Web Design/Development

Chances are almost everyone here will pwn me at web design, but my only excuses are I'm a student and I'm learning the graphics side more rather then things like coding entire databases,(not to mention spending over half the time writing how I build things as evidence rather then actually building them... ) I appreciate handcoding sites is important, but coding every last bit by hand these days is just madness imo.

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If the intro pisses you off there's a skip button in the bottom right corner. The design's getting another rehash for obvious reasons hence the lack of updates, but it would be nice to know how clueless I am compared to the GFFers I guess ^^;

*waits for various people to say Flash = fail*

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I understand your train of thought, unless you get a lot of meta tags in there google isn't going to know what the hell it is, not to mention most the flash websites can be like learning a whole new interface just looking through them.

I'm planning in the long run to keep a flash based portfolio for kind of 'bling' purposes drawing buissness types in, but also have something else in html probably more for entertaining more mainstream visitors, I also have a html CvS2 tribute website but I haven't tried hosting it since it uses pretty much the entire OST on a flash jukebox.

Is there any particular web broswer you guys recommend for testing design problems? I'm finding websites that work fine on PCs are pains in the ass on macs and vice versa even if I use the same broswer in both.

Lastly I have a more technical question with websites like newgrounds which have update logs on the frontpage, do they just update the html or is it referring to some kind of log entry database?

edit: Render I'm hoping it was a crappy connection because the main swf was just over a meg ^^;

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Qube

I dunno about saying flash has no place on websites. Yeah I hate entirely flash driven websites, but for the occasional effect here and there, it works great. I have to say I think the flash intro that we put together for our site www.renaissanceconsulting.ca was done quite well, not much to it, loads damn fast, and yes I have a link to skip the intro inside the html. Maybe I just happened to actually use flash as it was intended, dunno. LOL

Odd really I thought that intro was barely worth the effort because you could practically make it in powerpoint but that's probably my love of animation talking there over web design logic, at the same time however it's far more in context then mine which was abstract to say the least ^^; I guess I tend to explore flashs limits more then I need to for web design, that and intro's can end up more like a showreel if you get carried away, I'll be sure to bare this info in mind on my next designs

As for more advanced html like that update log or data arranging are those features covered by xhtml

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.