macromedia flash sitedesign: Hi everyone,

I just finished my new website all made with Flash 8. I would like to know what do you think about it? Thanks for your feedback!

Hi Martyn!
Grat site! Congratulations!
If you allow me I would lik to ask you one question. I have got a flash movie
prepared by other person. Now I have to change some details in it? Do you know
how to do that?
best wishes
Stefan

Thank a lot for your feedback!

So, you got a Flash file movie (.fla) from somebody else? And you need to
modify it? You need to make sure that you have the same version of Flash
software that your friend save it or you will not be able to open the .fla
file. And you need to have the same fonts installed on your computer as the
original, [b]if[/b] your friend used special fonts in the .fla file. If he
links an ActionScript file, you need to have it too. After that, you can make
the modification you want in the original file! Hope it help you...

[q][i]Originally posted by: [b][b]Martyn_C[/b][/b][/i]
what do you think about it?

http://www.martinc.biz[/q]

I like the site. Very nice, minmalist approach. It's cool how you have a
rotating set of pictures in your title bar (at the top) - that's a good idea,
but perhaps you could put some type of identifyer with each displayed picture
telling the user what the picture is about. For example, there is a picture of
a yellow sofa superimposed upon a monochromatic background. Did you design the
sofa? I don't know why that picture is there. See what I mean? If the user
clicks on those pictures, nothing happens - this causes a brief feeling of
disappointment. I want to see a larger version! :)

I like the menu click sounds - they are unusual and that is refreshing. The
internet needs innovation, not the usual same stuff.

I'm not sure I like the hidden menu options that fly out to the right when you
click on the "menu" button. It's just a matter of personal oppinion, of
course, but I think having the menu buttons visible all the time is a better
approach - a couple times I was trying to click on the buttons and they
dissappeared before I could do so. I know you're trying to keep your interface
as clean as possible, but having a persistent menu requires fewer clicks and,
if you do it right, allows the user to always know where he is in your website.


The vertical menu on the left works well. I like how you have animated it.
However - and this is going to be difficult to describe - when you click on a
lower button and it slides up, its subtext appears to quickly and for a split
second overwrites the submenu of the button it is sliding up over. If you put
a short pause in there and have the sub text appear after the button sliding
animation is finished, then the old subtext will be gone and you won't have
this small problem.

These are small issues on an otherwise very nice site. But I'm sure you
realize that it has to be absolutely perfect. I can't read French (?) but it
is obviously a portfolio. Good luck.
Dale

[q][i]Originally posted by: [b][b]Martyn_C[/b][/b][/i]
what do you think about it?

http://www.martinc.biz[/q]

I like the site. Very nice, minmalist approach. It's cool how you have a
rotating set of pictures in your title bar (at the top) - that's a good idea,
but perhaps you could put some type of identifyer with each displayed picture
telling the user what the picture is about. For example, there is a picture of
a yellow sofa superimposed upon a monochromatic background. Did you design the
sofa? I don't know why that picture is there. See what I mean? If the user
clicks on those pictures, nothing happens - this causes a brief feeling of
disappointment. I want to see a larger version! :)

I like the menu click sounds - they are unusual and that is refreshing. The
internet needs innovation, not the usual same stuff.

I'm not sure I like the hidden menu options that fly out to the right when you
click on the "menu" button. It's just a matter of personal oppinion, of
course, but I think having the menu buttons visible all the time is a better
approach - a couple times I was trying to click on the buttons and they
dissappeared before I could do so. I know you're trying to keep your interface
as clean as possible, but having a persistent menu requires fewer clicks and,
if you do it right, allows the user to always know where he is in your website.


The vertical menu on the left works well. I like how you have animated it.
However - and this is going to be difficult to describe - when you click on a
lower button and it slides up, its subtext appears to quickly and for a split
second overwrites the submenu of the button it is sliding up over. If you put
a short pause in there and have the sub text appear after the button sliding
animation is finished, then the old subtext will be gone and you won't have
this small problem.

These are small issues on an otherwise very nice site. But I'm sure you
realize that it has to be absolutely perfect. I can't read French (?) but it
is obviously a portfolio. Good luck.
Dale

[q][i]Originally posted by: [b][b]Martyn_C[/b][/b][/i]
what do you think about it?

http://www.martinc.biz[/q]

I like the site. Very nice, minmalist approach. It's cool how you have a
rotating set of pictures in your title bar (at the top) - that's a good idea,
but perhaps you could put some type of identifyer with each displayed picture
telling the user what the picture is about. For example, there is a picture of
a yellow sofa superimposed upon a monochromatic background. Did you design the
sofa? I don't know why that picture is there. See what I mean? If the user
clicks on those pictures, nothing happens - this causes a brief feeling of
disappointment. I want to see a larger version! :)

I like the menu click sounds - they are unusual and that is refreshing. The
internet needs innovation, not the usual same stuff.

I'm not sure I like the hidden menu options that fly out to the right when you
click on the "menu" button. It's just a matter of personal oppinion, of
course, but I think having the menu buttons visible all the time is a better
approach - a couple times I was trying to click on the buttons and they
dissappeared before I could do so. I know you're trying to keep your interface
as clean as possible, but having a persistent menu requires fewer clicks and,
if you do it right, allows the user to always know where he is in your website.


The vertical menu on the left works well. I like how you have animated it.
However - and this is going to be difficult to describe - when you click on a
lower button and it slides up, its subtext appears to quickly and for a split
second overwrites the submenu of the button it is sliding up over. If you put
a short pause in there and have the sub text appear after the button sliding
animation is finished, then the old subtext will be gone and you won't have
this small problem.

These are small issues on an otherwise very nice site. But I'm sure you
realize that it has to be absolutely perfect. I can't read French (?) but it
is obviously a portfolio. Good luck.
Dale

Thank you!
But I have from him only .swf file! This means that nothing could be done! Am I right?
best wishes

very nice site. I wonder why do i get a sort of doted square around your movie.
Only in Win explorer 6.0. in Firefox or Netscape 7it doesn't come.
Its so that i have to click on the movie first to kind of activate it.
Then the square desapears and i can acces the buttons.

Nice work

Thanks a lot dalewb for your feedback! Your issue about the bottom menu is
true. One of my friend told me the same thing! I will try something else, maybe
more obvious... Your feedback were really appreciated!

Txar?n, you are absolutly right about the doted square box around the movie
but I think (I'm not sure) it's all because of FlashPlayer 8.0 and/or the
browsers on PC. I don't know how to make it not happen. If someone had the same
problem (and a solution), please, I would like to know how to solve it. Thanks
Txar?n for your feedback!

The fact is that i am having the same problem with the square and my site is
Hybrid so i have 4 flash movies on the page and Explorer shows 4 square dots
around them, so you can imagine , it looks absolutly TERIBLE. And i still
haven't found any solution for it!
If you get to find a solution please let me know.

I found a solution for the borders around flash movies in IE.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/articles/devletter.html

GET RID OF IE altogether.

Thanks ! I will take a close look at it !

Here is another issue:

Just by updating Dreamweaver 8.0 to the version 8.2 and re-open the html file
with it and it will do the corrections for you (link to external javascript
file)

Thanks to all !

Nice clean design. There were a few simple things that stuck out at me though.
One was the fact that there wasn't a preloader for the main swf. The different
sections have them, but there was a blank tan page for quite a bit before the
main site actually came up.
The other bit is very small, and it may be browser or platform specific (I'm
on Firefox/Mac). If you look at the clock, it shifts back and forth slightly
depending on the size of the last two characters. Switching the text alignment
should take care of it.

Thanks for your input. By the way, you are absolutely right about my preloader
for the main movie. I have one, but it don't work properly and, honestly, I
don't know why! It's the same preloader as I use in my differents movies loaded
in that one... It only begins at 90%... Somebody have any idea why that
specific one don't work? Do I have to use special preloader when i have a movie
used to load others movies? For the clock, I will look at my text alignement
and make home test to repair that little issue. Thanks again!