Submit here (4/11-4/17)

If you wish to be considered for the SOTW for April 11-17, 2003, please read the summary of rules:

  1. Reply by the end of Thursday, April 17 to be considered for this week’s award.

  2. Include the URL and your email address.[list=a][]Only the webmaster/creator of the site can submit.
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    ]Only one submission per person per week.
    [*]Submissions are capped at [COLOR=red]10 each week[/COLOR], so don’t wait or hesitate until the last minute.
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  3. Websites submitted must be at least 90% Flash. Sites that have HTML pages with a Flash intro are ineligible.

  4. While it is understood that sites are perpetually under construction, please submit only complete sites. Do not submit a site that is less than 80% finished.

  5. Submissions must be actual websites with sections and content. Examples of ineligible include (but not limited to) flash games, movies, etc.

  6. There will be a private poll among the moderators and a winner will be announced by Tuesday, April 22, 2003.

  7. No critiques or feedback is allowed in the submission thread. If you wish a concentrated critique of your site, you may start a thread in Site Check. However, mod critiques will be posted when a winner has been selected.

For more information or questions, please refer to the Official SOTW Rules. Once you have read and understand the rules above, you may submit your site to this thread. Sites not adhering to the rules above will be disqualified and deleted. Submitting your site is an agreement and acceptance of the rules.

http://hospital.apoka.com

Have fun at the hospital!

artus@apoka.com

ayoungkim.com

A Writer/Artist’s site.

BTW - I will abstain from voting in SOTW this week. I also have not looked at the site above to see who was entering, just to keep things on the square and level.

tim aulman@hotmail.com (without the space for the spambots)

BTW - abzoid did the backend for this site utilizing asp with Generator to enable the client to maintain the site easily with an HTML style interface. Basically, if you see text, she can change it anytime she wants.

nervously yours,

Rev

Talion Placebo

Crimes, strange crimes…

Drag and drop the floppy disk on the right bottom.

good investigation !!

a****aka.conception@tiscali.fr

JoelSpeasmaker.com

http://www.joelspeasmaker.com

My personal/portfolio site.
Email: joel@thedrama.org

Well heres my redone site. I hope you like it.

http://www.paradiselimos.net/mgam/ :esmirk:

mattoca@optonline.net :bad:

www.alexsdesigns.net

e-mail-

Info@alexsdesigns.net

-thanks:)

Very simple site, done with the help of some Kirupa-tutorials. Hope you like what you see (and maybe hear).

Markus Steffen
Webmaster

eMail: contact@valparaiso-music.com

i thought this site was pretty cool… http://www.infinitumdesign.com its not my site but i just like its layout with the whole town for a menu… its really fun to play around with

Sorry scootman, the sites have to be designed by the submitter him/herself :slight_smile:

The results are in:

artus 0%
reverendflash 30.00%
teodora 0%
joelmedia 60.00%
darkstarclone 10.00%
alex 0%
markus steffen 0%
None of the Above 0%

The winner is joelmedia!

Congratulations joelmedia. You will be featured on the main page of Kirupa.com for this week. You may also post a graphical award from this page: http://www.kirupa.com/gallery/awards.asp.

Good job to all the participants. One of the valuable aspects of SOTW is to get valuable feedback about your site and get an idea of how well it stands beside some of the best on the web. Check back later as mod critiques will be posted later today.

thanks so much for voting for me. i appreciate it. i was looking forward to reading the critiques, but I noticed they are not posted yet. Also, my site is still not listed as site of the week? Just curious. Thanks.

congrats joelmedia. you deserve it! :slight_smile:

Sorry for the delay. Here are the critiques:

<hr>artus
That gigantic pop-up is a big no-no. And that intro really made me feel like I HAD to say a while… or stay forever just to get to the site. This might have just been my comp, but your animation was very laggy. I am not really sure exactly what your site is about. I read the about thing, and it just seems to be a description about an abondoned hospital. Is this an experiments site? A personal site? A portfolio? Is this a real place? Great image used, I love them, and I think the navigation is in interesting as well, but there are a few issues with it.

Hard for me to give critiques, because the atmosphere seems to be very important in this site, and I don’t have sound on my computer. Also, it was hard to understand what was the purpose of the site.

Very pleasing to look at, and an original style, but it took a long time to load. I wasn’t always quite sure when it had finished loading though, so I was probably hanging around for longer than I ought to have been. An interesting navigation choice as well. I liked it a lot, but the major concern is that some people might not get it too quickly, and have problems. I also wasn’t totally sure what the whole thing was about… I’m presuming photography, but it was a little bit of a mystery tour. But minus points for making me have a pop up window.

<hr>ayoungkim
Oh man… do we have to do this… lol. Well I will still be 100% honest. I think the intro was kind of slow. The rollover on the bottom panel/buttons were nice. You might want to make the dynamic text for the button labels unselectable though, if you try and select it, the text shifts… sometimes out of view. I see you use the same animation between when a section loads… but it appears to be scaled up and I don’t think it looks as good scaled up, seems very jaggedy. In the The Book -> About The Book if you click the down arrow, then the up arrow it reloads the section. This happens if you hit the Up arrow until ithits hits the top of the area. In The Studio -> Sketches when you click on an image, you seem to use a black clip that fades out… but the thing is, that clip is above your navigation menu of the image, so the top part of your menu items gets cut off and faded back in. I have seen better from you, sorry if I disappointed you :frowning:

Very unconventionnal. I’m not sure I understand why you used dark colors so much, when this woman seems to be so cheerful. Also, I don’t like that kind of “dirty” look, with the videos, and the signature. Well-made, but not appealing to me.

Very Gothic colour scheme, the red and black. I also liked the menu buttons at the bottom with the kind of bitmap quality to them. One thing I noticed about the first one though was the animation comes out of the box a little. This could be intentional, but since the others don’t, just thought I’d mention it. The animations were very choppy - again this could be intentional, but I don’t know for sure.

<hr>teodora
Didn’t really “get” the intro, just some blurry image and sound, then a load bullet shot? It could use a bit more color, the black and white theme didn’t really work here, it kinda dulls down the site. I am not a real big fan of drag and drop navigation menus unless they have something to do with the transition between sections. It didn’t really have a defined layout, just a black and white image and a box with text (that I couldn’t read because I don’t speak the langauge )

I didn’t have enough time to explore the whole site, sorry.

I really liked the look and feel of this, even if I couldn’t understand the French. Menu system was easy to follow, and the disc downloading into the brain was definitely a nice touch. There are some nice transitions in there too, although they seemed very stop and start in places. Good imagery and overall I was very impressed with the simplicity of the site.

<hr>joelmedia
The color scheme is a bit “trendy”, but I think it looks good. Very nice simple and clear navigation for the amount of items you have (work section). The transitions were always smooth which is good. I like this site. Just as a note though: In the info section… the “y” in “University” is half cut off, you might want to fix that. I voted joelmedia because it is simplistic without being too simplistic, just the way I like it.

Cool little site, very well executed. Nothing crazy, nothing new.

Again, another fantastic looking site. Beautiful photographs. A lot of loading, but then I can imagine that those pictures are quite large files. I wasn’t immediately sure what the site was about, but once I got into it, it became a lot clearer. The Info rollover was a good idea, and I liked the draggable calendar, all very nicely done. Wonderful. I just loved it. Oh boy, it’s going to be a tough choice this week. I’ve gone for Joelmedia.

darkstarclone
That splash page is incredibly CPU intensive. Your navigation is exact the same as www.superhere.net -> Goodies -> Tutorials -> AS LennyKravitz.com , same colors and everything, you could of at the least edited to make it more your own. And are you saying that I have to click a link, wait for the transition to finish and the content to load just to be able to figure out what section I am going to then I have to memorize which button does what so I know where to go if I want to go back to a section? You should definitely add some way to know which section the user is going too, even mystery meat navigation lets the user know before they click the link. The links in your links section were buggy, if you rollover them too fast they stick to the right and don’t go back until you rollover and then rollout them again.

I don’t know, it might just be an idea I have, but I have the feeling that this site is just bits and pieces of open source thrown together. The “welcome” thinggy reminds me of something from Ultrashock, the nav reminds me of the Lenny Kravitz nav… Pretty cool site, but not very personnal.

A very pleasing choice of colours, although I wasn’t sure about the wavy 3D text at the beginning. Seemed a little “for the sake of it”. One major point would be the navigation. It’s a different approach, but you might find a lot of people just don’t get it. Plus there’s no description of what each box takes you to, so you’re fumbling in the dark, so to speak.

<hr>alex
Your preloader appeared like it should of had a loading bar, but it didn’t… was this intentional? Aligning the text to be centered isn’t usually a wise idea for a large amount of text. You have a scrollbar on the about you text, but it doesn’t need to scroll… so it is just… there. Your portfolio navigation needs work. You have folders that you rollover to open, and click to view the project. But how do you know what project you are viewing? Do you just have to go to it, wait for it to load and then see? Thats like the same deal as darkstarclones navigation, it just doesn’t work like that, people don’t like to do that. This site is a very good first start, but I am not sure about SOTW material.

There are a few problems with this site. The first thing that really made me want to leave is that the hit area of the buttons is NOT the entire button. This is, as Lost says, a big no-no. And the design needs more work.

Where do people get these photos from? Lovely background image, and an interesting design, I liked the blue and grey. Maybe it’s just my imagination, but I thought the menu buttons were slightly out of alignment - the Contact one mainly, it just seemed a bit off. Nice idea with the Portfolio and the file folders.

<hr>markus steffen
The layout is indeed clean, and the navigation clear. But it seemed like your sections are mostly just a centered box with a textfield and up and down arrows inside or a form. Not a bad site at all, but it might fall under the category of too simplistic.

Nice, clean, simple, I like it.

More great use of photos and colour. The monochrome pictures are really set off by the one brighter colour over the top. Simple clean layout and easy to use nav options. Excellent content too, and was quick to load.

thanks for the comments, i will try to fix some of the things, and i hope to enter again. i have decited to do something with the portfolio section, im going to have pictures instead of just having a folder.

i have made the FPS to 24. i have also made something for the preloader. This is just the begining of my web site, and i hope to get better,

thanks again.

:slight_smile:

the colors and fonts, etc. were chosen by the client. Content was provided by the client. The movies had to be choppy to keep the file size down ( I manipulated each one of the frames by hand to get the best “feel” I could).

Thanks for the comments, they are all valid. I just can’t change most of them…

Rev

thanks so much for the comments. i wanted to keep everything simple and clear to navigate.

this may sound rude or something, but my link isn’t on the home page of kirupa.com. I was just wondering why not? Because of course I would love the comments from people checking it out.

Thanks for the comment !!
I think that if my website be in english you will prefer, because the text is very important.
Its a website about a dark movie, about an investigation…
All the film is in black and white, so thats the reason of the color of the website.
Maybe i try another time with an english version :slight_smile:

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