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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote]In your design my eye goes Firefield -> Flash Movie : short stutter : -> featured build -> projects You will lose a lot of people once they get to the flash movie if it hasn't loaded and doesn't offer something worthwhile to their search.[/quote] The way we're going to do it, is have the navigation not be in flash, but instead load smaller, faster flash movies. This way you dont have to wait for long load times like there was on the previous build. the majority of the content is going to in the flash module. The problem with the eye following and losing the navigation would probably be best solved by moving the navigation from below the flash movie to on top of it, no? At least that way your eye goes from Header > Nav > Flash > and then to the featured build. The idea was that flash is an excellent thing to use in a website, but not as the website itself. So, sites like 2advanced, where the entire site is in flash (although genious and well crafted) could probably induce a seizure if you're not careful. So we wanted to do something not so ordinary in this design. And this way, with the seperate flash movies, we can make the site still load quickly yet still have a part of the design not static at all. The real difference between us, and your links here, is they're charging 2000 dollars for a site, and we're just two guys trying to have a little fun, and maybe make some money on the side (like, 500$ for something like our site). You dont want to build your site and have your client want you to make a site like that and then not be able to afford it. But we're trying to make as nice a site as 2 teenagers with lives can. We can code anything, we can design anything, but not for 500$. The box thing is something I like a lot, it shows you where the text is, where the content is, instead of having to look 90000 places for what you want. Everything is built around boxes, every website, we are just the ones who utilize the symmetry and the usefulness of boxes themselves. If boxes are what you think of when you come to our site, then it's better than not thinking anything at all, at least it's practical. But maybe, we can be futuristic and just add more bevels and make things shinier like the trend in most modern developing is. I suppose rounding out the module spaces couldn't hurt, and maybe I'll mess around with how the text will be displayed a little tonight. I think the main issue that I need to attack with this build right now is maybe making the stuff on the right modules a little less wide than the content on the left, I suppose that would help in the viewer losing the content, and that way have some kind of dominance on the page. The main thing we want to do with this siteis just to have a little fun, man, really. Just build a couple sites before we're off to college, make some spare cash maybe. But it's just me and a friend, and we just have fun designing. We wanted to use our web design site as a web resource also, which is why we created the forums and the message board, maybe pass on a little of our knowledge, stuff we wished we would have known when we started out. As far as my background, I'd have to say I started with CG about 7 years ago. And I was graphics team leader all throughout highschool, with the exception of one year, but was a member. But I was really an artist, and I've been off and on for the past couple years, because my true love is music and I still play and practice countless hours a day, so that probably took away some time I could have been learning stuff. But I used CG primarily as an artform. My main focus is on 3D Modeling, and that's what I'll be majoring in as well. [EDIT] Go back and look at the prototype again, I've worked on it some, and I'd like to see what you think of the changes.[/EDIT] [url=http://www.firefieldnc.com] [img]http://www.firefieldnc.com/dustin/images/banner.gif[/img] [/url] [url=http://dustin.firefieldnc.com]My Artwork[/url] - [url=http://www.bmezine.com]BMEzine.com[/url] [small](Edited by [internallink=2908]Sanzen[/internallink] on 05-10-2004 10:19)[/small] Loading...
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