My new website... comments, opinions?

[Elderain]

http://www.********.com/new

Designing my new site in flash. My dad was to confused by it it was rather funny watching him look at it. I know there is nothing there yet, I'm still fooling around with it. I know there is no music yet too. I had this ingenius idea to use music, then realized I don't know how to do it All in time I guess... Any CONSTRUCTIVE feedback? I don't give a crap what you don't like about it, UNLESS your going to tell me what you would rather see.

 

[mypfizzle]

i like it.. put some boobies on there.. an your all good -=)

 

[t3ase]

Beautiful site. You can tell a lot of work has gone into it... Definately.

 

[Elderain]

i like it.. put some boobies on there.. an your all good -=)

http://www.********.com/pictures/boobies.gif
Just for you But sorry, no boobies on my site

 

[uclap5]

nice. Skillz.

standard technoey theme, but nicely done nonetheless, i couldnt do it

the top banner/ navigation doesnt have "********" in it anywherez and its a little weird without it, though this is noticeable mainly because theres no content yet

lack of borders on the left and right makes it look a bit unfinished... going all the way to the edges or closing them off might look better.

on the first section/ jump page the left borders/ lines arent lining up. its long by 1 pixel.

Tune up the details and youll have a nice site there.

 

[Elderain]

thats the kinda feedback I like and yeah I know, i have a brain fart on content right now, its all about blankness tonight hehe

edit: put in a plain ole text ********.com to fill the space till i can whip something up.

 

[Matthew]

that is a template i believe correct?

 

[uclap5]

you have my syndrome. i love to design sites, but i hate making content.

my current site is just about the 3rd site out of maybe 20 fully made sites that actually has content. I made a huge effort to make my current site easy sheezy to add new content so that i actually would. so far its worked and i keep up reasonably with the content.

 

[Elderain]

that is a template i believe correct?

Kinda yes, Kinda no. Heavily modified template I guess. I do web design for a living, although not in flash. I stole a site the guy I work with did and ripped it apart and did my own thing to it, new graphics, layout, etc. It's a learning process Its more like a frankenstien then a template lol

 

[Matthew]

thats normally what i do, i thought i saw that somewhere before

 

[Elderain]

you have my syndrome. i love to design sites, but i hate making content.

my current site is just about the 3rd site out of maybe 20 fully made sites that actually has content. I made a huge effort to make my current site easy sheezy to add new content so that i actually would. so far its worked and i keep up reasonably with the content.

LOL you sound just like me. I never have ideas of what to put on a site, I just build em

 

[uclap5]

i was thinking of doing web design as a job, but i found i dont give a s*** about making things for other people. i just like to do it for myself

 

[Elderain]

I actually prefer all the coding as opposed to making it pretty. I lack creativity so bad hehe. I'm actually more of harware junky then anything else. I try to sell clients a co-loc box so I can manage it for them, or sometimes have them host there site from there own building... all so I can play I have to build my own computers too now, no family, friends, relatives, no one that knows me is allowed to buy a computer unless I build em lol

 

[Matthew]

i was thinking of doing web design as a job, but i found i dont give a s*** about making things for other people. i just like to do it for myself

i am/was the same way, which is why i got out of computer engineering and fixing peoples computers, and joined the army...i love computers, and i love to mess around in photoshop, flash, hardware, software, etc...but i hate doing it for other people...

 

[Matthew]

well, i like to help out people on the board, but thats it

 

[TX Speed Demon]

Dude you need new fonts. Your creating a technology themed look and feel and forcing hand scripted fonts in for you main nav and header. That's a total conflict between the geometric shapes and angles within the background and the looser more organic shapes and curves of the text.

Use something that fits that style a lot better like Mini 7 or a personal favorite of mine House Gothic Light #4 which looks great, but has wide kearning so you can't fit as many items on a horizontal menu bar. Also if you're going to put white text on such a light grey background as your main nav you need to put either a dark dropshadow or duplicate the text layer in black and use the gauissan blur filter to make the edges of the text pop.

Uclap5 is right, framing each area with a simple 1 pixel edge would do a lot to house the content within the space of the browser window. Right now your left and right sides on the top banner look like they're missing something.

Also when moving from section to section there should be some veriaty within the header graphic. If you don't want to take the time to create different ones for each section then just change the color. Pretty simple to do in Photoshop using the Hue/Saturation adjustment under the Image menu. Save it out as a seperate file and drop that one into the correct scene in the flash file. (I'm assuming you built each "page" of the site as a seperate scene in Flash and have the main nav links directed to the appropriate scene). The in your content area have the section text headers be in the same/similar color to the graphical header, thus solidifing the relationship between the content and the overall section look and feel. Duplicating this color in the "hot" states of your main nav will also help ease the intuitiveness of the navigation and user experience.

Umm... Don't mean to sound discouraging or anything, all in all I like it, but really it's too empty/incomplete to provide really contsructive critisim.

 

[LovemyProtege]

it comes up blank for me