I need some feed back on a site...

[Westy]

Right I might be taking over the university radio web site now i want peoples general feelings about the current one both positive and negative.

Now my thoughts are bin the entire thing and start again...

I'm thinking a bit of a flash site with loads of flashing bits and loads of eye candy seems as its for a radio station what do you all think ?

[crouse]

Personally......... I hate flash..... but that's just me. I'm not one to hang out at radio websites much. Eye candy okay.....gifs, jpgs, other common images.... but flash is such a bandwidth hog.

IMO at least don't use it for the main entrance page.
Keep us posted

[Westy]

Originally posted by crouse
Personally......... I hate flash..... but that's just me. I'm not one to hang out at radio websites much. Eye candy okay.....gifs, jpgs, other common images.... but flash is such a bandwidth hog.

IMO at least don't use it for the main entrance page.
Keep us posted

ok fair enough i completely agree with you flash is completely bandwidth intensive

i particulary like this site

http://www.iangriffiths.com/

can you give me some ideas as how to make a GOOD web site

[crouse]

Some basic qualities of a "good" website (all of these are my opinions of course...not facts )

1. A domain name that relates to site
2. Ton's of content (not just eye candy)
3. w3c compliant pages
4. Very fast loading
5. Pleasing design (but fast loading )
6. Good use of whitespace

Reasons.......
1. A name can say alot about a site
2. Would be like eating a ham sandwich with no ham.
Has to be something of substance on a site for someone to return.
3. Compliant pages can be viewed by more browsers and therefor more people.
4. If people have to wait for pages to load....they are more likely to leave......that's a fact.
5. Must use colors and design styles that are easy on the eyes. No one likes looking at a webpage with neon green background and orange text.......... (do they ?)
6. Good use of white space is a given on any text document. Paper doc or web doc......it's just good practice.

HTH's

[Whir]

And you should put as much content as possible within one click of the first page. You lose 50% of your audiance with each click.

Flash can be very useful if kept to a minimum for a content page. For a show page, the whole thing using flash is okay to me.

Flash menus can add a lot of originality, and simple, small menus don't take much more bandwidth than a rollover menu does.

But I'm just an amateur too, so.

[Love2Learn]

yeah you want flash to be a flash not a movie real

-L2L

[edwelly]

I am one of the few people here who love FLASH. But I do agree that it needs to be done in moderation.
My main things are:
1) color scheme (to me most important)
2) domain name (agree with Crouse, it says a lot)
3) layout (I don't like a whole web site on the 1st page but I like it to have somethings)
4) I like straight lines and nothing that looks cheap (check out this site http://www.sonicfoundry.com/ - I think it is fantastic. Just the right amount of everything)

hope this helps... and good luck!
---edwelly