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Tasman Leathers goes live
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:00 am
by robsta
Hi
New website utilising cmsms and lot's of jQuery calls, cmsms 1.5.2, Formbuilder, Newsletter Made Simple (no front end access at this stage)...
http://www.tasmanleathers.co.nz
Re: Tasman Leathers goes live
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:25 am
by Rolf
Hi robsta,
Nice work!
Saw two little things...
Please look into the attached image.
- No pretty url in the page after clicking the
'screen button' (do you know what I mean by that... :-\ )
- One image is missing...
But like I said nice work.
It is hardly to see this is cmsms!
Rolf

Re: Tasman Leathers goes live
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:40 pm
by robsta
Thanks for that - the images were recompressed and relinked by hand - obviously we missed one.
Re the non pretty url on the links... we generate those automatically via a custom UDT searching the db not the {menu} module I'll look into a way of generating these... meantime we'll keep em as is.
And yes I go out of my way to ensure that all of our sites have a point of difference
Cheers
R
Re: Tasman Leathers goes live
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:01 pm
by tinhat
First thought...
Oh no, a flash banner (I have flash disabled by flashblocker in firefox).
Second thought...
Oh no, look how big that flaming flash banner is.
Third thought...
Wow, what a beautiful product, what a great way to convey the core of what this product is about. It must be a joy to design a website for a product that can speak for itself visually and the implementation is very nice.
My complaint is that there is not enough showcasing of finished products. This is a product that need to be shown off visually. I want photo galleries. The client will also benefit if its customers final products using their leather are also showcased on the site using photo galleries.
Well done.
Re: Tasman Leathers goes live
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:37 am
by robsta
My complaint is that there is not enough showcasing of finished products. This is a product that need to be shown off visually. I want photo galleries. The client will also benefit if its customers final products using their leather are also showcased on the site using photo galleries.
Thanks tinhat
Re the gallery... Yes, totally agree... but the client calls it Phase 2 : ). There's lots of paperwork around approvals, copyrighted images etc... all of which needs to be managed.. so hold that thought we'll be back with an updated version shortly.
Ditto for the flash banner... it's one of those things that's tricky to decide upon. Hopefully we'll have a canvas/jQuery replacement for the next version.
Re: Tasman Leathers goes live
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:26 am
by neophron
Nice and clean design, it's inviting.
I noticed that there are a lot subpages, I'm missing a sitemap.
Please check the logos in the flash, the green one is cutted, and the white is somehow broken.
Re: Tasman Leathers goes live
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:20 am
by robsta
INB: Weve loaded flash 3.05 in Vista and all is good.. can you submit a crash report to FF and send me a copy thanks R
Neophron: Thanks we had to make the flash file as small as poss and as the logo is an image... you end up with whatever the compression algorithm thinks is best... we have to decide whether that's acceptable. To be honest we'll be moving the anim to canvas/jQuery when we update... it's a lot easier to manage and the client can decide what appears in the banner and it will be a lot more compatilble/compact as well.