There is nothing there, except a white table in the center with grainy grey/pink gradient down the sides on 3 browsers - opera6, mozilla and ie5
looking at your source code I see it's meant to be flash (.swf) it wont load for me and havent had any offers to download anything (not that I would), so if it's a splash page offer text links to skip it or a text (html) version for people who dont have/use flash.
you should add type="text/css" to your style tag as well
lol i wrote that last night after about 257235 beers, suprised its actually ledgible, lemme take a proper look at it...
What i like about it the most is the professionalism of the Flash work. Far too often, people put Flash on their site just for the sake of it and it makes it look really poor, cos their Flash skills aren't up to par. However, your site is a great example of a flash site, i absolutely adore pixel fonts anyway, so that's another bonus!
Keep up the good work, i like it!
The Webmistress posted this at 10:23 — 19th April 2003.
As far as flash sites go it's very nice, but I'm not a fan of them and you are not doing yourself any favours not offering a html version, either for those without flash or for the search engines. I'm also not a fan of pixel fonts as I find them too small and hard to read for chunks of text. I would have actually done this so it fits into 800*600 without a scrollbar by making it wider rather than longer as it's annoying to have to scroll down and then move the mouse over to scroll down within the flash itself.
Nicely done but with everything having to load modules on each page it gets annoying and I'd leave. What are the loading times like on a dial up connection?
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
disaster-master posted this at 12:04 — 19th April 2003.
It loaded fairly quick on my dial-up and believe me, I have a slow connection.
Logo is good. Graphics are clean. The fonts are kinda small but that is standard for these type sites I suppose. Thanks for providing an obvious way to turn off the music. Navigation isn't bad but I think it would look better if it were one of your complementary colors instead of the dark gray....well, maybe not.
It wouldn't be hard at all for you to provide an HTML version of this. Something simple just so it would be accessible to all. IMO, if you did this it would make the site and your business that much more impressive in the fact that you would take into consideration folks that don't have the latest version of flash or browsers.
You do really nice work.
If I may ask, where do you find those neat looking images at?
Hello
Actually the loading times were very good on a dial up.
I like the site, it is proffesional looking, to me anyhow, im easily impressed though.
But must agree with the webmistress, you ought to consider an html version for people without flash, unless your audience is soley aimed at flash users. the music is a bit annoying after a while.
Good luck with the site
DaveyBoy, I think you'd find the number of users decreasing nowadays, people have been abused with flash so choose not to upgrade or view it. flash can also contain trojans and is only just becoming search engine friendly.
I'm on a dialup and choose not to upgrade the flash viewer as I get sick of the annoying sounds and useless animations people use (no reference to unfluxs work, by the sounds of it, its really good). have a look at the top 5 annoying things on a websites (don't include flash), you'd find music, animated graphics, scrolling things ... and what do most flash sites have ?
people ask me all the time how to disable flash, easy on some browsers as they have an option to turn it off.
congrats on 100th post btw
I agree i don't always like Flash web sites, but the point is, a lot of people still want Flash sites making and this company is a Flash specialist it seems, and most of their work is Flash-based so might as well make the site in Flash. Sometimes i geta bit impatient waiting for little animations to play before the text displays or whatever - i'm of the opinion that the animations should be unintrusive.
Flash is a bit of a mixed bag really, you either love it or hate it. Bit like Marmite.
jha2297255 posted this at 08:54 — 21st April 2003.
The transactions etc, the 'loading module' thing etc.
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Busy posted this at 23:29 — 18th April 2003.
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There is nothing there, except a white table in the center with grainy grey/pink gradient down the sides on 3 browsers - opera6, mozilla and ie5
looking at your source code I see it's meant to be flash (.swf) it wont load for me and havent had any offers to download anything (not that I would), so if it's a splash page offer text links to skip it or a text (html) version for people who dont have/use flash.
you should add type="text/css" to your style tag as well
btw welcome to TWF
UNFLUX posted this at 00:08 — 19th April 2003.
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you need to install flash plugin version 6 to see the site. It's
100% flash - no splash page. Sorry you were unable to see it.
DaveyBoy posted this at 01:02 — 19th April 2003.
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very, very cool site!
UNFLUX posted this at 05:29 — 19th April 2003.
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thanks DaveyBoy.
Anything in particular you liked about it?
DaveyBoy posted this at 09:44 — 19th April 2003.
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lol i wrote that last night after about 257235 beers, suprised its actually ledgible, lemme take a proper look at it...
What i like about it the most is the professionalism of the Flash work. Far too often, people put Flash on their site just for the sake of it and it makes it look really poor, cos their Flash skills aren't up to par. However, your site is a great example of a flash site, i absolutely adore pixel fonts anyway, so that's another bonus!
Keep up the good work, i like it!
The Webmistress posted this at 10:23 — 19th April 2003.
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As far as flash sites go it's very nice, but I'm not a fan of them and you are not doing yourself any favours not offering a html version, either for those without flash or for the search engines. I'm also not a fan of pixel fonts as I find them too small and hard to read for chunks of text. I would have actually done this so it fits into 800*600 without a scrollbar by making it wider rather than longer as it's annoying to have to scroll down and then move the mouse over to scroll down within the flash itself.
Nicely done but with everything having to load modules on each page it gets annoying and I'd leave. What are the loading times like on a dial up connection?
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
disaster-master posted this at 12:04 — 19th April 2003.
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Welcome to the forums UNFLUX.
It loaded fairly quick on my dial-up and believe me, I have a slow connection.
Logo is good. Graphics are clean. The fonts are kinda small but that is standard for these type sites I suppose. Thanks for providing an obvious way to turn off the music. Navigation isn't bad but I think it would look better if it were one of your complementary colors instead of the dark gray....well, maybe not.
It wouldn't be hard at all for you to provide an HTML version of this. Something simple just so it would be accessible to all. IMO, if you did this it would make the site and your business that much more impressive in the fact that you would take into consideration folks that don't have the latest version of flash or browsers.
You do really nice work.
If I may ask, where do you find those neat looking images at?
spor posted this at 18:56 — 20th April 2003.
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Hello
Actually the loading times were very good on a dial up.
I like the site, it is proffesional looking, to me anyhow, im easily impressed though.
But must agree with the webmistress, you ought to consider an html version for people without flash, unless your audience is soley aimed at flash users. the music is a bit annoying after a while.
Good luck with the site
Cymru am byth
DaveyBoy posted this at 22:22 — 20th April 2003.
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i think about 1% of people don't have flash player now
Busy posted this at 05:16 — 21st April 2003.
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DaveyBoy, I think you'd find the number of users decreasing nowadays, people have been abused with flash so choose not to upgrade or view it. flash can also contain trojans and is only just becoming search engine friendly.
I'm on a dialup and choose not to upgrade the flash viewer as I get sick of the annoying sounds and useless animations people use (no reference to unfluxs work, by the sounds of it, its really good). have a look at the top 5 annoying things on a websites (don't include flash), you'd find music, animated graphics, scrolling things ... and what do most flash sites have ?
people ask me all the time how to disable flash, easy on some browsers as they have an option to turn it off.
congrats on 100th post btw
DaveyBoy posted this at 06:19 — 21st April 2003.
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haha oh yayyy 100
I agree i don't always like Flash web sites, but the point is, a lot of people still want Flash sites making and this company is a Flash specialist it seems, and most of their work is Flash-based so might as well make the site in Flash. Sometimes i geta bit impatient waiting for little animations to play before the text displays or whatever - i'm of the opinion that the animations should be unintrusive.
Flash is a bit of a mixed bag really, you either love it or hate it. Bit like Marmite.
jha2297255 posted this at 08:54 — 21st April 2003.
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had flash got rid of it,too many flash ads-I cant see your site! -Josh
nerdbyte posted this at 16:57 — 21st April 2003.
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I think it's a nice design but the layout is so slender and the font is so small to read, and the all caps font makes it even harder to read.
DaveyBoy posted this at 17:14 — 21st April 2003.
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i think its based on this site, actually : http://www.2advanced.com
The transactions etc, the 'loading module' thing etc.
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