Silver Tiger Printing

Still working for the same guy and finally managed to upload some stuff. Here's his site: www.silvertigerprinting.com

The index itself is temporary. One of my earlier attempts at the Home page, but he wants a flash intro as the index. The actual Home page can be seen here: http://silvertigerprinting.com/home/html/home.html


Joint effort between me and Sally, current co-worker and former classmate. The other sections we basically split. She did Services and News, while I focused on Products. Some 60 pages of galleries and Im not even half-done on that one section haha.

As you can see, there's still tons to be done, but I'm happy my work isn't confined to the desktop anymore. I take full credit for the Construction page btw

Let me know what you think and what can be improved. Just bear in mind I'm no HTML wiz, let alone the more complicated codes. Everything I do is in Photoshop/Illustrator, then ImageReady, then Dreamweaver.

Rae 19 years ago
I really like the design, it is excellent. However, the pages load kind of slow. You might want to check the optimization of your images.
Nektar 19 years ago
Rae
I really like the design, it is excellent. However, the pages load kind of slow. You might want to check the optimization of your images.



Yeah I know, and thanks. The pages I made come at 80-150k, a nightmare for dialup users. Tried optimizing a couple, but any significant memory gain costs me grain and compromises quality. I'm thinking more extensive iframing would help no?
ROzbeans 19 years ago
I really like the look. The only thing that's hard to see is the mouse over words for the chinese letters. The gray print blends in too well with the background. Impressive, Nek!!!!
Blackrabbit 19 years ago
Wow. I think it's quite stunning. I really love the way you've integrated the pictures with the actual content (am I making sense? It just looks killer).

I have one question, and please forgive me for sounding newbish. There's a header somewhere that says 'stationary printing.' I don't know anything about printing. Is this a type of printing? Because if it is meant to imply something that is printed on paper, it should be spelled 'stationery.' I'm sorry if that's a completely dense question. For all I know stationary printing is exactly what's supposed to be there.

Only other thing I can say is /drool. It really does look spectacular!
Nektar 19 years ago
Merci beacoup pour les commentaires Roz et Elise.

The page you see at silvertigerprinting.com will eventually be replaced by a flash intro. A design that took me eons to create because I fully wanted to "integrate the pictures with the actual content". Tried my best to fit the text within the irregular shape of the textbox, and adding subtle rollover effects for the Chinese symbols.

Nevertheless, my boss has the final say. The current Home page (http://silvertigerprinting.com/home/html/home.html) was originally tailored to the FAQ section, but Frank fell in love with it, and told us to use that for the Home template instead.

So the effort I poured into the current index page might have been in vain, but there are still a couple sections under major construction. Should I apply the current index layout to one of them?
drizzi 19 years ago
i think you could still optimize the way you sliced your images. theres not real need to have images for grey space, could as well just set a color in html and only use images where you really need them. having text as text would be nice too
Nektar 19 years ago
drizzi
i think you could still optimize the way you sliced your images. theres not real need to have images for grey space, could as well just set a color in html and only use images where you really need them. having text as text would be nice too


Good idea. Never thought of slicing the purely gray areas for optimization.

Thanks, and sorry for the delay. In DC atm, celebrating Xmas with folks and a cpl old friends. Best wishes to all.

Nicolas
Vex 19 years ago
drizzi's right. If you're trying to be easy on dialup users, images for text is a very bad idea.

i just got back from doing 2 weeks on dialup. the only damn site out there that loaded 'fast' by dialup terms was my stupid text-based webmail system.

i frequently disable image loading when im on dialup, and only pick what i want to see.

if you're using images for links, add an 'alt' tag so people know what it is. otherwise they would just receive a blank page with no idea what should be there except images.