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soz about all the lol`s hehe....so im still intressted in this wheel and rocket idea, im having a few goes in flash at the moment...
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just saying that i have actualy released a kind of demo of the real site....some pics dont show up and some link dont work but u can get the idea of the design...any ideas for improvment?
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Looks better, but still the image/Flash for the Title does not play on its actual name. Yes it is animated and has somthing to look at, but you need it to have roller balls or roller skates rockets/wheels etc. But its is looking a lot better still.
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Well, my useless input. I'm on a Linux system in Uni. just now, and on a Mozilla browser, very little of the site seems to be working right. That'll partly because the browser doesn't appear to have any flash plug-ins so I don't see any of the flash stuff. and on the bar on the right, above the Coming soon bit, all I see written is this:
There are " & Application("ActiveUsers") & " active users on this site.
" %>
So I guess there are incompatability issues with Mozilla.
But how many people browse the internet on Mozilla these days anyway?
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Not many, also the Links scroller at the bottom try using Java to make it a marquee or Use add rotator script linked up to a database, your server should support asp or PHP so this is not a problem, make the images smaller for loading it up as well. The border of the boxes does not need to be at high quality and makes the site look sloppy until its loaded.
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well, just so you know.
Stats analysis on the Swoj.com server logs so that 94.77% of visitors are using Internet Explorer of somekind (most 6 then 5). 1.85% of visitors use Netscape and 0.72% use a Netscape Compatable. The rest is taken up with other misc browsers.
An while we are at it, here is some info on Operating Systems:
Win 2000/XP : 55.13%
Win98 : 34.98%
Mac (PowerPC) : 3.05%
Win NT : 1.7%
Win95 : 1.55% (honestly people, UPGRADE!)
Linux : 0.05% (not quite the competition to Windows that so many seem to think!)
The more unusual browsers also visit occasionally, 3 people have visited with Hewlett Packard Unix (HP9000), 7 using OS/2, 21 with Mac 68K, 169 with win 3.x and 180 with SunOS
Hope that is interesting/useful.
I really like to make everything as compatable as possible on Swoj.com and I would like to have the next version work on all browsers, but with so few visitors using anything other than IE, it's hard to justify the time. However, doing it right from the start is not nearly as hard as going back to correct it all!
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MMMM 95 people, rare breed. Swoj how many people have come on using Longhorn?
For people who don't know its the codename for microsoft new os releasing in a few years time, its only on Alpha testing but when it reaches Beta it is going to have over 1 millions testers I hear.
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really intressting...so your saying lower the quality of th background pics so the page loads quicker...but does it actauly work for the normal average ie?
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Yes, but I use broadband and them images took a while to load, on broadband you want instant and on 56k longer than 5 seconds is bad
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errr...you wouldnt happpen to no how to make a flash movie load after the page has loaded (probably a bit of action script)...it does hav a preloader but it doesnt work in this case.
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Use js (javascript) with a on load script, and tell it to load after everything else, I don't know the exact code but www.javascript.com should have it.
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i have done it by lowering its quality while the site is lowding and then when everything else works it highers its quality...good?
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I would say yes or no, but it seems its closed for the moment.
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quote:
Originally posted by bigbrennan
MMMM 95 people, rare breed. Swoj how many people have come on using Longhorn?
For people who don't know its the codename for microsoft new os releasing in a few years time, its only on Alpha testing but when it reaches Beta it is going to have over 1 millions testers I hear.
No Longhorn yet, however, I have had a few pr-release users on the site. 1 using Netscape 9 2 using IE 7 I wasn't sure where they come from, I didn't know that Netscape 8 had even come about yet!
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Well I think we're getting Longhorn beta when that comes out, but as its still on Alpha not for another year!
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