Light Website[list]
[]Nice try, but not SOTW material. The design isn’t consistent and there are no preloaders so each section takes awhile to load.
[]An interesting idea with the upper menu, but it’s a little obscure to begin with. It would also be a good idea if the draggable grey box was confined to a specific area - I could drop it behind all the main content and ‘lose’ it. Also the orange box doesn’t quite fit over the blue gaps. Just a little niggle for me. Nice icons on the lower menu though, simple to understand.I think users would appreciate preloaders or some kind of indication as to how their page selection is coming along. A lot of the time I wasn’t sure if the page existed or not.
[]simple, interesting, nothing outstanding. Does the job.
[]Some of the text…although clear… is hard to read on the background images as the background distracts from the text. No preloaders caused for some waiting and hoping that something would appear… sometimes it seemed as though nothing was going to load because some sections took a while to load. You should make your dynamic textboxes unselectable because everywhere I got my mouse turns into a text editor icon because there is a dynamic textbox there. As mentioned before… define a draggable area for that grey block clip. While waiting for a section to load (well… assuming one was loading as there was nothing there but grey) I wa splaying with your block and dropped it behind the content area… now I can’t get it back because I can’t close out the content and it is behind a textbox so I am unable to drag it Your site is simple, and does exactly what it is supposed to do, but I don’t really see anything that outstanding to make this SOTW material.[/list]
<hr>Project Millad.V3[list]
[]I remember this site, it’s the one with the M&M candy logo. The flash is pretty smooth, but the design isn’t too appealing. There isn’t a consitent use of color here so even though it’s clean, it’s still boring. I would set up a more consitent color scheme that is more vivid in colors to get rid of the “clinic” look.
[]First two things - opened in a pop up and asked me to install something from the Gator Corporation. Instant no-no’s in my book. Once inside, the site looks quite nice, I particularly like the animated image, it uses some good colours. But if I were you I’d run your copy through a spell checker, though I appreciate English may not be your first language.
[]Just because you put a preloader on a site does not give free reign on the file size.
[]By the way, I voted for Project Millad.V3 for his transitions which were very smooth and fun to watch
[*]Represented by M&Ms? Well anyway, first thing first… why do you open in _blank? You contain it in a regular size window anyway, so instead of making it open in a new window, why not do the same window? The amount of text you use in each section makes it busy and distracting since it is all scrunched up into such a small area. In your profile you have a box that says “Image”, but no image appear. You Work section is empty, it has buttons and such, but nothing to show but a rollover that says empty on all of them. I got a SAT_1 Data Failed animation in the Friend section, I am assuming this means any externally loaded content didn’t load, none of your friend links worked either. Also your general layout has a few hints of Unflux in it, but nothing major.[/list]
<hr>Gilluminate[list]
[]Interesting layout, but this teal green monochrome color scheme isn’t too appealing in my opinion. Some of the small fonts are a bit blurry as well.
[]Personally, I like the turquoise colours and think they work nicely. Not too overpowering. Simple to follow navigation which is always a plus, and I really like the way the hexagons move in from all sides with your options. Music has and off button, which I appreciate. Overall very appealing. Good artwork too. My vote goes to Gilluminate.
[]As for Gilluminate, Im not sure what it was, but something about it made just plain like it. It was practical enough without being too typical.
[]Funny, I really dislike Gilluminate’s site. I find the color to be very dull, and the nav very unpractical. Bah, les goûts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas, as we say in French…
[]Yeah when I took my analytical eye to it, I got the same thing, but the first impression I got just as a normal viewer wasnt that bad… maybe it was the shapes used. I think that intrigued me most. I dunno. I dunno anymore - Im too tired
[]But the structure and use of Flash was why I voted for it.
[]I liked the fuctionality, but hated the colors. You still got my vote.
[]Not a fan of the color scheme. Your navigation is easy to follow, and I do like how the hexagons animate in and remain easy to navigate. Nice artwork. I voted for Gilluminate because even though that site wasn’t exactly impressive in the animation/color department, it was the most functional and the site I could find the least usablity issues with and that’s a major factor.[/list]
<hr>YoYo MHZ[list]
[]I remember this site. I can see that there has been a lot of changes and it’s much better now compared to last time. I like the animations and the layout is cleaner. I would like to see better transitions between sections and a more consistent color scheme though.
[]Nice alien animations, I like the cartoon style. Not convinced about the skin it’s in though, the colours don’t quite work for me. The rollovers on the menu buttons also seem a bit unclear. There was some lovely Flash work here with the cartoons, but sometimes it didn’t make a whole lot of sense.
[]You’ve improved this site a lot, but the mystery meat nav still kills it for me.
[]Wow, this site has changed since you last submitted, that’s a good thing. Still not a fan of mystery meat navigation though. And why does your alien guy only say what the Movies and Artwork sections are for. The transitions are still jumpy and could use a little animation to it, you appear to load the same exactly background image/animation for each section. I don’t see why you don’t just load in your boxes as seperate .swfs on top of the original background, that way you only load it once instead of over and over and over.[/list]
mariofan
anywhays who ever comment on it, I think was honest and usefull to me!