Basics for Flash site

[craigquik]

No Flash on this site yet, but please let me know what you think of the layout & feel. Panels on the bottom will be static, but will be updated with whatever deals/offers/news etc are relevant. The main panel will be Flash and so will the buttons. Was gonna make the background colour (outside the panels) a light grey to reduce contrast between the main part and the white.

http://www.element9graphics.com

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[L[Design]]

Good feel! It didn't really tell me what it is you do, I was surprised when I read the blip about services. Perhaps a little more to tie it together with your work. IMO! Otherwise it's a nice clean feel.

[shawzy85]

Do it with xHTML and CSS not Flash

[craigquik]

Thanks!

I wouldn't know where to start with CSS but I wouldn't mind learning a bit about it.

[craigquik]

Originally Posted by L[Design]

I was surprised when I read the blip about services. Perhaps a little more to tie it together with your work.

I'll get some pics in there soon, if that's what you mean?

[zumojuice]

Seems nice. I'd perhaps tweek the gradients on sections to be a little more subtle and make the keylines between sections a tad thiner. I'd also drop some of the white glows or white drop shadows. - Should just tighten it up a little and ease reading of the content ( like the tag on your logo). I'd also try un-justifing your text at the bottom since the word spacing is odd. If might look worse, but since that is a image, you should be able to do something to that text in photoshop/illy/indesign to make it better...

[craigquik]

Cheers I'll take that on board. Not sure about the text though; I agree it does look a little spaced out but I'm just trying to get it to fill the panel. I'll have a play about and see if I can get it looking any better.

[zumojuice]

That's fine but a few tweeks with the tracking, point size and word/letter spacing should yield a better result. Don't be afraid to use odd point values like 9.56pt if it makes the text better.

[craigquik]

Originally Posted by shawzy85

Do it with xHTML and CSS not Flash

Thinking about this, if the white area in the middle was Flash, could I use xHTML and/or CSS to make the text of the buttons enlarge (or come towards you) on mouseover, and also have them control the Flash movie?

[mikefortuna]

Try to work on the visibility of the text under the logo. You always want all your text to be readable especially within a header section.