# A site check...Please be mean
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-site-check-please-be-mean/13501
**Category:** design
**Created:** [February 13, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-site-check-please-be-mean/13501 "2003-02-13T22:36:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@craschnburn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/craschnburn)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-site-check-please-be-mean/13501/1 "2003-02-13T22:36:54Z")
Hello All!!! How’s everyone doing??
I just finished a site here. This is my second flash site that I’ve done. If you guys could check it out.
[http://tomtestingsite.20m.com/](http://tomtestingsite.20m.com/)
which will soon be [www.charlotteshouses.com](http://www.charlotteshouses.com)
Peace on earth.
Craschnburn:whistle:
PS. another thing. I couldn’t get my preloader to work properly. My site would pause for a while, and then loads the preloader but is inconsistent. any idea?
thanks again
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-site-check-please-be-mean/13501/2 "2003-02-13T23:05:44Z")
yea i did experience a slight pause, make a scene infront of the main movie and put this… in frame one
preloader scene:
frame1: ifFrameLoaded (“main”, 200) {
gotoAndPlay(“main”, 1);
}
skip 10 frames
10th frame: gotoAndPlay(1);
## \*\*change that 200 with the last frame number in your main scene.
## Now as for the site, i am not really liking the menu with the line thru it, or the smily face animation, how about having that bubble messages coming out from her head? Also when u click the menu, the buttons move a bit, (i dunno if you did that on purpose or not) Some of the text is a bit hard to read…
Other then that… it looks nice…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-site-check-please-be-mean/13501/3 "2003-02-13T23:40:44Z")
thanks nirmal. could you explain a little more on what you advised. to me it seems like another preloader that i’m including in there. or maybe i’m not understanding you correctly.
I like your comment though.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-site-check-please-be-mean/13501/4 "2003-02-13T23:50:07Z")
here you go man… there is a attachment… and that should help u out…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-site-check-please-be-mean/13501/5 "2003-02-13T23:51:21Z")
thanks br0
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-site-check-please-be-mean/13501/6 "2003-02-14T00:19:23Z")
I looked over your site and it is going well for you. Two things I found that I see as problems, but you know, opinions are like…
1. Lines going through the menu instead of underneath the text look like a screw-up, even though it probably isn’t. Lines through text are usually a bad idea I think, and I am sure most eveyone would think that.
2. The individual clips seem awfully large for the amount of content. I think you should work on optimizing your file sizes more.
Well, there’s my two cents. Nice job so far. Good luck with it!
fitz
P.S.
I prefer using code like this for preloaders. It is more accurate than using frame counting. Matter of preference I would assume though.
Put this, on say, frame ten. (Flash tends to ignore code on the first few frames sometimes.)
//Initialize variables for ease of use
var loadedbytes=getBytesLoaded();
var totalbytes=getBytesTotal();
// Check to see if movie is loaded
if (loadedbytes \< totalbytes){
// If not loaded
gotoAndPlay “1”;
}
// if loaded go to next scene where your content is
else {
nextScene();
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-site-check-please-be-mean/13501/7 "2003-02-14T00:54:07Z")
Thanks fitz
I would like to hear more comments. I really do appreciate them.
Any tips on optimizing the files.
:cowboy:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-site-check-please-be-mean/13501/8 "2003-02-14T12:17:40Z")
Very hard to do without looking at the actual .fla and
I don’t really know how advanced you are at Flash, or how advanced I am for that matter!
Here are a couple general tips:
Generally you want to keep your jpegs small. (quality 60 at most)
Use symbols whenever possible, and reuse them. Even for small things. If you have a line, make it a symbol, than scale it wherever you need a line.
Don’t tween what you can do with actionscript. This is a give and take though, processor use vs. download time.
Anyway, like I said, it is hard to do without the fla.
Keep working at it though. The program isn’t hard to figure out at all with some time. Get a book or two or go through a bunch of tutorials online. Best way to learn it I think.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-site-check-please-be-mean/13501/9 "2003-02-14T15:28:16Z")
yeah, I don’t like the lines through the menu either
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-site-check-please-be-mean/13501/10 "2003-02-14T16:54:15Z")
I was just about to say the same subquark.
And btw what is are those banners doing beneath; that’s not very nice.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-site-check-please-be-mean/13501/11 "2003-02-14T18:50:18Z")
man…i really like you guys. any other tips?
thank you all…especially PJ.