another year another mrmass.com

[MrMass]

I was wondering what you guys at kirupa think about my site so far :smirk2:

http://www.mrmass.com/

thanks

[Icy Penguin]

Amazing work man!
I love it!

The only quibble I would have is the navigation is a bit all over the place.

But still, very nice!

[MrMass]

well thanks man, I guess when shop is active will make more sense... :)

[DDD]

nav is a bit out of place and drags the site down a bit. But I always enjoy your work.. Good stuff man.

[MrMass]

cool to see you still around after all these years :) I like playing with navs too much :) its a lil confusing because few things dont work yet but their navigation is active...so for the first time user he would be like hmmm where should I click now...I'l maybe desactivate few navs until their _root modules are active...thanks

[bashR]

good stuff man. im not too good at flash because its so hard, so when i see work like this i apprieciate it more :)

[simplistik]

hmmmmm, I like it... but then again... :hugegrin:

I think there's too many navigations :lol: the top one is kinda wacky up there.

I feel that the blue is to stark makes it semi hard to read the text in some areas and just painful on the eyes in all

The table of clients is poorly designed.

The metalic MMI at the top looks good but enlarged like on "Our Company" isn't nearly as sharp and refined as the small one looks, kinda dirtys it up a little.

Mostly I find that there's way to many random elements creating a very inconsistant look.

Mute button would be nice instead of having to drag the volume slider.

[Vectortrance]

Took me far too damn long to figure out how to shut off the music!

But aside from what others have already stated about the nav system, a job well done. I love all the images in the different sections.

[Pasquale]

It's nice, but the style is just mediocre to me.Doesn't float my boat, butter my bread, or rock my world. It's just "nice".

[hybrid101]

nav is pretty hard to get used to, but damn! the content man!
:thumb2: great job!

[MrMass]

hey cool guys I'm glad you are the first ones to see it! I desactivated 2 navs, add a stopallsounds button for music, and I'll try to make the rest as perfect as possible and I'll redo the client table...

Thanks crew :)

[MrMass]

I fixed most of the stuff..anythign else out of place because I submit it to sotw so I need all of your support and suggestions on details...thanks :)

[glosrfc]

I didn't see the earlier version but here goes....

The loading animation - I thought it had finished when the bar got to the end but it hasn't. So I guess it's not showing the loading time but simply an animated loop?

Errrr, and it's still loading. Kinda unfortunate for us poor dial-up over INMARSAT users :(

Ahhh, it's loaded the first page (took about 5 minutes) but now it's loading something else. And it's also loading music too which, as mentioned above, I can't stop. Managed to work out how to turn the volume down though but it's not crystal clear.

The text for the Preferences and Quick Menu can't be seen unless I press my nose right up against the screen and squint, it's so faint.

Phew, I've finally found the stop button for the music! Ummm, and it's still trying to load content so I think there should be something on the first page to advise people that it's aimed at broadband users.

Lots and lots and lots of navigation buttons that are a tad confusing - some of which work and some that don't. What's the difference between a user menu and a quick menu? And wouldn't it be possible to set which one to use and whether to display it in the preferences menu?

Aha...some content :)
Which I like...good stuff. Particularly the animated lines around the paper/book in the first two pics. It's a shame there's no similar effect on the third image in the cycle though.

Oh noooo...I had clicked on the stop button but it's now loading another track and trying to play it...bah!

Yes, it's nice and, when loaded, the content is visually very good. But I can't read any of the privacy statement at all. I've heard of checking the small print but that's taking it to extremes - the font is way too small and it doesn't help that it's got serifs too.

The site map is also screwy. It pops up but then disappears when I mouseover it. I think it mostly affects the last two rows, i.e. those that are located over the navigation items at the bottom of the page. My pop-up blocker kicks in when I try the location link so it might be better to include a map in your Flash if possible.

So I really do like the content I managed to see which went some way to overcoming the busy and confusing surrounding navigation frame it's placed within. But ultimately it's the loading time that kills it for me so I couldn't check out the remaining pages...sorry. And it's still trying to download music even as I quit the site some 20 minutes after opening the link.

[MrMass]

thank you for your time and usefull comments!

loading times is fixed, audio player reworked added mute button, changed font, centered, disabled navigations are now completely out, those 2 navs were there but they didnt work so opacity was down for them 50%, but since is confusing I removed them all together until shop section is up and running. They are needed for later on.

Animated lines added to 3rd screen as well :) Privacy statement font was not embded, font changed to verdana, problem fixed. Sitemap overs expanded working perfect now. Location now opens centered pop-up with no blocker. Broadband warning added to loader...I reoptimazed the site, it should be 3 times faster as of now...once again thanks a lot, I needed a 56 k user to experience it, broadband flyes so I cant see these things :) cool anythign else?

[glosrfc]

Not quite 3 times but certainly a lot faster :)

And it looks a whole lot less confusing too. The other stuff I mentioned now works fine too. Good job!

[love police]

looks alright, the rollover sounds are annoying in the top nav

[MrMass]

they are....np police :) changed the sound of the buttons for the top nav!

Thanks