Go-Live: Indian Valley Dental

Paul Bagosy — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:56:19 +0000

I’ve decided to start cataloging the sites that I’ve done recently, big or small. So, here we go:

Indian Valley Dental

What the client wanted:
This was a redesign of an existing CMS site that had a lot of Flash-based elements, including the navigation.

What I delivered:
The design kept the header flash from the old site, and I brought over the little Flash page title flourish.

I reworked the existing CMS to provide data is much more search-engine friendly and a lot more streamlined. The header navigation uses a CSS hover effect with a jQuery dropdown. The bottom navigation uses a quick server-side element to generate a style that underlines the page that you’re currently on, and the Contact Us page uses jQuery form validation and an AJAX spam-catcher.

The site is identical in IE 6, 7 and 8, Firefox 3, Chrome 3, Safari 4PB and Opera 10 (aside from a few form elements that resist styling).

Simple from the ground up, but that’s the way I like them.

Flash & IE6

Paul Bagosy — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:06:07 +0000

Apparently, IE6 throws a royal conniption fit when you attempt to have Flash do anything that involves pointing to an anchor tag on the page.

I tried a number of different methods, from a simple getURL to putting all of my functionality directly into JavaScript, but every time, it blew up. More explicitly, it blew up after the second time it was accessed (so, click one functioned fine, click two functioned fine, click three went haywire).

For the issue I was working on, the workaround was to tell the browser to scroll to a certain point on the page instead of jump to an anchor, but I can imagine that’s not going to be a lasting solution, and certainly not dynamic.

-pb

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Go-Live: Indian Valley Dental

Flash & IE6