Hello people, can you help with some suggestions on our site?

Hello everyone,

I would really appreciate some thoughts on our new site. Please fire away with all possible thoughts, remarks, and suggestions - whatever harsh they are.

All comments will be greatly appreciated.

www.jrdesignstudio.com

Many thanks,
JR Design Studio

www.jrdesignstudio.com wrote:

Hello everyone,

I would really appreciate some thoughts on our new site. Please fire away with all possible thoughts, remarks, and suggestions - whatever harsh they are.

All comments will be greatly appreciated.

I don't have Macromedia Flash installed on my system and I don't intend to install it. You might want to have a non-Flash option if you want the maximum coverage for your site.

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My $0.02US:

1. Find every example of Mystery Meat navigation on your site and eradicate it.

2. I hate waiting for Flash pages to load. If you must rely on Flash, do so as part of the page design, not the entirety of it.

3. I hate not being able to bookmark an individual page. Because you rely exclusively on Flash for your online content, I can't bookmark.

4. As a prospective client, I'd need to see you use the skills you claim to have on your own website. Instead, I see you know how to create a swf file.

Hmm. 75% of my comments are about the site's (over)reliance on Flash to deliver content.

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"www.jrdesignstudio.com" wrote:

All comments will be greatly appreciated.

First: Don't do Flash pages. They aren't indexable or searchable.

Second: If you must break Rule 1, at least have the good sense to use an automatic Flash detection JavaScript. Don't yell at users who already have Flash installed.

Third: See rule #1.

Fourth: Still don't know what to do? I recommend taking another gander at Rule #1.

Fifth: Here's some reading that should help you improve your navigation tremendously:

www.webpagesthatsuck.com

Sixth: Dear God, dear God, make it stop. The gee-whiz transitions and effects make your page about as fast as a glacier navigating its way down the Mississippi River. People won't sit and watch *porn* for as long as it takes your site to get to the point.

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tacit wrote:

First: Don't do Flash pages. They aren't indexable or searchable.

In the interests of accuracy (I am not advocating the extensive use of Flash),

"Google Can Now Index . . . Flash!"
http://www.searchengineworkshops.com/articles/flash.html

And doesn't this discussion belong somewhere more like alt.html.critique?

Andrew

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Hello everyone. Thanks very much to all the for comments! Much appreciated. I am currently designing an html version of this site so that people could have a choice in the beginning. Ideally, I would like to place it on the London-bit page as an intro inviting a user to choose between the version. the green man will eventually go! With thanks,
JR Design

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On 17 Oct, 13:04, Philo D wrote:

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Hello everyone. Thanks very much to all the for comments! Much appreciated. I am currently designing an html version of this site so that people could have a choice in the beginning. Ideally, I would like to place it on the London-bit page as an intro inviting a user to choose between the version. the green man will eventually go! With thanks,
JR Design

I thought it was well designed and showed very professional work I liked your corporate logos

I am not a web designer, but I understand the flash vs. html objections in regard to search etc
I suggest the html alternate page or the embed the flash piece in a html home page that contains your meta data etc
I tried to look at my own flash page recently from a public computer and FLASH was not installed on it and would not let me install it

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Hello everyone,

I would really appreciate some thoughts on our new site. Please fire away with all possible thoughts, remarks, and suggestions - whatever harsh they are.

All comments will be greatly appreciated.

www.jrdesignstudio.com

Many thanks,
JR Design Studio

Suggest that you learn to spell 'Adobe' if you are going to use their products

i.e. "Get the player here (from Adode Website)."

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"Andrew Morton" wrote:

"Google Can Now Index . . . Flash!"

*shudder* No good can come of that...

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Photography, kink, polyamory, shareware, and more: all at http://www.xeromag.com/franklin.html

"CJ" wrote:

I don't have Macromedia Flash installed on my system and I don't intend to install it. You might want to have a non-Flash option if you want the maximum coverage for your site.

I agree. Your front page is telling me that you want me to look at something singing or dancing, and I don't. Period.

James McNangle