[Amit]

Hi,

The site I'm talking about is at http://www.chakandbex.demon.co.uk. It's supposed to showcase my portfolio work as I'm currently looking for a new job. At the moment I work in-house in a department of one (!) so any feedback, positive or negative, will be most gratefully received.

Cheers,

Amit.

[Stickman]

Quite a nice idea that - trying to be classy.

- The dress code bit / browser requirements shouldn't really be there.
- Some of the text inside the books is too small (on this screen anyway - 1280x1024)
- Pagecurls look metallic and like bad gifs

[Amit]

Cheers Stickman,

I know what you mean about the page curls - they're made up from an animated GIF, but i've had to reduce the quality publishing from Flash to keep the file size down. I'm looking to see whether there's a better way of producing them.

I'll revisit that text as well. Serifs and screens don't mix too well I guess. When you say 'trying to be classy', has it actually succeeded in being so?

[Brown]

Originally Posted by Amit

...the page curls - they're made up from an animated GIF, but i've had to reduce the quality publishing from Flash to keep the file size down.

are you importing animated gifs into flash?!?! wtf?!!?!!?

[Brown]

if you mouse over the top two books at the same time it says resume work. resumed...

[Amit]

Originally Posted by Brown

are you importing animated gifs into flash?!?! wtf?!!?!!?

Hey Brown,

I made up a series of these page curls in Freehand using blends. Obviously blends being made up of many vectors would bloat the file, so I converted them into a series of GIFs instead. Is there a better way of doing this?

[Brown]

bloat the file.

[Amit]

i mean they make the file unnecessarily large

[lucidcreations]

gifs are bigger than vectors

[Brown]

i don't believe that importing animated gifs into flash is going to bring the size of the file down.

or, i don't belive that they'll bloat the file size so much that that this becomes an option.

[Amit]

in my experience that's not always the case, but merely a rule of thumb

[Amit]

Originally Posted by Brown

i don't believe that importing animated gifs into flash is going to bring the size of the file down.

or, i don't belive that they'll bloat the file size so much that that this becomes an option.

cheers flark, i'll have another look at them when i get in

[oli]

Originally Posted by Amit

cheers flark

[Amit]

Sorry, meant cheers Brown

Looking at the wrong bit!

[gray]

make the pages turn

[chips]

I was trying to grab the page curls and turn the pages manually at first...like I've seen on other sites.

The classy thing did make me smile though.

I don't like the way the background greys out when you select a book..looks a bit like something has gone wrong somehow.
there must be a more visually appealing way of doing this without having a big ugly grey/black coverup on everything.

and when you actually get to see a section everything is tiny, without much info supplied. Ithink the novelty of having the book thing has obscured your work.

[gray]

http://www.webdesignagency.net/

[Brown]

Originally Posted by gray

http://www.webdesignagency.net/

my giddy aunt! who would've thought that things like that are happening in teddington? quite pleased at the absence of r2d2 style noises on every mouse event.

nice page turns... (back on topic)

[pixelpyro]

http://www.pixelpyro.co.uk/PageFlip.swf

You want it I got it

[mark]

Anybody come across a source file for those page turn thingies (I've seen it everywhere lately).

I've got a client who said they'd like something similar and I'm not sure where to start with it.