I may offend someone here but this site is a perfect example of when the desire to use new technology over-rides the needs of the user (the user is supposed to be th reason for the site, not the ego of the designer or site owner).
Completely uselss website with navigation that would have stumped Columbus. When I say useless I mean the website was of no use to me - I had no idea what it did, no idea what it was there for and also I had no idea what I had to do. By the way, I have been using the internet regularly since 1995 so I am no novice to visiting sites.
I got so frustrated by seeing the words -click the banner and having no idea what the banner was.
A navigation menu is designed to allow a user to primerally 'NAVIGATE' the site and not to make them think, "Oh this is good isn't the designer clever."
If users cannot navigate the site easily they will click away from the site and never wish to return - mission of designer failed.
I was impressed with the bells and whistles but the lack of 'pay back' for me as a visitor soon made me weary of looking at it.
This is a problem with many Flash sites - very impressive when you first click on them and then moved away from and forgotten within a few minutes.
Give me an HTML site with good content and a good user interface any time over any Flash website with bells and whistles but has no point for me to be there.
Hope this helps.
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