Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-29 Thread Phil Rasmussen
Oh bugger. In that case you are at the whim of the client. When does the site go live Geoff? On Monday, 29 July 2013 14:37:47 UTC+10, Geoff Bowers wrote: On 29 July 2013 14:27, Phil Rasmussen ara...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: One small suggestion for the Athletes page would be to make use

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-29 Thread Geoff Bowers
On 29 July 2013 16:07, Phil Rasmussen ara...@gmail.com wrote: Oh bugger. In that case you are at the whim of the client. When does the site go live Geoff? It's live as of last Monday -- 200 days to go! But it will evolve over the next few months as schedule and results feeds become

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-29 Thread Mark Mandel
Awesome :) good work! Mark On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Geoff Bowers mod...@daemon.com.au wrote: On 29 July 2013 16:07, Phil Rasmussen ara...@gmail.com wrote: Oh bugger. In that case you are at the whim of the client. When does the site go live Geoff? It's live as of last Monday --

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-28 Thread Phil Rasmussen
Great looking site Geoff! The responsive elements are very fluid and the design is great. I think the expanding more panels that shuffle the layout is a nice touch as well given the large amount of content available. One small suggestion for the Athletes page would be to make use of the nice

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-28 Thread Geoff Bowers
On 29 July 2013 14:27, Phil Rasmussen ara...@gmail.com wrote: One small suggestion for the Athletes page would be to make use of the nice little sport icons against each athlete profile thumbnail either as an overlay or appended to the hopeful text though i can see this might get a little

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-28 Thread Mark Mandel
Curious that you didn't use a CDN - any particular reason? Mark On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Geoff Bowers mod...@daemon.com.au wrote: On 29 July 2013 14:27, Phil Rasmussen ara...@gmail.com wrote: One small suggestion for the Athletes page would be to make use of the nice little sport

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-28 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Monday, 29 July 2013 14:46:14 UTC+10, Mark Mandel wrote: Curious that you didn't use a CDN - any particular reason? The video assets are on Akamai (or Limelight). Everything else runs through a cluster of Varnish Servers. Ideally we'd have all Olympic image and file assets on Amazon S3

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-28 Thread Mark Mandel
Yeah - figured a CDN would help a lot, simply because the images would be distributed across the world. What sort of geographical distribution do you see? I would have thought that given the international nature, you would see a good chunk of it come from overseas. Having the CDN would help

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-28 Thread Geoff Bowers
On 29 July 2013 15:33, Mark Mandel mark.man...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah - figured a CDN would help a lot, simply because the images would be distributed across the world. What sort of geographical distribution do you see? I would have thought that given the international nature, you would see

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-26 Thread Geoff Bowers
On 26 July 2013 14:57, Dale Fraser d...@fraser.id.au wrote: I screen captured it, might be normal behaviour, but the menu jumps quite a bit with every click For those that might be remotely interested, our front end dev team report the following... 3-column layout is loaded by default.

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-25 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Tuesday, 23 July 2013 16:36:55 UTC+10, Mark Mandel wrote: I looked at it on my 2560x1440 monitor, and I think it could go wider ;) LOL -- it's like the only 5 column design I've seen. We had to add a fix to default to 3-col and give users the options for 45 col layouts. Too much

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-25 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Tuesday, 23 July 2013 20:46:18 UTC+10, Dale Fraser wrote: One comment is that the menu for me moves every time I click it. It shuffles a bit left then right again. Which browser/OS do you see the menu glitch? GB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

RE: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-25 Thread Dale Fraser
:24 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live On Tuesday, 23 July 2013 20:46:18 UTC+10, Dale Fraser wrote: One comment is that the menu for me moves every time I click it. It shuffles a bit left then right again. Which browser/OS do you see

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-25 Thread AJ Mercer
** ** Regards Dale Fraser ** ** *From:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Geoff Bowers *Sent:* Friday, 26 July 2013 1:24 PM *To:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-23 Thread Andrew Myers
Only looked at it on my 1440x900 monitor Geoff, but it looks great. Fantastic to see Railo / FarCry in action for such an event. Well done to you and your team! On 23 July 2013 15:51, Geoff Bowers mod...@daemon.com.au wrote: We've just launched phase one of the Winter Olympics site here in

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-23 Thread Mark Mandel
I looked at it on my 2560x1440 monitor, and I think it could go wider ;) Looks great though! Mark On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Andrew Myers am2...@gmail.com wrote: Only looked at it on my 1440x900 monitor Geoff, but it looks great. Fantastic to see Railo / FarCry in action for such an

RE: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-23 Thread Dale Fraser
Bowers Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2013 3:51 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live We've just launched phase one of the Winter Olympics site here in Australia: http://sochi2014.olympics.com.au/ Built on Railo and FarCry of course :) We've gone

[cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-22 Thread Geoff Bowers
We've just launched phase one of the Winter Olympics site here in Australia: http://sochi2014.olympics.com.au/ Built on Railo and FarCry of course :) We've gone for an experimental feed based, responsive design -- it's a treat for those on massive monitors. Let us know what you think! --