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Buttons said:
I don't think it's a good idea to keep people waiting so long for content, otherwise quite nice.
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Same thoughts here, lookswise it seems great, easy to navigate and understand, but loading each page and having to wait for the site to draw and fill in it's info take a little too long for my liking.
 
The_KiD said:
Same thoughts here, lookswise it seems great, easy to navigate and understand, but loading each page and having to wait for the site to draw and fill in it's info take a little too long for my liking.
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cheers guys.. i kinda noticed that before but thought that is was acceptable.. thanks for the input, i'll make those intro animations shorter...
 
I agree with the other comments, the content took way to long to display. like, waaay too long... I would say no intro animations... No offence to you, but its a ltitle anooying when i try and load a site and for whatever reason it loads slow or the page takes a while to load, it reaaallyyy annoys me when someone decides to MAKE me wait that long.
 
I just got a black page waited a little but then closed it.

Having just read the other replies i assume if i'd waited longer than i thought was acceptable i'd have seen something - sorry but you lots me i'm now looking at someone elses site
 
I got bored waiting for it to finish moving about and closed it.

[edit]I tried again, when trying to read the text it jumps all over the place if I move my mouse anywhere near it?! Are you trying to make people go elsewhere?!
 
Moredhel said:
I got bored waiting for it to finish moving about and closed it.

[edit]I tried again, when trying to read the text it jumps all over the place if I move my mouse anywhere near it?! Are you trying to make people go elsewhere?!
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lol do you normally read of the monitor following what you read with the mouse cursor ? haha

thanks for all your notes but
is it really thaaaaaaaaaaaaaat loooooooooooooong wait ?
 
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OK, it finally loaded.

1. Where's the contact details?
2. Lose the annoying "mouse/text-over" thing
3. Is the quick tour supposed to do anything?
4. Lose the transitions, just takes far too long.
5. Clicking on the links under resources causes FFox's popup blocker to activate

As with most flash-only sites, reasonable marks for over-design, negative marks for usability.
 
it can't be that long to load... the main SWF together with the intro SWF is 190Kb .. are u on dialup ? after the first 86Kb loaded the whole interface appears and then the intro movie starts to load..

this site is not finished as i said, I still have a lot of work to do...
I'll get rid of those long transitions and the text.. this should make it all appear/dissapear faster

Mr^B said:
OK, it finally loaded.

1. Where's the contact details? - i'll add them later
2. Lose the annoying "mouse/text-over" thing - will do
3. Is the quick tour supposed to do anything? - it will of course when i finish it
4. Lose the transitions, just takes far too long. - agha
5. Clicking on the links under resources causes FFox's popup blocker to activate - don't you think it's reasonable, otherwise after viewing another site when u press BACK the whole loading sequence will repeat again...
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I'm not talking specifically about load times, I'm talking about the time it takes to display anything that is actually of any use.

The main site content (ie. the bit that says who you are and what you do) is the last to load (approximately 20 seconds after the flash has loaded).

Research shows (etc etc) that people wait an average of 5 seconds for a site to load before getting an itchy clicker finger.

It's even about 11-12 seconds to go from a sub-page back up to the main site.

The flash animation all looks very nice, but what is it there for, what value is it adding to the site? Is it worth viewing more than once? Maybe have a shorter transition animation once the client has already seen it once.
 
As with the others really. I dont mind a totally flash site, but if you are going to make the user watch all your transitions and effects they better be incredibly good. To me its like a poor imitation of the previous version of http://www.2advanced.com. Bits of the design jar aswell, eg the rollovers on your primary nav.

You obviously have talent, but that site just doesnt do it justice really.
 
Its a very visually appealing site, no doubt there. There are only a few pages, but having to view the border animation for each page is annoying, especially considering the amount of content, but this is the thing thats annoys me with most 100% flash sites.

As for the loading time, that seemed fine. Took a few seconds, but nothing to make you click away. I'm only on 1 meg too ;)#

Kudos for that animation on the services page, really like that.
 
No offence ment at all, but it really does look to me like you have followed a 'how to make a flash website tutorial'.
Using flash is cool and such, but you have to get a very good design in place first then animate it :) That site dosent make me want to hire your company to create a website :(
 
blairw said:
No offence ment at all, but it really does look to me like you have followed a 'how to make a flash website tutorial'.
Using flash is cool and such, but you have to get a very good design in place first then animate it :) That site dosent make me want to hire your company to create a website :(
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