First flash site.

I bought Kool Moves 3 days ago. This is my first flash site... www.rileyforsheriff.org ... any suggestions? Also, can anyone tell me how long it takes to load on dial-up?

nice site
i m usine dial-up connection and it took hardly 20-25 sec.

on this page, the curved element in the main table it off a little bit, you may have an extra line break before the jpg is placed in there... http://www.rileyforsheriff.org/events.htm
be careful with the font sizes you use, for example, if you hold ctrl and scroll the mouse wheel in ie6, you can change the default font size, and if you aren't using CSS, the look of your site can be changed dramatically (tables shift up and down and get misaligned). I would check out http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ if you don't already use CSS...

as far as the intro goes... that background color is pretty hard on the eyes, and everything moves rather sluggishly, I would suggest tweening everything a little bit faster, or possibly just speeding up the frame rate could do the trick, but be careful on low bandwidth connections b/c it will run only as fast as their computer can handle it. If that's your target audience, it's better to keep it lower...

On another note, the flash menu on the site needs something... you could possibly add some animation to the buttons, on the over state, and the hit state, like a subtle highlight animation, or an arrow that appears and points to the current button.

great job though, keep working on stuff and posting here, i love to check out new sites...

dave

Hm..it's nice.

I think in the flash intro. I would leave the Picture in the same spot. Like when you have the re-elect next to it and the text comming up under it , it looks it's best. Dunno with the text comming up it keeps my intrest more then the picture jumping around. (but thats me).

Also your home link, it jumps back to the intro. Dunno if you wanted that to happen. but if home went back to this link http://www.rileyforsheriff.org/riley.htm I think it would be less of a hassle for the person viewing the site.

But for a First site. I must say it's very nice. every things clean.
Keep up the work, hope to see more from you in the future.

sorry, jsut a few more little things... the skip intro button would do better in the center of the page, and the home button on the site should link to the page, and not back to the intro...

Wow!

Thanks for the quick responses!

I agree that the intro needs a little work... my inexperience with flash presents a bit of a handicap.

I have changed the home button... I agree it linked to the wrong place.

Dave you said:

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on this page, the curved element in the main table it off a little bit, you may have an extra line break before the jpg is placed in there...

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http://www.rileyforsheriff.org/events.htm

I don't understand... it works fine here... in i.e. and netscape.

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the skip intro button would do better in the center of the page

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Do you mean horizontal or vertical center, or both?? It seems to me that it would be awkward in the dead-center of the page.

Thanks again for all the responses... I will continue to improve it and will post back in a couple of days for you to take a look at the improved version.

ur events page is working fine in ie but in netscape 4.7 ur style sheet creating problem, netscape doesn't support style sheets, so background image (sheriffbadge.jpg) is not appearing in it


<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
TD.2 {background-image: url('sheriffbadge.jpg');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 50% 50%}
</STYLE>

bs_grewal:

Thanks for the reply. I have noticed that... It's just one of those things that I am willing to live with; unless you were comparing the site in two different browsers, you would never know any different.

To me it's not that big of a deal unless you have a suggestion to make it work in all browsers.

Thanks

if the screen resolution is at 1024x768 or higher the curve at the top does get off a bit

Thanks I will check it out.

Okay... I think I fixed the curve problem. Thanks for pointing it out. If you don't mind, check it out with your browser to make sure it's okay.

it looks fixed to me, and I'm on 1600x1200, xp ie6

Thanks Dave.