Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Robert Harrison
We've just launched our own new site. It's fully CF driven from MS SQL DB. If you want to see it, it's at: http://www.austin-williams.com We've got some cool stuff in there. Enjoy! Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive services Austin Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Phillip M. Vector
Seriously bogs down my computer when looking at it. Your flash implies that it's a menu, but I guess it isn't. Several links don't seem to do anything. IMHO, it needs allot of work still. Robert Harrison wrote: We've just launched our own new site. It's fully CF driven from MS SQL DB. If

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Phillip M. Vector
and one more thing.. I'm on broadband... Have you tested this for dialup speeds? I seriously worry about trying to download this via modem (Yes, they are still in use). :) Robert Harrison wrote: We've just launched our own new site. It's fully CF driven from MS SQL DB. If you want to see

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Scott Stewart
grammar error: *We're out to knock your socks off take your breath away.*With research-driven marketing strategies. Mind-blowing creative. And rock-solid results. agency.cfm Shouldn't that be Mind-blowing creativity? A couple of comments: I had to dig in a couple of pages before I

RE: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Tiffany Trott
, 2008 8:07 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site We've just launched our own new site. It's fully CF driven from MS SQL DB. If you want to see it, it's at: http://www.austin-williams.com We've got some cool stuff in there. Enjoy! Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Gerald Guido
Well done. It is is a bit stutter-y though on a 1.5 year old Dell Optiplex corporate desk top. I sent to to a GUI dev buddy. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Robert Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've just launched our own new site. It's fully CF driven from MS SQL DB. If you want to

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Phillip M. Vector
Scott Stewart wrote: I had to dig in a couple of pages before I understood what austin-williams does, it's not clear from the outset. While that front splash is visually cool, it doesn't convey what the company does. With the limited time I was able to spend there (I exited out of

RE: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Andy Matthews
choices were poor and not well thought through. andy -Original Message- From: Robert Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 9:07 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site We've just launched our own new site. It's fully CF driven from MS SQL DB

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Jason Fisher
On a corporate workstation, shared bandwidth, loaded really pretty well for me, and like the design. The humanizing touches are clever, the dog delivering the paper for News, etc. It was a bit odd to jump out of the layout for Portfolio, but other than that I found it to be a better use of

RE: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Mark Kruger
-3733 ext 105 www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: Robert Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 9:07 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site We've just launched our own new site. It's fully CF driven

RE: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Dawson, Michael
Well, the chicks look pretty hot, but I noticed they keep doing the same thing... Walk and point... walk and point... The girl on the right appears to be walking from one X to another X where she is supposed to stop and turn. You might want to record a couple more movements so they are not so

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Wil Genovese
Holy CPU usage Batman. I'm sitting on a fairly new Dell Optiplex at work with AMD 64X2 Dual Core 2.2 Ghz with 3 Gb of memory. With the home page running FireFox is using 50-60% of my CPUs. I just made the mistake of opening that site in IE at the same time and watched my CPU's MAX out. Do better

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Steve Nelson
Very cool Robert. I didn't have any performance problems at all on Firefox. What kind of stuff did you use CF for on this project? Steve Nelson On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Robert Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've just launched our own new site. It's fully CF driven from MS SQL

RE: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Robert Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 10:07 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site We've just launched our own new site. It's fully CF driven from MS SQL DB. If you want to see it, it's at: http

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Jerry Johnson
Site runs fine for me speed, load, and %cpu-wise. ff3 I agree with most of the criticisms (except the creative, which reads fine to me), but those are NITS, the overall site rocks. Well done. A couple of tweaks will smooth out those rough edges, but I like it. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:07 AM,

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Jim Rising
one thing that immediately annoyed me was my desire to click on the things that the shadow people were pointing at, and my inability to do that. :) -- Jim Rising Serial Entrepreneur Cold Fusion Developer Concentration is the key to profits. Greater profits require that you concentrate your

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Mike Kear
10:07 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site We've just launched our own new site. It's fully CF driven from MS SQL DB. If you want to see it, it's at: http://www.austin-williams.com ~| Adobe® ColdFusion

RE: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Robert Harrison
Thanks for all the comments. You all actually gave me some backup for some of the issues I've been trying to get addressed. I think the site is cool, but I am concerned with the CPU burden from the HP flash and the fact that the flash is not clickable on the images. We are going to address both of

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Phillip M. Vector
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Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread s. isaac dealey
grammar error: *We're out to knock your socks off take your breath away.*With research-driven marketing strategies. Mind-blowing creative. And rock-solid results. agency.cfm Shouldn't that be Mind-blowing creativity? I think that's deliberate... I believe it's fairly common in

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread s. isaac dealey
Scott Stewart wrote: I had to dig in a couple of pages before I understood what austin-williams does, it's not clear from the outset. While that front splash is visually cool, it doesn't convey what the company does. With the limited time I was able to spend there (I exited out of

RE: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Jason Durham
Kudos to you for making a non-traditional 3 column layout like we're all accustomed to. I think some folks get upset when they don't get what they are expecting. Sure... I agree that placing navigation in places that are easy to find is important. However, ad agencies tend to be artsy... and

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Al Musella, DPM
I love the way you disguise the cold fusion pages by using a php extension on the links.. http://www.austin-williams.com/portfolio/popup.php?image=Allied/ad1http://www.austin-williams.com/portfolio/popup.php?image=Allied/ad1 At 10:07 AM 10/31/2008, you wrote: We've just launched our own new

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Jerry Johnson
Keep up, Al. LOL. They had to revert to the old site, due to legacy files being used on other (client) websites. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Al Musella, DPM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love the way you disguise the cold fusion pages by using a php extension on the links..

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread C S
A small thing. When you click Profiles the menu disappears. So you can no longer navigate unless you use the browser's back button. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread s. isaac dealey
Keep up, Al. LOL. I was gonna make another joke about his lagging behind because he spelled it Cold Fusion ... but I thought some folks might think it mean spirited? -- s. isaac dealey ^ new epoch isn't it time for a change? ph: 781.769.0723 http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog