Two new Swish sites launched. Need review

[Roget]

Hi, I'm looking for a little feedback on two new sites that I just developed. You can view them as follows:

http://www.permacycle.org/

http://afp.permacycle.org/

[MsPamela]

On the first link:
On the preloader, you need something other than the faint graphic to tell people that the site is loading something.... Many people who do not know anything about websites or flash may assume there is a problem with the site and go elsewhere before it loads.

I like the great use of vectors, the colours are good and loading time is good considering you have audio on each page. All the links work but on the "Webshop" page, your main movie goes to the contact page and another browser opens up to the products and services page. I don't know if you meant for that to happen or not, but I personally did not care for that. I would rather not have two browsers going. I and most of the general population know how to use the back button or click on a link to go back to a main page.

Also, I noticed that when I turned off the audio, the speaker button greyed out on the other pages so I had to listen to the audio on all the other pages. I clicked on it anyway and found out that it does work, but you have to click on it twice to turn off the audio on all the other pages because it starts the "Welcome to Permacyle" from the first page on the first click and the second click finally turns it off.

On the Solutions - 2 Managing soils ..........there is a horrible screeching sound that I suppose is the sound of those bugs but it is very annoying and not a very good quality because it has clicks in it and it does not loop well at all. I would get rid of that. Same goes for the water which sounds more like someone frying eggs close to a stream. Again the loop is terrible and there are pops and clicks in it.

Overall a nice site! I liked the contact page with the owl and the stars the best.

The second site:
The AFP stop sign graphic is very simple and should be drawn in SWiSH so that you don't have that distortion caused by compression.

The buttons are neat and make navigation very simple. The audio is nice, very soft and I can turn it off if I want. However, that sound effect that you have for the changing of pages is too overpowering for the site.

On the "About Us - Home" there really is no need for the scroll when you could just make room for the extra line of text, which is all it scrolls down for.

on the "Staff" You have a small box with a grey outline next to one person's name...that box is just outside the mask and therefor is missing its left side.

I like the simplicity of this site, with the exception of the sound effect. :-)
Ms Pamela