Flash site crit...pt2
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- Fleaguru
Ok good people. Just finished off this site and thrown it live. Had a crit when it was almost done, would like to know peoples final crit of the site. I'm just ironing out a few creases:
You may remember -
http://www.handraildesign.co.ukWould love to hear your thougths everyone.
Cheers,
- thepulpbox0
nice and smooth.. but i think the background should be a tiny bit lighter...
- rasko40
sweet!
the type on 'design' in the logo is a little weak cos of the helv light.
- UndoUndo0
like it in general, not sure about font for menu. Can you not get a pixel font in their to crisp it up?
nice transition effect
- jeedoubleu0
COMPANY
You decided to guide the user's eye with the animation starting from the left. When this happens people tend to subconciously ignore whats happening on the right side .:. You should either move the COMPANY subnav to the left side, or you should allow the user to navigate within the section without having to go back to the main nav.PRODUCTS
Adjust the hard white lines around the product names and make them probably 60% transparancy. Just to make it a little easier on the eyes.The navigation in this section, bottom right, does not present and direct corillation between itself and the main nav. I didn't even notice that the rollovers were in sync. That's probably because they are too far apart for my eye to travel, so I would just think about that one.
Lastly, the subnav titles for the next two sections, PROJECTS, & TECHNICAL, all have the same drop down menu, which means you can actually remove the redundancies and force the user to access that information through the products section
- cvirus0
into it...nice job.
how'd you do those transitions? i'm guessing it's all actionscript masks...any source code?
- tymeframe0
smooth work.
I'd skate those rails
:)
- Fleaguru0
Hi all,
Thanks for the feed back. I'm pretty happy with it. Like anything, there are a few things I might have prefered to do different. A Pixel font is one of those, but it needed to be in Helvetica Neue, so I did my best.
As for navigating, this was thought about in detail for a fair bit. Handrail intend using this site for the relevant departments. For example, The sales people can talk to potential clients and take them directly to a case study via the projects section. With the Technical section, the draughtsmen/technical guys can take the clients to the technical downloads. This is why both Technical and Projects have also been repeated on the top level. Hope this made sense!
Thanks for the comments, keep em coming!!
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jeedoubleu - Interesting point for COMPANY. Couldn't quite understand what you were on about with regards to the Navigation of products? The above answers the comment on the repeat of technical. Thanks for the thoughts mate, much appreciated.
cvirus - The transitions you're on about are done with a scripted effect (duplicated movies etc), then that movieclip is made into a mask over the content using the movieClip.setMask() function - Pretty sweet man!
- Terminal270
hey flea,
niec site, last time I mentioned the slideing panel at the bottom right of the products section. I had missed the small nack and forward arrows. I still think that I could be improved in terms of useability.
How about making the arrows bigger ... or inbetween them ... put the text :
< slide 1/6 >
This lets users know that there is more to see. Found totally didn't even see it the first time.
I don't think that it would compromise the minimalist design... Good show
- Spix0
very nice....very smooth. good work.
- Fleaguru0
Ell mate, how's it going! Thanks for that , I'm liking the suggestion of the < 1/6 > idea. I'll have to re-think the whole way I've gone about the arrows now. I'm trying to figure a way for it them to slide to an appropriate location say for example the user was in case studies, and checked out a case study. When they return, it would go back to where they were. Got to do some harcore thinking on that one.
Thanks again mate,
- Fleaguru0
Anymore for anymore?