this is my first ‘really’ programmed website. :hugegrin:
It is a little flash site that takes all content from a textfile.
In this textfile you can also define the colors of the site,
define the number of subpages and the number and lables of the menu items,
you can choose the background for each page and the type of
the subpages, as there are:
Text (textfield supports html)
Profile (some kind of business card)
Foto gallery (loads external fotos - the thumbnails can link to other fotos or pages)
a ‘link’ site where one can post up to 10 links.
(There a few more features, but that much detail might not be necessary)
You can find the site HERE
The textfile can be found HERE
Unfortunately I am not (yet) able to program php or mySql, :*( otherwise I might have made an interface (CMS) to adapt the site that creates a textfile/database for the user …
Anyway,
please don’t be harsh :sen: but tell me what you think about it.
I like the style and color, but the design is something to be desired.
It’s always fun and intruiging to create a site that is more or less a tech demo for you to learn. Often I take on something that I think would be fun to learn in actionscript in one of my projects or just put them all together and make them to one site.
My suggestions would be to add something more for the end user. It’s great that you have all these functions loaded dynamically! So now put them to use. Try creating a function that would allow users to actually change the color of your site. Or make a flash file that would act as a CMS for your site. Something like that would really help on working with clients to give them true access to update thier site.
On the design side, it might look nice if you did something more with the positioning of your content and perhaps some background imagery. Smooth the transitions between pages and I think thinks would look a lot sleeker!
Keep it up though. Actionscript is not only fun and exiting, but powerful!
Actually one can change the colors of the site, but I agree that the Flash-file working as CMS would be a lot easier to handle.
I guess I am not able to handle that yet but it is one of my aimes.
Since I have to learn for my masters-degree (not web related) time is a precious resource right now, but after that I’ll go deeper into stuff like PHP, XML and mySql.
I guess those things are a key to many interesting applcations (like the CMS, etc.) :thumb:
What exactly do you mean by
it might look nice if you did something more with the positioning of your content
Does anybody else have something helpful to say too?
Thanks for your helpful suggestions!
I meant instead of positioning the site x-centered & y-centered, moving it off a little bit towards a corner. Not all the way but just a little move so to give it a more interesting position for the eye. An example would be many of today’s blogs which use a similar positioning. Sorry if this isn’t very clear, I can’t think of a better way to describe it.
