Please critique.

[jasoncoates]

My own homepage:

www.xcite-design.co.uk

Cheers

[Cnic]

Hey thats really nice.

Loaded fast and transitions were very smooth. Using Netscape on PC. You have some really nice 3d work also.

Keep up the great work!!

[KigD]

Hit:
I like the transitions.
Colors are nice.
Work and products are well shown.

Miss:
Fonts look a bit fuzzy, and I think a different font my suite better.
Transitions, while nice, are a bit slow. Especially at the contact section.
Your transitions cause intense CPU processing, look at the content section then check your processings with CTRL ALT DEL... you need to fix all those enterframes right away.

Score: 5/10
(5 being average)

[jasoncoates]

Yeah, I know the transistions are fairly (very) CPU intensive, but I think it's worth it. With regards to the choice of typeface, are you refering to the Verdana I'm using as the main body text? If so, what would you suggest as an alternative?

Didn't ask for a score by the way, just critique.

Cheers

Jason

[KigD]

Hmm, are you sure the Verdana font is included in the html? I see times. Sometimes if you use frontpage, it can give some problems in putting font.

-Danny

*EDIT - Btw, sorry for including a score. I'm going to stop this habit. Just give the hits and misses.

[jasoncoates]

There is no HTML, just flash. Are we talking about the same site here?

[KigD]

Doh, sorry, I thought I was responding to another persons post (who had a similar problem) but put it as html.

Back to yours, did you antialias your fonts? They look a bit crooked and fuzzy on mine. It might be because you have them slanted.

-Danny

[jasoncoates]

Yeah, I know what you're talking about now. Some of the type is rotated which has caused a slight aliasing problem. If you (or anyone else) knows a way to fix this please let me know. Maybe if I used Gifs rather than vectors it would sort it out.

[KigD]

Yeah, I'd change them to jpgs, pngs, or gifs. Should take care of it.

-Danny

[admedia]

Very nice site.

The only thing I would do differently is get rid of the spinning X / 'select from list message' when the transformation is complete on the right. It gets distracting and annoying after a while.

[jasoncoates]

Very nice site.

The only thing I would do differently is get rid of the spinning X / 'select from list message' when the transformation is complete on the right. It gets distracting and annoying after a while.

Yes, you are quite right. Amended.

[theiceman]

I like your site,its clean and simple whilst getting straight to the point. However, your web site does not look very original.Have you used a flash template for your design as it look extremely similar to many other web sites out there.

Apart from that, I like the colours and general feel of your site.Colours seem easy on the eye also.

I would agree to maybe speed up transitions "slightly" and maybe show if the web sites you have worked on are currently online or offline, as I found a few that were not there yet!


Regards,

Jason Pickford

[jasoncoates]

Have you used a flash template for your design as it look extremely similar to many other web sites out there.

I would agree to maybe speed up transitions "slightly" and maybe show if the web sites you have worked on are currently online or offline, as I found a few that were not there yet!

Templates? No way! I'd like to see a link to all these other sites that look exactly like mine! Any similarity is purely coincidental.

I've now increased the speed and CPU efficiency of the contact us transition.

The dead link sites will be up very soon - sorry about that but it's out of my hands as I only did the layouts.

Thanks for your comments.

[ryanhome]

the site made me feel sick

[admedia]

Ooohh... nice, I like the new tab on the side.

[jasoncoates]

Okay, it's completely revamped and rebranded now.

[lefteyewilly]

i rarely come to site check. For some reason, i clicked on this thread a while back and saw your initial site. I just clicked on it again, and i didn't know i had seen the same site until i read through the above posts. Good job man, loooks good.

[phamber]

very nice site, clean and simple
but dont be rude