What do you think so far?

[will roberts]

Hi all,

I am very new to flash but have decided i need to start the ball rolling on this so decided to make my new venture completely in flash!

Here is what i have so far http://www.club-mocean.co.uk/home.php

Comments and ideas please as i would love to make the site pleasing to your eyes

[Wyatt]

i'd say its pretty neat, -- imo the white boxes could use some shadows,. or something,.. and theres alot of blank space :O

[G]

to make it better I would center it in the screen and add some rollover effects to add a little more life to those buttons

[will roberts]

yeah was thinking to add as bit of depth to the columns.
Tbh it will be centered once its more done matey. i just hit that into a webpage to show you guys my progress :) thx for looking guys.

Any more ideas on how to make it better?

[.inspire]

Make and change the font smaller and align it to the middle.

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[will roberts]

Make and change the font smaller and align it to the middle.

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On the menu bar?

Thx for looking :)

[Tocksiq]

maybe have something on the flyers so you can click on them to enlarge them so everyone can see them clearly. Just a thought:smirk:

[will roberts]

Yeah cheers m8! the images arent very good quality at the moment as the site is still in progress so that was a main thing i wanted to do too :)

Cheers. any more ideas?

[Tocksiq]

possibly have hover captions over the "clubs and sites we respect" to let people know what they are.

[mprzybylski]

there really is no need to do this site in flash as it is currently set up. all that you have there can easily be done with html. if you want to do it in flash, i'd say spice it up a bit and make it LOOK like flash, not like an html page in flash.

[will roberts]

well for a start the 3d effected box cant be done in html so erm.........think you need to check again! thx for checking and all but i would appreciate it if you checked it through first.

Its the only way to get better

[unchew]

There is a bottom piece of "sites we respect" that is useless, you could cut it down so that it aligns with the menu column ending.

[will roberts]

thx for looking unchew! we still have lots of sites to add to that so it will fill up the space there :)

[will roberts]

actually there is quite a space there if im being honest so i could probably reduce the height to match up to the links column your right :) and i would still have space for 2 rows of icons. how would i go about doing the actual description when rolled over though?

i am new to flash remember lol

[Tocksiq]

here:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/captions.htm
hope it helps

[will roberts]

Thx Tocksiq, looks really better now i have added the captions! now i will try to make the columns a bit better!

Any ideas?
Or even what kind of effect for the buttons would look good

[mprzybylski]

well for a start the 3d effected box cant be done in html so erm.........think you need to check again! thx for checking and all but i would appreciate it if you checked it through first.

Its the only way to get better

you can create that small portion in flash and cut the file size dramatically instead of the whole thing being done in flash. also, no need to get snotty, u posted for a critique, i gave u one.

[will roberts]

you can create that small portion in flash and cut the file size dramatically instead of the whole thing being done in flash. also, no need to get snotty, u posted for a critique, i gave u one.

I wasn't being snotty mate, i was simply stating that flash is the best way to go for this site as it is a work in progress and is currently being edited with lots of functions so i think your "critique" wasn't very well thought out.

Thanks for looking though