finished as a school project but then really liked it and decided to keep it :)

www.alexsem.com

It takes about a century and a half to load, so please bear with me... The way I coded it in flash, it would glitch if I didn't preload all the content :(

First post on these forums (and I don't post on forums much), so please forgive me and guide me if I am doing something silly that I shouldn't be doing/saying :)

:grinning:

C & C more than welcome :mickey:

welcome to teh forum! you asked for a crit.... and dagnabbit you are gonna get a crit. :grin2:

its pretty nice - clean + simple just the way i like things. few points:

-you must, MUST either lighten it up or get a much faster host - the load time is inexcuseable.

-the secondary navigation (sound, view resume, etc.) are much to large - should be either in the same or a complimentary font but smaller.

-get rid of the 'pop' sound on rollover

-(my opinion) do not have the main "logo" of your page be "alexsem.com" - i already know i am at alexsem.com - what i do not know is your name until and unless i click on your 'view resume' link. your brand in this site is YOU - and you are not branding yourself properly.

-issues with what items are, namely when i click view resume, i dont know if i am getting a PDF, a word Doc, or another webpage - this should be clarified. Also i think having a PDF is important. Same with send feedback - i need to know what this is before i click, a web form, and email, or what.

-"fullview" is not a word, and even if it was, it is much too large on your thumbnails - try something much sorter/smaller or better yet an icon (e.g. magnifying glass or something) Also (at least on OSX 10.3.2, Safari 1.2) the popup window is not sized to the image properly.

shecky made pretty much the same points I was going to make. I like your illustrations and tradional stuff there is alot of potential in there.

Cheers.

nice stuff, takes a bit to long to load though.
your web stuff is great though :)