The Beginnings.....

[clarkkent00213246]

Ok so myself and my housemate are designing this new site for a guy and his brother who specialise in both photography and also making one off pieces of furniture.....its the beginning stages, but useful criticism would be grately appreciated or if it is amazing...the feedback would also be good!

CHEERS

p.s. one for the moderators..........how can you make the navigation on the left that comes after the intro load onto the users pc WHILST the intro is doing its thing, thus saving time loading......

http://www.alimingo.co.uk/index.htm

[itxtme]

Not a bad design!

Few comments to make it better!

The picture on the right needs to be bigger, say just small enough to sit nicely in the frame that the blue makes. Next I would make little guides that appear below the menu when you mouseover a menu option to say where they go.

Finally as you requested you need to preload the menu content. Im not sure which version of swish you are using. If you are using MAX it depends whether the menu is a seperate scene, or a sprite. There are help and examples in the recources pages of swishzone

http://www.swishzone.com/

-itxt

[clarkkent00213246]

Thankyou for the tips there, I will bear those in mind....one more thing...could you please have a look at the left nav menu again...how do i get round the problem i have now....i have one nav button on another when you click the two names...but only the top one does anything...movement wise and linkage...how do i get round this?????

cheers

[itxtme]

Im not sure when you mean?

Do you mean the words link each other so you cant make them be seperate links.

The way i do links in swish is make another layer say a square and make it the shape of the layer you want linked. THen place it over the top of the layer you want linked, give it its personal script as a button, then since its a square, sometimes I have problems with saying NO FILL so that it doesnt cover anything. SO Just set the Alpha in the colour plattlete to 0%

Hope that helps. You will have to further describe the problem if you this doesnt answer it.

[clarkkent00213246]

http://www.alimingo.co.uk/index.htm

Ok I will put this as simple as possible...When you click the 'TIM' icon...You get a selection of thumbnails come up, that then links off to the relative parts of the site...

I'm using Swish 2.0 and what I've done is on top of those little icons, when you click on 'RICHARD', most of them are replaced with another selection of icons...now when the second lot come up, they don't 'roll over' or 'link off', as the FIRST lot are technically speaking on top already, even though faded away, I've tried having them move off the page, but it doesn’t work.....

any suggestions?? Please email me at alex@alimingo.co.uk so I can try and sort this...as its fricking annoying me now.

Cheers