test site completed need feedback..

[avelives]

I have just completed a project to make a new site totally diiferent to my others.
Its at:

http:www.freewebs.com/faroutonline/eyething.html

it has no sound and the only section with proper text is the
home section.
however i am reasonably pleased with the look, but need feedback on it.
Also i need a good place to find a tutorial on making jpeg viewers (like thumbnail viewer thing).

[/Pyro]

The animation looks very good. I like the way your logo comes into the top left corner. Do have a question though. Did you mean for the two circles to animate at different times? I noticed some similar animation effects in each circle, but they appear at slightly different times. After refreshing about 7 times I feel the only one that really bothers me is that last dark circle coming in. The bigger one come in about a half second after the smaller one.
Don't get me wrong...overall it looks very nice.

[avelives]

Yeah i see what you mean about the circles.
I kind of meant for the first ones to come in staggered but the two darker blue circles do look kind of wrong when they come in differently, thanks for that.
I have been working on it for a week intensivly now and i couldnt see the woods for the trees as they say.
I will remedy that and then put all text in and add some sort of jpeg viewer as well.
Cheers

[VitiminJ]

I like it very good. With some cool sounds that site would kick ass.
I do have a little issue. When you mouse over the buttons, if your mouse is on the edge it does this twitching thing where it keeps restarting the movie clip. The text at the top goes a little crazy. Do this make sense? I may have looking a little hard.

[/Pyro]

I see what VitaminJ is saying. The over state for the button must have a smaller bounding box than the normal state. So when it goes to play the over state, it thinks the mouse has come off the button so it goes back to the normal state and....you get the picture.

[VitiminJ]

thats another way to put it. no you got it right on the head.

[avelives]

hmm i see what you mean, the problem is the buttons are not buttons they are movie clips with an elastic style effect on them.
what is happening is your mouse is on the edge as it touches it the clip gets smaller and if you are near the edge of it instantly then gets bigger as the rollout feature springs the clip back again which then springs back...etc
you see what i mean....
I have reduced the spring on the elastic effect reducing the problem a bit but not removing it unfortunately.
Thanks for the input guys it has made me more motivated to improve it now, cheers.
JEFF

Oh and syncronised the two blue circles a bit better as well.
now back to drawing board to actually add content to it..

[avelives]

take a look

http://www.freewebs.com/faroutonline

[Esquared]

If you roll over the buttons too quickly your text at the top all meshes together and gets stuck there without displaying any one word. Other than that it looks nive though.

[avelives]

have fixed that , thanks for reminding me.

[JoeMaday]

I like it, but would love it if the interface wasn't so subtle. It is more of a usability issue than a design one. I shouldn't have to mouseover a button to know it is a button and to see where it is going to go. Maybe at the very least put numbers on them, as this will at least make it less envasive looking and be more apparent what you're using for navigation. Other than that I think the site looks good.

[avelives]

I kind of agree, i like the system of navigation but i guess it is kind of obscure.
I will think about possible remedies cause i dont want to lose the button design by adding text to them but i will think of another way round it.
oh check out these SAMPLE menu systems (swf format) and tell me if they are worthy of posting the code for.
(they are all very simple to make)
These are only basic designs and can be vastly improved on.