site check

[Theofiel]

Site check for triatlete (dutch)

Goal was,
clean + black

Link (http://www.basdiederen.nl)

Thanks

[RabBell]

Why do I have to click enter to enter your site? It wasn't like there was any big animation or browser intensive functionality that meant an enter page was necesarry. I don't think you're enter page is necessary and I think it even less necessary that I had to click a guys groin to enter the site.

There's not much of a design to speak of. You have a text navigation down the left hand side of the site. You have black and lots of it, not a bad thing, just a fact. This site could and should have been built in XHTML/CSS as opposed to Flash. It's hard to say anything about the content cause it's not in english but I would say you have a lot of text. Without being able to understand it it makes it difficult to know if it's justified or not but there is a lot of it and I wonder whether people would want to read all of it.

There's not much of a design as said, you don't need an enter page and overall the site won't stick in my memory for any good reasons. Disappointing. To be honest I would go back to the drawing board.

You need an interesting navigation. The one you have is just plain ugly and...well plain. I'm fine with the black but you have to do something with the rest of the design. Too much text and it is kinda small and the site is kinda small on the page and you don't follow the same layout throughout the site...it's as if all the pages were on different sites and came together for this one, hence the changing layout from page to page.

Good luck :cool:

[Theofiel]

As I said, clean...:shifty:

Why click enter: some people appriciate to see a clean photo whitout bunch of text around it.
Why lots of text: if someone has to tell a lot.....
Why no impressive flash: I have seen tons of great navigation, but still can't remember what the site is about. I look at the navigation, think..wow..cool, wish I had these flash skills and click close window...I rather have a function clean navigation that serves the site. People visit the site because of its content, IF THIS WERE A DESIGNER PORTFOLIO SITE, then I agree with you.

Maybe more important: Customer is king :beer:

But anyway, thank for the comments andyour time, appreciate it

[xmlhelp]

At first, that strange blocker appeared as if it was blocking something. I enabled it but nothing showed so I'm not really sure what that thing was. Regarding the guy, well, the way that ENTER button appears is a bit weird, it gives a feeling as if the guy's ***** pushed it up ( no offense, but placing it where it is and that really weird flicker or what that was is just uhh. ). The splash page itself was quite ok, it was promising but after clicking the enter button and seeing those animations and the way you display your data was simply disappointing. I don't think this site should be done in Flash, I can't see why it should need Flash ( those simple transition animations aren't cool and I'm sure that with our without them, it would produce the same effect/feeling ).

Design-wise: It's plain and all I see are lots of components and random elements thrown together. Definitely not appealing and I can't even say that it's too efficient.

Anyways, as you mentioned: "Customer is king", so if the guy you are doing the site for likes it, congrats but it's way off my taste. :)

[BoonDock]

I felt like I might have violated the guy by pressing 'enter' ...

Furthermore I couldn't read hardly anything on the site so my critique probably isn't of much value. I think that this site falls under the category of "why the need for flash?" etc. etc.

I don't think it's terrible - it probably does what the client wanted - but it doesn't make me want to stay there and look around - anything strictly text based and not focused much on design at all doesn't help it's cause.

I'd try and throw in possibly some different transitions rather than have the same mask wipe every time - maybe change out the dude that is trying to look studly etc.

:thumb: