My Website

[Chaz2290]

I am hoping to offer my services with design and want some opinions on my website if possible:
http://www.thecarbrokers.co.uk/charlesbannister/site.html

A few things:
I know the images are crap, I will change them eventually I just wanted to have something there. Also am going to have a contact form on the contact page (once I work out how it's done).

Oh, haven't just joined this site just for this by the way!

Learning actionscript 3.0 but to be honest have done this in 2.0 just because it's soooo much easier!

[kkbbcute]

Not being an ass or anything, but quite simply put, your design is reminiscent of an ordinary 13-16 year old in high school trying to work with Flash. The colors used are not striking, going between dull and over saturated at times, making it seem unnatural.

Also, your fonts do not fit, and the lack of gradients, shadows or any text effect makes your titles and words hard to differentiate and read. Your loading screen could also use a good animation, like a rotating ball like thing or something, most people do that, or even just a number which states the percentage.

As a professional site offering a service, I don't think this will pass, maybe a 3.5/10. Fine, maybe I'm a little harsh, but just compare yourself with all the great sites out there!

Btw I work in AS2 exclusively:D

[Chaz2290]

OK, that's all fair enough; especially about the loading screen I know that needs sorting.

So, can I assume everything you didn't say was wrong is ok?

For example I think the main title area is fine, the moving lines below the title might be a bit much but it looks pretty cool.

I'll look at altering the gradients to something more vivid and try and create more of a contrast then will re-post.

Cheers

[nakedkafka]

could use some work on the typography, perhaps a different font for the text, but go with the flow and what looks right to you.

[maskedMan]

I agree, it really does not look like professional grade work regardless of whether you're trying to highlight design or code. I have a few additional points aside from the ones already made:

Your name in the header has no room to breathe, clamped between the horizontal rules. The whole site seems kind of claustrophobic, actually. Not to mention that I'm viewing on a widescreen monitor with the browser scrunched down to half its width, and your centering is *not accurate.* Do some research on how to maintain a centered column using CSS.

Why did you not allow people to select the body text? I tried to highlight it because it was so hard to read against the dark background, but it wouldn't let me. Even aside from that, it's good to let people select body text as you never know when they might want to copy and paste your site information for later use.

The button hit areas are far too small. The nav on the right side doesn't feel right, either. Do some research on nav placement in the web design realm.

I question the wisdom of making the entire site in Flash. It looks like it could have been done more easily with just HTML, using Flash for an animated header.

[rawmantick]

Layout is not liquid. Why should I manipulate with my browser window position and size just to see your site? No, I shouldn't. And neither should any user...

[cjx3711]

The design is simple. Not very complex. The colouring used is quite dull, not enough contrast. My first impression is: boring. If the site's first impression is not good, people will just navigate away from it without giving it much thought. Your use of shape tweens for the starting does not seem too well done. I think you should add a fade in effect and add a gradient to the text background.

I'm not sure if you want this comment, but your navigation system is too simple. You should add some rollover effect at least.

One last thing. I do not see any preloader. You may want to take another look at the script.

[kkbbcute]

The design is simple.

It's not that it's simple, it just has about 10 fundamental design flaws, things which you should never do, such as odd typography, lack of strong colors, irritating design that strikes out at your eyes, navigation is confusing at best, etc... ... It needs a whole lot of improvement for it to be better.

[GFX Complex]

Btw I work in AS2 exclusively:D

People who only do AS2 should not be a critic of any AS3 work since they have little skill in that area to speak for and from what I can tell they are mostly overly critical because of their incompetence.

No one here gives an AS2 about your inability to learn the standers that have been in place for Action script for over 2 years. :(

As for the Site: Good work.

::EDIT:: WT FLYING F where am I, Sorry this site sucks bad. I must of got confused about where I was because I keep seeing the same cry baby's whining about AS3.

[kkbbcute]

I don't reply cuz I hate AS3, I just believe that anything that can be done with AS3 can be done in AS3, don't see why you have to change, just because its a new standard. And I'm a designer, I critique sites by their design, regardless of their actionscript, so stop whining about it GFX Complex, seriously, the site does actually suck , I don't care if it's in AS2 or 3, don't flame the thread, and Good Work doesn't count as a constructive criticism, seriously.

Learning actionscript 3.0 but to be honest have done this in 2.0 just because it's soooo much easier!

Even the author does it in AS2, it's all about what you prefer, anyway what you said is philosophically illogical.

Using your argumentative methods, a game reviewer must have developed games before to review games, otherwise he would not understand the effort that goes into making a game and the difficulties involved and is not fit to review the game. Similarly, a food critic must have been a chef, otherwise he would not understand the ways of cooking and would not know how to savor the food properly.

If you haven't noticed by now, all these are all fallacies that represent a break in logic. A review is supposed to represent a review from the general audience. Unless you are saying that everyone who visits his site must be an AS3 coder, you are clearly mistaken, period. Just because you love AS3 or something doesn't mean that everyone has to use it, and just because I use AS2 doesn't give you an excuse to randomly flame a thread.

[flyingchalupa]

You might want to fix your (impressive) tripple negative in your recruit section:
"never have a job I can't not handle"...