Indakind Designs

[electrikjesus]

I started a web company w/ zero exp. I didn't even know flash till last month. so I need the critique. http://www.indakind.com get back to me on the designs of both sites.

[dalan66]

So far I have just visited the dark site.

Couple of quick suggestions and observations.

Your design is very unique, or at least I have not seen it before.
I guess that you designed the site with 800*600 in mind, or possible even 640*480 because the dark site is hardly readable at 1024*768 which is what I consider the new default resolution for web based work of any kind.

You should always stick to a minimum of fonts used on a site, I usually say no more than three or four if you have some ecclectic stuff going on, but it looks like you use only one font for the pricing section of the site, and you should use at least two.

Your navigational elements should stand out more than they do, but the main font for your content needs to change to something more clear, or change the font color closer to FF instead of CC or DD, just so it stands away from the backgound more.

On a different note, you should drop the side panels on the main page if you are going to keep the site this current size because the text is unreadable at 1024*768...furthermore, the who we are, what we do subtitles are a little overused in both print and media, put your company description in the main area of the website with the rest of the important stuff, just add another item to your menu. Remember, you are selling your services, build your site to show others how you would build theirs. However, leave the big ticket items off your own site so that when your client gets them, they think they are the only ones who get that big ticket item.

Good luck. I think your site has a lot of potential. Though I was very critical of some items, it is just because I see the bigger potential of a lengendary site being built.

[electrikjesus]

Thank you. I had many of those thoughts as well, so I used most of my know how, and made the light site. although light is by no means a discription of it's content. Anyway. Since I am so new at Swish / Flash, any comments as to where to aquire free / open source scripts. it helps me to reverse engineer.

[dalan66]

I did not realize that the light site and the dark site were very different, so I chose to go to the dark site, I will now visit the light site and give you comments and feedback on it as well.

[dalan66]

Okay,

I have now been to the light site, and it is much more readable than the dark site. I like the background animation, but you need to have the text change on your button so it says turn off afterwards, or, change the text to just say background animation.

As I said for the dark site, drop the who we are and what we do stuff. It has been overused since it appeared in a beginners book in the late 80's.

I alwyas like the use of emtpy space on a web site or in print (called whitespace), you need to either add some weight to your cubes on the light site, or add shading to the animation area with the cubes. The cubes get a little lost because they are very light.

For some reason, I could not leave the initial light site page, none of the links worked.

[electrikjesus]

I updated both sites, made the media player movable, etc... check it out