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cwalton

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May 2, 2003
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Have finally had a chance to update my site, if anyone would like to leave any feedback (negative or otherwise), it is most welcome.

http://www.substudio.co.uk/dev/flash/

Still have to write some content and not sure if the top graphic is quite the one...

Cheers,

C.
 
Overall, a great site.

While it took a while to load (on a broadband connection. I'd be interested to see how it does on slower connections) it was interesting to watch it as it did. Nice animations.

I like the color scheme, as well as the top pic. However, I think the title banner area takes up too much of the content area. Perhaps a tighter crop?

The only real issue I have is the body text. The point size is too small for the typeface. The all-caps style, combined with the narrow width, make the text ridiculously hard to read, at least at my monitor's 1280 x 1024 resolution. I'm sure it looks great at 800 x 600 (which it seems to be designed for), but perhaps an enterface element allowing the user to switch type sized? Or even a Javascript solution? Or, you could more to a more boring but legible san serif font.

Site connectivity makes sense, and it's easy enough to find the important stuff (like your clips) without any of the learning curves sometimes required with Flash sites.

Overall, I give this page high marks. It's beautiful, has style and envites the reader to click around. Those are good things.
 
Hey love the site, it loaded pretty quick and fits fine on a 1024x768 screen. Like you said, just needs a bit of content.

Weird to see you live so close to me! i live in Stalybridge like 5 miles away!

Gary.
 
Well the server took a while to connect over here to the US. Not a big fan of all the futuro-retro angular stuff, but it is designed well and executed well. However, the fonts are a tough sell. The heads to me are nasty looking, but more importantly the body copy is tough to read. I would suggest either going with a pixel font that is not all caps, or increasing the font size altogether. All in all a nice effort. Looks good!
 
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