New site - Aussie Vineyards

This one has been live for a few weeks but it’s been constantly tweaked and refined.. Still a bit left to do on it, however now that some of the dust has settled I’d like to post here and see what everyone thinks!

Aussie Vineyards is a winery based in QLD Australia that sources wine throughout the country. They’ve recently become one of Australia’s largest wine exporters too. I do know that there is a Aussie Vineyards presence in the US, especially in the NASCAR and Champ Car series, but I’m not involved with these guys directly.

MODx 0.9.6 using mostly standard snippets including Ditto, AjaxSearch, etc. Design/Template designed by me and is valid XHTML/CSS, and most of the photography is my work too - which means lots of wine bottles lying around the place waiting to be consumed

Hope you like it!

http://www.aussievineyards.com.au

Very nice work!

Thanks
I just realised that for those of you who don’t have flash installed, the headings are going to look a little wierd. This is because I’m using SIFr for heading replacement. Might tweak the styles some more

Very well done site indeed. If I were the proprietors of the fine Au brand, I’d pack up a few cases of goods and send them to the folks that made their website CMS possible. Please! (In all seriousness, very well done. And no, I’d never turn down a shipment like that!)

Quote from: rthrash at Jul 26, 2007, 11:27 PM

Very well done site indeed. If I were the proprietors of the fine Au brand, I’d pack up a few cases of goods and send them to the folks that made their website CMS possible. Please! (In all seriousness, very well done. And no, I’d never turn down a shipment like that!)

Haha! If I had an opportunity to request something like that I certainly would - not like they have a shortage of it, that’s for sure!!.. For now, the best I could do is nominate modx on the packtpub website (in Ryan’s footer & on the front page of Modx for those of you who are wondering what I’m talking about! )

Excellent work. !

The menus with the fancy mootools effects look very classy.

One thing I noticed is that the ’wine club membership signup’ form doesn’t appear to be working in firefox and safari. Is anyone else having this problem?

Still, job well done.

Great Job

One thing I noticed is that the ’wine club membership signup’ form doesn’t appear to be working in firefox and safari. Is anyone else having this problem?

Yeah, but in IE too...maybe that’s one of things that is being

tweaked and refined..

All the best,
Taff

The signup form is currently disabled until the client gets back to me with further information - you know how it is I’m surprised you guys are testing it to such depth though, good work!

The home page of the website is impressive and the color balance, perfect. The site degrade well w/o styles and is valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, although NOT CSS valid and there are some errors in javascripts.

Personally it would dedicate a little more time to correct the CSS/Javascript errors and to optimize the weight of the page, 198Kb is a little too much for my taste, especially when there is 9Kb of text against 65Kb of scripts, 22Kb of CSS and 92Kb of images. See the speed report http://www.aussievineyards.com.au/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here.