Just lookin for a little feedback

[fender841]

Just looking for a little feedback on the site i'm creating for a company i'm currently working for. Really my first fully flash site so i'm still figuring some things out as i go. But any feedback on the site and overall look and feel would be awesome.

http://www.nexomedia.com/Temp/

[pellepiano]

Wel thats quite impressive for your first site. Nice buttons and animations.

I was confused though, as the buttons did not take me anywhere on the first page ( that was rather big, 750kb ).
When I clicked the nexomedia link I got to another site with a couple of hundred extra kb to load. There was a working menu though.

I wonder what took so many kb on the first site.

The button names are very small and hard to read.

[fender841]

Well the plan is to have to buttons link to their respective pages though it's currently something that I am having some trouble with. Any idea how I would load a movie to a certain point then have another movie load within that?? or am I thinking about this wrong.

[dduron]

I had the sam difficulty with the buttns on the front page. Also, I was a bit disorientated by the background graphic. There didn't seem to be any relation between the content and th image. I am also a bit bored of seeing sites with black backgrounds, they're so gloomy. I did think the icons were very well done and intuitive.

[pellepiano]

Arent you using loadMovie() now? Or do you load into _levels?

Normally a site is made up of a navigation swf that loads fast. Then each section is loaded into a movieclip target within the main movie.

Heres some info on loading external files.


There are two ways of loading external files into Flash. Either you can load swf files into _levels or into movieclip targets.

_levels only exist in the Flash player. They are like layers but for swf files The Flash player is like a overhead projector where the plastic films you put on top of each other are like the swf files in the player. There are 16000 available levels

//To load a external swf into a _level from a button. The number 1 being the level to load into.

on(release){
loadMovieNum("myExternalFile.swf",1);
}

Movieclip targets are what it sounds like. A empty movieclip placed on the stage just for the purpose of loading a swf file into it. The advantage is that you can place it anywhere, manually ( as opposed to swf's in _levels) and also can control what of the objects should be on top or beneath.

Usually you give the movieclip an instance name of container. ( you give a instance name by selecting the empty movieclip on stage and write the name in the Property Panel )

//To load a external swf into a target movieclip from a button ( both being on the main timeline ).

on(release){
container.loadMovie("myExternalFile.swf");
}

The external movie's top left corner will place it self where the empty movieclip is.

[wurx]

It's a great start, but as mentioned by other users, it's too big!

Finish some of the links and post a site check again. There really isn't anyhting to review.....except they are really nice buttons.

[Loafboy]

I loved the buttons but didnt like the way the text is animated, it looks like an off the shelf SWFx text effect. (which is a shame if you animated them yourself)

I personally would go with a simpler fade or something

Cheers


Loaf

[FTBWEBDESIGN]

I am on a 56k connection and for the first few secs i see a white box... but when the loader started i saw that you have the bg black... if you wanna know how to make it so that no one ever sees a white box before the load up hit me up in the pm and i will send that info over to ya... i trully hope that you never stop making full FLASH sites

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