[Amit]

Hi all,

Please take a look for one last time at http://www.nomoredesign.co.uk

I've taken on as many comments from previous posts as possible and I'd really appreciate some critique on this new look.

Cheers.

[oli]

patterntastic, too many patterns all colliding

[Stickman]

Oh dear.

That's way too much. Also slows down to a crawl.

[oli]

and our link points to designiskinky.net

[Amit]

doh!

[dan]

Yup way over the top on the patterns, I'm going cross eyed here.

And stick's right about it slowign to a crawl - on a mac at least.

[Amit]

I noticed the problem with the Mac Flash player and I'm working on a way to fix it

[dan]

Good Luck. It's a twat and no mistake, still trying many moons down the line. Just stop tweening so many images - it's always a good start.

[andycogbill]

Yeah... whoa. Though I must say the *idea* is pretty original, as far as look goes. But when it takes 10 seconds for the last frame to grudge by, I would close it and forget it.

[Amit]

Is this only a problem on Macs or are people suffering slowness on PCs as well?

[andycogbill]

PC here, too. Damn slow.

[beebolbod]

i had to work to read it. I'd only ever do that in these circumstances, otherwise i'd be clicking away...
Slow (ish) on my pc at work - dread to think on the mac at home.

[Amit]

I've only tested it on one mac so far - my crappy iBook at home - and I presumed it was slow simply because of my machine.

All the animation is scripted but I'm at a loss as to how to improve the performance.

I've uploaded the file if anyone fancies a challenge! Don't all jump at once....

[Amit]

Looks like the upload didn't work, i'll stick it on my site in a couple of hours.

[andycogbill]

Don't bother with the .fla -- it's slow because you are tweening images. Don't tween images and you will be fine. It might mean a back-to-the-drawing-board situation, but take my word for it, there's no way that I know of that's going to speed up a tween of a JPEG.

[beebolbod]

get rid of them anyway - popular concensus is it's hard to read anyway.

[Amit]

that's what i'm finding so confusing, there aren't any motion tweens, but all the animation is done using scripting...

you're right though, looks like i may have to start again

[Amit]

If anyone has any brainwaves of super ingenious ideas the file in question is at http://www.nomoredesign.co.uk/navigation.zip

[beebolbod]

On my pc here it tweens okay but i'm still not enjoying the hatched lines and the general unreadableness of the text. Other than that i think it's great navigation and layout - dont give up on it just yet.

How's sunny Brighton btw? Got a lot of time for that place - grew up there.

[Amit]

It's supercool. I've only been here for a couple of years after I came down from London and I'm getting very used to the life down here.

In fact the only thing that's bugging me is this poxy site!