Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Hello people, can you help with some suggestions on our site?

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Hello people, can you help with some suggestions on our site?

www.jrdesignstudio.com

2007-10-16, 10:14 pm

Hello everyone,

I would really appreciate some thoughts on our new site. Please fire
away with all possible thoughts, remarks, and suggestions - whatever
harsh they are.

All comments will be greatly appreciated.

www.jrdesignstudio.com

Many thanks,
JR Design Studio

2007-10-16, 10:14 pm

www.jrdesignstudio.com wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I would really appreciate some thoughts on our new site. Please fire
> away with all possible thoughts, remarks, and suggestions - whatever
> harsh they are.
>
> All comments will be greatly appreciated.
>

I don't have Macromedia Flash installed on my system and I don't intend
to install it. You might want to have a non-Flash option if you want
the maximum coverage for your site.

--
Cliff

Chris Havel

2007-10-17, 3:14 am

In article <1192580659.833391.115670@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
"www.jrdesignstudio.com" <info@jrdesignstudio.com> wrote:

> www.jrdesignstudio.com

My $0.02US:

1. Find every example of Mystery Meat navigation on your site and
eradicate it.

2. I hate waiting for Flash pages to load. If you must rely on Flash, do
so as part of the page design, not the entirety of it.

3. I hate not being able to bookmark an individual page. Because you
rely exclusively on Flash for your online content, I can't bookmark.

4. As a prospective client, I'd need to see you use the skills you claim
to have on your own website. Instead, I see you know how to create a swf
file.

Hmm. 75% of my comments are about the site's (over)reliance on Flash to
deliver content.

tacit

2007-10-17, 3:14 am

In article <1192580659.833391.115670@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
"www.jrdesignstudio.com" <info@jrdesignstudio.com> wrote:

> All comments will be greatly appreciated.

First: Don't do Flash pages. They aren't indexable or searchable.

Second: If you must break Rule 1, at least have the good sense to use an
automatic Flash detection JavaScript. Don't yell at users who already
have Flash installed.

Third: See rule #1.

Fourth: Still don't know what to do? I recommend taking another gander
at Rule #1.

Fifth: Here's some reading that should help you improve your navigation
tremendously:

www.webpagesthatsuck.com

Sixth: Dear God, dear God, make it stop. The gee-whiz transitions and
effects make your page about as fast as a glacier navigating its way
down the Mississippi River. People won't sit and watch *porn* for as
long as it takes your site to get to the point.

--
Photography, kink, polyamory, shareware, and more: all at
http://www.xeromag.com/franklin.html

Andrew Morton

2007-10-17, 6:14 am

tacit wrote:
> First: Don't do Flash pages. They aren't indexable or searchable.

In the interests of accuracy (I am not advocating the extensive use of
Flash),

"Google Can Now Index . . . Flash!"
http://www.searchengineworkshops.co...cles/flash.html

And doesn't this discussion belong somewhere more like alt.html.critique?

Andrew

Philo D

2007-10-17, 10:14 pm

http://validator.w3.org/
Failed validation, 2 errors

www.jrdesignstudio.com

2007-10-17, 10:14 pm

On 17 Oct, 13:04, Philo D <do...@earthling.net.invalid> wrote:
> http://validator.w3.org/
> Failed validation, 2 errors

Hello everyone. Thanks very much to all the for comments! Much
appreciated. I am currently designing an html version of this site so
that people could have a choice in the beginning. Ideally, I would
like to place it on the London-bit page as an intro inviting a user to
choose between the version. the green man will eventually go!
With thanks,
JR Design

KatWoman

2007-10-17, 10:14 pm

"www.jrdesignstudio.com" <info@jrdesignstudio.com> wrote in message
news:1192623686.436624.273720@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> On 17 Oct, 13:04, Philo D <do...@earthling.net.invalid> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone. Thanks very much to all the for comments! Much
> appreciated. I am currently designing an html version of this site so
> that people could have a choice in the beginning. Ideally, I would
> like to place it on the London-bit page as an intro inviting a user to
> choose between the version. the green man will eventually go!
> With thanks,
> JR Design

I thought it was well designed and showed very professional work
I liked your corporate logos

I am not a web designer, but I understand the flash vs. html objections in
regard to search etc
I suggest the html alternate page or the embed the flash piece in a html
home page that contains your meta data etc
I tried to look at my own flash page recently from a public computer and
FLASH was not installed on it and would not let me install it

Jester

2007-10-18, 6:14 pm

"www.jrdesignstudio.com" <info@jrdesignstudio.com> wrote in
news:1192580659.833391.115670@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I would really appreciate some thoughts on our new site. Please fire
> away with all possible thoughts, remarks, and suggestions - whatever
> harsh they are.
>
> All comments will be greatly appreciated.
>
> www.jrdesignstudio.com
>
> Many thanks,
> JR Design Studio
>

Suggest that you learn to spell 'Adobe' if you are going to use their
products

i.e. "Get the player here (from Adode Website)."

tacit

2007-10-18, 10:14 pm

In article <5nm07cFip5sjU1@mid.individual.net>,
"Andrew Morton" <akm@in-press.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

> "Google Can Now Index . . . Flash!"

*shudder* No good can come of that...

--
Photography, kink, polyamory, shareware, and more: all at
http://www.xeromag.com/franklin.html

James McNangle

2007-10-18, 10:14 pm

"CJ" <cje20@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I don't have Macromedia Flash installed on my system and I don't intend
>to install it. You might want to have a non-Flash option if you want
>the maximum coverage for your site.

I agree. Your front page is telling me that you want me to look at something
singing or dancing, and I don't. Period.

James McNangle