Around when this site was redesigned, Will and Norm talked about how the site now uses responsive design (resizing the browser window changes the layout)
Back then my company was busy building a website for a marketing agency in Montreal with which we do a lot of business!
I appreciate this whole community and I wanted your feedback on the site, we just finished last week!
Tell me what you guys think! And if you find a bug, I'd like to know about it!
EDIT : I'm not sure the messaging is working properly on these forums yet, so here is my e-mail if you wish to let me know about a bug : sdupuis@blax.ca
Also, we suggest Chrome or IE9 (I know right, IE9?!?!?), the site is extremely smooth with those browsers. But it works fine on most browsers except IE7 and lower (yeah...)
We are looking into CSS3 transitions to improve performance with all the animations but we had a lot of trouble making it work right during development process so we opted to use only conventional javascript animations (with jQuery) for now.
@Malchom: Depending on the kind of animation you're trying to do, CSS3 transitions may not be the best bet. However, depending on what you're having trouble with, I may be able to help.
Edit: After playing around with the site, there's only a few things that I think would be better served by being done with CSS3. That most of your animation is triggered by clicks (as opposed to hovers or other more CSS-friendly actions) means you would have to do a bit of JS anyway to trigger the transition. That may be better, performance-wise, but I don't see it being much as boon as it could be due to the seemingly nested nature of the animation.
In any event, the site seems great. Really buttery smooth, and as a WP7 user, it's great to see a site that's as well designed as this actually playing nice with IE9. Granted, a well-coded website should work well in every browser, but I know that's not always the case.
@Malchom: Depending on the kind of animation you're trying to do, CSS3 transitions may not be the best bet. However, depending on what you're having trouble with, I may be able to help.
At first we tried to code the animations ourselves, and mostly wanted to make the big banners scroll smoothly on iDevices (which it was with CSS3) but there would be strange behaviors popping up and we couldn't be sure it would work well at all this way.
We then tried plugins for the jQuery library, and it worked okay, but problems with the whole library as well, stuff would react weirdly sometimes and differently on different browsers.
We abandoned the plan after a couple of weeks of tests and decided we would try again after shipping the site, one of my coworkers is studying more in depth and we hope to make our own plugin for jQuery maybe? Who knows?
Anyway, I will be taking notes when we do get to that point and I will most definetly ask for your help!
Hey Tested community!
Around when this site was redesigned, Will and Norm talked about how the site now uses responsive design (resizing the browser window changes the layout)
Back then my company was busy building a website for a marketing agency in Montreal with which we do a lot of business!
I appreciate this whole community and I wanted your feedback on the site, we just finished last week!
http://tank.ca/home
Tell me what you guys think! And if you find a bug, I'd like to know about it!
EDIT : I'm not sure the messaging is working properly on these forums yet, so here is my e-mail if you wish to let me know about a bug : sdupuis@blax.ca
Works like a charm! And very well designed website. Easy to navigate. Simple and good design. If I notice any bugs I'll let you know :)
Thanks Vetterli!
Also, we suggest Chrome or IE9 (I know right, IE9?!?!?), the site is extremely smooth with those browsers. But it works fine on most browsers except IE7 and lower (yeah...)
We are looking into CSS3 transitions to improve performance with all the animations but we had a lot of trouble making it work right during development process so we opted to use only conventional javascript animations (with jQuery) for now.
@Malchom: Depending on the kind of animation you're trying to do, CSS3 transitions may not be the best bet. However, depending on what you're having trouble with, I may be able to help.
Edit: After playing around with the site, there's only a few things that I think would be better served by being done with CSS3. That most of your animation is triggered by clicks (as opposed to hovers or other more CSS-friendly actions) means you would have to do a bit of JS anyway to trigger the transition. That may be better, performance-wise, but I don't see it being much as boon as it could be due to the seemingly nested nature of the animation.
In any event, the site seems great. Really buttery smooth, and as a WP7 user, it's great to see a site that's as well designed as this actually playing nice with IE9. Granted, a well-coded website should work well in every browser, but I know that's not always the case.
@Fish_Face_McGee said:
At first we tried to code the animations ourselves, and mostly wanted to make the big banners scroll smoothly on iDevices (which it was with CSS3) but there would be strange behaviors popping up and we couldn't be sure it would work well at all this way.
We then tried plugins for the jQuery library, and it worked okay, but problems with the whole library as well, stuff would react weirdly sometimes and differently on different browsers.
We abandoned the plan after a couple of weeks of tests and decided we would try again after shipping the site, one of my coworkers is studying more in depth and we hope to make our own plugin for jQuery maybe? Who knows?
Anyway, I will be taking notes when we do get to that point and I will most definetly ask for your help!