business flash redone, please share your opinions!

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:21 am

First, many thanks to izzo, tao_jones, knightmare, brembo, cyberskye and porkchop.

Huge thanks to chemgeek for offering to help on the project and to FunK to suggesting swishmax. I ended up purchasing swishmax because I liked it so much.

here's a link to the final product:

http://www.weddingtowebsite.com

Here's a link to my first attempt:

http://www.weddingtowebsite.com/wed2web.swf

Please share any thoughts you might have. I've enjoyed working on getting this project ready to launch and figuring out the schematics of how everything was going to work. It's time to begin a real marketing campaign.

Tom

dazzaf · Post by **dazzaf** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:15 am

i wish i had this when i got marriedin august last year at disney florida..

good idea mate maybe approach big comapnies with the idea.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:24 am

i would put a link to skip the flash, alot of people don't have the patiance to wait untill they are done playing.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:26 am

Mark wrote:i would put a link to skip the flash, alot of people don't have the patiance to wait untill they are done playing.

Aslo can you center it, top to bottom?

DAVE · Post by **DAVE** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:50 am

Re: NF7-M
no problem at all.

I remember that mobo and I also remember I didn't have a means to test it.

perfectly reasonable that it doesnt work and i will most certainly refund your money.

pass along your paypal and you'll have your money asap.

tom....

Zooner ...this msg u send me almost one year ago and after that i try to PM u or contact u in many ways but u never seem to reply me
just tell me that u want to return the money for the dead mombo or not...straight up plz

BroncoSport · Post by **BroncoSport** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:39 am

DAVE wrote:Re: NF7-M
no problem at all.

I remember that mobo and I also remember I didn't have a means to test it.

perfectly reasonable that it doesnt work and i will most certainly refund your money.

pass along your paypal and you'll have your money asap.

tom....

Zooner ...this msg u send me almost one year ago and after that i try to PM u or contact u in many ways but u never seem to reply me
just tell me that u want to return the money for the dead mombo or not...straight up plz

huh?????

Back to the topic.. I'm confused. Is this a site for people (ie relatives and friends) can go view the pictures of a wedding? If so, I would suggest either removing the watermark or making it transparant gray and at the bottom of the pictures. It is very annoying in the center and takes away from viewing the pictures.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:17 am

BroncoSport wrote:huh?????

Back to the topic.. I'm confused. Is this a site for people (ie relatives and friends) can go view the pictures of a wedding? If so, I would suggest either removing the watermark or making it transparant gray and at the bottom of the pictures. It is very annoying in the center and takes away from viewing the pictures.

This is meant to be a tool for professional photographers to display thier wedding proofs. I believe these watermarks have to be so pronounced to protect the images from being printed. I do use a high level of compression. However, they can still be printed and look semi-decent. Originally, I was going to have a tiled watermark.

Most wedding photographers don't bother with a watermark. They just make the images VERY small.

dave, I'll PM you later today. sorry for the delay, rather forgetful.

knightmare · Post by **knightmare** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:43 am

DAVE wrote:Re: NF7-M
no problem at all.

I remember that mobo and I also remember I didn't have a means to test it.

perfectly reasonable that it doesnt work and i will most certainly refund your money.

pass along your paypal and you'll have your money asap.

tom....

Zooner ...this msg u send me almost one year ago and after that i try to PM u or contact u in many ways but u never seem to reply me
just tell me that u want to return the money for the dead mombo or not...straight up plz

ya, I saw that in the classified feedback.......

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:45 am

Thats a cool Wedsite.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:04 pm

Mad_Haggis wrote:Wedsite.

Haggis made a funny...

Blisster · Post by **Blisster** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:14 pm

I know this seems like a no-brainer, but you really need to cater to the lowest common denominator here, I would suggest maybe putting a notation at the bottom of every picture that the actual quality of the photo is much higher than the image that is being diplayed. I know for a fact that my mom would look at them and say "but its soo blurry, i dont want to buy pictures that are so BLURRY!"

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:39 pm

Blisster wrote:I know this seems like a no-brainer, but you really need to cater to the lowest common denominator here, I would suggest maybe putting a notation at the bottom of every picture that the actual quality of the photo is much higher than the image that is being diplayed. I know for a fact that my mom would look at them and say "but its soo blurry, i dont want to buy pictures that are so BLURRY!"

that'd be a VERY GOOD IDEA. very good idea. VERY, VERY GOOD idea.

I'm going to use it. Thank you blisster!! I'll be redoing the pictures later today.

David · Post by **David** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:40 pm

Have you googled the idea yet?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls= ... ne&spell=1

brembo · Post by **brembo** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:54 pm

I let ya know my opinion, but you can't ship human excrement via mail

Looks good zooner. Along the lines f blissters idea, might want to link to one high res image(watermark the snot out of it) so people can see what the real deal will look like.

mmione · Post by **mmione** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:05 pm

maybe have words fade out instead of just dissapearing because they come in pretty nicely and just dissapear.

Zilog B · Post by **Zilog B** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:13 pm

Flash intro's and web page music make me want to stab somebody...

Carry on.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:09 pm

mmione wrote:maybe have words fade out instead of just dissapearing because they come in pretty nicely and just dissapear.

another great idea, thank you. I'll get on that tonight.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:11 pm

Hell_Yes wrote:Have you googled the idea yet?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls= ... ne&spell=1

so the best of my opinion, nobody offers the same service that I do. While some might put the pictures online, they fall short for two reasons. First, the images are usually tiny. Instead of compressing them, they run them small. Second, they rarely put ALL the pictures up. Third, for a web novice the website is usually difficult to find and share with others. Often they're linked off a photographers page.

much easier to share your wedding's website by refering them to a simple .com address.

please correct me if I'm wrong.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:13 pm

Zilog B wrote:Flash intro's and web page music make me want to stab somebody...

Carry on.

no music, period. I agree.

Most of my sales pitch is done over the phone and via usps. This is a reference point so that they can fully understand what I'm offering.

I do want to add a small hyperlink to the bottom, so people can skip the flash if they want.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:55 pm

pics of bridesmaids?

Good job with the flash stuff.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:53 am

mmione wrote:maybe have words fade out instead of just dissapearing because they come in pretty nicely and just dissapear.

I followed your suggestion and added an option to skip the flash altogether.

http://www.weddingtowebsite.com/working/index.html

thoughts?

mmione · Post by **mmione** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:30 am

zooner wrote:I followed your suggestion and added an option to skip the flash altogether.

http://www.weddingtowebsite.com/working/index.html

thoughts?

much better. sorry if im being critical but I think it might help you out and you did say anything so.

could you move the skip this flash down more. because at some points, it looks like the text is cramped because the skip this flash intro is so close to the text.

sorta like this:

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:28 pm

mmione wrote:much better. sorry if im being critical but I think it might help you out and you did say anything so.

could you move the skip this flash down more. because at some points, it looks like the text is cramped because the skip this flash intro is so close to the text.

sorta like this:

[img]http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3754 ... ka.jpg[img]

I could make the flash bigger to accomplish that. right now, i have it hugging the bottom the whole way through.

DAVE · Post by **DAVE** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:24 am

zooner wrote: dave, I'll PM you later today. sorry for the delay, rather forgetful.

still not getting any PM or reply yet
u said it rather forgetful ...
it's been almost 1 year already and...i sent u PMssss and even post up on clasify feedback
hope ur memory getting better after this time
Dave