Flash Site Design - help with my site please

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help with my site please

davidcurzon

2006-03-22, 10:15 pm

First of all I'm upgrading my first flash site, and I have only managed to do
the 1st set of sub menu's which are under the domestic title. If you click any
other the end result is you'd prob have to leave the page as not fully
completed links. Anyways heres the site address.
http://www.davecurzon.com/test.html
I would like you guys to check it out, tell me what you think of the layout
and stuff, how it could be improved and if you spot any faults with it. Also
help with faults i already have.
1) I cannot align the contractors and design delete text, if you press home
after the contractors text has come in, you will notice, the text jump to the
side when you click home, same for design but it goes up, ive tried lining it
up with cursors but no joy, anyone else had problem?
2) gray loadbar is very pixled at the start upto 15%ish mark, don't know why.
3) when the text in typing in if you look at the picture's as text types over
them the pics become lighter and more pixled, don't know how to fix this.
If you would like the .fla to see in more detail or to help me out just pop me
a msg, cheers.
Look forward to your feedback.
Thanks all.

Paul Andrews

2006-03-27, 10:37 pm

"davidcurzon" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dvsm2u$kp3$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> First of all I'm upgrading my first flash site, and I have only managed to
do
> the 1st set of sub menu's which are under the domestic title. If you click
any
> other the end result is you'd prob have to leave the page as not fully
> completed links. Anyways heres the site address.
> http://www.davecurzon.com/test.html
> I would like you guys to check it out, tell me what you think of the
layout
> and stuff, how it could be improved and if you spot any faults with it.
Also
> help with faults i already have.

snip

> Look forward to your feedback.
> Thanks all.

I'm probably going to get flamed for these comments. Let's see.

I don't think the use of flash is helping your site at all. The green text
imitating an old-fashioned console is pretty annoying. You have to wait
until the text is written before you can read it and worse still you have to
watch it being erased before you can move on to anything else.

If I were going to replicate your content on a web site for my business, I
would have done this site in HTML. At least then you have no issues
regarding flash plugins. I feel that at the moment the use of flash is for
your benefit ratrher than for your business. That's OK as long as you
understand that currently using Flash is probably giving the end user a
worse experience rather than a better one.

The design needs a major overhaul. Text is hard to read and often far too
big. The navigation system doesn't have clean delineated buttons or
separated areas to key navigation into. Colours are garish. ( a quick look
at your apparent competitors reveals some truly awful sites. Take a look at
these to see some of the better ones I came across - all HTML :
http://www.sju.co.uk/inspectionandtest.html
http://www.seabluesystems.co.uk/fix_about.html
http://www.jjelectricalservices.co.uk/ - garish I admit). Take a look at
some design books or go to the macromedia site for some flash site
inspiration. You will find that bright green on black with Times new Roman
doesn't cut it.

Navigation as is doesn't always work. Hitting navigation buttons too soon
sometimes made the whole thing stop working unless I returned home.

I doubt that the site is doing your business justice at the moment. If I
look at it as your first flash site, well OK, you're coming along, otherwise
I'd think hard about using it to promote your business. Decide what this
is - a learning venture for your journey into flash proficiency, or an asset
to your business.

Paul