New Member seeking critique

Greetings all,

I'm new here and was wondering if I could get some opinions on my website. The home page and alot of the other pages will be updated. I'm mostly wanting opinions on the designer itself and possibly what improvements could be made. I'm in the middle of updating it to v2.0 and before releasing it I want to make sure I'm not missing anything. I'll post it in the critique forum once its re-opened.

Thanks,
Tony

Welcome to the site!!

If you post the site in the critique section when it's back online, I'll take a nice thorough look at it!

Eek! Frames.
Eek! Tables.

You've got a lot to learn. Stick around and we'll get you over the 21'st century hump!

hahaha...Welcome to Webforumz!!

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Happy Christmas

Hi,

welcome to the forum from all of us

DennisK
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welcome to webforumz, Tony...

hugs,
berjoe

Thanks all for the welcomez...

Ryan and you all probably agree on his opinion on the frames. I agree also but when I started this project it was 2 years ago and I continued to add to it over those years and now: I wish it could all be in AJAX.
Maybe v3.0 will be in AJAX or I should say I would like it to be in AJAX. I mostly focused on the features and getting them to work which I have to say has been a bitch of a time. I probably should have come here two years ago.
The hardest thing that I had to do was making the on screen design the same as the pdf. As you all know it's a pretty difficult job to have a dynamic image look the same in a pdf file with all the fonts and graphics lining up properly. In v2.0 I kinda solved the problem by actually creating the pdf and then converting it to a image so what you see is what the pdf will actually be. But, the one problem with this is it takes alot of processing power to create a 16' x 8' banner, convert it to an image for online viewing and have it done quickly. So I now create the pdf for actual screen size and the master pdf would be for downloading when the design is done. The problem with this is, for example, a 16" x 8" design pdf doesn't line things up the same way as a 16' x 8' design. It took some heavy duty math formula to get this close and I still need to tweek it some more yet. It still gets better results then trying to convert a GD Library image to a pdf though.

I've added alot of new features to the v2.0 but the two features I haven't been able to add, because the technology isn't there yet, is adding arc text and converting a pdf file that has transparent images to a image while keeping the image's transparency. For some reason Ghostscript just can't convert the images properly.

As for the arc text, it may be done by actually arcing the text in a postscript formated file with some kind of formula. I'm not that informed on the postscript language yet to be able to do this.

As for the tables, what other technique would be better to line things up, besides using flash?

Thanks,
Tony

First off welcome to the forumz!

Second, css has very powerful positioning properties so that you can position almost anything anywhere!

For more info on my comment post your last statement in the CSS forum.

Enjoy your stay here in the forumz Tony!

Welcome to Webforumz!!

Looks like the critique forum is up and running now. Feel free to submit your site there and I'll give you a more in depth critique.

Man you are board Ryan...lol

I am not a long, thin, flat piece of wood!

Yeah, that's right...lol

I've not been here long myself but I thought Id say welcome to the forum