Nothing new? Yes and no.
While it is true that nothing has happened under this URL I am still working on this project and will continue to do so. I realize my progress is painfully sloooooow. My priority right now is a German website that hosts some examples of multimedia content to support a small business that offers creating multimedia content. URL is here: http://euramer.com/ - but beware, the site may move any time (the domain it’s under right now is a “leftover domain” for which I’ve no real purpose), and at the time of this blog entry only the homepage itself exists.
I was inspired by the new ibm.com design after my original proposal got the thumbs-down from some friends of mine whom I had shown it to…
I’m using Yahoo’s Javascript library, YUI, which I really like.
However, I think that homepage has some nice things that MANY sites, even large one, are missing:
- The page is a centered fixed-column width design. And yet, if you increase your browsers font size the pagewidth is going to increase too! Many sites with such design keep the original width, so that less words fit on one line. Bad for people like me with a 24 inch monitor who want to move away from it, e.g. to sit on a hometrainer while reading 
- If the above page width increase happens the image or Flash object under the menu increases too! Now this is something that NO site I’ve seen so far does. If their font size increases i is for the HTML text only, but all images and Flash stays the same pixel size. This is not true for Internet Explorer (7)’s zoom feature which indeed increases the size of everything on the page - a nice feature of that browser (which in many other respects still is inferior to Firefox from a web programmers point of view), but if you use IEs “larger/smaller font size” menu setting it has the same issue. I dynamically increase the size of the image/Flash object when such a font resize occurs. I keep saying image/Flash because right now I have an animated GIF under the menu, but this is only a placeholder for a Flash object. Inspired by ibm.com, as I said… I have little trouble with the “should I use Flash there” question since the entire site is about using Flash, the business is about creating multimedia content using mostly Flash after all, so anyone who doesn’t like Flash shouldn’t be there in the first place…
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