Lostinbeta.com flash site (work in progress)

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Hey fellow moderererers, I need your help.

As some of you know, I am working on my first flash site, and yes, progress on it is going very slow as I go through slumps of no motivation and whatever.

Ok, being this is my first Flash site and that I am still working on it, I would like your opinions now, so that I can change it when I am working on that section.

Here is the site:

http://www.lostinbeta.com/flashSite/

I was more focused on layout and getting it to work rather than content displayed.

NOTE: None of the buttons in the link section, or the view full button in the portfolio section, or the button in the experiments section actually work, I will uncomment the line that makes them work when I finish :slight_smile:

[edit]oh yeah, and the contact section isn’t up yet[/edit]

[edit2]Rev: I know you hate pixel fonts… sorry

And, let me know if theres anywhere I forgot to embed my fonts =) [/edit2]

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Pretty neat! Good job man, :slight_smile: You may have forgotten to embed the textfields in the portfolio section, not sure if the pixel art on the header is matching with the overall colour scheme, and nice transitions and effects, BTW.

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h88: The portfolio should be fixed now thanks =). And the pixel person isn’t staying, it is a space saver right now, I have another idea that I might do.

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Cool, we’ve been waiting for this for a long time. :slight_smile:

First impressions… Well, it’s totally different from your last / current site, this one’s a lot darker with the grey. I like though, it suits the kind of style you’ve gone for.

I love the rollover trail effect on the links page, that’s great and works nicely. :slight_smile:

I know you said you haven’t worried so much about content, so this one might be a bit orrelevant, just the titles on the pages are in either different places or noth there for the Portfolio… ?

I’m not sure about the pixel guy in the corner… He seems out of place what with the vector on the front page. That or the vector is out of place with the pixel dude. :slight_smile:

But overall, I think you’re going to have a killer site there. :slight_smile:

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nice :slight_smile:

did you try making the circles somewhat transparent yet? :slight_smile:

:stuck_out_tongue:

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lost, i thought you were gonna make most of it in HTML/JavaScript?

in any case, it looks good. :thumb:

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*Originally posted by Kitiara *
I know you said you haven’t worried so much about content, so this one might be a bit orrelevant, just the titles on the pages are in either different places or noth there for the Portfolio… ?

That counts, it is part of layout… and lookie at that… I did forget the portfolio title :x Thats ok, I am still working on that section, I will add it in :whistle:

I don’t have room to fit it on the main page, but I don’t think the main page needs it. And the experiments page is basically a redirect link to http://lab.lostinbeta.com/ which isn’t up yet, but when it goes up it will be a page of my experiments, most should be open source. Well despite my getting off course, the experimental section doesn’t need a title because it isn’t really a section, just a temporary thing until people get situated with lab.lostinbeta.com :slight_smile:

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*Originally posted by ahmed *
**nice :slight_smile:

did you try making the circles somewhat transparent yet? :slight_smile:

:stuck_out_tongue: **

No not yet, but that suggestion was great, when I get to working on that section I will definitely give that a shot!

And hehehe, that image is so doctored :stuck_out_tongue:

*Originally posted by Manny Calavera *
**lost, i thought you were gonna make most of it in HTML/JavaScript?

in any case, it looks good. :thumb:**

Nah, not this version at least. Maybe I will make a similar HTML side version that will be HTML/Javascript powered.

I could use the info from my XML files =)

I currently have the XML backend working for the Portfolio section and the News section. I plan on making the About section and the Links section supported by XML.

[size=1]for those interested, my XML files look like this…
http://www.lostinbeta.com/flashSite/news.xml
http://www.lostinbeta.com/flashSite/portItems.xml[/size]

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nice =)

i have a question though… do you manually alter the xml files, or do you enter the news through some kind of a CMS which generated the xml? :slight_smile:

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I manually alter the XML files then re-upload them. I tried creating an XML editor before, until I realized that you have to install a whole seperate class on your server for PHP to be able to write to XML files, and I can’t do that :frowning:

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oh i remember having to install this new library… but, if you wannt edit (and not write) xml files, there’s a preinstalled library that does that, or so my book says :slight_smile:

[edit]

wouldn’t it be possible to create xml documents the same way you can write textfile?.. i’ll have to look into that :slight_smile:

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Well ahmed, if you have any information on editing XML files via PHP, or writing XML files via PHP, I would definitely love to know how =) I would really just need to know how to edit the content of an XML file, I could easily create the file manually myself, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist :stuck_out_tongue: .

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lol…i’m sure jubba or h88 have dealt with xml and php before, but i’ll read up on that anyways and see how it goes :slight_smile:

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Hey lost,
The site looks nice! I think it is very good the way it is, but since you know a good amount of JS and CSS, have you considering giving users the option to select a different color scheme for the background? I think a cookie and CSS are what are needed, but you can worry about that after your site is finished and viewable by everyone :slight_smile:

Cheers!
Kirupa :bandit:

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<?php
$filename = "events.xml";
$fp = fopen( $filename,"w");
fwrite ( $fp, "$_POST" ); //$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
fclose( $fp );
?>
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the only comment I have, besides the font being way too small…

is that I don’t like the way the nav moves when you go into a section…

gives a negative tick in the useabililty column…

other than that, nice site lost… I’m still working on mine…

Rev

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Kirupa: Good Idea, I may try something like that :slight_smile:

Eyez: Thanks =) I will see if I can get that working later tonight. I may install PHP on my local system because it gets way too annoying having to upload all the time (even with dreamweavers auto-upload feature).

Rev: I knew you’d hate that font :frowning: Also, for the navi, I was just trying to work with a more “original” idea (although not quite), do you think it would be better if it eased to the location rather than springing to the location? Or do you just dislike that altogether?

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personally, I like to have the nav in the same exact place throughout the site.

I really don’t see the need to move it…

but that is only my opinion…

Rev

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Well technically it is always in the same location throughout the site :stuck_out_tongue: , just when you click on a link the panel yanks up to reveal the preloader then the panel drops back down to reveal the new section.

But I know what you mean.

The situation may be a toughy to fix given my setup and the amount of space, but I will experiment with pulling the navigation out of the panel and have it static in the same area all the time while the panel still does it’s springy thing, would that be better?

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I would like it better…

but that is me.

I like to see a constant nav. Makes it much more intuitive…

Rev