DaveyBoy — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:14:58 +0000

i think its based on this site, actually : http://www.2advanced.com

The transactions etc, the 'loading module' thing etc.

nerdbyte — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:57:11 +0000

I think it's a nice design but the layout is so slender and the font is so small to read, and the all caps font makes it even harder to read.

jha2297255 — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:54:27 +0000

had flash got rid of it,too many flash ads-I cant see your site! -Josh

DaveyBoy — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 06:19:52 +0000

haha oh yayyy 100

I agree i don't always like Flash web sites, but the point is, a lot of people still want Flash sites making and this company is a Flash specialist it seems, and most of their work is Flash-based so might as well make the site in Flash. Sometimes i geta bit impatient waiting for little animations to play before the text displays or whatever - i'm of the opinion that the animations should be unintrusive.

Flash is a bit of a mixed bag really, you either love it or hate it. Bit like Marmite.

Busy — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 05:16:27 +0000

DaveyBoy, I think you'd find the number of users decreasing nowadays, people have been abused with flash so choose not to upgrade or view it. flash can also contain trojans and is only just becoming search engine friendly.
I'm on a dialup and choose not to upgrade the flash viewer as I get sick of the annoying sounds and useless animations people use (no reference to unfluxs work, by the sounds of it, its really good). have a look at the top 5 annoying things on a websites (don't include flash), you'd find music, animated graphics, scrolling things ... and what do most flash sites have ?
people ask me all the time how to disable flash, easy on some browsers as they have an option to turn it off.
congrats on 100th post btw

DaveyBoy — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 22:22:32 +0000

i think about 1% of people don't have flash player now

spor — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 18:56:46 +0000

Hello
Actually the loading times were very good on a dial up.
I like the site, it is proffesional looking, to me anyhow, im easily impressed though.
But must agree with the webmistress, you ought to consider an html version for people without flash, unless your audience is soley aimed at flash users. the music is a bit annoying after a while.
Good luck with the site

disaster-master — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 12:04:49 +0000

Welcome to the forums UNFLUX.

It loaded fairly quick on my dial-up and believe me, I have a slow connection.

Logo is good. Graphics are clean. The fonts are kinda small but that is standard for these type sites I suppose. Thanks for providing an obvious way to turn off the music. Navigation isn't bad but I think it would look better if it were one of your complementary colors instead of the dark gray....well, maybe not.

It wouldn't be hard at all for you to provide an HTML version of this. Something simple just so it would be accessible to all. IMO, if you did this it would make the site and your business that much more impressive in the fact that you would take into consideration folks that don't have the latest version of flash or browsers.

You do really nice work.
If I may ask, where do you find those neat looking images at?

The Webmistress — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 10:23:40 +0000

As far as flash sites go it's very nice, but I'm not a fan of them and you are not doing yourself any favours not offering a html version, either for those without flash or for the search engines. I'm also not a fan of pixel fonts as I find them too small and hard to read for chunks of text. I would have actually done this so it fits into 800*600 without a scrollbar by making it wider rather than longer as it's annoying to have to scroll down and then move the mouse over to scroll down within the flash itself.

Nicely done but with everything having to load modules on each page it gets annoying and I'd leave. What are the loading times like on a dial up connection?

DaveyBoy — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 09:44:48 +0000

lol i wrote that last night after about 257235 beers, suprised its actually ledgible, lemme take a proper look at it...

What i like about it the most is the professionalism of the Flash work. Far too often, people put Flash on their site just for the sake of it and it makes it look really poor, cos their Flash skills aren't up to par. However, your site is a great example of a flash site, i absolutely adore pixel fonts anyway, so that's another bonus!

Keep up the good work, i like it!