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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[b]Edit:[/b] I posted this before i noticed your reply above, thus big sections of it are't relevant now, but i'll leave em there none the less. Actually, all flash websites can work well, it depends on what the website is actually for. In this case, flash makes little sense. If you look at Flash and XHTML as a delivery medium (which they are), and ask yourself what it is you actually want to deliver. Use the medium that will let you most effectively deliver your content. The flash gallery isn't bad, but it isn't well designed either. What if you want to add more categories than you can fit on the page? what if you end up having 100+ photos in one section -- do I have to page through all those numbers? Why numbers? What if you want to add long descriptions? A simple thumb nailed HTML solution would perhaps be better served here. Again, it depends on the purpose. A personal photo gallery is better suited to HTML and thumbnails. On the other hand, a series of portfolio images is perhaps better as a semi-linear click though. Regardless, the intent here is the imagery, not the menus, not the way they load - content is king after all. Your current flash gallery is somewhat in opposition to that ideal. If you must use flash, keep is simple... really simple. JSM does simple well : http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/photo/ - take a page from his book if you must ;) Get rid of that bloody splash page already! I remember this from last time, and your justification (or lack there of) and use of the 2 versions is just as downright confusing and unnecessary as it was last time. You have no real need for a fully flash website, nor do you appear to have the necessary skills to carry one off successfully (sorry, but you don't, not yet anyway). That being said, what you do have shows some promise. The tribal illustration style is nice, and you seem quite involved with it, but it's not working as an interactive piece and I'd strongly recommend that you keep to small piece meal flash work until you've enough experience to craft something worthy of a full blown flash website. If highly interactive work is what you're after that is - if you just want to showcase your illustrations then stick with XHTML and small bits of flash content where necessary. On a whole, I really think you're trying to hard. The flash/html and all the alternative CSS styles just feels like you're trying to pack as much bang-for-your-buck cool shit as you can into it. Admirable, but not practical. And that that's what makes good design, form from function. Figure out what you want people to get from your website and start form scratch if necessary. If something isn't working, sometimes the best thing to do is start afresh, no matter how clever idea-x was, if you loose site of the grand picture you're just wasting your time. I might get 2 seconds of gratification from being able to select a different style sheet. Yeah, it's cool. Yes, it shows some degree of technical skill and perhaps some design skills if the colour combinations were compelling enough - but that's about it. On the other hand your tribal illustrations are really nice. I could happily spend a few hours flicking through a portfolio full of them, but with all that needless motion and un accessible interface I spent more time cursing the site than appreciating your work. Sadly, form != function in this case. Anyway, I think your work is great, but the site really killed it for me. The visual design wasn't bad, but the function of the site itself was it's ultimate undoing IMHO, well, the flash parts were, which is where you kept all the interesting content. [small](Edited by [internallink=2879]Cameron[/internallink] on 03-10-2005 00:25)[/small] Loading...
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