Site Check Plz, Modest site...

[Ashkan]

Hello,
Me and a friend are local web desingers doing simple stuff. I'm in the process of making our site. Plz take a look:

site (http://k9.igwebhosting.net/~ash)

[snapple]

Ashkan,

Well first of all....love the music, who is it, sounds a bit like Boards Of Canada or an orb track ?

Nice site, like the graphics, loading times were good for me, around 5 seconds, so nice ! What font is that your using ? Found my self squinting, although i am guilty of that too !

Slight problem with the buttons on the menu, when you clicked/moused over some, a thick black line appeared above the button or rather, below the button above, see what i mean ?

Liked the feel of the site, seemed nice and relaxed, might want to speed up the tweening in the MC on the 'over-state' of the buttons.

Personally i was not too keen on the scroll bar, looked a bit like a default windows one to me. I really did like the site, cannot wait to see it fully built. I was not sure about the areas of blue that went down the screen with the text in them, i was not keen on the way the did not align with the screen that the text was on, but the shadow effect made up for that.

Nice site, cannot wait to see more,

hope this helped, Snapple :)

[retrocool]

None of the menu buttons on the left hand side did anything when clicked.
My specs: Mac OS 9.2.2 / IE 5.1 / Flash plugin 6.0.29.0
Do you use Javascript?

I liked your loading info panel. All that work for 92k! Good to see.

retrocool

[momentus]

It's looking good. The buttons on the left didn't work for me either, I presume it's because you're still in the building process?

Anyways, it's coming together nicely. I really like the image before on the main page (before the popup), but am concerned that the colors look pretty choppy. I'm guessing you went with gif and 256 colours, maybe try jpg at 100 quality, or, better yet, make it in illustrator. Something like that would lend itself well to being vector art. The same concern with the J & A logos in the pop up- they looks choppy and a little pixelated. Give swish 3d a try - you can get the exact same effect and perspective all in vectors. (on second thought, I'm not even sure you need 3 logos on one screen. The one in the middle would suffice and wouldn't go against the perspective of the background - just a thought)

Try speeding up some of the tweens on the navigation. It feels a little slow.

I do like the overall layout and it seems to function well. It's already pretty nice looking. I look forward to seeing it when it's done.

momentus.

[Abelius]

Is it me or the link you are giving is broken?