www.volcanic-design.com

[Dr. Web]

Take a look....
you'll probably experience some dead links and all, its a work in progress to show some design layouts.
http://www.volcanic-design.com/

thanks in advance

[kevin]

Hi Dr. Web,


Nice looking website. Very atmospheric design, layout and graphics. Really nice, something different, good balance and form, great use of dark and bright colors on the homepage. Very good representation of the volcano image using a minimum of elements. Really wonderful integration of graphic arts into a website design. Looks like a fun project.

Regards,
Kevin

[Jason]

Grade A job Doc. Very clean, very professional. Particularly, the volcano is blended well into the background. Where did you get the photo from? Did it take much editing, or was it on a transparent background?

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Jason M. DesRoches
Co-Founder / Business Development
Big Resources Network (http://www.bigresources.com)
jason@bigresources.com
ICQ: 17947522

[Dr. Web]

The Volcano photo was from a observitory web site (free to use when not commercially), blended with a little 3d fire graphic, faded out to black. The photo editing was done in photoshop, 3d in 3d studiomax. The whole job on the volcano took...maybe 30 minutes. Thanks for all the relies!

[Dave Swift]

My only tiny complaint is the georgia text in the navigation bar, it looks too much like times new roman. But then again, I do have an abnormal hatred of times new roman.
Anyway Jason and Kevin (who know what they are talking about) like it, so well done!

[Edited by Dave Swift on 02-20-2001 at 02:28 PM]

[Dr. Web]

uhm, gee....its not times new roman.....

A:link, A:visited { color:#999999; text-decoration:none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15pt; }
A:hover, A:active { color:#e01c02; text-decoration:none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15pt; }

georgia, and I chose it because it was a safe web font....meaning many people have it on their computer by default.

[InternetBen]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dr. Web:
uhm, gee....its not times new roman.....

A:link, A:visited { color:#999999; text-decoration:none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15pt; }
A:hover, A:active { color:#e01c02; text-decoration:none; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15pt; }

georgia, and I chose it because it was a safe web font....meaning many people have it on their computer by default.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Dr. Web,

Web safe is good. When I first started using Dreamweaver and it input "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" all in the same tag, I thought it had a bug. But compatibility is key!

I like the design. I'm a big fan of the darker type design, although that's not obvious in my site. I like the subtle Flash elements. I might suggest making the name of the site a little brighter since it nearly disappears from sight.

Hope this helps.

InternetBen

[Dr. Web]

Thanks, appreciate the comments!

[aco]

halo

dunno if it's only me or whether u intended it to be that way, but the small animation u have there blocked part of the transparent red word 'design'. i am using 1024 res wif ie5 to view ur site.....

[Dr. Web]

actually the flash animation was intentionally placed right up to the edge of the red line, next to the word "Design"...this was to simulate that the effect goes under/ behind the red line. I was working on a layout that would combine a simple flash effect, and HTML-but provide an interesting look. I am running IE 5.0, 5.5, and netscape 4.7....and I am unable to reproduce the flash animation crowding onto the right side of the red line at all. The most i can see is that in Netscape, it is a few pixels to the left of the red line. I have set the table width to an exact pixel width, so that it cant overlap. Let me know if this is a one time fluke...or a reccurring problem. Thanks.

[Edited by Dr. Web on 01-22-2001 at 02:14 AM]

[aco]

halo,

for me it's a recurring problem. the animation still covers part of the 'design'

[Dr. Web]

Hmmmnnn..I just viewed the page in IE5.0, 5.5, and Netscape 4.7...no problem whatsoever. What version of 5 are you using? 5.03 5.5? What screen resolution are you using? I have tested from 800X600 to 1200X900. Also what platform are you running? I have viewed on Win 98, and NT. It seems to be ok, and noone else has noted this problem, still I'd like to know whats going on......


[Edited by Dr. Web on 01-23-2001 at 12:52 PM]

[aco]

since i am the only one having this problem, perhaps u should just forget abt it.....
anyway, i am using ie 5.00.2xxxxxxx, it's a very early version of ie5, using 1024 res in win95

[jonirvine]

Hi,

I'm working on a computer at college and noticed something which could do with altering.

When I clicked on contact I was unable to snd you an email because there is no email client on college computers. This is similar with people working from Internet Cafes, Libraries, etc.

Perhaps you should use a contact form within the site to allow everyone to contact you?

Jon

[Dr. Web]

your correct, I did use a simple mailto: command, for reasons of not getting into the cgi deal with my server. I will look into that, as it is a valid point. Thanks.

[Wabanaki Web]

This is what I am seeing. I don't think it was the effect you wanted.
http://www.httpcity.com/wabanaki/volcanic.gif

[Wabanaki Web]

Oh yeah, I am using Windows 95, IE 5.5, 800X600

[aco]

yeah, that's what i am seeing also, i think the problem is that we are using win 95

[Dr. Web]

That does tend to ruin the effect I was going for. Curious as to know why you are using win 95, in 2001? It looks like its a win 95 issue, I will probably just use JS redirection to route you "oldtimers" to a different home page. Thanks for the comments!

[Wabanaki Web]

aco, Look at that! Not only does he make fun of our Win95 but we are being banished to an inferior webpage! http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/s/cwm/crying.gif

Seriously, I'm using Win95 out of sheer laziness. Everything is set up the way I want it on this computer and I don't want to go messing with it and reinstalling everything. I just haven't heard anything about Win98 and up that make me think, "I gotta have it!" either.

[Dr. Web]

win 98 came with a more complete set of drivers. The functionality changed a little, and you may crash less...but you still crash. Redirection is a good way to solve the problem for specific users, if it is a confined issue, as it is here. We might also redirect a user if they are using some really old, obsolete browser, or if they are missing the plug in we require, we may send them to the same page ---without the use of the plug-in.

[Jason]

Crash less with Windows 98? I'm at about 6 crashes a day now with it, sometimes more under very heavy use. I think WinME might be the only real crash protection. With how it uses it's kernel, it keeps the programs separate, so one crash won't bring your whole system down (or so I'm told). Jacob just installed it, and he says that he hasn't had a crash since, and he crashed almost as much as I when he used Win98.

Speaking of the kernel keeping programs separate...isn't this sort of a move towards what MAC does? Is Bill taking a step 15 years back to finally move ahead?

[Doni FN]

I use windows ME , Not really a huge fan I still crash 3 or 4 times a night, But i think its more on the software I use than the operating system. I have a webserver , cold fusion , and a network pulling from my main puter and use it to design with photoshop another system resource hog.

not to mention ICQ aim and all the other small stuff.

[kevin]

I use W95 with IE5 and see the webpage correctly.

As a side note.... I have had this version of W95 installed for over a year now. Without exaggerating, my computer almost never crashes or freezes up. I sometimes leave it on for weeks at a time with no problem. I know I must be an exception but I really have no problems with my install of Win95B.


Kevin

[Jason]

"Could this thread BE any longer?"

I think we might have hit our longest thread to date on the forum.

Anyway, what software do you usually run Kevin? I can't imagine going a day without crashing. Also, how are your system resources when you boot up, and what is usually left free a few hours into work? I usually start up around 70%, and get down to below 40% a few hours in. I think I might call compaq to help me free up some resoures... I think it might help.

[Dr. Web]

I laso think it may be a software issue...when I run photoshop...even with 256 meg ram, I can crash a couple of times, whereas flash seems to never give me a problem.

[kevin]

When I boot I have 96% resources free. The only thing I have running at startup is the Adjust Display Properties feature, Vshield, and the volume control. My computer is an IBM clone made by myself a couple years back. Since I already had a copy of W95B on disk I installed it instead of paying for W98.

Typically I have IE5 and Netscape open, with maybe 5 to 10 browser windows open. Notepad, wordpad, and NoteTabLight are usually open. I may have PSP or PhotoShop running or both. I will use Corel Draw during the day to print out bar codes for my buisness, WS_FTP is almost always open and OutLook Express. I don't let any Microsoft Office applications open from the start up folder, they are real resource hogs. And the fast find feature of MS Office slows my computer to a crawl. If I want to use Office or Excel I open them only when needed.

Resource levels can get down to 40 or 50% during the day. Closing browser windows will free up resources, usually 2 to 3% per window, so having 10+ windows open eats up resources. I generally shut the computer down everynight, but in the past have left it running for weeks at a time with no problem.

My computers file system is setup as a Network Server and I have the virtual memory set manually (3X the RAM) on the least used disk partition. Video hardware acceleration is one notch down from full. Many crashes are related to video, by slowing it down slightly you can avoid some problems.

Kevin

[Dr. Web]

Hmmmnn...Usually I just ahev the problem when running coldfusion, and photoshop...and doing many transitions between the two. MOst poeple here would never re-boot unless their machine froze, but I let them know when it starts acting quirky...things not responding the way they should, a reboot would help out. Unfortunately....we re-boot a lot!

[Wabanaki Web]

I rarely crash with Win95. The one thing that almost always makes my IE freeze up is java, if there are a bunch of applets on a page then I get screen freeze, but I can usually get out of it by using ctrl, alt, delete and closing down IE from the menu. But if you mean the "blue screen of death" I get those probably about once a week, sometimes more, sometimes less. I used to get them alot more before I updated my modem software (winmodem type).

[whkoh]

These programs take up huge amounts of RAM. Better to install more Ram than crash with you important work unsaved.

Use Win2K if you don't want your programs to oull you down when you crash...

[kevin]

I had to brag about my stable computer....My computer didn't crash but I got an illegal operation that shutdown Internet Explorer !! :eek:

I'm not joining in any more threads discussing crashes, feeze ups or anything remotely related to the subject from now on. Dang OS has ears... ;)

http://milleneum.virtualave.net/images/shutdown.gif

[Jason]

Seems the tables have turned Kevin! I spent a few hours last night cleaning my system up. I deleted several duplicate drivers, and wiped clean my msconfig down to the bare essentials. I'm now at 92% upon bootup (quite a difference)! And I've been running crash free (just about). I think I have a problem of some sort with Outlook Express, because I did lock up once, and it was right after I booted it up.

Once I get the kinks out of that program I should be good to go! (If I don't crash immediately after posting this, for bragging that is.)

[Dr. Web]

Hmmmnn...I am running 256k sdram....should be enough to avoid many crashes....