New Free Flash Portal - Comments!

[oscardog]

http://www.on-your-break.com

Thoughts/Comments/Improvements? :)

Thanks!

[Kimchee]

Love how there is no smutty games or advertisements! Yeah!!!

Only critic is when you hit the navigation button at the top you get a weird frame around the top for a while. Looks nice.

[kkbbcute]

First thought: The game names are quite random: E.g. Defense Attack :p That's an oxymoron.

Other than that, I don't feel that the site is bad, its just that it doesn't manage to stand out. Your page title is just plain too bland and is barely noticeable if not for the fact that it was the first thing to load. Overall, it looks as if you've just borrowed from a blog template and added on to it.

The colored squares for your buttons are meaningless. There is barely any interactivity, with no rollOvers or anything like that. And the first thing that I notice on the page that drew my attention was the colorful advert (that's not good, is it?).

I would say that overall, you still have quite a bit of work to do. Use a more unified color theme and better typography for your header right at the top. Apart from that, everything looks rather okay.

Overall, maybe I'll give a 6.5 or 7/10.

[kkbbcute]

Sorry for the double post, but just wanted to point this out.

Love how there is no smutty games or advertisements! Yeah!!!

The smutty advert is staring straight in your face.:p

[oscardog]

The adverts are now changed. Google at last, so much better quality advertisments. And tbh it's not spammed with adverts.

As for the design, yes, it's a little bland and there needs to be more of an interesting header. Thankyou for the comments D:

[yell0wdart]

I like the concept of it. Free games are always nice (especially if they're good). A couple quick notes on how you might want to tweek things to make the site easier to use:

The navigation of the subpages for Game Listings and Leaderboards are a little wonky. I know the alphebetized filtering of content has been around forever, but with all of the slick new technologies available and client-side tricks we can pull, I think that alphebetized list of games and leaderboards could use a bit of love. An accordion style or sliding/rotating navigation system would be nice, and could potentially be a more efficient use of space on the page.

I tend to subscribe to the "if you don't know it, don't show it" school of thought. If there aren't any games/leaderboards that start with the letter "Y", then "Y" shouldn't be a clickable option on the games navigation. Said letters could either be disabled (grayed out and not clickable), or not shown alltogether.

One last idea to kick around a little bit: The share button (with the digg/del.icio.us/etc logos) could use a little padding on the right side. It bumps right up against the content. Nothing major, it just sort of crowds the content giving it an arbitrary feel (as if it was just thrown in there with little forethought).

[kkbbcute]

I like the concept of it. Free games are always nice (especially if they're good).

Did you create all the games yourself oscardog?

[oscardog]

No, they're from a site called MochiAds, they pay developers and publishers based on impresssions. I'm currently learning actionscript, as you have seen from my posts in the AS2 section ;)

[kkbbcute]

No, they're from a site called MochiAds, they pay developers and publishers based on impresssions. I'm currently learning actionscript, as you have seen from my posts in the AS2 section ;)

I know, I've been replying to them ;)