Giving u lot the 1st look...
http://www.6fish.net/flash/index.asp
Appreciate your views..
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Giving u lot the 1st look...
http://www.6fish.net/flash/index.asp
Appreciate your views..
This site is great, when i had my site made i wish i knew this person, alot of hard work has gone into this. Well done
Dang.. Nice site. The animations are great and the graphics are right on! It loads fast and easy to read. good job :)
i like it a lot, very simple, but looks great. i like the pong action when the mouse dosent move lol.
I liked the design of your site, I have some comments though
- 197kb for the initial movie is too large for dial up. Your should carry some kind of health warning for the dial up user, before they start the preloader.
- Black on gray text, as you have used on occassion is hard to read, consider a using a color with a great contrast
- Mnimal fonts are great, but not if you are reading a block of text and not white on a dark background. Although the text is still clear it is hard on the eyes to read multiple lines of small text. Consider restricting Mnimal fonts to one liners, menu options or if you have to use it for block text, using black on a light color.
- The menu buttons quickly faded out. It was not intuitive that they were there. Alpha them down, but not all they way out. It was by luck that I found them later
- The quit on the torchlight should be an option always available, not disabled until you have completed the exercise.
- Transitions on portfolio are a little long. Waiting while the screen assembles works well if there is entertainment value, but watching like gray boxes dropping, in my opinion does not qualify as entertainment.
In summary a good site that is well designed, but need to be broken up into smaller swf's and have easier navigation and readability.
Swedish tiger thanx for the comments...
I had just begun 2 realise that people had not been getting access past the 1st page (about the company) but I thought that flashkit users were the kind of people who would easily solve small mysteries..i will add a an alpha'd out menu text or something.
Its a shame because there is lots of hidden content which will probably not b seen.. 4 example..the main buttons are of a smart vareity which not only know that they have been clicked(try clicking twice)but will actually tell you that you r already on that page.
I will try 2 change the contrasting text & colours as you suggest..but I really thought it was clear.
as for the file size..well..i would be amazed if there is another web-site out there that has as much content as this for a size of 197k..there is only 1 loading & if i loaded it seperately there would b 8 waits(all be it small 1s)
But again many thanx 4 everybodies comments.
Thank you for responding to my comments. I have no doubt that there are few sites that deliver as much content for 197kb, judicious use of AS has helped you. I have found, when in the world of fussy clients that the get very ticked off having to wait for sites. More so if their brother, mother or janitor, after loading it up on dial up, calls them and tells them that the site took over a minute to load or they gave up waiting. I appreciate your sentiment. I still believe that you should break your site up. Consider loading content that is not visible first off, in the background. This does not help with menu options but could help with secondary scenes within the menu options.
It's just that I have been there, and unless you are targeting a US audience who are in the e-business (marketing, software houses etc) then you should design around dial up.
i had some problems finding your menu
you could have a little, sign saying menu (maybe flashing) on mouse over you popup the menu like its done now.
i am on a T1 and that site took forever to load especially for only 197 kb, are you sure that's correct info?
its a well designed site, but i personally do not like the usability, i like to know what i am clicking i hate to have to rollover somehting to know what it is before i click it
but overall, well done
yes ... very nice .... but text is a bit hard to read in parts (dark on dark) ... text scrollers could be slicker
nice loops / colours
love it
its not easy being a dolphin !
It took me some time to find the navigation.. other than that it looks good. Not sure if I like that pong in the bg thing. Its a bit distracting.
What are some of these people on about, this site is top banana.!!
Loved the space invader following my mouse on the loading seq.What am I on a about this site is all cream.
I want it!!!!!!
"if things don't change, they will stay the same"
I am building a site @ the moment and I'd like to add something that follows the users mouse.
Can you or anyone give me a bit of help re the a/s.
"if things don't change, they will stay the same"
Hi friend,Quote:
Originally posted by leefrench
Giving u lot the 1st look...
http://www.6fish.net/flash/index.asp
Appreciate your views..
This is very nice, but it look too boxup to me.
Overall Good, welldone.
Amiwai..
Thanx 4 all the constructive critisism, comments & 4 taking the time 2 reply.
I will be making a few adustments.
Could still use some more comments if poss!!!
Lee French
"if only life had an edit/undo button"
I agree about the menu, too mysterious and I almost left without finding it! I like the design and concepts v.80's I got stuck in the light switch example tho, oculdn't get back as quit either isnt a button or has no hit area....
goood site tho
Ah there it is. A painfully long loading time could be a crippling blow to any website. One solution would be to load each section after the user clicks on it, rather than all at once at the very beginning. That way, the user will be fooled and think that everything is loading fast. HA HA HAAA, SILLY USER!!! (ahem)
Also, I dig the Mon Ami sound loop.
that is very nice, but i could bearly read the text! also, i think you should change the loading percentage font to that pixel font too.
mikhail
Not answering my request????!!!
now i think yr site sucks...
Right so i made a few changes..btns don't fully disappear..volume slide 4 stereo..loading font as rest of site..
what was that about font colours? some 1 said.
anything else???
Lee French
"if only life had an edit/undo button"
2 Flashbangwollop i will send you the fla if u list yr email address..
Sorry..
Lee French
"if only life had an edit/undo button"
i thought the navigation was a bit unintuitive--you had to mouseover a box and then know to look up to the little box at the top and read where you are at. That seems like the Flash eqiv. of driving while reading a map. why not just have the text appear next to the box?
I also thought having to click on the top box to scroll down in your text boxes was deadly confusing.
also- "your here" needs to be changed to "you're here". Corporate clients notice grammar errors like this. (sorry-i'm a writing teacher, and I catch these sorts of things!)
I thought the music was a bit overdone. I would pick one smooth, unintrusive loop and use it. Corporate clients aren't there for the tunes.
clean look, though. good job.
Hello
The website looks like more as an experimental one to me and i believe this comes from the navigation system.
It loaded quite fast on my 56k modem ( which is not the fastest in the market i ensure you:) )
You could also improve a bit th etransisions and the windows popups.
Other than that the text is deadable at 1024x768 but I believe for some sections there's too much text in so much little space.
Also try to make the tex scrolling easier. How ? as long as the button is pressed the test should scroll and when you reliease it it should stop. The click again and again thing with long text it's kind of pain in the ... :)
Finally try to put somewhere the name of the company and the logo into the flash movie.
I hope this comments where helpfull
Thank you for taking the time to do a sitecheck for me :)
Stratos