portfolio-new and different, or old and stale? do tell!!

[jasonpratt]

warning... no preloader and missing content...
just wanted to see if its cool and if the background soundtrack/miscelany works...

thanks bros and sis's
http://visionroot.com/design/2.html

oh, ps.. use either ie or netscape/mozilla for now (i know some of my scripts aren't working on other browsers yet....

[Parsonsgfys]

Hi there

What you've done so far is rather neat. You've got a contemporary yet off-kilter feel, augmented by the ambient sound effects. A good basis to build on.

For the future, I think you should definitely build in some more dynamic elements, sort of subtle transitional extras on top of what is already there. Also, definitely keep the size down if possible, it took me a while to load it up.

Keep it up...

[jasonpratt]

yeah.. i know i havent optimised alot of it yet...and i think i will load my mc's from the swf as well as a preloader.

I figured i'd try to get my content in there next, optimise and fix my tabbed browser bug, then worry about the eye candy later...

[leon_surfdude]

looks really nice! only a little 'fuzzy' images... no big deal, cause the site looks cool! matter of taste i guess...

[jasonpratt]

what resolution you use?

maybe i can try to shrpen them without bloating...

[hammerAX]

The site looks great JasonPratt..
Also Seems to be working fine for IE...

[r0bbb]

overall its good, but the background sounds got to me after a while, and theres no way to turn them off!!

[jasonpratt]

good to hear... i was wondering if they would have that effect... i igues its always best to have the option...

[hammerAX]

hey JasonPratt.. what font did u use?

[jasonpratt]

its called:

English111 Vivace BT

[hammerAX]

thankz

[FlAss]

Wonderful porto there. Love the typography.

[CWC-oneshot]

I absolutly hate the monkey sqwaks!!!!! ahhhhh turn it off! plz

hehehe

Over all I like your graphics. I feel that the Navigation could use a subtle animation at start and rollover I did a nav like that once on a site
just stacked up text and everyone emailed me HOW DO I GET TO REST OF SITE hahahahah You see it looks more like a graphic then a nav

trust me.

Also when I went to the WEB area the whole thing has this transperant square around it like something is messed up
I think it destroys the edges of the cool background you have.

also some people really dont like to see spiders!
like me! that spider is very very scary! and made me go to other page
I dont like him. And others wont either hehe

I think you should use the Butterfly here instead of spider
and on the web page area use a spiderweb in corner with a tiny spider slowly walking around on it

In fact I think you should add very subtle movments to all your little creatures!!!! Like the gekko you can make his eye blink evry once in a while and the butterfly flutter or move its antena a little

and so on those would really set it off for me!

but please remake your jungle sounds they are way to intrusive.
maybe just have the jungle sounds for the first 10 sec.
then fade in a nice low loop



Hope I helped

[jasonpratt]

thanks ... precisely the type of feedback i was seeking...

[allaboutkeys]

I really love your artwork!

As someone said before, some subtle animations would sell the mood of your site better. The sounds get very annoying after some time (especially on the "experimental" and "contact" pages).

[jasonpratt]

cool... the sound is actually a loop from an external swf... the only page specific sounds are onClick of the buttons... yeah, the "monkeys" (birds actually) will have to go...

i know it needs a ton of work, and alot of what i thought has been pointed out, i just wanted to get some initial feedback...
thanks for all the input, i'll bring this thread back again later on down the line....

unless anyone has anything important to mention, for now, lets let it fall to the next page or so until i can do some improvements.... thanks again all.... you rule.