My new website is just about done

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frederic said:
Hawgdawg...

I liked it based on what was there today, 5/19/04. Its clean, though it chokes my P200 laptop a bit...

The one thing I would suggest is to have the menu dots stay still. Those of us who are a little slow with the mouse end up a little frustrated.

And having a link to "regular html" pages would be good, not everyone wants to look at flash. I do, because i'm trying to learn flash. What I'm doing thus far is really sad... okay, I lied, extremely sad.

http://www.midimonkey.com

Ignore the repetative music, I just threw a loop I had into the flash playing with the looping timing.

As you can see, I can't draw, or do flash :) I'm really just playing iwth it to become familiar with flash. Not bad for a weeks worth of random experimentation.
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So it sounds like the general concensus is, bigger font, no fireworks, keep nav buttons still. I'll go along with that.

Oh, and the .html equivalent site for the non-flash folks.


Your site looks cool. I really dig your monkey. :D
 
HangDawg said:
Your site looks cool. I really dig your monkey. :D
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Thanks. The monkey was just slapped there so a friend who is editing the monkey, to remove the "halo", can see what the background actually will be. I'm trying to keep a greenish, midimonkey theme going.

Of course it would be painless if I just paid someone to do it and not think about it... but not yet. I have enough business travel coming up this summer, thus enough boring nights in fancy hotels, so I'll have some room service, some scotch, my laptop, and a lot of free time to kill experimenting.

I can visualize what I want, but I just can't make flash do it yet. Just started!
 
Ya know something. I just realized that the bouncing nav button are truly easy to work. All you do is move your mouse down the fretboard. The buttons come to you. There is no need for chasing them.
 
HangDawg said:
Ya know something. I just realized that the bouncing nav button are truly easy to work. All you do is move your mouse down the fretboard. The buttons come to you. There is no need for chasing them.
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Just tried it, you're right.

But it wasn't that obvious to us 'puter monkeys :D

Cool.
 
hey frederic nice web site
you should consider placing a scrollbar here and there (specially in the policy section, the font was tiny!!!)
hey a friend of mine just made a flash site for his band, it is pretty cool IMO
maybe you wont understand a thing of what it says but the design is pretty good so if you wanna check it... www.sleevesrock.com
 
awesome website!! It looks great!

BTW: the Flash site loads significantly faster than the "pure html" website of Midimonkey. Flash is not intrinsically slow as many assume. A friend of mine is a professional web designer (with very famous clients) and his weapon of choice is flash. Nothing wrong about flash. If people can't see a flash site, they should get rid of their ancient computers and enter the new millenium :p
 
Giganova said:
awesome website!! It looks great!

BTW: the Flash site loads significantly faster than the "pure html" website of Midimonkey. Flash is not intrinsically slow as many assume. A friend of mine is a professional web designer (with very famous clients) and his weapon of choice is flash. Nothing wrong about flash. If people can't see a flash site, they should get rid of their ancient computers and enter the new millenium :p
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Pure HTML? Um... no? my site (midimonkey.com) has a 10 line index.html that in turn loads a 2mb flash file :)
 
frederic said:
Pure HTML? Um... no? my site (midimonkey.com) has a 10 line index.html that in turn loads a 2mb flash file :)
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Holy crap, mine is only 113K That may have something to do with it.
 
Giganova said:
awesome website!! It looks great!

BTW: the Flash site loads significantly faster than the "pure html" website of Midimonkey. Flash is not intrinsically slow as many assume. A friend of mine is a professional web designer (with very famous clients) and his weapon of choice is flash. Nothing wrong about flash. If people can't see a flash site, they should get rid of their ancient computers and enter the new millenium :p
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No, web developers need to optimize their sites and comply to standards instead of hoping that everyone that views their site is going to be on broadband and using Internet Explorer.
 
I agree and and aware that pro websites send a query to the computer first and ask which browser and generation it uses, and send the optimized website in return.

But isn't Flash independent from the browser and OS to some extent?? I have plugins from MacroMedia, I think. I mean, I have flash plugins for Netscape and IE, and it runs on my Linux computer in the office as smoothly as on Macs or Win boxes.
 
If people can't see a flash site, they should get rid of their ancient computers and enter the new millenium
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Unfortunately it's not as simple as that. Some corporate firewalls block flash files and so the users can not view flash at all. Flash is a great tool, but it's not very available to a lot of people at the moment.

For example, the blind cannot use it with screen-readers.

As there are new laws (in the EU) regarding accessability of websites, it's going to render the flash sites illegal...not very "professional" in my opinion.
 
shutupandshave said:
Some corporate firewalls block flash files and so the users can not view flash at all.
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You're not supposed to surf the Internet in the office anyway *just kidding*

Flash sites illegal in Europa?? I hope you got that wrong. Seems like the EU parliament in Strasbourg has nothing else to do ... :rolleyes:
 
No I dont have it wrong.

It's about equal opportunities for people with disabilities/impairments.

A good thing.
 
That's absurd. Flash sites were never intended to be pure ASCII character sites with information people can read. They are more like canvases/paintings/art that change in time. So what's next? Making art museums illegal?? I dunno, maybe I am just a dork and don't get the point.
 
Giganova said:
That's absurd. ...
So what's next? Making art museums illegal?? I dunno, maybe I am just a dork and don't get the point.
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Good point!
And it is absurd.
But when it comes right down to it, since the U.S. dominates the PC/web world; who really cares how the EU hinders themselves. Flash will still be legal in the U.S. and other countries, the E.U. will simply be left behind, and when the next generation of web-site technology comes along, they'll still be chuggin' along with html.
 
The Seifer said:
haha, you guys have no idea what you're talking about.
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And you do?


I guess Yahoo doesn't know what they are talking about and don't have any professional web/graphic people working for them either. That must be why they have flash objects right on their main page. But I guess they just can't compete with a pro like you so they have to resort to an inferior technology like flash.

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Oh, and Fruityloops is gay
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HD - I DO like your site, and I am on broadband, so it loaded in a couple of seconds for me. I was just thinking of dial-up users; but that doesn't seem to be a problem the way you have it set-up.

I have another PC here at home that IS on dial up. I'm going to check it out there just for comparison.
 
Michael Jones said:
HD - I DO like your site, and I am on broadband, so it loaded in a couple of seconds for me. I was just thinking of dial-up users; but that doesn't seem to be a problem the way you have it set-up.

I have another PC here at home that IS on dial up. I'm going to check it out there just for comparison.
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Yes, that would be a good thing to know. I have ISDN at work, that is only 128k (2 dialups basically) and it loads in about 8 seconds. I am going to remove the fireworks so that should reduce the file size a bit more.
 
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