but im addicted to coding. heh my main site is a Delphi/Pascal coding site which i used to bereally into but now i love php more then anyother lang i belive. Yea i donnu why i changed the fnt ill probably change it back honestly. This is still my sandbox site and honestly it probably will never be finished as i change it daily when im not busy doing other stuff.


Quote from: doze

If I click from the top flash menu to Portfolio for example, it highlights it saying I’m there.. then if I go from the tree menu to some else area, the top flash menu still says I’m in the Portfolio section..

But nice things going on there, keep up the good work.

Yea i had thatfixed w/ template vars at one time but due to the way im reloading only the center section i havent solved how to update flash w/o reloading it. Im sure i can figure out something to send a flashvar back it just hasnt been looked into as of yet.Still tryin to get the baseline of the site down then fix all the little details. ( i can only imagine what it looks like in IE 6 lmao)