Another portfolio site...

[bigalc]

Hi guys, sorry to bore you all with more of the same, but some comments on this site, produced for a make-up artist would be useful. A couple of people have had an issue with loading times, although this seems to be due to the time taken to access a php script, rather than the loading of any graphics. Hopefully you'll see what I mean.

Let me know your thoughts, and if you find any problems

Thanks!

www.carol-brown.co.uk

[Cota]

The obvious issue I see is the horizontal scroll bar....

[Frogman_Pep]

I don't know much about PHP, which means I could dicepher it b/c of other code knowledge, so I can't comment too much on that. I didn't have too much lag on the scroller, a little though. I'm wondering what awaits as my status bar is still only half full (it's been @ 7 - 10 minutes now). It seems that PHP is becoming a craze with it's ability to add images on the fly. But like I said I don't know too much about it, but I would recommend checking out this tutorial: http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Interactivity/Navigation/Vertical-Jeremy_B-815/index.php

It could be explained better, but once you get the understanding of how it works, there seems to be an a diverse amount of creativity and interactivity one could do.

Then I'd suggest loading your different scrollers by placing an empty movie clip, with the onClipEvent(load) code on the first frame of your site. This is what I've been experimenting with as it seems much more advantageous to load in the background before the user requests the section. Something to think about. You probably can do something like that with PHP as well.

One last note is the colors of your headers. My suggestion would be to add a three-color scheme. B/c when you have something selected it's white and then when you mouse over that text becomes white as well, which I would suggest changing to a color in between your light tan and white to add a contrast. Hope any of this helps. Oh yeah, I'm also a fan of explaining to the user what this button and that does. So maybe add a text box with different descriptions, for the not so savy users. Trust me, there are a few out there.

[Assertnfailure]

Also, while this is a very insignificant gripe, I think I would feel a little more comfortable with the vertical scroll arrows to respond to onPress instead of onRelease, just because thats the way I'm used to scroll arrows behaving.

[bigalc]

The obvious issue I see is the horizontal scroll bar....

What do you mean exactly?

[bigalc]

Also, while this is a very insignificant gripe, I think I would feel a little more comfortable with the vertical scroll arrows to respond to onPress instead of onRelease, just because thats the way I'm used to scroll arrows behaving.

interesting point, thanks.

[bigalc]

I'm wondering what awaits as my status bar is still only half full (it's been @ 7 - 10 minutes now).

I know! I can't for the life of me figure out what's causing this. It seems to be something to do with the way I'm using loadVars, because I've got the same problem in a similar site I'm working on.

Then I'd suggest loading your different scrollers by placing an empty movie clip, with the onClipEvent(load) code on the first frame of your site. This is what I've been experimenting with as it seems much more advantageous to load in the background before the user requests the section. Something to think about. You probably can do something like that with PHP as well.

All the php is called from the first frame of the movie, and thumbs begin loading here too. I don't load the second scrollbar in the background because there's really no need- as you can see, the thumbs load one by one and as they do, their larger counterpart becomes available.

Thanks for your comments!

[Cota]

What do you mean exactly?
I get a horizontal scroll bar in the browser..

[bigalc]

I get a horizontal scroll bar in the browser..

I see what you mean, I've got to look at that. I've got the whole thing arranged in a table (I know that's a sin in itself for a lot of people) and I think I've been a bit sloppy with the stretch values.

Any ideas why I might be having a continually advancing progress bar in IE ? It's almost as though there's some sort of infnite loop running somewhere but I can't find what it might be, and it doesn't seem to be affecting the functionality of the site...Stabs in the dark here would be most welcome.

[Cota]

I dont think IE ever, in the loading progress bar, ever shows a Flash file as complete...at least whenever I've noticed it has...I could way off base and just making things up of course.