The Glory

[cocoonfx]

Hello


Please have a look at the site i have just built:

http://www.theglory.co.uk

I am hoping to place a download page for snippets of some of there tracks and a members area in the new year.

Be ruthless as its my first commercial site and i want to to be a master peice.

[TheShaner]

See this post (http://codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=74676) to see what kind of comments to expect and how many people here will feel about your all Flash website.

-Shane

[mlseim]

Flash is great for exactly what your site is .... a band site.

For entertainment and the arts, that's exactly what Flash is designed for.

Maybe I missed some mp3 samples ... but that would be nice.

Looks good to me.

[Ranger56]

Ugh, the site loads, then I click on the picture for more information. Thbat has to load again, then the text arae for the bio is like 8 lines long. The pictures on the right dont link me to any information about the member. The sounds when you mouseover the links at the top are annoying too.

[Masterslave]

I'm sorry, but I don't like Flash sites. The usability is terrible. And I don't like the loading bars either. The quality of the photo's are bad, you can count the pixels... And there isn't much a major style, everthing is different, it don't fit together.

[huss]

"ok" but truthfully if you went to a site like that would you stay shoot i'd be goan before the first page was half way loading you ahve to think about that

[cocoonfx]

Hello All


Thank you for all your comments. I agree that somethings need to change like the loading bars between pages. There will be an mp3 samples soon. By the sounds of things people within this forum is still hooked on html and java, from a marketing prospective i designed a site to the needs of an up and coming the main thing is the venues are excited and used the site to contact the band for gigs. I have taken on the constructive comments and i will see about changing the sites construction and see where i can improve.

Anyone in the UK wants a sample cd go to the site and we will send you one!:thumbsup:

[oracleguy]

By the sounds of things people within this forum is still hooked on html

Out of curiousity what do you mean by that? lol.

I'd suggest if you are going to stick with the all flash thing to reduce the size of what has to be downloaded. Like the first page over 300k just to have download another 250 when i want to read your news. Maybe you could eliminate some useless features like the balls thing on the front page to help lower it down. It isn't as big of a deal for people on high speed connections but you are going to make it painfully slow for any of your users that aren't.

And I do have to say you could easily make this site using just (x)html and css if you wanted. I didn't look at all the other pages but you could also do a combination of your flash and regular html to help make the site load faster.

The actual design isn't too bad and fits with what the site is about; I don't think your design itself is flawed (but then again I'm not a designer) but your implementation of the design could be improved.

[cocoonfx]

I want to spark a reaction! :)


The little balls i want to take off but the band wanted them apperently everyone who has contacted them couldn't help but play with them!

I can not get a handle on CSS as i am still pretty new to flash, html etc.... i have played but nothing seems to go the way i want.

Is there any useful tutorials on incorparating HTML and Flash etc...

[mlseim]

The little balls ... couldn't help but play with them!


..... ;)

[ubik]

rofl, sorry i dont play with other people's balls.

yeah i agree with oracle guy. Your pages are taking too long to load, they even take a while to load on broadband. i can just imagine dial-up. Design is pretty cool, i just think your audience will get pretty tired of waiting for things to load, especially when its just to find out that something is under construction.

Tutorials?
http://www.w3schools.com is a nice site

[vasam]

the size of flash is huge...

[geoserv]

I dont like how you need to use the horizontal bar to view the width of the page.

Mouse-over graphic could be better...but nice touch.

Overall I rate the site a 6.

Check your validation report: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglory.co.uk&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline

But dont sweat it.

Geoserv.

[rlemon]

good example of all flash site: http://stephengates.com/index2.htm

I personally don't mind all flash sites - however i do mind not being accessable to users who do not wish to install flash

Really you should have a flash site and a text-based site they can choose from.
I think with that - and both being valid - you will 'shut up' (for lack of a better term) all the flash haters on the forums.

There are also a few bugs in your flash - positioning of buttons change, borders look off, ect.. (FF + WinXP + SP1)

overall i'd say it's a good start - still lots more work required - but good start.

(Ohh, and the intro graphic IMHO needs to be redone)

Keep at it - i hope this site looks good in the end.

i've attempted to make all flash sites myself but end up giving up because of my utter hatred towards actionscripting. so all the power to you!

[rmedek]

I have to agree with Oracleguy and others above… it's not necessarily that this is a bad website because it's all Flash, but that this is a bad all-Flash website.

I'm not saying it's a terrible all-Flash website, or that it's a bad website, it just isn't using Flash to help the experience. If anything, the Flash aspect is making things worse by making your pages really slow to navigate and taking away from the site's natural "flow."

If you're gonna use multimedia to spice things up, I'd suggest doing just that: starting with a good framework and a great, consistent design then adding the more exciting bits where they're needed.