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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Hmmm... ok, I was a little late in getting to this one. First off, welcome to the Asylum. It's good to see some more elements from NE Asia getting involved in the Asylum. I will most probably refer to you as an indeterminate number of "x"s, or maybe even x9, depending on my mood. That's just the way I am, though. Now, the site. Let's start with the splash page. Personally, I detest splash pages, but I do understand that to some extent it is a matter of personal preference, especially when it's a personal site. If I could make one suggestion on the animation, though... I do understand what you're trying to do with the squiggly line (film effect), but it just seems to be a bit too much. Try making the line less obvious, or at least not so jumpy. Go watch some old films and see what they look like. You also use frames on the main page, another thing I detest. Again, another thing that is largely a matter of personal preference these days (since most of the early problems with frames have now been fixed). And, of course, the whole site is designed in Flash, which I also happen to be less than fond of. But that doesn't mean you have three strikes against you. I do like some of the stuff you have up there. You have some very interesting art, and I really like some of your photos. In addition to the comments from my esteemed colleagues above, though, I do have some criticisms/questions. 1) The visitor does seem to have to go through a lot before reaching any actual content. Yes, I know it's only two clicks (well, scroll, click, then click again, actually), but it's a lot in this day and age when we expect to see content right in front of us when we enter a site. I would question the need for the "home" page, which doesn't really contain any information. Then again, it is interesting, and it does fit the mood/tone of the site. 2) The art menu really bugs me. In fact, I think it may be the most annoying part of the site for me. I really didn't like the fact that I had to fiddle around to get the menu to stay still, only to have it start moving again when I moved the mouse to click on something. Art or no, that is [b]very[/b] bad design. Why not just make a scrollbar on the bottom? At the very least, tie the movement directly to mouse movement, ie, when the mouse stops, the scrolling should stop too. Although I'm not really keen on the whole scrolling thing, that would be better than what you currently have. 3) This is something minor, I suppose, but how about a loading indicator for the photos? It does take a while for some of them to load, and it is a bit disorienting at first to click on a link and just get a black screen staring back at you. 4) On the Info page, under "More Info," you have three boxes that give no indication of where they are going to take the user. Also, since it's Flash, we don't even have the status bar to go by. I would recommend text links, or at the very least something that gives the user a clue to where they will be taken. As it is now, I wasn't even sure if the boxes would lead to different places. 5) I'm wondering about the guestbook. There are a bunch of entries in there, but no comments. Is that just because no one has left any comments so far, or do you have to click something to see the comments--'cause I didn't see anything like that. That's about it, I suppose. Not bad for a flash site. That's very high praise coming from me. :) Loading...
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