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Check the new portfolio/Need work?

There are still some things that need to be done to the site. Organization, cmyk's to rgb s**ts but other than that its chill...

Take a look, send me thoughts and let me know if you need some work done...

http://www.devindilmore.com

Cheers,
Concise

[ concise - 24 Sep 2008 22:57 ]

Re: Check the new portfolio/Need work?

first of all why is this in the photo section?

second of all, it looks pretty good, but double clicking is a web no-no.

-Dave

Re: Check the new portfolio/Need work?

I'm on a T1 and your flash front page loads super slow man...almost 1.5 mins for it to come up, so you deffo need to pare that down or tune your code.

The iTunes Folder effect is nice, but the images are bitmapped and a bit garbled, so if you can get these into better res, it will look really slick.

Look fwd to seeing final product, concept is dope....

Re: Check the new portfolio/Need work?

Thanks guys, sorry for posting this in the photos, i couldn't find the design area...
yeah the load time is retarded... i know... trying to work on that, but it seems to be the biggest problem, as for the hi rez s**t, that will be up soon, just got to recompress everything... going to take some time... .but thanks guys!

p.s. the double click thing has to be there... its a long story but if you mess around with the site you will understand why.... sucks i know...

[ concise - 25 Sep 2008 12:23 ]

Re: Check the new portfolio/Need work?

yeah double click is a major design flaw... people will think your site doesn't work.

Re: Check the new portfolio/Need work?

not to step on anybody’s toes, but I think the double click thing works fine. it makes sense to me, but then again I might just be smarter than the average online Joe lol

Re: Check the new portfolio/Need work?

the load time suuuuucks! sorry holmes!

Re: Check the new portfolio/Need work?

yeah, kinda weird seeing a portfolio but not at its best quality with images.
It makes your work look not as good as it is.

Re: Check the new portfolio/Need work?

i thought just that.eecue. i click the links on the site and i thought the site
didnt work.... dude 2clicks aint cool.... load time is fast cuz im on a mac.... allinall good work..

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According to lalee ...

not to step on anybody’s toes, but I think the double click thing works fine. it makes sense to me, but then again I might just be smarter than the average online Joe lol
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What kinds of sites are you looking at where you think that's normal?





And I like the design, just work on the technical stuff and you'll be golden!

Re: Check the new portfolio/Need work?

Here are my thoughts on it Devin.

1. Double Clicks are bad for the average user

2. Load time is ridiculous

3. While flash intro's are neat to watch for the first time, they are quite annoying when someone has to come back to your site over and over again. Even when there is a skip button, it is still an extra step.

4. Index page being a flash page with no text is a HUGE problem in terms of SEO. You just shot yourself in the foot if you plan to get any good search engine rankings in the future.

If you aren't worried about search engine rankings then it's all good.

5. I can't find the survey right now, but if the average user can't get to where he needs to be on your site, or can't figure out how to get there, or has to wait to get there, within 3 seconds they move on.


All that aside, the actual graphic design of the site is nice looking, and you do some great work holmes. Good job.

-Adam

Re: Check the new portfolio/Need work?

wow...
I feel you all on everything. but...

1. If I disable the double click feature then one wont be able to click on the pictures one by one, and one would HAVE to use the scroll bar at the bottom, if you haven't noticed the photoflow allows one to click on the pictures without the scroll bar.

2. There is nothing i can really do about loadtime cause there is so much material on the site. I would have to take stuff down to make it load faster.

3. I didn't notice the bit quality on some of the jpegs till later... i know i need to fix that but it will give me more load time.

but if i send someone to check it out, they will wait for the load time, i dont think its that bad.. i have waited much longer for other sites before... and im not looking for search engine hits, dont really care... its more of a personal site to send clients to.

Thanks for all your comments there awesome to read and keepem coming!
respect!
See you in the streets!
Cheers,
Devin

Re: Check the new portfolio/Need work?

How are you loading the different pages? Are they all built in to the same SWF?

If not, you need to separate the pages into different SWF files, and load them dynamically. Doing this will decrease the load time a ton.

Re: Check the new portfolio/Need work?

yeah i just looked at it in profiler, it's one 13mb flash file.

fail.

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Yup, theres the problem.

I'm sure you are using Flash CS3, but here a good tutorial on dyamnically loading flash files in Flash 5.

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/loadmovie.htm

That is a really great site for Flash info, I'm sure they probably have a similar tutorial for CS3. I'm not sure how different AS is from 5 to CS3 as I don't mess with Flash too much anymore.

Too many bad things about it for my taste.

But yea, you absolutely have to separate the 1 file, into many files. That is standard.