please give me your comments/crits on my new website

www.damien-oliver.com

thanks

PS. for those who care......its a flash front end, using php to get all
the content/data/menus from a mysql db

Damien Oliver wrote:
Sort mine out for me please.
Be careful of sharks.
http://ptlslzb87.blogspot.com/

Just the same as the original Joshua Davis' website for Giant Octopus
Studio. Anyway Joshua's design is more creative and easthetically pleasing
than your.
The website is driven by XML data with a beautiful Flash front end.

Check it out:
website
http://www.giantoctopus.com/

demo
http://www.joshuadavis.com/portfolio...us/liquid_nav/

Just my thought.

--
Davide




"Damien Oliver" <info@damien-oliver.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:43b873af$0$2238$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...

However you did a very good technical work!

cheers.
--
Davide


"Davide Montellanico" <latinsoul@my-deja.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:43b9309d$0$1059$4fafbaef@reader2.news.tin.it. ..

Wow, never seen this site before, so similar in design/menu system.
Thanks for the heads up.

I liked it, how many hours you have into the site?

Damien Oliver wrote:

In article
<43b9561f$0$2238$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>, Damien
Oliver <info@damien-oliver.com> wrote:

Personally, I like yours better. All those buttons look so contrived on
the Josh site (no offense to Mr. Davis) and make it look too busy esp
when I think he was going for a simple/minimalist look. You did an
amazing job, Damien . . . Honestly - don't change a thing. Your site
isn't much like his at all . . .

Your portfolio work is fabulous, too! ( :

--
Constance Pierce
principal/designer
info@pierceillus.com

Constance Pierce wrote:
make the font large enough for me to read is a definite limitation. I
prefered your site to the Davis site as well, but I did like his "audio
off" button. Audio is cool if you want it, but can be a problem at times.

Bottom right hand corner....i admit it doesnt really stand out



David Rooker wrote:

James Douglas wrote:
Me too, especially the 'wobbleiness' and would also like to
know how much expertise and labour goes into such work.

ps. I am contemplating doing some training this year
and I am attracted to Flash. Apart from HTML what else
would be complimentary or even essential?

Damien Oliver wrote:
I love it! Gorgeous (and better than that other site mentioned in this
thread). One thing I did notice was that your ambient sound doesn't
quite loop perfectly - at least on this powerbook. I've not tried on my
desktop PC.


--


x theSpaceGirl (miranda)

# lead designer @ http://www.dhnewmedia.com #
# remove NO SPAM to email, or use form on website #
# this post (c) Miranda Thomas 2006
# explicitly no permission given to Forum4Designers
# to duplicate this post.

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:34:44 +1100, Damien Oliver
<info@damien-oliver.com> wrote:

So uh...who wrote your code? `, )

--

Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net
http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog


Hatter Quotes
-------------
"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."

"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )

Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
I did

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:20:45 +1100, Damien Oliver
<info@damien-oliver.com> wrote:

You did, huh?

Can you post "your" equations that you used for teh float effect?

--

Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net
http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog


Hatter Quotes
-------------
"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."

"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )

Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
I lose the top half(?) of that site????
http://ptlslzb87.blogspot.com/

Dude, your attitude stinks

for my websites "float" effect, I basically use these main variables:
velocity, spring, and damp, to the centre of the screen

example below:

var h1 = _root.menu_h;
var h2 = _root.submenu_h;
var h3 = _root.content_h;
if (h3 >= h1 && h3 >= h2)
{
menu_y = Math.round(_root.screen_h / 2 - _root.content_h / 2);
}
else if (h2 >= h1 && h2 >= h3)
{
menu_y = Math.round(_root.screen_h / 2 - _root.submenu_h / 2);
}
else if (h1 >= h2 && h1 >= h3)
{
menu_y = Math.round(_root.screen_h / 2 - _root.menu_h / 2);
} // end if
totalWidth = _root.menu_w + _root.submenu_w + _root.content_w;
totalWidth = totalWidth + _root.margin * 2;
menu_x = Math.round(_root.screen_w / 2 - totalWidth / 2);
menu_veloc_x = _root.veloc_w;
menu_veloc_y = _root.veloc_h;
submenu_veloc_x = _root.veloc_w;
submenu_veloc_y = _root.veloc_h;
content_veloc_x = _root.veloc_w;
content_veloc_y = _root.veloc_h;
spring = _root.spring;
damp = _root.damp;
this.onEnterFrame = function ()
{
ax = (menu_x - _root.menuguide_mc._x) * spring;
ay = (menu_y - _root.menuguide_mc._y) * spring;
menu_veloc_x = menu_veloc_x + ax;
menu_veloc_y = menu_veloc_y + ay;
menu_veloc_x = menu_veloc_x * damp;
menu_veloc_y = menu_veloc_y * damp;
_root.menuguide_mc._x = _root.menuguide_mc._x + menu_veloc_x;
_root.menuguide_mc._y = _root.menuguide_mc._y + menu_veloc_y;
submenu_x = menu_x + _root.menuguide_mc._width + _root.margin;
this.ax = (submenu_x - _root.submenuguide_mc._x) * spring;
this.ay = (_root.menuguide_mc._y - _root.submenuguide_mc._y) * spring;
submenu_veloc_x = submenu_veloc_x + this.ax;
submenu_veloc_y = submenu_veloc_y + this.ay;
submenu_veloc_x = submenu_veloc_x * this.damp;
submenu_veloc_y = submenu_veloc_y * this.damp;
_root.submenuguide_mc._x = _root.submenuguide_mc._x + submenu_veloc_x;
_root.submenuguide_mc._y = _root.submenuguide_mc._y + submenu_veloc_y;
content_x = submenu_x + _root.submenuguide_mc._width + _root.margin;
this.ax = (content_x - _root.contentguide_mc._x) * spring;
this.ay = (_root.submenuguide_mc._y - _root.contentguide_mc._y) *
spring;
content_veloc_x = content_veloc_x + this.ax;
content_veloc_y = content_veloc_y + this.ay;
content_veloc_x = content_veloc_x * this.damp;
content_veloc_y = content_veloc_y * this.damp;
_root.contentguide_mc._x = _root.contentguide_mc._x + content_veloc_x;
_root.contentguide_mc._y = _root.contentguide_mc._y + content_veloc_y;
_root.shadow1_mc._x = _root.menuguide_mc._x;
_root.shadow1_mc._width = _root.menuguide_mc._width;
_root.shadow2_mc._x = _root.submenuguide_mc._x;
_root.shadow2_mc._width = _root.submenuguide_mc._width;
_root.shadow3_mc._x = _root.contentguide_mc._x;
_root.shadow3_mc._width = _root.contentguide_mc._width;
_root.shadow1_mc._y = _root.shadow2_mc._y = _root.shadow3_mc._y =
_root.screen_h * 9.600000E-001;
_root.menu_mc._x = _root.menuguide_mc._x;
_root.menu_mc._y = _root.menuguide_mc._y;
_root.submenu_mc._x = _root.submenuguide_mc._x;
_root.submenu_mc._y = _root.submenuguide_mc._y;
_root.content_mc._x = _root.contentguide_mc._x;
_root.content_mc._y = _root.contentguide_mc._y;
};

Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:

Damien Oliver arranged shapes to form:


Ok, ok, I'm sick of everyone here being nice to you :-)

I think its boring, safe, predictable (nontheless, it /is/ well made and I
do like it!) BTW the (c) notice looks all blurry - try not antialising it
perhaps? Also I tried to click on the WEB // GRAPHIC // MOTION // 3D - and
nothing happened, I'd guess other people might do the same.

There's "spammy" rubbish text on the flash page - v. bad, get some
meaningful non-repetitive content on there and the html/php stuff working
as soon as possible! The broken link to it is v. unpro and lets you down a
teeny little bit.

But otherwise, good show!


--

Davémon
http://www.nightsoil.co.uk/

On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:28:36 +1100, in alt.design.graphics , Damien
Oliver <info@damien-oliver.com> in
<43b873af$0$2238$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au> wrote:

I have to say that I dislike the effect. I can appreciate the work
that went into it and I can see that it very non-flat, non-image/text
result, but it bothers me. It is much like a bad <blink>.

Sorry.


--
Matt Silberstein

Do something today about the Darfur Genocide

http://www.beawitness.org
http://www.darfurgenocide.org
http://www.savedarfur.org

"Darfur: A Genocide We can Stop"

On 5 Jan 2006 06:20:58 -0800, "Julian" <julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote:

Maximize your browser and then hit refresh...wait, are you using a
Mac? If so what browser? And if it's not too much trouble can you
send me a screen cap? I have no Mac so I have no way at the moment to
test any of my sites. The other problem I've had is that a lot of the
sites making claims about what CSS features are cross compatible and
which aren't are just plainly, outright wrong. I'm tellin ya, there's
a WHOLE lot of disinformation out there...trust no one.

--

Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net
http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog


Hatter Quotes
-------------
"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."

"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:34:59 GMT, Matt Silberstein
<RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

The style is very derrivative of Minority Report...it's pretty...but
not altogether practical. I like the float effect, it's very smooth,
very natural...plus he programmed it himself so ya gotta give him
props for that. For an entertainment or portfolio site it works well,
for a practical site meant to provide information...probably wouldn't
be the best idea.

--

Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net
http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog


Hatter Quotes
-------------
"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."

"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )