Your favourite website?

[Frisbee]

decide whether you are going to use evan(at)globalevan or evan@globalevan in your final design.

Pointers, do not try to impress other jugglers or other performers, the people to impress are the ones who will be hiring you for jobs.

Although some people on p.net do not like my logo or web design, it has gotten a great response from agents and the people who have hired me this past season since its launch in April.
The most positive responses have been that it loads quick, is compatible on all browsers. The video does not require any special plug in. and the information in it is simple and clean and the site is easy to navigate.

The negative is that my logo looks like I have lobster claws for hands and not much like fire, and that is from the p.netters

[scot]

ha ha @ admittance of lobster claws

[Guest]

Just incorporate some lobster claws in the show, problem solved. I'd stay and watch someone juggle with giant lobster mitts. ; )

Now, that said Greg, the fact that agents say they like it does not mean that it is good. Think about it this way, agents always tell you they like stuff, but the ones who don't will never say so. They're busy talking to the other guy they booked .... ( Not saying it's not good, just that an agent saying so is not necessarily meaningful )

Oh yeah, the problem with Kurts site is actually a link problem. Take the period out of the url and it works. But all the flash zooming around is still too slow in my books. A buddy of mine does that stuff for a living, and he does the same kinda thing, just makes it all happen super fast. Same effect, no bored annoyed clients! I have no idea why people do slow flash animation.

Iain

[martin ewen]

They look nothing like crayfish.

They're Tulip-hands.

Or ominously...cloven hooves.

[Rachel Peters]

I can see the tulips and hooves, but I initially saw fish heads.

[Rachel Peters]

Re: Why?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by martin ewen
[B]I made my site in the late nineties.
It's a rambling mess of content cul de sacs.
Its ego driven rather than market driven and that's its disadvantage and to a small number of weird clients, an advantage. (overall it sucks)
i wouldn't use it as an example of design because as far as I can see it lacks it.

I was reading, and was going to write a big response to this, but then scrolled up a few. I think Taxi Trix said it well. I know that it pulled me in kept me there for quite a while. Far longer than any shiny, trendy, flashy performer site I can think of. Not because of the Labyrinth of hyperlinks, but its content. I got sucked into your stories. I got behind in quota at that job I used to go to because of your stories. What it may lack in design it more than makes up for in content, in humour, in brain, in art, in you.
A well designed site (or anything) without substance gets boring REAL fast. Something with plenty of substance, but less than perfect design... well, that could be the Simpsons, or King of the Hill, or Homestarrunner, or any number of animated Oscar winners who couldn't draw worth beans (Sorry. Everything in life seems to be a metaphor for animation to me. get used to it). But heck, it could even be that funny, paraplegic guy I had a crush on in college. Content overcomes image. It always comes down to content. ...unless either someone is so shallow they can't see past the shiny lights, or the content is wrapped in something so extremely ugly that it makes your eyes bleed, content should win.
...but of course content wrapped in shiny lights would be ideal, I suppose.
I think I'm just trying to say, you've the far more important of the two, in heaps.
(and my eyes never bled once.)

Um.... yeah.
Enough?
Enough.

[Doctor Eric]

I rather like ericcash.net

I've now realized that I care about fans, not bookers.