CinemaScoreStudios - new flash site - comments?

[ya3]

A small site I did for a friend's new business. :D

http://www.filmscores.has.it

[FlashFish]

ello. Im not sure about the first loader. Looks like it hasnt been designed at all... maybe just change the font. After the first preloader reaches 100%, i get to watch another one. Not a real problem coz it loads so quickly, but that may not be the case for everyone, and it looks a little odd to me. The music needs an off button, and possibly a volume slider for it too. Essential. ooh, ive just found the music stopper... but that should be everywhere. Excellent images, and logo. Id maybe make the text a little larger seeings as there is so much of it in parts, its a little hard to read. The rest looks pefect. Good job. I especially like the subtle animation on the home page. hope this helped.

[ya3]

ello. Im not sure about the first loader. Looks like it hasnt been designed at all... maybe just change the font. After the first preloader reaches 100%, i get to watch another one. Not a real problem coz it loads so quickly, but that may not be the case for everyone, and it looks a little odd to me. The music needs an off button, and possibly a volume slider for it too. Essential. ooh, ive just found the music stopper... but that should be everywhere. Excellent images, and logo. Id maybe make the text a little larger seeings as there is so much of it in parts, its a little hard to read. The rest looks pefect. Good job. I especially like the subtle animation on the home page. hope this helped.

yah, i'd better fix that first preloader. i kinda rushed it.
thanks for your comments :disco:

[slickeye]

great looking site man. like the wood, and the button rollovers. nice touch. one thing, the edge of the wood on the bottom, to clean. try putting a black mask over the edges to soften it up. and also when i select a section, the content fades out, nice, but the new content just jumps in. try making smoother transitions. experiment. cheers

[prstudio]

you did a nice job on the wood texture ya3...i agree with the bottom of the "wood" though - that line is kind of harsh -

also on the preloader i like the almost metronome quality of that dot, however the grey kinda washes out - perhaps make it a glowing ball that pulses?

I did lighting very similar to yours on a wood grain texture on a site I made a while back and I must say you did a good job :)

[ya3]

the content fades out, nice, but the new content just jumps in.

That seems to be a Mozilla-specific problem. I have absolutely no idea why it happens. I'm suspecting its the 'bytesLoaded' stuff not working with Mozilla...
Anyway, it looks perfect in IE.

Thanks for your comments!

[ya3]

also on the preloader i like the almost metronome quality of that dot, however the grey kinda washes out - perhaps make it a glowing ball that pulses?


Metronome. I never thought of it that way :thumb:
I'd better work on it...

Oh, and ill try fading out the wood at the bottom...

Thanks!

[Digitalosophy]

the sections dotn have preloaders and the scrolling text is way to slow and choppy.

other than that nice job

[ya3]

ah, there are preloaders, they just dont work in Mozilla. It works in IE.
im gonna post the problem somewhere else to see if someone knows
what's wrong...

oh, even Mac OS X lags with scrolling :)
guess it's something that comes with a nice interface...

Thanks for your comments!

[Digitalosophy]

oh, even Mac OS X lags with scrolling :)
guess it's something that comes with a nice interface...

Thanks for your comments!

i bet if u up your fps to about 24 i bet it would look smoother :)

[ya3]

i bet if u up your fps to about 24 i bet it would look smoother :)

it is at 24fps. just with all those big images doing 'alpha-fades', it lags :(

[Digitalosophy]

lol well i guess i stand corrected. =)

[T-O]

I really like the Ambient sfeer that's hanging around the site. This is mainly created by the glowing buttons and the music playing on the back ground. There's One thing why didn't you put compositions In flash.. directly. as an MP3 player.

[ya3]

why didn't you put compositions In flash.. directly. as an MP3 player.

That wasn't my decision. My friend wanted possible clients to be able to save the files locally and listen to them freely, rather than having to load up the website every time.

I made an MP3 player on my site, though (-:

[T-O]

why didn't you use the _self command.. In stead of _blank.

[ya3]

why didn't you use the _self command.. In stead of _blank.

oh, i dont really know the difference :-/
ill try it out...

[T-O]

i think _self opens a downlaod window without opening a new window.