Please critique my website

[slackerinabox]

Hey guys,
Please check out my site and let me know what I can do to make it better. Thanks

http://www.swbfilms.com

 

[ThePresence]

Not much content to critique really...

 

[BaboonGuy]

That flash intro is totally dope man!

 

[slackerinabox]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
Not much content to critique really...

Please criticize the layout and such.

Thanks!

 

[Leejai]

make the font smaller...i'm using uxga and it still looks huge....i'd hate to see it on a xga screen

 

[Ogg]

:thumbsdown:

 

[slackerinabox]

Originally posted by: Leejai
make the font smaller...i'm using uxga and it still looks huge....i'd hate to see it on a xga screen

sure - the font on top or the main font?

 

[Modeps]

I'm all for clean layouts, but yours seems a bit too basic to me.

 

[gigapet]

For some reason I'm not feeling the fonts you have there....just seems over all a dull type setting.....perhaps its the color...i dont know.... other than that it looks good :thumbsup:

 

[Rallispec]

WTF is up with that movie? (and i can't get PSA1 to load)

 

[Azraele]

I think the color is bothering me. The blue and the grey is sort of dark/depressing/too mellow.

 

[Kalvin00]

Originally posted by: gigapet
For some reason I'm not feeling the fonts you have there....just seems over all a dull type setting.....perhaps its the color...i dont know.... other than that it looks good :thumbsup:

I think the color is bothering me. The blue and the grey is sort os dark/depressing/too mellow.

My thoughts exactly..

 

[Trygve]

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212

Please criticize the layout and such.

Thanks!

I personally don't like the design philosophy of putting all your content into a tiny fixed-size window with scroll bars in the middle of the screen. In almost all cases, it's not aesthetically appealing and it just makes it more inconvenient for readers. One advantage of swbfilms.com over shallowwastebin.com is that it's much more apparent that the links are links.

 

[Anubis]

no offence to you but i really HATE flash

 

[RossMAN]

I see that you finally took advantage of jonMEGA's free hosting offer :thumbsup:

How much disk space/bandwidth do you get?

 

[Hankerton]

I wanna know if the "I don't Swallow" video is what I think it's about? I can't look cause I'm at work. Just curious.

 

[Drakkon]

Too "boxy"...fonts switch around too much...films are in quicktime...thus you get a D+ for effort

 

[faenix]

The font is bad. =\

 

[badmouse]

Well, the site is boring. If you really are a bunch of beginners, the site doesn't show that. It's - yawn - competent. There isn't any energy or enthusiasm. It isn't tacky or interesting in a badly done way. It doesn't attempt to be daring and exciting in a "non-Kurosawa" way and fail. It just succeeds at being a boring web site.

What are you trying to do with this site? If it represents your group, then I don't want to volunteer, invest, or buy anything from you guys. I'll just move on.

Come on, can't you do better?

Film, as you well know, is a collaborative effort requiring a strong leadership, enormous and varied technical abilities, and a lot of luck. For one thing, your web site doesn't show any strong leadership. Committees make boring movies (that's what usually sucks the worst about student films). No matter what color you use or what font you use, there needs to be the feeling that SOMEBODY said, yes!!!! this is the font I will fight to the death to use!!!!!

And film, being the kind of game it is, requires egos. Where are the pictures of the combatants - er, participants? I can't get a feel for what you're trying to do if I don't know what you look like. Film is ultimately light hitting your eyes, it's visual (with sound - if it were sound first it'd be audio). You gotta get some life into those visuals.

Edit: Forgot to add that if you want your shorts to impress you have to "frame" them - give them a context, an introduction, a challenge, SOMETHING. You don't just hang it out there - you have the director give a 5-minute discussion on the weather of the day of filming, or anything. It's as much a part of the package as putting it together in the first place. In fact, often a "winning" presentation is 99 percent presentation, 1 per cent short film.