Mortgage Money - Site Check

[bellfrenzy]

Mortgage Money (http://www.johnalbright.com)

This is a site my brother and I made for a mortgage broker. The site was made using both html and flash. We did this so that it would stand out a little through it's use of flash, but also be searchable by google and other search engines. We'd appreciate any feedback on the site.

- Daniel and John Bell

[ScHAmPi]

Well it is very well-organised. It looks quite well, maybe a little static but that is normal I think when you make a company website.

When you make your whole site in flash it is detectable by google too because you still have a html file when you do that. And in that html file every text you used in the flash movie is still copied there too.

To prove look at my site, it's totally in flash (it's my first site and sucks but that doesn't matter now) and when you look at the source you'll still see all the texts. You can also add meta tags too that html file just like you're used to.

Hope this helps :).
Greetz and gratz, ScHAmPi.

[replode]

get rid of the grid background, and go with a light colored plain bg instead. the grid on black takes away from the cleanness and professionalism of the site, and lighten the bg in your content area also. other than those small things i think it looks good.

[Digitalosophy]

its nice but there isnt a need for that flash. that can easily be made into an animated gif.

if your only going to use flash for something like that, might as well just make it a gif .

nice site

[G]

I think the site would look a lot better in html only. The nav bar and layout could simply be replicated in html the only thing that couldn't is the animation in the top right (but like Digitalosophy says that could be done in an animated gif as well as the other animnations).

Also there is no splash page to tell the user that flash player is required to view the site PROPERLY, this could potentially lose many clients as they'd just see the html content and a blank space where the nav is.

I'd re-think the layout and convert into html OR provide warnings about system requirements.

Just my thoughts