bleutuna.com: thirteen: rate it

[bleutuna]

http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=221496

If you could be so kind, would you mind ranking the design at the link above?

10 is high, 1 is low

[Soul]

Is this instead of the nice priesty themed one? :(

- Soul :s:

[bleutuna]

No, absolutely not.

This is bleutuna.com - my homepage, my personal site, the site I send to clients in order to see my work, my resume, etc.

brandbishop.com is a completely different entity, and is an endeavor that I'm working on with a programmer, that will be a long-time in the running.

I've noticed I've not been updating my current site at http://www.bleutuna.com - and it's because the way I set up the site is insanely difficult to update. More details in the thread I linked to above.

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[Soul]

Ahh I understand :) Good because I like brandbishop

- Soul :s:

[asphaltcowboy]

Can we have a working example to play with before we vote? ;)

[DDD]

hmmm it is basic but to me it lacks something although I dnt know what. I judged a lil harder since I have seen some of your past works. I gave it a average.

[bleutuna]

Well, I can't deny it's very simple - especially compared to some of my other work. That was a purposeful thing. If it's unsuccessful, then that's my big worry.

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[asphaltcowboy]

I really like it.. but then I like your old site too... I love the way this new one looks... but for me.. its success will be how well it moves. for such an understated site.. you've got to have good, smooth mooovements :)

[bleutuna]

In a few moments, I'll be posting just the initial work I've done, so you can see how the animation's going to come in.

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[asphaltcowboy]

cool.. but it'll have to wait til tomorrow.. cos I'm going for sleepies... or maybe a film... I havent decided yet ;)

[bleutuna]

Aye, I wanted to go see a movie tonight, but my wife wanted to stay home and play Animal Crossing ;)

Anyway, the file is linked at the bottom of this post, since it won't let me upload it for some crazy reason (invalid GIF or JPG file).

http://www.bleutuna.com/thirteen/btc_thirteen.swf

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[bleutuna]

Or, there are the options of:

bounce: http://www.bleutuna.com/thirteen/btc_thirteen_bounce.swf

faster: http://www.bleutuna.com/thirteen/thirteen_fast.swf

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[nobody]

I like the faster one

[grimdeath]

definitely the fast one is best, now if you could try making the text bigger it would be great im at 1024x768 and **** bro i can barely read the words i dont wanna imagine how small it looks on a higher rez, oh and maybe the arrows you could use the yellow you used in the images and maybe alpha fade them according to what section they will be in sorta something like this, in the image you have identity, landing gear, business card well you could use a alpha fade of -20 on the identity, -10 on teh landing gear and on business cards just leave it at 100% should give it a nice touch ;) cant wait o see it finished bro

[mdipi]

the first one is my favorite. but i am with grim for a bigger text size. i cant read it on the bottom at all. and the menu is too small. i have the same problem on your old site too

[asphaltcowboy]

the reason you cant read it - is because the swf is resizing according to how big your window is - bluetuna needs to embed it in an html file.

I like the fast one, the bouncy one is really cool though (increase the speed a little bit)

I'd like to see how the transitions work when you click one of those links ;)

[bleutuna]

http://www.bleutuna.com/thirteen/thirteen.swf

So now you can get a really good feel for how the menus are going to work and move together :)

Sound included ;)

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[DDD]

pretty sweet a pixel font would be off the hook for this one

[bleutuna]

aye, it would be, however, all sites like this *use* a pixel font, and because of that I'm not allowed.

Union rules ;)

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[Jubba]

i read it fine on 1200*1024.

[grimdeath]

Originally posted by Jubba
i read it fine on 1200*1024.


are you serious jubba wubba??? cause i can barely read it on 1024*768 d@mn you must be 20/20 eyesight of maybe you zoomed in like i did rotflmao ;)

like i said before i think you can increase the text size or maybe use a pixel font either than that it looks fine good job :beam:

[DDD]

yeahI was going to say that but I know bleu will have it readable come run time. So Idid not mention how small the type is. That is why I mentioned the pixel font. Still think you should use one. Just use one of the lesser used one or create your own.

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by asphaltcowboy
the reason you cant read it - is because the swf is resizing according to how big your window is - bluetuna needs to embed it in an html file..I've already said this... does no one listen to me? you wont get a uniform text size till he embeds it - make you browser window really small, but so you can still see some contents. note how tiny it is? :P

[iLikePie]

hmmm.. i think you've chosen the best option (the faster one) for the animations, but i don't really like the selection things (i.e the arrow)
it seems a bit awkward to me, and apart from anything else, it doesn't operate as desired (but i'm guessing you'll fix that as you go :))

i think maybe even something more minimal, or perhaps something that doesn't move i.e highlighted text

JMO
Stuart

[asphaltcowboy]

oh yeah, I forgot to mention bleutuna, the arrow highlights are somewhat buggy... dont always work properly.. trying to work out when the arrow is suppose to appear...

[bleutuna]

Yeah, there are a few little things I've got to do to the arrow. Right now it doesn't appear until the menu is loaded, i'm going to put it at the beginning. One of the links doesn't work for some odd reason (though the coding on it is correct), so I've got to redo it.

As for the arrow, I'm gonna keep it, cause it reminds me of the price is right ;)

[asphaltcowboy]

and fgs, will you PLEASE embed it in an html page! please!
just to stop the "small text" complaints ;)

[DDD]

hey I knew that. But even at a nice res I still could not read. hahahahahaha....... I look forward to seeing it I still a pixel font will look sweet with the black and the blue. Your site almost makes me wanna make one for ya. Nice choice of colors