Dean Roddey
Senior Member
Hey guys, here's our new web site which is going to go live in a few days when 3.4 is released. Anyone want to give it a look and provide feedback? It is based on MS' Silverlight technology, so you may be prompted to install the Silverlight runtime. It's nothing intrusive, just a few DLLs that provide the supporting code for the local smarts of Silverlight apps.
http://www.charmedquark.com/Web2/Web2011/
This is just in an offline location now and will be moved to the real location when we go live with it. If you do look at it, and see anything wrong, let me know and I'll fix it. It's been a fair binge to get all this done, and learn a lot of new technology along the way. So I'm sure there are still some spelling goobers and whatnot still.
Also, if you do have to download Silverlight, what do you see in the browser when you first try to load it? I can't see that since I now have it installed and I really don't want to screw with my development environment just to test that. There will be a download Silverlight button, but do you see some mangled version of our content as well?
Anyway, I think it's a massive improvement in our web site. Silverlight definitely allows someone like me, who is comfortable with coding, to create some pretty nice looking stuff. I guess you can probably buy pre-fab Silverlight gadgets to do some of this stuff but I just rolled me own since it was not terribly difficult. A little tedious as all web site design is, but not that hard once I got my head wrapped around Silverlight and Expression Blend.
If you are a Mac guy, there is a Moonlight runtime out there that will run Silverlight apps on the Mac.
http://www.charmedquark.com/Web2/Web2011/
This is just in an offline location now and will be moved to the real location when we go live with it. If you do look at it, and see anything wrong, let me know and I'll fix it. It's been a fair binge to get all this done, and learn a lot of new technology along the way. So I'm sure there are still some spelling goobers and whatnot still.
Also, if you do have to download Silverlight, what do you see in the browser when you first try to load it? I can't see that since I now have it installed and I really don't want to screw with my development environment just to test that. There will be a download Silverlight button, but do you see some mangled version of our content as well?
Anyway, I think it's a massive improvement in our web site. Silverlight definitely allows someone like me, who is comfortable with coding, to create some pretty nice looking stuff. I guess you can probably buy pre-fab Silverlight gadgets to do some of this stuff but I just rolled me own since it was not terribly difficult. A little tedious as all web site design is, but not that hard once I got my head wrapped around Silverlight and Expression Blend.
If you are a Mac guy, there is a Moonlight runtime out there that will run Silverlight apps on the Mac.