Full flash site in progress

[pricey]

I'm in the middle of this site / cd card presentation at present, after 6 months of teching myself flash.

ANY comments welcomed


http://www.selectexperimental.co.uk

[anjelika]

I liked the site very much, although the menu was appearing repeatedly each time I clicked a button it didn't bother me at all. I loved the animation. And the load times were very fast (dial up here).
The only thing that I didn't feel comfortable with was the green color on the Rollover state of the Select Windows, maybe I'm too picky, but it just kind of doesn't fit into the color harmony you have in the site. And I tried clicking the X boxes to close them but it didn't work, I didn't know if it was supposed to close or not.
But in overall it looks great, the images are interesting, feels like there was a lot of work put into building this site.
You did a good job.
Keep up the good work!

[snapple]

pricey,

Well firstly let me say that, thats a nice site for someone who only started learning 6 months ago, very impressive.

Negative points :

1) Text was a little hard to read, cos of the bg images.

2) Menu had a few bugs in it, such as the 'what we do' section, white patch appears on the right hand side of the menu.

3) GET RID times new Roman type font, not pro looking and hard to read with the white outline and blue - e.g presentations section.

4) The menu in the 'about' section, i found it VERY hard to use, could be me being a spaz. I just got confused, becasue you had the open button in the middle of the others, even though it is the first one the user needs, then if you want to play it (which you obviously do, otherwise you would not have opened it) you have to click again, then you can minimise it, when there is no real point because you cannot use anything else while it is like that, HIT states in the buttons were not obvious. I just found it confusing, and hard to use.

5) Some intros were too long to have no skip button e.g web design and cd sections.

Please take these comments constructively, i do not mean them to be destructive in anyway

Plus points:

1) For 6 months work, thats pretty damn good, you keep that up and your gonna have Flash nailed very soon indeed, very impressive.

2) The site worked, functioned well.

3) Good usability, menu always there, not hard to use or see.

4) Loading times were excellent, no probs there at all !

5) Good continuity throughout the site, but using different images and intro's.

I hoped this helped, the main thing i would say is to change that font ASAP.

Oh and probably not a good idea to come out with :

We create killer presentations

Its annoying when a person visits a site and just see's someone blowing their own trumpet...your site should do that for you !!!

Hope this helped,

Snapple :)

[pricey]

Thanks for the replies - Very helpful .

I'm looking at the fonts now & other things mentioned .

Agree regarding the 'killer' presentation - i should perhaps be a little more understated in the approach.


Cheers for the critique though - i'm pleased with what was said

Pricey:)

[pricey]

thanks to all those who took the time to view & post - very . very helpful - i've amended the site accordingly - take another look -

www-selectexperimental.co.uk


Hopefully you'll feel this is moving in the right direction.


Mark P

PS special thanks to snapple who posted such a comprehensive reply


Big Up Lennox

[anjelika]

Hey, pricey,
I've noticed the corrections you made, all the colors work just fine for me now!
I think you don't really need the "smaller" stage on the Select windows. By clicking "revert" makes them smaller anyway, I would just leave the "smaller", "play" , and "revert" stages, that's all you need. And did you leave the X graphic on the revert word, when the window is big,on purpose?
Take care

[ScratUAD]

I love the menu... I think it's great.

[Abelius]

One of the pics on the main page is a broken link...