Website Review and Suggestions

**Matimeo** · 04-21-2004, 12:36 PM

My first full site in flash, its 90% done. Turn your speakers on if you have any. Just looking for ways to improve the site.

Link is below

**jammin411** · 04-21-2004, 10:27 PM

Well, the site is a bit confusing. Some items are links, while others are nothing. A prime example of this is on your homepage, after the intro page, you have singer & CD Promo greyed out just like Launch. The problem is, I try to click singer or cd promo and get nothing. You may have content planned for this, but if not, you need to get rid of this, or change the way it is formatted.

The next thing I notice is instead of the link reading Home, it reads _ROOT. I am assuming that is just an oversight.

The next thing is I am still a little unsure just what this site is for. I am assuming that it is for music, but for what exactly, not sure.

Next, the music gets a little annoying. Maybe shorten it, or drop it completely. If you decide to keep it, don't loop it.

Last thing, everytime you visit the homepage, whether for the first time, or clicking on the _ROOT link, the page shakes. That is very annoying, you need to set it to shake only once on initial load. Nothing more.

7 out of 10

**Matimeo** · 04-22-2004, 02:16 PM

Yeah the lower half is a bit confusing. You have to click Launch, mousing over only shows you what it is. Clicking Launch takes you to the portfolio piece. _root is the main movie in flash programming, since flash authors are my target audience it doesnt bother most of my viewers. Music, Ive gotten the opposite response from viewers, most want to know what it is, but if you mouse over audio you can cut it off.

As far as not knowing what the purpose of the site is, I could add a welcome blurb, but most people come to the site knowing its a portfolio site...so I havent had anyone not know what its there for so far.

Yeah the shaking, I think I can duplicate the 1st scene and remove the shaking so it only happens on the inital visit. I was tryin to figure out how to do that and that idea just came to mind. Thanks

**klangdon** · 04-22-2004, 05:03 PM

i think the problem with the lower half is general layout, generally everything should read from the top leftt to the bottom right. However, on your site i find myself going far right for navigation, then to the bottom left for sub navigation, then back up to the top left for content. I don't think its awful just doesn't follow norms. That may even be what you are going for.

Great design and use of audio.

8/10.

Kevin

**TalkingWorld** · 04-25-2004, 07:10 AM

Nice flash work however I just feel that you have too much white space for a flash design and maybe you can try different colors for the background. You could also try and use some more complicated fonts for the text and links. I love the logo btw. Nice work !

Good Luck ! - 8/10

TW