Egographies (re-design)
Posted on July 4th, 2005 by Shane
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I thought I was fond of Egographies the first time around, but with this re-design I am somewhat astonished. The design itself is great but the little details added to it put it up several pegs. Clicking on the contents of the “click wheel” in the header gives you some surprises.
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Very nice site. Plus, in french :-)
Thierry, your new site is totaly incompatible with Safari on Mac OS X.3.9 :-/
But the preview ist really great !
The look is not what I like, but technically very nice ;)
Encore moi :-)
Sorry, but the site is innaccessible on Mac OS X.3.9 with Firefox 1.0.4 - Camino 0.8.4 - Safari and Opera. I’m a little sad :-(
Enjoy the code :)
hmm, looks nice from the screenshot but i’m unable to view the site. i’m using firefox on pc. the content loads then disappears with the exception of the header and navigation at the top right. but, when i try the links i get this “javascript:void(null);”
ahh, i see now … too much work for a site in my opinion. otherwise, nice color scheme. not too fond of the typeface either.
I don’t know what means “too much work for a site”… This is a personal and experimental blog on which I try numerous web design solutions. So the amount of work is really not the point. I have already made seven or so layouts for this site and reuse some of the code each time. I spent a lot of time on it for a year and will certainly spend much more time in the future.
I’ve faced the same problem trying to play with the wheel functions: nothing displayed.
In fact, you can’t see the different parts of the site if you don’t allow cookies. Means the content is forbidden if you disable it.
Pretty curious design choice!
RNB you’re wrong. If you disable cookies you can still see any part of the site (and event if you disable Javascript). But as you don’t allow me to record which panels are open, you have to re-open them on every reload. In my opinion, the curious choice is to disable cookies on your browser, since they are pretty useful.
And don’t forget, this was just an experiment on a personal site. I would never use such solutions on a professionally designed website. (By the way, your own site fails on W3C CSS validation…)
“too much work” was implied with the viewing capability, or should i say lack of in this case. when a site is showcased in this type of setting, one should expect criticism and embrace others opinions or simply ignore them. i applaud your efforts in experimentation, but am less enthused with your response to honest and valid points.
> If you disable cookies you can still see any part of the site.
No Thierry: i know your web site since a couple of months, and i love your artwork. But i had forbidden cookies from it (and others - i could explain the reasons but it’s not the point). When i saw the new design here, i was seduced.
So i went to egographie. The wheel was the only part visible. I clicked on each buttons: nothing. Next, i disable css -> ok; i disable javascript -> ok. Finally, i allowed cookies, and the wheel worked.
Believe me: if you don’t allow cookie registration (test under FF 1.0.4), nothing appears.
> By the way, your own site fails on W3C CSS validation…
Thanks. I’ll correct that.
Ok RNB, I have disabled cookies and nothing appeared. This is a bug I must admit (when cookies are disabled, every thing should appear, I have to invert a test). Forgive me for beeing a bit agressive on my previous reply but it was late last night and I was tired. Thanks for your interrest anyway.
> Forgive me for beeing a bit agressive on my previous reply but it was late last night and I was tired.
Y’a pas de mal ;-)
Waiting for your next design mutation this w.e. (and, if you could keep a trace of this one - and the previous ones - in a corner of you web site, in a ‘Design experiment section’ for example, it should be great).