My first REAL flash site!

[damonc79]

Ok, its just about done, and I would like some feedback. Thanks to Kirupa and the great members here, I have learned a lot to make this site! Check out the mouseovers and all the sections that work (currently, News is the only non-functional section). Here is the test site ...


http://www.damoncollins.com/setaside/

There is one problem I'm having. In Internet Explorer (apparently on PCs and Macs), the gallery section is not working properly. I used a tutorial from this site to make centered pop-ups of each image in the gallery (tutorial link (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/centered_popup.htm) ) , but for some reason in IE, only the first three images actually make a pop-up window. In Netscape, all of them work.

So I'd like some feedback, and I need some help :q:

[Freddythunder]

I'm using IE and when you click on the other pictures (other than those three), there's an error on page. Might want to double check your script.

[damonc79]

I figured out what was wrong ... I had spaces in some variable names that shouldnt have been there.

It should be working fine now. Soooooo, I would still like some feedback on the design, layout, flow, transitions, etc.

Let me know how I'm doing :)

[lemonizer]

I can't access it :(

edit: nm i got in...


Hey looks good. I suggest centering the movie in the middle of the page... otherwise I like the transitions and whatnot. I'm still working on my first site myself :)

[damonc79]

Why not?
Here is the link again, just in case.

http://www.damoncollins.com/setaside/

I just checked it.

[noxious]

hi damonc79! your sites rocks! ;)!

im experiencing a pausing music (my my connection is just too slow lol)

anyhu, try setting standards...
on biography, try settingup same gaps on your buttons. ;)!

keep it up!

[Jubba]

Hey, I'm going to send this to the "SIte Check" forum. :)

[damonc79]

Noxious,
Thanks ... i think i will do what you said.

and thanks for moving this to the correct place Jubba.

[Voetsjoeba]

I like it, good job dude :) Here are some things I noticed (as always, these are very minor :) )

1) When biography is preloading, the numbers from 1 - 10 or something like that have a % next to it, the rest doesn't

2) When I tested your music control, I couldn't get the music to play again after I stopped it. Or maybe that's just me being too impatient :beam: By the way, I like that volume slider you've got there, real nice :)

3) You might wanna increase the frame rate a bit, it was quite 'framy' on my pc.

4) Maybe you could make those notes when rollOvering fade out when the mouse rollsOut

That's about it. Very good work :)

[damonc79]

Originally posted by lemonizer
Hey looks good. I suggest centering the movie in the middle of the page... otherwise I like the transitions and whatnot. I'm still working on my first site myself :)

Thanks :)
I plan on having it in a centered pop-up window when it is all finished, with an entry page and all that.

[damonc79]

Originally posted by Voetsjoeba
I like it, good job dude :) Here are some things I noticed (as always, these are very minor :) )

1) When biography is preloading, the numbers from 1 - 10 or something like that have a % next to it, the rest doesn't

2) When I tested your music control, I couldn't get the music to play again after I stopped it. Or maybe that's just me being too impatient :beam: By the way, I like that volume slider you've got there, real nice :)

3) You might wanna increase the frame rate a bit, it was quite 'framy' on my pc.

4) Maybe you could make those notes when rollOvering fade out when the mouse rollsOut

That's about it. Very good work :)

Thanks for the help .. . I don't know whats up with the % thing, but I will look into it. I think the music not playing again might have been impatience on your part, lol ... it does take a while to reload the mp3 for some reason! I downloaded that whole music player thing from some other site ... it works very well, and uses an xml playlist. I have the frame rate set to 33 ... but it seems choppy to me sometimes too .. i might increase it again across all the seperate swfs.

Making the notes fade out on mouseout ... i dont even know how to do that .. but i'll try, cause it sounds cool :)

Thanks again!

[NeoDreamer]

- The white space around the main chunk is too plain.
- You need to seamlessly put on your sharply squared flash movie into your background.
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[damonc79]

Originally posted by Supree
- The white space around the main chunk is too plain.
- You need to seamlessly put on your sharply squared flash movie into your background.
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Thanks .... but i just said in a previous post that when it is finished, that will be in a centered popup window with an entry page ... so all you will see is the flash content in a window without toolbars and scrollbars, etc,

[damonc79]

I'm working on the changes you guys brought to my attention, so thanks :)

But one thing, the frame rate is set to 33 right now ... how high should I set it to stop it from being choppy?

[pares101]

nice site dude!!

[pares101]

oh one more thing what was yer method of deloading the animations
(when they click on another button the de-animation plays unloading it and then loading the other animation) get what im trying to say?

[damonc79]

Thanks everyone ... check the site again, I've update with most of the changes that were suggested. I created an entrance page and everything too, so the flash movie pops up in a centered window ... keep letting me know what you guys think.

http://www.damoncollins.com/setaside/

pares101, I read some tutorials and some forums on here about transitions and creating full flash sites, and borrowed some code here and there ... but basically the main swf loads a movie that has an intro marker and an outro marker ... when it loads it plays the intro and stops, and when you unload it, it plays the outro and opens the next movie (for whatever you clicked on)

[Voetsjoeba]

Wow, it's become even nicer :beam: