chk my new site v1

[tacticalreaper]

need comments and suggestions to improve my new upcomin site

www.3sixt.net

[3pepe3]

too slow to load... too slow to move and the integration of the portfolio button looks more like a publicity ADD.
Then when we press the button the next interface is soo...:confused: ...undesigned (antidesign)...
Also if you are going to leave that panning speed then cut the image in 3 or 4 sections and load first one image and when image has been loaded load the next and so on... also if next image is loading and the user has reached the right corner then stop the panning function and activate again when "next image has been loaded".

[matbury]

Beautiful photography, nicely stitched together, I like the multi-layer image panning effect.

I think you could make a few adjustments to make it a bit more user friendly:

The first thing is the long download. I pretty sure a lot of users won't wait long for a website they've never heard of before. The solution: Do you have to wait for the whole thing to download before you let the user advance? You could preload only enough of the swf to get the user "up-and-running" and let the loading continue while they're admiring your images. i.e. if(bytesLoaded>totalBytes/4){gotoAndStop(3)}; This would preload 25% before letting the user advance. You can check how much you need to load with the bandwidth profiler when you test your movie. This gives you something like the "progressive download" that you get with video. You'll also have to organise your flash movie to load in the order that you want it to. I split big movies across a number of keyframes and let the movie advance, adding the newly loaded data as it goes. You can use percentLoaded or getFramesLoaded(); to control this.

[cristi_tulcea]

to bad for my processor.
why do you have horizontall scrollbar?

[baross]

THATS AWEOME , your photos sounds and the stitching together is awesome! very good vibe! makes me feel good. how ever it needs to be faster like they said. Is that big scroll just one big image ? if so thats why its so slow you need to not have stuff off the stage area that scroll in break the image up and attach them off the stage when they need to come in. is that the highest compression for the jpg's you can afford ?

[tacticalreaper]

ok i enabled the bitmap caching .. let me know how is it coming out now.
did some other tweaks to make it run smoother..
waiting for critique and suggestions

[matbury]

I like the page turn effect on your album and the transitions are nice and smooth.

A few things that I've noticed (for what it's worth):

I launched the page with IE6 and got an unusually wide web page. I was using a standard monitor, 1024 pixels, which is what any potential client is likely to be viewing your site on. I centered it easily enough, but it's something that is quite unnecessary, and it kicked in IE´s scroll bars at the side and bottom of the viewing window, reducing the viewing area.

"flip the page" - This doesn't tell me anything intuitive or logical. Perhaps "turn the pages" would be less confusing.

The sound effects on your scrolling landscape are a nice touch. I think that the volume panning is going in the opposite direction though - I could be mistaken but it's worth checking.

Again, with the scrolling landscape, it seemed a little bit jerky on this computer, which isn't very fast by anybody's standard. I think it is important to test your SWFs on the oldest, crappiest, slowest computers you can find. There's thousands of people and companies who bought their computers donkeys' years ago and have never upgraded. Since most people only ever write letters and reports, do their emails, and download stupid movies (or porn), they don't see the need to get the latest, fastest, most powerful machines to date.

The rollOver effect on the links to "work" and "gallery" (the white border appearing) - after such a smooth, slick first impression, they're a bit abrupt and "in-yer-face"... is it really necessary?


I hope this helps!

[tacticalreaper]

thanks a lot for all your suggestions matbury.. that is really helpfull.

But as far as the sound panning ..i guess you might wana switch your left speaker with the right one.. i think thats what is making you think its in the opposite direction

and i am confused you are talking about the white border which appears on rollover or just the way buttons react on rollover

the white border is to give it a snapshot effect as you go over to a link everything freezes (except for the water fall)