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Team Viget
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12345678910Added: 17 June 2007Designer: Viget LabsSubmitter: Rob
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A new school of design is emerging, one that involves heavy CSS, javascript, and (x-d)html web standard skills. A new school of cutting-edge designers is emerging as well, one who is not afraid to dabble in javascripting to do some wonderful and amazing things, leveraging javascript libraries such as jquery, prototype and others to lighten the load. To be successful many things must be considered:
The target audience and their browser of choice.
Screen width and height available in pixels, with some of the best designs extending well beyond the 800 pixel width range.
Processing power also figuring into the overall scheme of the design for optimal performance when pushing the envelope of what is possible.
Finally optimization and load order considerations for taking full advantage of the bandwidth available and smooth loading of all web site pages.
Does it sound overwhelming? Sometimes it is!
A team of players in all of these skills and disciplines is sometimes the best answer. Take for example the site at hand teamViget.com.
This site was specifically designed to cater to high-end designers and developers, for recruitment purposes, as well as showing off the vigetLabs.com portfolio of recent work.
The sliding navigation, when you have the processing power to view it as smoothly as possible, rivals any flash site out there, and without the inconvenience of sitting and waiting-watching the oh so nifty & annoying flash movie loading sequences, only to have to sit through another such delay after subsequent clicks arghhh.
What to look for on the teamViget site, if you are in a hurry?
It is loaded chock full of sliding navigation mastery, showing and hiding divs mimicking pages, and easing transition calculations (provided by jQuery if you are keeping score).
Click any of the list of "Top 5 Reasons" items on the piece of paper, and a div slides from the right into view, without any of the other divs before or after, just one smooth slide. How smooth depends on your processor power trust me, if it's not smooth check it on something with more power.
Next once you've begun to marvel at the flash-like smooth horizontal sliding, click the "See Our Positions" green post-it sticky at the top of any of the inside pages, and presto-change-o the navigation on the page is now a vertical one. Go ahead click an available position.
Now the really sweet part with a job opportunity open, say Web Designer for example, scroll down if necessary and click the