what digital said. it just isnât award worthy. donât go out seeking awards. create quality content that is useful to people. the awards will come.
Itâs such a nice idea though. I love the note style clouds moving across the paper. But its little things like the way the clouds look that let it down. Theyâre quite scrappy. Although they need to look like note drawings, the user still has to look at them and you have to find a happy medium. And im not sure what that city scape thing is for. Like redrum said they are very pixely⌠i think getting rid of them would be a vast imporvement. Maybe replace them with a sketched version to fit in with the theme? possibly animated like it is being sketched right nowâŚ? Good luck, keep going!
I can understand you are proud of your work, but yeah, to be honest, it has the same feel as a personal home page, combined with some flash⌠The photo cut-n-paste style doesnât look that professional. I once did a group project for a broadcasting company in cut-n-paste style. Itâs fun to do, but itâs just not a way to be on the cutting edge of Flash. ( www.stof.tv )
Keep it up though, itâs a nice site.
donât get me wrong, the site isnât bad at all, but to win awards you need definately much more (depends on the award)
when you go to the blog you canât get back⌠unless i couldnât find the way.
No.
Concept is decent, but has been done many times. The actual page looks very cookie cutter, transitions are pretty weak, needs a lot of graphic tweaking/elements. I like the drawn clouds and all that jazz but even for minimalistic purposes you can still add more detail to it elements like that.
You need to revamp your bio as it is more of a blog than an actual bio.
Kind of annoying how the menu just disappears like that, itâs been done b4 but doesnât seem to flow well on your site.
I think this was said b4 but to keep consistancy w/ your site get rid of the actual photo and draw it, change the scroll bar to make it look like a sketched scrollbar, etc.
I think your first version of your site is stronger than this one.
Site still has a long way to go b4 you should submit it for an award. Although there are some awards that anyone can get. :puzzle:
Really? And what awards are they⌠iâm not fussy!
Try putting a little more work on the city skyline. Itâs looks a bit rough. I suggest for your site to be elegible for awards try some cool could effects and a real sky instead of the paper.
In terms if design the notebook paper doesnât really make sense or shares a concept with a (real) image of the city.
Iâm pretty sure that if you hadnât posdt your thread as âcan my site win an awardâ you wouldâve gotten a lot more positive feedback. But now people are just looking at it picking stuff out.
as mentioned above.
ya did a great job on masking the cityline
heathrowe
Try making everything flow a little better. If you want an award, you need a spark in your site. Something that everyone says âoh yea, that was a cool partâ. No offense but the paper didnât look very photo realistic and didnât reach what you can do in photoshop.
I had a good laugh at some of those pictures you posted =).
i have to agree with everyone else that this site as it stands canât win awards, but its a nice attempt and i like it. despite what flashfish says about the clouds i love em. thats all i really have to say
peace
Also, apart from the big website award places like Favorite Website Award, TINY, flashvista and fcuk stars, are there any other sites I could submit to? Any leads would be appreciated.
I bet you PlasticPilots will give you one. www.plasticpilots.com
With your website, one thing I see straight away that should be changed is the text. Never use Times New Roman, its ugly. Normal body text, go for verdana pt 10 and headings maybe Arial or Heltivca. The scrollbars not really original. You should disbale text highlighting. The buttons dont really work well since they look out of place. But I really want to ask, what is the main theme of your site? Is it a peronal portfolio? At this stage, it leads more towards a blog because of the random images as well as the info. You need to consise the info but keep it somewhat organised.
At this stage what you should do is change the color of the buttons, actually make them the same size, get rid of the lines as well as the clouds and moon, âcurtis homepageâ should be something organised, but keep the city because that can be build upon. I read your bio and you seem to know a fair bit about programming as well as attending mit. I really know you can build upon this much better. If you want people to look at your site from time to time, you need to make it somehwat professional. Divide the site with music and programming.
:hugegrin: Hehe nope still wouldâve said the same thing
Think they are called the Golden Web Awards or something, theyâve been known to give it to a 6 yr old who could animate a stick figure :hugegrin:
Wahey! Iâm off to put those 6 year olds to shame!
nice ideas there. bound to gel sooner or later with a bit of tweaking. lot of people here only like flash which does the usual space ship control panel thing with numbers whizzing by and arrows here and there and of course some lame music pumping out. So dont be put off.
Yeah. Sixo is right. Most of what is âimpressiveâ here resembles 2advanced. (although they are impressive). If you are really going for the college rule look, Iâd consider putting the whole site in a binder look. take a photo of a desk, and put it as the BG. incorporate some page turning source into it maybe, with the âcontentâ being hand-out looking things that are 3 ring bound, or have a pen draw everything. Awards take a LOT of time to earn. Change it up, perfect it, make it CLEAN (even if the look is rough, keep the code sharp and working), and then do it over again. That should start you off on the path to earning awards.
Disco-Stu// Yay! You got that cool footer to work!
I agree totally with what Disco-Stu said. Take alook in the thread âHow did he do this?â to find a good page turning template for you to toy with.
Hey guys,
this is Curtis, thanks for being frank and honest with your criticism on your site. After reading your responses, I think i know what to work on in future revisions of the site. So I had hubris when I suggested I can contest in the major awards, but really I wanted to see if there were any of the Minor awards I can contest in. Apparently, one of the forum goers entered me in the Smooth Design awards, and I won a bronze award. Which is mildly satisfying.
curtis
congrats I like it over all, cooler/smoother transitions would be nice thoughâŚ
Not to be an @55hole, but if you put âcan my flash site win awards?â, the average poster will either expect to be blown away by a 2advanced type site or will dismiss it as someone wanting some hits. I checked it out, simply because I use these guysâ feedbacks and critique to improve my skills.
I love the city, but the college rule paper is not working, and the coffee stains, are just not happening. The transitions arenât consistent. I am giving you full credit for your hard work, though I would ask for feedback and critique before I ask about awards. Work hard, and I am sure it will improve.