Profile for lorem_ipsum - New site, check it out :)

lorem_ipsum aka Tofer Moran is a 27.13 year old boy, has been a member since June 30, 2006, has scored 1,804 submissions, giving an average score of 1.30, helping 38 designs get printed.

URL: http://www.tofermoran.com
AIM: lorem_ipsum

Jun 27 '07 by lorem_ipsum
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New site, check it out :)

Hey Everyone :)

Just finished my new portfolio site and it's in the finishing stages and I wanted to share it with you guys!

www.spectralwork.com

Let me know whatcha think!
Thanks!!!
Tofer

kaloyster on Jun 27 '07 at 8:58pm

You should teach me how to do that flash thing.

Dr_Manhattan on Jun 27 '07 at 9:02pm

Really nice work

lorem_ipsum on Jun 27 '07 at 9:03pm

Yeah, fortunately I know a guy whos the flash mac daddy and he helped me out. Thanks for the compliment :)

huebucket on Jun 27 '07 at 9:03pm

you are amazing!!!

denji on Jun 27 '07 at 9:04pm

This is cool.

noponies on Jun 27 '07 at 9:18pm

Nice Flash implementation.

Some things that annoy the hell out of me though...

1/ You resized my browser window when I didnt want you to resize my browser window. I think this is poor usability practice. Grrr!

2 / Sound on buttons is annoying. I'm playing some music through my stereo, I dont want to hear your button rollovers. Same thing applies for the music player.

3 / You need to embed the text in the display of the music player.

4 / Its not obvious that clicking a big image when viewing them closes that group of windows. Why have an exit button? I think clicking the big image should advance to the next image. You could use a mouseMove event listener and throw up a tool tip indicating to users that clicking that image is going to close down the slideshow.

5 / In a small browser window, the site degrades a little in usability. Better to hide the large circle nav at small screen sizes I think rather than have it move under the text based navigation.

6 / Why have text nav and circle nav? Both do the same thing...

7 / The circle has a complete wazz if you happen to mouse over the outer edge of an wedge.

8 / Think about using http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ to embed your swf, stops needing to click the ActiveX control on windows etc..

The works nice. But I think you should think about improving the usability of the Flash navigation...

PacificLight on Jun 27 '07 at 9:27pm

I'm in love with the magic in your site. Even though it changed my browser size and the music player thingie was giganto.

The color scheme is delicious and the songs are dreamy.

chelly on Jun 27 '07 at 9:29pm

that is smooth and lovely

lorem_ipsum on Jun 28 '07 at 8:04am

noponies, thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely take that into consideration as I'm making final tweaks. Also, the ActiveX thing, THANK YOU! I've been tormented by that stupid thing forever and never knew how to fix it.

As for number 4, that's one of the things I'm working on right now. It should get implemented in the next few days.

Appreciate the feedback :)

corey9 on Jun 28 '07 at 8:16am

very nice site and presentation! - i wouldnt change anything.

(do you do your own flash work? are you pulling content from xml?)

Alexandra Marie on Jun 28 '07 at 8:21am

You are amazingly talented. Can't wait to see your store go online.

le_hell on Jun 28 '07 at 8:26am

thats awesome, man! i love the colors and the circle, you should keep that, just fix that prob at the edges. and really great portfolio.

noponies on Jun 28 '07 at 3:18pm

No worries Lorem...

Yep, its XML....It would be a pain to implement a site like this just with library based content...

lorem_ipsum on Jun 28 '07 at 7:28pm

I got some of the problems fixed. Again, thanks for the feedback. I'm not much of a flash guru, I know just enough to be very dangerous.

Thanks everyone for all the compliments :) You're all very kind and gracious. I appreciate the support!!!

And I'll keep you posted on the store. I'm getting a bunch of estimates right now so it should be fairly soon. I can't wait, it will be fun.

MrDomino on Jun 28 '07 at 7:37pm

I love the work and a lot of the site, but I completely agree with noponies on the circle thing. I don't like the navigation there at all, and I don't think that I should necessarily have to decode what does what and where (unless it's a portoflio site for a cryptographer). There's got to be a better way of displaying that.

I love the Pin Project stuff. I immediately wondered why no one has opened up a badass bowling alley/lounge with killer custom pins like that.

lorem_ipsum on Jun 29 '07 at 2:19pm

Yeh, the Pin Projekt stuff was so much fun to work on. I'm hoping to work on it again this year. It was a fundraiser auction for a indie music festival in Durham NC.

wotto on Jun 29 '07 at 4:06pm

The navigation is amazing.

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chelly on Apr 09 '08 at 10:32am

happy birthday!

please come back and submit more designs.

jimmytan on Apr 09 '08 at 10:36am

wow! yay! please submit more! man!

jimmytan on Apr 09 '08 at 10:36am

happi birthday!

Hi my name is on Apr 09 '08 at 10:47am

Really awesome site. The music is a nice touch to your style.

So do you live in North Carolina. I noticed a lot of stuff from around there. Just wondering, cause I lived in Wilmington, NC for many years.

Hi my name is on Apr 09 '08 at 10:48am

By the way Happy bithday!

heyheyitsme on Apr 09 '08 at 10:52am

like the music with the site...but i went on and went to "art and content" and part of the pop up image was cut at bottom....didn't know if arrows missing...i kept clicking on the pop image and another would appear, but it was really confusing and i couldn't close out of it or get back to the main menu...kept trying to click on another main menu link but it would simply change the image in the pop window

just some feedback!

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