Hey Psycho dude (BrintonWhite), Kirupa has been alerted to your posts.
jdl//This site has really come on alot since I saw it last. Itās all come together really nicely. I agree with the others about the fonts. Go to www.dafont.com and pick two fonts for your site. One fancy/bold one for headers and titles, and a nice simple one (maybe a pixel font) for the main text. Then stick with just these two fonts throughout your site.
Another thing I feel you could address is the colour scheme. The colours are fine but because they are all so bright they clash. Try making all the colours more pastelly shades of the current ones. I think these two things will really make your site great. Also itās good to see an older member. And female too. KF seems to be overrun by young males (like me)!
Anyway keep up the good work and follow the advice of everyone ('cept BrintonWhite) and youāre on the road to success.
I just donāt think itās acceptable to swear at members who ask for critiques and to tell them how rubbish their work is. This forum is for constructive criticism. This jdlās first Flash site and I am sure she would appreciate it if you would try to help instead of just slandering her work.
Sorry jdl for hijacking your thread but someone has to admonish this fellow. :jail:
Flash Gordon, thanks for the extra help with my site - if I didnāt come in here in the first place for criticism , it would not be improved. Brinton is obviously upset I called Nirvana a āgeniusā and so he started in on me but Brinton when I see a site created by someone so young it really astounds me and I really believe that is the mark of a very gifted person. You are welcome to disagree , just donāt start yelling at me about it and turning around and insult my own stuff. What is the point of that.
I donāt want you kicked out for it, Iām just retaliating.
This is the nature of this forum. I hate the place - full of people who are all too ready to be the big guy in town. I have had so much grief here it is impossible to explain. Nothing is EVER good enough, even if you completely do what a client wants- IT WILL always be wrong for some of the people here. Most of them are 9 anyway, so I suppose I should just accept it. I think your site is good, as I said in the first instance. But I will now get kicked out for good anyway - my fault
In fact thatās something for all of us to remember, most web people are under the age of 9 and it will be difficult for us to get on in design with these young people in charge. I spent 3 years at oxford studying applied mathematics and then a further 3 years at the royal colllege of art in london studying fine art and graphic design and what does it amount to - nothing!
The whole thing is a waste of time in many ways, all that one can achieve is some extra pocket money with web design.
Brinton, I totally agree, nothing WILL ever be good enough because there is always room for improvement but I try not to get too āanalā about it you know because I am now sick of trying to get my site ārightā also. So I just leave it alone if Iām happy with it or come back to it in a few weeks and you always remember good criticism and you are your own best/worse critic as well.
Anything computer related is highly stressful if you spend too much time at it as far as Iām concerned. I certainly wouldnāt want to have to make a living out of it full-time! I wouldnāt be good enough anyway. But I might be good enough to pick up some freelance work or just use my skills to help my own projects or friends. Itās still a good creative outlet and unlike you Iāve never studied maths so it exercises that part of my brain which is practically retarded
If I were thinking of it as a career Iād specialize in one small field and be the very best at it. Make sure itās an area I loved.
Thanks for your considerate reply.
Cheers.
PS: I like having young minds giving me help in here. They are smarter than me when it comes to this stuff.
Man that is the lamest attitude you could possibly have.
I couldnāt really care less about how good other people are, itās all relative. For instance every classroom has a budding genius, getting straight Aās, but does that mean you shouldnāt try to do as well as you can? Noā¦ of course not.
Ordinathorreur is SPOT ON ! Itās the learning process that counts. Who cares if your sites are a thousand times not up to scratch! I mean who really cares? Get out of your job if you donāt like it. But if you love it, you can take or leave the criticism of others in here. Donāt you think itās cool when ppl bother to even look at your site and offer up a thought? I think itās really cool considering just how many designers are out there doing stuff.
Now this thread has gone on too long that probably no1 will read this.
Just in case though- can you tell me exactly which fonts you think donāt work on my main movie AND can you tell me Flash Gordon - is it the orange that you think is too bright or other colours too?
Itās mainly the orange but also on the outback pop-ups the pinky/peach colour clashes on the orange very badly. Iāll get some screenshots of the fontās that donāt work and Iāll find some that I think do. That okay? Iāll post them soon.
Okay hereās what I came up with. I didnāt want to change very much cos you put all that hard work into creating it in the first place. The font is called āAnotherā and if you canāt find it Iāll zip it and give it to you.
Thanks for going to that trouble. I see what you mean about the font being more consistent with the rest of the site but I thought everyone meant the font I was using in the descriptions for about etc. I hadnāt even thought of the numbers.
For the colours, I have a more subdued orange like you see on the splash pg and that tones everything down in the main movie. Must because Iām female but I really like my shades of pink so Iām keeping them.
Anyway I went to dafont pg and found lotās of choices , so you reckon i donāt need to change the main about text etc? Itās the splash pg and preloader part onlyā¦
Yuck I hate my toned down oj puke , and honestly the redder orange doesnāt work- at most Iāll tone down the shades of pink in outback.
Do the fonts look a bit better? more consistentā¦I couldnāt find āANOTHERā.
Ok Iām very bored of this site now :E~~~~~~~
I will have fun putting it on cd with the pop ups (there is no script for enabling that without the users browser active)
Thanks for all the help.
:jail:
So you donāt have to handle me with kid gloves - I can take harsh criticism when constructive.
so Iām keeping them.