Flash site critique requested

I'm wrapping this flash site up for a photographer and would like to
get some overall feedback on usabilty, design and so on while there is
still time to make changes. If this is not the right group for flash
stuff, please advise. Any and all ideas are appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

The "timeline" section will be exactly like the "titles" section, only
stories will be sorted by date, not name. But this section is yet to be
finished.

Thanks again.

http://www.JohnVink.com/

cruiserweight wrote:

I'm wrapping this flash site up for a photographer and would like to
get some overall feedback on usabilty, design and so on while there is
still time to make changes. If this is not the right group for flash
stuff, please advise. Any and all ideas are appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

The "timeline" section will be exactly like the "titles" section, only
stories will be sorted by date, not name. But this section is yet to be
finished.

Thanks again.

http://www.JohnVink.com/

I can't see why you need to use Flash on this site...
The "running" text is annoying.
The text, especially on the contact page, is too
small and has too little contrast from the background.
Apart from that, the pages look good.


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I'm wrapping this flash site up for a photographer and
would like to get some overall feedback on usabilty, design
and so on while there is still time to make changes. If
this is not the right group for flash stuff, please advise.
Any and all ideas are appreciated. Thanks in advance.

The "timeline" section will be exactly like the "titles"
section, only stories will be sorted by date, not name. But
this section is yet to be finished.

Thanks again.

http://www.JohnVink.com/

LOOSE THE FLASH !!!!

It is only because of your request that I waited for as long
as I did.. Normally I would have stoped the page.

You can do all the core things using dhtml, I would suggest
spending some time on http://www.dyn-web.com they have code
samples and demos that are first class.

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KHaled

e-mail: khaledihREMOVEUPPERCASELETTERS at fusemail dot net
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please start your subject line with the string "==NG=="

cruiserweight wrote:

I'm wrapping this flash site up for a photographer and would like to
get some overall feedback on usabilty, design and so on while there is
still time to make changes. If this is not the right group for flash
stuff, please advise. Any and all ideas are appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

This is not really the right group for flash stuff since there is little
HTML to critique.

On that note though you could do 90+% of this in HTML with CSS which would
be faster and more accessable. The only thing that you would lose is the
fancy-boy transitions and text animations.

Jay

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I'm wrapping this flash site up for a photographer and would like to
get some overall feedback on usabilty, design and so on while there is
still time to make changes. If this is not the right group for flash
stuff, please advise. Any and all ideas are appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

The "timeline" section will be exactly like the "titles" section, only
stories will be sorted by date, not name. But this section is yet to be
finished.

Thanks again.

http://www.JohnVink.com/

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1106373278.756710.322510 (AT) c13g20...oglegroups.com...

I'm wrapping this flash site up for a photographer and would like to
get some overall feedback on usabilty, design and so on while there is
still time to make changes. If this is not the right group for flash
stuff, please advise. Any and all ideas are appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

The "timeline" section will be exactly like the "titles" section, only
stories will be sorted by date, not name. But this section is yet to be
finished.

Thanks again.

http://www.JohnVink.com/

I'd pop over to a Flash forum where you will get more feedback and
hopefully more input and ideas. I think you have the basics of something
good but it's not good enough IMHO.


Good Luck

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In article <1106373278.756710.322510 (AT) c13g2000cwb (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
bayon86 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com says...
I'm wrapping this flash site up for a photographer and would like to
get some overall feedback on usabilty, design and so on while there i


It looks nice, but I would use CSS to achieve the same results. It
would also make it easier to update in the future.

The scrolling text is very annnoying.

I'm all for Flash in certain situations and I see no harm in a 100% Flash
site in a category such as a photographers site. I did a check on a
photographers site about a week ago and it was fab, I can't find the url
though, I'll dig it out and post it.

Cheers

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bayon86 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com says...
I'm wrapping this flash site up for a photographer and would like to
get some overall feedback on usabilty, design and so on
....

I'm all for Flash in certain situations and I see no harm in a 100% Flash
site in a category such as a photographers site.

I can most certainly see harm.

Firstly, if it is a commercial photographer, don't you think he'd want
people to be able to find him via search engines?

Secondly, do you suppose he'd want to drive away that majority of
potential customers who have a dial-up connection? The site which
started this thread took almost 15 seconds to load over my broadband
connection; no way would I have sat around waiting for it over a 56Kb
line.

Thirdly, don't you suppose he wants *all* his potential customers to be
able to read the text on the site? Including those whose eyesight is not
quite what it used to be, or those who have a small-dot-pitch monitor?
HTML, properly used, allows readers - all readers - to set a text size
which is convenient for them to read. The main text on this site was so
hard to read on my monitor that I didn't even bother trying.

Flash, properly used, can be an enhancement to a site. In a few cases
(e.g. games) it might well be that the main material of the site is done
in Flash. But anyone who makes a Web site which is 100% Flash doesn't
understand what he's doing.

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In article <1106373278.756710.322510 (AT) c13g2000cwb (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
bayon86 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com says...
I'm wrapping this flash site up for a photographer and would like to
get some overall feedback on usabilty, design and so on
...

I'm all for Flash in certain situations and I see no harm in a 100% Flash
site in a category such as a photographers site.

I can most certainly see harm.

Firstly, if it is a commercial photographer, don't you think he'd want
people to be able to find him via search engines?

Secondly, do you suppose he'd want to drive away that majority of
potential customers who have a dial-up connection? The site which
started this thread took almost 15 seconds to load over my broadband
connection; no way would I have sat around waiting for it over a 56Kb
line.

Thirdly, don't you suppose he wants *all* his potential customers to be
able to read the text on the site? Including those whose eyesight is not
quite what it used to be, or those who have a small-dot-pitch monitor?
HTML, properly used, allows readers - all readers - to set a text size
which is convenient for them to read. The main text on this site was so
hard to read on my monitor that I didn't even bother trying.

Flash, properly used, can be an enhancement to a site. In a few cases
(e.g. games) it might well be that the main material of the site is done
in Flash. But anyone who makes a Web site which is 100% Flash doesn't
understand what he's doing.

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

Stephen

I see where you are coming from and I agree with you, I forgot to mention as
long as a html version is available as well, but I would go Flash for a
photographer but I wouldn't have a site like the OP's. I am trying to find a
url for a cracking site that was created in Flash for a photographer and the
title was something like Volvo photographer or something and was created by
a Swedish company. It is awesome and when or if I find the url I will post
it and you will see that it really is a very good Flash example.

Thirdly, don't you suppose he wants *all* his potential customers to be
able to read the text on the site? Including those whose eyesight is not
quite what it used to be, or those who have a small-dot-pitch monitor?
HTML, properly used, allows readers - all readers - to set a text size
which is convenient for them to read. The main text on this site was so
hard to read on my monitor that I didn't even bother trying

This is for a photographer, his photos do the talking. No need for lines and
lines and lines of text.

Thanks for everyone's input. It is much appreciated. For flash that
doesn't suck, check out http://www.group94.com, who produced
http://www.carldekeyzer.com, a very good photographer's web site. The
swf file is only 36k. The photos, of course, are the same size flash or
no flash. As well, I can appreciate the "loose the flash" arguement,
except that's what the guy wanted, so that's what he got.