operational

The site is at last fully operational, if not yet polished.

I had issues with layering the flash movies as i was unaware that flash scripting automaticatly set the z-index at the highest possible value (very irritating) which led to me recompliing much of Nicks content so make it work. The param name="wmode" value="transparent" also proved next to useless as it still had interactivity issues with the menu.

flah menu

the navigation now has to be flash with such a small amount of time left.
I am making a toggling nav bar to minamise clutter on the site. a poor version of this type of navigation

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alternatives

I have installed a splash page to catch users who do not have flash and in addition to this i have also hosted stills for those that do not wish to install flash, this makes the comic far more accessible.

the due date is looming closer and I am run off my feet. working on this at 9pm through till 2am after working during the day has some obvious draw backs, eg. slower work, uglier, designs and all round less productivity I have had some mock ups on the net in a few different versions. The navigation issue is still unresolved but my flash tests have proved successful.

sizing

we have recently decided to change the size of the site to 800x800pixels to accommodate for the size that the web comic really needs to be.

The navigation is proving troublesome as the css that I am familiar with and have used in the text has, when I tested it in several browsers failed in some of the older versions of IE. I feel that this is unacceptable because of the amount of people still using the browser. I shall try to remedy this with some hacks that I noticed on W3schools.

store 2

In an attempt to get this stupid store up I have downloaded a plug in for Dream weaver which is supposed to make it much easier... this has not been the case... at all. I have already invested far too much time in this with absolutely nothing to show for it.

I have also been doing some basic positioning of elements to get it the way that we want on the page.

store

I have been researching building a store for our site using in dreamweaver support and W3 schools and the adobe forums(by far the most helpful for this. I have attempted afew of the coding examples but with absolutely no results as yet.