my new site

[stefan150]

Hey all,

This is my first post so hello everyone :thumb:

I am putting the finishing touches to my new site and could do with some critiques.

the url is www.digital-farm.co.uk/vbillion

I will be putting preloader in and the contact form is with my developer at the moment so it won't work.

I'm just looking to get some feedback on the general design etc.

Thanks guys.

Stef.

[0x66FF00]

That's pretty cool. The animal facts are fun, the design is nice and the page is loaded with a truckload full of fancy animation - without loading slowly or any performance issues. First thought: "Woah!".

The only thing I can critisize are the transitions: The buttons have no fade-out and ... eh... "re-animate" upon mouse-release, the pages blink (and show the backgorund for a frame or two) and don't fade out and it's the same with that news-box and the references. Everything is nicely done but that lack of soft transitions keeps the page from feeling "seamless" - but that could be me.

I'd make the active area of the buttons filling the whole button area and the bottom left rounded edge underneath talk to us is weird.

Other than that it's a really good page, well done!

[stefan150]

That's pretty cool. The animal facts are fun, the design is nice and the page is loaded with a truckload full of fancy animation - without loading slowly or any performance issues. First thought: "Woah!".

The only thing I can critisize are the transitions: The buttons have no fade-out and ... eh... "re-animate" upon mouse-release, the pages blink (and show the backgorund for a frame or two) and don't fade out and it's the same with that news-box and the references. Everything is nicely done but that lack of soft transitions keeps the page from feeling "seamless" - but that could be me.

I'd make the active area of the buttons filling the whole button area and the bottom left rounded edge underneath talk to us is weird.

Other than that it's a really good page, well done!

I totally agree with everything you said. I also hate buttons and effects that don't animate out in the same way they animate in.

However I am not really up to speed on Actionscript as yet which is what I need to learn to do the roll off transitions etc.

But you're totally right I don't think I'll push it live until I have figured that out.

Thanks a million for your feedback man.

[stefan150]

That's pretty cool. The animal facts are fun, the design is nice and the page is loaded with a truckload full of fancy animation - without loading slowly or any performance issues. First thought: "Woah!".

The only thing I can critisize are the transitions: The buttons have no fade-out and ... eh... "re-animate" upon mouse-release, the pages blink (and show the backgorund for a frame or two) and don't fade out and it's the same with that news-box and the references. Everything is nicely done but that lack of soft transitions keeps the page from feeling "seamless" - but that could be me.

I'd make the active area of the buttons filling the whole button area and the bottom left rounded edge underneath talk to us is weird.

Other than that it's a really good page, well done!

Right man taken your advice, managed to find the code and make all the components tween out. Hopefully this has made it more seamless. Thanks again.

[GrndMasterFlash]

just make a class that runs on a timer and on every tick does a prevFrame(); and check's to see if currentFrame==1 then kills the timer ;)