my first ever real site

[mgason]

here it is, my first ever "professional" site. as in I got a few dollars. not nearly enough
many things I would like to improve but a labor of love

http://www.frampton.com

mark:

[pr0004]

cool job. professional and complete. I do not like only only the background effect. White is better.

[ThreeLefts]

Very cool... I'm diggin it. The only thing that I kinda don't like is that some of the pictures seem too blown up and have become a bit blocky. But the intro kicks ass and I like your preloader too! Well done.

[flashgordoncole]

cool!! very nice work... the preloader is gobsmacking!

But the music-streams are for broadband-users only, mh? i've just heard small pieces of the music with lots of breaks. Down here in old europe lots of people use isdn or modem, even though cable users are growing fast...

greetz

f-g-c

[bvgroote]

cool, nice, good job!

[hGraf Design]

Very cool! Excellent work.

The nav was quick enough, and the easy to get around in.

Loaded OK, the Intro was nicely done, but the only thing that threw me
off was...the navigation itself.

I kept thinking that the little boxes were the actual buttons, as illustrated
in the screenshot below, but when you click'em, it just opens up the
navigation buttons in the main screen.
Either take the little boxes out, or make them work.

After I got used to this, it was OK.

So cool work. Very nice indeed.

[mgason]

thanks for all the input,
to hgraf,
good point I think I will do that, when you design it how it works is obvious ;-) so a outside opinionis appreciated.

flashgordoncole,
music streaming is for broadband, there is still an html site for others. Of course with a modem and flash you have a problem, they wanted quality. Do you get the whole thing if you listen to it a second time? meaning is it cached on your machine and able to play back smoothly?

ThreeLefts,
yeah you would think someone like frampton could supply some decent images for me to work with!!

pr0004
you know I am with you, they wanted them, I tried to sneak them out, right at the last minute they said what about those backgrounds where did they go I did make them random, so you have a 1 in 3 chance of getting a plain background

Dont know if anyone noticed I put in some random stuff and will add more. For instance the background of the video section can load any one of 6 versions of the same 2 second video each with a diffrent effect.

I will be tweeking for a while, I am pretty pleased with how much I got done in 4 weeks of my spare time (read ALL my spare time!) I dont do flash for a living, I have 9 to 5 office gig.

[[Xt]]

Great site... I really like it...
I use mozilla the most, the flash version checker you have didn't let me in with mozilla.... I don't know if it is because it's not IE or if it's because I'm running Flash 7, but it wouldn't let me in. Just wanted you to know.

Great site...
also the html site should match the flash site a little more in my opinion, But you didn't designed the html version did you??

[mgason]

flash 7, how can I keep up ;-)
interesting info on mozilla, the detection is just straight from macromedia. I shall have to look into that.

but you still got in? how may I ask? what happened when you went to the URL?

The html site is just the old site that has been there for years. It may be retired eventually, I doubt they will want to spend much on updating it.