expRSS Website Launched

[SaM]

Presenting the first web-portal of expRSS

http://www.axiscore.in/expRSS

Simple, smart and some Silverlight from SaM 
They say "Necessity is the mother of Invention"...I agree...I say "Simplicity is the reason of good impression"...do you all agree?

-- SaM

[strider]

the homepage doesnt display properly... the footer is overlapping the content... in the image below the navi panel, the spelling of updates is wrong... but thats okay considering that u wre just back from om shanti om it will take some time for the brain to get back to normalcy!!

keep the flame burning...

[SaM]

It is supposed to look like this - [INACTIVE LINK]

If it doesn't, send me a snapshot please, coz I tried at my place in different browsers at different resolutions, it's looking fine.

-- SaM

[John Anderton]

Hmm looks fine in fox Center aligning stuff is wasting so much of my precious real estate.

I'm not a web designer by the farthest reaches of a man's imagination (and my themes justify my claims) but I personally prefer css designs being liquid and using the entire screen (or atleast most of it). Basically static designs waste a lot of space on higher resolutions. Even if you move to asp .NET, iirc you have CSS adapters though they weren't perfect last I heard.

Still SaM. Liquid designs?
A few (minor) Photoshopping mistakes clearly visible if you want me to point them out. But if I do, you'd point out that they are probably temporary so I guess I can skip them

The darn thing still says I need to install silverlight even though I have it I guess I'll have to work on that
May I ask what happened to sam.axisrdc.com?

[SaM]

Hmm looks fine in fox Smile Center aligning stuff is wasting so much of my precious real estate. Frown/Sad

I'm not a web designer by the farthest reaches of a man's imagination (and my themes justify my claims) but I personally prefer css designs being liquid and using the entire screen (or atleast most of it). Basically static designs waste a lot of space on higher resolutions. Even if you move to asp .NET, iirc you have CSS adapters though they weren't perfect last I heard. Smile

Still SaM. Liquid designs? Smile

In my opinion, one should not be always thinking liquid design just for the heck of it...you should think how much content you have, where you are placing it and then see if you stretch or shrink it over resolutions, what it'll look like. If you say you should place your content such that it suits a liquid design, then those are creative differences...you'll follow your way, I'll follow mine...I'll place things first and then see if making the layout liquid works.

Take this site for example, make the layout liquid and at a higher resolution, the rounded div next to the image will stretch...either resize itself fully or stretch only horizontally...either way, the text would then span across a smaller vertical distance and according to me, the overall look will be affected in a way I do not want. If you say keep the textual content center aligned and static and stretch only the rounded div (coz I can't stretch the image to its left)...that again, does not look good to me. So no matter how I try to apply liquidity to this design, it doesn't fit...and like I said before, I decide liquidity or no liquidity based on the design.

A few (minor) Photoshopping mistakes clearly visible if you want me to point them out.

Go ahead...point them out.

The darn thing still says I need to install silverlight even though I have it

Like strider suggested, did you try running any Silverlight sites from the silverlight.net gallery ?

May I ask what happened to sam.axisrdc.com?

I just tend to call my apps an A.X.I.S. product, more than a SaM product...so I prefer an axisrdc.com/expRSS or expRSS.axisrdc.com instead of sam.axisrdc.com/expRSS.

-- SaM
   

[John Anderton]

Well, if stretching images are the problem, don't use them.. There are other ways to make up backgrounds, the simplest and most common being taking a 2px*2px image and tiling it

The silverlight stuff still doesn't work so I have to do something about it. Its just a fox problem

As for the images,
1) Distance between "and" and "views" and "views" and "all" isn't equal (since you've changed fonts).
2) The word "views" is a bit (very small distance. Probably 1-2px) higher. So is its shadow.
3) The shadow on the right of the smiley seems cut.
4) On tilting the expRSS screenie, the top near the close button got a bit cut off.
5) For the expRSS footer, the top right side corner is too white as compared to the others.
6) The entire footer text isn't center aligned.
7) The positioning of the white areas in the grey ones for the cuts in the 4 corners isn't uniform in size or position (picky but it doesn't look symmetrical )
8) There is also a slight gradient problem in the right corner of the footer. The grey is more prominent there. Me editing it makes it harder to see but at least you can get the position off this and try to make it out. Is it visible on your screens? (different lcds, different brightness ratings = different results)

[SaM]

If you say keep the textual content center aligned and static and stretch only the rounded div (coz I can't stretch the image to its left)

The image to the left of the rounded div is the skewed expRSS screenie.

Well, if stretching images are the problem, don't use them.. There are other ways to make up backgrounds, the simplest and most common being taking a 2px*2px image and tiling it

So get the point? Not talking about the background...its the screenie that cannot be resized...the div to its right can be...but doesn't look nice when the rounded div height or the textual content height is much smaller than the screenie height.
 
-- SaM

[motr_fresco]

Hi sam! i really loved it....at first glance i didn't notice ne of the stuff that ja pointed out. only noticed that the first line ' the spacing of views thing ' ..... i felt that whole line is slightly erratic when it comes to spacing .... but nothing that jumps out at u..... the other things i didn't notice and some of them i cudn't even when i went back to it...... that is , stuff like more grey in the footer etc. is not at all noticable.... i mean i am not able to find it even if i look consciously. also the centre incline in the footer.... seems fine to me when i glance at it....only if i cover the text n compare the blank area do i feel there is some extra space on the left but then also its very slight...........point is, none of them jumped out at me except the first line of text.... so mebbe u shud change that....


Posted on: November 10, 2007, 12:54:01 pmoh and i forgot to mention.....

" i love u too for coming up with such cool meaningless fullforms"

keep rocking!!

[SaM]

Thanks...corrected the first line spacing error.

i love u too for coming up with such cool meaningless fullforms

Both of us love good people who do good things...both of us love me for the good things I do

-- SaM

[John Anderton]

the other things i didn't notice and some of them i cudn't even when i went back to it

(different lcds, different brightness ratings = different results)

but thats okay considering that u wre just back from om shanti om

The movie was not great but certainly it wasn't awful enough for you to need time to get your thinking straight. May be you could be thinking why did I waste all that money for the ticket but that's about it

And SaM, I meant the whole liquid thing when you have the complete site with lots of content. The page itself looks good but when you have more content, might as well use the excess space to make it look better rather than waste it I just thought this might be a preview of the full fledged design so if you put tons of content like this, it would lead to wasted space, that's all

PS: Is Saawariya as bad as I heard because people won't even tell me the story. They just say "do you really want me to relive the trauma? "

[strider]

the site in firefox in vista at 1680x1050



the same in IE

[SaM]

Fixed

[nickus_rules]

firstly i dont know whethr i was luking at the same site as u all coz i guess all the problems were fixed!!!  so i didnt see many!! secondly i m not sure wht JA is tlking about coz i neither understand web designs nor any other thing related to it!   so i wont be able to give any constructive feedback..

tho i wud like to add that the way express logo is written is really eye catching...it luks cool..
another thing is tht there is no link provided to come to A.X.I.S  home page...again i m not sure whethr its meant to be tht way or its just a KACHCHA design tht u r giving to us (pardon me for my ignorance)

also as stridy mentioned i cud see a bit of overlaping...
thts all i can say about it...


p.s----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
and MR. JA

The movie was not great but certainly it wasn't awful enough for you to need time to get your thinking straight. May be you could be thinking why did I waste all that money for the ticket but that's about it

you seriously dont wanna start tht debate,atleast not here!! if u think u can handle the bricking by me or stridy about the movie...go ahead and start a new thread...we wil see u ther...atleast i wud.

[SaM]

i cud see a bit of overlaping...

where?

[nickus_rules]

in the site tht is being opened at my pc (as i said i m not sure whethr i m lukng at the same site!!) there are two identical links for getting microsoft silverlight and on one of these, the line about expRSS is written (the line which ends with a smiley)...