Shake It!

[Foamcow]

I'm a bit dubious about posting this here for people to tear apart.

But I'm always interested in people's opinions...

http://www.avoncrusadeshakeit.co.uk

I know there are some dodgy edges on some of the graphics, but thanks to IE I can't do much about that.

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[Foamcow]

eek, just noticed a whole load of validation errors!

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[jazz88]

I have a question: why do you want the Flash animation to loop ? Wouldn't it be better that it played just once and only the stars in the background would continue to loop ? Just curious, I'm sure you have your reasons.

 

[Foamcow]

Interesting.
It doesn't loop for me. Not in IE or FF.
It plays once, and then the stars keep rotating and the text cycles, that's it.
What browser/OS are you using?

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[jazz88]

mac/Safari. But I checked it in FF and it indeed doesn't loop. The question, however, is: is woth to bother at all since so few people use Safari. I also looked at your code to see how you did it. Normally you would (at least I would) address looping/stopping within Flash itself via actionscript. Then you wouldn't depend on a browser. Did you get the swf. file from somone else ?

 

[Foamcow]

No I made the swf myself.
there is a stop(); action in there so it shouldn't loop.

The only thing I can think of is that the movie is embedded using a standards compliant method rather than using Flash's publish dialogue.

I'll take another look at it when I get chance, it's not a massive priority at the moment.

Thanks for pointing it out though!

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[jazz88]

Apart from looping I really liked the menu and the font you used and pink is pretty cool too

 

[TruthInSatire]

I agree, for a pink site, it isn't hard to look at.

I like the top menus and how the "border" drops with the menu options vice a pop up and over everything else look, very nice.

what dodgy edges were you refering to? the only thing i noticed was the white edge around the woman, but it looked like it belonged there too so i couldn't tell if that's the "dodgy-ness" you ment.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

 

[Foamcow]

Those are the edges I am talking about.

If IE properly supported 24bit PNG's with a transparency then that graphic would look lovely.

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[TruthInSatire]

personally, had you not said anything I would have thought the image looked fine, like the thin white border was intentional.. I wouldn't worry about it much. I'm sure when i check it out at home with other browsers i'll see what you mean but,... anyway... it doesn't look BAD in my opinion...

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[frozenpeas]

The white fringe around the woman in the main site doesn't look as terrible as you might think.

My only issue is in the Flash element... the quality of the CD package isn't that good. It's noisy. It's edges look bad. If you replaced that, it would look great.

Good work on the site.

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[hotfusion]

I generally don't like 'flashy' animations on web pages, but in this case it looks good and attracts attention as presumably was intended. Any rough edges on the animation are unnoticable to me, and the colour scheme is superb for the purpose.

One point regarding a gut reaction to this site:
It wasn't immediately clear to me what was on offer here, as it wasn't until the animation had completed that I realised it was a CD on offer. This might be partly due to the lateness of the hour, but it was a genuite and immediate reaction. If this page is intended to to be at the end of an explanitory link on another page, then no problem.
Nice work.

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[Foamcow]

Frozenpeas and hotfusion I think you are absolutely correct.
I'm working to client spec though and that's how they wanted it. The main thing is that the client is very happy so far.

Though the CD is the main focus I guess, it's more about the entire "event" as it were. I do tend to agree that there should be more made of the CD... what is there at the moment was added by myself on top of what was specced when I realised there was little mention of the CD.

There is another phase to the development at which I will be addressing some issues and presenting the points made in this thread.



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