Website/Flash help

[Stephon]

I'm working on a new website, trying to put in Flash (using SWiSHMax, somewhat blindly), and it seems to be taking way too long to load.

It's not that complex, and I optimized all the images in Fireworks, so I'm not sure what's slowing things down.

Anyone who knows about this stuff and would care to help out a desperate man please go here and click on "Completely Mental".

Thanks!

[Stephon]

I may have fixed it, but I can't really tell from my computer.

[gav]

off topic

does punk have a different meaning in th US?
kiddy porn is just not something that should be associated with entertainers, it's not funny, well maybe in reference to mj.

[scot]

First; I have not seen anything done with swish that looked good.

Second; take out any images that can be replaced with type or shapes. Image files slow things down and flash isn't really made to display images well. It's a vector (line drawing) plugin.

[Doctor Eric]

"First; I have not seen anything done with swish that looked good."

I second that, swish is a tool for the flash-less to make text-effects, and even for that it's useless. Use flash.

It seems to load plenty quick over here, but I have a cable modem. You can take down the jpg quality from within flash in the publish settings. Another speed factor is using a comcast homepage, comcast's servers slow WAY down at certain parts of the day, !@#? em, bite the bullet and pay for hosting fer chrissakes. It's cheap.

Overall, this whole thing looks REAL bad right now. More on that later.

ec

[Kim]

You can get flash to simulate downloading speeds by doing this....

1) Ctrl + enter (gets you a preview of your project)

2) Select ctrl + b to bring up the "Bandwidth profiler"

3) Goto the "debug" drop down menu to select modem speed to be simulated

4) Then hit ctrl + enter a second time.

[Stephon]

Thanks for the feedback/help so far.

The text (kiddie porn, etc) is just temporary for placement--forgot to mention that.

Good to know that SWiSH generally looks bad; I just haven't had the time to invest in learning Flash, yet.

Good to know that stuff about Flash, Scot.

The comcast homepage is temporary, too. I get it with my cable modem, so it's good for testing things out.

Thanks for the tips, Kim.

Eric, this was something I just put together as an exercise, of sorts, and I know it ain't pretty. I would appreciate your thoughts on what, if any of it is worth keeping and why, and what's not and why. Go ahead, cut me Mick.

Thanks!

[scot]

The photos are too far away, the throbbing penis chainsaw doesn't help your cause

pick out 3 fonts max for your whole site.

THe site's too gimicky. Make it really simple and get good pictures taken.