Darling Creative Group

This is the company I work for:

http://www.darlingcreativegroup.com

I function as the Multimedia Director. I spend most of my time building websites and web applications. I built the original site using Wordpress. It looked just like this, but it was much harder to update. I had the template from Wordpress almost completely ported over to MODx in under five minutes. Very easy transition. Building the functionality was a different story, but it still came together quickly. Our site is now a true pleasure to work with, and I look forward to it every time.

Comments and critiques are welcome.

Hi,
there’s a lot of nice stuff in your website such as the general layout which is clear and the main banner in flash (impressive)

As you know we can still improve our work so here are some "comments"

About the flash movie, it seems really heavy and I’m not sure a low band visitor will see it before ending his reading. The movie is the same on each page, shouldn’t it be in the cache browser(safari loads it for every page I’ve visited)

It should be easier to go from services to portfolio according the "service/...." we’are browsing. You should "invite" the vistor to get more or perhaps add last work in services

:-)


P.S: my apologises not to expand my comment and argue more but my english needs improvement

Good work on the site ... oh yes! MODx is easy

Thanks for sharing.

regards,

zi

Nice, clean design.

"Stationary" should be "Stationery" though!

Quote from: heliotrope at Jul 03, 2006, 02:21 PM

Hi,
there’s a lot of nice stuff in your website such as the general layout which is clear and the main banner in flash (impressive)

As you know we can still improve our work so here are some "comments"

About the flash movie, it seems really heavy and I’m not sure a low band visitor will see it before ending his reading. The movie is the same on each page, shouldn’t it be in the cache browser(safari loads it for every page I’ve visited)

Yes, actually, I’m planning on removing it and replacing it with something static on the majority of pages. As for the low band visitor, you’re right; my thinking was, they have the nice graphic that is there until the animation fully loads, so if it never loads, it’s as if a static banner was there, so nothing lost. As for the caching, my guess that it is cached and it just doesn’t look like it. The loader is a looping function that goes from 0-100% one percentage point at a time, checking the amount loaded to see if it can move forward yet. So if the movie is loaded, it just moves forward very quickly. I admit that I didn’t think it through when I wrote the loader; it was more than a year ago, and it would build it differently now, so that if the movie was loaded, it would just skip on and start playing.

Quote from: heliotrope at Jul 03, 2006, 02:21 PM

It should be easier to go from services to portfolio according the "service/...." we’are browsing. You should "invite" the vistor to get more or perhaps add last work in services

:-)

This is a great idea. When I get time, I’m sure I’ll implement it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Quote from: heliotrope at Jul 03, 2006, 02:21 PM

P.S: my apologises not to expand my comment and argue more but my english needs improvement

I wouldn’t have known had you not told me.

Quote from: zi at Jul 04, 2006, 12:52 AM

Good work on the site ... oh yes! MODx is easy

Thanks for sharing.

regards,

zi

Thanks, zi.

Quote from: zenmaster at Jul 04, 2006, 07:01 AM

Nice, clean design.

"Stationary" should be "Stationery" though!

Great catch, thanks. I made the correction as soon as I read it several days ago. I’ve only just now had a chance to respond.

Thanks a bunch for all the great input, everyone.