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Author Topic: Major Site Update for Regal Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-05-2003 07:58 PM                     Regal's New Website is up! It looks great, and finally is titled with respect to all three chains. (The old site was titled "Welcome to Regal Cinemas") Also, depending on what you type in, the Flash animation changes logos! Try www.edwardscinemas.com and then www.regalcinemas.com See the difference? "Our movie-goers are the stars at our new Website. We have redesigned with you in mind and hope you like our new look and features." It looks great! Go There ---->  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-05-2003 08:20 PM                        Very nicely done web site. They even updated the list of theaters in the "comments" section so it no longer lists locations that have been closed for a long time. [sniff] This thread smells like "Yak" to me!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-05-2003 08:29 PM                        Good nose, Davey-poo. This thread is now banished to Yak for all enternity.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-05-2003 09:45 PM                     WOW! They finally did a screen count at the theatre named the Stonestown Twin and discovered it had only TWO (as opposed to 10) screens! I have to say that my last ten visits to the Edwards have been excellent (brightness, focus, proper sound levels and formats). Even two recent visits to the (business dead for years) UA locally surpised me with good image and sound (and that theatre I stayed away from under previous management). I have a question, however. While both Edwards and UA Theatres emploees were polos, the design pattern is different on all the ones at the UA compared to the ones at Edwards, even though both have the REGAL emblem on them. Also, people at Edwards still say "Welcome to Edwards", the people at UA NOW say (insetad of rudely tearing your ticket) "Welcome To UA Theatres". Also, the UA has been showing the Regal policy trailer for months now. The Edwards stiull hasn't started showing it. Will these eventually converge?  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-05-2003 10:43 PM                     Very nice, indeed!  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-05-2003 11:03 PM                     All theatres should be showing the new Regal policy trailer.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-06-2003 12:56 AM                     www.uatc.com is still the same, though. I always got the feeling that UA and Regal hated each other. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 01-06-2003 01:36 AM                     Wow, such a great site. I have completely forgotten about how many of those theatres have "one size fits all" screens with no masking. Danny  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-06-2003 11:22 AM                        quote: Good nose, Davey-poo. You have no idea.  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 01-06-2003 04:42 PM                     quote: the design pattern is different on all the ones at the UA compared to the ones at Edwards, even though both have the REGAL emblem on them. Regal has two different polos. What is all burgundy with a multi colored collar. The other is burgundy on the bottom and grey on the top, with the same multi colored collar. It is possible that the employees at the UA were all wearing one design and the employees at the Edwards were wearing the other.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-06-2003 09:32 PM                     Regal's new site follows the current "fashion" of web design (not much graphics and mostly text, even if it is dressed up with CSS rollover link effects, etc.). It still looks pretty nice. I could tell by some of the source code that the designers must have used DreamweaverMX to put it together. I've only been using that app for a couple months or so, but I already prefer it over Adobe GoLive 6. The "MX" style interface is very straight-forward, with an emphasis on speeding up routine tasks and providing a lot of other conveniences. GoLive gave me some fits with some of its JavaScript behaviors (wierd custom code that would glitch out on certain browsers). At least DWMX works the way I want it to work. I'm currently working on a site for one of my coworkers. She makes pencil drawn portraits from photographs (and does a very good job at it). I've tried to keep it somewhat simple, but a couple pages still need a few tweaks here and there. http://www.portraitsbyvalorie.com  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-06-2003 10:15 PM                        Too bad the new Regal site doesn't comply with any known version of the HTML spec. http://validator.w3.org/ doesn't get past the lack of DTD definition and weblint complaints about extended markup and illegal attributes, as well as images without ALT= text defined. Having said that, it does appear to be usable in most browsers, including Lynx.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-07-2003 02:12 AM                     I think it is a common thing with Dreamweaver and other WYSIWYG web page assembling tools to generate pages that are illegal to certain HTML standards. For it to come out fully legal you have to do some hand coding. Of course, I'm a graphic artist and not a programmer so I hate messing around with code (even though sometimes I have no choice). Overall, web design is a giant balancing act. You have all those different HTML standards and then have to choose between how advanced you want a page to be while maintaining backward compatibility with older computers. I'd prefer to put together web pages using nothing but CSS and DIV layer elements. The work would come out great on version 5 or later browsers. But it would go wacko all over the place for anyone using Netscape 4 and earlier browsers. So, many are still stuck with all those <tr> and <td> tags.  |  IP: Logged

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