dukk — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:37:13 +0000

Way to much flash, I would stay dumb most if not all of the flash you have, its ok on navigation but having content inside of your flash images you make it harder for the user to interact, suck as bookmarking or selecting text, and what about the people that don't have the flash plugins witch is still a very large amount of people, when you use flash use it like a image, or make a game with it, but I wouldn't make a site of it.
- DuKK

Fringey — Fri, 27 Jul 2001 02:33:28 +0000

The design, I think shows great potential. But, I personally beleive you could do it just as effectively with less or no flash. There doesn't seem to be any reason to have a all-flash page with this design.

The design shows great potential because, as mentioned by someone else, it could easily go in so many ways. To me it looks very boring until you get some content up. You need some filler pictures somewhere, or some shapes to break up some of the white space. Maybe subtle collage-type-thing of some of your clients sites or ... in black in whit with red highlights, very faded? I dunno.

The pictures that display with the content help it out, but are very fuzzy, probably from poorly over-condensed jpgs, and the fade from white to picture doesn't fit the site and is too wide. Some of the pictures aren't very effective either.

My big advice is to A) lose the flash, or most of it. I'm on a cable connection and i'm getting a lot of loading, loading, loading messages from something thta would load in a half a second as just a picture.So you lose the animations between pages, so what. B) get something to liven it up. Something that represents and fits your business.

TheGizmoid — Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:07:54 +0000

Since vBulletin really doesn't seem to like Netscape, I've taken to cruising vBulletin forums in IE 4.0, which I originally installed just for the sake of testing. I don't use flash on any of my sites so didn't bother with the plug-in.

Sooooo... the first thing that happens is there's a missing plug-in warning. Then literally nothing. You have no "skip intro" or "enter" link, effectively shutting out anyone who doesn't have the flash plug-in.

On to NS 4.6. Moving text and some lines. Why bother? Am I the only one these days annoyed by flash that doesn't seem to have a real purpose other than to say "hey, it's flash!"

On the contact page you should make the email address a live link. It looks like you intended to have a form there, but there are no form fields to fill in.

Text as graphics on every page?

Loading...loading...loading...more moving lines. Your entire site is nothing but flash, so I guess a "skip intro" link wouldn't do squat.

manic — Thu, 26 Jul 2001 18:58:31 +0000

I've been looking at this site a lot, and I have to say my first impression was the same as the above statement's.

BUT

after thinking about it, I think it's a really good design. There's about a million and one ways to modify the site, anything can go just about anywhere and it simply wouldn't matter. It's one of those designs which if planned carefully can have anything anywhere and it will get away with it.

It's simple and clean look makes it stand out well which is what any web design company wants and with it's speedy loading times (i'm on a 56k and it flew!!! and no it wasn't cashed ) i'm sure this site will generate a lot of interest in the future.

Keep up the good work!!!

taff — Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:12:30 +0000

I kind of like the clean look generally. You may want to consider using a link colour though - the email links get kind of lost in the text.

Another thing I noticed is that most of the graphics are umm.. I've never really known the technical term so I'll stick with mine... "scuzzy" around the edges (an aliasing issue? overly condensed jpg?)

This really sticks out on such a bare-bones page.

I'm not crazy about the faintly flashing lines either.

The Webmistress — Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:31:31 +0000

Welcome keit,

My first thoughts were very plain & verging on perhaps boring. You need something to liven it up especially as on a large screen there is just so much white!

Megan — Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:15:57 +0000

Hey keit, welcome to TWF! I hope you'll find the time to participate regularly here. We'd really appreciate it if you could take some time and review other sites or help out in other forums.

My first thought when visiting your site is "What is syance?" The flash intro is okay - short and sweet, not too exciting and it tells me nothing about what this company does. Overall the design is quite boring to me - there's really nothing going on here. I clicked on "serivces" and encountered quite a long loading message considering that I'm on a T1 line. There's also some lines flashing faintly towards the top right of the page and I'm wondering why that's happening. It's just a little bit annoying. I click on "web design" - now there's something interesting. All of the previous pages were rather bare to me, so that graphic on this page improves things a lot.

Contact page - that phone seems kind of lost in space there. Sheffield - I'm guessing Sheffiled, England? Might want to make that clear just in case there's another Sheffield somewhere in the world. I would also make that page a little more informative in terms of letting potential clients know how to obtain your services, what kind of information you need from them etc.