[justinhale]

it's still a bit under construction, just wanted to get some outside feedback, please let me know and don't hesitate to be harsh.

link:

http://www.justinhale.com

thank you in advance,

jusitn

of

justinhale.com

[heresiarh]

clean neat design, cool colors. sound a bit too over whelming. please explain how you did the design, i am interested in knowing how you put it together. you can check out my site at www.zeeshank.com

[justinhale]

i design on a powerbook, in flash mx using xml. i do agree that the sound should be toned down. it's a little much. maybe building more?

[RedStar]

nice site....however, add a link to reopen the site on the main page. I dont want to have to turn off pop up blocking to view the site. That was my only pet peeve besides the sound being a little "in your face". nice work.

[heresiarh]

keep the sound at minimum.

[heresiarh]

could you please talk a little more about Flash and XML integration. Where can i get hold of some tutorials, and maybe you can give me some hands down. also, what is the use of integrating the two if your site strictly projects only art/design work instead of hard core backend stuff.

[justinhale]

on the backend it pulls text from text files, so i dont have to build the flash files every time i want to update the site. i can just update my thumbnail gallery. check out hotscripts.com, and flashkit.com, your can learn a lot from there.

[heresiarh]

thankyou for the info. and the text looks sharp as ever? also, can it be used to images?

[justinhale]

yes, i just have it pull them from an external directory.. none of my images are actually imbeded in the flash.

[dampeoples]

I'm not going to turn off my popup protection to view the site, perhaps others feel the same way?

[heresiarh]

Yes i would second that.

[RedStar]

Originally posted by RedStar:
however, add a link to reopen the site on the main page. I dont want to have to turn off pop up blocking to view the site.

just quoting myself to make it three.

[heresiarh]

love the colors of the site. do you work at an ad agency right now?

[justinhale]

maybe centered, on the main page, would be a better idea.
no i don't work at an agency right now, but would love to.
im a junior at myers school of art.
looking to move to NYC in the future.

[heresiarh]

NYC is great but SF has a better web design industry, just according to personal experience. where is myers?

[justinhale]

myers is in akron ohio

[andi*pandi]

how did you do the spinny highway? that was cool. All the clicky and beepy is annoying.

There'd be more to critique if you had the portfolio bits up--your love photography is *interesting* but may not be the best "promotional" material. For design anyway.

[heresiarh]

hmm.

[teknik]

Sharp design, I love it!

One thing, client will need a quick impression, and this pop-up blocker will automatically cut them out. TONS of corporate/businesses vitalize popup blockers now, which in turn renders your site unreadibile.

I can see it now:

"Hey Bill, this guy has a cool gif, but the site wont load!"
"Thats ok Jim, I found this guy on geocities who's site loads right up, and he'll be cheap too! Hes still in middle school!"


Integrate your site right into the middle of your page, but keep it the same size!

[heresiarh]

He justin, I was wondering how did you achieve sharp text at such a small point size? I always try to do it with Dynamic Text Box but apparently it still gets messed up? Any advise on how to achieve sharp small text?

[andi*pandi]

font designed for such. Silkscreen, etc.

[heresiarh]

Originally posted by andi*pandi:
font designed for such. Silkscreen, etc.

Please be more specific thankyou.

[macaddict0001]

site dang cool not big enough though.