[consulting] consulting Digest, Vol 38, Issue 25

[George]

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> ...or have a creative way of showing a demo site not in a new 
> window/tab, would love to know how you do it.

it's called a normal anchor link. opening up a tab is bad usability. i 
shouldn't have to school a design company in that right?
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> As Jeff pointed out, the jQuery menu does degrade without JS. I would 
> like to see how your CSS can do eye candy animation without JS. A 
> tutorial maybe? Besides, it is just a matter of preferences, so is the 
> 'feel', else flash would be out of business long time ago.
i understand, but a menu is a core component of a website, so why mess 
with it and put fancy eyecandy? heck, why not have a flash menu if 
eyecandy is your thing, you know, with a sound and fancy animation 
happening before each page loads?  you've only got to look at a certain 
competitors designs to understand they don't really understand webdesign 
and do similar stuff, and it's disappointing to see a theme shop going 
that way. having to work with these designs when a client says - i want 
that one - only brings headaches. it kinda reminds me of dreamweaver in 
the 90s that used js to swap image backgrounds on the menu.

this is advice to keep it simple, and not crazy on your themes. you can 
either understand that and take it on board, or go crazy and have 
eyecandy everywhere bringing poor usability, little flexibility, and 
longer load times.
> Since you can put up a new theme and a site in 10 min, I guess you do 
> not require such service, but many do.
i never said that, i said the demo site looked as if it was thrown 
together quickly, with little regard to actually showing off the theme. 
as your blurb says, the theme took months.
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> Thanks for all the criticisms and inputs.
you're welcome.