about as done as it's going to get.

[lava]

Alright, here's my new site... it's a lot better than that crappy bubbly one, I think. It's about as done as it's going to get for right now.

http://raf.lavaland.net/flash.htm

Oh, and check out the text me feature - I finally wrote the whole thing in PHP.

Anyways, I could use some constructive criticism.
Raf

[kirupa]

Wow - this site really is awesome!! The navigation, the cool banner that displays new images near the top is very good :) The only problem is that any pixel fonts that are scrolled have a tendency to get blurred when the user stops on a non-pixel value while scrolling.

Great site overall!

Cheers!
Kirupa :P

[AnOraK]

hey lavaboy...

that is very cool...

congrats on a job well done...

[.soulty]

yeah , nice work Raf :beam:

Much nicer than the blubbly site. Great work.

One thing i found kinda annoying, is when you switch the nav (by the way great idea :) ) and you mouse over a bubble , it follows your mouse, when i went back to switch the nav again the bubble was still following my mouse, so yeah maybe make a safe area or something around the switch butt , other than that, nice site :)

[Starpromo]

yeah nice site lavakid...

i like the top banner thing that is pretty sweet. i designed something similar but with me it usually just end up as a design and thats all...

nice work.

:egg:

[.soulty]

A couple of other things, titles on top migh be a bit too big, You could make them a bit smaller and could be just as effective.

-the text in your resume in some places is very close to the scroller.

- text can be made smaller in the bio section.

Thats all i can see now.

-by the way did you create that image on the top in the bio section?

[lava]

thanks for your comments. Soulty, I got the picture from a stock photo site. It was nice and wide...

I'm working on doing something for when you catch all the bubbles. I'll also create a safe area for the bubbly menu... that's a good idea.

[grimdeath]

Raf buddy did you use a preloader??? if you did it isnt working im on 56k and ive been waitign a bit like 2 minutes, put a preloader buddy other than that the site is great

[lava]

yeah, I did a preloader.. but it was something thrown together, and my connections at home and at work are fast... so I can't notice the preloader... I have to check that it's working right. I had a feeling it wasnt.

[grimdeath]

ya its not working buddy what you could do is emulate a 56k connection in flash by pressing ctrl enter two times and you will see exactly how the site behaves on a 56k connection

[lava]

really? Flash does that?

[.soulty]

yeah you could do that, or you could switch on show streaming,
test your movie and on the tabs above go to View/show streaming and you can select what type of connection you want to test by going to debug menu.

[lava]

whoa... I didn't know that... that's a good tip..

[grimdeath]

we learn something new everyday buddy ;)

[thoriphes]

hey is that a pic of metro elevators? looks kinda different...

[lava]

no, it's different...

[mdipi]

yeah you can get graphs and such in there too

[lava]

the font is hooge 05_04. I don't have the link for it at this moment. but try looking for it on google.

[nobody]

Raf, looks very nice
One thing that happened to me was that the "home" button got stuck on the view it turns into when the mouse is over it. I don't know if I'm just a moron and I broke your pretty work or if it's something that can be fixed. My favorite part is how I'm under "cool people" in the links. :P

[lava]

haha...

[mariofan]

really nice man!

[lava]

man, I forgot to put down mariofan as a cool person..

[Iammontoya]

Hey Lava.. I like your site. Very nice. I would take another look at your fonts, though, they look a little blurry.

[lava]

which ones in particular? I know the one for my resume looks really blurry near the right...

[Kitiara]

I am also a cool person.

Sadly, I am a cool person without a website. :smirk:

I like your site though, it's very good. Nice colours. And I like the photos along teh top, they're great.

[lava]

thanks!

You should make a website now... just so I can link you :)!

[Mik3]

Thumbs* up!
(*all 20 of them)

[lava]

hey, thanks!

[lava]

aw crap, I'm never going to get site of the week.. I just took a look at my site with a fresh head (which means after looking at some REALLY awesome sites) and it sucks... aw crap.

[nobody]

Raf don't put yourself down
It's a great site in my opinion. If someone is better than you, it's a good thing. That means you have something to strive for. Just keep pushing yourself. The jump in quality to this site from your last is huge. Your definately on your way.

Whew.. sentimental

[lava]

eh... this is the one site I'm going to have for a while. And I was like... ok, I'm going to win some awards with this, but then I saw it and I was like ... ah damit.. it sucks too.

I have to make it look better somehow. I'm just tired from working on it. I worked on it the whole weekend..