The New FlucMedia Site has Launched
Finally, after much much and I reiterate it again – much – work, I have finally been able to put up the new flucmedia website. We also have a new logo that we will be using going forward – which I think looks pretty cool myself (considering I designed it :D).
Overall, the new company site took around 400-500 hours of work I would think (I am not really exaggerating either because each of the bottom background images took me forever – adding in all the “out of memory” errors and constantly finding overlapping images) but the end product has been definitely worth it I think. There is nothing more satisfying than sitting back after working so damn hard and long on something and going “I am happy with it”. If you also check out the site in IE6 you might notice a special surprise I put in for anyone tempting to visit the site in IE6 – if you want a spoiler you can see it here.
The graphics for this website were all done with painstakingly great detail. There are more than 20 rotating background images with a width of 3840px and relevant customized CSS – so even the largest screens can enjoy the graphics and browsers can expand far beyond standard sizes. Each background rotates when you select another section of the site and I threw in our company twitter account FlucMedia – although its more really for people leaving feedback – if you want to follow me, much more activity occurs on iamtimdavis.
Overall, really excited about this site and all the hard work that has been put into it. I have learnt so much about User Interface designing, web designing, basic javascript coding and so much more from this process and from the other work we are doing. Although I am not a coder by trade, I would now say that I am definitely a designer and that I can both design and code HTML/CSS and basic JavaScript functionality. I think its a really cool outlet to just go and start designing things and see the creative juices flow in what comes out. I had no idea what the site was going to look like when I started – I was just playing around designing stuff and then the idea for the flucmedia site jumped into my head.
If you want to leave any feedback please provide it and hopefully there are no errors (I tested on basically every browser I could find but I may have missed something). Thanks and hope you love the new site! Exciting things ahead.
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You are not doing anyone any favors, nor are you saving the Internet, by blocking people from visiting your site in IE6.
Most IE6 users don’t have a choice in the matter – they’re often in a corporate setting which refuses to upgrade, or they simply do not have administrative privileges.
No one will hire you to design a website when you promise to block 15% of their potential customers from viewing it.
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for the response and engaging in this debate.
For us, it really has nothing to do with “doing anyone any favors” or “saving the internet” by blocking IE6 users. The simple fact of the matter is that we are a small company and just don’t have the resources to devote an additional XXX hours to solve IE6 related issues. We would rather devote this time to focusing on, and building out, our product as opposed to sitting and attempting to figure out IE6 legacy browser issues. It seems that many corporate companies are taking that exact reverse approach – “we don’t have the time or resources to upgrade to IE7 – so everyone has to cope with it”.
Indeed, as you suggest this may be antithetical to the logic that “most IE6 users don’t have a choice” – for us, the choice is really spending time on IE6 or spending time developing our product and we made the decision that the later is far more important. Additionally, I would suggest that many IT departments (but not all) are simply lazy or haven’t been hit hard by upper management in upgrading their browsers – even IE7 is now 4-5 years old.
Our product supports IE6 – have no doubt – but when we figured out the cost of solving IE6 issues for our website and more importantly the time required – the cost-equation just didn’t make sense in terms of these 15% of users vs. new features we can develop. Additionally, it seems pretty clear that many of the big corporates are also pushing users away from IE6 – you only have to visit Youtube or Facebook or Basecamp or a plethora of other sites to see that IE6 is either no longer supported (Basecamp for example) or won’t be in 2010 (Youtube).
Cheers & thanks for dropping by ;)
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