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by **ronindanbo** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:02 am

Hi Guys

Just thought I would let you know I have decided to rebrand BSMP, worked on the logo for a month now deciding on what it should be and have now started redesigning the web site, let me know what you think

http://www.bsmp.co.nz/

Cheers

Dan

by **hinch** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:47 am

nice CSS, i like it! Something i had to learn a lot about a short while back...who'd of known floating links in the centre would be so hard...

anyway - good work. My small suggestion might be to position the top logo to one side and have a top colour/pattern that covers the entire width of the page - i guess because it feels somewhat lonely otherwise when the rest can spread out!

by **ronindanbo** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:17 am

hinch wrote: nice CSS, i like it! Something i had to learn a lot about a short while back...who'd of known floating links in the centre would be so hard...

anyway - good work. My small suggestion might be to position the top logo to one side and have a top colour/pattern that covers the entire width of the page - i guess because it feels somewhat lonely otherwise when the rest can spread out!

I am thinking more on the lines of side borders like Windowlight but using the header background.

by **ZK-Brock** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:20 pm

I like it at the moment Dan.

Also when you click on Projects in the left menu bar, nothing very exciting happens

by **ronindanbo** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:59 am

monkeybdg wrote: I like it at the moment Dan.

Also when you click on Projects in the left menu bar, nothing very exciting happens

What so your planning on changing your mind ? :lol:

Yes its a work in progress and I havent really decided how to present the projects page or the staff page for that matter.

by **ronindanbo** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:57 am

Anyone else got any comments about our new look/site? Seems really quite around here.

by **toprob** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:32 am

If I was to redesign my site, and I went with a variable width, then I'd probably have a variable width banner as well. This is something I've noticed a lot since getting my new monitor, and viewing the web at 1680x1050. I guess a lot more people are going to be viewing at much larger resolutions.
Here's a simple solution -- a banner with detail on each end, but an expanding centre area of solid colour. (This is a site I designed a long time ago, long before I could even imagine a resolution of 1600...)
However I think I'd settle on a fairly generous centred fixed width layout. This gives a 'normal' web page layout without looking too strange on wider screens. Christian's test magazine site worked that way.

by **ronindanbo** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:03 am

Yeh he seems to achieve that with a coloured background which I wouldent be able to do as mine is a patern and must me a JPG unless I set a wallpaper backround and have my main logo as a transparency overlaid.

by **hinch** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:16 am

mmm transparent PNG's! i just used some in making my new lightbox gallery where a div overlays the site with a semi-transparent png, no fancy alpha trickery involved.

www.forum-design.co.uk/air/new/ is my sort of work in progress (it has a proper transparent png) - and no, it's not an RAF roundel, it's slightly different to them all!

is the search button the site going to search the forum or the site itself...or both?

by **ardypilot** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:52 pm

If I was to redesign my site, and I went with a variable width, then I'd probably have a variable width banner as well.

Thats what NZFF needs! The banner looks great on my home PC's but on any rig with a moniter larger than 17 inches, there is heaps of ugly blue space- there was a poll about this quite a while ago.

As for the new BSMP website, I think its great. The simpler the better is my thinking, ie why I choose AVSIM over Flightsim.com

by **ronindanbo** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:33 pm

OK worked out the problm of having a textured background looks quite good now, I also completed the projects page www.bsmp.co.nz/project.html let me know what you think....

by **ardypilot** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:11 pm

For some reason, the images don't show up and I have to right click in blank space and select 'show picture' to make it work. I am using Mozilla Firefox btw

by **ronindanbo** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:54 pm

So do I and I dont have a problem??

by **Alex** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:25 pm

Yea, it can be quite a pain trying to get web sites to display properly for every weird browser people try to use, even with just IE6&7 and FF it can be tricky.

The I overcame a problem was I just kept fiddling around and one day all of a sudden it worked.

Alex

by **Jenks** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:34 pm

Very nice Dan.

Clean, simple and elegant - just what a good website should be.

And by the way it works, and displays, just fine in Safari (my Mac web browser).

Cheers
Steve

by **ronindanbo** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:39 am

Thanks Jenks, I still have a wee way to go but its shaping up I think

by **creator2003** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:31 am

looks like a AAA+ to me dan ,liking the new look and sorry i didnt comment earlier
page worked for me and all jpegs showed up no prob with netscape browser..
:thumbup:

by **ronindanbo** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:13 am

Thanks mate I run bot IE7 and Firfox at home and its fine but at work I run IE6 and the centre .png main logo dosent have a transparent surround, I cant work out if its a thing with IE6 or the archaic settings EDS impose upon us here so would be interested in hearing from other IE6 users..

by **creator2003** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:57 am

well i tryed on the other puter and i get the non transparent blue on the logo ,so its not just you on that part ,must be like you say IE6 thing..both look ok ,but for the life of me dont understand why or how that does that ,thats microsoft for ya :thumbup:

by **ronindanbo** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:14 am

natas2003 wrote: well i tryed on the other puter and i get the non transparent blue on the logo ,so its not just you on that part ,must be like you say IE6 thing..both look ok ,but for the life of me dont understand why or how that does that ,thats microsoft for ya

hahah they have good support tho I will try this tonight http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294714

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