chameleons

http://www.a-i.tw/root.html?lang=en

featured on thefwa.com

Look at a lot of the sites on there. Mind blowing, and a lot are hard to navigate.

And I think you need to do a bit of research about websites, because not all of them have the #1 goal of being accessible to everyone. Online store fronts, yes. Experimental personal portfolios no.

There are other aspects to the web, and other corners that you apparently haven't visited. I for one am a fan of atypical designs and functionality.

I said well known sites that site is not at all well known............


Yea course if you had a portfolio why on earth would you want people to see it? really clever remark.

O yea i just looked at your site YDEK Productions I wonder if google's webmaster web report would like to know about your cloaking?

users view:

http://www.ydekproductions.com/

search engines view:

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache...&hl=en&strip=1

Google webmaster guide lines:

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=35769

Google spam report:

http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html


So flash is so great for websites you need to break webmaster guide lines with a very cheap and low trick like hidden divs?

Well let me explain better the marketing strategy below this website: when you make some advertisement, generally you don't want to get to everybody, but only to your market chosen slice. If you want give them something they like, you must make several choices, that generally are suited to their tastes, so probably they will not like to other market slices, but this is not a problem, because your goal is your chosen slice. Here we have furnitures, whose main features are:
1. they are in natural wood, to let you play with them, painting them as you prefer
2. they are quite cheap
3. they are well done
so these furnitures potential clients are people who prefer to buy the item and then play with it, somehow creative and looking for fun also. So I have decided to give same cut to the website: creative and funny, to play with. The point is I received a lot of positive feedbacks about it, so I think website has (at least partially as usual) reached his goal. Time will say if I was right or not, but the fact that there is someone who doesen't love the site is not an issue. This website is not an ecommerce one, so it is not important to have immediate access to products etc., but it's main goal is to leave good sensation to his potential or already active clients.
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Without the intension of prolonging a fight, i'd like to sit on the fence regarding your design here Motik ;)

My thoughts, in no particular order are:

1) It's bloody gorgeous !!

2) My girlfriend thinks it's bloody gorgeous too !!

3) It does take far too long to load though. However, that's acceptable when you're rewarded with the beautifully thought through product Catalogue screen for example, but waiting a similar length of time for Contact info is simply unforgivable.

4) I'm all for innovative navigation design, but your balloon floating menu thing is just too darn difficult to catch at 1st...... it's a great idea, but i'd scrap the 1st part (before the balloons appear) on the Home page. You just need to make it easier to catch to make the whole idea more accessible.

5) I just took another look at the site and I think you've made things worse by adding the interactivity to the loading screens. The 1st time through, my mouse arrow was up in the far left of my screen and this caused the plane to not be visible during the loading sequence...... maybe this only happens with large screens but it's still a major concern.

6) I just sat through the whole loading sequence for the main site, then chose Home from the balloon menu...... I then had to sit through the whole 2 minute loading sequence again !! ARRrrgh !!! Please remove the goto script from the Home balloon on the Home screen menu ARrrgh !!

On the whole.....I love the site...... but for me, great design is the area where aesthetic beauty meets functionality. Shorten those loading times and make the menu more accessible and your there !!

Jimmy
PS. Love the Chameleon fella ;)

Dragon, I am done arguing with you about this. It's dumb. You are tunneled into one way of using the web. Not EVERYTHING needs to be made so your grandma can use it.

And by the way, my site doesn't fall under the category of cloaking. Cloaking is meant to skew search results in your favor. If i stuffed "web development" 5000 times under there, that'd be a different story. I am not portraying any additional information, only EXACTLY what is displayed in Flash. It also serves are reference for screen readers and people who view site's without stylesheets.

You are right about one thing, Flash is a bad tool for search engines, this is a solution. Go ahead and report it. I'm not doing anything wrong.

Thanks Jimbrowski, I have stopped the cluod parallax movement as you suggest because I think it was creating a bad confusion after all. Regarding contact page, it is actually containing another animation wich is starting as soon as you send a message, that's where page load is coming from
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