Rembrandt.co.nz

[robsta]

Hi

www.rembrandt.co.nz

A few new features... the large images are drawn on the fly using the tag so we can scale up (yup go as big as you like) to fit a 1080p screen from a 576p screen with acceptable image loss (works best in Safari/Opera/Firefox as you get the crossfade transition).

The storefinder is custom module generated using Cataloguer, and the subtle scrollbars / transitions are generated through scriptaculous (although we've since migrated to jQuery as a framework).

And the client can choose image order for the slideshow, and control what images appear as backgrounds on each page...

If anyone want's to discover the tag google canvas html5... or email me : )

Oh yes check out collections it has a cool magnify feature that mihai@persistent.info create and I've adapted


All the best R

[Slagar]

Very nice site!
I managed to break the background scroller in FireFox while viewing "personal tailoring" page for some reason, but it works on the others.

[robsta]

now this is the cool thing...

the client can decide what appears on which page (could be a scrol of three images, 15 or one)...... and on personal tailoring they only wanted the one image...

so I guess it's working... : )

[INB]

FF 3 just shows a black page. IE7 look good.
INB

[levinho]

Beautiful imagery, a clean layout and nice scripting. Well done!

[robsta]

FF 3 just shows a black page. IE7 look good.

Hi INB

Can you send me the version of ff3 doing this as we've tested in every version we can find... and all good

Thanks

R

[sleepingcavalry]

Truly a beautiful meld of usability and design sense.  I would love to hear a bit about how this site was structured.  What are you running for modules on this site? Any reason you chose prototype over jquery? would love to hear more.

thanks

[robsta]

I would love to hear a bit about how this site was structured.  What are you running for modules on this site? Any reason you chose prototype over jquery? would love to hear more.

Non-core modules: CTLModuleMaker (for the storefinder), and FormBuilder for Forms... the rest is all css/html5 canvas tags and javascript... no flash at all – which we're really proud of.

When we started scoping this site back in early Jan 2008 much like cmsms we were using scriptaculous/prototype for the majority of our 'widgets' so it seemed natural to continue.

We've since swapped to jQuery, mostly to keep our framework 'clean' and in all honesty the jQuery calls run much faster... we'll be updating Rembrandt to jQuery when the next range is launched (which should be any week now). The other benefit jQuery brings is the inclusion of it in cmsms 2.0.... and about a million different plugins and widgets which open up amazing opportunities.

The structure for the site was simple... create a 'fashion area' for rembrandt the range and also create a corporate area for rembrandt the company. Eventually all of the brands will have their own fashion showcase like the Rembrandt Range... and because we set it up like this to start we can grow and grow ...

[viebig]

nice site!

[INB]

Hi

This is my FF "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5"
on Swedish Vista with this weeks bugfixes.

Sorry for the late reply.
INB

[robsta]

ahh vista

okay we'll load it and see what we get

thanks

R

[robsta]

INB: we've loaded in vista and all good... can you submit a crash report to FF and send to me as well.. it could be the bookmark bug

R

[musicscore]

You say you used CTLModuleMaker for the creating of the storefinder.
Can you tel me how you created that beautiful search/selection menu ??

Musicscore

[robsta]

Hi Musicscore

It's a dirty cheat as it uses a combo of Javascript and user defined tags to decide whether to refresh for country/brand or filter for city.

Because the data is stored in the CTLModulemaker tables I just read those direct rather than use the built in funcytions of CTL

R

[musicscore]

Could you send me your Javascript and user definied tag via e-mail. I want try to modify your script(s) so I can use it on my site.