first draft of site

[avelives]

My new site idea (it is far from finished but i would like some feedback on how people think the text would be best layed out/displayed also on colors, is this to much grey ? and background pics??)
also does the browser redirection work for everyone ??

CLICK HERE (http://www.freewebs.com/faroutonline)

Thanks for any suggestions

[pellepiano]

Its not much of a site as there are no navigation or other pages.

It takes to long fro the page to get ready.Lots of animation on the navigation page is maybe fun to watch the first time you go to a site. The next time when you know what you want from it, you want to get there as quickly as possible.

The text appears cluttered as you use mostly uppercase, the same size and color. Without contrasts the eye wont know what to focus on.

Instead of having a dimming effect on rollOver it would be better in my opinion to have some random dimming going on ( some action on a page can be good). I have a hard time understanding why anyone would think its fun to go over buttons just to get a dimming effect. If they were faster in their rollOver animations and had different colors at least some patterns would form when sweeping over the buttons.

[JGizmo]

Sorry avelives, but have to say the colour of the background dont mix with the colour of the font, and about that font :o, it is very ...................hard to read. Like the design of the center graphic. Keep it up the good work.

Regards
John

[avelives]

i must say im not happy with the text either (as for the long loading times they will be sorted in final version)
I dont want the text to get lost amongst a see of grey but i equally dont want to make it a garish color or add solid colored graphics as they wont fit the alpha faded theme.
The rollover beehive thing will be eventually the transition piece for each sections graphics and background pics (it is taking much longer to do than i thought :) )

Thanks for pointing those things out pellapiano but as i said at the begining i was only looking for specific help or suggestions involving color scheme, text (how its layed out etc) and the background pics.
But yeah the text is gonna get changed as i wasnt happy with that either.

The only thing id disagree with you on is the beehive thing pellapiano, it is really just there as a guide for myself during the design process , it has about 20% of its functionality actually coded into it at the mo, and is far from being able to change as its barely even been started :)

Thank you both though for your comments i will certainly take them on board.

[subquark]

not enough contrast on the font and it's too much using that font for everything. Really hard to read.

Will the honeycomb stuff become buttons? Or is it just a rollOver effect to play with? If it's just to play with set the handCursor to false so you don't expect something to happen from clicking it.