peteshinners wrote:
The site is a small custom shop at http://cupcream.com. jQuery is used to handle clicking thumbnails. There is a custom modal contact dialog and some animated hovers and scrolls.
The site looks nice. Great job! Please take the suggestions below as constructive criticism.
I also used the 'hoverIntent' plugin. This little plugin was a big improvement for getting more of a 'tooltip' type feel to some of the mouseover effects.
I'd argue that this works well for the fabric swatches, but not so well for the links on the bottom scroller. The standard rollover behavior is to change appearance immediately as the mouse rolls over the item. The delay is actually distracting here.
Speaking of the bottom scroller. It's a nice effect, but I think it could be made nicer. The visible scrollbar is distracting, and the cursor when the mouse is over the arrows (in FF) is ... odd. I don't know how much work it would be, but I can imagine a slightly different behavior for this scroller: There is no scrollbar, but the div is slowly scrolling (either in some sort of continuous loop or back and forth.) When the mouse is over the div, it stops scrolling, but the previously hidden arrows become visible. They possibly change the scroll direction and scroll more quickly in that direction. When the mouse leaves the div, the arrows disappear and the div resumes slowly scrolling.
Anyways, the site is hardly a showcase for jQuery. But I've really loved using it for the effects I needed. My next step may be to try getting more of an ajax browsing going on, so full page reloads aren't as necessary. I'll have to play around with it more to make sure browser navigation doesn't break.
What for? The pages already are fairly small and load relatively quickly. What does AJAX gain you here?
Again, a nice site! -- Scott
