[WIP] (Website) Animus Studios

[MetKiller Joe]

I'd like to get a few opinions on the site before the domain clears. Right now the site is being hosted on an obscure address (http://gator851.hostgator.com/%7Emark/index.html), which is good because I want a second opinion. On a side note, lots of stuff is unfinished and will be for a couple of hours (for example the contact us page). Most of it is finalized.

[Joshflighter]

I don't like those buttons. Either you have the image size for them big, or something because as soon as I get my mouse near it, it disappears. Change the options or make a brighter button appear when the mouse gets close instead. That's my opinion.

Edit: wtf, now they seem to have another preloaded image which wasnt showing. But they still have a white 1 sec flash before they do change..

[klange]

Hm.
Right off the bat I have some pointers for you:
1. Pre-load your rollovers. (@Fear: this is why the buttons are disappearing when you mouse over them, the next image hasn't loaded yet)
2. I can see some formatting issues in various places, like under News there's a link with a massive space next to it (then a comma).
3. The green on your sub-pages doesn't fit well with the rest of the color scheme.

[MetKiller Joe]

Hm.
Right off the bat I have some pointers for you:
1. Pre-load your rollovers. (@Fear: this is why the buttons are disappearing when you mouse over them, the next image hasn't loaded yet)
2. I can see some formatting issues in various places, like under News there's a link with a massive space next to it (then a comma).
3. The green on your sub-pages doesn't fit well with the rest of the color scheme.

2: I was a little lazy. The link is sharing the same CSS as the top links, but I will fix that.

3: I'll get to that

I do not know how to pre-load images.

[klange]

if (document.images) {
tmp = new Image(width,height);
tmp.src = "image url";
}

[MetKiller Joe]

Alright, I think I fixed it.

[Limited]

Do you really want your last name up there?

Lots of white spaces on the website, seems very empty, I realise its not finished but I'm still worried there will be big white spaces even when its finished.

[MetKiller Joe]

The design of the website goes like this: if the content does not make the page stretch to the bottom, the bottom of the page is at the bottom of the browser window. I like that feature, but, if it looks ugly, it is an easy fix.

As for the last name, I debated on whether we should put contact info such as names and e-mails. I decided for it because if I intend for this to be a portfolio site I want potential employers to feel like we are very open and transparent.

[klange]

The days of not posting your legal name on the Internet have been over for years. Unless you do some stupid things. Confident in my online standing, I've even saved everyone some time by linking all of my profiles and user accounts (see my sig; and, yes, they're all on different passwords).

Back to your site: Time to address another issue - the literal white-space that seems to be padding the entire page. I haven't looked at the code to see which bit you have padding, but you shouldn't be doing it when you have a background like that. At the very least, set the BODY background-color to that dark gray you're using.

[MetKiller Joe]

Alright, white space has been nixed.

[ThePlague]

Needs more animus from Assassin's Creed...Nice so far though.

[MetKiller Joe]

Needs more animus from Assassin's Creed...Nice so far though.

We won't be using animus. We will be using another domain name. I found that animus meant animosity in English, so we weren't so keen on keeping it.