navigation and site check!

[dhokeefe]

Hello people,
Could you let me know what you think of the site? Does the navigation work? Its my portfolio of work and some experiments i've done.

http://www.dhokeefe.com

thanks for any comments
cheers
don

[miyagiofflash]

i want to be the first to say that you have a very nice site on your hands...i really like it.

i like how you integrated design idea of the colored boxes into the page...you kept a pretty constant theme. you had some nice portfolio stuff on display...smooth animations.... pretty clean design. i might rethink the font inside the boxes on the main page, perhaps some sort of pixel font to fit with the rest of the page and maybe go over the shape tweens on the boxes in the contact section they look kind of below your skill level.

definately a great site though...good job.

[tiga]

That is a very cool site. Very tight and clean, good work...

[dhokeefe]

thanks for the comments.

"i might rethink the font inside the boxes on the main page, perhaps some sort of pixel font to fit with the rest of the page and maybe go over the shape tweens on the boxes in the contact section they look kind of below your skill level." miyagiofflash

cheers, this is what i needed to hear. I did that contact anim a while ago, hadn't really looked at it critically for a while. Sometimes its hard to stand back from your own work and see it with fresh eyes.

don

[M.Mahgoub]

hi

its so creative, innovative & simple

but where is the soundFX ?

[dhokeefe]

yes, you're right I haven't got any sound effects. Have to admit I have reservations about using sound in flash sites. Don't get me wrong, I've seen some great sites out there which use sound very effectively, but the majority of the time sound doesn't seem to add anything to a site, and if anything can be very annoying.

I don't know what the figures are but how many internet users actually have sound on or volume turned up? For all the ones out there who don't then the extra load time is wasted. I don't know how many times i've been turned off a site due to a 3 second loop playing. Anyway just my thoughts. I guess the real challenge is to get the sound effects working well.

d

[Taika]

About the sound effects. I almost always have music going in my headphones when I am looking at the internet- flash music just screws everything up.
I like the site. I was mesmerized by the karate people animations- those were very sharp. Just the thing to offset the (here it comes) AUSTERITY of the site. Very design oriented, but practically no fine art at all... that being what it is, its very good. But I'd have liked to have seen more artwork.

[expertwebmedia]

hello, i've been surfing the net all morning to find a particular effect and i finally found it on your site. very nice design and layout.

the effect that i'm talking about is after you click on the box/links when the movie clip loads you first get a solid color and then it splits into two, one going up, and one going down, while the content is loading in the white middle section... could you please tell me how you did that or it is too much trouble just give me the basic idea?

if anyone else knows how to do this i would appreciate your input.

thanks

[d3s_inc]

Nice! I think it looks quite nice. The layout is good, and not too clutured and I really liked the transitions.

Simple, but not tooo simple. I like that.

But yes, where are the sound FX??

Good site
-Phil

[dhokeefe]

effect that i'm talking about is after you click on the box/links when the movie clip loads you first get a solid color and then it splits into two, one going up, and one going down, while the content is loading in the white middle section... could you please tell me how you did that or it is too much trouble just give me the basic idea?" expertwebmedia

to answer the question. if its the bit of animation i think you're talking about. Once the sold color (i.e. red) is in place, i introduced a white rectangle in the centre of the color whose height expands. It may look like the color rectangle divides in two and they shrink, but works differently. You could do this with frames but easier with code.

this is what i stuck on the white movie clip (already set to size i wanted it to end up).

onClipEvent (load) {
originHeight=this._height;
this._visible=false;
this._height=2;
counter=0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (counter>10) {
this._visible=true;
if (this._height<originHeight) {
this._height=this._height+this._height/2;
}
if (this._height>originHeight) {
this._height=originHeight;
}
}
counter++
}
content is loaded as an external swf into a movie clip.
hope this helps
cheers