# A Review of Alex's Site **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [April 14, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234 "2003-04-14T20:01:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@lava](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lava)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/1 "2003-04-14T20:01:42Z")
ok, I’m making a review of alex’s site - he held us in suspense for a while, but he finally made one… [http://www.alexsdesigns.net/](http://www.alexsdesigns.net/) These comments are not in any particular order 1. If this is his first site, it’s a very good attempt. 2. the page reads “Featured Experiement” is this intended, or a typo? (it’s spelled experiment) 3. I didn’t notice the gas effect until the 5th time I reloaded his page. It’s a cool effect, but it’s too short. He should either get rid of it or extend it… 4. I’d say simplify… there are just way too many top and bottom lines 5. I’m not too keen on the way he loads the 4 buttons at the start of the site. It’s not smooth. He should try setting the easing on the tweens to 100. 6. The title on the browser reads “Contact Information” He should change this 7. About Me Section. He doesnt need a scroll bar there if he doesn’t have enough information. 8. Portfolio - The folders should have descriptions 9. Contact - Seems a little overkill to have an animation just for an email address. 10. Links - the kirupa button is blurry. He should make sure to place everything at integer locations, to prevent antialiasing 11. The intro is also a little jagged… He should try to smooth things out. 12. He should try to use different loading sequences for different sections My thoughts - This is a site that shows more flash skill than actual design skill. Personally, I don’t like the use of Arial, Verdana, Times, etc in flash animations, because flash makes the fonts look like crap. He should try to find an adequate pixel font. Also, I don’t understand why this swf takes so long to load… if it’s because of the sound loops, he should make them into separate swfs, and use loadMovie() to stream them. Also, he should try to compress his sound effects as much as possible. One more thought on the sound loops. It took me about 3 minutes to take a look at the entire site, and by 1.5 minutes, the soundloop had already gotten annoying. As he puts more content, visitors will spend more time at the site, but it will be easier for them to leave than to find the stop music button. He can get much better, longer, higher quality soundloops if they’re imported. I’d encourage him to take a look at [http://home.earthlink.net/~nathanmal/index2.html](http://home.earthlink.net/~nathanmal/index2.html) to see what kind of sound quality can be achieved. With all that said, I’m surprised at the quality of this site. My first flash site was nothing compared to this one, and I can see that Alex has learned a lot in a relatively short amount of time. I’m looking forward to seeing the site 3 months from now. Raf ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/2 "2003-04-14T20:04:41Z")
he also needs to learn how to spell. “starting on a music palyer” .lol. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/3 "2003-04-14T20:15:20Z")
Yes, my site is still young, there is a good future for it. (i hope:). it still needs ALOT of more work, i plan to add more stuff when i get the chance to create it. I am going to attempt to make another music player that plays mp3’s:P. So if everything works out good, it should get better. To make this site it took me about 3months and alot of hours of just sitting at my computer working on it. and yes, i still have a social life. 😛 I have read through countless tutorials, and its gotten me this far. Im glad you like it. As for the spelling… haha, im really tired and i got a head ach… thanks- ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/4 "2003-04-14T20:15:55Z")
opps, opps is a funny word ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/5 "2003-04-14T20:16:53Z")
haha… Kirupaforum needs a spell chceker. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/6 "2003-04-14T20:19:24Z")
your hired… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/7 "2003-04-14T20:20:52Z")
hence the irony… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/8 "2003-04-14T20:22:34Z")
so you were the person that kept refreshing my site… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/9 "2003-04-14T20:31:44Z")
> \*Originally posted by Alex \* > so you **where** the person that kept refreshing my site… > you mean ‘were’ the person that kept refreshing your site 😛 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/10 "2003-04-14T20:34:29Z")
yeah… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/11 "2003-04-14T20:34:44Z")
your all turning into my english teacher, annoying… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/12 "2003-04-14T20:36:27Z")
> _Originally posted by Alex \* > **your all turning into my english teacher, annoying…😛 \*\* > Correction: You **’re_\* all turning into my english teacher** s** 😛 c’mon alex… you can do better, english is my second language too 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/13 "2003-04-14T20:36:32Z")
YOU’RE all turning into my english teacher… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/14 "2003-04-14T20:43:17Z")
> \*Originally posted by ahmed \* \c’mon\alex… you can do better, english is my second language too 😛 Correction- \Come on\ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/15 "2003-04-14T20:58:05Z")
> \*Originally posted by ahmed \* > english teacher **s** This is not necessary, since Alex is referring to ONE particular teacher. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/16 "2003-04-14T21:21:07Z")
hm… from the ‘all’ in ‘you’re all’ i assumed he’s talking about both of us. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/17 "2003-04-14T21:27:27Z")
haha that’s funny 🙂 English is my second language too and I use it only here in Kirupa. I hate my english teacher, which doesn’t teach me anything. Haha, any mistakes? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/18 "2003-04-14T22:31:20Z")
a couple ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/19 "2003-04-15T01:43:01Z")
you guys are crazy. LOL Hey lava, i like your new lay-out for your site. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234/20 "2003-04-15T02:01:46Z")
thanks, I’m still working on it. Hopefully I’ll have something COMPLETELY done by tomorrow… I’m staying up all night. I’m kinda surprised as to how long it’s taking me… It’s only been one weekend so far. The last one took me a couple of weeks. [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-review-of-alexs-site/18234.md?page=2)